ok, not you as much as the world. my fever only lasted one day, which means it might not be the swine flu. but i'm hoping it was because i don't want to be sick twice.
anyway, i used my halloween sick day to watch two movies, some mad men season two and the third season of 30 rock.
liz and i started off with Push (2009) and sci-fi, superpower, action-thriller that some preview sold me on a while ago. it's about a parallel world where some people have different powers like future seeing (watchers), mind control (pushers), changing the appearance of objects (shifters, healing (stitches) and so on. i'm kind of a sucker for those kinds of movies. this one's set in china, which helps and there are these two super hip, side-burned twins badies who can scream really loudly that are hard not to love. dakota fanning's in it and that's the first whole movie i've seen with her. i watched some of man on fire in the kz, not that good. the ending was really opened ended, but i don't think it did that well, so i'm not sure it's going to continue.
then i watched the good shepard (2006) which i think got on my list because i love lee pace and wanted more after the fall (2006), which is kind of great, but the way. the good shepard is not that great. it's a kind of slow CIA thriller set in the 40s through 60s. as so many things set in that time period, mad men included, this movie was pretty much about being unhappy with the life you have and not taking the power to change it. matt damen is a Yale then CIA guy who hardly talks, is respected and marries angelina jolie instead of the cute, deaf girl he loves because she's pregnant. lee pace is a total ass in it and not around much. it was one of the movies that was confusing because of the lingo and complicated plot with a lot of men in the same haircut. but, it's mostly confusing because i'm not interested in the outcome enough to pay really close attention.
so, i guess over all i'm saying that you should watch the fall.
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I sure hope by the time you read this comment that you're feeling better. You're gonna have to get used to flus if you're gonna be a teacher. I like Emergen-C better than Airborne, even though Airborne was developed by a teacher. Maybe they're both crap but I like Emergen-C and it's pretty cheap at Whole Foods, where I know you have an in.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'll pick up The Fall. I've been so TV lately, I need some movies.