thanksgiving break: part two

I thought I should finish up my food and movie marathon week. Also, I can give my review of Cloud Atlas now since I've seen it. I liked it. Bam. That's my review. The awkward makeup when they tried to make the same actors different ages or races took you out of the movie a few times. All of the story lines were very different, from humorous to horrific, but they all carried on the theme of corruption and oppression and making a break for freedom from said corruption and oppression. Like I said: I liked it.

Monday

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We had lunch at Kobe Steak and Sushi, which apparently isn't cool enough to have a logo online, so I just added a generic picture of nigiri sushi, since that's what I always get when we eat there. My boyfriend loves sushi rolls: the more ingredients and more complicated, the better. I like plain simple nigiri: seafood and rice and delicious.

We saw Lincoln afterwards. When we got out of the theater and were walking back to the car, Perry asked how I liked the movie. I said I was disappointed. He shrugged and said that it was what he expected it would be: an overly romanticized look at Lincoln's presidency. It was. This movie wasn't bad, it just had no soul. Which is pretty bad, actually.

Tuesday

Okay. After day four days of going out to eat and the theater, what we most wanted to do was not go anywhere. So that's what we did.

Wednesday

No restaurant on Wednesday either. We were still living off of the mountains of to-go containers we had in the fridge from the previous places we had eaten. However, we did see a movie.

I didn't see Life of Pi in 3D since I think 3D is by and large a gimmick, but I think this one would have been worthwhile to see in 3D. It's a very beautiful movie. I have never read the book, so the ending really caught me off guard, which I like in movies. I felt like they explained too much to the viewer at the end, which I felt was unnecessary since most viewers were probably already connecting the dots between animal and human. However, one of the last lines of the film stuck with me "And so it goes with God." I didn't really understand that line until the next morning when I was brushing my teeth before work. It was Pan's Labyrinth kind of good and easily the best movie of the week.