Well, I’ve arrived in Japan.\u00a0 Traveling for work is always fun.\u00a0 I showed up at the airport and while waiting to get on the plane 3 others coworkers showed up as well.\u00a0 One of them a good friend, and expierenced traveller, so once again going to a foriegn country was really easy.<\/p>\n
\u00a0The plane ride was the usual 11 hours in a confined space.\u00a0 The food didn’t suck so much though, which was nice.\u00a0 But the real pleasure of international travel is the movies.\u00a0 No longer are you required to crane your head to see the screen at the front of your section. Now, you get a nice in-seat personal video system and and can choose which movies you want to watch.\u00a0 United’s system is kind of basic but it’s still nice to have 6 movies and a few TV shows\u00a0to choose from.\u00a0 Since my laptop battery only lasts 2 hours and it was just recalled on Tuesday,\u00a0 I opted not work on the plane.\u00a0 It was a tough decision but I don’t shy away from those big calls – I’m a “Decider” (when my wife lets me) ;).\u00a0 So, since I usually get to see 5-6 movies a year, having to sit and watch 4 shows in a row was kind of a nice torture.\u00a0 Here’s the breakdown:<\/p>\n
1) The Great Debaters<\/strong> (Denzel Washington).\u00a0 – This was a great movie.\u00a0 I was expecting the typical feel good underdog kind of thing that’s just right when you’ve been up since 5am but\u00a0it was actually a really good movie.\u00a0 Not only a great story and acting but the characters were all really well developed and had a lot of depth.\u00a0 My only regret was that it wasn’t longer.\u00a0 There was so much more to the life of the characters in this small Texas town that I really wanted to see more of each one.\u00a0 It did the movie good though to keep that on the periphery and focus on the story.\u00a0 But still I wish this movie had been 4 hours instead of 2 – that also would have made the flight go faster!<\/p>\n \u00a02. National Treasure 2: Book of Something or Other<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 Why didn’t Nicholas Cage get cast as the new James Bond instead of Daniel Craig?\u00a0 Just go watch this movie and you’ll know why.\u00a0 Still, it was an “entertaining romp” to paraphrase Roeper (At The Movies reviewer).\u00a0 and was a good popcorn flick.\u00a0 If only I’d remembered to pack my microwave.\u00a0 Helen Mirren (spl?) was fun though but she needed more screen time.<\/p>\n \u00a03.\u00a0 Walk Hard – The Dewey Cox Story –<\/strong>\u00a0This was a Judd Aptow farce making fun of the recent singer-biopics and it was really funny.\u00a0 Maybe it was the punchiness of sitting in the same seat for the last 7 hours but it was nice\u00a0to not have to concentrate on\u00a0a plot.\u00a0 This movie just lampooned every concievable “classic” scene from a bio-pic and while there were a few misses typical of these movies, in general it worked really well and I chuckled to myself for a good 90 minutes.<\/p>\n \u00a04. Enchanted<\/strong> – If you are a romantic \/ Disney-Princess loving person you have to see this movie.\u00a0 If you’re not (and you know who you are Josh) then don’t.\u00a0 This is the movie where a cartoon “Cinderella” character is brought to real life by the wicked step-mother Queen.\u00a0 While the movie was simple and formulaic it was still very well done and cute.\u00a0 I loved the fact that the main character kept breaking into song and all these real rats and pigeons would show up and all the other people in the movie would freak out.\u00a0 I am actually thinking about letting Leina see it but I worry she’ll try to get chipmunks to help her clean her room.\u00a0 My only complaint was Patrick Dempsey (spl?).\u00a0 The man was just blah.\u00a0 Really nothing there.\u00a0 I don’t see what everyone likes about him.\u00a0 He really doesn’t do anything\u00a0for me?\u00a0 I was reallly hoping for some McSteamy but I didn’t see it.\u00a0 Maybe I should start watching Grey’s Anatomy?<\/p>\n \u00a0So there’s a breakdown of the movies seen on my flight over.\u00a0 Thankfully I get to pick 4 different movies on the way back.\u00a0 It almost makes air travel worth it \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, I’ve arrived in Japan.\u00a0 Traveling for work is always fun.\u00a0 I showed up at the airport and while waiting to get on the plane 3 others coworkers showed up as well.\u00a0 One of them a good friend, and expierenced traveller, so once again going to a foriegn country was really easy. \u00a0The plane ride […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kevin","category-movies","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Kqhb-f0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}