A Year of Movies

Week 22: May 28, 2010 to June 3, 2010

First, I apologize for the delay in updating my year long movie quest. Summer with the family has been keeping me busy. Second, as I've blogged about briefly, in addition to pursuing this odd quest, and keeping up with the kids, I've worked on my own low-budget, short Indie Movie. Primary filming is done and we only need to capture a couple of extra shots at a train station in order to get the flashback scene finished. Hopefully, we'll be able to schedule that by the end of this month and start editing the movie next month. It also sounds like we will be getting our website up and running soon--when it is, I'll include a link here.

And now, back to our regular program...

Total number of movies watched: 10

219. Criminal Ways (aka The Wannabes (2003)) -- a small caper movie with a young Isla Fisher and starring Nick Giannopoulos. This was an odd movie, funny at times, with some songs which stuck in my head. It reminded me a little of Death to Smoochie -- but perhaps that's just because of the silly animal character and an oddball cast of 'criminals'. Since I have heard my share of kid's show songs, I'd actually welcome some of these silly (and crude) songs from time to time...

220. Night at the Museum -- I'd seen this at the theater when it first came out with my oldest son, and now that my little guy was old enough to watch it, I thought I'd share this movie with him too. He's a fan of real museums and he has a vivid imagination, so he really enjoyed watching all the various exhibits come to life in this movie. Overall, the whole family enjoyed it and the kids of course thought the monkey was hilarious.

221. As Good As It Gets -- I watched this one with my wife. I remember the first time I watched this movie not really enjoying it--the same goes for my wife, but as we watched it this time around, we both found ourselves drawn into the story, and laughing, and truly enjoying the viewing experience. This is really a great and unusual romantic comedy.

222. I Love You, Man -- What a bromance! A silly and enjoyable movie.

223. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time -- I took the boys to the theater to see this. While it's not a 'great' movie--it was definitely a fun summer movie and frankly if that's all you're going to a theater to see, a 'fun' movie, then you'd probably be satisfied by this. Lots of action. Lots of fighting. Lots of fun.

224. The Blind Side -- Another movie I watched with my wife. I thought it was a good movie. I liked the real life story behind the movie. Sandra Bullock was quite good in this--but then, I like her in most of her movies. An inspirational movie.

225. A Night at the Roxbury -- Every so often, you just need to watch a silly movie, you know? And this one has some really fun music too.

This ends May -- with a total of 38 movies watched during that month.

226. Big -- A great movie. Funny, touching, this is a movie I've loved for many years.

227. 13 Going on 30 -- I know this movie was often compared to Big when it first came out -- obviously it has a similar premise -- but after watching them back-to-back I realized that while the comparison has some merit, I enjoyed this movie on its own. Jennifer Garner just lights up the screen and she was perfectly cast in this role as the teen-turned-30 year old.

228. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian -- Watched this with my little guy. He liked it, but we both agreed that we liked the first one better. Still, it was a fun movie and if they made a third one, we'd both probably want to see it.

Well, that's it for this week. My favorite -- well, Big has long been a favorite, and 13 Going on 30 was truly enjoyable, and The Blind Side was a great, inspiration movie, but my favorite has to be A Night at the Roxbury....okay, just kidding....(though, I really do enjoy that movie). As Good As It Gets earns this week's nod as my favorite.

I'll try to get caught up on these posts very soon!