Movie And A Dinner

Gold Dust Woman – Fleetwood Mac

I went to see Charlie And The Chocolate Factory today with Annia. I highly recommend it, however this should come with the disclaimer that I am totally Tim Burton’s bitch. I loved Edward Scissorhands. Beetlejuice scared the crap out of me. I thought his Batman work was aces. Ed Wood: Ed GOOD. (I’m gay) Sleepy Hollow is kickass. Hell, I even liked Planet Of The Apes, which everyone else, except the Toronto Star strangely enough, thought was God-awful. Oh, and Pee-wee’s Big Adventure! I had to look that one up, but I watched that, like, twenty times when I was a kid. The only clunkers were Mars Attacks!, which was completely irredeemable and, I hate to say it, Big Fish. Fish was gorgeous, well-acted, but in the end, utterly boring and overly sentimental. Great looking film though. As for Charlie, I can say that the visuals are as good as anything in Sleepy Hollow, Planet and Fish. The acting is great all around and the writing is sharp. I’m amazed that the film is doing so well ($114.1 million after two weeks), as I thought the story was a bit too weird for parents and some of the scenes were too scary for kids. Check it out and you’ll see what I mean. Good flick.

Not much else to say about the day except for this exchange:

Me: Yeah, I don’t think I’m going to have sex before marriage. But I guess I could and then if I felt bad, I could become one of those born-again virgins.
Her: What?
Me: People do that. Apparently you can have sex before marriage and now people who feel bad about it can repent and go through some procedure with their church and they can officially refer to themselves as virgins again.
Her: I don’t believe in that.
Me: Why not?
Her: It’s not like they can just sew her back together again.