Life, Interrupted

No, not that way. Pull your mind up out of the gutter!

Hollywood has made One For the Money into a movie, coming out January 27th.

Here's the trailer.

Looks like Lula is now a character starting from Story One, which makes sense. I've seen the trailer once, and my only complaint is, why isn't Morelli a young George Clooney?

I've been slacking off and not going to the movies, but I see a matinee in my future.

I need an exploding car icon for this movie....

The new movie is interesting, intense, probably the best of the movies -- but EVEN IN 2D, the scenes with Nagiri (sp?) the boa constrictor are startling, and the snake jumps out at the screen twice. I'm sure that in 3D, it comes right out of the screen.

So...suffer from ophidiophobia? Heed the following advice:
( Places to close eyes )

No, not a new movie, as far as I know -- but a loving fan tribute to the original movie. I saw this on SF Signal and have to share -- full screen --

http://tinyurl.com/ydhf2rs

You will want to see the movie again! Here's SF Signal's link. They also have the original trailer from 1982, which now feels like a fan effort, in the old sense of the words. What a difference a few years makes!

http://tinyurl.com/yde6v8u

Well, it’s time for applause. The new gang directing and producing the next incarnation of the STAR TREK franchise has come up with a movie that should appeal to long-time fans of the series as well as new audiences.

How to talk about this story without giving things away? Well, we have one pie-in-the-sky plot point that is “Shades of Classic Star Trek, Batman!” We’re talking about time travel and possible paradoxes. What we end up with is introducing all the major characters from the first show (bridge crew, Chief Engineer and Chief Medical Officer) but in new and different ways – all the way from who knows whom first, extra romantic entanglements, totally missing history re-arranged – to Leonard Nimoy showing up to explain what’s happening.

And it works.

The acting is solid, and occasionally brilliant. The trademark lines are not clichés but in their first go-around, and make delightful sense. The CGI is great, but it upholds the story, instead of annihilating it. And there was no point where I would have said: “Get on with it!” I could have hung in there for more – the web holding together the story was that good.

If you liked any incarnation of Star Trek, you should go see this movie. If you like fast-moving adventure science fiction, go for it. If Star Trek has never appealed, you should try this anyway, because this might be your Star Trek.

This might even be worth buying, and I’m a Netflix girl, I buy almost nothing in film.

Two thumbs up, as Roger Ebert would say. Get thee to a theater!

"My spine hasn't softened against al Qaeda. If anything, I want to defeat what they represent more now than ever.

"So why the resistance to seeing it? Perhaps it's a religious impulse. In some ways, I regard the acts of those men and women to be an almost sacred moment in the history of America and of freedom. And sometimes, the sacred is best respected through silence. Sometimes, the greatest deeds, like the most monstrous acts, are best left unrepresented. They stand alone. They demand to be left alone. One day, commemorate. But do not so swiftly represent. Shakespeare often left the greatest moments in his plays off-stage. They have more power there."

-- Writer Andrew Sullivan

http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/2006/04/leave_them_alon.html

At this point, I don't think I will see this movie, even if it's well done. I'm not ready yet. I saw the second plane hit the tower unexpectedly, a shot up from the streets. I saw the towers collapse.

I don't need any help to remember that day.