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How To Make a Boring Movie

Over the holidays, Jennie and I went to see August Rush, aka the most boring movie I've seen in quite some time. It was a made for TV movie that I was tricked into paying $9.50 to see. It's the story of a prodigy kid who gets into Julliard, writes a raphsody in a few months and has it performed in Central Park, all so his mother (whose Father forged adoption papers when he was born) could find him.

• It seems like musicians instead of writers wrote the script. The dialog was terrible. 10 minutes into the movie, I knew I was in trouble.


• 60% of the movie was someone staring out a window, out a taxi, up a subway grate or through some other transparent surface.  The reflective look is effective once, but not throughout an entire movie.


• The promise of good actors (Robin Williams, Terrence Howard) was wasted on a poor story.


• It was a movie that should have just been a soundtrack. Or something that should appear on Lifetime Television for Women.

Spiderman 3

The final trailer is here.  This is one of the movies I'm looking forward to seeing this summer.  I like movies a lot.  I have several autographed movie posters at my house and in my office. 

For the Movie Lover

On Saturday, February 24, you can see all five Best Picture nominees at an AMC near you for $30.  That includes all the popcorn and soda you can drink, too.  Plan on making a day out of it, as the first movie starts at 11 AM and the last one starts at 9:45 PM.  You're also going to get up to go to the bathroom a lot if you drink all that Coke.

Night at the Museum with a Boring Shepherd

On Christmas Day, I saw two movies.  I took Lauren to see Night @ the Museum.  Pretty good movie, with some action and funny stuff from Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson.  I like taking my five year old to the movies, getting a big old thing of popcorn and a 79 ounce coke.  I love hearing from her about how theater #6 is Emma's classroom and where the Information Table sits.  Sometimes, Lauren tells the employees "we came to church here today."  It's cool.

The last night, Jennie and I went to see The Good Shepherd.  I was looking forward to this, but it was honestly one of the most boring things I have ever seen.  I wanted to leave several times, and the movie lasted forever.  Just about everyone walking out was making sarcastic comments about the sequel or wishing they had the last three hours back.

Movies I Want To See

The end of this year...

Blood Diamond
The Pursuit of Happyness (I like Will Smith)
The Good Shepherd (CIA movie with Matt Damon)

Sometime next year...

SpiderMan 3
Harry Potter 5
Shrek the Third
Pirates of the Carribean:  At Worlds End (hard to beat Captian Jack Sparrow)

Favorite Movie Character

We're working on our float for the C'Ville Christmas Parade which has a movie theme, and I saw a great movie last night (The Prestige), so I figured it was time for a little discussion here at the blog.  Who is your favorite movie character of all time? William Wallace from Braveheart?  Zorro?  Will Smith from Men in Black?  Ace Ventura?

I think my favorite movie character ever would have to be Captain Jack Sparrow. 

Spiderman 3 Trailer

Here.

I love movie trailers

This looks like a great movie.

Christian Movies

It looks like there are going to be more Christian movies.  I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.  It's more Left Behind's rather than more Narnias.   As a person who loves movies, I can't recall a low-budget Christian-themed movie that I actually liked.  What do you think?

Survivor Crashed

I finally got around to watching Crash last night, the academy award winning movie that weaves a bunch of plots into one.  The setting is LA and the film deals with discrimination and race.  I see why it won awards, because the acting was fantastic and the story was good.  There were some moving moments and some funny moments, as well as good cinematography and music.  It dealt with the race issue in a provocative and enlightening way.  I would highly recommend it to you (though it does have quite a bit of language, thus the R rating).

Contrast the way that movie dealt with race to the latest installment of Survivor.  It had the worst ratings of any debut to date, because it is the worst idea to date.  Four tribes.  Each of one race.  And episode one was to determine which tribe had the most ethnic pride?!  It's a horrible idea, obviously designed to charge up ratings and spark controversy.  I hope it backfires.  I'm sure the producers have plans and reasons and justifications and blah, blah, blah.  But segregating people into racial groups is something I thought we were trying to overcome in this country.