Movies and Movie Moments

View along our way to/from work

[Note: the first part of this post is mostly me rambling on about movies, if you're not interested skip a ways down]

This week has been movie week. I’m pretty sure this month will be movie month, as well. As you may recall, Jenee and I went to see Thor: The Dark World last Friday...it was actually just one of a few movies that are out right now that we want to see. It’s like there was hardly any movies out for the longest time and now they are sprouting up all over the place.

Kya! The advertisements are everywhere!

So on Saturday we’d planned on going to see the Korean movie No Breathing (because…Lee Jong Suk and Seo In-Guk together in one movie is already worth a watch and let’s just add in the fact that the movie is about swimming to make it even more of a must-see…) but we ended up not having enough time…

Which left us in a bit of a movie-dilemma. The film No Gravity has been out for a while and we’d both had no interest in it until a few friends told us it was amazing and we had to add it to our list of movies to see. We figured that this would probably be the last week it was in theaters though so we needed to watch it soon. But we really wanted to see No Breathing and we knew that even more movies are come out next week so…

We decided to just go see No Gravity on Monday after work and No Breathing on Tuesday. The times worked out perfectly and gave us enough time both nights to buy our tickets, get something to eat, watch the movie, and still get home at a decent hour.  I’m pretty sure the employees at the theater thought we were pretty crazy…two foreign girls watching three different movies within the breadth of a mere five days. But, hey! It was worth it.

I’ve also found that seeing a movie after work is actually really nice. It gives you something to look forward to all day; kind of like getting to go to Disneyland after a long, hard week of the nine-to-five grind.

Anyway, No Gravity was fantastic. We watched it in 3D and normally I’d prefer my movies in the typical 2D format and am unimpressed with the effects but this is the first movie where I actually think it is a significantly better experience in 3D. It was pretty awesome!

No Breathing's super cute poster!

No Breathing was also really good. Ah, the bromance. It was cute and funny in all the right ways, albeit a little unoriginal in the plot department. It made for a great relaxing watch in the evening and I’m really glad we went to see it.

Now we just have to get prepared for all the movies yet to come: Safe Haven (probably gonna re-watch it since it’s playing in theaters here), Commitment, 11:00AM, The Five, and Catching Fire.

Wow.

Although this has been movie week, the highlight of this week so far actually happened this morning on the way to work.

There we were, walking just like always and we have to cross like three or four crosswalks along the way so we were coming up to one of them when we noticed some cars almost have a collision in the four-way inner-section near the hospital (which is right across the street). We glanced over and I briefly caught a glimpse of grey in-between the cars.  I’m thinking huge grey-hound got loose and is running amok but as we started going across the cross-walk my brain instantly switched to ‘shoot-I-hope-it’s-a-friendly-loose-gigantic-dog’ when suddenly the cars cleared and here came this enormous boar.

You read that right. Boar. As in over-sized wild pig. I’m like, not even kidding.

It dashed across the street and went full speed ahead not even five-feet away from us as Jenee and I stood flabbergasted in the middle of the cross walk.

I had a surge of different thoughts and emotions in that moment: disbelief being the foremost, fear being the second because wooooow boars are a lot bigger when they are up-close and personal…I was also questioning my sanity because seriously? A boar? In the middle of a Seoul suburb?

Then Jenee and I just kind of looked at each other like, ‘Did you see that? Cuz I just saw that.’ And we burst into side-splitting laughter. It was probably part hysteria (at least for me) because there was a small part of me that had been terrified the wild pig would notice us standing there as it made its way past and change direction. I know it’s hard to imagine but the thing was nearly waist-high on me and had to be at least 200lbs.

As we continued on our way, finally crossing the rest of the inner-section and gasping for breath between bouts of hysterical laughter I was un-surprised to see a cluster of pedestrians huddled in the doorway of a near-by shop with looks of horror on their faces and hands over their hearts. It only made me laugh even harder because it was assurance that I hadn't just day-dreamed a generous boar racing through the city. It’s actually happened.

It was certainly one of the oddest things I've ever experienced (Jenee agrees with me fully on this).

Just another day in South Korea, folks.

I'm never making fun of him in the scene again. I know, now. I know...

(Ps. Why don’t we have cameras embedded in our foreheads yet? That are voice activated? Because I just totally missed my million-hit YouTube video).