I can’t remember what this movie is about!

Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten why you were there? Have you ever started a sentence and forgotten what you were going to say? Imagine a life in which every moment was like that. Now, imagine that life with the last thing that you can remember being the murder of the one you loved. What would you do?

##Twists and Turns
[[Memento Poster]]
Once in a while, a movie comes along that defies all conventions in storytelling. Several years ago, “Pulp Fiction” did that by telling 4 overlapping stories out of sequence. Today, it’s Memento.

Memento is a strange mystery in which the only way we can find out who-done-it is to tell the story in reverse order. Why? The main character suffers from a bizarre (and real) medical condition in which he can’t make new memories.

I’m still trying to decide whether or not this i really a good movie, or whether it was just a novelty that will wear off with second, third, or fourth viewings. I think not.

Is Harry Potter really a re-telling of Lord of the Rings???

I had never put together how many similarities there are to the basic stories of Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. Take a read of this and decide for yourselves…

Also, (from [[TheOneRing.net]]), in Sweden, they’ve already sold 200,000 tickets for the movie!

And, it’s official… the running time for the movie is 2hrs 58min.! Excellent!!!

Now when you search, the results are highlighted in the documents! Give it a try! Search for some word and when the list of results comes up, click on one of the items. It’s cool!

Movie Review: [[Memento]]

Does the new department code work???

FAQ: “Why did I write myManila?”

I’ve just deployed a new family tree site in CarneyWeb. Check it out!

I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, and now I’ve done it. Check out the new [[Family Tree]]! Hopefully soon there will be a way for anyone in the family to update the information here.

Enjoy!

Can a party-hearty California girl make it in law school and win back her beau?

##High Expectations

I had very high expectations for this movie. My mother-in-law raved about it, as did my sister-in-law. So, it was going to be hard to please me, but I was pleasantly surprised.

##Fast Times

The movie starts near the end of senior year at a University of California campus with our hero Elle planning her acceptance speech for when her boyfriend asks her to marry him that evening. Got that?

It turns out, however, that he dumps her that night instead. She’s not *serious* enough for him. He’s planning on being a senator by the time he’s 30, and she just wouldn’t make a good senator’s wife.

So, he’s off to Harvard Law School, and she’s left depressed and helpless… or is she?

##Is Harvard hard or something?

[[Reese Witherspoon Headshot]]
Elle decides that her best course of action is to go become a laywer too and show him that she can be plenty serious enough. She takes the LSAT and, since she has a 4.0 GPA and lots of extra-curricular activities, she makes it into Harvard (the scene in which the admissions office at Harvard looks over her video admissions essay is one of the high points of the movie!).

After she gets in, she works her way to the top of the class, notwithstanding some painfully embarassing moments along the way. Once there, she gets a special internship at a local law firm and helps to defend a murder case. Of course, it’s because she’s on the case that the defendent (a friend from long ago) is found not guilty.

##Wonderful writing

Although at times improbable, course that the movie takes is both fun and at times unexpected. The success of the movie depended on two things: the writing, and the bubbly personality of Reese Witherspoon.

At the EMC World Golf chamionship, Tiger made an impossible chip to keep his team in the hunt.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough. On the first playoff hole Tiger pulled his drive left and the team of Woods/Duval would never recover.

Some random thoughts

I can’t wait to hear this!!!!!

One of the most anticipated scores for one of the most anticipated films ever has finally been released and I love every minute of it! To be honest I was never totally convinced that Howard Shore was the right composer for this trilogy. Mostly because the scores I have heard by the composer generally have been very complex, subtle, non melodic and dissonant, which doesn’t rhyme well with the kind of scores I felt suited the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Luckily, in the end Howard Shore turned out to be the right composer – the music for The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the best scores of 2001. If not the best.

With the upcoming release of the new Lord of the rings movies, how good do you think they will be?