Cool Documentary

Finished watching a cool green documentary today called GARBAGE WARRIOR. it is about Mike Reynolds and his friends and family, and how they are building what they call Earthships, with whatever products they can find. They used recycled beer cans and wine bottles, old tires, and plastic bottles. They capture rainwater, and use both active and passive solar to heat and cool the homes, and grow there vegetables. These are totally off grid. The movie chronicles him trying to get a law passed through the New Mexico legislature so that they can continue their work with facing legal troubles. It also showed how he went to help victims of the Southeast Asia tsunami, and Hurricane Katrina, and help them to build self sustaining housing after the devastation that they faced. It was very inspiring...

Way Behind

I am way behind on writing about the television shows that I have been watching. I have been watching them, but have not been writing about them. I will venture to get caught up with writing about them by the beginning of the new year. I am disappointed that ABC has decided to cancel EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITIION, but I am happy that they will be doing four specials a year. I am usually not a fan of reality shows, but this is one about a person or a group that genuinely benefits from the show, and not just a bunch of idiot playing for the television to get ratings.

More later....

A few movies seen...

Two weeks ago, I saw THE DESCENDANTS and MY WEEK WITH MARILYN. I enjoyed both of these movies. George Clooney was good in the DESCENDANTS, but the best performance was from the actress that plays his oldest daughter. I am happy that she was nominated for a Golden Globe. The movie was slow in some parts but as a whole was a typical Alexander Payne movie, and I liked it.

Michelle Williams was very good as Marilyn Monroe. There were a few scenes where she was eerily good. The rest of the cast was very good as well. Kenneth Branagh completely embodied Laurance Olivier.

Last weekend, I went to the early IMAX release of MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL. There was a prologue for THE DARK KNIGHT RISE which introduced all of the watchers to BANE, played by Tom Hardy. I liked this a lot. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE looked amazing in IMAX. The scenes from the top of the tallest building in the world in Dubai were breath taking. I would rate this second in the series after the first one. The new team was good.

Also, saw SHERLOCK HOLMES: GAME OF SHADOWS last weekend. This was better than the first one. All of the characters were established, and we got to concentrate on there adventures as opposed to their development. Jared Harris was great as Moriarty. I am hoping that they make a few more of these.

HUGO

HUGO was a very good movie.  It was not what I expected from Martin Scorcese, but I liked it a lot.  I thought it was going to be like Pinocchio and was surprised and glad that it was not.   It was so much more.  I did not see why it needed to be 3D, and my friends who saw it in 2D did not feel that they missed out on anything.

THE DESCENDANTS and MY WEEK WITH MARILYN are still on my list of watching for this week.

Watching Shows from different days

Last night, I watched a couple of episode of PRIME SUSPECT, and then the current episode of:

CASTLE.

Tonight, I watched last nights episodes of:

THE CLOSER

RIZZOLI AND ISLES

Tomorrow night, I am not sure what I will watch.  Probably current Wednesday night shows.

I will try to update the blog this next weekend...