The traumas of yesterday were to no avail, she who must be obeyed expressed disappointment at the photos I had taken of the lingerie. Apparently, although technically competent, I have no idea how to arrange ladies underwear in such a way that it will be attractive to ladies. I admit that this is true. I think ladies underwear is at it’s most attractive when it has been discarded at random upon the floor, which is pretty much how I arranged it yesterday. Not good enough apparently and eBay sales will be down as a result.
Still, she perked up when we went out for dinner to one of those all-you-can-eat BBQ places on Sukhumvit. In direct contravention of every health and safety regulation on earth (apart from Thailand), they place a container of red hot coals on your table and you cook your food on on a metal dish containing boiling water on top of the coals. It’s excellent value, provided you don’t knock over the apparatus and deposit burning coals and boiling water all over your legs. We didn’t, so that was good.
Then off for a trip to buy some fruit juice which ended up being a tour round several shops, with me trailing behind muttering “can we go home now.” Bright spot for me was discovering that the cinema had abandoned the usual rule of only being able to book tickets for the current day, and so I was able to purchase seats for The Dark Knight on Friday evening.
This is a Christopher Nolan movie, and he has never made a bad one. In fact Memento remains one of my favourite movies of all times. The first time you watch it, it totally screws with your brain. The moment it has finished, you have to watch it again; and frequent viewings always offer up something new. Intelligent, inventive film making. The Prestige is another clever mind-fuck, and Batman Begins was, at last, a grown-up film about a comic book hero. Now we have The Dark Night which is getting great reviews, someone even made a comparison with Heat, which is of course one of the great movies of all time (your mileage may vary). I am looking forward to Friday evening.
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2008-07-18| Rotwang saysI saw Dark Knight on an iMax screen yesterday (Thursday night). Something like 50% of the scenes (certainly all of the actions scenes) are shot in imax and they are breathtaking. There is no way you can get the same effect on an ordinary screen because of the different aspect ratios. They must crop an awful lot of the film in order to get it to fit on a conventional 2.35:1 cinema screen (imax is closer to 1.5:1)
Since you travel to Bangkok so frequently, you must know they have an iMax cinema there? As a consummate Nolan fan, you simply must discard your current tickets and plan a trip in order to see it (the first time anyway) in iMax!
2008-07-18| Spike saysDamn! Now I have a problem. There is an iMax in Bangkok, but can’t find out what is playing, and little chance of getting up there for several days.
So it will have to be the “small screen” tonight, but I will definitely try and take in the iMax version at some point. Thanks for the info.
And you enjoyed it?
2008-07-18| Rotwang saysDo you know about www.movieseer.com? According to them, Dark Knight is playing on iMax at Siam Paragon. I believe it may be the only iMax screen in Thailand!
I quite enjoyed the movie, although it was a trifle on the long side at 2.5 hours. If you don’t mind sitting through it a second time, then enjoy it tonight. However, I would personally recommend seeing it for the first time on an iMax screen, even if it means waiting a few more days!