Important Stuff -- Or Not: Marley and Me

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Marley and Me

I just saw that movie yesterday. It was very good. Great dog story but a great movie about marriage too. Why is it that men always tell the honest view of marriage in movies?! I thought "Knocked Up" was a great movie about marriage too. Best line from that movie is..."Marriage is just like the show 'Everybody loves Raymond' except it's not funny!" My life is in the middle of the movie where they are raising the small kids and would prefer to kill each other than stay married, but it was nice to see in the movie that it does get better! I am counting on it. Not seen a woman movie writer or director do it truthfully unless it is about a woman getting beaten in her own marriage or something. It was a little too soon for me to see that movie after having just lost one of my dogs. So I freaked out the 6 year old next to me...crying. Not sure why they brought a 6 year old to this movie. It is not "My Dog Skip," but whatever. Kid stared at me the last 30 minutes of the movie straight!

8 comments:

Joe said...: Yeah...it seems in the commercials that kids might get a laugh or two from it, but from what I've heard (and I hav enot seen the flick), it is not really a kid's film.; 10:19 AM
Anonymous said...: I ran into my neighbors in the theater lobby when we were there to see "Bedtime Stories." They said the same about "Marley and Me"--the whole theater was sniffing by the end. I think my son decided he didn't want to see it after all.; 3:08 PM
Lone Ranger said...: The movie is taken from a best-selling book. Marley's owner was on the "Dog Whisperer" to fix a few other misbehaving dogs. Had he called Cesar Milan earlier, he wouldn't be famous.; 1:02 AM
Tonto said...: You got that right LR! DOG was not "show" material that is for sure. But still a nice story.

However you will be horrified and I do mean HORRIFIED!! when you see the cameo of Kathleen Turner in this movie. She looks so bad I felt sorry for her and it was not for the movie. I know she looks like that now.; 5:33 PM
Mark said...: I never really cared for "cute animal" movies. I think the last one I really enjoyed was "The Yearlng" and I embarrassed myself by sniffling at the end.

Speaking of tear jerking movies, I watched a good one New Years Eve at my friends church. It was called, "Flywheel". It was the first film produced by a Georgia Church's film ministry, and to their surprise, it went all the way to video stores across the country. Next, they produced a film called "Facing the Giants" which I first saw on Showtime, on TV. It was about a football team at a Christian academy, and it was very good, but I thought "Flywheel" was better.; 9:27 AM
Mark said...: Mark Levin wrote a good book about his rescue dog, Sprite, entitled "Rescuing Sprite" --duh! but it is a heart wrenching story as well.; 9:29 AM
Anonymous said...: judging by the box office, it looks like Jennifer Aniston is giving Brad Pitt a run for his money...; 1:27 AM
Lone Ranger said...: Kathleen Turner was always one of my favorites. I love her slightly husky voice and sorta plain looks compared to other Hollywood glamor girls. She has had a rough life. Severe arthritis, pain killers, alcoholism and just the Hollywood lifestyle. I've never seen her in a theater, since I don't go to movies often. She was perfect in the V.I. Warshawski movies. That was a good series of books too, until the author got all feminist and preachy and used her writing as a platform to promote abortion. "Serial Mom" was a hoot too.; 2:15 AM

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1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.