At my new work, we're having an oscar pool. This is fine and all but I haven't been to the movies since I was dating 1x. Its sort of like a thing now, me and the movies. As if I need more things. I don't have the time, desire, person to come with me to see most of the nominated movies but ... some of them are on demand. So I decided that I could watch some of them while I ride my bike.
Brilliant, you say! (right?)
Maybe.
I chose my first movie based on the fact that it, Eastern Promises, was only 100 minutes long. I could watch the first 60 minutes, go to the gym for my run off, and come back and stretch and have a snack for the last 40 minutes.
Perfect.
Except the movie was largely subtitled and the rest was all spoken with a heavy eastern european accent. And my schedule called for force reps ... and I had to watch the time and cadence and heart rate and I couldn't really focus on the subtitles or the eastern european accents. And when I got back from my run and thought I might at least get the gist of what happened ... well, it was so gory I couldn't really get beyond the gore. Some guy was in a parade (or a riot) and stopped to pee on a grave and some big dudes come over and slashed his throat ... basically beheaded him. And then some other dude was getting the crap beat out of him in a sauna (?) and he was all naked with his parts flopping around while he tried to avoid the knife wielding guys that were trying to kill him (same guys from the cemetery??).
So, yeah. I might just accept my cultural ignorance and stick to bad tv.
Oh, and force reps? Don't believe them when they say they tax the legs not the heart rate. Lies. All lies!
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