now for the hard part...

[sitting_duck]

presents are all open,,,,everyones fed...now if i can just get them all to leave................

 

 

[von Baur]

2:15pm

 

2-4 inches of snow expected last night turned out to be barely a dusting, but enough to see some white on the ground.

Presents opened (all children 18 or older, so no toys).

Ham was cooked two days ago because wife discovered after bringing it home that there was no room in the fridge. She's making up some candied sweet potatoes...dressing, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce may not make the cut this year.

Just finished watching brand new Christmassy movie...it's called 'Inglorious Basterds'. G-Force scheduled for later this evening.

Time to fly

[sitting_duck]

brad pitt was outstanging in that...

 

 

[von Baur]

Don't remember seeing Brad in G-Force. Guess I'll have to watch it again.

[Winston DoRight]

I just got back from my annual "Christmas at the Movies". Saw Avatar, it was epic. I bought a ticket on the way out to see it in IMAX 3D in a few days.

[sitting_duck]

lol...sorry,,i meant in inglourious bastards.....

[Kingkat]

My family and I, highly recommend "Sherlock Holmes".

 

Very well done. Downey and Jude Law are good.

[von Baur]

To Duck:

I know, just havin' fun. And I know you knew that.

 

 

To Kingkat:

Jude Law is a good actor, RDJ was fan-damn-tastic as Tony Stark/Iron Man and I may well be at the IM sequel the day it opens. And if the trailers are any indication they have good on-screen chemistry. But I read all the Sherlock Holmes stories about 35 years ago, from "A Study in Scarlet" to "The Final Solution" and personally I'm not prepared to accpt SH as an action/adventure hero. What's next? Ghandi takes on the entire British army bare chested and wearing a Rambo bandana? Or maybe Abe Lincoln finds himself barefoot in Fort Sumner and single-handedly stops the Confederate assault, preventing the Civil War. How about Jet Li as an ancient Chinese philospher in "Confiscious Says, 'I'm Gonna Kick Your Ass". Or maybe someone will make a movie about how Adolph Hitler was killed in a movie theater in Paris by two independant assassination plots.

 

My point, kat, is that established fictional characters should not be rewritten any more than should actual historical figures. Imagine some kid who never heard of Sherlock Holmes before seeing that movie. Then he sees the books on the shelf at his local or school library and decides to read them. Not only does he put the books down when there's no kung-fu action and tell his friends how "that Doyle guy that wrote them got it all wrong", it could make him think twice about ever picking up another book again.

 

 

OMG, horrible thought. If all the nonviolent characters are rewritten as action-adventure types, does that mean that Clint Eastwood's next movie tag line will be, "Go ahead, punk. Tell me about your unhappy childhood."?

Edited December 26, 2009 by von Baur