Can you believe it? Another damn hurricane is heading towards us! Once again south Florida finds itself in the "cone of death" (or whatever they call it). All I know is that if this damn storm hits during the weekend, its going to interrupt my air conditioning AND my football watching. Why can't the stupid things strike on a Wednesday or something...that would be far more convient.
Two days in a row where I actually earned my paycheck. I worked late again, as our 1:30 hearing, the one where they requested 45 minutes, ended up going a little over 2 hours! Needless to say, that through our schedule a tad out of wack. As usual, our arraignment docket provided us with at least one antecdote, this week coming courtesy of the judge. Actual transcript of a conversation between the two of us today, around 11:15am.
"How many cases are on the docket tomorrow?" she asked me.
"Usual size. About 100 or so."
"100! That can't be right...the limit was only supposed to be 50."
"No, that's next Friday's docket. The one on October 1st."
"But it can't be that big....I have to be out of here by 11am. I have a flight to Tallahassee."
"Oh...is it a judge's conference?"
"No! I have tickets to Cher!"
I can't make this stuff up folks.
Today's DVD review, continuing our alpabetical listing, is James Cameron's 1993 underwater adventure--
THE ABYSS...at some point during the early part of the 1990's, undersea adventure became really in vogue. When Cameron was making The Abyss, out came a quickie called DEEPSTAR SIX, which was mainly interesting because the entire cast was made up of people who were on television shows in the 1980's. It was pretty horrible. Next came LEVIATHAN, which had an interesting premise, a halfway decent cast lead by Peter Weller and was a good, solid movie for about 3/4 of the movie---or, until they finally showed the creature. It looked like some combination of an octopus and a dragon and ruined the movie. Finally, out came THE ABYSS, and by this point, me & my movie going friends had lost faith in the old undersea adventure story. Cameron restored our faith. A solid cast, featuring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio & Michael Biehn star in the story of a civilian oil rig crew who is sent on a search and rescue mission for a nuclear sub.
However, when they get down there....suffice to say, all is not as it seems. Some nice special effects. Also, one of the rare times when you can honestly say that the DVD may be better than the actual movie (which is saying something), as the documentary on the making of the movie is really interesting. ****1/4
Later,
Jeff
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