I Think I Love My Wife

I recommend this movie to anyone; particularly those who are married...
Chris Rock plays a suburban husband and father of two who is a major broker at a Manhattan firm. He gets into trouble when and old "friend" who was his buddy's girlfriend 8 years ago comes back into his life to shake things up. In certain ways she tries to break up his marriage, but I think she really finds him as safe and he really has no spine to say no. Ridiculousness ensues and he nearly loses his job, his wife and his life. Great fun. Netflix this.

Schindler's List

What a thoroughly disgusting movie. While I loved the story line, I could not separate myself from its reality and the fact that some individuals deny that its events ever happened. Six million Jews were put to death. That's about the population of the greater Chicago area; gone. Horrible.

The movie was separated onto two DVDs which divided the rising action and climax nicely from the falling action and the Dénouement. I can see why this movie won 7 Oscars. It's hard to see Liam Neeson as anyone other than Qui-Gon Jinn...

Neon Moon

I find myself listening to Brooks -n- Dunn "Neon Moon" over and over again. I cannot get enough of this Hillbilly power ballad...particularly after a night of drinking.

Three Orange Whips

Our team went to the Berghoff for drinks after work tonight. Our manager was in town from Omaha, so it was overdue. As the night went on, we decided it was time to throw down a few shots. I suggested we have Goldschlager. Everyone agreed. As we were ordering the shots, the bartender took the opportunity to work in the old, "Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips." It was nice. I asked her if everyone "gets" that Blues Brothers reference. She said that we would be surprised how many people don't get it. The phrase has a cult following with my team so we find that hard to believe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRp8GrXffhA

Miami Vice

I just finished watching Miami Vice. What a disappointment. I could barely understand most of the English spoken; not because it was slang or whatever, but because the audio was either poor or Colin Farrell could not cover up his accept properly. It's an interesting situation when Jamie Foxx is the easiest to understand actor in a movie.

Acoustics aside, the plot was pretty bad. I could barely follow what was what. On top of all that, the theme song was never played. That's just sad. I give it a generous two stars. It's also a long movie at two hours, 19 minutes.

Raw

I love Netflix. With some free time late last night, we decided to take in a "watch instant" movie download from Netflix. Somehow, Eddie Murphy's "Raw" showed up as a new release. I have never seen it before (if you can believe that) so we decided to stream it for some comedic relief.

It wasn't all that funny. Sure, it was vulgar and profane and all the things you want as an adult that they can't do on "Last Comic Standing". It just seemed like it was trying too hard. Maybe it was funny back in 1987, but not 20 years later.

It makes me want to go back and watch "Delierious". That's what I thought I was seeing. They both have the same connotation in my memory banks. Oh well, that was that. Maybe I was too stressed out to open up and enjoy the comedy. Katie was laughing for most of it. I was unmoved.