Hangover is finally abating, so let’s get the reviews going:

Movie: Eden Court
Goodness. Why start off the festival in this way, making me go back on my word of loving all the movies when this movie really was pretty bad??? I hope this is not a sign of things to come with this year’s festival, because it certainly did not get the festival off on the right foot. Usually the opening and closing movies are the very best films of the festival, and most of them make it to the mass market big screen. This movie, though the writer/director seemed like a really nice guy… it is not going to make it to a theater near you, no way no how. The funniest thing about the movie was that it actually was set in Nebraska, so just like my earlier post, I sat and started thinking that maybe this movie really would be better set in New York with explosions and Angelina Jolie. Certainly couldn’t have hurt it.

I mean, the problems with this movie were countless. If you have a comedy and want to stick in a drunken best friend, you can’t make her a drunken, slutty loser friend who is also a bad mother. There’s not much comedy in that. And I don’t know if Kimberley Williams-Paisley was acting the part of the wife in the way the writer had envisioned, but if so, dude needs to go interact with more women. She constantly slipped back and forth between ditzy and intelligent, loving and hateful, irresponsible and yet the only responsible member of the family. The whole movie was all over the place, and like the character of the wife, the storyline slipped too many times between comedy and tragedy, heart warming and disgusting.

Review: Thumbs Down.

After Party: YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
I had the most fun at this Opening Night party than I’ve had at any previous ones, but it could be because my son has had his drivers license for a year now so I was able to have a few drinks. It definitely was less crowded than previous years, possibly there were less people or maybe the good weather just allowed a lot of us to mingle outside.

As soon as we walked through the doors we were presented with table after table with drinks set out just asking to be drank. I had to oblige, they were too pretty! I passed the table of pink vodka and went straight to the table of a dark colored liquid with cherries in them. I figured, Must be some kind of cherry drink! *BZZZZ* Wrong! From what we could tell, it was straight whiskey. Not really my thing, but… it was free and there were cherries waiting for me at the bottom! So, drink number one: check!

My daughter hung out at the chocolate fountain, and my son and his friend wandered around waiting for real food to appear. I’m not entirely sure if they found any – I know Spike had some toast with mushrooms on it, and we were all served many chicken shishkebobs, and I did manage to find a table with sandwich fixings but the bread was gone…

But I do know I decided to try one of the pink vodka drinks when the whiskey was gone. Now that drink I can get behind. I wish I knew exactly what drinks these were so I could give them a shout-out, but I have no idea. I just know that pink vodka = good. Drink number two: Check!
So the two boys and my daughter and I all hung out on the patio, chatting with various filmmakers and Nathan Louie, and the well-known Jason. Pictures will come soon - I did get some good ones this time! And eventually my pink drink was gone and I wanted another. Drink number three: Check! And mom gives up the car keys.

So of course the party seemed awfully fun, to ME, but the kids were also having fun and so were the boys, and so were a lot of people I talked to that night. It was really nice not being packed in like sardines, the music was nice, and it was just a pretty fun night.

Buffy was actually quickly becoming the star of the party as she brought along the purse I had bought her for her 16th birthday. Every time I turned around she was surrounded by men who were just fascinated by her and her purse, and she carried herself very well talking to them. For the record, they weren’t skeevy lecherous men, they were just various filmmakers and recognizable Cinequest attendees who were fascinated by the bag. I was just surprised that she had enough poise to handle conversations with so many strangers.

Finally we all walked back to the parking garage and Spike drove us home. It was a good night – until I woke up this morning with a raging hangover. Heh.

Tonight Buffy and I will be seeing Disfigured and possibly Commit.

The only drinks drunk tonight will be Starbucks and Diet Coke.

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