In life, accuracy counts.

I've decided to write this entry all about my new favorite movie. Now don't go making judgments if you haven't seen it. I say this because the previews that I had seen for this movie offered no insight into the movie whatsoever. The previews lead one to believe that this guy basically gets soft drinks thrown at him often, until he starts carrying a bow and arrows around with him.

Yes, the film I'm talking about is The Weather Man. This movie is Terrific. It is the funniest movie I have seen in a very long time. Some people will disagree that this movie is really a comedy. Fair enough, for it is a dark comedy, and much of the humor lies in subtleties such as Cage's priceless facial expressions throughout the movie. It is a somewhat sad movie in that Cage's character is the sort of person people love to hate, and on top of this he is struggling with his personal failures and blunders. But to me its that kind of Curb Your Enthusiasm type humor that keeps this movie movin' along. But make no mistake, this is not just shallow comedy. It's about a guy trying to rebuild his life from the shambles he's made for himself. A screwy but well-meaning schmuck trying to patch things up with his family and make his dad proud.

Notable features of the movie that make me love it:

• extensive use of the word "fuck"
• Cage's acting- the self pity and general dorky-ness makes the humor happen.
• Archery
• Spritz's dad
• too many other things to even try to talk about.

and this:
"Here's something that if you want your father to think you're not a silly fuck, don't slap a guy across the face with a glove because if you do that, that's what he will think. Unless you're a noble man or something in the nineteenth century. Which I am not."

Love, The City