Just watched Sahara tonight… Nothing really special, but I was entertained. It made for a good popcorn flick. It is something along the lines of The Mummy or National Treasure.
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Kung Fu Hustle & The Interpreter
Watched another double feature last night and this time I picked two, yes two, entertaining movies.
Lets start with the first one I watched, Kung Fu Hustle. While thinking of a way to categorize this movie, I came up empty. It seems to fall into so many different categories that it almost defies categorization, except that at heart it truly is a “kung fu” movie. There is a little song and dance, there is comedy (lots of comedy), fighting, action, and shockingly, there is even a plot (something that way too many action movies forget to include). Now it isn’t’ a spectacular movie by any means, but for the 90 or so minutes, I was entertained completely. The plot isn’t overbearing and doesn’t get in the way, but there is a plot that develops the characters into people that you care about (something that Mission Impossible 2 didn’t do, more on that in another post). The action scenes are very well done and funny to boot. Definitely well worth the price of admission, but probably only a matinee ticket, unless you are a true kung fu movie fan. Also, the fact that it is subtitled, may scare off some people so it may not be a movie that everyone enjoys…
The second movie in the double feature was The Interpreter staring Nicole Kidman. Now Nicole Kidman isn’t typically an actress that will draw me to a movie, but I’ve been pretty hard up for a decent movie lately and this looked like one. And I wasn’t disappointed. Once again, this movie has a plot (I’ll get into my dislike of plot less movie when I gave my scathing review of MI2 sometime) and a plot is almost always a plus (I won’t say always a plus, because when I do, some movie will come out without a plot and it’ll work). 30 second overview… Kidman plays an interpreter from an African country, overhears a plan to assassinate a foreign leader, tells the “cops” and then it gets interesting. I won’t go into too many details because I don’t want to spoil it for anyone. The movie was very entertaining and kept me guessing for most of it. Well worth an evening ticket and your date and you should both enjoy it. I just wish more were at least this good.
Coming in next week’s column, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I’m very curious as to how they adapted this classic novel to the big screen.
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What to say about myself…
First off, I am a very enthusiastic water skier. I probably think about it too much. Way too much. Even in the off season, I’m thinking about it. I ski as late into the fall as I possibly can and start out in the spring as early as possible. I’m a member of the Mad-City Ski Team, a competitive show ski team. We’ve traditionally had one of the most entertaining ski shows that people look forward to seeing at State and Nationals and in 2004, 2006 and 2007, we’ve won the both the Wisconsin State and National Championships.
I grew up in the state of Wisconsin and still live hear. I’m a Badger fan and will be for life. I follow the football, basketball and hockey teams. They help to distract me from the lack of water skiing I get to do in the winter (aka the off season). It would be a safe statement to say that I also follow the Packers.
I work in the tech industry and have a job that I usually enjoy. Yes, there are bad days now then, but you’ll get those in just about every job. There are many more good days than bad and I work with a great group of people. I do get to travel a little bit and have been to Portland, Gary and Cleveland for work. No place really nice, but the trips have been fun. I’ve managed to visit friends on most of my trips. Best part is, my job pays for my water skiing addiction.
Besides water skiing and Badger sports, I probably watch too much TV, see a lot of movies and read a lot of books. I manage to keep myself pretty busy. I enjoy a lot of music, but I’m probably pretty partial to Pearl Jam, but like a pretty wide variety.
I have a lot of family, most living pretty close to me. And my family is very important to me.
No pets currently, but I eventually want to get a dog when I have the time to properly care for it. Right now I can’t justify leaving it home alone all day long. My days in the summer typically consist of waking up, skiing at least a couple mornings a week in the summer, going to work, occasionally skiing at lunch, working the rest of the day and then skiing after work. I’ll leave about 6am on days I ski and 730 on days I don’t and get home about an hour or so after sunset (between 830 & 930). These days would just be too long to leave a dog home alone.
Finally, I’m single and looking.
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