gobble gobble

its turkey day today. Its been such an incredibly rough week, yet i'm having the time of my life relaxing at home by myself and not doing anything except play games and watch tv. Friends come over tomm and i'm excited about being able to go to Cafe Istanbul with them. And then hopefully the brand spanking new Georgia Aquarium on Sunday (the largest aquarium in the world!).

Saw Harry potter 4 on Imax on Sunday. Liked it. Can't say that I prefer it over the third. I didn't have the same issues that everyone else did with the movie. There was no way to keep the length short and the pace fast for a movie adaptation of a book thats close to a 1000 pages long. I even thought the acting was pretty good. The only thing that I didn't like was its lack of direction. I loved Cuaron's work on Prizoner of Azkaban and I loved what he did with the franchise. When i saw HP3, I felt like I was watching a movie for the very first time. I loved the dark cold cinematography, I loved the long sweeping shots, the way he showed passage of time, the score, the almost noirish camera angles, the little touches like the camera passing through the glass or the bird being whacked by the whomping willow. It worked for me. (I confess, the third book is my favorite too, being more of a mystery sci-fi whodunit rather than an out and out action adventure like Goblet. That book comes in second for me) I wish Cuaron had directed this one. I know hes not doing the fifth one. Hopefully he'll come back and do one more. As it stands, HP4 is a great movie...just nowhere as great as HP3 was.

As I spend my looooong weekend watching all kinds of movies (Big Business....how can I resist Bette Midler!), I took the time to check out a classic. The Maltese Falcon. I confess, I didn't get what the big deal was. Its a good movie, and a great noir...but one of the best movies of all time? I dunno. I do have new respect for Bogart though. Hes a class act. It seems like people in the old days talked a lot more and a lot faster than now. Everyone was reciting their dialogues so fast in the movie it was hard for me to even keep up! Oh well...I guess this is another movie which I don't get cause it doesn't work in the same context for me. Kinda like 2001: A space odeyssey.

Now I will go on to watch the "That 70s show" marathon thats been playing all day. I was just thinking. Maybe at some point in the future they'll have a "That 90s show". God will I feel ooollllddd that day :)

This thanksgiving I am thankful for positive thinking, loving friends, my beautiful family and mass media. Where would we be without them?