I’ve had a pretty dull week. Too much homework, not enough to do, and only grape nuts to eat. I’ve been eating way to much grape nuts. Probably because it’s the only food that my father and my sister don’t gobble up right away. At times I think I may be going insane from boredom. Really. I need to do something! Sometimes it feels like I’m losing grip on reality.
On Friday, I went to a friend’s birthday party. My sister was invited, too, and if she had come, it probably would have been a little less awkward, but unfortunately, she had ski club. It was an all girl party! And those girls really did not need all of that sugar and coke. Really. I was chased, I was picked up by those freakishly tall eighth graders…. one of the girls took my coat, walked into the men’s room and dumped it onto the bathroom floor. Plus, most of the girls had obsessions with bizarre foreign music and Monty Python…. Um, it was a bit weird. But it was still nice to see my friend, and her siblings who are also my friends.
At the party, we saw 50 First Dates. I was seeing it for the second time, having seen the previous Friday, as well. I think it’s a great movie. The previews made it look…. not so good, more like one of Adam Sandler’s usual movies. There must be something about Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler together though which makes a movie really good. It was smart, funny, and really pretty. It was also more realistic than the trailer made it look.
My Saturday was pretty boring. I basically spent most of the day on the computer chatting and looking at blogs. I needed to do something. I cooked dinner (tortellini and an omelet), then I wanted to go to a movie. My mother, father,and I spent like 10 minutes watching movie trailers for possible movie choices. My father thought many of the movies were too late, so he decided not to go. But, I needed to get out and do something. So, I asked my mother to come and I’d treat. She didn’t really want to, but we ended up going anyway.
I suppose that I really shouldn’t ask my mother to do things late at night in bad weather. She was a bit annoyed, and while trying to find a parking place, we think she may have hit a car. There’s this horrible thing sticking out of the back of our car to hold bikes. That’s what probably hit the car, if we did hit the car. So we found a parking place a few blocks away from the movie theater. My mother was in a pretty bad mood by now. We walked to the car to see if there was a dent in it, and there was, and it’s most likely that it was from us. But what were we supposed to do? Wait outside until the owner of the car came back? It wasn’t a a very huge dent, either, and it wasn’t exactly in a very noticeable spot. I felt better that we at least checked, but my mother I think felt very guilty.
So, we went to the movie theater, and bought two tickets to The Triplets of Belleville. We were a few minutes late, but it was easy to figure out what was going on. The movie was terrific! I had heard that there was practically no dialogue and was wondering how they’d do it without making the movie completely boring. It didn’t need dialogue at all! In fact, if there was dialogue, it would probably have ruined it. I loved how more was said through the caricaturistic (I know that’s not a word) way the characters looked and they hilarious way they did things. There were several times the audience laughed out loud.
The animation was excellent. The warm colors, the drawing, the ways the characters looked. I think that it was very important for the characters to look funny, because with a movie with hardly any dialogue, most of it was about the way things looked. Things were exaggerated to make you feel a certain way. It was fantastic! Then the music! The music was fantastic! It was like jazz meets stomp! Totally amazing!
