I bought a laptop. With the money my parents gave me for my birthday and Chanukah, it cost me $4 + tax. So far I like it. It is a Toshiba, and it is blue.
I saw my first movie since August. Yeah, I hadn't been to the movies, nor had I even watched a movie at home I hadn't yet seen. I guess after seeing 250+ movies in the past few years, I just needed a big break. I'm not even sure I'm going to hit 50 this year, and I don't think I've logged every movie I've seen.
It's also getting harder to "wow" me. I saw Doubt and though parts of it were quite good, it was not as thought-evoking as I thought it would be, and Meryl Streep's laughably bad bloated outburst at the end of the film overshadowed everything else.
I saw The Curious Case of Why Would I Go See A Two Hour, 48-Minute Brad Pitt Movie, and damn it was boring. I mean, I haven't read the reviews so I don't know if this joke has already been made ad nauseum, but as Brad Pitt's character kept getting younger, I could feel myself growing older by the minute watching the plot repeat itself over and over again.
On Christmas Day I watched Ben Hur--all 3+ hours of it--finally, after so many years of avoiding it. And I have to say, even though I'm not Christian, nor a fan of Charlton Heston, nor of big-budget spectacles of the 50s, I really liked the story and can understand why the film has its place in cinema history. A nice surprise.
Last night I was cleaning out my DVR and wound up watching Friends With Money. Eh, a fun hour and a half, and worth the time just for Frances McDormand's breakdown performance.
Hopefully before the New Year I'll get to watch The Goddess, a Paddy Chayefsky-penned flick Naomi sent me months ago right before I started my celluloid exile, and I'll hopefully see some more movies in the theater. On my short list: Milk and Slumdog Millionaire. I was interested in Frost/Nixon until I realized how much Frank Langella as Nixon reminds me of Sam the American Eagle.
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I am sending from iPhone. Slumdog fab. Skip valkarie. Loved revolutionary road but u won't like
I am sending from iPhone. Slumdog fab. Skip valkarie. Loved revolutionary road but u won't like
I've not visited in a while, Carli. My abject apologies are proffered!
Ben-Hur was certainly an epic but Heston's over-the-top acting is just too much of a turn-off for me. I did see the movie many times when I was a kid though. At that age, Heston's style of acting was quite appealing. And Heston sure did seem biblical whether it was as Moses, Ben-Hur or just being himself.
I second Slumdog Millionaire. I really enjoyed it. T-Mo
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