Movie Night!
Yeah okay no falling over from shock that there is two posts in a day, but tonight was Movie Night...they are rare. For some reason about...5 or 6 years ago, I quit watching movies. I'm not sure why, they just kinda stopped being important. I watch a lot of TV...well okay I listen to a lot of TV...in the background while I'm doing something else. I don't go to the theater very often, and I gave up renting movies, because a) I didnt get to watch them or b) I could have bought them twice with the late fees. Yeah I've rented 3 movies and had an eighty dollar late fee on them. Lets just not go there. So nowadays, we just buy them, if they suck well they suck, but the Movie Gallery has that great buy 2 get 2 sale on used DVD's so if they sucked, well we're out 5 bucks or so...cheaper than the late fees! So tonight we decided to watch some of the stuff that's been gathering dust on the shelf for a while...
So some reviews :)
1) Waiting- Recommended by one of the Geeky Spouse's friends to us as Clerks with Waitresses, I made it through about 30 minutes of the movie before my stomach revolted. I have not determined if it was from the movie or the takeout wings we were eating while watching the movie. There is this one truely disgusting scene that I won't describe here, (lets just say its every horror story you've ever heard about sending your food back to the kitchen at once), that was the turning point for me to bail before the wings landed on the carpet. I personally referred to it as Clerks without the wit. The spouse agreed.
2) Mr. and Mrs. Smith- not to bad I adored the cuts between the therapist and the action, and the fights were cute. It wasn't oscar worthy but hell who cares it was fun to watch things blow up.
3) Where the Heart Is... I have always loved this movie, I watched it years and years ago with my mom. Understand I have strict guidelines for "chick flicks". Most of them I hate, (English Patient=barfworthy). They have to make me laugh, because hell thats what life is about a lot of the time, laughing at all the crap that happens. Cause you can't strangle people. So this was the every once in a great while I force the Geeky Spouse to watch what most men regard as a chick movie. So far he hasn't hated any of them. Steel Magnolias was one, YaYa sisterhood was the other...and this one that I can remember. Of course this was the first one that didn't require a holiday showing. We watched YaYa on Mother's day and Steel Magnolias (well half of it) on our anniversary. This one is still a great movie. I was worried a bit because sometimes when you watch something as a kid and then again as an adult...well they go differently than you remember. This one still rocked, and with the added bonus of the guy from Numb3rs being in it...which I totally forgot about. I don't know if he liked it as much as the other one's but its not quite as funny as they were. As for me I cried a bit, which is always good for a movie like that. There are only 2 movies that make me bawl every time I watch them, My Life with Michael Keaton, and The Color Purple.
So some reviews :)
1) Waiting- Recommended by one of the Geeky Spouse's friends to us as Clerks with Waitresses, I made it through about 30 minutes of the movie before my stomach revolted. I have not determined if it was from the movie or the takeout wings we were eating while watching the movie. There is this one truely disgusting scene that I won't describe here, (lets just say its every horror story you've ever heard about sending your food back to the kitchen at once), that was the turning point for me to bail before the wings landed on the carpet. I personally referred to it as Clerks without the wit. The spouse agreed.
2) Mr. and Mrs. Smith- not to bad I adored the cuts between the therapist and the action, and the fights were cute. It wasn't oscar worthy but hell who cares it was fun to watch things blow up.
3) Where the Heart Is... I have always loved this movie, I watched it years and years ago with my mom. Understand I have strict guidelines for "chick flicks". Most of them I hate, (English Patient=barfworthy). They have to make me laugh, because hell thats what life is about a lot of the time, laughing at all the crap that happens. Cause you can't strangle people. So this was the every once in a great while I force the Geeky Spouse to watch what most men regard as a chick movie. So far he hasn't hated any of them. Steel Magnolias was one, YaYa sisterhood was the other...and this one that I can remember. Of course this was the first one that didn't require a holiday showing. We watched YaYa on Mother's day and Steel Magnolias (well half of it) on our anniversary. This one is still a great movie. I was worried a bit because sometimes when you watch something as a kid and then again as an adult...well they go differently than you remember. This one still rocked, and with the added bonus of the guy from Numb3rs being in it...which I totally forgot about. I don't know if he liked it as much as the other one's but its not quite as funny as they were. As for me I cried a bit, which is always good for a movie like that. There are only 2 movies that make me bawl every time I watch them, My Life with Michael Keaton, and The Color Purple.
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