Movie Review: Babylon AD

This weekend, Amy and I took the chance to see a movie. We don't do it very often, so it was kind of a cool treat to ourselves. We had a hard time deciding what to see. We were skimming through the listings for what was playing at each of the theaters around town, and Amy expressed some interest in Babylon AD, the new Vin Diesel flick. I wanted to see Dark Knight in theaters, but we knew we'd eventually be getting that on blu-ray, and Amy didn't want to see a 2.5 hr long movie, so we wrote it off. We both like most of Vin Diesel's movies for what they are, so we decided to go for it. It should be noted that I'd looked up the rottentomatoes score and found it to be a paltry 7%, but that's mostly by granola eating critics that think if it didn't show at Sundance, it's not worth watching. Right?

We'll start off with the theater. There were like 3 or 4 people in the theater as we went in to see the movie. That's pretty cool, I hate a packed theater. And we'd smuggled in a couple of cold drinks, which also makes the movie experience a bit better. No snackies, but we'd just munched down on a wedge of some pretty good cheese with toasted cracker biscuits, so we were feeling good. Really, we were in a good movie-watching zone.

Too bad the movie was crap. There were lots of shooting sequences and explosions, but the utterly stupid story couldn't carry things past that. Nothing was explained to the point of anyone's satisfaction, not that it would have made things any better. Crappity crap crap. Don't see this, don't rent it, and when it shows up as a B movie on cable next month between re-runs of MASH, change channels. When it was over, as the 6 people in the theater stood up to leave, everyone groaned to their friends how horrible the movie was, and how much they regretted going.

Since I can't even write a proper movie review, maybe I'll leave it to the experts.
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Afterwards, we had king crab and tri-tip steaks for dinner. I also decided that I might be allergic to wine, which sucks, but I'm not in much of a hurry to see an allergist at this point. At least the dinner was good. And we also watched National Treasure (the first one) this weekend on Netflix, which was a modern masterpiece in comparison.