1. The two time-sheet issue is back. Someone mentioned that this subject is taking up more than its allotted two minutes. Yeah, I really wish it were not.
2. 80 year old men, ladders and roofs don’t mix
3. “We don’t have time to be organized” is probably going to be a bad approach.
4. It might actually be your concern over your daughter’s disease ridden boyfriend, and not related to anything I said that makes you think everything I say is wrong.
5. Photographers at national chain studios don’t seem to like it when you schedule a setting and tell them you won’t be buying anything, and just want to have the photos that the company arranges to have taken.
6. The movie 2001: a space odyssey is one of those things we are supposed to like. It makes us look smart. That movie is a decent homicidal computer in outer space story bookended by pretentious self-indulgent crap. The garbage in this movie is the type of stuff only the filmmaker had any idea what it meant. And It is Stanley Kubrick. He made a few movies, that have good moments but he is not the fantastic director all the film students want him to be. If anyone tells you that Kubrick means so much, they have no idea what he is saying. Loving Kubrick and especially 2001 is like having a complicated coffee order: it is directly proportional to the size of jerk you are.
7. Please no more "Christmas Carol" movies or rip offs. That is a dead horse that is not just beaten, but jumped up and down upon until the gunk bursts out.
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Okay, BP, we need context for #s 2, 3, and 4. I need those stories...And your comments about 2001 remind me of the Family Guy episode where they are locked in their safe room and think they are going to die and Peter confesses The Godfather isnt so great. I concur with both of you (although not seeing 2001 when it was orignally released may have something to do with my ambivalence. I think it was written for the times, ya know? That said, Full Metal Jacket is one of my all-time favorites, and certainly my favorite war movie. And The Shining was pretty darn good, too...
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with the 2001 thing. I loved Clarke's original novel, so I figured I'd watch this "classic" movie when it came out on Netflix Instant View. I'm sorry I did. All the detail Clarke wrote about life in space was more or less replaced with extended shots of Frank and Dave exercising. And Clarke's imaginative ending was replaced with what I assume was one of Kubrick's 70's acid trips.
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