Movie Weekend

It's not one of those long weekends with which PGMA reschedules holidays and squeezes extra non-Mondays to call the work off, but the week past was like one. It's not even a movie marathon but sure was closely like it.

Last Friday, after my mid-afternoon meeting in Ortigas, and while I couldn't go back to our office in Makati because of that Lozada-famous interfaith meeting, I decided to hit home and fetch my wife, then floor the gas to TriNoma to watch the last full show of The Kite Runner. Unfortunately, the movie runs until late afternoon only, replaced by Spiderwick, and because we didn't want to waste the quickie-date-op we saw Vantage Point instead, which was not a total disappointment. At first, I was getting bored of the repeated scenes, until I realized there's no other way to tell the story, and that you'll have to look at every angle as they are revealed, as the film title implies. Watch it, that's all I can say.

Frustrated but not disappointed, my wife and I went to the packed SM City Fairview early Saturday evening, which was on 3-day mallwide sale, only to find out The Kite Runner is not being screened. We ended up buying 4 VCD titles. Pop the popcorn later I said, but we're snoring an hour later, too bad.

Sunday morning, we were laughing out loud at Evan Almighty. Feeling adventurous later with Eragon. A little serious with Munich. And a nice late-night cup of tea for Casino Royale. Movies we missed, movies worth my energy. We slept with the clocking coo-coing at 2am.

It's not a movie marathon, no.