Rained all weekend here, ending the much-anticipated Grass Mowing and Weed Pulling Festival (crowd moans regret, carnival game-vendors pack and leave in a huff).
Decided to rent movies instead, reviews herein:
Ron White: You Can’t Fix Stupid
Want a quickie? LOL This one runs less than an hour…
Good ol’ boy Ron White, known as part of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, and comedy bit, “They Call Me Tater Salad” had me laughing so hard I was sitting in a wet spot. No, that was from forgetting to close the window when it stormed and the couch got rain-soaked. But he was still damn funny. Not as redneck as you might think (or fear, depending on your degree of Yankee-ness LOL)
Capote
(Spoiler - the bad guys get hanged at the end LOL) Well-acted but l-o-n-g and frankly, kinda dreary (like duh - story of a man who devoted years of his life to writing about murderers and got so twisted by it he never finished another book).
Shopgirl
Coming from Steve Martin, the wild and cra-a-a-azy guy, this movie is very subtle. Like put-Husband-to-sleep subtle LOL Well, not quite that bad, but while there are moments that are laugh-out-loud funny, overall the movie is quiet to the point of feeling almost hollow. It left me feeling melancholy and in need of liquor LOL
Two For the Money
Can you put together Al Pacino, Mathew McConaughey, and Rene Russo and make a bad movie? Well…maybe not bad but not great either.
Mathew “Voted Sexiest Man” McConaughey plays a young man (Brandon) who has a knack for picking football game winners. He gets recruited by Al “Not Voted Sexiest Man but I Still Love Him” Pacino, whose business is betting advice. (This from Amazon description - a man building a media empire on sports tips, even though he himself can only resist his own gambling addiction thanks to the fierce devotion of his wife, Toni (Russo). Brandon swiftly becomes Walter’s protege and transforms into an aggressive, high-risk salesman, even going so far as to change his name to create a new self. But when Brandon starts to think of his knack as magic, everything Walter has built around his golden boy starts to teeter.)
Also featuring Jeremy Piven from Entourage on HBO, and I have already mentally typecast him as the smarmy show biz agent I guess, ‘cause this character seemed an awful lot the same. Again, I felt kind of empty and in need of strong drink when it was over. If you’re lookin’ for a good excuse to get plastered (LOL) this movie is for you.
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On a brighter note - we have new kittens! Out here on the farm, we have lots of outside cats. They live in the barn, keep the mouse population down, and grace us each Spring with a new litter-of-love LOL
Here they are, only a few hours after Daughter discovered them outside, and mama and babies were brought indoors, to protect them from the weather and hawks (if you’ve ever seen a hawk carry an infant kitty away, you know what I mean).
OK, on three…one, two….”awwwww”
LOL
And if you like laughing at anything that can even remotely make fun of Tom Cruise:
Mission Impossible Three Ad Stunt Goes Horribly Wrong
Happy May Day to all!
Posted by Marti @ 
Hi Marti, thanks for the sidebar link, I never got to the free train rides deal you spoke of BUT, I got a pensioners discount on a 1000 mile trip to Cairns for $11.00 which was certainly close to free.
May 1st, 2006 at 6:29 am
They look sooo cute Marti! Anyways, I am looking forward for these movies - Silent Hill, Superman and of course X-men 3
May 1st, 2006 at 8:11 am
Aw, welcome to the world, little kittens!!! So adorable -
May 1st, 2006 at 11:53 am
We love Ron WHite at my house. We have been cuaght quoting him on a regular basis lately! Funny stuff…
And awww…i love kittens. lucky me that i do not live near you or i would so be suckered in to get one!!
May 1st, 2006 at 12:32 pm
Oooh kitties! They’re so cute and cuddly! We could use a barn cat but I’m afraid it would figure out where the house is! LOL!
May 1st, 2006 at 1:47 pm
Ron White! What a riot! He’s a hoot….
That’s the only one I have watched of your list.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:53 pm
Ooh, I am SO jealous! All we ever get are grey kittens, light grey, dark grey, striped grey, plain grey, grey with white, grey without white…but not a single cute little yellow one, which is my favorite kind.
Wanna trade?
May 1st, 2006 at 2:36 pm
Rabbit Rabbit!!
Didn’t see a single one of those movies. Due to my children, I saw Howl’s Moving Castle and Final Fantasy 7 this weekend. That pretty much sums up my movie experiences since they’ve been born.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:54 pm
Ron White and Jeff Foxworthy are hysterical. I love Foxworthy’s “You Might Be a Redneck” spiel.
May 1st, 2006 at 6:25 pm
We have 4 cats (3 female, 1 male), stray ones that have found home in ours. (We have never taken them in, though; they just roam the perimeter. But we do feed them.) Now there’s one little kitty on the loose. Guess we’ll never know who its mother is (never quite figured one of the ladies was pregnant), but surely we know the proud daddy.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:19 pm
The kittens are adorable! My cats used to give birth to kittens overnight, and I used to watch the cat when it is in labor. The whole thing looks a little painful, but I think my cat handled it well. What are you going to do with the kittens?
On another note, I thought two for the money was really disappointing. There was no connection between any of the characters, and I wasn’t even hoping for the guy to win it all. It was a pretty boring movie.
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:22 am
I love kitties! Too bad I am allergic!
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:11 am
SEND ME A KITTY!!!
Luv ya
Sudiegirl
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:31 pm
Awww .. look at the cute kittens. Thanks for movie review, but none of them interest me, except for the Ron White one, of course.
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:52 pm
Oh, they’re sooo cute. I just love kittens. I would’ve been here sooner but I was caught in a strange temporal loop that kept giving me the Jan 26 post.
May 3rd, 2006 at 11:23 am