Category: Entertainment

The Interpreter

Saw The Interpreter (Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn) on Tuesday evening at the dollar theatre. I thought the story was okay though it could really lose the “love” chemistry between Kidman and Penn. Kidman was the life of the show with a great performance towards the end of the movie.

After the flick, Grace said “What was that Tom Cruise thinking leaving Nicole Kidman!” I was like, “Hey, you are preaching to the choir!”

When I told Patrick (yes, THE Patrick Melton, winner of last year’s Project Greenlight. More info here and here; not to be confused with the OTHER Patrick Melton, somewhat famous underground PodCaster) I was going to see the movie, he blandly said he heard it was “okay”. But hey, he’s a professional writer; I just wanted to be entertained (mainly because of Nicole Kidman)!

But he’s right. The movie was okay.

Speaking of Patrick, him and his wife, Ee-bin, are coming over for Thanksgiving again this year. We are excited because they’ll be able to see our new baby then! Last year Grace and Ee-bin cooked a crazy turkey which took us almost a week to finish. Patrick and I spent most of our vacation on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

I wonder what he’s going to bring this year…. (his new iBook is a dead given).

“Hitchhiker’s Guide” Could Have Been More

Nice movie; but the plot and character developments need work.

Hitchhiker's Guide logo We went to see The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, adopted from a book by Douglas Adams by the same title, at the dollar theatre on Tuesday (well, as close to “dollar” as we can get around here).

The story was a bit on the dry side (Grace fell asleep a couple of times at the funniest moments) though there were lots of actions and subtle British humor sprinkled all over the movie. One doesn’t have to have read the book to appreciate the story development though there were still much to be desired, such as character development.

That said, a geek can’t call himself a geek until he’s read the book. If you haven’t already, you can catch up by downloading the trilogy here (PDF 2.3MB). But if you are REALLY lazy and just want to get the gist of it, download and read A Guide to The Hitchhiker%u2019s Guide to the Galaxy (PDF 68KB) instead (you poser).