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Good food, good movie, good place, and good crowd: how can the night possibly go wrong?

Let’s start with the good food.

By some divine providential force, my cousin has gotten hold of 1000 pesoses worth of Haagen Dasz Gift Certificates! Haagen Dasz! Ohhhhh. My mouth still waters when I reminisce that ice cream soooo creamy, utterly rich and divine! Most of the experience is indescribable. I had 2 scoops of blueberry cheesecake flavor. It touched my mouth as if I the whole creation blossomed inside my mouth. Or maybe I’m exaggerating.

For the movies, we got a bag of Doritos, a bag of Lays, and a bucket of popcorn for all four of us to share. We only got halfway through each of them.

Then the movie.

This one gets rave reviews for me. Screw the critics who keep claiming that this film has performed below expectations! What would you expect from mission impossible? I mean, would someone really expect an intelligent film?

The stunts were just stunning. It literally kept your heart beat like the hooves of stallion on cocaine! There were several parts in the movie when I said, “wow.” I kept nudging my cousin at my right, just to reassure myself that I’m not so easily amazed. This one really pushed the envelope on extreme action. I saw things I’ve never seen on an action film. And I’ve seen lots of action films. This is more of a stunt flick, than one of those karate-wushu-kickbox-streetfighting movies. And oh, you’ll have more explosions than the pops that your popcorn would take. Think of all the expensive things they blew up! The action is almost eye candy, or maybe eye spice. Whatever you call it. After the film we kept on relishing our favorite parts, “Hey, you know that scene where…” and then “Yeah! It’s so cool!” And yeah, we were still brimming with action after it.

But there were several points in the film when it just seemed too silly. And I think they really screwed up with the name of Ethan Hunts agency: IMF. What does it stand for? Impossible Mission Force! Give me a break! Impossible mission force. For the love of whatever we hold dear!

So yeah, I got what I just expected from mission impossible: pure, explosive action. It’s not so memorable as to give me profound life realizations, but it sure is as entertaining as a rollercoaster ride! Once in a while we all need ‘just fun’ films. I’m kinda’ tired with all the serious stuff I’m watching.

Damn, I’m so sure MI3 publicity people will pay me good money for this one. Hehe. (I wish)

And more good food.

Before we went home, we had a stop at Fazoli’s for some Italian and had a nice intelligent chat.

On our way home, a horrible loop in our head played the Mission Impossible themes song! Wahhhh. LSS! “dun dun dun dundunun dun dun dun dundunun, tenenen!” Over and over and over and over. It drove me wild. We were actually chanting it. Insane.