Earlier this week my friend Sam gave me a pass to see an advance screening of Domino tonight at the Loews at the Commons. Dano and I took a cab down there and walked into the theatre around 7:20 for the 7:30 screening. I knew from working at a radio station in high school that gave away these things all the time that they generally give away well more passes than seats available in the theatre. Still, I figured getting there a few minutes early we would be able to get in without a problem. Well I was just a little bit wrong...the theatre had been full since 6:45. We were pretty pissed off but we're both pretty passive so we didn't say anything to anyone about it. We didn't want to waste a 13 dollar cab ride down to the Commons so we decided to see a movie, even though we'd have to spend another $6.50, which, even though it's not considered that much these days, is a completely bullshit price to have to pay for a movie. It would have been unfair of me to ask Dano to see Two for the Money, which I only decided I wanted to see after I read the Sports Guy review. We agreed on Proof, which I hadn't really heard much about but seemed like it might be entertaining. Quick side note: as we're walking down the hallway to our theatre there's a vending machine for sodas charging $3.50. I didn't even think vending machines could take that much money at one time...and aren't vending machines supposed to be for cheap quick snack items and drinks. Fuck any vending machine where you have to put more than one dollar bill into the machine. Onto the movie:

(I might reveal some key details about the movie as I write this)
The basic premise of the movie is that Anthony Hopkins plays a genius mathematician who is father to Gwyneth Paltrow. He reaches his prime around 22 and then goes crazy as he gets older. There are a lot of flashbacks and honestly Dano and I looked at each other multiple times throughout the movie with the look that means "what the fuck is going on right now." I was confused throughout the whole movie as to what was actually going on, what was a flashback, and what was going on in real time but she was imagining. It kind of came together in the end; and Paltrow and Jake Gyllenhaal were both good but I came away not even knowing what to feel. There were so many unanswered questions and virtually no plot in this movie. When we got out I was thinking "when the writers of this movie were sitting around with the directors and producers...what the hell kind of message were they trying to get across with this movie?" I literally had no idea what the central plot or object of the movie was. Instead of being particularly moved with any sort of emotion, I left while in a state of high confusion.
Overall: C-

One extra side note about the movie experience: Dano and I are sitting five seats from one of the aisles in a relatively empty theatre. There are multiple rows with absolutely no one in them. As the movie is about to begin a group of five people walks in and sits down right next to me completing the row. In a theatre with as few people as this one was, that move was completely uncalled for. They could have had a row all to themselves but they decided to pick the one place they would have to sit next to someone. Of course within the first two minutes of them sitting there I had the awkward moment when the girl sitting next to me and I both try to use the armrest. I had clearly claimed the arm rest as the first person who sat down and then she tried to fucking steal it from me. You can add that to the list of my biggest pet peeves.