Update

This daily dvd thing will never work if we don't actually watch the dvds daily, but we are trying. Really! Even though it's been 3 MONTHS since my last post, we have watched a few movies since then. It's just been a rough couple of months - a lot of traveling, a few medical procedures, and a birthday weekend for the little one.

Honestly - it really doesn't seem like 3 months. I was shocked when I saw the date of the last post...I really thought I had just posted a few weeks ago. Oh, well.

Celeb look-alikes

Daily DVD

Alien: This is an excellent movie. Lots of tension, just the right amount of gross-out, and a strong female protagonist (a.k.a. Action Girl). I really prefer nuanced tension and character development in my horror/sci-fi, and this joint delivers. It also helps that I had not watched it in many years, so when this baby was next on the list, it was like visiting an old friend. Since we have actually watched the next movie (Aliens), it is difficult for me to write this little recap without comparing the two, but I will try. I love the ride Scott takes us on - we aren't really sure what we're dealing with when the alien is introduced, and I love how all the characters are just focused on getting monetarily compensated for the extra journey to check out the distress signal (there is definitely a trope for that, but I can't seem to find it). Things quickly go south, and despite a few annoying mis-steps (you know they are dead - why are you wasting precious minutes going to check on them? Yeesh - Ripley, watch some more movies!), I really enjoy the pace and the fake-outs. I believe I am in the minority when I say that I prefer this original 'Alien' to it's sequel.

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Alien Apocalypse: This dvd was purchased for one reason only: Bruce Campbell wielding a flame-thrower and a harpoon gun (make that two - the title added to the appeal). I mean, really - who wouldn't want to see a movie with 'The Chin' wrecking shit and killing aliens? However, once the disc was popped into the player, 'SciFi Pictures' popped onto the screen, and we knew what we were in for. Sure enough, instead of awesome action and one-liners, we got bad puns and even worse wigs. Seriously - the wigs were ABYSMAL!! I loved them. If I knew I could see this on what is now known as 'SyFy' on one of my 'just-terrible-terrible-awful-awful' movie binges, I would've saved the $7 I spent on the dvd, but it was an enjoyable, semi-campy ride.

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We started our DVD collection marathon again, and it has quickly become very apparent that having a baby will not allow us to make it a daily event - more of a weekly event, at best. Whatever - anyway:

Alice in Wonderland: I purchased this one because I couldn't remember if I'd ever really seen it before, and someone mentioned in passing that it was a fun movie to pop in while sick and hallucinating from a high fever. It is disturbing enough without the addition of a fever dream, but when I tried watching it while sick, I just passed out from NyQuil and remembered nothing.

The animation is amazing, and some of the images are quite iconic. The adaptation from the original work is a bit loose, but nobody really seems to mind. It's a great movie to have on dvd to watch once the beeb grows up and actually starts to understand the bright colors flashing on the screen, but the 'literary nonsense' genre doesn't do all that much for me. Classic animation and a classic story - perhaps not one of my favorites, but enjoyable nonetheless.

Daily moviefilm

It's Chrimma time! This means that most of the movies and dvds we are watching are holiday movies and specials. Rudolph, Charlie Brown, George Bailey, Clark W. Griswold, Ralphie and a plethora of other friendly faces have been taking up the screen. We are okay with that.

I've also been re-watching LOST from the beginning in preparation for the final season, which I am excited and sad about. I can't wait to see what the boys have in store for us as they wrap up one of the best shows ever, but the thought of not having any more new episodes EVER? So, so sad.

This is also little Ocho's first Christmas (outside the womb), so it will be extra special. Life is good. :)

Yikes! It's been awhile!

Yesterday I watched two movies I had not yet seen: The Twilight Saga: New Moon and Star Trek. One was cheese, the other excellent. However, I really like cheese (being from Wisconsin and all), and New Moon was a pleasant way to spend a Monday afternoon. No judgement - I read all the books and I enjoy the whole ridiculousness the way many people enjoy professional wrestling or bad reality t.v. It amuses me that the same people who made the second Transformers movie the number 9 box office movie of all time are ripping on a teenage vampire romance. Whatever.

I need to re-watch Star Trek, however, because as enjoyable as I found it, I also found myself falling asleep at the end because the day had just been too exhausting (as well as the night before when I took my celebration of becoming a SAHM just a bit too far).

Review to come.