*movie*!

We went to a *movie* tonight! Ted rented a car so he could go down to Cork for the next couple days and look at houses, so we took the car over to Portlaoise (pronounced Portleesh) and went to Aeon Flux.

I expected Aeon Flux to be as bad as I expect X3 to be, except without the emotional investment. To my surprise, while it’s not as good as X-Men was, it was considerably better than it had any right to be, and given my low expectations, even managed to hit the scale at ‘pretty good’. This is not to say it’s a work of everlasting artistic genius, but it’s as good as most sci-fi/comic book sorts of movies, and better than many B-grade ones, even if I do love the B-grade films.

There were things that struck me as odd: the editing, the monotone line delivery, some of the shots, but basically I figured they were taken from the anime, and didn’t worry about it beyond that. Well, no, not true: I would’ve liked more emotion in the line delivery, but I actually think there’s an in-story reason for the flatness, so while it’s not really what I wanted, I understand it.

Then we picked up a Papa John’s pizza and came home to stand around the kitchen and gobble it.

I have not had pizza since I left America.

*tud*

I was very restrained. I only had two pieces. But hoo boy. Pizza good. Especially rarely, but gooooood.

Oh. And I went to the gym this afternoon. Go me. :)

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