Saturday movie night

This post courtesy of Eli's blog. This particular entry was entitled "Bore and Peace":

Kimberly met me out there and we explored for a while and also went into an amazing graveyard that has a bunch of important people that apparently weren't good enough to be buried in Red Square because either they ticked off too many people (Khrushchev) or they only had money but not necessarily power. We were pretty exhausted by late afternoon so we decided to go buy a couple of movies and watch one. Thrilled at our opportunity to get more cultured while in the Mother Country, we found Audrey Hepburn's "War and Peace." After fiddling with the DVD player in a typical Soviet apartment with a couple of old Soviets (the people Kimberly lives with) we started the film. Exactly eight minutes later Kimberly, looking at the case, said like she was breaking really bad news, "um, this thing is 208 minutes long. [And I have to add here, I said--should we just throw in Indiana Jones now, or wait until we both give up on it in 30 minutes]--60 goes into 208 a lot of times." As we had absolutely no idea what was going on the movie (mostly because we were busy talking about the Snickers, Wafly and herbal tea we were shoving down our faces like the apocalypse had arrived) we decided that we would only watch the movie 20 minutes at a time every day or two. For the last 12 minutes of the 20 we mostly just watched the clock and waited for our obligatory cultural experience to expire. So much for "War and Peace."

We watched Indian Jones and the Crystal Skull--neither of us had seen it, and both agreed it was weird, but cool that it had Russian in it. We laughed so much--especially when Eli crouched in fear at the corner of the couch because there was a snake in the movie. It was really such a fun night! He took off around 11:30 pm to make his trek home, and I got ready for the night at Bar Hat with the MBA-ers.