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Nights like last night and days like today, I wonder why I would want to leave NC.
Then my grandmother calls and I remember. *G*
*cough* Anyway. The weather is so perfect right now. We've had low 70s the last several days (funny, considering it snowed 8 inches last Friday), but the last couple there's been a front moving in, so it has been slightly overcast with a good breeze. Folks, give me low 70s with a cool wind any day of the week. I've slept with the window open for two nights in a row. Even though it's raining, the window is still open at home for the dog.
Last night was great because I sat in the living room and watched movies with the lights out and the window open.
By the way, as far as the movies? Buffalo Soldiers is odd. I'll admit, I watched for Anna Paquin. Joaquin Phoenix was great. I enjoyed Anna. Ed Harris was good, but not great because he was too intelligent to play the character. But the movie itself was just...not right.
Under The Tuscan Sun also struck me differently than it did most people. It was *sad*. Diane Lane was enjoyable, her best friend Patty was incredible, but I have to say, I adored the realtor guy. *swoon* Okay, family man and all, but when he looked at Diane Lane and said "If you do not cheer up, I will have to make love to you, and I have never been unfaithful to my wife." Hee. Too endearing. But overall it was so very sad, because in the end the emphasis didn't end up being that she didn't need to be in a relationship to be happy. It ended up being that when you stop looking, that's when it finds you. *eye roll* They ended the movie at the wrong point. They should have ended it before Rory's daddy showed up.
And I have one more movie to watch, Lost in Translation. Bill Murray folks. *swoon* Of course I'll be watching it late tonight, because my mother and I are going to see The Passion of the Christ with my aunt and uncle. Because it's been sold out everywhere, we're going a couple of cities over. You know, I live in the Bible belt, and my mother brought up a great point about the movie. A lot of churches see it as an evangelical tool. A way to get across the message of our faith to a broader audience that may not walk into a church without some incentive. I get that. Of course I think people should go and see it if they want to, and don't if they don't want to, and the churches shouldn't use it as a pressure tool (because I know the people who don't go to church around here, and if you *tell* them what to do after seeing it, instead of letting them make their own choices, they'll get mad). Either way, my mom pointed out a major flaw with this logic in regards to churches. The churches see it as an evangelical tool. But they're also renting out theaters, buying massive amounts of tickets for their members...and you can't get in to see the movie unless you're with a church and buy the tickets at least a week ahead of time. Some people have been more than once with their churches. If the churches want to use the movie as an evangelical tool, they need to actually *let* people see it.
Then my grandmother calls and I remember. *G*
*cough* Anyway. The weather is so perfect right now. We've had low 70s the last several days (funny, considering it snowed 8 inches last Friday), but the last couple there's been a front moving in, so it has been slightly overcast with a good breeze. Folks, give me low 70s with a cool wind any day of the week. I've slept with the window open for two nights in a row. Even though it's raining, the window is still open at home for the dog.
Last night was great because I sat in the living room and watched movies with the lights out and the window open.
By the way, as far as the movies? Buffalo Soldiers is odd. I'll admit, I watched for Anna Paquin. Joaquin Phoenix was great. I enjoyed Anna. Ed Harris was good, but not great because he was too intelligent to play the character. But the movie itself was just...not right.
Under The Tuscan Sun also struck me differently than it did most people. It was *sad*. Diane Lane was enjoyable, her best friend Patty was incredible, but I have to say, I adored the realtor guy. *swoon* Okay, family man and all, but when he looked at Diane Lane and said "If you do not cheer up, I will have to make love to you, and I have never been unfaithful to my wife." Hee. Too endearing. But overall it was so very sad, because in the end the emphasis didn't end up being that she didn't need to be in a relationship to be happy. It ended up being that when you stop looking, that's when it finds you. *eye roll* They ended the movie at the wrong point. They should have ended it before Rory's daddy showed up.
And I have one more movie to watch, Lost in Translation. Bill Murray folks. *swoon* Of course I'll be watching it late tonight, because my mother and I are going to see The Passion of the Christ with my aunt and uncle. Because it's been sold out everywhere, we're going a couple of cities over. You know, I live in the Bible belt, and my mother brought up a great point about the movie. A lot of churches see it as an evangelical tool. A way to get across the message of our faith to a broader audience that may not walk into a church without some incentive. I get that. Of course I think people should go and see it if they want to, and don't if they don't want to, and the churches shouldn't use it as a pressure tool (because I know the people who don't go to church around here, and if you *tell* them what to do after seeing it, instead of letting them make their own choices, they'll get mad). Either way, my mom pointed out a major flaw with this logic in regards to churches. The churches see it as an evangelical tool. But they're also renting out theaters, buying massive amounts of tickets for their members...and you can't get in to see the movie unless you're with a church and buy the tickets at least a week ahead of time. Some people have been more than once with their churches. If the churches want to use the movie as an evangelical tool, they need to actually *let* people see it.