So this being my weekend alone, I decided to go out to the movies. Towards this end, I enlisted the Super-Smart Lawyer, who shares my passion for Clive Owen (and who might even go to see Dan Brown’s Angels And Demons movie for the pleasure of seeing Ewan McGregor, her fave).

We saw The International, with Clive and Naomi Watts.

The movie was awful. Slow, painful, awful. And made no sense, either. And did I mention it was slow? At one point I leaned over to the S-S L and said, “Somewhere, molasses is complaining that this is slow.” And cliches up the yin-yang! The two Italians with slicked back hair and nice suits; Clive who apparently borrowed Columbo’s raincoat and wears it the entire time, just to show how earnest he is in chasing the bad guys. The bad guys, who are coldly polite white Europeans. The former communist who pronounces the goofiest bombast to display his deep internal crisis. Bah.

Both of the leads were good in their respective parts, but really? I wonder if either even read the script, or just thought, ‘hey, international banking espionage murder woo-hoo!’ Because the dialogue was leaden. There were quite a few holes in the plot that even I, non-plot follower that I am, could spot. It was based on true events, but apparently with less gunplay and much, much more paperwork.

[wait. I just went and checked out some reviews, and Ebert actually liked this! And some other reviewers did, too! Am I missing something? Am I an idiot? Did we see the same movie? I am so perplexed.]

Can you tell I am bummed? I wasn’t expecting much of anything, even the previews made it look like a dud, but this didn’t even meet those expectations.

So I came home and watched more episodes of Cranford. I still have that bad taste in my mouth from the ludicrous International, however.

The NBA All-Star Game-attending Spouse returns tomorrow, but the Nine Year-Old is away all week, so the Spouse and I will be out, together, at night! I think tomorrow we’re actually going to see a band!

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