Everyone Is Entitled To My Opinion

We've got the Netflix distribution chain working overtime so I'll have lots of these in the next few weeks. Anyway, here are the latest reviews. Airplane I'm not sure I've ever watched this all the way through from start to finish. It's still a classic of its genre. It's corny, the jokes are almost all groaners, but it still manages to give you a chuckle. One thing of interest, and I'm not sure if it's a reflection of when the movie came out or if the rating system has changed, the movie is rate PG, but there is a gratuitous topless shot that probably lasts 3 seconds in the middle of a scene. I was always under the impression that naked boobs means an R rating. I guess I'll have to check the MPAA website. I'll recommend this as a good cheesy movie for when you want to completely veg in front of the TV. Better Off Dead Surprisingly, I had never seen this movie. I generally like John Cusak, although most of his films tend toward the chick flick cat...

As we were leaving work yesterday Jason said: "I could never quit this job because it feels so good when I leave."

Books and movies will now be reviewed here starting with these two: Moby Dick An interesting read. I don't know if I agree with its usual label of "Children's Classic". I don't think many of today's children could be bothered to even attempt this one and if they did, I don't think they would make it without a good dictionary. There's a lot of cool language in this book. Most of it is a bit archaic, but it's interesting to see how our language has changed in the last couple hundred years. There are some great sentences and quotes in there. As for the story, it's very long and drawn out. There are large sections of the book where you are treated to in-depth descriptions of the whaling trade in the 1850s, whale anatomy, whaler operations, blacksmithing, and other fun subjects. The meat of the story with Ahab and the whale only really involves the last two chapters. Honestly after wading through the rest of the book, the ending was very anticlimact...