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markjwilderI could use a large influx of cash, because I'd like to go to film school.
Some of y'all should have new CDs in your mail, no?
We have an NFL football pool that I participate in every week. $5 to join, pick who's going to win all of the games (it's confidence-based, for those who know what that means). Anyway, I won this week (regardless of the outcome of tonight's game), which means that I'm $70 richer. Well, $65 once you subtract out the $5 entrance fee. Not quite the large influx that's going to send me to film school, but it ain't a kick in the testicles, either.
I have logged every cent I have spent since last Wednesday.
Anyway, the weekend was the weekend and now it's over. I saw movies. Would you like to know about 'em? Then here you go:
Sister Helen - A documentary, the story of a woman who became a nun at an advanced age (over 50) after the drug-related deaths of her two sons and her alcoholic husband. She started a house in the Bronx for recovering addicts. She ruled with an iron fist, demanding that they keep a curfew and submit to a urine (she pronounces it "yer-EEN") tests whenever she asks. Some of her methods are questionable, but she keeps a lot of men sober and does a lot of good for her community. I can't talk too much more about it without giving stuff away, so i'll just summarize by saying that it just seemed like a decent episode of "America Undercover" on HBO, but it ended strongly thanks to some "right place at the right time" luck by the filmmakers. Three stars out of four and a recommendation if you catch it playing.
Liza, who was kind enough to give me a ticket to this show, says she wouldn't be surprised to see this on HBO someday, and I agree.
Igby Goes Down - A story of how fucked up rich people are, I guess. There wasn't much about this that appealed to me, though it is getting some pretty good reviews, so maybe it's just me. I thought Jeff Goldblum was very good in it, as was Kieran Caulkin in the titular role. All of the actors did okay, but the story didn't seem like anything at all to me. Two stars out of four for me. Read the other reviews that I linked (metacritic.com is a great site, by the way).
Moonlight Mile - Oddly, this is a movie that I really liked where the critical consensus isn't that good. Maybe last night was backwards night (wouldn't that be "thgin sdrawkcab"?). I found this movie to be very touching. It's about a boy (Jake Gyllenhall) whose finace dies. He's living with her parents (Dustin Hoffmann and Susan Sarandon) and they all try to figure out what to do next. I thought it was well-done and seemed honest to me, like it's how people might actually react. Three-and-a-half stars out of four and a recommendation unless you're one of those that hates Hollywood sentementality in all of it's forms.
Monsters, Inc. - As you may know from reading my journal, the wonderful and lovely![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
just_a_chick_03 bought me a copy of Monsters, Inc. because she ROCKS. On Friday night, i watched it. First, let me say that it's a great dvd. As with the other Pixar films, the picture and sound are brilliant and the special features are amazing. Toy Story was brilliant in that it was just such a new technology. The technology got better and better of course. A Bug's Life was cute and funny, but was rather predictable in story. Monster's Inc. is where it all came together for me. The technology continued to evolve and be amazing, and the story, while still predictable, was creative and downright sweet. There are a couple of scenes that made me weepy. One reminded me of when I was leaving my sister Barb's house after a week-long visit when I was, oh, maybe 16, and my niece Katie, who was just four or five at the time said "why do you have to go? i want you to stay!" and that made me weepy, too. I'm sappy sometimes.
And so I'm having a wonderful time, but I'd rather be whistling in the dark.
Some of y'all should have new CDs in your mail, no?
We have an NFL football pool that I participate in every week. $5 to join, pick who's going to win all of the games (it's confidence-based, for those who know what that means). Anyway, I won this week (regardless of the outcome of tonight's game), which means that I'm $70 richer. Well, $65 once you subtract out the $5 entrance fee. Not quite the large influx that's going to send me to film school, but it ain't a kick in the testicles, either.
I have logged every cent I have spent since last Wednesday.
Anyway, the weekend was the weekend and now it's over. I saw movies. Would you like to know about 'em? Then here you go:
Sister Helen - A documentary, the story of a woman who became a nun at an advanced age (over 50) after the drug-related deaths of her two sons and her alcoholic husband. She started a house in the Bronx for recovering addicts. She ruled with an iron fist, demanding that they keep a curfew and submit to a urine (she pronounces it "yer-EEN") tests whenever she asks. Some of her methods are questionable, but she keeps a lot of men sober and does a lot of good for her community. I can't talk too much more about it without giving stuff away, so i'll just summarize by saying that it just seemed like a decent episode of "America Undercover" on HBO, but it ended strongly thanks to some "right place at the right time" luck by the filmmakers. Three stars out of four and a recommendation if you catch it playing.
Liza, who was kind enough to give me a ticket to this show, says she wouldn't be surprised to see this on HBO someday, and I agree.Igby Goes Down - A story of how fucked up rich people are, I guess. There wasn't much about this that appealed to me, though it is getting some pretty good reviews, so maybe it's just me. I thought Jeff Goldblum was very good in it, as was Kieran Caulkin in the titular role. All of the actors did okay, but the story didn't seem like anything at all to me. Two stars out of four for me. Read the other reviews that I linked (metacritic.com is a great site, by the way).
Moonlight Mile - Oddly, this is a movie that I really liked where the critical consensus isn't that good. Maybe last night was backwards night (wouldn't that be "thgin sdrawkcab"?). I found this movie to be very touching. It's about a boy (Jake Gyllenhall) whose finace dies. He's living with her parents (Dustin Hoffmann and Susan Sarandon) and they all try to figure out what to do next. I thought it was well-done and seemed honest to me, like it's how people might actually react. Three-and-a-half stars out of four and a recommendation unless you're one of those that hates Hollywood sentementality in all of it's forms.
Monsters, Inc. - As you may know from reading my journal, the wonderful and lovely
just_a_chick_03 bought me a copy of Monsters, Inc. because she ROCKS. On Friday night, i watched it. First, let me say that it's a great dvd. As with the other Pixar films, the picture and sound are brilliant and the special features are amazing. Toy Story was brilliant in that it was just such a new technology. The technology got better and better of course. A Bug's Life was cute and funny, but was rather predictable in story. Monster's Inc. is where it all came together for me. The technology continued to evolve and be amazing, and the story, while still predictable, was creative and downright sweet. There are a couple of scenes that made me weepy. One reminded me of when I was leaving my sister Barb's house after a week-long visit when I was, oh, maybe 16, and my niece Katie, who was just four or five at the time said "why do you have to go? i want you to stay!" and that made me weepy, too. I'm sappy sometimes.And so I'm having a wonderful time, but I'd rather be whistling in the dark.
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Date: 2002-10-07 01:51 pm (UTC)How are those CDs coming?
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Date: 2002-10-07 01:55 pm (UTC)