Not very fantastic. Too bad it wasn’t only four minutes.
What works:
1) Cameras all in focus.
2) The Thing looks pretty good.
What needed improvement:
1) Cast – bigger names or less goofy looking actors.
2) Story – less design by committee, more unified writing voice.
3) Ending – See point 2.
Verdict: Basic Cable.
The Wedding Crashers rules. Let’s get that out in the open. Start to finish, this movie delivers.
Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughan take the concept of matrimonial partier to the highest level, posing as guests every wedding season. They work as a team crashing party after party, meeting insecure women. Everything is a smashing good time until one meets the girl of his dreams, and the other meets a girl who won’t go away.
Will Ferrell provides some last minute texture.
A riot!
What works about this movie:
1) Cast: Owen and Vince deliver the goods. Excellent adversarial buddy chemistry.
2) Story – tight, tight, tight. Never a dull moment, or flubbed joke.
3) Ending – Credible and fitting.
4) Direction – Good comic pacing.
5) Humor – For adults.
Verdict: Theater full price with a date who has a wicked sense of humor. Good for the over 17 set. Do not take children, this picture has adult siutations.
Just got back from a late night showing of Wedding Crashers. Hysterical! A review of this, plus Fantastic Four and the Longest Yard will follow in the next few days.
Day Four of Atkins: no serious hunger pangs or sugar cravings. Yum.
Two-thirds of today was a mash of blurred vision, headaches and cramps. Less of a day, and more like a twelve hour nightmare. Then at at five PM, a switch clicked and the fatigue disappeared. I went from surly Atkins acolyte to happy camper. The shift, profound and noticeable, came with lots of energy. Like whole lots. A workout schedule for Thursday was bumped up to tonight, because any more inactivity became unthinkable.
This may mean I crossed into ketosis, a state where the body can burn it’s own fat stores for energy. Then again, maybe this is but sweet delirium. Strength in some weight lifting movements has improved over last week. A encouraging sign.
I’m roughly the same weight as three days ago, which is excellent. My experiment in Atkins is to test the claims of fat reduction, not weight loss.
Also, since the shift, writing is possible. Overall concentration levels decreased for a day or so. Now it’s back to the jungle!