Movies

We never go out to movies. There's the hassle of finding a babysitter, or paying for one if the usual grandparent pool has been exhausted. Then you have to drive all the way there and find parking. Then you have to pay for the movie, and you always get suckered into buying popcorn and coke and sweets at exorbitant prices because you were running late and so didn't have time to pop into Spar and buy some sweets to sneak into the theatre. And then you can't pop to the loo during ad breaks or by pausing the movie (which is a crucial option for me at the moment).... So we don't go to movies all that often.

Despite all these drawbacks, I really love going to the movies. But I love watching movies at home more.

But we never hire out movies, because when do we ever have time to a) drive over to the video store or b) come to a mutually pleasing decision about which video to hire? I mean, please!

So usually we wind up watching whatever movies are on TV. And, sadly, we don't even have DSTV... (too expensive, too much hassle to set it up, and we'd probably wind up TV addicts more than we are). Nope, we're E-TV and SABC viewers.

What that means is that we've seen all the movies (at least once) that come on. But we watch them never the less. Something is better than nothing, and we're usually too tired to concentrate on reading a book, or haven't had time to go to the library before it closes to take some out.

Last night we had a very pleasant surprise though: there was a movie on that neither of us had seen. 'Mr and Mrs Smith'. It's about a couple who are both assassins, but neither knows about the other. We weren't expecting great things (after all, this is terrestrial TV!), but as it had Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, there was eye candy for both of us.

Well, slaan my dood! What a good movie! We giggled and laughed our way through the (entirely predictable) plot, and loved the action scenes. For a Monday night, it was great viewing. Who knew that terrestrial TV actually could produce the goods.