Movie Night

Ahhh, a weekend off from work, movie night, conversation....it was nice to feel normal during football season.  I had informed MBE earlier in the month that Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows would be seen. I didn't think it would take much persuasion and so we found ourselves on opening weekend sitting in a fairly packed theater.


via Sherlock Holmes 

It was pretty good, a fun caper; however as with many sequels I didn't find it as entertaining as the first. I did find myself annoyed with all the slow-mo action scenes acted out in his mind before the actual action scene but there were some fun parts and a lot of action.

On a side note, before the movie during the trailers for upcoming releases, they previewed a movie about Margaret Thatcher: Iron Lady.  As a history buff and ex-history major it's definitely on the list of movies I'd want to see, but that's beside the point.  The point is that after the trailer played, the girl in the row in front of us turned to her companion and said "Who is she?"  What?  OK, so said girl was in her 20's but really, she doesn't know Margaret Thatcher?  The first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?  Is our education system in the US so terrible that the average 20-something doesn't know Margaret Thatcher?  Do they know Ronald Reagan?  Mikhail Gorbachev? Heck, do they believe that the cold war was some 1980's video game? I'm really beginning to worry.  I've often said the downfall of the US would be a lack of common sense but maybe just maybe it will be from a lack of not knowing our own history.  Those who cannot remember the past are bound to repeat it and all that good stuff. Whew. Sorry for the rant but it really blew my mind, lol.