Super Kid
Friday, August 18, 2006
So i’m a little behind, but i finally went to go see Superman in the theaters (before it left for good)!
Daryl, Yuko, Kimi and Jay came out to join us in Hollywood to catch the movie at the Grauman’s Chinese Theater, one of the few places still showing this 7-week old movie. (Is it just me or are theater runs getting shorter and shorter? I mean, i meant to go see the terrible dance movie, “Take the Lead,” but i waited two weeks and it was out of theater! Now i have to wait for another month before i can get it on DVD! haha just kidding, but not really.)
I digress. In any case, we just made it to the movie in time, except that there were barricades and red carpets and people lining up. What was this?!?
As it turns out, it was the premiere of the movie, “Snakes On a Plane"--an appropriately named film that excels at expectation management. You know exactly what you’re going to get. In any case, people were lined up outside, waiting for a chance to see Samuel L. Jackson, star and bad-@$$ extraordinaire.
And all i could think of was, “Man, does that mean they’re not showing Superman anymore?”
Lucky for us, they have more than one theater. It was a tiny theater, but that’s ok considering that there were all of ten or so viewers (including our group of 7). It was a fun movie! I liked it. I find that liking a movie comes entirely from expecting nothing of it so that anything will surpass expectation. That’s the key to enjoying what you watch. I do have to say, though, that it’s hard enough taking a man in tights seriously, but it’s even harder to take a PRETTY guy in tights seriously. Superman was so iconically good looking that he didn’t seem hardy enough for the role. It worked out alright in the film, but still, there were several scenes where i found myself saying, “He is far too much a ‘model/actor’ to be doing this movie.” ...Or maybe i just miss Christopher Reeves. 
(sniff!)
Too beautiful to be a superhero. I don’t believe he can fight.
At the end of the movie, we all filtered out slowly. We were the last ones out, but we were surprised to find a couple with a sleeping kid draped across the father’s shoulder, waiting for us.
“This was the kid in the movie,” the father said proudly, pointing at his sleeping son, the kid’s long locks of hair obscurring his face. “HE had to see it one last time. It’s the last night in the theater, so we HAD to come!” I actually didn’t hear this part first hand. I was at the back wondering, “Why are we talking to these random people?” And even then, our group didn’t take him very seriously. “Oh yeah, that’s nice...” and such were our comments, and we walked away.
About 30 feet away, we stopped. “Wait, did he say that was the kid in the movie?” AH! He DID say that! Our brush with a (very small/young/not-famous) celebrity! How random was THAT? It was a nice way to end the movie. Our tickets should have said, “1 admittance for movie + random super kid sighting.” That would have at least warned me not to say snarky things about the kid while the parents were in earshot. I came so close.
Afterwards we headed to The Stinking Rose, a restaurant known for it’s intense interest in garlic. Translation: everything (even dessert) has garlic in it. About 4 pieces of bread and maybe a head of garlic later, i realized that the next day I had to teach a 1-on-1 class AND support another class in the morning. I was going to reek of garlic! ACK! And it was going to go far beyond breath, my friend. Talk about leaking it from your pores! EEEEWW!
So all today i was paranoid about stinking. I kept trying to keep my distance, but I had to get up close and personal, and there was no escaping it. 
My cow-orker even said, “I can totally tell you had garlic last night. You have an AURA of garlic about you.” Sad.
Anyway, that was my night. And a good one at that! Topped off with a little bit of playing “Animal Crossing” with Daryl and Yuko on our Nintendo DSes. Good clean fun! Just like mom used to make! So that’s all folks, and i’m going to bed.
Good night and good luck.
oh, you met Yuko-chan(Daryl’s wife;wow)!! she was my sis’ classmate and we’ve known since we were elementaly school. isn’t it cool????
i hope to see you at Daryl’s wedding. =) oh, if i am invited. hee heePosted by on 08/19 at 06:16 AMyeah, it’s too bad we didn’t get any pictures with superman’s kid =(
i did, however, get a picture of you and daryl and your nintendo ds’s
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v478/kgrp/2006summer/IMG_6457.jpgoh, and merv wouldn’t sit next to me the next day because i reeked of garlic too. i guess that’s what happens when you eat 40-clove chicken, eh?
Posted by kimi =) on 08/21 at 12:29 PM