Family Ties
No kids this weekend. Hiked on Saturday morning, then spent the rest of the weekend at home doing pretty much nothing. The most unproductive weekend I’ve had in a long time. Watched a lot of Netflix on TV. Somehow I got the idea that Across the Universe would be a good movie. I think I lasted for maybe 20 minutes of that. I wasn’t expecting it to be a musical. Not that I have anything against musicals, but this was awful. I also watched Jenn’s movie Spaced Out, which was great if you like movies about anal probes. It was fun to watch once, and about a million times better than Across the Universe. (I’ve been writing wacky reviews for Spaced Out on imdb, Amazon and Netflix. Plus I added some fake trivia and goofs on imdb, which haven’t been approved yet.)
Somehow last night I ended up watching Family Ties on Netflix. It’s a show from the 80’s I loved which I haven’t seen since the 80’s. Usually when I attempt to rediscover some old show from the 80’s, I can’t believe how awful it is and that I ever liked it. But Family Ties was great, despite that God-awful intro song where the hippies sing about how much they suck at math and English. I watched about 6 episodes. And I was really surprised to find out that Alex P. Keaton was friends with George McFly a year before Back to the Future came out. He had a small part, but it was cool to see them together in something else.
maybe you got the idea from me cuz i LOVE across the universe! you should have kept going. the scene where bono sings i am the walrus is great! and joe cocker has a great scene too.
RBCP, you make me lolz.
“You might say there are just too many clichés in this film, especially the obvious ones involving cactuses, and this is true, but in a movie like this that’s a hard thing to avoid and I think the director did a fine job where red boxing is concerned.”
Across the Universe was awful. I had to sit through it with some friends who thought it was great.I never thought it would end. Family Ties is really good,I watched it from Netflix too.