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Saturday, January 12. 2013

Boring, unless you want to spend two hours looking at Jessica Chastain's quivering lips.

Argo, equally tedious.

Two movies in a row that kept me checking my watch to see how much longer I had to sit there. Much rather read a book. Why do I bother going to the movies? Well, to be a good husband.

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 21:29 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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I gave up on making my wife happy by watching movies and going to the theater with her. I make her happy by doing other things. Things that, at the end of the day, make her happier than watching a crappy movie with her.

I think you do those things too.

#1 Mike (Link) on 2013-01-13 00:26 (Reply)

It was long, although I thought it was well done, really well done.

#2 Donald Douglas on 2013-01-13 02:23 (Reply)

Haven't seen Zero Dark Thirty, but my wife and I both enjoyed Argo.

#3 TRO on 2013-01-13 07:46 (Reply)

The last movie I saw was Cane Toads: An Unnatural History
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mvV8OT-mmE (1/5)

and that was rented by the office guys, around 1992.

In a real theater, I can't even remember. It would have been in the 70s, maybe Star Wars I, on a recommendation that it was amusing.

There's a Dilbert Strip covering the movie with girlfriend effect
http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2010-12-10/

#4 rhhardin (Link) on 2013-01-13 08:42 (Reply)

Funny you should mention your watch. I have this scoring method for movies - if I check my watch more once within a ten minute time span at any point in the movie, it sucks.

#5 Tom Francis on 2013-01-13 11:45 (Reply)

No problem: take your Kindle or iPad and read your book.

#6 jhc on 2013-01-13 20:53 (Reply)

Bin Laden bin dead in 2001

"Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html#ixzz2HuulBzZW

#7 mauser98 on 2013-01-13 22:30 (Reply)

The old fashioned old fashioned in the flask in my breast pocket has made many a dull movie much more flavorful.

I kind of liked Argo as I quickly recognized they were trying to pad out a thin plot. The final scenes where they are trying to fly out of Tehran and getting held up by a series of ever less believable cliff hangers took me back to my yout' of watching Saturday afternoon serials at the Tivoli theater.

#8 Fred Z on 2013-01-14 01:57 (Reply)

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