21-February-2010

I saw Shutter Island yesterday. Director was Martin Scorsese, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, and Michelle Williams. I thought it was very well done, had a nice twist to the story, and contrary to the critics, I did not find it to be too long. Good story, great acting, and I give it an overall A.

The last three films that I have seen in the theaters, Sherlock Holmes, The Wolfman, and Shutter Island, has revived my faith that good movies are still being made and are worth going to the theaters to see. Of course, we still see these remakes like the upcoming Nightmare on Elm Street, that just re shoots scenes from the original film. The trailer had at least three scenes were were directly lifted from the original.

Private Practice (ABC) had another doozy of a crapfest episode. First the wedding of Maya, to her fifteen year old baby daddy. Now this smart girl raised by two doctors, one who is an expert in fertility treatments, never thought to use birth control in her first sexual encounter. Then no one suggests adoption as a viable option for her kid? This episode had a multiracial couple lose their baby after trying so hard, would they not be good parents for Maya's multiracial daughter? And the wedding, what an embarrassment to praise Maya and Dink (whose real name was only used once and I cannot remember it) for getting married then going off to college while their parents deal with the raising of the kid. What is this, story lines from the WB/CW sitcom Reba? Who knew that show had that much influence? Then the whole Sam/Addison relationship, she cannot sleep with Sam because it would hurt Naomi, but she can sleep with Pete totally disregarding Sam's feelings? Who writes this stuff? At least it looks like Charlotte and Cooper may be get back together, after Cooper exposed her boyfriend's drug problem (played by Nip/Tuck's The Carver). This show gets worst and worst. F

I cancelled my subscription to Sports Illustrated after they made a hated Yankee Sportsman of the Year. While Jeter is the only Yankee I can respect, coming off their World Series win was too much for this diehard Red Sox fan to take. So I noticed their Winter Olympic preview issue the other day in the company break room and saw on their cover a very suggestive photo of Lindsey Vonn on the cover. She was in a skin tight ski suit posed in a bent over ski position that was also very sexually suggestive. In the magazine, they had several photos of her in skimpy athletic wear working out. Now I know sex sells and at least she won a gold medal, but come on already. I never saw Bonnie Blair in those kind of poses.

Oh well.