Dinner and a Movie

24 Apr 2004 By

My Girl-Talking Friend had a free movie pass and wants to go see The Passion* tonight. I have no desire to see this movie whatsoever, but since it’s free, I’ll sit through it.

He suggested we go to dinner first so we can catch up since I haven’t seen him in a month or so, so we’re going to BW3. I’m gonna count how long it takes him to bring up his match.com exploits. I was thinking about how I could actively manage the conversation to keep him away from it, but I’m too tired for all that. We have a limited time for dinner before the movie anyway, so I’m not too worried.

I called him earlier to confirm the time and place, and he was in Target. All I wanted to say was, “8:00 sounds good, I’ll see you there.” And he starts asking me how I am and about my trip and stuff. Aren’t you shopping? And why are we talking about this right now when we’re gonna sit down together in three hours? He couldn’t even half hear me because he was way back in the store and his signal kept fading in and out. *sigh*

At least the wings and beer will be good.


*Did you go to the website? WTF is up with the “Virtual Mary”?

  • http://www.blownfuse.us Tiffany

    Virtual Mary made me wretch. What was up with her wind-blown hair? Shouldn’t she have been wearing a shawl? You know–historical accuracy and all.

  • http://www.the-enigma.net/blog Enigma

    i didn’t want to see it either. it’s not a bad movie, but not a great one. mel assumes that everyone knows the story thus he doesn’t explain who some people are or events that led up to situations. i’m not religious and i’ve never read this story so i was lost. i had to rent other movies to get the story cuz i’m still not interested in reading it.

    yeah so i liked virtual mary’s necklace or collar. is it me or does she look like pocahontas from the cartoon?

  • http://jenben.info/home.html JenBen

    I would not see the Passion even for free.

  • http://www.crackmonkie.net Monkie

    I’m with JenBen

  • http://greybird.blogspot.com greybird

    As a non-Christian (a “spiritual, agnostic, pseudo-secular humanist with a touch of pagan thrown in”) I was not interested in seeing The Passion at all. However, my SO was very interested so I went because she wanted me to.

    It was absolutely horrifying — the most relentless, gratuitously brutal movie I’ve seen in my entire life. Despite the idea that Christ was a perfect man and could have sustained such a beating, Gibson’s interpretation of the events was over the top and entirely unnecessary. It was sick.

    The movie *was* subtley anti-semitic, but really would only have fueled that in viewers who were anti-semitic to begin with.

    Anyway Erica, I’ll be interested to know what you thought of it…

  • http://www.swirlspice.com Erica

    Virtual Mary has some serious collarbone going on.