Three sentence movie reviews: I Love Trouble

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To be fair to this movie, I was kind of board and would have preferred to read but didn’t have any books of interest. However, the movie was way too long and not at all the movie I thought it would be.* Also, the 26 year age difference made the supposed romance yucky and weird.**

Cost: free from Hoopla, the library’s streaming service
Where watched: in bed, on my new tablet. I sneezed once, and the screen flipped.  That was more exciting than this film.

*If IMDB trivia is to be believed I wasn’t the only one who noticed: “It’s gone from a Hepburn-Tracy Woman of the Year (1942) to The Pelican Brief (1993) in a very short time span,” one competing studio marketing person noted before it was released.
**There’s one scene where a really hot 20-something in a meatmarket-type bar picks Nick Nolte (then 53) as the only guy in the bar she would go home with, which I found laughable.
(Aside: Many of Julie Robert’s outfits reminded me of my high school friend Leath’s clothing style, so that was fun.)

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/1994/i_love_trouble.html

Three sentence movie reviews: The Edge of Love

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This is a classic example of how a movie doesn’t come together, despite many things that should result in a good movie.  Acting was fine, story was okay, costumes were great.  But it just all felt so blah.

Cost: free from library
Where watched: at home, while the freezing rain started.

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2009/edge_of_love_ver2.html

Three sentence movie reviews: Top Five

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Funny, and with tons of cameos. The interview/interviewee framework was a good setup.  I wonder if Rosario Dawson will ever get a vehicle that really showcases her talents?

Cost: free from library
Where watched: at home, while the snow tapered off.

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2014/top_five.html

Surprise Snow!

Here’s what you usually get when you go to isitsnowinginpdx.com. Because there’s often a lot of weather related anticipation/hand-wringing about the possibility of snow.  And most of it comes to naught.  I find the weather hype annoying.

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But today I woke up at 4:30, read in bed, fed the cats, returned to bed and drifted off again after 7.  When I woke up around 8:30, there was…snow?  It’s been so long that snow has arrived without days of anticipation that I almost didn’t believe I was looking at actual snow.  But snow it was.  I stayed in bed and took in the view.IMG_4857

Antares kept track of the snow out the window. IMG_4858

So I’m going to ask you one more time.  Is it snowing in Portland?2016 01 03