After hearing all the hype about this movie and knowing that this movie actually had my wife interested, we decided to get it on Netflix. We watched it last night. This movie sucked pretty bad. I’m not sure if it was the acting or the directing, but the characters never seemed to really click for me. But the part that boggled my mind was the scene where I noticed that the guy’s rank on his Class A’s was upside down. I pointed it out to my wife and she didn’t believe me until the next scene when the rank was magically fixed. Incredibly bad editing. Painfully obvious mistake and I can’t believe that the creators of the film would not make some attempt to correct the flaw. The ending of the movie was horrible, it should have ended when he was driving away. I’ve heard people say that the movie was incredibly romantic… Really????? So cheating on your loved one while they are fighting a war overseas is considered romantic? So apparently cheating is the new “romance”. This seems to be a very insightful “tell” about where the public’s moral barometer is at (clearly up their own asses).
Look who’s at the wheel!!!
Update: We got back last night around 8PM. Had a chance to stop by Rob and Fusae’s place in Omaha for an hour or so (Happy Birthday Tasha!). The trip was good. Here is a short list of things we did: Shopping (a certain Grandma loves to spoil her granddaughter), trip to Lake Okaboji, Herreid WW2 War Museum (this museum is named after my Great Uncle Warren Herreid), and the Hinkley House tour. We also did some storm watching since the weather on Saturday evening was a bit wild. Also, got Mom and Dad’s printer working on their iMac, and set them up with a Roku box so they can watch Netflix streaming content on their HD TV.
We’re driving up to Estes Park today to get away from Denver for a little bit. It’s been a while since we’ve driven out to the mountains so this will be a nice change for a bit. On the agenda: a small hike around the lake, check out a quilt show (ooohhh, aaaahhh), some dinner, and then finally a trip to their observatory at night. I hope to have some pictures posted up here eventually.
Morning Update: Amanda is hella crabby this morning… Satan gave us such a pleasant child….
Afternoon Update: Amanda finally snapped out of her crabby mood and was really sweet this afternoon. We had a really nice time walking around Estes Park, had some lunch, decided we didn’t want to wait there till night and came home at a decent hour. I want to go hiking next time.
I have to admit that I am very grateful that I have a job that affords me the ability to use my brain and simultaneously jam to heavy metal. Nothing beats the ‘Anthrax’ channel on Pandora. Highly recommended.
I sure wish Windows was internationalized to display menus in the language of choice of the user. I know you can type in Japanese on an English Windows system, but that’s not exactly what I want. I want a system that switches the language of the entire OS to the native language of the user. Menus, help files, and all other aspects of the operating system should display in the language for the user. OSX has had this feature for years. Of course, how feasible would that be with Microsoft’s convoluted product architecture?
Well, this website has been down for quite a long time. I figured I’d resurrect it once more (haven’t I said that before?). Anyway, I wanted to see how much I can integrate some of my Facebook content with this website. Sort of an experiment. We’ll see how it goes.