We went on our first family movie outing this Sunday to see Wall-E at Mission Valley. I love that Cinema. I still remember seeing Return of the Jedi there when in came out in ’83. It’s a locally owned theater, and I enjoy supporting local businesses. But I digress. The boys did great at the movie. Surprisingly, Connor was the quietest and most patient. He sat through the whole movie with very little complaining. He just stared at the screen with his chin rested on his hand, and enjoyed the movie. Liam was very well behaved too, but toward the end of the movie he started getting restless, and said he wanted to go home. Chrissy say him on her lap, and we finished the movie without further incident. The movie was great. I think it’s my #2 favorite Pixar movie, with The Incredibles still at #1. #3 would have to be Finding Nimo, but all 3 of these movies are separeted by a very narrow margin. I highly recommend you see Wall-E if you’re a Pixar fan. It’s one of their best.
Kid Fight – Another L&C Movie
I got urge again today to make another Liam and Connor “movie.” I think I have a mental illness… 😉
Rainy Day – A Movie Starring L&C
I got the urge to play around with iMovie and the family camcorder…
Nicolas Cage 50/50 ratio
I’ll give Nicolas Cage this – he’s possibly the hardest working actor in Hollywood. Hell at the time of this post he has 8 movies he’s working on, yet to be released. Unfortunately, he’s all about quantity and not quality. It seems he’ll act in just about any movie he’s offered and that makes for a questionable track record. I’d say his movie choices are about 50% bad and about 50% good, with a 10% margin of error. 😉 Keep in mind that the following list are the movies I’VE SEEN. (80’s movies get let off easy for nostalgia’s sake.)
Good Movies :
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Valley Girl
Peggy Sue Got Married
Raising Arizona
Moonstruck (Last movie with his narly teeth)
Honeymoon in Vegas (Flying Elvises)
Guarding Tess
The Rock (Come on, Sean Connery’s in it.)
8MM
Gone in 60 Seconds (Arguably one of the best Neo-Cage movies)
Matchstick Men
National Treasure 1 and 2 (They are what they are.)
Lord or War (Surprisingly good film)
The Weatherman
Grindhouse
Crappy Movies:
Firebirds (This movie began Cage’s ill-advised action hero career.)
Wild at Heart (Ok, I just hate David Lynch)
Amos and Andrew
It Could Happen to You (Rosy Perez is REALLY annoying.)
Leaving Las Vegas (Depressing-as-hell movie, sorry – hated it.)
Con Air (“Put the bunnay down”)
Face Off (Living in Bizarro-world couldn’t suspend my disbelief enough for this movie.)
City of Angels (Pointlesssss!)
WindTalkers (Poor attempt at a serious WWII movie)
Adaptation (Whiney)
The Wicker Man (2 hours of my life I’ll never get back)
Ghost Rider (Is there a plot here? How about consistency? Maybe even a threatening villian? No? Damn.)
Borderline:
Snake Eyes
Next
Snow White – One Woman Show (Japanese)
I don’t know if I should be impressed, or totally weirded out. Probably both.
Fun at the Office
Me and a buddy of mine at work, hung up whiteboards for our boss in his office. Before we put the second one up however, we decided to have some fun with him. Ah, the things you can do with electrical tape. It actually took him a couple seconds to realize it wasn’t real. “Oh cool! They hung up the other….oh.”
