“It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Haha yeah this song was totally fun. It reminded me of every shitty frat/house party from college except the women were all gorgeous and wearing bikini tops.
Bruce Willis stars in a movie called "Hostage." It had an opening title sequence that kinda overwhelmed the rest of the movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRu5CNv2fVE
I never read any of the books and I have only seen the movie where the other schools meet up for a tri-wizard sporting event thing. I could not believe how dull it seemed. I mean, that's gotta be partly my fault for having no idea what how the characters were related to each other, but a movie should sort of be able to stand on its own merits, shouldn't it?
Though in fairness to the Potter movies, I don't know how clear the plot of Back to the Future 2 would be without having seen BTtF first...
In fact, upon further reflection, driving 110 miles an hour is ridiculously reckless independently of his blood alcohol level. He could have been fully sober and still ruined or ended the lives of innocent bystanders.
Ebert's tweet made me cringe a little. But he's obviously (I think?) describing this guy as a jackass because he was on the show Jackass. And while the death of a young adult is tragic (though frankly there are a million guys his age dying every day so maybe it's not really tragic?) I have a hard time getting very sad (or even sympathetic) when that young adult kills himself and another by getting wasted and driving his Porsche so fast that he leaves the road and clears 40 yards of trees before finally exploding. Gabe's point about the fact that it's lucky that he didn't kill some innocent bystander precisely echoes my considered reaction to the death of Ryan Dunn. He was essentially driving a missile home from whatever bar/club/house he was partying at.
When you drink you should take a cab home. The negative potential alternatives are so much more expensive/costly.
That episode of Minute to Win It was the first time I'd ever heard of Ryan Dunn. And like that, he is gone. It's a strange feeling. He seemed very likable.
I've heard that the cat-woman dating video is a comedian from Philly...
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/phillygossip/Fake-EHarmony-video-by-local-comedian-blows-up-on-YouTube.html
I still love these guys!
I liked the movie a lot. It was fun and often funny. The monster/alien was spooky and felt threatening. I didn't feel like there was any internal inconsistency, and that really goes a long way. I think the various stolen goods were all taken to make the big magnet thing to summon the parts of the alien's ship. I feel like everything was actually explicitly (or I guess implicitly with regard to the construction underground) explained. Admittedly, the ending was a little rushed. Too much happened too quickly, in my opinion. But rather than dwell on the speed with which the kids solved all the problems, I was happy about all the stuff that was fun and charming throughout.
As for the temporal setting of the movie, I just kinda prefer that era, personally. The cars looked cooler and the sexy sister was throwback sexy, like a Halloween costume.
Also, with regard to the 3-Mile Island disaster? Maybe it was tossed in to provide a feasible explanation for this train accident getting zero out of town press. There was a major disaster going on, allowing this to fly under the radar a bit. That's me doing work for the movie, though, which means all that is kind of a weakness of the film's.
Having seen Snow Dogs, I want to defend that title. It was kind of great. I imagine it's even more fun if you really like dogs. I recommend Snow Dogs! Thumbs up!
I think more than the 1-upsmanship, for me at least, is the feeling that the comments section becomes a closed dialogue between 8 regulars which is kind of hard to crack into. The fact that those most vocal contributors have actually been guest bloggers only enhances that feeling.
Sometimes I feel a little like a guy who went with a friend to his office party. Like... I guess I can to participate, but I kinda feel like it will be a pointless effort.
All that being said, I don't feel like it's fair of me or anyone else to complain about the open comments section because who am/are I/we? I don't begrudge anyone their commenting celebrity. It's just that I went from commenting on several posts a day to 1 or 2 a week and I think that sense of being an outsider is the reason.
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