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Two duds in a row. Saw Walk Hard last Sunday. It was ok at best, swinging between being decent enough satire to being simply stupid Scary Movie style spoof. Admittedly it had better actors than the Scary Movie movies but still; I half expected Leslie Nielson to walk on screen at some point. I liked the music though.
And nobody warned me that Tim Meadows in the movie. That guy just sucks the funny out of a room. Some day, our deep space astronauts will stumble across a galaxy mysteriously lacking in funny. And then they'll find Tim Meadows in the middle of that galaxy where the black whole should be and all will be explained.
Tonight I saw Sweeney Todd with Lani. I've never seen a stage version of it and didn't really know anything about it. For the first time in years I was a hairs breadth away from leaning over and asking Lani if she wanted to leave. It was simply so horribly boring. Then it picked up a bit and I wanted to see if I had predicted the ending correctly (mostly yes).
Snoozefest. I don't remember the last time I was in a theater with an audience that was so restless. Constant fidgeting, coughing, scratching, watch checking, throat clearing. But maybe that was just me projecting onto everybody else (I had forgotten to put my watch back on before leaving home so I couldn't check my own watch).
Lani was equally bored and now she has points on me since I pretty much dragged her there.
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