Memnison Journal

We spent all of Saturday being very quiet around the house; everyone was very very tired from the bustle of the holidays, and Susan’s knee was swollen and painful. (She’s been fighting off this arthritis stuff a lot, and things like walking a lot or shoveling snow have just been killing her.)
 
So we declared the [...]

HBO production and presently running on that network.  My take on it is that it’s a once-funny;  I have a hard time watching gangster movies because I really don’t get off on people beating and killing each other, especially if the people involved doing the beating are serious scum.   This is SOPRANOS GO BAGHDAD; [...]

*glyph of annoyance*and another*
*notice of attempt to retcon Anne of Green Gables with a made up new origin*
*Or when they retconned the USS Rittenhouse into mad Admiral Rittenhouse who wanted to rule the universe in Star Trek fiction - aaargh*

Any movies that you’ve seen that you just can’t imagine why in the world that it didn’t do better with the audiences / critics / box office, etc?  Something you think is an unappreciated true classic?

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Recently, Susan and I have been up to her Aunt’s house in Elgin or out to talk to her about her computer problems.  Auntie (Susan’s mom’s sister) operates a doctors’ organization that has a couple of big yearly meetings (for training updates, and other conference stuff) and some smaller ones, and it’s sometimes amusing to [...]

The end of the Ebert-Roeper show on TV (they didn’t like what Disney was going to do with it, which was to massively dumb it down and act more as a promotional effort for films than a real review thing) and the decline of newspaper staffs due to major cutbacks leads me to wonder [...]

Is there a real difference you can see between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair as Prime Minister?  Just got done watching The Deal (which was very good) and was wondering…

They’re starting work on a sequel on SCHOOL OF ROCK.

Movie tagline:  In 1945 the Nazis fled to the moon. In 2018 they are coming back.
AH on Nazis on the Moon, etc.  The trailer looks spiffy! (youtube)

Brrrrrrr.

**** stars out of five. Trailer on YouTube.
An excellent movie about the life of a soldier in China’s mid-20th Century wars, it reminds me a good deal of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and BAND OF BROTHERS, along with ENEMY AT THE GATES. The soldiers in the story are all part of the PLA / [...]

Got a few more details from Dr. Spock on the operation tomorrow morning. He’s going to majorly debride the bottom and open up the area from above and poke around. He’s still somewhat concerned that there was bone infection that wasn’t caught yet, and wants to be thorough! He’s also talking about [...]

For what it’s worth. 
According to the Rittenhouse Index:  (5 for picture, 2 each for a acting, directing or screenplay and 1 for supporting or best animated)

Michael Clayton: 13
Juno: 11
There Will Be Blood: 11
No Country for Old Men: 10
Atonement: 8
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: 4
Savages: 4
Away From Her: 4
Ratatouille: 3

Not noting the 2s and [...]

I’d heard about this before, but it’s well put together here: the real story of the Real Gidget, surfer of the 1950s.  Gnarly.
Gidget became her father’s muse, recounting tales of “bitchin’ surf,” giant “combers” that rolled in from Japan, and escapes from a “boneyard” when caught between breaking waves. Frederic, fascinated, [...]