Tonight was date night for the Holtons. After work I took wifey to Sekisui for a good old Sushi dinner. Wifey had only had california rolls before so had not fully partaken in a true sushi dinner. We ordered the early bird special since it was onlly 5:20 and got six California rolls, a shrimp, tuna, salmon, and white fish sushi each. Also each came with some Tempura stuff like shrimp and vegetables. Unfortunately I was a bit rusty on my sushi ordering skills and ordered too much food. We ordered an appetizer of Calamari Tempura which wasn't so great. The fried stuff didn't stay on the squid tentacle too well so it wasn't that great. Plus I'd forgotten how you get all those miscelaneous friend vegetables when you order anything tempura so we got two helpings of those and that was a bit much. Plus I wanted to get Tuna Rolls, which i thought my meal came with but it only came with one piece of tuna with the rice... i forget what its called, so I ordered a separate order of tuna rolls for myself which ended up to me too much food... but it was dang good. We ended up being the only ones in the restaurant so our food was there in no time. Wifey branched out and ate all of her food except she wasn't a big fan of the salmon, but neither was i, it was just a bit too much of a flavor to handle. My favorite still remains the tuna roll, good, faithful, tuna roll... he'll never let me down...
After dinner we walked to the Bijou and purchased tickets for Intollerable Cruelty. The movie was another hit in my mind by the Coen Bros. I'm always fascinated by how they can take a story about something I care little about and make it interesting, fun, and unique. Their movies are so bizarre, well filmed, wonderfully written, and for the most part impeccably shot. Going into the flick I expected to dislike it since it was about a divource lawyer something that I thought wouldn't make a great backdrop for a movie... i was wrong. But think about some of their other flicks, Fargo, does a movie about a cop way up in the middle of now where really sound all that interesting? Or how bout the Hudsucker Proxy a movie about the guy who invents the hoola hoop that was one of my favorite Coen Bros flicks because it took something so out of the ordinary and somewhat seemingly boring and made it amazingly exquisite. There stories are so creative that you can't help be but interested and entertained. And George Clooney seems to be the perfect character for any Coen Bros flick, his ability to speak so fluently and eloquently their script truly makes the movie. I'm not a huge Catherine Zeta Jones fan, in fact i've never liked a movie she's done but she wasn't too bad in this one. I give the Coen Bros a pat on the back as they have done yet again an amazing job at making me think and laugh.
I think there is only one movie they've done that comes to mind that I just couldn't like, The Man Who Wasn't There. I saw what they were trying to do in the movie, i liked it, but it was just too boring. Maybe it was Billy Bob Thorton's slow and methodic voice or possibly the plot which just couldn't seem to hold on to me but something about that movie put me to sleep, LITERALLY! It's the only movie I've watched for the first time and fallen asleep too, besides Date With an Angel but I was only 7 or 8 when I saw that. I saw a preview for the Return of the King and I must say I had some chills running down my body. I did not like the Two Towers because of the plot changes but the battle scenes from Return of the King may make me forget about all the crappy changes they've done in the movies. I will give the Lord of the Rings movies one thing, they've done a good job i think in capturing a view of Middle Earth, a view better than my imagination could have ever achieved... and i have a pretty good imagination if i do say so myself, and I do.
I thought "The Man Who Wasn't There" was fabulous.
Posted by: charity at October 14, 2003 12:28 PM