The Daily Biff - 2007 06 01

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Fri, 01 Jun 2007

Movie Review: Prime

Title:	Prime (2005)
Rating:	5/10

Any movie that includes a psychologist as one of the primary or supporting characters is a "movie of interest" around here. In Prime, Meryl Streep plays a psychologist who finds out one of her clients (Uma Thurman) is dating her son (some no-name actor). Any time that Streep's character is on-screen, this film is intriguing and fun to watch. The rest of the film is just okay.

One part of the movie that both Kristy and I enjoyed was the fact that the movies is primarily concerned with the romance between an older woman and a much younger man. Given the fact that too many Hollywood movie romances feature a 50-yr-old man with a 20-something woman (think Entrapment), this reversal of roles was refreshing.

The ending was a bit weak. The two characters decide that they can't stay together because all they have is love and love is not enough (or something like that). I didn't get the logic of this and thought the ending was contrived and disappointing. Maybe she figured that an older woman and a younger man can't work? I don't know.

Summary: A satisfying film, but the ending was a bit weak.

:: Posted by rus on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:48 pm
:: Filed under /reviews/movies

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Back in the Open Water
Scott and I took a swim at 7am this morning in Pine Lake. We swam about a half a mile (800 yards). The water temperature was 69 degrees. Scott wore his wetsuit, but I just swam in a speedo. It was a bit brisk when I jumped in, but after about 100 yards... the water seemed just fine for a swim.

The water quality was surprisingly turbid. The weather has only been sunny and clear as of late with very little wind. There was quite a bit of debris near the shorelines in the lake due to our crazy stormy winter. I saw at least one fallen tree in the water... but I imagine as I swim different routes around the lake in the coming weeks, I'll find others.

I'm getting a bit of a late start this year compared to last year; I've been a slacker. But in my feeble defense, I did have one less kid this time last year... that could have something to do with it. Or not - I've just been lazy. Need to get back in the groove. My shoulders are sore.

(Update Sun Jun 3 23:10:48 PDT 2007 // fixed for grammar)

:: Posted by rus on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:37 pm
:: Filed under /daily_journal/2007

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