Our arcade trip went well. It is a bit sad that we have to drive forty minutes to reach the nearest arcade. Depending on who you are, it might be sad that we drive the forty minutes to go to the arcade. Especially considering we have both DDR and MvC2 at home. No joysticks or hard pads though. Either way, we don’t just drive there, play, then head home. We had our usual restaurant trip, with Applebee’s, twice now, taking the crown from Red Robin. Happy hour dominates all specials. Their boneless wings are good, but there is that special something about wings that actually have bones in them. Today, we turned the notch up to include a movie as well. Our vote went three to one for Mean Girls.
According to our waitress, we are men because we finished all of our food. Isn’t that close to what moms say to five-year olds who are “big boys now”? Anyway, Jason was bestowed the honor of puchasing tikets to Mean girls to the four of us men. Horrid news of the showing selling out was passed on to us, but I am sure Louie used Jedi mind tricks to take control of the ticket sellers body. We settled on Van Helsing.
I enjoyed watching the movie. Was the acting fabulous? No. Did the story and characters touch me? No. Van Helsing is the only character whose name I can recall. And only two hours has passed. Special effects and fight scenes were fun for the most part. There are no less than six panning shots of characters swinging on cables. Within one scene I suppose it would make sense, but these cable swingings seemed to happen as often as Spider-Man with his web. Take note, Ewoks have found a portal through time and galaxies and now assist Dracula. Fangd teeth and rabies appear to be a side effect of the hyperspace travel. Van Helsing’s assistant was Faramir, and it took me the entire length of the movie to realize that. Not that it has anythign to do with the quality of the movie.
Knowing what I do now, I wouldn’t pay eight bucks to see it. It may be worth the five fifty matinee. When the time comes, renting would be a good option. With the inclusion of a slow motion berserker barrage, I would pay fifteen. My rating for Van Helsing is that it was better than Hellboy but worse than LXG. Yes, I liked LXG more than Hellboy. Please don’t make fun of me. For goodness’ sake, it had Sir Sean Connery.