hours wasted

I’ve never been a big fan of movies.  It’s hard for me to sit still for too long and I get bored easily.  Funny thing is I probably own more movies than most people I know, but they’re pretty much all romantic comedies, with a few other randoms thrown in…mostly kids movies for when I was trying to entertain the children in my life.  I always blamed my hatred of movie watching on Ex-Husband.  I swear to jesiis every single day he’d come home from work and check IFC and Sundance first, then the premium channels, to see if there were any movies on he wanted to watch.  Bleh.  It annoyed the crap out of me.  Yeah, I hadn’t gotten to the “pick your battles” stage of life yet.

Lately I’ve been watching a lot of movies.  Mr. D loves watching them and he’s gotten me into it.  I used to go to his house and in my head I’d be thinking “I soo hope we don’t have to watch another fucking movie tonight”.  Last night, as soon as he sat down on the couch next to me, I asked him to find us a movie to watch.  Partially this is because I’ve ended up watching some movies with him that I’d have never picked out and turned out to be good.  Partially because there’s really nothing else to watch right now and we both love to be lazy on the couch.

The night before I was supposed to leave for South Florida we watched Dear John because I’d finally finished reading the book and wanted to see it.  The book was decent, the moved sucked monkey ass.  That night we also watched Chloe…which was actually pretty good up until the ending when it just didn’t deliver what it could have.

Monday night I watched Up in the Air, which I had very low expectations for, but ended up really liking.  I’ve become a fan of endings I don’t expect and this was definitely one of them.  And George Clooney is never hard to look at.

Last night we watched He’s on My Mind, which was hee-fuckin-larious. Now, it’s not a comedy, so it’s not funny ha-ha.  It’s funny like – who the hell sat at the table and agreed that this would be a good movie to make?  The acting was piss-poor.  The writing was even worse.  But we seriously laughed our asses off because it was soooo bad.  Train wreck bad.  And we finished it, even though the movie didn’t quite finish itself…bad, bad, bad.  But my stomach hurt from laughing so hard.  Seriously.

Then we watched another suck-fest, My Life in Ruins.  It was semi-entertaining for a few minutes, but for the most part just stupid.  I am not a movie critic by any means, either.  I don’t need an epic picture or anything deep.  I just want to be entertained for an hour and a half.  Seems like lately most movies are 2+ hours of crap. 

So go ahead… suggest a movie you think I probably haven’t seen yet.  If it’s a romantic comedy I probably have, but you can try anyway.  I need some movies to watch this weekend and just discovered the joy that is redbox.