Ryan McNeil
I’m pretty stoked today gang. Not only is there a lot of cinematic goodness surrounding me these days, but there are just three more sleeps to go until one of my very favorite days of the year. the day where hope springs eternal and the feeling of spring is truly in the air. Yes indeed folks, this coming Monday is the home opener for my Toronto Blue Jays.
2010 will be a tough year to be a fan of my hometown team, but if I jumped off the bandwagon when times got tough, what sort of poser would that make me when their young bats and arms really start to tear it up in a few years. This might well be one long restless summer…but at least I’ll be able to say I was there when it all began.
Oh yeah…movies…that’s right, this is a movie blog! Well while I dust off my scorebook, take a look at these fine bloggers. If any of y’all are baseball fans, accept my wishes of good luck for the 2010 season of whatever team you pull for.
Unless you’re a Yankee fan.
For your movie reading fulfillment, I give you…
CS is getting hitched! Being a mere six months into my own life as a married man, I can very much relate to the excitement he’s feeling this weekend. As I did, he has just put together a top five of his favorite wedding movies. Give it a look and wish him well, won’t you?
Univarn philosophically ponders the difference between excellence and expectation. No sign of an excellent of expected podcast from him yet though.
Poor Marshall didn’t heed my warning about THE BOX. Just had to see it for himself.
I’m trying really hard to refrain from making jokes about THE BOX, but if there’s an anti-BOX, it’s 1995’s HEAT, and Heather at Movie Mobsters wrote about it.
Finally, Kai at The List has been awful supportive of my podcasting antics lately. Give his blog a look, especially his post about casting choices that could have been.
Enjoy!
Thanks for the linkage! Though I fear you made my post sound smarter than it is o.O.
As for the podcast. Tomorrow around noonish (mypodcast willing) it'll be up and ready to go 🙂
No baseball for me this season. Looks like it’s only going to be on ESPN that I don’t subscribe to and the football season is nearly over. Still we have the World Cup to look forward to, two months until England v USA, sadly no Canada though!
I forsee a long, sad year without Doc. Sigh. That is all.
@ Univarn… have more faith – it's a good post. Lookin' forward to your next podcast. Make sure it's up by 4 on Sunday so I can listen to it as I drive to my folks…'cause y'know…it's all about me.
@ Number Six… Ah yes, The World Cup! Canada has only qualified once in my lifetime so no love there, and Ireland (the country of my slightly distant lineage) was Henri'd out last fall. So I have no team to root for.
Perhaps I'll just have to go with my "Anyone but Italy" stance.
@ Mike… It's always darkest just before the dawn. And hey, a 2-1 start ain't so bad is it??
Why does everyone hate the box? It wasn't that terrible!
Thanks Hatter. Heat is a great movie and well deserving of a revamped discussion.
I've actually seen most of these posts other than Univarns, which I think I'll visit now!
Blue Jays? Boring!
@Simon – The Box is a terrible film. It really is quite bad.
@Heather, I actually done an analysis of Heat on my blog: http://knowingviews.blogspot.com/2009/09/heat-michael-mann-1995.html
@Univarn – you have a podcast … shall listen to it soon…
Almost included Heat's coffee shop scene (with the exchange between De Niro and Pacino) as my "movie clip of the week." Great stuff. Don't know why anyone would watch The Box though…
@ Simon… THE BOX was laughably bad for me, I've had a conversation here and there with fans who defend it, but I still can't get past the pure lunacy of the second half.
@ Heather… Anytime! Say hey to Univarn for me.
@ Edgar… Is it baseball specifically that bores you? The Blue Jays?? Or just sports in general???
@ Simon Columb… Welcome back good sir – it's been a quiet week without you.
@ Casey… I felt that Michael Mann tried to rekindle the magic of that scene in PUBLIC ENEMIES when Purvis and Dillinger talk in he holding cell. Something about it taking place in jail took away from it though.
Thanks for the shot out, Hatter!
Yeah, I saw that too. Definitely wasn't as powerful in Public Enemies, especially when Bale's character was as flat as he was. Actually, the main problem I had with that movie was there was no real depth to either Depp or Bale's characters. I guess character depth in that certain story is somewhat hard to capture, though, since it was a historical account.
Where can I read your review of "The Box," oh wise Mad Hatter?
@ Marshall… Well since you asked…
The Blue Jays in particular, although I'm not the biggest baseball fan either.
I guess I missed the memo on The Box…what a POS. One of the worst I've seen in a while. Looks like Paul Blart and The Day the Earth Stood Still aren't going to be alone on the Island of Misfit Flicks:P
I don't know why I asked for the linkage seeing as I had already found it and commented on it…my bad.