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When you gonna be skiing?

HAHAHAHAH! Great contro with the hyper smilies. When I say win, you say tonight. Win?

This all happened late last night. I let Ginger (gingerag) call me Dick as a joke. Gaby seemed to have too much fun with that ... and she hurt my feelings :bigcry: /gollum on/ We hates the Gaby! /gollum off/

Let's just say she got a little careless with the work "dick" last night ... ... as if I haven't already had 26 years of that.

Well, since somebody else on this board called you beautiful I think you can get away with using that cliche beyond the explanatory clause. And the horse scene is really famous. It's such a good scene, too. it takes place early int he first movie and sets the tone for the next two flicks, and really it's one of the few times you get to see Brando's Godfather side. Soon he's out of the picture and you don't get many glimpses into his power as the Don. But you should watch them ... their influence on modern pop culture has reached a level of hyperbole, but they are still classyck movies.

When I say go, you say fight. Go ...

Should I IM you when I just on ... To warn you? BTW, is there some kind of Vargas family reporting agency to whom I can report mean behavior on your sister's part? Would that be you?

:huh: No ... haven't certain people on the board does make posting pictures a little more ... interesting (to be kind about it).

How did you see the family pictures? I didn't give you that link! :sneaky: ;) You really think my brother and father look alike? It wasn't that hard to find them :) Curious sorts find lots of things. Let me look again @ your bro ... Maybe not. It might just be ... 1) Their foreheads have the same shape, and 2) They're both wearing glasses, and 3) They're both smiling with their mouths closed. But I can see their eyes have different shapes.

mr, you re the reason why i 'm not posting my pic here Why would I have anything to do with this? Don't hand me that age horse shit. hmmmmmm

You and your sister are both very beautiful. Would it be possible for your brother to look any more like your father?

That's Gaby? :stunned:

I feel good. Oh, I feel so good. Uh.

Well, I'm back working a little, but lucky for me HBO (or maybe HBO2 or HBO12 or HBO-North Atlantic) has the Godfather first two Godfather movies on. Ah, something to talk about ... Michael just shot the Turka nd the Police Chief, so we're about half way through Part I. Anybody else into these movies?

It's already won a bunch of lesser awards, and I imagine it will win a few Oscars. I can see your criticism re: Penn choice at that point, but I thought it was fine and I thought that was the best lead performance I saw all year. I thought Robbins gave the best male supporting performance and I thought Marcis Gay Harden gave the best female supporting performance (though I don't see her getting any attention for it).

Nothing much is new. I'm watching Ali while perusing itmes on EBay. How's life with you?

There are definitely movies that do go deep into special effects. Likewise, there are movies that shun special effects entirely and use their budgets on other production elements (think Shakespeare in Love). With the growing industry that is cinema, you're going to get specialization. You're going to have those movies with the huge SE budgets ... but then you're also going to have more "actors" movies like Mystic River and 21 Grams. Overall, I think that there is more out there for everybody.

You're in! I forgot what Gabs and I were talkin' about, but it's time for a change anyway!

If you're looking at the mean, considering all the movies being made in the world, then no, I don't think the overall quality of movies has gotten better. But movies, like music, like any other art, is such that we try to limit our experiences to that which is good - that which we feel is the best for our preference set. As such, with so mnay studios making movies, so many projects working outside the studio system, so many different ways for films to get made and sen now as compared to 10 years ago, we're seeing a lot of great stuff make it to big screens that would not otherwise hit our eyes. The overall effect is that somebody like me gets to see more great movies than they would have in the past. To take some of the better movies I saw this year as examples, In America, 21 Days and The Barbarian Invasions probably would not have been accessable to me 5 years ago. In American may have never been made. But because we've been able to develop so many sources for movies, because we've gotten away from the "big studio" model, there is just better film making now. I think we tend to take it for granted, though. A movie like Cold Mountain ... I think that movie stands up well against a Gone With the Wind, a Casablanca, any classic of yester-year. It's much more mature in it's story telling, it's presentation ... and it's probably not the best movie of the year. In fact, it might no be one of the five best movies I saw this year. Anyways, I'm rambling. I wish I could have make this a more cohesive argument ... ... but the wine is talking.

Bye, G-Thang!

Don't be confused. I'm just part of an extended, extended, not-quite-family. That's all. I hope that cleared things up!

I noticed. It sucked. Stop being mean, Gabs.

1) I think the acting in the Neverending Story is probably both bad and not the point. 2) I think the quality of movies is as high as ever. I feel strongly about this.

Stanford does seem to be a little into itself. That might be a hasty generalization, though.

You're always nice to me.