Movie Padres,
Last week Dan was out so we pinch hit ‘Nacho Libre’ in honor of Cinco De Mayo. I really like this movie! It’s one of those that is a little slow and purposefully weird, but I find it has a happier tone than Napoleon Dynamite that came before it. You need to integrate the quotes into your life before you completely appreciate it.
use ‘GET THAT CORN OUTTA MY FACE” at a BBQ this summer.
Mark
We’re missing a bunch of people this week. I’m out, Wade, Bill, Suleman.
So the movie picks are going to get a little screwed up. I don’t think you should lose your pick for missing a night (mostly because I don’t want to wait 7 weeks to pick again.)
So it’s supposed to be Dan, from last week. if he can’t be there then it will probably fall to Q.
Q hosts this week.
Nacho Libre is a 2006 sports comedy-drama film directed by Jared Hess and written by Jared and Jerusha Hess and Mike White. It stars Jack Black as Ignacio, a Catholic monk and lucha libre fan who secretly moonlights as a luchador to earn money for the orphanage where he works by day as a cook, knowing his fellow monks would look down upon his career and expel him if they discover it. He finds his ascetic, celibate lifestyle challenged even further when he falls in love with a nun who has just arrived to live in the monastery. The film is loosely based on the story of Fray Tormenta ("Friar Storm", a.k.a. Rev. Sergio Gutiérrez Benítez), a real-life Mexican Catholic priest who had a 23-year career as a masked luchador and competed in order to support the orphanage he directed. The film was produced by Black, White, David Klawans and Julia Pistor.
The film was released on June 16, 2006 by Paramount Pictures. It received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $99.3 million at the worldwide box office against its $35 million production budget.