i wish people could tell the difference between stop signs and yield signs
so we didn't get to watch the 40-year-old virgin because we can only get five movies a week if we don't do anything else but watch movies.
and I already posted about the most interesting stuff that happened to me this week. curtis and i spent some time at the guilford battlefield park and another historical park because it was a big reenactment weekend again. we saw some different things than we saw last year so that was cool. we were going to go to the reenactment again but instead we decided just to drive around greensboro and the surrounding countryside.
Cooley High1975 - Often called "the black American Graffiti," this film follows aspiring writer Preach ( Glynn Turman) and basketball star Cochise (Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs) as they drift through their classes and wander around their Chicago neighborhood in the 1960s, pulling pranks and trying to enjoy life in an impoverished urban environment. When they take a joyride in a stolen car with a pair of local hoods, their carefree existence takes a turn for the dramatic.
It was a good movie. I can see why people say that Boyz N the Hood is pretty much the same movie. It seems we've been watching a lot of movies with unhappy endings lately, heh.
The Gods Must Be Crazy1980 - Three vignettes highlight the surreal in this 1980 classic comedy written and directed by Jamie Uys. Among the three, the one about a Coke bottle falling out of the heavens and becoming a one-of-a-kind object coveted by everyone in a small African village is a cult favorite. The bottle creates such dissension that its finder, N!xau, decides the gods must've been crazy to give such a gift, so he sets out to drop it off the edge of the world.
So the first time I saw this was in seventh grade (with Mr. Weisman who's favorite crayon was Burnt Sienna). All I could remember was that it was a movie involving a Coke bottle that fell from the sky. It was still pretty funny. There was a cool documentary included on the DVD which followed up on the guy that played the main character and also talked about a village in Africa.
Idlewild2006 - If you like your roadhouse boogie straight up, this story set in the smoky atmosphere of a Southern speakeasy during Prohibition delivers the goods. Percival, an introverted piano player, and Rooster, the club's star performer and manager (who's as outgoing as Percival is shy), struggle to keep their dream of making it big alive against long odds. Andre Benjamin and Antwan Patton of the hip-hop group OutKast star in this musical extravaganza.
This movie was okay. I think it couldn't make up it's mind about whether to be serious or funny. I mean who sings with Cuckoo clocks? And the talking rooster on the flask? Weird.
The Gods Must Be Crazy 21990 - N!xau is back in this sequel to the 1980 cult hit, and this time, it's more than a Coke bottle that provides him with an unexpected run-in with the world beyond his African village. While hunting in the Kalahari Desert, N!xau discovers that his children have been abducted by elephant poachers and vows to find them. Along the way, he's forced to save the day (again) when he meets transplanted New Yorkers and soldiers who've lost their way.
I didn't even know that there was a sequel (poking around on IMDB showed me that there were in fact 5 The Gods Must Be Crazy movies but the last three were made in Hong Kong and were never released in the United States and were pretty horrible). It was even a little better than the first one. Thanks to that movie, I know not to mess with badgers. This one had a tribute to the director on it which showed that he was pretty ahead of his time in the filmmaking industry. He cut the first film by hand with scissors and then put it together. And he made it choppy and messed with the timing on purpose.
i'm going to try and get my pictures posted soon, but i make no promises. it's mostly because both of my cards are filling up. i know i haven't posted any pictures since last summer. so there will be a bunch of picture entries once i finally get around to it.
and I already posted about the most interesting stuff that happened to me this week. curtis and i spent some time at the guilford battlefield park and another historical park because it was a big reenactment weekend again. we saw some different things than we saw last year so that was cool. we were going to go to the reenactment again but instead we decided just to drive around greensboro and the surrounding countryside.
Cooley High1975 - Often called "the black American Graffiti," this film follows aspiring writer Preach ( Glynn Turman) and basketball star Cochise (Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs) as they drift through their classes and wander around their Chicago neighborhood in the 1960s, pulling pranks and trying to enjoy life in an impoverished urban environment. When they take a joyride in a stolen car with a pair of local hoods, their carefree existence takes a turn for the dramatic.
It was a good movie. I can see why people say that Boyz N the Hood is pretty much the same movie. It seems we've been watching a lot of movies with unhappy endings lately, heh.
The Gods Must Be Crazy1980 - Three vignettes highlight the surreal in this 1980 classic comedy written and directed by Jamie Uys. Among the three, the one about a Coke bottle falling out of the heavens and becoming a one-of-a-kind object coveted by everyone in a small African village is a cult favorite. The bottle creates such dissension that its finder, N!xau, decides the gods must've been crazy to give such a gift, so he sets out to drop it off the edge of the world.
So the first time I saw this was in seventh grade (with Mr. Weisman who's favorite crayon was Burnt Sienna). All I could remember was that it was a movie involving a Coke bottle that fell from the sky. It was still pretty funny. There was a cool documentary included on the DVD which followed up on the guy that played the main character and also talked about a village in Africa.
Idlewild2006 - If you like your roadhouse boogie straight up, this story set in the smoky atmosphere of a Southern speakeasy during Prohibition delivers the goods. Percival, an introverted piano player, and Rooster, the club's star performer and manager (who's as outgoing as Percival is shy), struggle to keep their dream of making it big alive against long odds. Andre Benjamin and Antwan Patton of the hip-hop group OutKast star in this musical extravaganza.
This movie was okay. I think it couldn't make up it's mind about whether to be serious or funny. I mean who sings with Cuckoo clocks? And the talking rooster on the flask? Weird.
The Gods Must Be Crazy 21990 - N!xau is back in this sequel to the 1980 cult hit, and this time, it's more than a Coke bottle that provides him with an unexpected run-in with the world beyond his African village. While hunting in the Kalahari Desert, N!xau discovers that his children have been abducted by elephant poachers and vows to find them. Along the way, he's forced to save the day (again) when he meets transplanted New Yorkers and soldiers who've lost their way.
I didn't even know that there was a sequel (poking around on IMDB showed me that there were in fact 5 The Gods Must Be Crazy movies but the last three were made in Hong Kong and were never released in the United States and were pretty horrible). It was even a little better than the first one. Thanks to that movie, I know not to mess with badgers. This one had a tribute to the director on it which showed that he was pretty ahead of his time in the filmmaking industry. He cut the first film by hand with scissors and then put it together. And he made it choppy and messed with the timing on purpose.
i'm going to try and get my pictures posted soon, but i make no promises. it's mostly because both of my cards are filling up. i know i haven't posted any pictures since last summer. so there will be a bunch of picture entries once i finally get around to it.