So lately I've been trying to get through some of my DVD's before the new fall t.v. schedule starts and I get hooked on another season of 24 & NYPD Blue....so last night I remembered I had gotten a DVD with (what was billed as) the first entire Springsteen concert to be on DVD. He was live in Barcelona from the fall of 2002 and I gotta tell ya....it was one hell of a rocking concert. That being said....I just find myself getting totally annoyed by his wife. I know she's not Yoko, but its not like she offering a lot of key musicianship either. And she tries to work that whole "mystical" look---sort of a cross between a bad Stevie Nicks impression and the queen of the elves in Lord of the Rings. Am I wrong?
So yesterday, it was Foxy1040's birthday at the office, and I decided to give her the perfect gift. Inside her birthday card was a little...ahem....ya know...photo of myself that was taken on my honeymoon...in the bathtub....surrounded by bubbles of course (I do have SOME decorum). Anyway, it was (needless to say) the absolute hit of the office, and I think I acquired quite a few new friends who were quite appreciative of what they saw. I don't want to brag, but the former Mrs Me # 1 wanted to take a gander also....I said it was nothing she hadn't already seen already.
Well, it appears to be "official". Kellie was asked by Matt, the kid who goes to school in the limo, to be "his girlfriend". Its like I told her....if you have the choice between the poor kid and the kid who gets taken to school in a limo.....let your heart tell you the answer...and it better be the rich kid.
I got about halfway through a movie on DVD tonite (full review in one of the next issue or two) of the movie "From Hell". Its about the Jack the Ripper murders in London circa 1888, and stars Johnny Depp & Heather Graham. The movie is gory as all get out, but its a damn good movie. I'll say this....that Johnny Depp is one hell of a good actor. Speaking of movies (and we were).....
Its time to get to my continuing top 10 list. Here's what we got so far:
10) The Shawshank Redemption
9) Rear Window
8) Outlaw Josey Wales
7) Godfather 1&2
6) Lord of the Rings trilogy
5) Unforgiven
4) Jaws
and now...my choice...as my number 3 film of alltime is....
3) The Deerhunter.....it came out in 1978, the same year as Coming Home, which starred Jon Voight & Jane Fonda...and Apocalpyse Now, which starred Martin Sheen & Marlon Brando. But it was Michael Cimino's movie that won the Academy Award that year for Best Picture in what was known as the year of the Vietnam movie, as all three of the above mentioned films dealt with the Vietnam War. Coming Home dealt with the effects of returning home to the war veteran and Apocalpyse Now dealt with the insanity of war....but The Deerhunter, despite the war being the central theme and the catalyst of the film and the events that result from it, isn't necessarily a "war movie". It really more a film about friendship, and the ties that bond that friendship together and what can occur to rip it apart. Receiving nominations for their outstanding work in the film were Robert DeNiro, Meryl Streep & Christopher Walken (who won)....the late John Cazale probably should have been nominated for his role as the smalltown loudmouth who isn't as brave as he'd like everyone to believe his is. But this movie really belongs to DeNiro and Walken, as smalltown best friends Michael & Nick, who's friendship is put to the ultimate test as the become prisoners of war in a Vietnamese camp. The two scenes in the film where the two men play Russian Roulette are among the most gripping in film history. Many have criticized the scene, saying that such things didn't really happen during the war, which director Michael Cimino admited, saying the scene was merely a metaphor for the struggles that the United States was going through at home during the war. Whatever the reason for the scenes, they are absolutely captivating, and perhaps no movie has better captured the terrible things that are seen during war. In Apocalpyse Now, Marlon Brando is best remembered for his classic line....."the horror", in describing the things he has seen. In The Deerhunter, Christopher Walken doesn't need to say anything about the horror...its written all over his face in every contortion and twitch he makes. *****
Later,
jeff
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