I'm home alone on a Saturday night (pathetic, I know) - the kid is at a sleepover, and the spouse is at a concert because his ex had ONE extra ticket (because she couldn't go for some reason so my husband and her husband went to meet and greet Judas Priest. Feh)

I went out and rented some chick flicks...

Bucket List was funny and I enjoyed it. But it ( Read more... )

Tonight we watched 10000BC and once I realized it was supposed to be a fantasy, I had a much better time dealing with all the ridiculousness (although I did yell at the screen when the African chieftan handed the lead guy the bag of corn.) We did do a lot of snarking and asking "Where's the Stargate?" once the film moved to the pyramid-building ( Read more... )

I wanted to see Jumper based on a preview on another DVD I rented a few months ago. It looked intriguing. R was less impressed with the trailer, but he became engrossed in it yesterday when we watched it. It was a pretty good SF story (I think I want to read the book from which it was derived now to see if there is more to it), and it didn't ( Read more... )

All the gifts are wrapped. There are a lot of them, which is strange because the younger generation is now all in their 20's (with the exception of my daughter), and their preferred present comes in an envelope instead of a box. Of course this it the grandchild's first Christmas, and my stepson is making a big deal about that (but the kid is maybe ( Read more... )

As I posted on Friday, I went out and rented 2 movies (instead of one, but at least I didn't rent four of them!). I got both the Queen  and Eragon.  My TiVo also recorded Bubba Ho-Tep which was broadcast yesterday on IFC (uncut/no commercials), which I also had not yet seen, and we watched last night.

I thoroughly enjoyed The Queen. I suppose Helen ( Read more... )