Movie stuff

When Thirteen Days came out, Adam saw it in the theater and liked it so much that it sparked an interest in history. We eventually rented it and I'd planned to buy it, but by the time I actually got around to it, no one ever seemed to stock it. It became practice to check for it whenever I happened to be looking at movies somewhere (but for some reason I didn't purchase it online).

Last week I finally tracked one down (at Blockbuster of all places). I enjoyed the movie again and really enjoyed the documentary describing the lead up to the Cuban Missile Crises. Sergei Khrushchev had some interesting things to share about his father and had this to say about Castro (using what he called a colorful american saying):

He was a son of a bitch, but he was our son of a bitch.

I'm really glad that we finally found it. I'd also bought another movie that I liked (so much so that we'd already purchased a copy — oops). When I swapped it today I found something I didn't even know had been released on DVD, The Longest Day, a black and white film but a great look at D-Day with an all star cast.