FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2005
Survival of the fittest

Yet another fun movie night- I rented three, one for each of us and one that I thought that we would both like. The first was Flight of the Phoenix- rather interesting if unbelievable that taking one plane a person could redesign and build a new, smaller, working plane and fly to freedom... I was hoping to learn some desert survival skills, but all I learned was that you shouldn't trust roving bands of bandits- I hope I knew that one already.

The second movie was for me- Cellular- again hitting the survival theme I was laughing and shocked all through the movie. It was nice to have a strong female character- and makes me rethink about some of the high school science skills I learned showing me that some of it was actually useful. While I still find it hard to believe that anyone could reconnect a phone without detailed knowledge about phone construction, I really enjoyed the realism and story!

We were really bummed out about Napolean Dynamite- this one was for Mark and we had high hopes- but it was hard to watch how weird some high school kids are- maybe I missed this stage- We had thought the show would be similar to "Freaks and Geeks" which we both enjoyed about the horrors of high school we all would like to forget... but this one was just no fun.

Posted by Laura @ 5:10 PM CDT [Previous] [Next]
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And yet, my students think Napoleon Dynamite is brilliant.

I know, I know: it's probably my fault for not working harder to instill some taste in them, isn't it?

Posted by JohnSherck @ 04/03/2005 01:52 PM CDT