Monday, January 17, 2011

"Let's go see a bad movie!"

My third week of getting the Sunday New York Times. Plowing through it much quicker, now.

Sometimes, when I'm confronted by a massive amount of information, I have to learn how to deal with it. And the N.Y.T.'s has the content of a full book, basically. So I'm learning what to ignore and what to skim and what to actually read.

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There is very little to say about the City of Bend's budget woes. (I told you so?)

If only they had all those millions they utilized on Juniper Ridge; if only they had charged sufficient rates while the town was actually growing; if only they hadn't taken on expenses they couldn't pay for (BAT). If only, if only....

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Linda and I went to see Season of the Witch yesterday. It was our -- "Let's go see a really bad movie!" moment. We are suckers for all things fantasy.

O.K. It was cheesy.

But I kind of enjoyed it, in a cheesy way. There is no way I would recommend it -- but if you had to see a bad movie, this a good bad movie to see.

The acting was O.K. , the story actually wasn't bad, the special effects were adequate.

It was the dialogue and character development that were rudimentary and uninspired. You have to wonder sometimes in movies like this if they didn't have a production meeting where someone said; "Hey, we could make this movie a whole lot better if we hired an average T.V. sitcom writer to spice up the dialogue!"

It was funny to see the audience for this movie -- I don't want to sound all elitist, but it was a pretty blue-collar, uneducated group, by appearance.

I guess they hadn't read the reviews.

Or -- maybe it was their "Let's go see a really bad movie!" moment.



We're going to have another "Let's go see a really bad movie" day, today. We're going to see The Tourist.

So I can stare at Angelina Jolie for a couple hours. (And Linda can stare at Johnny Depp for a couple hours...)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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I always love this movie 'v for vendetta' and always ask that you have it in the comic shop.

Now this guy quinn is saying the V is coming to the USA this year, all USA is going to shit, who could have guessed?

Anonymous said...

The Collapse Of The Tax-Free Bond Market Is HERE NOW (MUB)
ETF Daily News - 5 hours ago

Soon Bend will not be able to 'borrow' money for any price.

The city is already tapped by state law at about $400M debt, but of course now they got to keep paying interest on bonds that can't be renewed for dead-beat districts. You simply can't fathom what a shit-hole Bend will be in a few years.

Go to google and run 'mub' for stock, and look at the muni-bond collapse. First shitheads lost their money in high-tech, then housing, and then they lost their pensions in the bond collapse, then next to go will be USA t-bills, everybody who stands around and say's "who could have guessed?" ... "Who could have known?" all are being systematically cleansed of their life savings.