{"id":30748,"date":"2023-02-05T10:14:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T16:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30748"},"modified":"2023-02-04T17:15:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T23:15:45","slug":"on-miss-congeniality-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/05\/on-miss-congeniality-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"On Miss Congeniality<\/em> (2000)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookWow, this film is twenty years old, which makes it an old movie by now. Which means it’s about time for me to watch it. I mean, it’s not like a black and white film, which it might well have been if it had been a movie twenty years old when I was born. But its humor is that of another time, when you could make fun of stereotypes and whatnot.<\/p>\n

At any rate, Sandra Bullock plays a tomboy FBI agent whose compassion during a raid leads to an FBI agent getting shot and puts her in the doghouse with her boss played by Ernie Hudson. When the team gets a tip that a serial bomber might target the Miss United States pageant, they decide to send someone undercover–and Agent Gracie Hart is the only one of the team who might look good in a swimsuit. So she goes undercover, getting a crash course in behaving like a lady from a pageant tutor played by Michael Caine, and she learns that the pretty women whom she’d mocked for performing in pageants have heart and intelligence and they’re all similar.<\/p>\n

You know, the kind of lesson we used to get from movies and whatnot.<\/p>\n

At any rate, a product of a different time, and a pleasant viewing experience. My beautiful wife, who had already seen the film, watched it with me, and that’s kind of rare these days as our taste in movies has diverged a bit as, strangely, she prefers more modern blockbuster sorts of films.<\/p>\n

Also, it starred Sandra Bullock.<\/p>\n

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I’ve seen a number of films with Sandra Bullock–the height of her career kind of tracked with the height of my going to movies–so I’ve seen Speed<\/em>, Hope Floats<\/em> (in the theater), along with The Blind Side<\/em>, Demolition Man<\/em>, The Net<\/em>, part of The Vanishing<\/em> (my friends and I walked out of the theater, one of a few or maybe only one time I’ve done that), perhaps While You Were Sleeping<\/em>…. Well, given her extensive ouevre which has continued to this day (she was in a Romancing the Stone<\/em>-like film called The Lost City<\/em> last year), I guess I haven’t watched all that many. But then again, my prime movie watching days ended not long after the turn of the century.<\/p>\n

I have always found her pretty.<\/p>\n


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Apparently, she is almost 60, but I wouldn’t believe it. Of course, I don’t think I’m a day over thirtysomething either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, this film is twenty years old, which makes it an old movie by now. Which means it’s about time for me to watch it. I mean, it’s not like a black and white film, which it might well have been if it had been a movie twenty years old when I was born. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30749,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30748\/revisions\/30749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}