Boredom + Productivity = Still Boredom

[batmantis275]

My wife and son are out of town for the next week. In fact, they've been gone since 5 days ago. Part of me doesn't mind. I've gotten quite a bit done. I've used our (stolen from a friend) steam cleaner to do most of the house's carpets, cleaned the downstairs bathroom really well, did some laundry, re-caulked the bathtub, and cut down/pruned our oleanders. Which, really, on paper, that doesn't look as big a deal as I would hope it would. Still, that's a mighty big weekend considering I also worked nine and a half hours of overtime as well. I also did a lot of movie watching and video game playing. A lot of those.

Since July 28th I have seen the following movies and TV shows:

• Gun Shy: A nice little film with Liam Neeson and Sandra Bullock. Liam Neeson is a neurotic assassin that "just wants out." Sandra Bullock is the generic (if somewhat kookie) love interest. I actually really liked the film. I even continued to enjoy it and watch it after I'd realized (about 45 minutes in) that I've seen it before.
• Eden of the East (Anime): Not too bad. A decent anime. Though, in fairness, I mostly just had it on in the background while I did my 9.5 hours of overtime. It was a pretty serious anime and the ending was... abrupt and kind of left me disappointed. Still, I liked it; the story was quite good.
• Analyze This:I remember when this one came out I thought, "I should see that." Here we are, like a decade later, and I saw it. It was good. I liked it. It's a cute little movie about a mobster played by Robert De Niro who need a psychologist to help him out, played by Billy Crystal (meh). It's a cute buddy film. It's predictable and cliched, but I still liked it quite a bit.
• Battle for Terra: This is a computer animated film made by some studio nobody cares about staring a bunch of folks that you'd probably say, "O. That guy. From that thing." Honestly, this movie was beautiful graphically, and I really liked the story, but it lacked polish. It feels like they sat down and wrote a script for a 2 hour movie and then were told, "You have 80 minutes." It just feels like it's missing some story elements, some logic, and some polish. Still, it's not a bad movie, I liked it. It's your standard "humans are evil" kind of sci-fi film not unlike James Cameron's Avatar.
• Scorched: Another movie that I realized I'd already seen about 30 minutes into it. Still, I really liked this one. It's a comedy full of good actors. It's about several unhappy bank employees who all independently decide to rob the same bank on the same day. It's really cute.
• Every Day: I waited and waited and waited the entire movie for Liev Schreiber to be the double-agent, bad guy. Honestly, skip it. It's boring. It's depressing. And while it has its moments, and it's not a bad film, it's just kind of "meh." If it was on TV, you could watch it. Or, let's say, you're home alone for two weeks and you'll watch just about anything.
• Safe Men: I've rarely seen a movie with this many jew jokes in it. Not like derogatory ones, but jokes about Bar Mitzvahs and Yom Kippur and Yalmulke and stuff. It's ... cute. It's got Steve Zahn and like 8 or 9 other decent actors playing Jewish mafia type guys. It's a comedy and everyone just kind of incompetently gets into goofy situations and generally has fun. I liked it, but it's one of those clearly low budget films that probably won't be for everyone.
• Sekirei (anime): This is the anime I was looking for. I've never heard of it before, I don't mean, "I've been looking around for this one specifically," I mean that it's the style I wanted. It's an action/comedy, goofy, pokes-fun-at-itself kind of anime. It's got fun fighting scenes and that standard Japanese teenage boy is awkward and stumbles upon a sort of mystical/magical kind of world things going on. In fact, at one point, one of the characters in the show calls him something very much to that affect, which is then following by "What did you say?" What? "What?" I haven't finished it yet, but I've really enjoyed the first three episodes. (DISCLAIMER: Contains some booby nudity.)