I like to think that I’m a culturally astute guy. I love the symphony, will watch ballet and even partake in opera. I enjoy going to Diamond Head and Manoa Valley theatres for their plays and musicals. But when it comes to movies, I tend to fall on the side of what a modern caveman would watch. Now that the holidays have subsided, I wanted to return to some normalcy.<\/p>\n
My wife and 15-year-old daughter couldn’t agree more, so the other week we decided to go out to watch a movie. The unfortunate thing was that it was their turn to select the movie we were to view. That would undoubtably end up being a chick flick. But since the last time I got to choose Skyfall, <\/I>I agreed to watch whatever they wanted.<\/p>\n
Whoa, they chose Les Miserables. <\/I>I pleaded with them, saying that I didn’t think I could sit through a two-and-a-half-hour musical. I resisted, but then they told me that Russell Crowe from Gladiator <\/I>was in it as well as X-Man Wolverine Hugh Jackman and Sacha Baron Cohen from Borat<\/I>. OK, I thought, maybe it won’t be so bad.<\/p>\n
When we walked into the theater, nearly all the seats were taken. We finally found three open seats next to each other and snapped them up. I had loaded up with concession foods as I felt they would help to pass the time. It wasn’t until after all the previews that I noticed something. That something was that the young guy sitting next to me was wearing cologne – a lot of it!<\/p>\n
I guess he was on a date, but it was as though he bathed himself in a vat of Axe cologne. It smelled as though I was in the boy’s corner of a high school dance. The longer I sat there, the more prominent the “fumes” seemed to be. I looked around to change seats, but nothing was available. I tried to convey this to my wife and daughter, but they immediately “shushed” me.<\/p>\n
So, for two-and-a-half hours I sat through what seemed to be a pretty good movie, although I nearly passed out a few times from lack of oxygen.<\/p>\n
When we left the theater, my wife asked how I liked the movie. I told her I wasn’t sure, but one thing I knew for certain – I understood what the title of the movie meant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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