Today we watched two movies, two of DCM’s favorites. One made you think, question what you might know and open your mind to the possibilities and the other just sucked the brain cells right out of your head. (try and disagree with me!)
We watched Contact first, not First Contact (ha ha, nod to all my Trekkie friends!) starring Jodi Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, Angela Basset, just to name drop. It was interesting, about a young girl who was searching the vast universe for life from the time she was a small child, encouraged by her dad, who never gave up that dream, no matter what, no matter who told her she was crazy, her ideas were crazy and there is no such thing as life off our planet.
A great quote from the movie:
Young Ellie: Dad, do you think there’s people on other planets?
Ted Arroway: I don’t know, Sparks. But I guess I’d say if it is just us… seems like an awful waste of space.
That determination and spark (no pun intended) kept her motivated and determined, what would the world be like if great thinkers and innovators throughout history had given up when someone said, you’re wrong, your ideas are stupid, you don’t know what your talking about. Leonardo Da Vinci,
Marie Curie, The Wright Brothers, Albert Einstein, just food for thought.
All in all, it was a good movie and I can now say I’ve seen it.
At one point, we were joking, I said, I don’t know why we keep trying to make contact with “little green men”, it doesn’t seem to work out for the us on planet earth! (Except for Star Trek: First Contact and maybe E.T.)
Bottom line, it made me think, just as it was intended.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Apparently I was thinking too much and needed to be brought down about, oh, I don’t know, a bunch of levels…I had to watch The Adventures of Ford Fairlane. I was promised that if I watched it, I would never have to do so again or be asked about watching it.
I now know where certain lines of DCM’s come from and I want that 1.5 hours back!
There was quite a cast in this movie, Ed O’Neill, Priscilla Presley, Wayne Newton! Lauren Holly, Gilbert Godfriend, Robert England (not a fan of Freddy Kruger, but always odd to see him out of that costume), who wasn’t in this movie?
The two best parts of the movie? Ford Fairlane, Andrew Dice Clay’s mint condition Ford Fairlane and Lauren Holly’s green VW convertible, go figure, I loved that!
I think the imdb.com description says it all:
Ford “Mr. Rock n’ Roll Detective” Fairlane is experiencing problems, and it’s not with the opposite sex. One of them is that all the rock stars pay him with drum sticks, koala bears, food processors and bicycle shorts. Another one of them is that all his employers that want him to find a girl named Zuzu Petals get killed. Why didn’t he become a fisherman’s detective instead? A must-see for Andrew Dice Clay fans
Not to worry, you never go into this movie thinking it is going to be a cinematic masterpiece. It had a few funny moments, I’ll give you that, very few and no koalas were hurt in the making of this movie. Don’t misunderstand, I like stupid funny as much as the next guy, but this was, well, really stupid funny, when it was funny.
I watched it, I should have at least gotten a tshirt, but now we can all move on with our lives.
Peaches Prattlings 