We went to see our little nephew play hockey on professional ice today. It was a fundraising effort for his team – we bought tickets to see the pro home team play, and then the kids took to the ice afterward. They got to walk onto the ice through fog, with swirling lights, have their names announced, and stood for the anthem. Then played a game with music breaks and the announcer throwing out goal credits, and our nephew rose to the occasion with a hat trick. It was a perfect way to spend our Saturday noon, except getting in and out of the parking garage was perfect hell. The arena was in the same area as a big open-air Christmas market and the whole thing meant we spent 30 minutes driving to the venue and 50 minutes waiting to park, and the exit process was looking to be just as harrowing only with more honking, so we got into our car, considered our options, and got back out to spend our time more wisely: paying for a movie that at least one of us had already seen.
[It’s awards season, so besides Frozen 2 and Last Christmas, which we’ve already seen, the theatres are packed with things one or both of us have seen previously at film festivals.]
Of our options, we went with Knives Out, even though we grabbed two of the last 5 seats in the theatre, which means we were watching from the front row and Daniel Craig’s head was horrible distorted.
The script, however, was just as delightful. So even though I’ve already given you a full review of the film here, I wanted to urge you, if you’re at all interested in this film, to check it out at the cinema. Our packed theatre was having so much fun, laughing out loud consistently, it’s such a great communal experience to laugh alongside your fellow hooman.
ASSHOLES WATCHING MOVIES 
Oh my, I’m still torn between going and watching this surely great film and boycotting everything by Roundhead Ruin Johnson just for destroying the Star Wars franchise in an irreparable way and being an ass about it.
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Congratulations to your nephew, bet he was buzzing!
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Saw it a couple days ago. Really enjoyed it even if my wife got annoyed at my constant whispered theories on whodunit. 😁
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What a great experience for your nephew!
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I was told, yesterday, that it was the best mystery this person had seen.
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We are seeing a screening in LA with the Director today. So glad you enjoyed, Jay.
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Not going to lie my original reason for seeing this is Evans looking good in those trailers and Ana de Armas but its nice to know I’ll enjoy it otherwise 😉
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Aw man, that’s the kinda experience that’ll stay with your nephew, eh? Amazing.
And good call going to catch a flick…
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Yes, he was so proud but he’s 8 so he was kind of hiding it a bit, but then his little grin would pop out.
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