There are two kinds of people in the world — those with loaded guns and those who dig.
Let others spend the weekend catching up on Oscar nominees. We (re-)watched Sergio Leone fill the screen with boots, eyes and fingers in this classic Western.
Although Netflix listed it as the 161-min version, the DVD they sent was actually the full-length (175-min) Italian version, so that makes 14 minutes of action I was seeing for the first time!
By the way, did you know that Eli Wallach is still alive at age 94?!
(well, it might be that people see so many movies
that when they finally see one not
so bad as the others, they think it’s
great. an Academy Award means that you don’t stink
quite as much as your cousin.)
There are 10 nominees now for Best Picture?! I had no idea.
The best movie of the year was Up. The other nine I didn’t see. If any of them were better than Up, then why didn’t I see them? Answer that one for me.
- You watch Saw 1-8 for 36 hours straight.
- You think you are in the Saw movies.
- You buy a saw.
of one hundred movies there’s one that’s fair, one that’s good
and ninety-eight that are very bad. . . .. . . millions of dollars spent to create
something more terrible than the actual lives of
most living things; one should never have to pay an
admission to hell.
‘Deadliest Catch’ captain Phil Harris dies at age 53
Never saw his TV show but he was great as the voice of Baloo in The Jungle Book!
♫ Look for the (clap) Bare Ne-cess-ities . . . ♫
Say hi to Bing Crosby in hell!
It really takes off about halfway through when Faye Wong shows up. She also sings a charming cover of the Cranberries’ “Dreams” (in Chinese) on the soundtrack.
Delightful!
My wife and I watched High Noon last night. I asked her if someone was trying to shoot me, would she shoot him first, like Grace Kelly did in the movie?
(Oops, I forgot to say Spoiler Alert.)
She assured me that she’d gladly shoot anyone who even looked at me funny — and I believe her.
If each player has chosen a strategy and no player can benefit by changing his or her strategy while the other players keep theirs unchanged, then the current set of strategy choices and the corresponding payoffs constitute a Nash equilibrium.
A system may have many possible Nash equilibriums. There is no guarantee that a Nash equilibrium is optimal for the system as a whole. Most are not. However, it is often very difficult to move from one Nash equilibrium to another. To do it successfully, all players must be made aware that a better state is attainable and they must trust each other to change.
Nash equilibriums are named after John F. Nash Jr., whose life was depicted in the movie A Beautiful Mind.
My son and I are watching a TV commercial for Love Happens, which seems to be about a man forced to choose between financial gain and the love of a woman.
This is one of those “teachable moments,” because the boy, who’s 15 now, may someday find himself facing the same choice as the guy in the movie, so I look at him with love and hard-earned wisdom and with a voice of great sincerity, I say:
“Take the money.”
REBECCA: This is so bad it’s almost good.
ENID: This is so bad it’s gone past good and back to bad again.
Very sad news. Love him or hate him, you had to admire his originality as a filmmaker.
An openly gay man known for his pencil-thin mustache . . . wait, what?! John Hughes died? Oh, he was TERR-ible! Ferris Bueller’s Day Off — worst movie I ever saw!
For a moment there I thought you said John Waters had died . . .
Before I go, lemme give you a lesson in mystique. (Holds out a cigarette lighter in one hand and closes his other fist.) You can only have one. Which one do you want? As long as you can’t see what’s in this hand (shows closed fist), you’ll always want it more.
Some of the hockey moms here at the tournament went to see The Proposal and are giving it rave reviews — “Classic Sandra Bullock!” Blah blah blah . . .
“Sandra Bullock used to be pretty cute,” I say, “but now she looks like a guy, don’t you think?”
“Are you kidding?! For 45, she looks amazing!“
When I unscrunch my hard-earned dollar bills to see a movie, I want more than “looks good for 45.” I can get “looks good for 45″ at home . . .
Yesterday’s team bonding activities included miniature golf, pizza and a midnight screening of Brüno, all within walking distance of the hotel.
After the movie, the kids walked to McDonalds. It was closed. The drive-thru was still open, but they didn’t have a car.
Just then — in an amazing cross-continental coincidence — Eddie, the manager of our local rink in Irvine, pulled into the drive-thru, and the kids got him to buy them all ice cream cones . . .
My wife and I saw Up yesterday at the Irvine Spectrum. The movie features a “talking” dog — a whole pack of talking dogs actually. When the main dog character meets the main human character, the dog jumps up, licks his face and says, “I have just met you and I love you.” If dogs could talk, that’s exactly what they’d say.
After the movie, we walked over to Spectrum Pets and looked at a puggle puppy. Same reaction — jumping, face licking. I have just met you and I love you.
Of course, there are some people who feel that they don’t deserve this kind of unconditional love. We call them “cat people.”
