“Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.”
The sky is as deep a blue as I have seen of late. The clouds have disappeared. It is still cold but warmer than yesterday. Henry stays outside a long time. I don’t.
I wish I could hibernate like bears. In late fall I’d get cozy in my cave under lots of down comforters and fall asleep for the winter. I’d wake up to spring.
Whoo Hoo! I saw small green shoots in my front garden. They have a long way to grow, but they are the first signs of spring.
I have to do a bit of shopping today. I am getting some groceries and am also going to buy a few daffodils. The small floral shop in my store always has them about now. I could do with a bit of bright yellow. I am tired of brown.
I am yelling at the movie I’m watching, Age of Ice. Snow storms are covering Egypt and the desert. An American family of four, two parents and two kids, and some Egyptians are trying to get to the Red Sea to an evacuation area. The special effects are the worst. Our intrepid party has no snow blowing around them, but when they look ahead, you can’t see anything for the swirling snow. Their truck gets stuck in snow. Instead of all of them pushing it out, they abandon it. At one point they have to rappel. In the faraway view the mountain is covered in snow. In the closeup, there is no snow. My favorite scene is when they are walking in knee deep snow trying to get through a pass. As they slogged through the snow, I could see the top of a building in between hills, and I expected them to discover it. They didn’t. It wasn’t part of the movie.
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February 16, 2019 at 1:56 pm
Hi Kat,
Obviously that movie production didn’t budget for a continuity person and whoever was doing double duty wasn’t doing it very well.
I used to want to hibernate through February. It was one too many months more of winter than I needed. Then I moved my horse to a barn that didn’t have a lighted indoor ring. I discovered that February was the earliest winter month that had enough daylight for me to get to the barn after work, tack up, and still have 15 minutes of daylight left to ride. November became my new hibernation month. I’d wake up for Thanksgiving and then go back under until Christmas and New Year’s. 😀
The sky is blue, the sun is shining. It’s not as pleasant as it looks because the wind is blowing and it’s cold. But it’s good enough to sit on the sunny top step out of the wind.
Enjoy the day.
February 16, 2019 at 5:24 pm
Hi Caryn,
The movie was just so bad. The actors too were awful. Some of the action shots looked as if the film used was a negative. How ad am I that I watched until the end?
We have gained well over an hour of sunlight since the solstice. I just wish a longer day came more quickly. The problem with February is it usually such a snowy month, this year being an exception of course.
There was no wind here today, and at least it stayed sunny all day. I happy when it hits 40˚!
Enjoy the evening!1
February 17, 2019 at 12:35 am
It almost reached 50F here yesterday and we did have sunshine until noon so I had the kitchen door open for a long time. No sunshine today but still fairly warm. I think I would like February much better if it always was like this. Normally it is our coldest and snowiest month here.
I always wonder what happened to those really bad actors. I mean a lot of our big stars started out in films like that but one could see that they were good actors already then. These really bad ones though, did they give up and drive back home or did they finally realize that it was time to go home so they at least could brag about being in at least a movie 🙂 🙂
I can see the snow drops in my garden but that’s it. I often but daffodils and later on plant them in my garden but daffodils doesn’t like it here, I rarely see them the next year.
Have a great day!
Christer.
February 17, 2019 at 1:02 am
Christer,
Snow is predicted for tomorrow. It looks like we’ll get 2-4 inches. That will be the biggest storm so far this winter. I hope it is snow easily brushed away.
Not a single actor was anyone I’d seen before this movie. They were all so very bad.
I’m going to keep looking as the shoots make me hopeful.
Have a wonderful day!