The title says it all. The Soprano family will be around for one more season.
On another front, I watched a really horrible movie last night called The Emperor's Club starring Kevin Kline. It was so boring and stupid and one big platitude; I hated it. I'm sorry, but no series of questions relating to the Roman republic is going to make me inspired enough to live a life of virtue. I don't care if I have to sit through two Julius Caesar contests, I really just do not care about the Republic. If that makes me a heathen, so be it. I should've known it was a bad movie from a mile away. No movie starring Kevin Kline is going to be any good. It's not that Kline isn't a good actor. He's a funny actor, and the movie Grand Canyon was great, as was a bunch of others he did like A Fish Called Wanda. But, the thing about him is that he has always had his eyes on being an A-list actor, and he's not capable of carrying any decently entertaining movie all by himself. He's a great ensemble character actor. He plays well off of other actors. But if this was a good movie, then they wouldn't have picked Kline for the lead role. They would've had some big cheese in the lead role, I would've heard lots of buzz about it, and it would've made a billion dollars. But since it did not, and since Kline is in the lead, then I can only conclude that Tom Hanks and whoever else passed it over did so because they saw how shallow and trite the script was.
But, the good news is that we also rented Adaptation, and I bet you that this is a good movie. Spike Jonze teams back up with Charlie Kauffman, and even though everyone is talking about the convoluted plot, I still hear, in the end, it's awesome. And thanks to netflix, I've got The Ice Storm (starring Kevin Kline, surprise surprise, but in an ensemble piece), Barcelona, and something else I've forgotten, coming in on Friday. Just in time for my parents to arrive, who will be here Saturday. So, we'll watch a movie or three this weekend, catch up with my mom and dad, and have a good time.
On other fronts, I've been assigned to be David Mustard's RA this summer, as well as Dwight Lee's. Mustard will be having me clean up a dataset on crime of his, so while that should be tedious, it will also be a good learning experience. I'm not sure exactly what Prof. Lee will have me do, but I think I might be doing something with him on this church study.
Posted by Admin at June 18, 2003 01:53 PM