- How do you pack up the life of a person. I helped clear out our friend Kenny's apartment this morning. Most everything was already gone, and we just basically got the furniture out. As a couple of people were clearing out the cabinets of the final little items, I stood there thinking we were just helping somebody move. Except Kenny is gone. And it made me sad that he was gone. And I thought about how you sum up the life of a person. Wonderful eulogies from his best friend and brothers. Packed memorial service (1000-ish) and funeral. Regardless of the things in his apartment and regardless of his disease that made his life difficult, Kenny touched everyone around him positively. Everybody who came into contact with Kenny loved Kenny.
What can be said about me—or any single one of us? - Work has been very hard the past couple of months. Yesterday saw the virtual end of the last big project (for a while). My movie watching has been quite low. I've only exchanged two movies via Netflix so far the entire month, as opposed to 8-12. I've got some catching up to do.
- One movie I did manage to watch is The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. It was recommended to me based upon some pretty high ratings on other movies (almost all were five-stars). For me, this one proves that the ratings aren't necessarily the only thing to go by (though usually EXTREMELY accurate). I just could not get into this movie. It was well done, for sure, but it didn't grab me, much like (oh, the horror!) Citizen Kane. Yep, I didn't like it a whole lot. One day, I'll watch it again to see if maybe I missed something. It's happened before (Planes, Trains, and Automobiles and Rushmore being the most prominent examples).
- There are more (seemingly) fantastic movies coming out this fall that I'm looking forward to seeing, perhaps even seeing in the theatre!:
- Casino Royale—11/17 (just in time for Thanksgiving; let's go out to the movies!) Check out the new trailer on the Sony site. I know purists don't think Daniel Craig can pull it off, but the trailer tells me differently.
- School for Scoundrels—9/29
- The Guardian—9/29 (despite Ashton Kutcher)
- The Departed —10/6 apparently a remake of Infernal Affairs from one piece I read, which I haven't seen but will have to soon!
- The Prestige—10/20 Hugh Jackman! Christian Bale! Magicians? Other? Directed by Christopher Nolan, who brought us Batman Begins and Memento (and Following).
- Stranger than Fiction—11/10 Will Ferrell is Emma Thompson's character who's really alive.
- Harsh Times—11/10 Christian Bale!
- Happy Feet—11/17 Penguins! The greatest animals in the world (as a whole).
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Random Thoughts
Just some randomness going through my mind lately, mostly movie-based, but one or two other things, too.
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What can be said about any of us, indeed... and why is it that it normally doesn't get said until the funeral?
After the story the pastor related about the two ladies at the graveside service who only knew Kenny as a customer at a restaurant or a fellow grocery shopper, and his humble comment "I wonder right now if waitresses would show up at my funeral", I have been giving thought to this question as well. I've lived in a lot of different places - have I left a path of kindness and mercy, or a path of destruction?
As for movies - "The Prestige" looks awesome, cannot wait. "The Departed" is a remake of the Hong Kong version of "Internal Affairs", not the Richard Gere movie of the same name, in case anyone's keeping score.
I saw the IMAX 3D preview for "Happy Feet" - and I believe that will be the required way to see the movie as well. The things they can do with animation 3D-wise are much more successful than they did with "Superman Returns", which was where I saw the aforementioned preview (who wants to don glasses and remove them 4 times during a movie? Kind of interrupts the immersive experience that SHOULD be IMAX).
have you really not posted anything since this entry or are we on different versions of blogger?
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