Hello,
The USA defeated Brazil today in the Women's World Cup Quarterfinals. A match that someday will be made into a movie, the USA defeats Brazil 5-3 on penalty kicks. The USA now advances to Wednesday morning's semi-final against France. I'm not going to try and summarize all the amazing things that happened in this match for two reasons. 1) Unfortunately I wasn't able to watch it and 2) I don't have the ability to write about how amazing this match was.
I've included a link from espn.com below. I've just included some of the things that the USA had to battle and overcome in order to win this game.
1) First of all they played a very powerful Brazil team, which features the amazing Marta.
2) An USA player, Rachel Buehler, was given a red card, which meant that the USA had to play a person down from the 66th minute on. Also Hope Solo was given a yellow card right after that. The United States was playing with that hanging over their superstar goalie the rest of the match.
3) The game was tied at 1 going into overtime when Brazil quickly scored a goal to put Brazil up 2-1.
4) Then for the rest of the match USA had to make sure Brazil didn't score again, all while desperately trying to score the equalizer. All that with one woman short! Against Brazil! Literally almost at the very last second Megan Rapinoe kicked a great ball to the head of Abby Wambach for the tying score. This was the latest goal scored in World Cup history.
Go to this website to read espn.com's story about this amazing match. There's also video showing highlights from the match.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/report/_/id/323673?cc=5901
Why oh why was "Fright Night" remade? I graduated from high school in 1985, it seems like this movie would have been marketed to people of my age. But I have absolutely no memory of this movie. After watching the first 10-15 minutes last night, I see that I didn't miss a thing. Here's the original trailer, yes it's as intentionally corny and as bad as it seems. The original "Fright Night" is on Comcast On Demand. Not surprisingly "Fright Night" is in the free movies section:
A funny thing about "Fright Night" is that none of the "stars" went on to make anything else of significance. Their most significant thing is that Amanda Bearse was in "Married With Children". Also William Ragsdale ended up being on the very funny "Herman's Head". But other than that most of them seemed to have disappeared. It seems "Fright Night" was so "good" that a sequel was made to it. That's like making a sequel to "Transformers". What, they made two sequels so far to "Transformers"? Are you serious? Well who'd want to watch that? It's made about $250 million already? Really, what the hell? Crap is made every generation. (In regards to yesterday's blog, I do wish we could go back to shorter previews. More mystery is good.)
A trailer for "Fright Night 2":
Now this movie has been remade with Colin Ferrell, the new version apparently had a little more money in it's budget.
This is the trailer for the new "Fright Night":
After watching the first 15 minutes of "Fright Night" I knew I'd seen enough. Instead I decided to watch "Maid In Manhattan" starring Ralph Fiennes and Jennifer Lopez. Lopez looks good in this movie, but she's a lot more attractive now. Like Halle Berry, JLO has gotten better looking with age. Anyway "Maid In Manhattan" was an okay movie. One thing I like about it is that it was clearly trying to break out of it's paint by numbers fairytale. I also liked the ending. While the overall story is a bit far fetched, the ending seems believable. However the best thing about this movie is the music.
Here are some of the great songs from it:
This song is okay "Train On A Track", but Kelly Rowland looks absolutely amazing. She looks great with red hair. I never got why people thought Beyonce is hot, but her former Destiny's Child pal Kelly Rowland certainly is.
Not only is this next song amazing, but I like how they used it in the movie as well. Norah Jones' "Don't Know Why":
Diana Ross' "I'm Coming Out":
I loved how the character Ty was big into things of the 70's. Not only name checking Simon and Garfunkel, but also Richard Nixon and Bread. I think Bread had many good songs, but they are certainly representative of the 70's. This is Paul Simon's "Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard":
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