What's John watching?

The Terminal (2004): The Spielberg-Hanks duo does it again! Navorski (Tom Hanks) was disarmingly charming and completely fascinating. The blemish that put it below another great piece from the duo, Catch Me If You Can, was Amelia (Catherine Zeta-Jones). She was forced, erratic, and, let's face it, drowned out by Hanks' performance.

It's funny: this movie follows our recent vacationing. It opened in the customs area of Mirabel airport outside of Montréal, Québec (now closed). We flew out of Mirabel to Mexico last March. Navorski did eventually get to New York. We just got back from an extended weekend in New York.

Aside: We were in Times Square for the New York City stop of the Athens 2004 Torch Relay. We saw Movin' Out at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. We toured the New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library (yes, the one in Ghostbusters (1984)). It was an amazing trip in the most potent sense of the word.

So, yes, as I was saying, overall, the movie was fantastic, but there were blemishes. Dixon's (Stanley Tucci) last lines were also... bizarre. If they were supposed to hold some sort of significance, it was lost on me. ¶ 10:41:00 p.m.