Surfergeeks

So, last week we had this absolutely, stunningly brilliant idea to go to the drive-in. We’d take Alex with us and he could sleep in the back. The only problem with this plan was the movies last week were two movies that Nikki really had absolutely no interest in watching (You, Me, & Dupree and Miami Vice). Oh wait, THIS week is Snakes on a Plane and Bon Cap, Bad Cop. Cool. The plan is set.

We strike out for the drive-in at about 6:50pm with a scheduled stop at Apollo’s Pizza (Quite possibly the ONLY Italian-based food joint with a Greek name, run by an Oriental couple, but DAMN good pizza!) to pick up a couple pies to take with us. I was thinking that the box office would open at 8:00pm and we’d want to get there around 7:30 so we wouldn’t be too far back in the line. So we get there around 7:20 and there are about 6 vans/SUVs ahead of us in line. Unfortunately the clock in the window that said what time the box office opened was entirely inaccurate so we had no idea how long of a wait we were in for. As it turns out, on Tuesday nights, the box office opens at 8:30pm. So, during that hour plus that we sat and waited, Alex had his bottle and played a fun game with Nikki called “you give me the bottle mommy and I’ll promptly throw it down to the floor”. We’d dressed Alex in a sleeper so that he’d stay warm when the car cooled off in the summer air. Unfortunately, at some point during the sitting and waiting in the car seat, he leaked. Silly us, the ONLY thing we forgot to bring was a spare change of clothes for him. It’s been so long since he leaked that we didn’t even think about it. So we get in, find a decent spot to see the screen from and Nikki sets about changing the little guy.

The first movie, Snakes on a Plane, around 9:00 and Alex is a little fussy. It’s understandable. It’s his bed time, he didn’t have an afternoon nap and he’s in a minivan. But he was showing no signs of slowing down. He finally fell asleep in Nikki’s arms and stayed that way until the end of the first movie. We carefully moved him into the back seat but he woke up anyway and started fussing again. It didn’t help that the lights from the concession stand were shining right in his eyes. We had brought a blanket so we stretched that between the two front seats to block the light. That calmed him down and he had just drifted back off to sleep when the jackass or his stupid twat of a girlfriend/slut-of-the-night (I think it was her) started honking their horn to start the second film. Of course, this started off all the other jackasses in the drive-in and they started on their horns. Naturally, this woke up Alex and he started screaming his little head off. I seriously wanted to walk over to van, scream a bunch of nasty obscenities at them, maybe clock the slut in the face a couple times AND slash a few of their tires. Alas, the desire to remain criminal-record free won out and I just cursed them within the confines of our vehicle. Alex ended up spending most of both movies up with us, either asleep in Nikki’s arms, or in mine. When we got home, we put him to bed but he wasn’t really having ANY part of that. He would not go back to sleep, and instead decided to scream some more. I ended up laying on the floor in his room with my hand stuck in the crib until he fell asleep. I made it to bed about 2:20am. Poor little guy.

So, for those of you thinking of taking a baby to the drive-in: be wary. If we were going to repeat the process again we would do things a little bit different: for starters, we would remember a change of clothes for him, just in case. Also, if we were taking the minivan again, I’d probably pull out the rear seat and setup his playpen back there so he could laydown and sleep properly. And finally, I would arm myself with, at the very least, a small calibre semi-auto to take care of those jackasses with their horns. I mean, seriously, how fucking old are you? Grow the fuck up.

Okay, now, onto the movies. SoaP was absolutely, positively, the second greatest movie this year! (Clerks II was better IMO) I accidentally woke Alex up by laughing too loud when one of the snakes latched onto this chick’s nipple as she and her man joined the mile-high club. I am definitely buying this movie when it comes out on DVD.

Bon Cop, Bad Cop is an entirely Canadian production focusing on an OPP officer and a QPP (??) officer forced to work together on a murder where the body was found on the border between Ontario & Quebec. The casting was absolutely perfect and the movie had a TON of great scenes. Most of these moments were driven by the sharp dialog, which would alternate between English and French with subtitles at the bottom. As an aside, the film company released two versions of the movie – one with English subtitles and the other with French subtitles. Which version you would watch would depend on the primary language in your market. Pretty cool. A lot of cars cleared out of the drive-in during the movie. I think the concept of having to READ a movie is too much for most people. Especially slutty chicks and jackasses. Hell, they might not have even been able to read. For a Canadian made movie, I highly enjoyed this movie. I don’t know that I’d buy it on DVD when it came out or not but if you like watching buddy cop movies (think Lethal Weapon here) then you would be doing yourself a huge disservice by not watching this. Get out there and support our film industry people! This one is worth it!

Wow, I can’t believe I wrote more about Bon Cop, Bad Cop then SoaP. Don’t get me wrong, SoaP was awesome, but I think that just about EVERYONE is raving (rightly so) about SoaP. I don’t really have anything else to add to what’s already been written about it. Actually, I do: I had read that it is better to watch the movie in a full theater as the group experience just adds to the enjoyment of the movie. I can’t really say that’s true as I’ve only seen it once and that was while sitting in the minivan, but I still really enjoyed it. Go see it! And DEFINITELY go see Bon Cop, Bad Cop!