I can’t tell you what the morning was like as my day began at noon. After showering, make-up, drinking tea, agreeing what we wanted to do, avoiding the Santa Parade, walking far too far in the cold before getting a tram, it was 14.45 when we arrived in the Italian restaurant. We were seated immediately, order taken, drinks and starters delivered and then we waited and waited for the main course. Finally it arrived at about 15.45 with the promise of free dessert. Finally it was 16.45 when we left. Our plan was to have lunch and then go to Art Gallery of Ontario. We walked from the restaurant in the hope that it might be open later but it closed at 17.30 and we both agreed that $19.75 was too much for 20 minutes however great the art might be. Its closed tomorrow so it will be a treasure for a future visit to Toronto.
Our plans were further cast asunder. We planned to go to Second City comedy in the evening but for some bizarre reason the Sunday November shows are all at 2pm. So we ended up at the cinema again. We went to see Easy A. I had such high expectations
1. The trailer was great
2. Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci were in it
3. The reviews were good
4. My friend CD said she would go to see it a second time with me.
The film was supposed to start at 20.10. It didn’t. Finally at 20.30 somebody went to tell a staff member (I missed this and went to tell the same staff member about 20.31). We all got free cinema tickets and finally the film started. It was good and I enjoyed it but it failed to live up to my high expectations so found myself quite disappointed.
There was a lot of good stuff
1. Every scene with Stanley Tucci
2. Most scenes with Patricia Clarkson
3. Emma Stone – actress to watch for the future
4. Clever dialogue
5. Good soundtrack
6. Some good jokes and laughs
7. Likeable characters
8. Clever concept for film
With all this going for it, why am I only rating it 3 stars. Well for a number of reasons
1. Trailer is definitely better than movie
2. Voice-over style (ala Ferris Bueller’s day off) was quite annoying
3. No absolutely hilarious I can’t stop laughing scene (I think a high school comedy needs this)
4. Sub-plot of love interest wasn’t properly developed
5. Malcolm McDowell sinfully underused
6. Left out complications where they would have added interest (friendship, school) but included them where it was distracting (adopted brother)
7. But most of all not as good as I hoped. Maybe not fair on the film that I punish it for having a brilliant marketing team/trailer editor.
Back to Chicago tomorrow.
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