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Age of Innocence
A day in the life of Chuck Nice as he films Cinematherapy
by Chuck Nice
This week WE tv is airing Age of Innocence, starring Daniel Day Lewis, Michele Pfeiffer, and Wynona Ryder. So you have a general idea of the film's tone, I will share with you the movie's tagline: "In a world of tradition. In an age of innocence. They dared to break the rules." If you don't know what that tagline means then you have obviously never watched a chick flick.
No Country for Me
No Country for Old Men left Chuck and his wife disappointed
by Chuck Nice
The other night I'm sitting on the sofa with my wife and, in
a very fetching voice, I asked what she'd like to do. She responded, "Let's
watch a movie." Just for the record, when it's after 10 p.m. and the kids are
asleep, the question "What would you like to do?" is the nicest way of saying
"Let's do it
like drunken co-eds in the back of an SUV." But a movie seemed like a suitable
replacement for hot prison relations, so I searched the On Demand menu for something
we could both enjoy. That something turned out to be No Country for Old Men. After a
brief argument, I convinced her that it must be a great movie because it was
critically acclaimed and Javier
Bardem won an Oscar...how could we go
wrong? Well, the town of
Kit Catastrophe of a Movie
Leave it to Chuck to find the good in a movie that even his eight-year-old daughter begged him to ditch.
by Chuck Nice
A washed-out Fourth of July turned into a perfect reason to go to the movies. Of course, whenever I say that I'm going to the movies, it turns into a perfect excuse to spend some time with my daughter, or as she calls it, "a chance to get away from the little monster"--my two-year-old son. We decided on Kit Kittredge an American Girl, and by we, I mean she. Oh goody, another opportunity for me to learn more about the minds of prepubescent young girls, this time during the Great Depression. The film moved with the lightning-quick speed of a shifting glacier, and less than halfway through my eight-year-old daughter whispered to me, "We should have seen Get Smart. Can we leave now?" Even though she was right, I told her we had to stay so that I could blog about the movie. Her face lit up like Christmas morning in WhoVille, and she asked if she could blog as well. I said yes because I never turn down an occasion to encourage her creativity, and including an excerpt from her means less work for me. So here it is:
Ideal Son
Chuck really wanted a second daughter after forming the perfect bond with his first... but instead he is learning to deal with his very own mini-me.
by Chuck nice
Every man wants a manly son; ideally, that first born male child. We see ourselves as some kind of conqueror; it really doesn't matter what we lord over as long as we've found something that makes us feel like we've just pillaged a village. This is why we want so desperately to have a son, so that we can have someone to leave our legacy of nothing. "My son, my son... I shall have a son; someone to carry on my name and inherit all that I am". He shall be strong and wise, he shall make up for all of my failures, and I shall glory in his success-because I have fallen short.
I Used to Be a Man Whore
True love can make you do anything...even change some of your beloved bad habits.
By Chuck Nice
In my last entry
I talked about how the title character in the movie You Don't Mess With the Zohan
and I had two life similarities. The first was that Zohan left his job and his
home to move to