Cinema Interruptus: Part I

One of these days, I'm actually going to finish watching this movie. I really am.

I just didn't have the heart to watch it in the movie theatre so soon after I got laid off from my job back in 2009. And more than two years later, I still find myself wanting to watch almost anything but this flick. Perhaps because I found its attitude toward the involuntarily unemployed and underemployed a tad smug. For what it's worth, Meryl Streep's character seemed sympathetic. But I suspect I should have waited until this movie came out on DVD before I first started to watch it.

I Saw a Film Today, Oh Boy

At least I almost did.

I had rented the new movie Across the Universe and I was intending to watch it all the way through. But after I had gotten to the part in which the two couples were saying farewell to each other, the film started dredging up some bad memories for me and I postponed viewing the rest of it until a later date.

It didn't help that the whole movie was about Beatles songs.

And that one of my ex-girlfriend's favorite groups was, of course, the Beatles...