{"id":7063,"date":"2003-08-11T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-12T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/11\/7063\/"},"modified":"2012-08-26T05:10:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T10:10:00","slug":"7063","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/11\/7063\/","title":{"rendered":"I Did It! Almost a Movie Review of <\/i>The Long Goodbye<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, friends, I am pleased to have made it through the entirety of The Long Goodbye<\/i><\/a>, a Robert Ctrl-Alt-Deleteman travesty based on a novel<\/a> by Saint Raymond Chandler. And by made it through, I admit it’s not the first time I tried.<\/p>\n

You see, here at Honormoor, tradition holds that when Heather leaves town, Brian J:<\/p>\n

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  1. Laments the home without the beautiful wife<\/a>.\n
  2. Counts the hours until her return, and decides to soldier on.\n
  3. Pours a yummy Guinness Draught.\n
  4. Rearranges the den so that the recliner takes its deserved prominence before the television.\n
  5. Procures a folding table to hold the remote, the aforementioned yummy Guinness Draught, and the reading material (Barron’s<\/i><\/a>, Harper’s<\/i><\/a>, The Atlantic Monthly<\/i><\/a>, Esquire<\/i><\/a>, and so on<\/a>).\n
  6. Inserts The Long Goodbye<\/i>into the PlayStation 2<\/strike> DVD player.\n
  7. Tries to struggle through the lingering close-ups and extraneous emoting Altman demands.\n<\/ol>\n

    This time, though, I made it through. Last time Heather was AFT (Away From Town), I only made it to the conversation between Wade and his wife describing the impotence of the writer with the innovative use of the reflection of Marlowe on the beach. When I passed that mark this time, though, I startled a cat with a loud “Huzzah!”<\/p>\n

    So what’s good<\/b> about the film?<\/p>\n