Finally, we have some rain. I'm back for a while, after caring for the kid and the wife while she recovered from her surgery. I took a week off of work to do it. I loved having all that time in the day to hang out with Black & Tan ice cream, so watching Lonesome Jim wasn't a total loss.
The damn wiener house still hasn't sold.
I haven't seen anybody blogging about what movies they've seen or liked last year; Zakcq made a nice list for 2004, but he's all books this year apparently.
Anyway, we've had a lot of time this week to catch up on movies we might have missed (in addition to the four hours we spend watching 24 on Monday). The kid sleeps a lot, and even though she sleeps almost the whole night, we're still in a sort of daze all day long, so we try to sneak in movies while she sleeps the entire day (except for early afternoon and about midnight to 1:30am, she's a regular Rip Van Winkle). So with occasional interruptions for feedings and diaper changings, we watched Syriana, which was good, but a tad slow, we watched The Constant Gardener, which was incredible, if a bit too long, and we watched the Chronicles of Narnia, which was somewhere between awful and lame (and which, by the way, is no more an approximation of Christianity than is the Matrix and Bambi). So if i were to make a best movies of the year list, it'd have to go something like...
See it. It's a very good movie.
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I’m not a film buff, so take this with a grain of salt. I haven’t seen many more movies than this, so consider that too. But this has been a pretty good year for movies. Like that one dude in the City Pages said/2004 wasn’t a good year for great movies, but a great year for good movies. By which i mean to say I don’t usually see enough good movies in a year to make even a top 2 list, but this year, even if they’re completely fabulous, they’re all really good in my opinion, and there were enough to make a short list.
