Thanks dude, ain't nothin' I ain't done before!  It was fun getting to see that movie again.

I feel like it's been ages since I watched something.  Which is TOTALLY untrue, I watched a couple movies a few days ago (apparently I'm the only one in my family who remembered "Bye Bye Love," though I totally forgot Eliza Dushku was in it and I had NO idea Mae Whitman was the youngest daughter).  I guess I haven't had anything worth writing up.

Although I just got "The Bone Collector" in the mail today, so if this copy works, maybe I'll have at least some cool notes.  Angelina Jolie usually inspires me.

They might say the f word more than once (automatic R) or Juno Temple's character could be too sexually dominant (automatic R) of it could be an R because it's an indie film with no big studio behind it.  The fix for ratings has been in for a long time, but there was a ****.com/article_21151_6-bizarre-realities-how-movies-get-their-ratings.html" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">quick refresher course on ****.

This is just an observation that I’m kind solidifying in my head. When individuals (including myself) pay only partial interest to a subject, in this case watching a movie, it brings a whole different perspective to the viewer. And that is ‘interest’. My wife paid very little interest in watching The Brass Teapot. She concluded, quickly, the movie was stupid.

I’ve done this myself. If at first I don’t have an interest, I really don’t pay attention to the film. Then that furthers the idea in my mind, the movie is bad. I ‘try’ to no longer have the Ipad with me when watching movies. If I deviate even just a little, and start looking at other things, the experience of movie watching is diminished.

I’ve seen my son do this consistently and while I don’t want to say he represents youth habits of today, he seems to capture that short attention span mentality. When he lived with me (he’s now married), we would go to the movies and I swear every movie we say, he said was great. That’s because he was interested and the movie had his full attention. He’s also watched movies with me at home and when the phone consumes 75% of activities while watching a movie, he craps on the film. It was OK. It was bad.

I’m back to being old school. If I want to watch a film. It’s just me and the film. No talking. No Iphone, not games, not texting, etc.

It all comes back to multi-tasking. It can’t be done… not effectively. If you’re interested in seeing a movie… watch it. Put all other things aside.

Simple

Her



Despite my immediate thoughts on watching the trailer for Her as being very weird, over time I was hearing pretty good stuff about the film. The other night my wife and I got to sit down to watch it. My original thoughts reigned true. I found Her to be weird with zero entertainment value. I found Her to be pathetic prophecy.  I hope like hell, our future does not look like what this film depicts.

Currently Her is science fiction, but it teeters on reality and we could see this artificial intelligence sooner than later.  Obviously Her was inspired by Siri. But taken to the next level of the voice having reason and emotions and Gawd forbid, feelings. I did not watch the whole thing mainly because it bordered to many times on being boring. Listen, most of the screen time is watching Joaquin Phoenix character face talking to disembodied voice. I did not find that entertaining, despite some of the intriguing ideas discussed.

And an unexpected distraction quickly popped up that watered down any enjoyment in the film, which there was not. Jaoquin Phoenix character wears glasses. I immediately noticed his obsession of pushing them on his face. In my mind it was an obsession because he did it so much. It’s kind of like one of my co-workers here at work. He constantly sniffs. Mostly little sniffs, but constantly. Like every minute or so. It’s really just a nuance, but it’s so unusual, it just becomes ‘loud’. Same with Phoenix pushing up his glasses. Either it’s just a by-product of Phoenix character wearing the glasses and not use to them, or it was a very deliberate action by the actor or director. I tend to think it was the later, but have no clue why it was important.

Bottom line… I found Her to be sad (pathetic), mildly boring and contained a distraction that just made me turn it off half way through. It’s not for me.

Swinging with the Finkels



By far the best of the viewing bunch this weekend. An unexpected gem. I’ve never heard of it until I ran across the listing On Demand. In a nutshell, 2 couples (one couple being The Finkels) having intimacy problems. I found Swinging with the Finkels to be a very charming, comedic date movie. Take note and not a spoiler, the ‘swinging’ is a very small part of the movie. Pivotal, but don’t go in expecting to see a lot of ‘swinging’. While comedic, they are not cartoonish and all the characters are relatable. It’s the side characters that lean on cartoonish and they only add a little spice to the story telling.

Highly recommend.

The Shield (Season 1 - 2002)



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For the past couple of weeks, I have been debating what show I wanted to revisit. It was Nip/Tuck or The Shield. With Michael Jace being arrested today for murder, I chose The Shield.