It's a very busy Monday today. After missing last Thursday, I am having to play catch up at work today. I'll hit some highlights and hopefully have something a little more substantial tomorrow.
First of all, congratulations to Amy and Todd on tying the knot this weekend. There is no doubt that the Lord brought them together and will do great things in their lives. Todd is a leader of the Navigator's ministries at Auburn University, so if anybody wants to make any holiday donations to their ministries, let me know and I will get you their info. Another plus from their wedding weekend, the Holiday Inn Express. It was very impressive, high class. It was clean, neat, the bed was very comfortable and even had two different pillows that were eloquently labeled, 'firm' and 'soft', so I could select my personal desired level of pillow consistency. It may have won me over as a life long patron.
On Friday afternoon, during one of LB's girly parties, I got to see I Am Legend. It was the first time that I got to see a movie in the theater since Ada was born, so I was very excited. It ending up being a good movie, too. I would say that is the best zombie movie that I have ever seen. Of course, I haven't seen too many zombie movies, so, that isn't really saying much, but I would give it a solid B. Don't let the zombie premise scare you off, it was a very tastefully done movie about the undead. It had a lot of cool cinematography scenes of a desolate New York City, of what NYC may look like if there was only one man living where 8 million used to. This did give it a slight Cast Away feel with a little urban twist. There also were some nicely done flashback scenes that were used to catch you up to date on how things got to the way they were. Yes, the basis of the plot may be a little out there, but it is Sci-Fi, what do you expect? I would say that it is worth dropping a 10 spot and checking it out in the theaters if you get the chance. (If you see it, let me know what you think.)
Since the wedding this weekend happened to be about 1hr or so away LB's hometown and this coming weekend we would be going back for Christmas anyway, LB and Ada decided they would stay back in Alabama and leave me free to roam Atlanta as a bachelor once again. I don't have big plans this go round. I'll just miss the first round out bowl games. Now, that would have been perfect, oh well. If anybody has any good man movies that you have watched recently, I am open to suggestions.
Finally, remember the big scare at the work place last week? When Fresh Express was on lock down? Well, that little incident sparked an article on cnn.com. Turns out, ATL is the nation's bank robbery capitol...comforting. In a one year span, the were 350 bank robberies in the Atlanta metro area, that is almost 30 a month, crazy!
Ok, I am done wasting your time for today. Hopefully tomorrow I will have something actually worth mentioning.
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Scott,
I thought our taste in movies was the same, but seeing as how you gave I AM Legend a solid B, I guess not. I was not expecting zombies, so the preview was definitely not a true preview. Also after literally sobbing in entire middle of the movie after the dog died, I was finished. So needless to say, I did not care for the movie at all.
Ha! I can understand why you wouldn't like it, especially if you weren't expecting a zombie movie. I knew that it was though because it was based on the old 70's movie Omega Man with Charlton Heston. You have to admitthe overgrown vegetation taking over Times Square and the way they made it look like no one lived in New York was pretty cool. And the fact that they made you care for the dog so much has to count for something. It was a very moving scene when he died though.
Scott,
you know me - it wouldn't take any talent for a director to have me fall in love with any animal! And honestly, I couldn't even pay attention to the scenery due to the shock of the zombies and fear since dad so nicely commented at the beginning that of course the dog was going to die. I will make one positive comment though b/c I'm working on being positive - I was very glad that they at least offered the idea that God didn't cause all that to happen, it was humans who did and that Will Smith's character decided to listen to Him in the end. But other than that, I'm would not recommend the movie.
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