Yesterday found me drinking more alcohol than I have done in months as my younger brother, his girlfriend Bev, and I watched movies. Bev ─ with her weaker constitution ─ crashed relatively early, wordlessly going upstairs to my brother's bedroom and not returning.
As for my brother and I, we watched T.V. until perhaps 1:20 a.m. and the conclusion of our final movie. He then joined Bev for the night, while I came here to my computer and embraced further dissolution that kept me up until perhaps 3:30 a.m. ─ I no longer recall.
As might be expected, my later morning was not ideal. I actually rose just after 8 a.m. and went downstairs to turn off all of the Christmas lights ─ inside and outside ─ that had been left burning overnight because, after I finished with the nonsense of remaining up for a couple or so hours longer than did my brother, I did not care to go downstairs where my eldest stepson was entertaining himself at the dining table watching a movie or something on a laptop or tablet.
The young man often sits up while so engaged after my brother and I vacate the downstairs for the night.
I returned to bed to try and eke out some further sleep after my errand. I must say that before and after that errand, my sleep involved much entertaining dreaming.
When next I was awake enough to be curious on the time, I was a little surprised to find that it was 10:22 a.m., so I rose and dressed, correctly expecting to find that my brother and Bev had by this time risen for the morning.
When I came here to my computer after rising and dressing, I learned that temperatures hereabouts had risen a couple of degrees (Celsius) above freezing, so some of the four or five inches of snow that has been blanketing the outdoors must surely have begun some melting.
I must congratulate myself for the movie picks that I came up with yesterday for my brother, Bev, and I ─ the focus was to locate movies that involved New Year's Eve to some degree or another.
Putting our Android TV Box to use after doing some research for those movies, the first I got playing was from 2011 and aptly titled New Year's Eve.
With multiple storylines, the feature had an almost bewildering number of familiar faces in the cast. With credits, the movie is listed as being two minutes shy of two hours, so it was long as well as entertaining. And when it was done and I scanned those credits, I was caught off guard to learn that there were a couple of actresses well enough known to me listed whom I did not even recognize as being in the film. One was Hilary Swank, who had quite a large role. I have been a fan of hers ever since I watched her portraying a female boxer in the 2004 movie Million Dollar Baby.
Alyssa Milano had a minor role as a hospital nurse, but I never recognized her at all.
One of my favourite storylines involved a middle-aged introverted office worker who quit her job and then became involved with a young male courier who devoted himself to helping her achieve versions of an unrealized bucket list that the timid woman possessed. The rather attractive office worker was a face familiar to me, but not until I saw the credits did I realize that the actress was Michelle Pfeiffer.
There were other somewhat familiar faces whose names I would never have been able to summon.
The movie was excellent overall, and I very much enjoyed Lea Michele's version of Auld Lang Syne ─ Lea looked almost devastating in a tight red dress in one extensive scene that involved her being trapped in a stalled elevator. I highly recommend the movie.
The next one that I tuned in was from 2014 and titled A Long Way Down. It was only a little over 1½ hours long, and had a much smaller cast, but the plot was very good ─ four disparate people (two men and two women) who meet on a rooftop on New Year's Eve where each had gone to commit suicide by jumping off ─ make a pact to stay alive until at least Valentine's Day.
The pact was to lead to a bond and powerful friendship despite these people's differences. I'm no Pierce Brosnan fan, but he was good in his role as one of the four. I am also not a fan of Aaron Paul, but he ably portrayed another of the four characters on the rooftop.
Imogene Poots did as well, but although her name is familiar to me, I am not familiar enough with her to be able to recognize her. She was certainly cute and even sexy, though.
The fourth character was a very familiar face, for my brother and I are presently working our way through the series in which she has the lead role as a multiple split personality ─ United States of Tara. The actress is Toni Collette, a name that is not yet familiar to me.
A Long Way Down was far simpler a production than New Year's Eve, but we still enjoyed it a lot.
The same goes for 1995's While You Were Sleeping, a wonderful early vehicle helping viewers fall in love all over again with actress Sandra Bullock. The movie is listed as being approximately an hour and 40 minutes in duration.
There is a familiarity with the film that all three of us had ─ each of us may have seen all or part of it before. However, for myself, it was like watching it for the first time.
The fourth and final movie was 2010's Eat Pray Love, which I would describe as being almost epic in scope. I believe that we ─ my brother and I, for Bev had gone to bed ─ watched the 140-minute extended version of the movie.
The lead role belonged to actress Julia Roberts. And despite the various criticisms identified by Wikipedia's write-up of the movie, my brother and I thoroughly enjoyed it and had no problem seeing it through to the end.
It was around 11 p.m. when I tuned it in, but at the time I did not know that the movie would be over two hours long ─ this was why my brother and I sat up watching T.V. until something like 1:20 a.m.
I definitely recommend all four movies.
It is now a little after 7 p.m. ─ the preceding had been typed out over the latter morning and midday. Bev is still here ─ she and my brother have been watching NFL games since I rose at 10:22 a.m.
And now my wife is home too, for she arrived at 7 p.m.. Consequently, I am going to have to bring this post to a close. I've already had two cans of strong (8% alcohol) beer, and fought off two episodes of extreme weariness that nearly had me seeking a nap.
Had my brother taken Bev home in the mid-afternoon or earlier, I might have tackled some exercising, or even attempted to get out and do some shopping (I would have to walk, since I do not drive).
We've been getting some rain, so the snow is definitely diminishing.
I have no time to record anything further in this post.
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