We have an interesting little split in our house. My wife likes to go to movies/theaters. She can see the latest thing on a screen that is way big, eat popcorn, and just be there. Movie theaters however are not my favorite place. And I don’t really see the movies I want to see at theaters. For me, its the Western Channel, Turner Classic Movies, and AMC. I also really like all the science and discovery channels when they do their archeological, paleontological, geological, ecological type shows. But finally, I found a movie I want to see and its this one. Why you ask? Well, because its that guy. The Clouseau guy and I have this thing for Pink Panther movies. In fact, I own all the old ones on DVD and I terrify my family unit every so often by chomping through them all. Its the bombs and the phone and the dog and the incredibly delicious humor that always makes me see a new thing in it. But most of all its that greatest thing in humor for me. I remember it for years. Many of the shows out these days I simply cannot remember. Names, actors, themes, skins. I do better with my WindowMaker themes in Linux than my movie themes in real life.
But in another weekend, that will all end and I’ll head to the place with the ‘corn, the drinks, the orderly crowds that I really don’t like at all. But I’ll watch Steve Martin engross me with humor that I truly enjoy. Then it will be another 10 months or so many days or years before I head back. There is not another movie out there I really have a desire to see. So it will not be movie time for me any time soon.
Instead it will be movie time at home with the horse operas, the old mysteries, the fun of other days.
