Terry's 3M's
For the past few days, I have been watching movies. Faye rented some movies, we have some on tape and I actually went out to see a movie.
The first of the rented movies that I watched was Trial and Error. It stars Bill Pullman as an up and coming young lawyer who has just made partnership and gotten a big office with a view by virtue of getting engaged to the boss's spoiled, selfish, and obnoxious daughter.
His assignment is to go to nowhereville, NV to get a continuance in a case against the cousin-in-law of his boss.
His best friend, (what's-his-name--the guy who plays Kramer on Seinfeld), beats him to the nowhereville hotel in order to give him a batchlor party.
Mishaps ensue and Kramer (who plays an actor in this movie) ends up pretending to be the lawyer.
And Pullman falls in love with an intelligent waitress with a 'life is so wonderful if you'd only take time to smell the roses' attitude.
It's a romance. My sister enjoys these types of movies. I try to avoid them whenever possible. SisKel gave it a Thumbs Up. Next time I listen to Ebert.
The next movie that I saw was also rented. Good Luck stars Gregory Hines
as Lem and Michael D'Onofrio as Olee.
Olee is a former football player who's career was killed by an accident on the gridiron that cost him his eyesight.
Lem once tutored Olee in college. He is in a wheelchair.
Olee hears his ex-girlfriend hawking her tell-all book about their relationship on a morning news show and when she tells the world that he is impotent, he goes into a rage--throwning the TV and all his furniture out of his apartment window.
He gets arrested and Lem visits him in his jail cell. Lem wants to get an organization off the ground. Shared Outdoor Adventure Recreation (SOAR) is to be an organization for handicapped people to match different handicaps in order for both people to have a chance to do something that neither could do alone.
Lem wants Olee to be his partner in a whitewater river race in order to promote SOAR. Olee will provide the strength and mobility while Lem will be his eyes.
There is a bonding that occurs between these men as they make their way to the site of the race--only to be told they can't enter the race.
There is a bet made and they finally get to enter the race.
I could have done with out the descriptions of bowel movements, but, all in all, I enjoyed the movie. But, it's rated R for a reason and is not recommended for children.
The next two movies that I watched, I had seen many times before.
I had played The Sound of Music for the kids before and only the girls seemed to be interested in it.
I wanted to introduce Carrie to another musical. So on Friday night while preparing dinner, I started singing. "I could have danced all night, I could have danced all night, and still have begged for more....."
It was an intrigued and excited Carrie that sat down in front of the television. She has found and loved the magic of My Fair Lady
Then she asked to see The Sound of Music again.
Saturday is my birthday. So my brother, Joe, gave me an early birthday present
by taking me (along with his family) to see Titanic.
I liked the movie a lot. Yes, I will see it again. The next time I watch it though, it will be on tape. Why? Because I had to go to the bathroom about 2 hours into the movie and ended up missing the final 5 minutes of the movie because I couldn't wait any longer.
Did I love the movie? Well, the jury is still out on that one. But, it is a powerful movie.
Bryan has been fascinated with the history of the Titanic for about a year now. He tells me that there was another ship built just liked it and named Ocompa. I could swallow that, but, I had to correct him when he said that it was the sinking of the Ocompa that started WWI.
So, last night, Bryan asked for an in depth telling of the movie. And that led to lots of discussion.
We discussed why the engines were allowed to be shut down and why they couldn't be started again.
Bryan suggested that the lifeboats could have been rowed to the iceberg, people disembarked, and the lifeboats refilled. Delton explained to him why it was a good idea in theory but not practical in reality.
When Bryan asked me why people didn't get out of the water and onto the floating pieces of debris, I told him that they would have died of exposure anyway. I tried to explain to him that it was actually warmer for the people who were wet to stay in the water than to get out of the water. Delton gave him the scientic reasons why this was true.
I have a feeling I may enjoy the movie even more on tape. And not just because I can pause it to tend to bathroom neccessities. The sound in movie theatres is just too loud for me. Thirty years ago, I had gotten abcesses in both ears. After they broke and I healed, I found that loud noises that are merely annoying to some are painful for me. And then there was an obnoxious twit of a man in the back row who mocked the dialogue of a tender onscreen moment. When people tried to shush him, he said, "What? I'm going to spoil the ending?"
No--but, he did spoil the enjoyment of the nuances of the movie for the people around him. Fortunately, he left after a few minutes.
for the border background set.