{"id":65,"date":"2004-12-16T10:48:57","date_gmt":"2004-12-16T17:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2004-12-16T10:48:57","modified_gmt":"2004-12-16T17:48:57","slug":"i-watch-entirely-too-many-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"I watch entirely too many movies&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I should put this time to better use.  Oh well.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/images\/Photo_112904_001.jpg\" WIDTH=\"256\" BORDER=\"1\" ALIGN=\"LEFT\" VSPACE=\"4\" HSPACE=\"4\" \/>  Here&#8217;s your odd picture for the day&#8230; enjoy!<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s Winter and I have nothing better to do &#8211; I don&#8217;t even have cable!  I am getting high-speed internet again though.  Dial-up was just starting to kill me.  And not even <em>good<\/em> dial-up &#8211; I was lucky to get 26.4&#8230; bleh.  I might actually try an IP phone when I get broadband back in.  I&#8217;ll let you know how it goes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve actually had a good run of movies lately&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Hero<\/em> &#8211; This might end up on my &#8216;buy&#8217; list.  The fight scenes are all set in beautiful locations.  Pretty amazing stuff.  The story didn&#8217;t suck either.  Can someone find me a good quality screen shot of the fight in the gold forest?  Much thanks.<\/p>\n<p><em>Elf<\/em> &#8211; Good for a giggle.  Works well if you&#8217;re in the mood for a holiday comedy.  Kinda cheesey, but should get a few &#8216;out loud&#8217; laughs from you.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story<\/em> &#8211; No intellectual comedy here, just people getting hit (repeatedly) in the face and groin with rubber balls&#8230; and sometimes wrenches.  I couldn&#8217;t help it, I laughed at all of it.  I could watch Patches say &#8220;If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge anything&#8221; and peg the poor guy with a wrench 100 times and laugh everytime.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pieces of April<\/em> &#8211; I&#8217;m putting this on my &#8220;Secret favorites&#8221; list.  Ok, so it&#8217;s not much of a secret if I put it here.  But no one reads this anyway, so who cares?  A great story-telling movie.  No effects, no fabulous locations&#8230; I think they shot the whole thing in 16 days.  I added it to my Blockbuster queue because it kept coming up in the recommendations.  A comedy drama about a dysfunctional family at Thanksgiving?  It was only 80 minutes long, so I thought &#8220;eh, why not?&#8221;  I&#8217;m glad I did!  I don&#8217;t get emotional during movies, but this one came pretty close to getting me all misty-eyed.  I said <em>close<\/em>.  I give it a strong 2 thumbs up.<\/p>\n<p><em>Suicide Kings<\/em> &#8211; Who let me miss this movie 7 years ago?!!  Christopher Walken, Denis Leary, Sean Patrick Flanery, Jay Mohr&#8230; great performances by all of them.  Walken and Leary play great gangsters.  Ok, so Sean Patrick Flanery not talking with an Irish accent threw me off a little.  I&#8217;d put this up there with &#8220;Usual Suspects&#8221; as far as the &#8220;what is going on?&#8221; factor.  It keeps moving and doesn&#8217;t disappoint.  <\/p>\n<p>I guess that&#8217;s about it.  Have a good Christmas and send me money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should put this time to better use. Oh well. Here&#8217;s your odd picture for the day&#8230; enjoy! It&#8217;s Winter and I have nothing better to do &#8211; I don&#8217;t even have cable! 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