Movie Night with Samantha!

I love movies. My love of movies really blossomed in college with the influence of Smitty. Through my 20s, I did a pretty good job of keeping up with movies. Now that I have a family and especially since Samantha was born, the amount of movies I watched has dropped about as fast as the stock market crash of the 20s.

Well, Samantha turned two last weekend and with each passing day, she has shown more interest in TV (good or bad). Last night while Michelle was getting ready to go to bowling (I have a bit of an injury...another blog for another time) , I turned to Samantha and said, "It is movie night. Do you want to watch a movie?" I am pretty sure she has no idea what I mean but she seemed excited. Anastasia was in our instant queue on Netflix so we decided on that. Michelle left for bowling and Samantha and I were on the couch starting our movie night adventure.

Now, did Samantha sit for a whole movie? No. She was fairly good though.
Did she even make it through the whole movie? No. She went to bed about an hour into the movie.
Did she play with stickers and other things during the movie? Sure. No way she going to pay attention the whole way.

Did she have popcorn in a purple bowl? OH, you bet!







Watching on the floor was fun for a while...but....



the couch is the way to go (as she learned VERY quickly).



I think she was taunting me in that last picture.

Anyway, we had a good time and I am looking forward to many more movie nights!

A Truely Scary Movie

Ok, so I haven't blogged in a while and will give you a recap tomorrow. Right now, since Halloween is right around the corner I want to tackle the theme of scary movies. I was talking to a couple co-workers today and we were trying to come up with a scary movie. Now, there were movies that scared us as kids but when you back and re-watch them, they are not that scary. I would like you the reader to throw out there a couple scary movies that you have seen.

To go a little further, I really think that you need to be in the right setting for a movie to really be scary. I dare anyone to rent a log cabin in the woods, watch Strangers and not be scared out of their mind. I do not think it is possible. Then you have a movie like Jaws. Tell me that doesn't make you think twice about swimming in the ocean.

It is no doubt that the Exorcist was the scariest movie growing up in my eyes. Now, I am not so sure. I really do put Strangers up there and I think the Shining needs to be in the conversation.

Anyway, I think the movie, Paranormal (is that the name), has a chance of being really good too.

Happy Halloween!

Here is a small list to help.

The Shining, Carrie, Poltergeist, Jaws, Silence of the Lambs, Halloween, Strangers, Seven, Blair Witch Project, Exorcist, Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Saw - Just to name a few.

Kurt Russell vs. Patrick Swayze

I was having a discussion at lunch about it being Kurt Russell's birthday and I accidentally confused him with Patrick Swayze. Now, this is really unforgiveable but in my defense, I did watch Roadhouse this weekend so Swayze was on the mind.



After thinking about it more, Swayze and Russell have had similar career paths. So I am putting this to my readers. Who, in your opinion, do you like more? Whose movies are you a bigger fan of?



Let me give you a little list of highlights of movies for these guys.



Swayze - Outsiders, Youngblood, Red Dawn, Dirty Dancing, Road House, Point Break, Donnie Darko

Russell - Used Cars, Escape from New York, Big Trouble in Little China, Overboard, Tombstone, Tango & Cash, Stargate.

I left any movies made after 2000. Just the way I am playing this game.

So who do you like more???? Please post your answer in my comment section. I think I will have another post about this based on answers.

Russell is my answer!

Back to the Future - Doc - A Bronco's fan???

So I started watching Back to the Future part I from the VERY beginning this weekend. I happened to catch it on some random movie channel. Anyway, Marty goes over to Doc's house. They pan around to all the clocks and one of the clocks has the old school Bronco logo on it. I can not believe I have never seen that before. Also, I never really thought about where this movie takes place.

The delorian has a California licence plate. I paused the movie. That still does not take away the fact that in my mind, now, forever, Doc will be a Bronco fan. Way to go Doc! Go Broncos!

A few movies

So I have rented a few movies the couple weeks. Here are my thoughts on them.

The Hammer - I give this two thumbs up. If you are an Adam Carolla fan, you will like this movie. This is his movie that all the big movie labels passed on. I enjoyed it and actually, Michelle enjoyed it too.

The Bank Job - I really liked this movie. The opening scene was in the caribbean and involved a Ménage à Trois. I almost stopped the movie to make sure I had the right one. It is about a robbing a bank right? Either way, it was the right movie and it was good. Two thumbs up.

Simon Birch - I rented this because it is loosely based on the book I just read, A Prayer for Owen Meany. The movie basically covered the first part of the book but I did not like it very much. Two thumbs down.

Happy Tuesday!

The battle of 84 minutes

Michelle was going to see Sex and the City tonight with Bridget. I decided to grab a couple of movies that I have been meaning to see but Michelle had no interest in seeing them. My two choices were Cloverfield and Rambo. Both movies were 84 minutes long (sidenote: Cloverfield was really only 75 minutes long). I enjoyed both movies but one was a clear winner.

Rambo- #4 in the series and I would probably put it there when ranking. It was enjoyable and the last 15 minutes is crazy! Lets just say Rambo plus heavy artillery equal one HUGE whooping. It was fun to watch but there was not much substance to this movie.

Cloverfield- This movie was INTENSE. Pure intensity for the last 65 minutes. The whole concept was fantastic and I absolutely loved this movie. Loved it. This movie made me jump multiple times and that usually never happens. I highly recommend this movie. Well done JJ Abrams. Well done.

Well, it is clear who the winner today was.

Final note: Michelle left at 5:40 for a 6:10 movie. I started my movies then. I was done at 8:10 (just in time for game 2). She is still gone at 8:42. Her movie was 145 minutes plus previews and commercials. I will not her before 9. The effeciency of watching movies at home (I do love going to the movies though).

Indiana Jones 19 Years Later

So, it is not very often that my brother and I agree on... well anything. But when it comes to this movie, he took the words out of my mouth.

It has been 19 years since the last Indiana Jones movie. 19 years....At this point Harrison Ford is now collecting social security. I digress. What annoyed me the most is that they waited 19 years for this script. How many scripts did they pass on? Really? The mystic item that Dr. Jones looks for in every movie has always been a religious artifact and pretty interesting. This movie is about ALIENS??? WHAT???? 19 years for a movie on ALIENS!

I agree with my brother that anyone with an IQ over 50 can figure out the connection of Shia's character to Dr. Jones. Overall, it was still an Indiana Jones movie with the action scenes and normal plot line. If you like the Indiana Jones movies, then I recommend seeing it in the theather. Just do not get your hopes up!

Friday night

Well, Friday night was super fun! Everything worked out for me. Ploth and Stacia met me for Iron Man at 7 pm at Webster.

So, new bedroom furniture was being delivered between 3 and 7. I was nervous that they were going to ruin my idea of seeing two movies. Well, I should have known that everything was coming up ME on friday. They showed up at 6 with the furniture. it looks awesome. Michelle did a great job finding it. As soon as they were done putting it together, I left. I got to the theater at 6:45 and downstairs there are handing out free tickets. They tell you that you can watch as many movies as you want. Well, we pre-ordered Iron Man tickets but I got one for my 2nd movie! Sweet! I do not have to break the law! Well, Iron Man rocked and soon as it was over, I jumped out, got in line, got my next ticket and got a hot dog and diet pepsi and walked in to Forget Sara Marshall right before previews started. It was good movie. Iron Man was better. Anyway, everything worked out timing wise and both movies were good.

Friday at the movies!

Well, Michelle is heading down to Florida for the weekend. She leaves today and I am taking the opportunity to hit the movie theater up to see a couple movies that I want to see.

On the list tonight is Iron Man and Forget Sarah Marshall. Both movies have gotten good reveiws from critics and my friends who have seen these movies. I am SUPER excited for these movies. I may even try the buy one ticket and see two movies trick. Yeah, that is right! It costs like $12 to see a movie...I think that should be the cost of just getting into the theater...stay as long as you want. That is a lot of dough!

On a sidenote, I watched There will be blood a couple days ago. I honestly did not like it. I LOVED No country for old men. I thought that was amazing but There will be blood was boring, painful at times, too slow. It was okay but up for movie of the year???really?? I can see the lead actor up for best actor. He did a great job in the role. Anyway, that is my two cents. I am not trying to step on Ahow's toes...

Rocky movies

Okay, new poll! Which Rocky movie is your favorite? I will even add a option of not liking the Rocky movies...trust me there are people out there that do not like the Rocky movies. I know. It sounds crazy. I want everyone to vote!

I, myself, am going to have a tough time figuring out which one I like the best. I do not want to sway votes so I am just going to vote. Enjoy!

Edit: I totally left out Rocky Balboa in my poll. You can not change a poll once the voting has started. So, if you want to vote for Rocky Balboa...i have no idea why you would...i added another poll. Sorry about that!

Five movies guys must see!

Mike and Mike this morning were discussing movies that all guys must see. There are many angles here that you can go. You could be talking sports, comedies, action, etc. I thought about this and the first movie that came to me was Cool Hand Luke. So, I think this would be my list of five. Please leave comments if you wish to put your list on there.

In no particular order...

1. Cool Hand Luke (Newman at his best)
2. Animal House (Ultimate college movie)
3. Dirty Harry or A Fistful of Dollars (Clint Eastwood movies must be on this list)
4. Die Hard (amazing action movie)
5. Slap Shot (need a sports movie in here)

How have I left both Sly and Arnold off the list??? I need your help people!

Crap...I left off Rounders and Swingers!?! and Big Lebowski?!?

Okay...I left off the Godfather...not sure if I can do that either.

I orginally had Hoosiers on there and took it off for Slap Shot. Now, I have two Paul Newman movies...you can see who my favorite actor of all time is...

Rambo's Statistics

Yesterday I received from the always fun Sue Fedea quite the email. It seems that a reporter in LA has broken down the kills in Rambo. I found this breakdown quite enjoyable and I hope you do too!


With this level of increases, if they make a Rambo V, it will be an insane amount of Rambo whoppings!