This week, our regular cinema group went to see two films at the cinema. The first was ‘The Wedding Banquet’, which I enjoyed very much. It was a Queer film, and comedy of errors, involving two young, same-sex couples, one male and one one female, and an assortment of ethnicities, parents and grandparents. There were also babies involved.
It played out very well. Whilst it was the remake of an Ang Lee film made in 1993, and I know I watched it back then, but don’t remember it at all. Welcome to ageing!
Whilst two of us enjoyed the film, the other two did not, one stating that he felt uncomfortable watching it, whilst the other stated that she had expected it to be a lot funnier.
The other film was ‘Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning’. The other three people enjoyed that film a lot more, whilst I just found it really loud, and quite boring when it wasn’t being loud.
Admittedly, I had probably had enough of being in the cinema by then, and it probably didn’t help that I had only seen one of the seven other Mission Impossible films, and I am not the biggest fan of Tom Cruise as an actor.
Going forward, my overall feeling is that I probably need to be in different company when watching Queer films, and as far as the cinema is concerned, one film is quite enough.