Eldest and I went out to the movies yesterday afternoon. I can’t remember the last time we went out to see a movie, but I’m sure that he can. It was a bit strange in that no one (except some of the superheroes) wore masks and there was little artificial distancing other than cheerful stickers (which everyone respected) on the floor in the concession line. Other things, like popcorn and a drink costing more than two adult movie tickets, were comforting “normal” occurrences.
Honestly, it would have been cheaper to pony up for the Disney Premier pricing for this one, but then it wouldn’t have been an event. We wouldn’t have taken a bit of a scenic route to the theater to look at the old cars in everyone’s backyards. We wouldn’t have stopped by Taco Bell for a pre-movie “dinner.” And we probably wouldn’t have spent so much time talking about the movie, its mixed reviews and the possible reasons for them, its place and function in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and how its events have consequences that will play out in future films and TV series (Clint, watch your six).
I won’t give my own review of the movie here, but I have invited Eldest to access my movie-specific blog, Take Five Film Reviews, to not only review it but contribute some other film-related writing. The last movie I reviewed there was “Captain Marvel” in 2019, so I’d better blow the dust off it before I provide a link. (I also have a lot of broken links to repair, but perhaps Eldest can help with that as well.) Eldest was a bit wary of the offer at first, but after we talked about it he seemed to warm up to the idea. (Please don’t remind him — or tell him — that MiddleSon has contributed at least two guest posts to Chocolate Sheep.)
Eldest also took on the role of writing down the titles of the trailers that played before the feature. We saw at least three movies that I think we’d like to see (for me, they were “Reminiscence,” which comes out on August 20, “The King’s Man,” which has a release date of December 22, and “The Protégé,” which was apparently released on April 21), which made me think about establishing a more regular pattern for going out to the movies. And that seems strange. Or maybe normal. I’m not sure anymore.
Some of the promotional materials we saw in the theater were dated 2020, which makes sense — it was a “lost year” for the industry, and to catch up with all the movies that would have been released back then we have to do a bit of time travel and then fast-forward up to the present. (I wouldn’t be surprised if this kind of time-skip becomes something of a trope in movies that come out in the next few years. We write about what we suffer.)
We hadn’t really planned to see a movie this weekend, but circumstances arranged themselves so that we wouldn’t be leaving anyone out if we did. So we tightened up our morning schedule as much as we could, and bolted for the theater as soon as we were able. We kept ourselves as safe as we could. And I think we both look forward to going out again and having something new to talk about.
Knitwise, there’s been no knitting at all. That might change next week, when I may have time to take on a simple, relaxing project. What I have been doing, suddenly, is math. (That’s not to say that knitting doesn’t have math. It has math and algorithms, and please feel free to leave a comment if you’re a crafter — particularly a knitter, crocheter, or quilter — who was absolutely ambushed by precision mathematics after the beginning stage of your craft/hobby.) I had been working my way through a book of very practical mathematics up until the last week or so, when I hadn’t found time to move forward. Then, suddenly, my work called for some projections to be figured out very quickly, and because of the time that I had spent with the Very Practical Book I was able to reason my way through generating the numbers I needed to generate. It wasn’t quite like “I just started working out last week and then today I needed to lift a ’68 Chevy Impala and now I can,” but it kind of felt like it on Friday afternoon. I knew what I needed to determine and I knew the starting point I needed; once I had the starting point, the rest followed with a combination of logic and intuition.
I’ll check my work on Monday morning. I promise.
In other news, I had an emergency tooth extraction last week, which was really a much better event than if nature had been allowed to take its course with an abcessed tooth. (DO NOT Google this!) So after a couple of days of living on yogurt, energy drinks, and spoon-fed milkshakes, I am starting to put solid food back in my diet. Last night I even had some of our house favorite, the Saturday night slow-cooked beef stew, without a problem.
I’ll work on the relaxing, and the knitting, and the math. I’m willing to use whatever tools may help.
Chocolate Sheep 