More Movies

A couple more movies seen, neither of them from the Oscar list. We rented Witless Protection simply for its fourth-grader type humor. And it did not disappoint. Fart jokes and inappropriate innuendo abound, all tucked up in a cute comedy with just a hint of social commentary. Larry the Cable Guy isn’t going to win any acting awards any time soon, but there’s nothing wrong with enjoying the “blue collar comedy” every once in a while. Except for Ron White. Cannot stand him.

Anywho, the other movie we saw this past weekend was The Dark Knight. We went early on Sunday afternoon, the first show of the day. It wasn’t crowded at all, which is what we were going for. We were originally going to try and see it down in Madison on the IMAX. But with Adam’s year-end and now my month-end, there really wasn’t a good day to take off from work and go down there. We also missed it on the UltraScreen here in town as it got bumped by The Mummy III this week. *sigh* So regular screen it was. It’s on the longer side, about two and a half hours, but unlike another movie I endured recently (*cough* Jesse James *cough*) it didn’t seem that long. Well, ok, it seemed like it was three movies in one, but it wasn’t hard to sit through the whole thing. There is so much in terms of plot points, action sequences, etc. that it would be hard to sum the whole thing up easily. I pity the people who go to write the synopsis on IMDB. It’s going to be a long one. But it’s a good movie, perhaps slightly over-hyped, but not much. And $400 million at the box office thus far doesn’t indicate a failure either, now does it?

Blockbuster tells me that 3:10 to Yuma is one its way to us for our viewing pleasure. It should come as no surprise when I say I don’t even want to watch it. But I will. For the good of mankind. And to fulfill my Oscar Movie Challenge. *sigh*

Didn’t do much this past weekend again. Shopping, church, movie, cleaning. We are so boring. I finally managed to get the cooking blog back up to date with the various dishes we’ve tried lately. Nothing too impressive, but I plan to make a mint brownie cake this weekend. I bought the ingredients for it last week but didn’t get around to it. Which puzzles me, since we did pretty much nothing. Who knows where the time goes.

We’re hoping we have a good turnout at the party on Sunday. We cast a bigger invitation net than previous cookouts. It also appears that Adam’s 3-on-3 will be cancelled so we’ll have the next weekend free as well. We’re still messing with actual anniversary plans. We’ve got a coupon to The Melting Pot, but we’ve also got a gift card to Fratellos. Hmm. We’ll see what happens.