March Media
Movies:
Eagle Eye This is the second time I’ve tried to watch this movie. The first time I made it through a whopping 5 minutes before I gave up. This time I made it 90 minutes before shrieking “there’s another half hour to go?!” And then I realized I couldn’t care less how it ended, and gave up. But damnit, my effort counts! This is going down as being watched.
America’s Sweethearts I watched this when it first came out, and was horribly disappointed. Not sure what posessed me to watch it again. I was alone at my grandparents house rifling through their DVD’s and it seemed like the best of the bunch. It sucked just as much as the first time though. I might have been better off just watching color bars.
Nights in Rodanthe So, I thought this was supposed to be a charming romance. I did not realize it was going to make me BAWL MY EYES OUT. Such the terrible choice for my pity party DVD.
Duplicity I enjoyed it! PG hated it. Make of that what you will.
Body of Lies Also attemped to watch this during my pity party. It took me 3 ½ hours to watch the first 40 minutes, because I would get bored and wander around, surf the web, eat some ice cream, etc. I finally made myself finish it on the plane ride out to LA. I’m not sure I really needed to finish it.
12 Rounds I watched this one night in San Diego when it was nasty weather and it was a Sunday night and everything was closed and I was bored. I chose it because, well, it was playing at the right time. Surprise surprise…it wasn’t awful! I even think I enjoyed it! John Cena is by far one of the worst actors I have ever seen, wooden and unable to emote, but as long as he didn’t speak and just did scenes running or jumping or pulling things…he was great!
Books:
Chasing Harry Winston - Lauren Weisberger Ah, the story of this book…so this has not been released in paperback yet in the US. But the hotel we were at in Vietnam back in November had a “leave a book take a book” rack in the lobby. Chelsea needed a book, so she grabbed this one. She dragged it around Vietnam and then Bali before finally finishing it, at which point she put it on the “leave a book take a book” area of our bali hotel. Which is where I snagged it, and smuggled it back to the US. At which point I dragged it aroudn the country- first started reading it in NY, the LA, the finally finished it in Florida. It was quite the entertaining, stupid, perfect chick lit book.
Hold Tight - Harlan Coben Yay! New Harlan Coben! Yay!
She Went All The Way - Meg Cabot I got this for like $2 on half.com, and read it on my grandparents patio in Florida. (although really it is the perfect beach book, not patio book, but whatever.) So predictable, so stupid, so demeaning, and so perfect for my pity party weekend. I loved every minute of this piece of crap.
3rd Degree- James Patterson I snagged this from my grandparents bookcase when I finished my stupid chick lit book and was left book-less. I have railed against James Patterson for so many years that it physically pained me to pick up this book. And it pained me way more when I thoroughly enjoyed it. I love how this month I read absolutely nothing of substance. I think it says a lot about my attitude recently, and my need to consume pure CRAP.
Eagle Eye This is the second time I’ve tried to watch this movie. The first time I made it through a whopping 5 minutes before I gave up. This time I made it 90 minutes before shrieking “there’s another half hour to go?!” And then I realized I couldn’t care less how it ended, and gave up. But damnit, my effort counts! This is going down as being watched.
America’s Sweethearts I watched this when it first came out, and was horribly disappointed. Not sure what posessed me to watch it again. I was alone at my grandparents house rifling through their DVD’s and it seemed like the best of the bunch. It sucked just as much as the first time though. I might have been better off just watching color bars.
Nights in Rodanthe So, I thought this was supposed to be a charming romance. I did not realize it was going to make me BAWL MY EYES OUT. Such the terrible choice for my pity party DVD.
Duplicity I enjoyed it! PG hated it. Make of that what you will.
Body of Lies Also attemped to watch this during my pity party. It took me 3 ½ hours to watch the first 40 minutes, because I would get bored and wander around, surf the web, eat some ice cream, etc. I finally made myself finish it on the plane ride out to LA. I’m not sure I really needed to finish it.
12 Rounds I watched this one night in San Diego when it was nasty weather and it was a Sunday night and everything was closed and I was bored. I chose it because, well, it was playing at the right time. Surprise surprise…it wasn’t awful! I even think I enjoyed it! John Cena is by far one of the worst actors I have ever seen, wooden and unable to emote, but as long as he didn’t speak and just did scenes running or jumping or pulling things…he was great!
Books:
Chasing Harry Winston - Lauren Weisberger Ah, the story of this book…so this has not been released in paperback yet in the US. But the hotel we were at in Vietnam back in November had a “leave a book take a book” rack in the lobby. Chelsea needed a book, so she grabbed this one. She dragged it around Vietnam and then Bali before finally finishing it, at which point she put it on the “leave a book take a book” area of our bali hotel. Which is where I snagged it, and smuggled it back to the US. At which point I dragged it aroudn the country- first started reading it in NY, the LA, the finally finished it in Florida. It was quite the entertaining, stupid, perfect chick lit book.
Hold Tight - Harlan Coben Yay! New Harlan Coben! Yay!
She Went All The Way - Meg Cabot I got this for like $2 on half.com, and read it on my grandparents patio in Florida. (although really it is the perfect beach book, not patio book, but whatever.) So predictable, so stupid, so demeaning, and so perfect for my pity party weekend. I loved every minute of this piece of crap.
3rd Degree- James Patterson I snagged this from my grandparents bookcase when I finished my stupid chick lit book and was left book-less. I have railed against James Patterson for so many years that it physically pained me to pick up this book. And it pained me way more when I thoroughly enjoyed it. I love how this month I read absolutely nothing of substance. I think it says a lot about my attitude recently, and my need to consume pure CRAP.