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So here's what happened. Li asked me to go see a movie with him and Charles aka Chuck. I said, "sure, what movie?"

"Ocean's 12."

"I hear it sucks. Let's see The Incredibles."

"You and Charles duke it out."

So we went, and I bumped into Charles outside the Don Mills subway station. If I didn't bump into him there, I would've been lost in the mall for a while. Li took the bus, so he was doing his own thing somewhere else.

Saw a few friends on the way to Rainbow Theatre. Edith, Kim, Esther, and Mike. Had a brief chat with them, then left to get tickets. By then Li already found us. Mango was there with family too, thought I'd bump into them as well, but that didn't happen. Oh well.

So up we went into Rainbow. There we debated on which movie to see. I suggested we play a game in the arcade to decide, but it turned out the games there were expensive, so being the nice guy I am, I let Chuck decide. We went to see Ocean's 12 and I expected a disaster and a waste of money.

I was mostly right. I never saw the first one, so I had no clue what was happening in most scenes. If Chuck and Li didn't fill me in on what happened in the last one, I would've had a tough time understanding the film. Ocean's 12 is incomprehensible without Ocean's 11.

There were parts that were funny though. It had its moments, but they didn't last too long. Some parts were ridiculous, and there weren't enough action scenes or scenes with the people stealing things. Ocean's crew knew Mandarin for some reason, which made no sense to me. The token Chinese guy was useless in the film. Just there to be laughed at.

Overall, there were a few funny scenes, but I missed a lot of the points from not seeing Ocean's 11 first. Not a great film, but it's not as hopeless as other films out there this time of the year I'm sure.