Yesterday was our 7-year wedding anniversary (married in 1998), and to "celebrate" Berta and I went out to Phoenixville to attend a screening of "The Blob" at Blobfest 2005.
The Blob (no, not "Blob the Builder") is a film about a meteor that falls to Earth containing some kind of blob-like creature that gets bigger when it dissolves human flesh. The main character, played by Steve McQueen tries to warn the town against this terror, but he simply can't get people to believe him.
So you might wonder why there is a Blobfest for such a B-movie horror flick. Well, it's because The Blob was filmed right in this area. In fact, the theater in which we watched The Blob yesterday was actually in the movie! more
I saw Bewitched over the weekend and again last night with Berta, and apart from it being a cute and entertaining movie, I have one other significant thing to say about it:
Tom Cruise is insane -- Nicole Kidman is a hottie with brains and actual acting ability.
Katie Holmes may be cute and mousey and part of that WB-generation, but I have yet to see her do anythng that's significant acting-wise.
Nicole's got chops. She's 37 and could easily play early-twenties. She can act. Maybe her Batman movie wasn't the greatest, but she has been in a few good movies. I mean, Katie Holmes never won (and will never win) an Oscar....
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Here is our media cabinet. My mom built this thing to our specifications for storing all of our DVD movies and such. We were originally thinking of moving our CD collection in here, too, but there just isn't enough room.
In the left-side door are all of "Abby's DVDs", the Disney ones and the Muppet ones. There are also a few of the Miyazaki movies that have migrated to that side of the cabinet. Most of our other movies are too violent, obscene, or lewd for Abby to watch, which is why we've separated them.
There is a set of DVDs on teh topmost shelf that we're going to sell at some point. Maybe on eBay. They're great movies like Dude, Where's My Car? and Dick. They've gotta go.
I have a database of DVDs around somewhere, although I'm sure it's not complete since we've added quite a few since the time I scanned everything with the CueCat. Maybe I'll get back to that to keep it up-to-date. There is somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 to 300 movies in there, and it would be difficult to sort out which ones I had already scanned and not.
The complete list from the last time I scanned (a couple years ago?) follows. Seen any of these? more
In tune with a suggestion from somewhere that I review more movies (and I don't know why anyone would suggest this because I can't help but think most people hate my movie reviews), I now present a micro-review of Star Wars Episodes I and II. Yes, The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. more
I saw A Series of Unfortunate Events and Blade Trinity in the past 24 hours. I wasn't really satisfied with either of them. more
