Sandier Pastures

I don’t need to elaborate, do I? But I am talking about the movie I am Legend, not his latest Hancock which I think also received very bad reviews from critics.

I never hated Will Smith, in fact, I loved the guy in Men in Black and Enemy of the State. Amazing how publicity can really trick movie goers/DVD renters! The movie I am Legend is to date, the most boring movie I have ever seen! I rarely have time to see a movie and now this!?

I wish I spent my time sleeping rather than staying awake late at night going through the boring and dragging details of the movie and explaining to our underaged daughter that all the bang-bang in the movie is not good, there’s no living dead in real life, it’s just a movie, all those parental guidance blahs.

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The other DVD we saw last weekend was Enchanted. It was played in our house for four times at the span of 6 hours. Straight. One can’t get enough of Patrick Dempsey Disney, right?

We adore the movie. By the word “we”, I meant the girl population in our home. Me, Pristine and my mother. The lone man (M) went in hiding and shut the door.

I highly recommend the movie. A very welcoming respite from the I am Legend freak show. It’s like eating heavenly ice cream after a very bad main dish that caused gastric pain. We love the songs, the story, everything. Highly recommended if you have a little princess in  your house or if you are a Patrick Dempsey fan. I was not a fan of Patrick Dempsey until this movie - don’t mention Grey’s Anatomy because we have no TV and I haven’t seen any episode of that show.

It’s a great enchanting family film you should watch.

… and telling me to rent, buy, get hold of it, whatever means I can. I told her I’ll try and on the first day, she never asked me about it. On the second day, she asked me again and days after that.

Today, she’ll be happy because I’m bringing it home. Finally we can have peace in the house and on Friday on our dayoff, we can all stay home and have a nice quite time.

Any idea how many hours it would take to watch all three Indiana Jones movie?

I saw Indy on screen again! I saw Indy on screen again!

We squeezed ourselves into the pack of moviegoers on a Thursday night - somewhat like catching the first available flight in the middle of a holiday season. Friday is dayoff for most working people in Dubai so Thursdays are usually mall shopping and movie flocking days.

I felt we will not be able to get any tickets at first, but so surprised that there were seats left for the four of us (me, M, Pristine and my mom). The movie rating was PG15, meaning the movie is suited for young audiences if they are 15 years old or above. Our babe is just 4.5 years old so they must have assumed she had the mental age of 15 because they still sold the tickets to us. I won’t complain though, I badly wanted to get into that movie house!

Movie will start at 7:30 pm and by 7, we finished eating dinner, unloading our bladder and already snickering in our seats with popcorn in hand. Oh, I know why we got the tickets despite the huge premier night hype - the only seats available are front row seats and we are seated on the 5th row from the screen! The horror. Talk about gigantic people and blasting ear-damaging sound in front of our eyes.

The movie started after 15 minutes of commercials and movie previews! It was not like this when we watched Harry Potter last year! Then everyone was silent when the much awaited movie started. Almost immediately, I can hear cries of babies and there were no babies in the Indy movie scene. I looked around.

There were infants and toddlers inside the movie house!! PG15!? The parents (including myself but Pristine is so mature and can sit down in one full length movie, trust me) must have thought PG15 meant for 15 months ?? I wished the mom took the crying baby out because the wails just kept going louder and louder. Then out of nowhere another baby cried.

All in all, despite some babies crying here and there, we thoroughly enjoyed the movie. My mom could not stop laughing at the Indy jokes, scream during breathtaking scenes - yeah she was screaming with excitement but let’s give her a break, she has not been into a movie house for more than 10 years!

My say of the movie? Despite what the critics say, you go watch it! If you liked the first three Indiana Jones movie, there is absolutely no reason for you to hate this one. In fact, I admire Harrison Ford for putting up with the physically challenging scenes despite his age. I am sure the critics who are much, much younger than him couldn’t even match even half his moves.