Last night John and I tried the new(ish) Anchorage restaurant--
Ling and Louie's. It's actually a restaurant that started in Arizona. It has a made up (and slightly amusing)
origin. The food is tasty... although I probably wouldn't eat it in Arizona, where delicious Chinese abounds. But, here in the Chinese food wasteland (nary a yummy sesame chicken or beef with snow peas to be had; the best beef and broccoli is from
a Vietnamese restaurant), Ling and Louie's is a nice development.
We'd wanted to see a movie; but, by the time it was finished, our only option was
Puss and Boots, which we'd already seen, and
Jack and Jill, which we didn't want to see.
This morning John was poking around and
Time Magazine confirmed our fears that Jack and Jill was going to be as awful as the previews made it look! In poking around, I found a few more AWESOME Jack and Jill slams:* "In some parallel universe, hilarity ensues." -- Jim Slotek from
Jam! Movies* "No matter how difficult or painful it might be, Adam Sandler's closest friends really need to do the respectable and humane thing and sit him down for an intervention."-- Adam Tobias from
Watertown Daily Times* "Movies like this should be stricken from film history and put in a closet never to be seen again. It's just bad, bad, bad, bad, bad." --Matthew Razak from
Flixist.com* "Howard the Duck, Gigli, Showgirls, From Justin To Kelly. What do they all have in common? They're all widely considered to be among the worst big studio movies ever made. You know what else they have in common? They're all better than Jack and Jill."--Mike McGranaghan from
Aisle Seat
So glad we dodged this bullet!
