Movies and dinner

[beowabbit]

wispfox and nex0s came over last night to watch 2001 and Lawrence of Arabia. The event was inspired by a meme a while ago where people listed the IMDB lists of 100 best and worst movies and indicated which ones they had or hadn’t seen. Hopefully we’ll do something similar soon.

I’d seen both movies before, but hadn’t seen Lawrence of Arabia since I was a child (and I think that was on a not-very-good black-and-white television). The one thing I found most jarring about LoA was that most of the Arab characters were played by European actors. But it was unquestionably a great movie. As wispfox pointed out, Peter O’Toole’s acting was excellent.

Between movies, we took a trip to Pho 99 (sionnagh’s favourite restaurant in Malden, I believe) for dinner.

A great evening, but if we do this again with similarly long movies, we should only watch one at a time.

Comments

[hawkegirl.livejournal.com]

*LOVE* Lawrence of Arabia....

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

BTW - when i got home i found that my DVD's from Columbia House were delivered.

i have "Casablanca" now! and "zoolander", "the Royal Tennenbaums" and "goonies!" as well as "grease".

i should have a "Goonies" and "Grease" double feature.

maybe we could do my house next time :)

n.

[lapis-lazuli.livejournal.com]

I haven't really seen Lawrence of Arabia. It's one of my mom's favorites and I kind of vaguely remember being in the room while it was on television but not paying much attention to it.

A friend once told me that " [my] life is not complete" until I've seen LofA... to which I replied that I thought I was a little young for my life to be complete yet. ;) I do mean to see it, though. It's on my list.

(Which is all by way of an excuse to say hello, old friend! fancy meeting you here. :) )

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[beowabbit]

Um, hi. Fancy meeting you here! Who are you? :-)

(If you deem that that information is suitable for my security clearance, you can send it to js (at) aq (dot) org; I promise to eat the email, sauteed in a little garlic butter with some onions, immediately after receiving it.)