On Saturday, I relaxed and sifted through some more recordings. I also hit up the Mongolian Village for some dinner with Vero, Matt, Karilee, Joe, Danielle and Danielle’s brother and company.
I enjoy the Mongolian Village. You go up to their buffet table, put your food in a bowl and they cook it for you and bring it to your table. I was quite stupid in the fact that I got two separate helpings and Vero pointed out that the minimum they would have charged me would have been $5 per bowl anyhow so it would have been smarter to load up the first bowl. I then pointed out to her that she is clearly the smartest of the two of us and should speak up when these things enter her brain so I don’t end up with a bill for $30 at the end of the night instead of $20.
I ran over to the movie theatre as everyone else had picked up their tickets earlier in the day. Unfortunately, it was too late to do anything good with the tickets. As soon as we entered the theatre, it was every man for themselves as it was packed. I must get out of the Kapuskasing mentality of going to the theatre. In the end, Vero and I ended up in the third row from the screen. After debating whether or not we should just get a refund or not, a woman came to the front and announced that the Cloverfield film is filmed with shaky handheld cameras and would be reminiscent of The Blair Witch Project.
That sealed the deal for the two of us as we figured we would not be able to see much in the third row with a shaky camera. This man gets a little motion sickness from those kind of things.
We left the theatre, got a refund and went to Rogers Video where I picked up Death Proof – Quentin Tarantino’s latest movie which is a homage to the old 70s drive-in films as well as a homage to the American muscle car films of the 70s.
It had been awhile since I’ve seen a Tarantino flick and I fell in love with it within 5 minutes…with the random conversations and the intriguing characters. The film revolves around a sociopath in the form of Kurt Russell playing Stuntman Mike who drives around in his stunt car which is deemed Death Proof; as in, no one inside it can die. The movie is split into different halves, one where Stuntman Mike meets some women in a bar, and then the second half when he appears again meeting another group of women who are looking for the car that appears in Vanishing Point. Interesting sidenote in that I have never seen Vanishing Poing but had heard about it from Rob’s old roommate Grant in which he claimed it was the best movie ever but it has never been released on film.
A good portion of the film is dedicated to Vanishing Point where they obtain the car and they enjoy a test drive in it.
The car chase scenes were amazing and Tarantino has outdone himself in creating something original in the form of the great classics of car chases.
Vero and I thoroughly enjoyed this film and recommend it to all if you’re into that sort of thing.
iplaying: Louie Louie – The Kingsmen
One reply on “Review: Death Proof”
it was too bad that you didn’t see Max or Max didn’t speak up because he had held 8 seats for us and not only that but Matt had hed some seats as well!
I enjoyed the movie and the eats!