Hannah hit Saturday early afternoon with lots of rain and wind, but not much of anything else. It was a lazy day for us. We didn’t sleep in late, but we took a lengthy nap in the middle of the day. It was pleasant listening to the rain pound on the roof and wind whip through the rafters. In the morning, I actually sat through 1-1/2 hours of VH1 Classics watching "Totally 80s" videos. About the best video I saw was Def Leppard’s "Armegeddon It". About the only thing I actually did during the day was fill my car up with gas.
Lazy, lazy, lazy, and then, around 7 PM (after the rains had stopped and the skies had mostly cleared up), we headed over to Pentagon City to pick up AJ and Denisse. We headed to Shirlington, where we had dinner at Capital City Brewery. We then walked to the movie theater to see the 9:10 PM showing of Vicky Kristina Barcelona. Something about the introduction made me think it was a Woody Allen movie, and sure enough, it was. It featured Scarlet Johansson, which was a plus, but it also set a personal record for me.
It was the first Woody Allen movie I’ve ever seen that I really didn’t like.
This lead to minor controversy after the film. I tried to explain what bothered me about the film. The characters didn’t really change, for one thing. They ended up exactly where they started off. I didn’t like the narrator. It seemed like the narrator should have been Woody Allen, but it wasn’t. Furthermore, the narrator’s dialog read like a Hemingway novel, with these terse sentences that seemed to talk down to the audience. All of the performances (including, yes, Scarlet’s) were muted, and the best performance was provided by Javier Bardem. As is often the case when I don’t like something, I’m sure it’s more my failings than the films. Nevertheless, I really didn’t like this one.
After the movie, we headed back to our place and sat around chatting until almost 1 AM. I took AJ and Denisse back to the metro station and when I got back home, we went to bed.
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