advocate of the devil...
first off, devil's advocate...great movie, even though it had keanu reeves. either way, pacino does an amazing job as the devil. funny thing is, i had a big movie poster of this film back in undergrad, and when i graduated it was moved back to my room at my parents place and put up on the wall...and we lived in the parsonage. interesting. never got any comments about it from the rents either. i should pick up that flick on dvd at some point.
i've played devil's advocate quite a bit, and back in undergrad i played the devil in a few skits too. good times.
anyway, today i left for home in north lawrence for the weekend. it's been interesting as this will be the 4th time i have been back home in 8 weeks...yup, every other weekend. i haven't done this for at least a couple years i think...and i was only home 3x over the course of this past school year. ah well, i like the food and it's been somewhat therapeutic too.
so i obviously didn't leave on time for home, because this never happens. never. i basically ended up racing home in order to make the evening movie plans that sarah had come up with for us siblings. what movie were we going to see? 'the devil wears prada'. now, i didn't have much of an opinion about this movie, other than the fact that the trailer we saw before some movie a while back gave virtually no indication of what this movie was about, other than it starred meryl streep and anne hathaway. needless to say, i was somewhat intrigued, especially in this day and age when movie trailers give away far too much.
speaking of movie trailers, the SPIDER-MAN 3 trailer is out now!!! i feel somewhat ripped off in that we didn't get to see it before Superman Returns yesterday (also a fantastic movie), but that was probably due to the fact that we saw it on IMAX, and even the movie trailers were in 3-D and there were fewer of them. anyway, check out the spider-man trailer...i get hyped about the first time i see the spider-man trailers every 2 years or so. good stuff.
so anyway, i race home and make it to the house in time to walk in on my family eating indian food at the dinner table, and we basically have to take off right away. i look around the kitchen, and they're not just eating any old indian food, but idli and sambar!!! it was torturous to leave behind my favorite food (especially since i was starving, and it had been 7 hours since i had my pancheros), but we had a movie to (barely) make.
anyway, 106-minute-movie short, it was very entertaining, and the entire cast did an impressive job. turns out that many critics thought the movie moved even above the source material (the film was based on a novel). the director also did 'sex & the city' which explains the presence of all those fancy shoes...especially the manolo blahniks, haha. while we are on that blurb, charlotte was the best character (ok well kristin davis was at least my favorite character) and (in spite of having had this debate with multiple parties) burger was waaay cooler than big or any of the other guys. the post-it note issue wasn't everything!!!
so yeah, the movie was surprisingly good, and the majority of critics actually like it too (even that snooty new york times, which i normally -and passionately- disagree with most of the time). go to rottentomatoes.com for movie reviews, never rely on just one source. or just see whatever the heck you want regardless, which is what i'll usually do most of the time since i have virtually no movie-viewing discretion. the movie also stars the lead guy from entourage, the airport boss from 'the terminal' (stanley tucci), and tracie thoms (from Rent). i'd give it **** out of a possible 5 stars.
ok well i'm actually getting kind of tired, and should probably get to bed. we have church in the morning, so i'll be up "early" for the first time since...well, the last time i was home for sunday. this will all soon end when i start work this week, so rest assured i'm sleeping in on monday & tuesday!
next time i'll talk about 'passing the torch' of my connection at the indian store (much like rakhi did with me when she took me there)...well i guess i will still go there, so i didn't really 'pass the torch'...maybe there are now two torches? maybe i'm sharing the torch? i dunno. either way, i ended up with more indian movies as of this afternoon. oh, and i re-rented "Koi...Mil Gaya" to bring the rest of my crew up to speed so we can all go see "Krrish" (the sequel) at the indian movie theater sometime this week. oh, and one of my new quests is to see all the popular priyanka chopra movies. so far so good.
and if you must know, i definitely got my share of idli & sambar when i got home, and me and the sibs watched numerous episodes of MTV's "Next" before turning in. good night & good luck <:><
music:
"Main Titles" - Superman Returns soundtrack (main theme)
"Nakhre Bhi Utha" - Barsaat soundtrack
random pic:
connor-randomness...semi-candid shot from connor's last night. note double D acting a little crazy.
i've played devil's advocate quite a bit, and back in undergrad i played the devil in a few skits too. good times.
anyway, today i left for home in north lawrence for the weekend. it's been interesting as this will be the 4th time i have been back home in 8 weeks...yup, every other weekend. i haven't done this for at least a couple years i think...and i was only home 3x over the course of this past school year. ah well, i like the food and it's been somewhat therapeutic too.
so i obviously didn't leave on time for home, because this never happens. never. i basically ended up racing home in order to make the evening movie plans that sarah had come up with for us siblings. what movie were we going to see? 'the devil wears prada'. now, i didn't have much of an opinion about this movie, other than the fact that the trailer we saw before some movie a while back gave virtually no indication of what this movie was about, other than it starred meryl streep and anne hathaway. needless to say, i was somewhat intrigued, especially in this day and age when movie trailers give away far too much.
speaking of movie trailers, the SPIDER-MAN 3 trailer is out now!!! i feel somewhat ripped off in that we didn't get to see it before Superman Returns yesterday (also a fantastic movie), but that was probably due to the fact that we saw it on IMAX, and even the movie trailers were in 3-D and there were fewer of them. anyway, check out the spider-man trailer...i get hyped about the first time i see the spider-man trailers every 2 years or so. good stuff.
so anyway, i race home and make it to the house in time to walk in on my family eating indian food at the dinner table, and we basically have to take off right away. i look around the kitchen, and they're not just eating any old indian food, but idli and sambar!!! it was torturous to leave behind my favorite food (especially since i was starving, and it had been 7 hours since i had my pancheros), but we had a movie to (barely) make.
anyway, 106-minute-movie short, it was very entertaining, and the entire cast did an impressive job. turns out that many critics thought the movie moved even above the source material (the film was based on a novel). the director also did 'sex & the city' which explains the presence of all those fancy shoes...especially the manolo blahniks, haha. while we are on that blurb, charlotte was the best character (ok well kristin davis was at least my favorite character) and (in spite of having had this debate with multiple parties) burger was waaay cooler than big or any of the other guys. the post-it note issue wasn't everything!!!
so yeah, the movie was surprisingly good, and the majority of critics actually like it too (even that snooty new york times, which i normally -and passionately- disagree with most of the time). go to rottentomatoes.com for movie reviews, never rely on just one source. or just see whatever the heck you want regardless, which is what i'll usually do most of the time since i have virtually no movie-viewing discretion. the movie also stars the lead guy from entourage, the airport boss from 'the terminal' (stanley tucci), and tracie thoms (from Rent). i'd give it **** out of a possible 5 stars.
ok well i'm actually getting kind of tired, and should probably get to bed. we have church in the morning, so i'll be up "early" for the first time since...well, the last time i was home for sunday. this will all soon end when i start work this week, so rest assured i'm sleeping in on monday & tuesday!
next time i'll talk about 'passing the torch' of my connection at the indian store (much like rakhi did with me when she took me there)...well i guess i will still go there, so i didn't really 'pass the torch'...maybe there are now two torches? maybe i'm sharing the torch? i dunno. either way, i ended up with more indian movies as of this afternoon. oh, and i re-rented "Koi...Mil Gaya" to bring the rest of my crew up to speed so we can all go see "Krrish" (the sequel) at the indian movie theater sometime this week. oh, and one of my new quests is to see all the popular priyanka chopra movies. so far so good.
and if you must know, i definitely got my share of idli & sambar when i got home, and me and the sibs watched numerous episodes of MTV's "Next" before turning in. good night & good luck <:><
music:
"Main Titles" - Superman Returns soundtrack (main theme)
"Nakhre Bhi Utha" - Barsaat soundtrack
random pic:
connor-randomness...semi-candid shot from connor's last night. note double D acting a little crazy.
posted by Solomon at 2:52 AM
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Man, I miss you guys! And Connor's! Next time, drink a Bell's for me. Oh yeah, you don't drink beer. Make it a rum & coke. :)
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