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:: Thursday, June 06, 2002 ::
Paul and I finally got out to an AMC night yesterday. Now that he's working 15 hour days installing sprinkler systems, he's usually too tired to go out at nights. With John in Japan for who-knows-how-long, I'm usually stuck without my two primary drinking-buddies.
On top of that, the AMC 30 at Hwy. 400 and 7 has been playing crap for the last month. Sure there's movies like "The Fast Runner" and "Gosford Park" - which are apparently great movies - but if I'm going to go out on a Wednesday night, eat Boston Pizza and drink two litres of beer, I want a popcorn movie to watch - not "Halle Berry's breakthrough performance in Monster's Ball"!
Luckily, the Colossus (the Famous Players megaplex across the street that usually gets the good movies first) stopped showing The Scorpion King this week, and it was one of the few raw entertainment movies that I haven't seen in the last six months (the average age of the movies showing at AMC 30 right now).
Paul and I finished off most of two medium pizzas and a secret "4 litre pitcher" of Rickards Red that Boston Pizza doesn't tend to advertise. We had a difficult time convincing the waiter to bring it to us - despite there only being two of us.
It's a good thing too, since if we finished a single normal-sized pitcher, we would never have gotten a chance to order a second one.
The last three times that I've been to a restaurant, the waiter/waitress has appeared several minutes after we sit down to take our drink orders, appears again to bring drinks and get our order, brings us our dinners, then disappears for 30 minutes until we manage to flag him/her down for the bill. It doesn't take much to get the full 15% tip from me when I pay the bill, but it does require more than the bare minimum - and that's what I've been getting lately.
Incidently, the best place for service is still The Owl and Firkin near my work on Woodbine Ave. just north of Steeles.
Back to the movie... The Scorpion King was definitely a "prequel" to "The Mummy" series in character outline only. This movie was much, much closer in style to the Schwarzenegger "Conan" series than it was to "The Mummy"... (and a helluva lot better than "Kull the Conqueror")
...AND I HATE THAT WORD "PREQUEL"!!! The movie is clearly a spin-off series. "Prequel" has only been used thanks to it's buzz-word status from the Star Wars movies. When the only connection to another movie is a name and a vague character outline - and the genre of film isn't even the same - it's not a "prequel". As a stand-alone film, however, it's quite entertaining. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was supposed to be in Jet Li's role in "The One", but the fates smiled on moviegoers and The Rock got a role he fit and Jet got the role he fit.
Anyway, good popcorn movie. However, I was a little drunk after two litres of beer, so it might have sucked... I don't know...
...and Kelly Hu (Hollywood's Next Big Thing) is very, very hot... very hot.
:: Stephen 10:29 AM [+] ::
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