Originally posted by GoingSkiing: Fracture. Would give it 5 stars. VERY good. Breach. Also 5 stars. VERY good.
Thanks for the reviews on those. They are both on my Netflix queue and I'm looking forward to seeing them. I am a huge Anthony Hopkins fan, so I was especially hoping that Fracture would be good.
Rest of Summer Goals: 1. Exercise-Cardio: Min. 2-3 walking or DVD cardio workouts per week. 2. Exercise-Weights/Toning: Min. 1 weight plus 1 toning workout per week. 3. Food: Get those veggie servings back up to where they were! 4. Behavior: Start reducing sweets now that the automatic after-meal response is better.
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I watched "Blades of Glory" over the weekend. It was not nearly as funny as I had expected, but I did still LOL from time to time.
Rest of Summer Goals: 1. Exercise-Cardio: Min. 2-3 walking or DVD cardio workouts per week. 2. Exercise-Weights/Toning: Min. 1 weight plus 1 toning workout per week. 3. Food: Get those veggie servings back up to where they were! 4. Behavior: Start reducing sweets now that the automatic after-meal response is better.
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We watched Hidalgo this past weekend. It was not what I expected but it was very good and I enjoyed it. I was not enticed to watch it from the trailers I had seen on tv but dd bought it and wanted me to watch it with her. I knew it was based on a true story but did not know it was about a Native American. The "extra features" on the dvd were about the real man and was also very interesting.
1. do 4 laps on walking track without "resting" 2. do 1 mile (17laps) in 20 minutes (3miles per hour)
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My top picks for the weekend were: The Fountain Pan's Labyrinth
Both were very different but good. Pan's Labyrinth was the better of the two but there were some scenes that were very hard for me to watch (violence and death).
Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.
The Day After Tomorrow. It kept our attention... but Jamie and I were laughing out loud... and I don't think that it was supposed to be funny... but it was no academy award nominee. Maybe 2.5 stars.
40 year old Virgin. We watched 7 mins and turned it off. Didn't find it funny at all. negative stars.
I just watched a show, new to me, thanks to the change in our cable line-up.
The show was on a PBS station new to us. It was Real Simple. They showed how to make salad dressing from the leftovers in the condiment jars (among other things). I'm impressed.
They even had a link to pick up the hints on the show and additional ones.
Goals: 1. Stop thinking like a chronic dieter and start living to inspire. 2. HALT (hungry, anxious, lonely, tired) I will stop and tune in with myself should I experience these things, and respond with something healthy. 3. One word 2008: courage 4. Eat slow and mindfully.
I finally got a chance to see Clint Eastwood's companion to "Flags of Our Fathers"--the Japanese perspective of the same battle in "Letters from Iwo Jima." While I didn't think either movie was the best I'd ever seen, if I had to choose between them, I'd definitely say I liked "Flags" better. "Iwo Jima" was, I thought, VERY slow--esp. in the build-up to the actual confrontation between the U.S. and Japanese forces.
There are some nice small moments, such as when two young Japanese soldiers realize that a captured young American soldier is really not so different from themselves. It is a humanizing moment in a really brutal battle.
Rest of Summer Goals: 1. Exercise-Cardio: Min. 2-3 walking or DVD cardio workouts per week. 2. Exercise-Weights/Toning: Min. 1 weight plus 1 toning workout per week. 3. Food: Get those veggie servings back up to where they were! 4. Behavior: Start reducing sweets now that the automatic after-meal response is better.
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Because of the recommendation of a co-worker, I started watching "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Parts" on HBO On Demand (I've watched through Part III). It's a Spike Lee documentary, and it's...amazing. It's biased (but it's a documentary, not a news report)...and it's hard to watch, and it's certainly not for children. But if you want to hear from survivors and be exposed to viewpoints that didn't make the evening news, it's well worth the watch.
Challenge Goals: *10 minutes of unplanned exercise five times a week *Gym time twice a week *Socialize at least once every two weeks.
Last night, I watched Clint Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers" on DVD rental. It was well done (a logistical nightmare for a director, I would expect) and expectedly difficult to watch. Sometimes, what was hard to watch wasn't what I was expecting; one of the major characters is an American Indian, and the racism directed at him (even though he was a "war hero") was really hard to take. Also, seeing how the military guys who were survivors of Iwo Jima were so tortured once home about what they did and saw there.
I have the other one (Letters from Iwo Jima, from the Japanese perspective) here to watch next. I wanted to see them together so I could relate the two perspectives.
Rest of Summer Goals: 1. Exercise-Cardio: Min. 2-3 walking or DVD cardio workouts per week. 2. Exercise-Weights/Toning: Min. 1 weight plus 1 toning workout per week. 3. Food: Get those veggie servings back up to where they were! 4. Behavior: Start reducing sweets now that the automatic after-meal response is better.
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I think the last movies I went to were Charlotte's Web (what a tear-jerker!!), Painted Veil (good) and a French movie called Hors du Prix (with Audrey Tautou, quite funny)
I don't watch tv that much, but the whole family enjoys some imported thing labeled America's Funniest Home Videos, and another favorite is Shaun the Sheep (BAAA!!)
****************** “The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are really good friends.”
also suggest "things you can tell just by looking at her" and "nine lives"--beautiful shorts about women. strong characters. boy could i relate. at blockbusters.
saw "You Kill Me" a few weeks ago---4 stars! Waitress is also just excellent.
Goals: 1. Stop thinking like a chronic dieter and start living to inspire. 2. HALT (hungry, anxious, lonely, tired) I will stop and tune in with myself should I experience these things, and respond with something healthy. 3. One word 2008: courage 4. Eat slow and mindfully.
Originally posted by Lori4squaremom: [...]it is rated PG but there was a lot of cursing in it (for a PG rating). [...] it was a very good movie. I loved the theme of the movie.....it was great!
I know what you mean. There are a lot of great movies out there that have been spoiled for me by the language and it adds nothing to the movie.
1. do 4 laps on walking track without "resting" 2. do 1 mile (17laps) in 20 minutes (3miles per hour)
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Yesterday afternoon we watched Astronaut Farmer with Billy Bob Thornton. Thankfully our kids were off swimming and didn't watch the movie with us.....it is rated PG but there was a lot of cursing in it (for a PG rating). I was so disheartened by that!!!! While the three younger kids won't be watching it in it's DVD format (we'll wait until it comes out on tv), it was a very good movie. I loved the theme of the movie.....it was great!
Blessings,
Lori
Re-committing myself to a healthy lifestyle that will include regular (and increasing) exercise, and following the baby steps rule on food. 6/17/08
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Saturday night, I watched a movie called Half Nelson on DVD rental. It is a gritty story about a high school history teacher and girls basketball coach who cares but has a lot of baggage. He teaches in a predominantly-minority school and is a passionate and engaging teacher, but he is addicted to freebasing so he is sometimes "all there" when he's teaching and sometimes not, depending on when he last got high and how high he got.
The story focuses on his relationship with one of his basketball girls who is in a sad situation with a loving-but-hard-working single mom and a dad who is supposed to pick her up from school/practice but never does. The coach ends up taking her home most nights and they form a friendship. He sees that she is just on the edge of being sucked into the drug-dealing culture by a family friend (he knows the guy, because he buys drugs from him), and he is desperate to keep her from being drawn into the same dark world he himself can't seem to escape.
It is an excellent film and beautifully acted. There are no "big stars" but it is a marvelous, though very depressing, film. It isn't weepy, it is just very heart heavy...you want to help him straighten up and you want to help her stay straight.
Rest of Summer Goals: 1. Exercise-Cardio: Min. 2-3 walking or DVD cardio workouts per week. 2. Exercise-Weights/Toning: Min. 1 weight plus 1 toning workout per week. 3. Food: Get those veggie servings back up to where they were! 4. Behavior: Start reducing sweets now that the automatic after-meal response is better.
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