Tip on movie watching
I'm not sure how many times I will have to re-learn this one particular tip over the course of my life. Apparently, I'm not quite done with it yet.
Never watch one movie when you're in the mood for another movie. Never, ever think this will work. It just won't.
The other night, I finally psyched myself up to watch The Aviator. Now, everybody and their dog loves this movie. It was popular. It won awards. But I have this thing about Leo DiCaprio. And not a positive thing. And so for months, I've tried but failed to convince myself that I should watch the movie. Finally, I just put it on my Netflix list and figured I'd deal with it when it arrived. It showed up, and I finally decided to watch it. I was even excited. I mean, Cate Blanchett would be incredible in small-town dinner theater. And I loved Katherine Hepburn [whom Blanchett portrays in The Aviator]. So, I opened the Netflix envelope, slipped it out of the sleeve....and it was cracked in half. Must have happened somewhere in the mail, because it had just been sitting atop my TV since it arrived here.
Still in the mood to watch a movie, I foolishly popped in The Lost City. Which I had previously been really excited about. I just love, love Antonio Banderas. I don't necessarily think he's an award-winning actor, but he seems like the coolest guy, like you'd like to hang out and have a beer with. Or, heh, why not mojitos in honor of The Lost City? At any rate, I generally like whatever he does.
I hated that movie.
The worst part was, I could tell I would normally like it. A little political intrigue, family drama, decent historical fiction. I didn't get halfway through the movie, people. Not halfway. I wasn't paying attention, and neither was I even doing anything interesting. I just couldn't get into it, since what I wanted to watch was The Aviator.
Netflix, ever customer-service-oriented, had the new disc of The Aviator here today. It better live up to my expectations!
