Date night at The Cinema

Thursday night my sweet man & I went to the cinema on a date. I don't like these big movie 'experience' theatres, so I was happy when I read an old 1 movie theatre had opened up again in the village next to ours, and when I got an email that 'Boyhood' was being shown there, it was the perfect opportunity for us to check it out. I love the vintage outside sign above the movie theatre. Anyways, enough about my nostalgia about small and independent movie theatres, we went to see boyhood and I really loved the movie. It really caught the process of growing up so delicately (it was filmed over a period of 12 years with the same actors), you can see the boy really grow into a man. For me it sometimes felt like a documentary, because the emotions and situations felt so real and life-like (although I obviously don't know how it feels to grow up as a boy). It really made me realise once again that life is so precious, and we should appreciate every phase. It also made me realise that at 33 you do not always know more about life than at 18.

The Charm of Old Fashioned Fun

On Friday I went bowling with my colleagues at an old bowling centre in Leuven.

It looks like time stood still there, it is still the same as the day it opened.

And that is just fine, that's how a bowling place should be, it even smells old.

For me all the charm lies in the fact that I can pretend I am in an old village somewhere in the middle of nowhere in America. Bowling has a real Americana feel to it, in my opinion. That's why I like it, although I suck at it - big time, that is-.

 

Another old fashioned fun activity: Tonight my love and I had a date night at the movie theater, we went to see 'Django Unchained'. I'm not gonna write a review about the movie, because I never read movie reviews myself, but I do want to get something off my chest about the whole movie experience. What the F happened to the charm of going to the movies? No more people who serve you nachos and the famous cheese dip & jalapeños), they have been replaced by bags of nachos and plastic cups of cheese dip under a heat lamp. No more coca cola in a large cup with a straw, but plain supermarket bottles. And what is worse, in the old days you had the commercials before the movie started to look forward to, because mostly they were creative and you couldn't see them on tv, now we had a commercial for a local car wash. Imagine that, together with some motion picture trivia and some bad movie trailers. Easy to see why less and less people bother to go to the cinema, and prefer to stay at home where you can skip the commercials and sit in your comfy sofa with no chewing gum on the seat.

Luckily the movie itself and the company made up for it!

but what happened to the red velvet seats?