What are you guys doing, if anything, for FD this year? Today also happens to be Ted's birthday, so we're having the gang come for a BBQ, all except for Tony and his little brood who are driving back home from NH.
It's beautiful here today too. Really perfect weather for cooking and eating outside. I just have to get bird poop off the table which is always fun.
We watched No Country For Old Men last night. I kept waiting for the movie to start getting interesting. It did, after all, win best picture. I thought it stunk. You see it? Ditto The Golden Compass that we rented Friday night.
Jim and I watched a movie night before last on Pay Per View. We considered watching No Country for Old Men, but eliminated it as a choice because we thought it would be too depressing. Given your comments, I'm grateful that we made that decision!
Instead, we watched The Great Debaters (2007) with Denzel Washington, and Forest Whitaker. We both thought that it was excellent.
It takes place in 1935, and is based on the true story of a professor, who teaches at Wiley College, a small black college in Texas. This professor coaches the student debate team, and makes it his goal to debate at Harvard in the national championship.
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Good decision, Moore. No Country was depressing and violent. I couldn't really get too involved so I wasn't sad by the end. I was just stubborn, wanted to get my $5.99 worth out of the pay per view, lol. It was a waste. Golden Compass was a pretty movie, if you like sci-fi dummied down. I don't so there was another poorly spent 2 hours
I haven't seen any of those movies. I have several on my list to watch. The Debaters one is one of them. Today we went to church. Saw this really moving video about a man who was born with a birth defect that left him unable to walk and talk. He ended up learning how to use this computer thing that allowed him to talk through the computer by nodding his head. Anyways, I guess he really wanted to do something that helped people and so through the help of his dad he/they would run marathons and actually did a triathlon. Well the video had almost everyone in tears so they cut service really short. We actually didn't have a sermon.