I wrote 47 questions today, and felt pretty good about it, and ended up rewarding me with a viewing of Letters from Iwo Jima, for its last showing in Baltimore tonight. The jaunt off to the theater started off annoyingly, as somehow I didn't realize until I was in that area that I didn't really know where the Rotunda was.
If there's any part of Baltimore I know almost nothing about, it's Hamden. I need directions to Cafe Hon. And, lo and behold, the Rotunda is in Hamden. I barely even knew that.
But I found it, 40 minutes after I left the house. And, of course, they did not take a Visa debit card, so I had to go around the little podunk mall area to find an ATM, and then back to the theater, where I found my friends after several brighter scenes flashed across and I could scan the theater. Yes, I was that guy. I found them about five minutes after I got in there.
The movie was good. Pretty much standard issue war movie, though. Up there in the league with Saving Private Ryan, and only mildly interesting and different because it told the story from the other perspective. Still, a nice job by all - certainly a comeback from Million Dollar Baby for Mr. Eastwood, who is still a heavy-handed director but at least had a better script to work with. It made me want to see Flags of our fathers, which I believe I received this weekend via Netflix.
And so it goes. Two hour delay tomorrow.
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4 comments:
Funny... I once went to the Rotunda to see a movie solo, and after finally finding the building I searched through the deserted "mall" for the theater itself. Never did find it!
Hampden, being squished between Wyman Park and the Jones Falls can be a little tricky, since you can't drive directly to it, except from the north. It's off the grid somewhat. If you need directions anywhere over there, or anywhere in the city, really, please ask, I love to show off my directional skills. BTW - there are massive plans in the works to rebuild that funny little mall. If they get their wish and build an 18 story condo tower, you won't have much problem finding it, but the movie theater will probably charge twice as much then.
As for Mr. Eastwood and his scripts, I heard an interview on NPR with the woman who wrote the script for "Letters" and she said she was surprised that Mr. Eastwood took her first draft and went with it. She spoke with the writer for Million Dollar Baby (who also wrote Flags of Our Fathers) and he told her that Mr. Eastwood took MDB's first draft and went with it, too. I think that's pretty unheard of in the movie industry - my understanding is that most scripts are rewritten to the point where the original version is barely recognizable. There should be a happy medium somewhere in between the two extremes.
Flags is really amazing when you consider Clint Eastwood is the same guy who once made comedies with an orangutan as a co-star (Every Which Way But Loose, Any Which Way You Can).
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