Yearly Archives: 2006

Minority Report (2002)

Bookended this one. Started watching it, fell asleep, then caught the last half hour. I enjoy seeing well-done futuristic visions like this. It’s neat to see what might be the everyday things in our lives in a few decades.
Minority Report is very grainy—by design, for sure. But combine that with DVD [...]

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whocalled.us Caller ID Database

Look up a number to find comments and geo info about who called. Identify telemarketers vs. wrong numbers, etc.
http://whocalled.us/

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The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

So much built-up conflict; such a satisfying release. Yeah, maybe it’s pure candy, but it’s a great feel-gooder. Guess who gets the F word in this PG-13er.
Smith is great. Never saw Ali, but this could be his best. And his son does pretty well.
Inspires one to do work in ‘07.

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Huo Yuan Jia (Jet Li’s Fearless) (2006)

Kinda takes the best of all the martial arts flicks and mashes them up into a pretty good tale. Some really creative weapons fights. I loved the old dude that announced the fights—he was like a Chinese version of the old bank owner’s son in Mary Poppins.

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Wake-Up Songs

Had 2Pac’s “Let’s Be Friends” in my head when i woke up today. Once again, kinda random—the last time i heard that was last Sunday when me and Weety were mobbin’ in Jo’s truck.

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