Second film : midnight movie. Starring Ryan Reynolds, and pretty much only Ryan Reynolds. It was a very intense movie, and it was a nail-biting experience just getting in to the theater.
We went out for dinner at 9pm, thinking we’d have plenty time to get to the 11:30pm movie. Dinner (at the Blind Dog, delicious) took way longer than we thought and we ended up trying to run to the theater. We hopped on a shuttle and somehow made it to the theater at 11:35. We waited in line and the volunteers were sending people in one by one as seats became available. Miraculously, we all made it in, except for Josh! I felt terrible, but hopefully he’ll have a chance to see it sometime this week.
The film was very intense, as I said. There was a lot of nervous laughter in the theater. I wish I had stayed for the Q&A, because I heard it was pretty interesting.. I typically despise Q&A’s because no one ever asks good questions, and I don’t really care about seeing celebrities. But apparently they talked about making the film in 13 days with no money, and how a Spanish producer came along and financed the film.
Well done!! It felt like a real independent film, even if Ryan Reynolds was in it— it showed ingenuity and was done super low-budget.
My rating : 8.
Will you ever see it? : 68%. I really can’t tell if they’ll be able to market this, but it is about Iraq and terrorism, so maybe it’ll be picked up!
You heard it here first : Confinement/isolation is the new torture.
