Movie Reviews: Good Night, Hebrew Hammer, ect.

Family Video just opened up in town. I love em, but if I keep burning through dvds at this rate, I might not be there long. They have a 2 for 1$ section that is the biggest section in the store. I fucking love it. After I'm done with that section, I'm going to start on the favorite dvd section which is only 1$ for 5 nights. Lets not forget that for the first 30 days of membership, you get half off all rentals.

My first foray into the store I picked up 4 dvds for 1$. Here is the breakdown.

The Good Night
It was okay, but nothing magnificent. The cinematography during the dream sequences were brilliant. I found the whole relationship between the two main characters to be depressing.

My favorite quotes from the movie came from Danny Devito:

"I used to really believe that everybody was at the center of their own universe. You know, like we're all suns being orbited by the people in our lives. But at some point, if things don't go your way, maybe its better to just pick someone or something great and just orbit that."

"The human default setting is loneliness."

Rewatch Value 2

Reno 911:Miami
I love the tv show, but this movie was terrible. A big part of what makes this show fantastic is the documentary style of following the deputies around. We get to witness the crazy antics of the people of Reno, and the deputies themselves. There wasn't enough time to focus on all the characters. And the characters are what makes the whole concept work.

Rewatch Value 1

Seeing Other People
I've been meaning to see this movie for the last couple of months. I first heard about it about 6 months ago but it popped back up on my radar last week when it was on tv. Unfortunately, I was never able to sit down and see the whole thing. I now have, and I love it. Its the best movie I picked up. In stark contrast to The Good Night, this relationship is positive and happy. These people seem to be in love and I love all of the characters.

One habit I have is to look up the wikipedia page on movies I've just watched. Recently, I've been getting tired of going to movies and not seeing any kind of plot outline. So I wrote one for Seeing Other People when I saw that there wasn't one up already. Its not incredible, but my thinking is that its easier to edit something already up than come up with something from scratch. I've changed things in wiki pages when they needed more information or were biased. I want to start doing this with all the good movies I come across.

Rewatch Value: 3

Hebrew Hammer
Terrible. Andy Dick was the only good thing about this movie.

Rewatch Value 1

Simple Pleasures

Life is incredibly ordinary and unremarkable. Sometimes, the best thing to happen in a day or in a week can be one of the best things that no one ever talks about:

-Your roommate bought you a pack of vanilla coke without you asking

-A pleasant conversation with a sibling that makes you feel better about things

-A great flirt exchange with the person that makes your coffee drink

-Your significant other got you a card for no reason

-You met and old couple so in love it makes you feel great about the future

-You found a parking spot right in front of work/school/home

-You saw an episode of your favorite show you never saw before

-You had a meal you hadn't had in forever

-You run into an old friend or get a call from a friend out of the blue who just wanted to talk to you

-The refreshing taste of ice cold apple juice

-Hitting the bulls-eye in darts while passing time

-Getting all the green lights on the way home

-Getting all the red lights so you can finish a song on the radio before you get home

-Looking at a digital clock at just the right time that it displays your birthday

-A breeze rolls through and reminds you of something pleasant

-A walk on a nice day

-Eating out with friends

-Buying a new shirt

-Wearing new socks

-Renting a movie you're excited about

TV shows tend to focus on big important things like relationships, finding someone you want to spend time with and be intimate with. Families: raising kids to be able to navigate life safely and happily and dealing with parents and siblings. Work: navigating work life to make more money, enjoy what you do and keep doing those things. With that said, even though you spend a lot of time on those things, they aren't everything. They're important but so is everything you do between them.

See also: Daily Repetition

Six Twenty-Six Update

Cool stuff I came across this week.

"Telling me about the 5 Environments and urging me to travel? That was advice. It wasn’t a lesson. Advice is everywhere in this world. Your friends, family, teachers and strangers are all happy to give it.

A lesson is yours and yours alone. Some of them take years to recognize and utilize."

Taken from Patton Oswalt's Speech to his old high school during a graduation ceremony.

"Think of the world as a big glass of water with some salt in it. You have a choice. You can try to pick out all the salt or you can keep pouring in more water so eventually it gets less bitter. As you begin your new journey, you can try to remove everything that you find distasteful in the world, or you can just pour in more love. It's the only thing that the more you give away, the more you have."

From a speech by Jerry Zucker. This sweet site has a ton of great advice and links to graduation speeches.

Started watching Boston Legal again and I am a huge fan. Alan Shore has an insanely charismatic personality. What I'm learning from him is that you can be immature, a rake and downright goofy if you also happen to be incredible.

Always Sunny in PA is coming back in September. I had forgotten how much I love this show. Actually, I've been checking out some of my old favorite shows like Family Guy, Seinfeld and Futurama. Even though I've probably seen each episode half a dozen times, I find myself falling in love with them all over again. Its like running into an old best friend that you used to hang out all the time, but you took a break because your lives went in different directions.

After all this time, you find that you still have so much in common and enjoy each other's company even more because of it.

I've also recently started getting into Friends. Its so much funnier and more relatable than I thought it would be.