August 6, 2006

  • If you haven't taken the opportunity to actually go to my xanga page in the past few days (email subscribers, listen up!) you totally should. In my custom module I have a youtube video of Steve Carell and Dana Carvey as the Germans Who Say Nice Things. It's pretty funny. My buddies and I did a version of this in high school. There were four of us and we just improved the whole thing. Take a look--soon, cause it makes the page look all funny and I'll probably delete it sometime soon.

    I haven taken some criticism lately because apparently I am quite liberal with my praise of the recent movies I have seen.  Everybody says, "Well Daniel, you just say that every movie is good, and the greatest this and that...and this person was SO great and all of these things..."

    I have two things to say to that.

    1) I am very picky with the movies I watch. I decide months in advance what movies I am going to see in the theaters via trailers and articles in magazines. In this same vain, I don't rent movies because I've seen all the movies that are on DVD that I would want to see. I don't rely heavily on word-of-mouth because I've probably made my decision based on the overall story, director, production company, and or actors. For instance, I love M. Night Shyamalan movies. I've seen them all and I love them. We know this, I've talked about it. I will probably watch every one of the movies Night makes from now on because I like the way he makes movies. However, I won't see every movie Bruce Willis is in, or every movie Michael Bay directs, but I will probably see Transformers because the trailer looks cool and Dreamworks is making it--not to mention Speilberg is Exec. Producing--we'll just see how that plays out though. (I know it sounds like Bruce Willis will be in transformers, but he's not, just bad grammar on my part).

    --In review, I only see movies I know I will love.

    -------Exceptions: if Christy will love it, then I go with her. We take turns.

    2) I have seen a couple of movies lately that I thought were OK, but not necessarily worth my high praises. I saw Pirates 2 with a group from work. I wouldn't have bothered with it otherwise, and I thought is was alright but not worth being the highest grossing movie of the summer/year. DEFINITELY not that good. I saw X-Men when it came out, and I gave it moderate reviews. So there. AND I watched V for Vendetta last night--and although I liked it and was highly entertained by it, it did get pretty political AND I wouldn't say it was a GREAT film. It was pretty cool and strange (in that Matrix way), but I felt like there was a bigger political metaphor that I was missing, and I just didn't feel like trying to figure it out at that time. I took the film at face value for some entertainment and I enjoyed it, but not as much Superman Returns, or Lady in the Water, or Talladega Nights...

    --In review, I don't give all the movies I see high praise, I guess I just mention the ones on my blog that I feel like you should see.

    -------Exceptions: none.

    I gotta get these arrangements for Jud done...

Comments (20)

  • Hey, how did the raquetball go?

  • ^^^Yeah...Oh and by the way I updated my blog on WICKED!!!!  I wantt to talk about it soooo bad but I don't want to spoil it for those who have not gone!! 

  • ooops, I got a little a head of myself there...yes, how did raquetball go?! hehehehe

  • How are you going to get arrangements done at Disneyland?

    My favorite Jesus is the Jesus who goes to Chipotle for dinner.

  • You're my enternatinment guru

  • you talking about congregational worship songs?

    Top of my head:

    Give Us Clean Hands
    From the Inside Out (Hillsong United -  ** AWESOME song, and newer **)
    Presence (My Heart's Desire) (Newsboys worship)
    Above All Else (Vicky Beeching)
    Come Home Running (Tomlin)
    I Give You My Heart (Hillsong)
    The Potter's Hand (Hillsong)

  • I liked Elf better, BTW.

  • wizarama

  • Tuesday and Thursday are out for me, but maybe Wednesday or Friday, or Sat. matinee or something.

  • Ummm...just for a little 411 it is V for Vendetta...kind of hurts when you get a movie title wrong especially one with a cool title...i'm just sayin' :)

  • ^^^What are you talking about???

  • Well, we definitely all have different taste in movies, huh?  We went to see John Tucker Must Die this weekend, and I thought it was fun.  Not that I'd tell everybody it's a must see or anything, but it was enjoyable.  I loved the X-Men movies, and movies like that aren't typically my cup of tea.  Really didn't like Superman, though - but then, I've said that already.  :o )

  • I love SNL!

  • Who cares what somebody else says about your movie reviews! I enjoy hearing about them.

  • I loved the Germans Who Say Nice Things.

  • Nine, Pootinhinder! ( I can't spell in German either)

  • If you were truly sorry about Starbucks you would go back to them.

    And there's no way they are tanking. I alone give them $1.85 a day. That's enough to keep them afloat.

  • You soooo changed it!!! You know it! hahaha

  • You know, Josh is right. If you decide months in advance and do all this research about the movies that you want to see, then of course you're going to like them. That's whack.

  • ^^There's nothing whack about that. Why would I want to go to a restaurant I've never heard of and pay top dollar if I didn't know I would like the food?
    Of course I do research on my movies. It's smart. I don't go and just HOPE it will be good. I KNOW it will be good. So yes, I know I will like them. But then I don't walk out of a movie thinking, "oh man, I shouldn't have wasted $40 on babysitting and $20 on tickets to see this crappy movie."

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