Man, I'm running out of lines to the Bears fight song to quote for the Monday following a Bears victory. I have to say that I feel like a traitor. I was listening to the Sirius NFL Radio channel yesterday morning while doing some errands, when one of their experts announced that his upset pick was the Bears over the Vikings. Of course, after doing my general Bears rant whenever someone says anything good about them, I started laughing at how dumb a pick that was. I mean, the Bears were starting the umpteenth quarterback this year, and are one more injury away from the return of Jeff George. The Vikes are needing a win to stay up with Green Bay for the division. But hey, a win's a win, and I'm psyched for Chad Hutchinson. Unlike the recent games of Craig Krenzel, Chad actually lead the offense to some scores other than leaving that to the defense.
Movie Review
National Treasure
**** (out of five stars)
As usual, I'm always running a little behind when it comes to anything. So, this weekend I finally took in the Nick Cage action movie, National Treasure. The film pretty much takes advantage of the DaVinci Code phenomenon by putting a patriotic twist to the story of the Knights Templar. Here's one thing that I don't get... The first twenty minutes of the movie is spent trying to find the clue that leads to a mythical treasure map and them trying to decipher where the map is. Anyone who has seen any commercial for the film knows that it's supposedly on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Just seems like time wasted.
Pretty much, if you've ever seen any other Nicholas Cage/Jerry Bruckheimer collaboration, you pretty much know how the storyline's going to go. Unfortunately, it lacks the action of a planeful of convicts, a chemical warhead on Alcatraz, or switching faces with John Travolta. But, if you go in just expecting a mindless action movie, you can enjoy the typical car chase, showdowns, and all the other typical action movie scenes.
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