Movie Madness

So yesterday, Saturday the 23rd, Ross, Meader, and I embarked on a journey to Portland to view a cinematic adventure all of us had been waiting to see for months. We decided to make a day of it and instead of just seeing "Be Kind Rewind" we would go to 2 other movies and then dinner at Longhorn Steakhouse. So they pick me up from work a 12pm and we head on the road to our destination at Cinemagic at 2:40; as the trip went along the car ride became increasingly louder. Meader's car has always had a gruff rumble noise to it because the pipe that leads to the exhaust had a hole in it and apparently that became larger as we went along. Among the rounds of "the movie game" (you have to say an actor/movie to extend the game such as Jim Carrey-The mask then I would say the mask-Cameron Diaz or a different Jim Carrey movie) and we are making good time and the car is getting louder and louder. There is some concern on Meader's part and jokes being made by all about how frigging loud the car was. So that is put aside for a while as we get to the theater, we all approach the line and are confident in our ticket buying abilities well aside from the Liberace self-playing piano they have, they also have selected seating where you get an electronic screen and pick out your seats. It blew my mind and somewhat confused me. So we put our brain power together and coordinated our seating. So we go past the beret wearing stuff, I stifling snickers at that fact, and head to the movie. We get to our seats and to my surprise God himself or a self preserving and -serving lazy person designed the seating. They were leather reclining chairs pretty much and very comfortable, which was exciting considering we had another 6 hours to go movie wise once this one started. First up, "Be Kind Rewind", which was hilarious and I loved it. The "Ghostbusters" remake was the best aside from the line "what's happening to our hood?" I would highly recommend this movie to those traveling to the Portland area or if this movie ever comes our way. So an hour and 40ish minutes later we exit and have 20 minutes until the next movie "Vantage Point", we all decide to get some treats and a drink and are all impressed that this place offers personal pizzas and hamburgers. After the salivations ended I ended up with Raisinettes and a soda. So we head into the next theater with the delicious lazy God seats and have the added bonus of digital film. Now digital film is amazing, it is so clear on the big screen. So the movie starts and I am ok with it and then 15 minutes the movie starts over, but from a slightly different perspective. This happens throughout the whole movie, but very noticeable and annoying for the first 40 minutes. the movie turned out decent for the second half and became more like a regular action flick which I enjoyed. I didn't care for the first half though and overall felt like a bad remake of a 24 episode elongated. The movie ends earlier than we all expected which turned out to be a good thing because we had a hard time finding the next theater in Portland which was the Nickelodeon.

At first we had no idea of really where we should go because we listened to yahoo maps which turned out to be wrong. So eventually we find it and park in the garage right next to/on top of it and head in with 10 minutes to spare. We head in buy the tickets to "In Bruges", which is a movie I had never heard of before though Ross swears he told me about it. Before the movie I need to hit up the bathroom and find it upstairs and down a narrow dimly lit and turny hallway. It is really quiet and creepy up there so much that when I opened the door to leave someone who was heaidn in at the same time scare the shit out of me. I jumped like a 6 year old girl at the thought of the boogie man and as everyone does I played it cool and left feeling pretty sure the guy didn't notice me get freaked out. I get to the theater and sit down to notice that the theater is filling quickly quite to my surprise. I had never heard of it so apparently I figured noone else had since I am obviously on the pulse of hollywood. The movie was absolutely hilarious and Colin Farrell was excellent, the movie was about two hit men that had to lay low in Bruges, Belgium and boredom and sight-seeing occur. The movie is unexpectedly hilarious until the end when it is graphically violent and kind of tarnished the whole movie. I still thoroughly enjoyed and like this movie and would reccomend it.
Alright, so our movie lust has been quenched and we head off to get some dinner. It is around 9 pm and we come to the conclusion that we have made an excellently executed plan. So anyway we head to Longhorn steakhouse and get a table instantly. The waitress comes over and asks for our drinks so I decide to go first. As I order my much loved and much made fun of by everyone else beverage of mango iced tea the waitress starts to grin and semi snickers and says ok at the same time, so I am slightly offended and possibly think that maybe I am interpreting the situation wrong until Meader started to smile and look at me as if to corraborate my initial feelings of she just called me a homo without saying it. So we all have a decent laugh over it and there are gay jokes thrown at me, but I enjoyed my god-damned mango iced tea it is so good. So I eventually order a steak partially because I want one and partially to prove my manhood to her. I threatened to order a 76 oz. steak to Meader to compensate for the gay iced tea incident, but instead went with a 12 oz sirloin which was delicious. I finish off the steak and we pay our bills, on a sidenote I tipped the waitress 50 cents less than I was going to because as I stated "she called me a fag with her eyes", and we headed out to go home.
Alright, I brought up the loud car for reason those few paragraphs ago because it was ten times worse on the ride home then down. We are all very tired and have the fucking space shuttle going off inside the car, the sound shook the change in the car and as Meader put it "goes straight to the center of your brain" which it did. Everytime he would accelerate the car would blast off into loudness. We could barely hear each other at times and the radio was a savior when turned up enough. We got home at around 1ish and I instantly crashed into deep sleep and woke up at 11 am this morning. Overall, it was a very enjoyable and fun trip filled with good movies, good times, good friends and one fucking ridiculously loud car.