Me: 13$ to get in, are they kidding? Let’s go see this at the Parc tomorrow. I feel bad encouraging this.
He: Well, we’re here now. Just don’t buy popcorn.
Me: That’s not the point. I’m still giving them 13$.
He: Yeeeeees, but if you don’t get popcorn, you’re denying them an additional seven bucks. Isn’t that sticking it to them enough?
Me: For the same 13$ somewhere else, I’d get admission and snacks. How am I sticking it to them by denying myself the snacks I’d get for the same amount of money, somewhere else?
He: (rolls eyes) But I wanna see this.
Me: All right, let’s see it.
He: No, I don’t want you to bitch and moan the whole time.
Me: I won’t. I’ve decided I’m just going to give them a bad plug on my blog later.

(Later)

A preview for Le Divorce is playing. There are a lot of American actors, as well as Thierry Lhermitte who seems to have a major role in the movie. At the end of the preview, they name all the actors, but not Thierry Lhermitte.

He: Ben c’est ça. Fuck Thierry Lhermitte.
Me: (GASP!) You said Fuck Thierry Lhermitte! You know you’ll have to go to the Plateau confessional tomorrow. Combined with the fact that we haven’t bought proscuitto in a week, you’ll probably have to recite nine Ondes de Choc. Else we’ll never again get a table at the Avenue.

And is it me or does Roger Ebert love everything? Here are some of what other critics said about Gigli (which got a 19 out of 100 on Metacritic):

Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers:
The only people likely to get a kick out of Gigli … are Madonna and her director hubby Guy Ritchie. Finally there’s a movie as jaw-droppingly awful as their “Swept Away.”

USA Today’s Claudia Puig:
An embarrassing debacle…the rare movie that never seems to take off, but also never seems to end. It tries hard to titillate, but ends up making audiences want to avert their eyes.

Jonathan Foreman, NY post:
Even [J-LO’s] remarkable sex appeal isn’t enough to distract you from the idiocies coming out of her mouth.

Newsweek / Jeff Giles:
After the schadenfreudian thrill of watching beautiful people humiliate themselves wears off, it has the same annihilating effect on your will to live.

Roger Ebert:
Lopez and Affleck are sweet and appealing in their performances; the buzz said they didn’t have chemistry, but the buzz was wrong.

Okay, he did say the movie didn’t work, but I can’t forgive him for the thumbs up to Maid in Manhattan. To me, a thumbs-up from Roger is about as credible as a good review from Tribute magazine.

Oh yeah, lest I forget the negative plug: The AMC theater is way overpriced! You don’t even inflated prices like that, at the Paramount! It’s obscene!

But I really am in a good mood, really.