October 11, 2003
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Today was a rainy blustery fall day from morning to night. My grandchildren arrived at about 11:00 am. I’ve decided to go back to consistently spending every Saturday with them because my granddaughter is kind of struggling right now with all the changes in her life.
We went to see
School of Rock, which I’d read a good review of, and I’m sorry to say I was disappointed. It could have been a clever premise for a adults & kids both film – teaching a class of preppy kids how to have a rock band. I thought Jack Black tried way too hard with over-the-top mugging. And even the music wasn’t great, like I think he’s capable of. There were various un-p.c. comments, like “being fat is fine” and liberal use of words like “ass”, which I thought were inappropriate in a kids’ movie. But the kids seemed to like it okay. So I give it 2 out of 5 stars. Then we came home and watched Lord of the Rings, Two Towers, which I’d never seen. Again, I’m afraid this trilogy is something I would never watch alone. Of course, the level of filmmaking was great, but I just don’t care about any of them really.
The best thing was getting a note in the mail from the woman who rescues squirrels. A few weeks back, I called around and found out about her because there was an abandoned baby squirrel across the street from my house. She came and picked it up and today she sent a photo of it in her hand as she was feeding it from a dropper. She said it’s doing fine. What’s one baby squirrel? A great big joy to me.
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Deep Thought: Too bad you can’t buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak everybody out.
Comments (3)
Bummer that Jack Black’s movie wasn’t better. I hated the Lord of the Rings movies.
I am a big Lord of the Rings book fan. There is no way a movie can live up to the rich embellishments that your imagination gives a book. No movie could ever live up to that. I, too, have found the movies only, so-so.
too many movies seem to be geared to the twelve year old boys in the world. I loved the trilogy, and, although film can’t do tolkien justice, enjoyed the movies too. i’m easy to please though.