Exceedingly Mundane

So, if you also read my Project365 photoblog, you already know that we did the whole big “eat bad food, watch several movies” thing over the weekend. It’s something I’ve been wanting to do for a while. We’re really behind on seeing a lot of movies that have been out on DVD for the last few months. Plus, I’ve been really craving pizza. So, Saturday we ordered Papa John’s pizza (the Works, and we tried their little dessert cinna-pizza) and then on Sunday, we ordered take out Chinese from the place a few blocks from our house. Yummy! Tim always gets chicken with garlic sauce (spicy) and I always get shrimp with broccoli. We ordered some steamed dumplings, which is my most favorite thing that this particular place makes.

Anyway, here’s the movies we rented:

I thought I would do some quick movie reviews, then I got to thinking – I basically always like the movies we watch and the books I read! I am not a very good person to give a thoughtful, insightful kind of review. I just like to escape and I like to be entertained. I don’t like to really analyze the movies and dissect them. I just like to watch them and enjoy them 🙂

We liked all 3 movies, but we did enjoy “The Illusionist” the best. Very good movie, with a good plot, good characters and actors, and it was actually fairly clean. We both give it an 8 out of 10. The other two movies, we liked for different reasons. “My Super Ex-Girlfriend” is so lite and cheesy and campy, and even though it has a bit of off-color humor and crassness to it (and a bit of bad language), it is just so easy to laugh along to all of its silliness. We give it a 7 out of 10. The last movie was one I rented purely for myself, “A Good Year“. I had read the book “A Year in Provence” by Peter Mayle a couple of years ago and enjoyed it. I had thought this movie was loosely based on this book, but from what I remember about the book, the two don’t have anything remotely in common! I enjoyed it, nonetheless, and Tim said he did too, although I’m sure he would say this was his least favorite movie of the ones we got. The pace of this movie is slower, and it wants you to stop and think about your life and your job and your choices, and I really liked it. I thought it had a certain charm and a certain quality to it, that I really enjoyed. But, that’s just me, I love movies about appreciating the simple things in life.

So, there you go. We at least knocked 3 movies off our ever-growing list. We haven’t rented hardly any movies this year, and we’ve only been to the theater once. This is way behind schedule for us. I know it will pick up a lot more in the summer. Once our shows like 24, Idol, Lost, Survivor, etc go off for the summer sometime in May, we’ll start renting a lot more movies. I say every year that we want to try Netflix, but somehow, we never seem to get around to it. One reason could be the 100+ DVD’s we already own, and the massive amount of channels we get on our digital cable. Anyway, if you have any movies you’ve seen lately and would recommend, leave me a comment and let me know 🙂 We still have a lot left to rent, and I’m always looking for more good ones to add to that list!