Weekend at Wally World

Dave was in town from Friday night until Sunday morning and of course we had to make a couple of trips to the Walmart. (I mean, truly, what else would you want to do here?)

Here's a selection of Wally World merchandise that we found interesting:

The MAN OF STEEL undershorts were on the sale rack ($5). You notice that only the smallest and the largest sizes were left. I wonder what that says about medium-sized guys.

At home, Dave and I shop mainly in our local hippie-dippy natural foods co-op, so some of the packaged foods at Walmart seem so unfamiliar as to be foreign to us.  For example:

Is "Butter" a classic potato chip flavor? 

And what about "Chile con queso" flavor? Is that a thing now?

In the clothing department, we found these t-shirts, day-glo orange (my new favorite color):

Dave like the day-glo orange ones, but they didn't really go with his complexion, so he went for these instead:

Yes, he actually bought them.

In addition to our trip to Wally World, we went to see:

Pacific Rim!  More about the movie in a moment. Please first kindly direct your attention to the ticket price: $5.58 + 0.42 tax. Yes, $6.00 for a movie ticket. I thought those prices were gone forever, but no, not in small town New Mexico. Here you can still see a first-run movie for six bucks.

As far as the film itself: It's not great. It should be great and I wanted it to be great, but only because I love Guillermo del Toro. But honestly, it's not great--and I hope it makes a billion dollars because I want del Toro to be able to make any film he wants to make. I want him to make all the films.

So it wasn't great, but it's good. And in some places it's very good. And in reading the reviews, I was reminded by some reviewers that it is probably the least misogynistic film of it's type to be released in a long time. There is no gratuitous sex or nudity, unlike the latest Star Trek movie or any of the Transformers movies. Love that.

("I was very careful how I built the movie. One of the other things I decided was that I wanted a female lead who has the equal force as the male leads. She's not going to be a sex kitten, she's not going to come out in cutoff shorts and a tank top, and it's going to be a real earnestly drawn character." --Guillermo del Toro.

Do you see now why I love him so much?)

What else did I love? I loved that one of the main heroes is a young Japanese woman. I loved that it is a multicultural cast, not the typical bland white guys saving the world. And I loved that this guy is in it:

Ron Perlman should be in every movie. And Idris Elba, too, as long as we're at it. That should be a law.  So let's make that happen.

(And no, I did not sit there and take photos during the film. I took those during the closing credits, when the lights were already up and most people had already left the theater (missing the final, post-credit scene) and the theater workers were already going through with brooms and garbage bags, cleaning up the theater.)