{"id":11097,"date":"2008-03-21T03:17:06","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T00:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/21\/i-think-i-love-my-wife\/"},"modified":"2010-04-08T13:08:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T11:08:58","slug":"i-think-i-love-my-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/21\/i-think-i-love-my-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"I Think I Love My Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/i_think_i_love_my_wife.jpg?w=660&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"I Think I Love My Wife\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was in the mood for some comedy, so I rented &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0770772\/\">I Think I Love My Wife<\/a>&#8220;.\u00c2\u00a0 I knew that with Chris Rock on the cover of the DVD, I had at least a few laughs guaranteed.\u00c2\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The thing with Chris Rock is that he is a stand-up comedian.\u00c2\u00a0 He writes comedy and then he talks it back to the audience from the stage.\u00c2\u00a0 And he is good at that (check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=chris+rock\">YouTube videos<\/a> for some samples, there are quite a few).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 His comedy is usually about much debated topics &#8211; politics, racism, gun control, parenting, and stuff like that.<\/p>\n<p>He is a pretty smart guy.\u00c2\u00a0 But he is not an actor.\u00c2\u00a0 Neither he is a director.\u00c2\u00a0 Even though, the titles of this movie will tell otherwise.\u00c2\u00a0 Chris Rock is a comedian &#8211; that&#8217;s what he does.\u00c2\u00a0 So this film, like many others that he took part in, is like a continuation of the stage from which he reads his comedy.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe it&#8217;s a little bit more visual, with some more people on it, but it&#8217;s still just a stage for Rock&#8217;s comedy.\u00c2\u00a0 Not that I find anything bad in it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I like his sense of humor.\u00c2\u00a0 I like his choice of subjects.\u00c2\u00a0 And I like the way he usually looks at things.\u00c2\u00a0 He is one of those people who can put complex issues into simple terms.\u00c2\u00a0 He often suggests solutions or, should I say, possible course of actions, for the problems that he talks about.<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;I Think I Love My Wife&#8221;, Chris Rock explores marriage, the way relationship between husband and wife changes from the wedding day, through years of living together, having kids, daily routines, and things like that.\u00c2\u00a0 I have to say that once again he manages to put rather complex issues into simple words and clear perspectives.\u00c2\u00a0 However, this time I wasn&#8217;t very satisfied with the way the story ended.\u00c2\u00a0 It was like an exploration, during which the explorer got scared and aborted the mission.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe because he got scared.\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe because he wasn&#8217;t as far there as he was trying to push the movie.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know.\u00c2\u00a0 What I know is that the film went like 80% of the way and then suddenly ended.\u00c2\u00a0 And that was a disappointment, since I really enjoyed the journey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6 out of 10<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 Recommended for married couples.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I was in the mood for some comedy, so I rented &#8220;I Think I Love My Wife&#8220;.\u00c2\u00a0 I knew that with Chris Rock on the cover of the DVD, I had at least a few laughs guaranteed.\u00c2\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t wrong. The thing with Chris Rock is that he is a stand-up comedian.\u00c2\u00a0 He writes comedy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/21\/i-think-i-love-my-wife\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Think I Love My Wife<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1706,1,24],"tags":[1416],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-stars","category-general","category-movies","tag-chris-rock"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9588,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/18\/the-animal\/","url_meta":{"origin":11097,"position":0},"title":"The Animal","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 18, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Since there was nothing else for me to rent, I had to revert to old films that I've missed. \"The Animal\" is one of them. 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