Guest post from: Constance Rodgers
When we moved to Texas, we went online to Shop Electricity rates texas to find the best deal for our electric provider. My husband and I both enjoy shopping in physical retail centers and online. My husband prides himself among others that he is a man who really does not mind shopping with his wife. In fact, he really likes shopping with his girls. What makes me laugh is even though he enjoys going shopping, and rarely puts up a fuss with things I buy for our girls or the home, the moment when he has to sit down and pay our bills, he comes totally unglued. Much like a person with amnesia, almost instantly my husband forgets what this amount was for or what this purchase was from a particular store. It makes me so angry because most of the time he was right along with us when we went shopping! I am not sure how these memories slip so quickly out of his mind once he sees the dollars signs adding up. It is quite the strange situation. I call it selective memory!
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
J Edgar
Typically a fan of all things Eastwood and most things Dicaprio, I was a little shocked and saddened to not absolutely enjoy J. Edgar. At the heart, it's a good movie. However it lacks the ambition I would have expected from a period based biographical piece about J. Edgar Hoover. Too many things are brushed over and not given enough depth of character or story.
Way too much time is spent on Hoover's rumored homosexual partnership with Clyde Tolson. I felt it was presented poorly and offered too much of an opionated and slanted view of the man. Instead of presenting us with factual data, we were given a fictionalized story that doesn't really serve the man's memory. If this were part of his life, okay. But, too much time was wasted harping on that one relationship. Was Hoover a nice guy? Probably not. Yet, we could have judged for ourselves from hearing the real story instead of Eastwood's overtly dramatic personal vendetta.
Dicaprio does fine with the material he's presented. Unfortunately, there just wasn't much weight to carry. The film is a hackneyed jab at Hoover that strays from history lesson to dramatized fiction way too often. I would suggest seeing it if you're a fan of fiction.
Way too much time is spent on Hoover's rumored homosexual partnership with Clyde Tolson. I felt it was presented poorly and offered too much of an opionated and slanted view of the man. Instead of presenting us with factual data, we were given a fictionalized story that doesn't really serve the man's memory. If this were part of his life, okay. But, too much time was wasted harping on that one relationship. Was Hoover a nice guy? Probably not. Yet, we could have judged for ourselves from hearing the real story instead of Eastwood's overtly dramatic personal vendetta.
Dicaprio does fine with the material he's presented. Unfortunately, there just wasn't much weight to carry. The film is a hackneyed jab at Hoover that strays from history lesson to dramatized fiction way too often. I would suggest seeing it if you're a fan of fiction.
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