Night Out

About 5 months ago, I bought two discount AMC movie tickets from Costco, thinking that it would be a fun spur of the moment date for Tom and I some night. Believe it or not, during these 5 months we haven't found a SINGLE movie that we both wanted to see enough to break out the tickets.

Well, the summer movie season is in swing, and last night we decided to go try and see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with our tickets. It was opening night, packed, and unfortunately all the shows until 10:15 were sold out. So I got to choose a second-choice movie, and I picked Ratatouille, which is the new Pixar flick about a rat who loves cooking.

We still had to hang around for about an hour before it started, so we went to a game store nearby and talked with the very eccentric shop employee for about an hour. "Okalee Dokalee" and "Faboo" were prominent features of this guy's vocabulary. Anyway, we ended up buying a card game called Bang, and a board game ($10 off for a dented box) called Puerto Rico. We're hoping they can live up to the employee's recommendations.

We both really liked Ratatouille. Of course, with Pixar flicks, you spend about half of the movie oohing and aahing over the amazing graphics and special effects. Some of our favorites were "lightning-struck Rat fur", "foggy Paris night", "copper pots", and "swarming rats". Very cool. The plot was simple, but there were lots of good lines and the characters were amazingly well developed and empathetic. Anyway, if you've got a free night or maybe even some movie tickets laying around, we both highly recommend it.