Jarhead

Well, Friday night was a GREAT night! I went to my favorite restaurant - so great it's unbloggable! The Cheesecake Factory - how can you go wrong with a ten page menu! Plus, they have Pinot Grigio...really I should work there. The hostess staff wears all black...it's definitely a sign!

So, after dinner (avacado egg rolls, endive, pecan and bleu cheese salad and mozzarella pizza) Sonja and I go to see Jarhead - the new movie with Jake Gyllenhaal and Jamie Foxx - and Erica went on to Solera - much more of a party girl!

The movie starts at 10:10 and we are there at 9:25, got be early on a Friday night! As we are walking towards theatre 10 I feel dejavu, no not the strip club, but a sense that I was just here. Well, in fact I was...the last movie I saw a few weeks back was at the same theatre - same number. I tell Sony this and ask what was the movie we saw...neither of us can remember. We couldn't even tell you who was in the movie or if we liked it. That is bad! I am not even 30 and I am forgetting the last movie I saw...this means I have no hope of remembering anything about my friends. Guess you can't forget me remembering birthdays, anniversaries...your names...

Well, finally this poor guy who is seating next to us waiting for the movie to start is probably sick of hearing us try to figure out what movie we saw, he reaches over and hands me his cell phone and says here are the top ten movies out right now - is it one of these?

Luckily - it is! Flightplan! Note - if we couldn't remember SEEING it...wait till it's out on DVD.

Kudos to the nice man next to us...he asked if it was a good movie and if there is in fact a little girl...Sony and I tell him the whole plot of the movie. It sounds dumb even coming out of my mouth. And I actually saw this movie??? I didn't remember it being that dumb...

The commercials start...no not the previews...still in commercials here folks - those marketers trying to get every angle they can! I look over and see my new cell phone seat neighbor swirling his soda with his straw. Seems weird. Of course I ask what he is doing and AHAHA...then I see the flask! A little rum and Coke...my kind of guy!

So the movie starts...and I keep waiting for a story to begin, a plot, SOMETHING! Nope...this movie was a huge disappointment for me. It showcased how one track minded men can be and the military is a real life game for those involved.

Sure, Jake and Jamie are nice to look at in the movie...but a plot would have been nice.

I recommend renting this and only if there is nothing else in. If you are looking for a good war movie I think Black Hawk Down is much better. Geez, Pearl Harbor with Ben Affleck is better. At least we had a story to follow in that movie.

Jarhead, jughead...pass...read the book instead.