I'm not sure if this is how it's always been, but for my generation of college students, the best way of coping with finals is diving into a bunch of movies and/or TV shows. So I've watched kind of a lot of Netflix here recently.
Last night's movie was the 1993 drama Searching for Bobby Fischer, which I hadn't seen since I was about seven. It's sort of like Finding Nemo - the film may star a kid, but it's really aimed at adults as far as message goes. It was all right, though slow, and somewhat poorly-written. But it's hard to make a movie about chess. I mean, it's a great game, but just not really the sort of contest that makes for dramatic visuals. The night before that was from 1984, Romancing the Stone, which was successful enough for the studio to pick director Robert Zemeckis to direct the Back to the Future trilogy next. That was a strange movie that I wanted to like at some points, with plenty of frustrating points as well. It was a little too romance-y and not enough adventurous-ness. I really disliked the ending in particular, it was way too happy and unrealistic. Saturday-Sunday-Monday was the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy, which was as terrific as ever. And in other recently watched films, everybody's always talking about The Breakfast Club as one of those must-see movies, so I watched that a couple weeks ago and was surprised by how much I liked it(especially since I detest director John Hughes' next best-known movie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off). It felt very true-to-life, because as Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with all the dull bits taken out," and for the most part, life is made of up rather boring things like being stuck in detention at the school library all Saturday. So that aspect was neat to see. And the acting was great. Also in the "Surprised I Kinda Enjoyed That" category: The Quick and the Dead. Felt very Clint Eastwood-ish. That scenario seems high unlikely to have actually happened, but it was an interesting movie with good camera angles. His Girl Friday Rags didn't like much, but I enjoyed it. There's a lot going on in that movie, needs to be re-watched a couple times to get everything.
Phineas and Ferb is far better than it ought to be, for some strange reason. Mainly, I think, because those working on it had fun, and so it showed in their work. That's paraphrasing Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, so he'd definitely know what he was talking about. It's kind of a modern-day Looney Tunes.
Woke up this morning and saw a bit of the Macy's parade; the Spider-Man balloon and Taylor Swift's new song. We went over to Tahlequah and spent most of the day at Grandpa and Robbie's. Robbie's mom and Sandi and her boyfriend were there, too. Talking, eating, playing with the dogs, good times. It was very good to be back in Tahlequah, felt like home, like Morris or southwest Missouri. Lunch was good; ham, sweet potatoes, rolls and pecan pie(lots of all those). Watched the National Dog Show and commented on our favorite breeds and the ugliness or unpronouceability of others. A bloodhound won Best in Show. Then it was time to turn the channel over to football, where we all sort-of watched the Lions destroy the Bears, and then paid more attention to the real game of the day, Eagles and Cowboys. That was until Dad got back from a hunting trip for the day's Tulsa World, where we all dove into four copies to examine and compare Black Friday deals. And by then Philadelphia was winning easily, so....
Headed over to Louise and Harry's to see everybody over there; it was a great time with the Lankfords, telling stories, games of catch and people-watching. Nobody had any idea who the guy doing the halftime show was, but he was annoying.
I love Thanksgiving. Family, food, sports, dogs, sometimes music - no telling what might happen. And it was nice to have a whole day without homework in it(Monday starts finals week around here). And just about everywhere we passed had some story or reason for visiting attached to it - kind of a "Tattoos On This Town" type of thing. A little bit of a bummer that everybody from NSU was out of town, but it was still a really good day.
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