Raw. Raucous. Raunchy.
But good!
Gyllenhaal and Saarsgard were both good. Surprisingly (given how I felt after Dreamgirls) I really liked Jamie Foxx in this, and gotta give a shoutout to Cheddar Bob, playing the most annoying soldier ever that I definitely would have wanted to murder had he been in my unit.
February’s over? I personally happen to love February but I have to admit, I was pretty much of a schlub all month.
Let’s see, the best
The best
Only one concert? and one book? OK, this is pretty pathetic so far…
The best
I am all about not getting my heart broken in February since I certainly get it broken every other stupid month of the year.
As for tunes in February, I’ve been all over the place. Obsessively listening to the soundtrack for Music & Lyrics, enjoying the new Fall Out Boy, listening to lots and lots of Rogue Wave especially after a (new?) single played on FNL, digging The Bees (US) and Midlake (who I told you about twice (1, 2) and then finally got…very ’70s peaceful, easy feelin…), and listening to some stuff I bought at the very end of January that didn’t get much play that month (new Youth Group!!!! “Casino Twilight Dogs” (*LOVE*) and The Guggenheim Grotto). Still lovin’ the Shins although my ear can’t recognize what’s the new album and what’s old…
Random personal highlights of the month were: a) Ame came to visit!; b) I went “home” (to NYC) and quilted with Jackie (and ate with Em, Stephanie and Jenn!) and saw Shawn and the kids!!!; c) new specs; d) brunch with the Strizz and her man!; e) Steph and Mark slept over in a storm; f) another night at the darkroom (hey Chicago Amy! Tracy and I missed ya!); g) finally finding yummy Chinese in Chicago!; h) flowers from MaryKay (so sweet!); and i) we got some snow!!!!
Lowlights: a) Bears lost the Bowl; b) new computer didn’t work for a week and had to be dragged back and forth to the store; c) even OLDER! Ah, well. On to March…
Wow. For all my reluctance to go see this, I was pretty blown away when I finally did. Strong performances, intense storyline. Intense sadness. Quite the companion piece to any of the boy soldier books out now (including this one I read, as well as there’s another all over the front of bookstores right now).
As for the Oscars: Djimon Hounsou was robbed!! Robbed, I tell you. He’s amazing in this movie.
(For the record, I think Leo was robbed also…but in a different way: because he SHOULD have been nominated for “The Departed” and he should have won for that. While he was good in this movie, he was great in that one.)
My cousin had recommended this and then one day I was looking over the “to be watched” pile and found I had already bought it. Bride walking down the aisle toward Groom, exchanges glances with another girl and….Boom. Do you believe in love at first sight?
Good performances by both girls (Piper Perabo and Lena Headey [imagine Keira Knightley with more meat on her]) and a really lovely performance by Matthew Goode (Rachel, don’t read that article, he mentions his girlfriend Sophie incessantly!!), who you can also see as the brother in Matchpoint. You’d want to have him as your new celebrity boyfriend, but sorry ladies, my cousin’s already claimed him.
Quite a sweet little film. Enjoyed it.
I was very reluctant to see this movie…until my Dad hit me over the head with a [metaphorical] 2 x 4, reminding me that the director is awesome…(An earlier flick “Bloody Sunday” is another brilliant piece.)
My dad went to it in the theater and recommended it at the time but I never got around to it.
A bunch of the air traffic controllers PLAY THEMSELVES in the movie. Hello, that fact alone should tell you how authentic it is. Really interesting to see how played things out / how the different air traffic centers had to try and piece together what was happening / how the military was trying to piece together what was happening / how the day slowly came together in people’s minds.
You’re ultra hyperly aware of the whole “hindsight being 20/20” thing the whole time you’re watching the film, of course, as knowing the outcome of that day makes even the most innocuous “random people making phone calls at the airport” scenes seem foreboding. Great use of background music in this flick; just enough to set you on edge.
Very powerful. Very moving. Not cheap. Not exploitive in the least. Highly recommended. But, yes, intense. Not for the faint of heart.
Oh, delicious young man eye candy. Stereotypical young “hot witches in distress” movie, only the witches are boys and one of them is “Tim Riggins”. Yes, that’s the whole reason I rented this. Totally predictable and bad. And sooooo yummy. The pool scene? Holy crap what a body. I think maybe I’ll watch it again today…
Loved it! Yes, it’s predictable. And sappy. But real sugar sap, not nutrasweet fake. Loved the ’80s video (hello Jason Street! Great job!). Loved the music (hello I am now addicted to the soundtrack). Loved the pop-up “where are they now”-type video at the end.
This is a movie I saw over and over as a kid as it’s a Dad favorite. But I hadn’t seen it in many years and found that while some scenes I remembered vividly, some (the MTV-esque bicycle scene!) I had no memory of whatsoever. Paul Newman was just unbelievably hot when he was young, wasn’t he. He still has the world’s most beautiful eyes; sorry Elizabeth Taylor but he does.
The ending really reminds me of The Wild Bunch, another Western Dad fave.
*Carlos’ queue, not mine.