Movie Date

I treated myself to a movie for the first time in many moons yesterday afternoon. I went and saw Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. I'm having a Philip Seymour Hoffman period right now, see. Anyway, it was actually quite good. Sympathetic, though occasionally vile and pathetic characters and very edge of your seat plot-wise, but without that headache-inducing kineticism of other heist-y movies.

I must admit to being a bit distracted by a couple of things. One was the annoying couple sitting not far behind me discussing the flick at points. That's what dinner afterwards is for. Shut it! The other was the fact that they never really turned the lights down. What up with that, Lagoon? Dark = Goooood! And finally (so a few things, not a couple) was the number of Law & Order/Oz/Sopranos/Wire extras up in that bitch. I'm all into the plot but also like, "Hey, that's Beadie" or "Well, hello, Scott Ross' sister" or "Isn't that Carmela's dad" (I was actually wrong on that last one). Hell, did you know, PSH himself appears in an episode of L&O back in the day? And, yeah Marisa Tomei can keep her Oscar. Even if she didn't really earn it for My Cousin Vinny, she makes up for that here...and well, it's not like most people get an Oscar for what they deserve.