An Awfully Big Adventure

We watched An Awfully Big Adventure over the weekend. Alan Rickman and Hugh Grant are in it but Georgina Cates plays the central character and the film is about her character’s coming of age. Georgina is a bit of a chameleon. In this film, she looks nothing like her IMDB photo. Uneven and slow is about the only way I can describe An Awfully Big Adventure. It had a handful of funny moments, a handful of poignant moments, quite a few tedious moments, and a lot of moments I simply didn’t understand. There are a lot of films I like to see again for the little things I might have missed but it has to meet a threshold of interest. This one is well below that bar. It was better than a poke in the eye. But not much.

Saints QB Drew Brees offers one view of Saints-Falcons week:

But Monday night, the first home game after Katrina, we're 2-0, they're 2-0, a divisional opponent. I mean, does it really get any better than that? It's going to be awesome.

In the QOTD, someone else offers another, equally realistic one:

Quote of the Day

You guys are going to start feeding these guys a bunch of cheese and everything else. But this is the third game of the season. That's what it is.

Sean Payton, Saints Head Coach

Blog of the day here.

Quote from said blog: "My husband just called to order a pizza from the nearby pizza place. They make really good pizza, but they must have some kind of rehab/training program for the recently cranially-injured. They hire the dumbest kids available."