After work last night I met SadRico and his new lady friend downtown for dinner and a movie. Here's the review:
The new girlfriend is pretty great. She's confident, eats with utensils, laughs at Rico's stupid recycled jokes, and although she asked a question during the movie at full volume is socially acceptable. She is smitten with Rico and he deserves that. I don't think that she will ever cross into the INNER CIRCLE the way that Ali did - but you never know. She seems accepting of Rico's quirks (the big baby side and the wounded no-one-liked-me-as-a-kid side) and met his mom and her odd hubby and didn't run screaming for the hills. They are nice people - but I wouldn't want to take a road trip with them - not even a short one like to the Safeway.
We also saw a movie Hollywoodland staring Arian Brody, who is oddly appealing, Dianne Lane and Ben Afflack (who you may not know almost married Jennifer Lopez a few years ago - it's too bad the press didn't pick up on that.) The plot is that Adrian Brody is a pi (private investigator with a past -dun da daaaa) who is investigating the "Suicide" of the actor who played Superman George Reeves - no relation to Christopher. (Rico asked during the movie... where's the kid? I'm all like, what kid? He's like - you know, the second superman - Christopher Reeves his son. And I'm all - oh they aren't related --- Geo. Reeves... Chris Reeve - not the same family. He's all - you're wrong. I'm all - sure thing IDIOT."
The movie is about how no one really knows what happened - Superman "shot himself in the head" which I hear generally leaves a pretty big mark and renders the shootee incapable of doing much after. But - he also had a bullet casing under his body - which could indicate that he was moved or that he wasn’t the shooter. There were also three bullet holes in the room and with a party of folks down stairs who said they only heard one gun shoot something is amiss, hence the controversy.
After six or seven hours the movie seemed to drag on and the sub-plots were unrelated. When the movie finally stopped (maybe they ran out of film and just stopped) Rico says to us - gosh that sure left a lot of things unanswered and I’m all "yeah, like why they made that movie."
So, there's my review. If I can't figure out why a movie was made, it's not a good recommendation. Sure Ben did a fine job and he'll have a better career if he stops trying to be the star but WHO CARES?
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