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A Walk on the Moon
Posted on July 18, 2004 by Ching under Movies.
Brian and I just finished watching A Walk on the Moon. Pearl (Diane Lane) cheats on her husband Marty (Liev Schreiber) with Walker Jerome “the blouseman” (Viggo Mortensen). I felt so bad for Marty because he plays such a nice guy. He didn’t deserve to be cuckolded. By the way, you can catch Liev in his new movie, The Manchurian Candidate. It looks very promising.
At any rate, have you ever noticed how Diane Lane is always cheating on her movie husbands and getting away with it? What’s up with that?
I’m so glad that Viggo has since stepped away from the “lover” roles. I realize that he has been a movie actor forever but I didn’t really notice him until A Perfect Murder (Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow). He’s such a great actor and I feared that he would get pigeon-holed. Thank God for The Lord of the Rings.
To other Viggo fans out there. If you haven’t already seen A Walk on the Moon, I highly recommend it. There’s a tremendously sexy waterfall scene that will get you dreaming of Viggo for weeks.
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I, Robot
Posted on July 18, 2004 by Ching under Movies.
Brian and I were going to play poker at Whiskey Creek after dinner at Abuelo’s but when we found out that I, Robot was playing in the balcony (main auditorium) we decided to watch it instead. We figured we were going to go play poker tomorrow night at Fingers anyway, might as well watch a movie tonight.
We really shouldn’t have gone to dinner at Abuelo’s because we are broke, but Brian doesn’t ever like to go there so when he asked if we could go there for dinner I agreed. The mature thing would have been to say no because we are broke.. But usually I have to beg and plead and even then he doesn’t want to go. I figured I had no choice but to take this opportunity.
Of course, we could’ve gotten regular seats instead of sitting in the balcony too. We could’ve saved money there. There are just some luxuries that one cannot forgo. Much like some people can’t drink any kind of water except for Perrier, if a movie is playing in the main auditorium of 13th Avenue Warren we have to see it in the balcony.
I, Robot was really good. I won’t ruin the movie for you by giving you any details. All I can say is that the twist is really good. It’s kind of an action-packed feel-good movie. The ending is all warm and fuzzy.
Okay, that’s all I’ll say. Go watch it.
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Secret Window
Posted on July 16, 2004 by Ching under Movies.
Brian and just got done watching Secret Window. It’s not bad. The story is pretty good. It’s just a shame that I figured it out within the first ten minutes.
I kept hoping that there would be some kind of plot twist to prove me wrong. But there wasn’t. That was the disappointing part.
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Brotherhood of the Wolf
Posted on July 10, 2004 by Ching under Movies.
One small victory for Ching, a huge step for mankind.. Brotherhood of the Wolf.
Brian said, “This is yet another one of your stupid foreign films.”
I said, “But I heard it’s really good. At least give it a chance.”
As a compromise, we put it on in the office as background entertainment while we were playing poker. Five minutes into the movie, I had to quit both of the tables I was playing on Ultimatebet. Brian continued to play poker and watched with half-interest. But then ten minutes into the movie, he stopped playing altogether as well.
I scored yet another domestic victory for the foreign film aficionados of the world.
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Movie Catch Up Weekend
Posted on June 7, 2004 by Ching under Movies.
This was our movie catch up weekend. Since last weekend was spent shopping, we didn’t get a chance to watch any of our movies. So here’s a quick recap…
You Got Served (via Netflix) can be summed up in four words: great dancing, horrible acting.
Starship Troopers 2 (via Netflix) was just horrible all around. I don’t know what Brian was thinking!
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (via Warren Theaters) was quite entertaining but not quite as good as HP2. I thought HP2 was funnier and more exciting, anyway.
The Day After Tomorrow (via Warren Theaters) was great. Loved it. You should go see it.
Monster (via Netflix) had really great acting but it was very depressing. Some of you may want to see it and some of you may not. Charlize looks really ugly so if you’re one who watches Charlize movies to help you get off, this isn’t it.
Anyway, Brian and I are really digging Netflix. The movie turn-around time is very quick. We are averaging about three rentals per week (depending on our schedules), which by my calculation would be almost $50 through our local dvd/video rental chain, so we are saving quite a bit. By the way, I’m almost done processing the rest of the pictures we took from Kansas City. You’ll see those on my next blog posting. In the meantime if you haven’t seen the first set, those can be found here.
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