Friday, April 4, 2008

Uncle Buck


Quote of the day:
“First, we must learn to count to one.”  

--Martin Luther King

Quote of the day no. 2:
"The international evidence on health care costs is overwhelming: the United States has the most privatized system, with the most market competition — and it also has by far the highest health care costs in the world."
--Paul Krugman in today's New York Times

After a morning in the hospital and an afternoon resettling at home, Merrie and I decided to watch a comedy.

I’m a sucker for the John Hughes movies of the 1980s. Some may find these films dated and lame, but to me they hold up well and are surprisingly funny and refreshingly good-natured compared to so many comedies today.

We’d never seen “Uncle Buck,” so that’s what we put in last night. Neither of us were expecting much, and we were delightfully surprised.

Yes, in many ways the movie is somewhat silly and predictable. But John Candy is terrific, and you get to see MacCauly Caulkin in his first major role.

Merrie and I love simple slapstick, and there is a big dose of that, as well as a generous helping of well-done situational goofiness.

In short, we had a fun time. It was a perfect movie after a tough day.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Laughter has truly been shown to be the best medicine and it sounds like it was. A comedy usually has to be something special to attract my attention and I recently enjoyed "The Band's Visit," a visually witty and charming gem spoken in English, Hebrew and Arabic, the characters are both comic and touching. I don't understand why this film wasn't nominated in the best foreign film category. You might want to check it out (if you haven't already).
P.S. I requested at staff meeting that Merrie be placed on the prayer list.

Craig Dorval said...

We appreciate the thoughts and concern of folks at First.

Thanks for the movie tip. We'll check it out. We were so pleased by Uncle Buck we also rented Weird Science, which was simply bad. Oh, well.