A Blockbuster of a Blockbuster Sale!

I’ve been wanting to watch the movie Idiocracy with He Who Makes Me Smile for some time now. (If I had to sit through Zombieland, he can sit through one of my favorite dumb movies.)

So I wandered into my local Blockbuster to see if they had it for sale previously viewed and they did! The movie was priced $9.99 OR 4/$25. I like money. And I like a good deal so I kept looking…and found Blades of Glory! Now I have no choice. I need to find two more movies…

At the checkout the nice Blockbuster employee tells me my total and says “do you know what that means?” (Um, that I owe you $25+?) No! I get two pops, two candy boxes and popcorn FREE!

Being the obese woman with four movies in her hand…the first instinctive thing I said out loud to the nice cashier was…

Was.

“Oh, um, I don’t drink pop or eat microwave popcorn and don’t really need candy…but…”

WHA?

“But I guess I’ll have…well two bottles of water, you have water right? And well…um…” (Looks at candy for 5 minutes and picks two boxes.)

Yep, sometimes looks can be deceiving…the giant lady with four movies isn’t interested in the junk food.

Now tell me that a bag of Tater Tots came with any purchase of $25 or more and I’d be jumping for joy.

I know! I’m just in the wrong age demographic!

See, I’m 36! Not 18-35! Maybe this is why I think the movie “The Social Network” is um, pointless? (I’m being kind.)

Are people out there going to actually see this movie?

Am I supposed to know who these people are in the ensemble cast other than Justin Timberlake?

And Aaron Sorkin is behind this one too?!

Mini Vacation Movie Wrapup

Ah…longing for the days last week when life was filled with two toddler boys, central air and all the TV you could ever dream of asking for, on demand.

During my time in Cleveland I watched a few movies after my friends went to bed. Surprise, we are on different time schedules. They have a 3 and 5 year old. And I have…all night to be awake!

Despite having every channel known to man on a LARGE screen TV all to myself in the basement bedroom, I found not too much worth watching. I found three movies that kept my interest. And they were all deliciously girly and cheezy.

Sex and the City

Yep. I finally watched the first SATC movie. I was a fan of the series, but never really cared to see the movie in theaters or apparently anywhere else for that matter. Carrie drives me NUTS and BIG even more nuts. I enjoyed the scene where Big breaks Carrie’s heart. Stupid woman should have known better. Me, I’m a fan of Steve so I felt sorry for him during the movie. Charlotte and Samantha, eh who cares. I watched it. The end.

27 Dresses

SURPRISE! I actually *liked* this movie! I’m not a fan of the lead actress at all but for some reason I enjoyed her in this role. Besides—27 DRESSES! My favorite number! I learned not to fall in love with your boss and then fall in love with someone else and then kiss your boss. Good to know. Adorable couple. Cute movie.

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Not sure why I decided on this one but I’m glad I stuck with it cause it ended up being, being…um, dare I say somewhat *cute* even with the porno aspects. Funny movie. Really enjoyed both of the leads and watching the friendship turn to love.

Small Mailman

List of Oscar Nominated Movies All Things Jennifer Watched This Year

1. Up

And the only reason I watched UP was because I was with my 4 year old niece at Smith Movie Night.

Now,  I know I’m not a movie person, but my goodness what rock have I lived under in 2009? Oh yeah the same one that had SINGLE LADIES by Beyonce as my anthem…out and about!

I read (and loved) the book Julie and Julia. And would like to see that someday.

The fact that Colin Firth is in a movie called “A Single Man” is reason enough for me to want to see this one. Swoon.

And the same goes for “Sherlock Holmes” but only because I have a huge crush on Iron Man Robert Downey Jr.

I don’t HATE movies and I do tend to watch more movies when dating cause you know DVD = *innocent* cuddle time. So perhaps I will get out more in 2010? Then again these days, I just prefer cuddling with a good book. Or if a man is involved, skip over the movie crap and get down to cozy…life is short.

Be excellent to each other!

I hate headlines. Not sure what I would have used instead, but this one is bland.

Buffalo to have major role in movie

Actor Keanu Reeves will produce and star in a new movie to be filmed in Buffalo this fall. Production of the romantic comedy, “Henry’s Crime,” is scheduled to begin here in November, the entertainment-trade magazine Variety reported on its Web site Monday.

An episode of the NBC comedy “The Office” was shot last week on the Maid of the Mist in Niagara Falls. And several independent filmmakers have expressed interest in Buffalo recently, he said.

Bring it!

Me and You and…

I can’t believe I sat through this movie the other night. My brother luckily fell asleep. I wasn’t as lucky.

Me and You and Everyone We Know

Ok, some lines were funny…but…

“I want to poop back and forth forever?”

Wax On- Wax—

Jackie Chan as Mr. Miyagi

I don’t think I can bear to watch a Karate Kid movie without the Ralph Macchio as the lead.

Twilight?

Continuing along the trend of I don’t care even one little bit…

Twilight?

All of a sudden this week I see status updates all over talking about reading Twilight. And yesterday, I see people talking about going to see Twilight.

And I’m sitting here thinking I’m a reasonably well-informed intelligent person and I have no freaking idea what this Twilight is that everyone is speaking of…I can guess, the next Harry Potter right?

Yeah, not even a little bit on my radar. I just can’t wrap myself around these books/movie/series that sweep the nation I guess. Doesn’t peak my interest one bit. And I guess I do a good job of keeping things I could care less about like this off my radar somehow despite thinking I’m a well informed citizen. Interesting.

The (Not So) Incredible Hulk

Ah, this movie thing is already starting to get old. See what happens when I see an excellent movie like Iron Man? I am spoiled for all other movies, especially comic book ones.

After spending a day in the country with Mark’s family (well, half of his family none of the younger nieces/nephews/cousins/siblings were around, we were the youngest people there by decades) we decided to hit the Drive In Movie (second time this year baby) to see HULK.

HULK because Mark loves comic books, especially Marvel. And Hulk because I love Edward Norton.

And Hulk because well, Iron Man was playing the late screen later!

I’m not a big movie person but man oh man there’s no better way to see a movie AND spend a lovely night outside…

So what did I think of the Hulk? Meh.

Lots of Rwar! RWAR! RWWWWAAAAR!

Lots of bits of sweetness in Liv Tyler (could there be a cuter scientist?) And well Edward Norton is always good. But the poor guy didn’t have much of a character to develop. RWAR! But this is the essence of a comic book movie right?

The villian was boring. Oh, I am a man who is in the Army who wants to ask the General what the scary giant thing was that attacked me. Oh, I am a man who is smart and powerful and wishes I could be more powerful and go back 20 years. Oh, I am a man who is now being injected by something, ouch, and now I am powerful. And I want to be even MORE POWERFUL.

Yeah, no personal connection between the random guy *The Abonomination* and *The Hulk* unless I missed something? Not the same in Iron Man. ALL PERSONAL. Going after the evil insurgents who held him captive. Personal. Going after evil, evil Obadiah Stone who was selling STARK WEAPONS TO THE INSURGENTS. Very personal. Oooh, such a great movie!

Anyhow, back to the Hulk? Um. I never really get over the disconnect in movies like this. For example, when Mr. Green emails Mr. Blue the data Homeland Security is smart enough to find out who Mr. Blue IS but somehow Bruce (Mr. Green) and Betty can trollop through the city unnoticed going halfway across town by cab and foot and arrive on campus and have Dr. Sterns (Mr. Blue) hook him up to a possible antidote to cure him AND have time to have a shoot the shit follow up session and then show the two of them the lab where he somehow made hundreds and hundreds of samples of the Hulk blood ALL BEFORE THE FBI/ARMY GET THERE?

Um, yeah. Sure, sure.

Needless to say, I rate The Incredible Hulk much closer to the Indy Scale of movies than the Iron Man scale.

BUT FOR THE LAST FIVE MINUTES. Which made me drool.

Aside: I caught a little bit of Raiders of the Lost Ark the other night on the TeeVee and I wish that the Indy movie I saw had just a bit more of that charm found in the few scenes Mark made me watch. Oh well.

Aside: Aside: I started watching the 2nd feature of Iron Man while Mark fell asleep in the back of the truck. I really, really didn’t want to leave, was loving it again, but seeing poor Mark all curled up and exhausted knowing he was running a race the next morning kicked my sense of goodness back into gear.

Tony Stark is so fucking dreamy, I can’t stand it.

My night at the movies: A Mixed Review

Pros: Time spent with Mark, Seeing Movies at the Drive In, the View, the Strawberries, Grapes, California Rolls and Chocolate Covered Pretzels we brought along. And IRON MAN.

Cons: Indiana Jones and the somethingsomething of Utter Ridiculousness.