Last night I went out with my pal Amy and we saw the new Jackie Chan (my favorite) and Owen Wilson (her favorite) movie, Shanghai Knights, down at the new Block E development. In a word: enjoyable! Very funny, silly, goofy, action-packed and you can tell they had a ton of fun making this movie -- the facial expressions in some scenes! It does veer towards camp a bit, but when has that ever been a bad thing, huh? Everybody will find something to like in this movie. A worthy sequel in my book.
Block E is decent. Not as bad I had feared. GameWorks is a huge video game, game, bar type of place. Lots of high school winter-ball kids in tuxedos and gowns. The giant Hard Rock guitar blots out the views of First Ave, though.
Afterwards we ate at Champp's and got to sit next to "the glamour girls" who were drinking, doing each other's hair and talking about male anatomy while the in-house music system serenaded us with the dulcet tones of Nine Inch Nails and Eminem and other screaming-head music (for a restaurant/bar? not a good fit, really. I mean, it was the harshest of music. And I love NIN, Just not necessarily while I'm dining). Then we went over to The Entry and checked out The Autumn Leaves. The lead singer David is a co-worker of Amy's. The singers were finding it difficult to harmonize... perhaps from the wall of smoke thicker than the snow outside. Still, a well-needed fun time.