Quarterly Viewing


Wherein Our Heroine's Entry Is Just One Big Cry for Help.
John and I are very, very behind in our movie viewing.

I am not quite sure, but I believe the last movie we saw in a theatre was The Triplets of Belleville. John insists that we've seen one since then, but he can't name it, so that insistence is suspect (well, he's an international terrorist - anything he says is suspect). In general, we see about one movie in a movie theatre per quarter, which is pathetic enough. The fact that we haven't even been able to keep up that reckless pace of movie-viewing is absurd.

Since the TiVo made the Netflix account obsolete, we really haven't seen any movies at all. But the Christmas holiday is coming, John is taking the week off, and we are staying home rather than trekking across Connecticut. This little enterprise, which we did for three years running, entailed three household visits sandwiched into one week, bookended by two all-day drives! And the dog comes too! And we always had a mad scramble to get someone to take care of the cats! Fun!

We have some things tentatively penciled in to our Week of Blissful Repose: a visit or three to the Smithsonian museums of our choice, long treks with the dog out in the fresh air, and vast quantities of good food. However, I am thinking we need to get some movie-viewing in as well. Here are some of the titles I have been mulling over - leave a comment if you have some suggestions.

- Our neighbors have informed us that we must see "What the Bleep do We Know?"

- I have heard way too many good things about "The Incredibles" not to see it. Plus, just the trailer footage with Mr. Incredible trying to buckle his super-suit was enough to make me laugh out loud.

- "Finding Neverland" sounds sappy, but has Johnny Depp. The latter wins out over the former.

- I doubt we'll feel masochistic enough to take in "Vera Drake," but it does sound amazing.

Other recommendations? DVDs of recent films (recent = within the last 2 years) that are good enough to make us brave the idiocy that is Blockbuster? Help us! We're cinematically deficient!
Posted: Tuesday - November 30, 2004 at 07:57 AM         | |

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