We finally watched New World.

We found it somewhat frustrating, because we didn’t realize that the pace would be glacial. PLUS I think Colin Farrell is creepy looking. Once we realized that the movie was going nowhere quickly, AND once I didn’t have to look at Colin Farrell anymore, I found the movie more interesting.

Well, also I think Christian Bale is very fine to look at. That helped a lot.

Weirdly, the bits that I remembered from the preview were not actually IN the movie. Which is very disconcerting. I’m not sure I comprehend the idea of putting a bit in the preview and then not putting it in the movie. I spent the whole movie waiting for Christopher Plummer’s character to say the line something like, “let not this new world go wrong in her first hours,” and waiting for the actions that went along with that line.

But it never came.

Which made the whole thing even more surreal.