Not so much Fantastic, really

I went w/Cicada on Saturday night to support my boyfriend Ioan Gruffudd, who is currently taking a break from being Horatio Hornblower to star in The Fantastic 4. He and I discussed it, and I told him that would be fine, as long as he's back in his breeches and on the high seas within the next year or two.

I went to see Fantastic 4, even though I knew the movie would probably not be any good, because that's the kind of supportive girlfriend I am. (Note to famous actors who wish to date me: I'm such a good girlfriend that I'll go see your movies even if they're crap. Only I won't pay full price, because Love Has Limits.)

Movie lowlights:

It was at the dollar theatre, which is not a good place.
Someone in front of us reeked very strongly of body odor. It was quite off-putting.
The plot was ridiculous and they never did quite clear up why the heck Dr. Von Doom all of a sudden wanted to kill Ioan and his little friends.
They ran out of zipper on Jessica Alba's suit. It's sad when the costuming unit runs out of budget like that.
What kind of nasty heartless woman breaks up with her Husband Who is Now a Rockpile by driving all the way to a bridge and traffic accidents and crowds where her rockpile husband is saving entire trucks of NYC firefighters so that she can stand there and look at him tearfully and put her several-thousand-dollar wedding ring on the ground where he can't even pick it up on account of the rock fingers and then turn around and walk away? It's called a phone, beast.
Ioan was the only one who never took off his shirt. That's not right.
He sounded funny with an American accent. And they gave him a bad hairstyle.
People clapped when the movie was over. Why do they do that? They realize that it's a movie, right? And that the characters aren't actually on the other side of the screen, waiting to hear whether or not we like it, right?

Movie highlights:

Sometimes Ioan's hair got disheveled.
And sometimes he didn't shave.
And sometimes he wore the blue suit w/the pecs (yes, and the codpiece, for those of you who were going to mention it anyway).
And he still has those great dimples.
Sometimes Jessica Alba was offscreen, or invisible, or not talking.
Cicada and I went to Coldstone afterwards and my ice cream was very good--chocolate and cheesecake ice cream with peanut butter cups.

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