Mock Squid Soup: November Entries

I have fallen off the blogging wagon and am not following through on the theme for this month's hop.  I am not a good blogging co-host.

Instead, I will share ALL of the movies I watched last weekend.  I spent last week in Doha, Qatar visiting some schools and attending an education summit.  The flight home allowed me to watch ALL of the following movies.

My current flickchart rating is under each image. I currently have 1,209 movies on my flickchart list.

Only The Prestige and The Social Network were repeat viewings.  All the others I was seeing for the first time.

#754

#105

#47

#75

#104

 If you have seen this, you know it opens with a stunt on an airplane.  This was what I was watching as our plane took off!

#466

 If you have seen the marketing for this one, you know it is an earthquake movie.  Watching it while experiencing turbulence added to the effect.  I can't say it made the movie better.

#39

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The Cephalopod Coffeehouse: April 2015: "George Harrison: Behind The Locked Door" and "All You Need Is Kill"

Reading has become a luxury I don't seem to be able to afford recently.  However, in the last few weeks I have finished TWO distinctly different books.

First, I read the book All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka.  This was the novel that inspired last summer's Tom Cruise sci-fi action flick "Edge of Tomorrow".  I really enjoyed the movie and was please I had seen it previous to reading this book.  While the book was enjoyable, I felt some of the concepts were actually fleshed out a bit better on the big screen.

Secondly, I grabbed George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door by Graeme Thomson on a whim at the library last month.  I once joked I had four constant friends growing up and they were named John, Paul, George and Ringo.  In my teens, I read a lot of Beatle biographies plus the big ones about John and Paul.  Ringo was Ringo and I never bothered to learn much about him beyond the highlights.  There was, however, a dearth of information on George.

This book does a wonderful job of uncovering who George really was.  There is lots of first hand accounts and interviews with those closest to Harrison.  It is a fascinating read.

I place this with the best Beatle related books I have read.

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J is for Jerry Maguire

Jerry Maguire is currently #47 on my flickchart list.

It took a bit of scrolling through my list to find my first J.  I really expected it to be Jurassic Park, doubly so since the kids have recently been introduced to my favorite dinosaur movie and we have watched it a lot.  However, Jerry Maguire is ONE SLOT ahead of Jurassic Park.

I have not seen this movie in a long time.  And I am not really a Cameron Crowe fan.

This movie, however, was released during an incredible time of doubt and self-reflection in my own life.  When I went to see it, alone, it resonated with me.  A man who lost himself...needed to hit the bottom before bouncing back.  And Jerry's mission statement..."The Things We Think and Do Not Say"...it was MY call to arms.  Everything in the movie, especially at the time, showed me how things could be for me.

It was me.  

And I am almost afraid to watch it again.  I worry it won't stand the test of time. I also don't want to re-rank it.

But either way, I got the happy ending I finally realize I deserved.

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Film Festival Friday: July 6, 2012

It was a weak movie week for me.  The only thing I watched was LAST Friday after I posted. And sitting and watching "Deep Impact" reminded me of why I am usually doing something else while it is playing.  It actually fell from #115 to #708 when I re-ranked it on flickchart.

So this week's film themed post brings you the "Jack Reacher" trailer.  I first saw it on Tuesday and waited until today to post it (Here, at least....I was all over it on The Facebook instantly!).  Cruise's inability to change his vocalization hurts him, but he nails enough Reacherisms to make me happy here.

BONUS:  A friend sent me these two pics he snapped last summer during filming.  The director's chair was taken through a window on the set.  The other, he says he got because "[t]hey just left the cars parked on a city street during the day, not very subtle, two hotrods next to 10 fake cop cars."

Tom Cruise Kills Oprah

 I have never seen this with sound before...only as a tiny gif.

I hope you have a good day....

...and Tom Cruise does too!

Celebrities Are Big Babies

found on cityrag.com