LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT--NOT!

HERE AT THE LAST OUTPOST WE DON'T NEED AN EXCUSE TO POST AN IMAGE OF FRANKY...

It is 6:52 a.m. and clear out at 62.8 degrees F. and Patrick is outside.

I buy all my A-movie DVD's at Wal*Mart for $5.50 in their dump bin. It means you have to wait a few years, but what the hey, I'm a tight-wad. Well, I grab up every Angelina Jolie movie as they become available (Mr. & Mrs Smith was an exception--got it sooner), and yesterday I obtained Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I've only watched half of it, and it's somewhat dissapointing to me. It's like an animated film with live action figures--the effects are cool, but somewhat cartoonish. All blue sky. I think Jude Law is horribly mis-cast as the action hero. Gwentyththeth or whatever, that's not a name Paltrow, I can take or leave. But the dialogue doesn't give the actors much to work with. I knew Angelina had a bit part--but sofar it's more of a cameo. And her lips seem big even for her.

It's a very dark film visually--not much color, sort of film noir--like if you watched it in the theatre with sunglasses on...There are a lot of inside jokes and references to stuff that I'm not clued into...

When I first saw Raiders of the Lost Arc I was dissapointed also--It wasn't what I expected--which was a serious film, not tongue in cheek. After having seen it boo-koo times since, it is right up there in my all time Top Ten movie list, brilliant. So first impressions don't always hold up.

Oh well-- I've still got another 45 minutes to watch. We'll see if it gets better for me.

From the Pastriot Post:

FOR THE RECORD

“The most powerful case for the war was made at the 2004 Republican convention by John McCain in a speech that was resolutely ‘realist.’ On the Democratic side, every presidential candidate running today who was in the Senate when the motion to authorize the use of force came up—Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd—voted yes. Outside of government, the case for war was made not just by the neoconservative Weekly Standard but—to select almost randomly—the traditionally conservative National Review, the liberal New Republic and the center-right Economist. Of course, most neoconservatives supported the war, the case for which was also being made by journalists and scholars from every point on the political spectrum... [Perhaps] the most influential tome on behalf of war was written not by any conservative, let alone neoconservative, but by Kenneth Pollack, Clinton’s top Near East official on the National Security Council. The title: ‘The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq.’ Everyone has the right to renounce past views. But not to make up that past. It is beyond brazen to think that one can get away with inventing not ancient history but what everyone saw and read with their own eyes just a few years ago. And yet sometimes brazenness works.” —Charles Krauthammer

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