Jane Austen movies

Our focus this week is Jane Austen.
We started with Becoming Jane (2007).
We both had trouble staying awake thru it.
We'll finish off with The Jane Austen Book Club (2007).

We will watch following in order they were published:
Sense and Sensibility (1995) - published 1811 (wiki)
Pride & Prejudice (2005) - published 1813 (wiki)
Emma (1996) - published 1815 (wikipedia)

Half Year Anniversary

We've been married six months now!!!!
We were both awake after midnight ...
ate a sliver of the ice cream cake Randy bought.

For the celebration Randy picked up a few things:
an anniversary card and bouquet of purple flowers
and to go with supper a non-alcoholic drink,
Welch's Sparkling white grape juice cocktail.

We also watched some romantic movies:
Happy Together (1989/I) followed by scrabble
A Good Year (2006) followed by wine substitute
Chocolat (2000) followed by "Bliss" chocolate

Thank you, Randy, for marrying me.
Thanks for filling my life with bliss, my darling.
I pray there will be many more years to celebrate.

Birthday Weekend Movies

I let Randy pick the movies we watched together.

Friday (actual birthday):
Better Off Dead... (1985)
To Sir, with Love (1967)
Amélie (2001)
Untraceable (2008)

Saturday:
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
Hugo Pool (1997) - I picked this to help me sleep;
except there were too many great actors in it.

Birthday Week movies

I let Randy pick the movies he liked.
Some he'd seen before and some new.

Monday -
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
The Matrix (1999)

Tuesday -
Ocean's Twelve (2004)
Sin City (2005)

Wednesday -
The Mist (2007)
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)

Thursday -
No Reservations (2007)
Great romantic comedy movie.

End of week movies

Wednesday -
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
Both were pretty okay in my book

Thursday - no movies today
was out looking at houses again
need some lighter viewing to relax ...

Friday - fun stuff
Night at the Museum (2006)
Feds (1988)

Saturday - AFI pick - Giant (1956)
we both fell asleep during it

Sunday - comedy/fun
Man of the House (2005/I)
D.E.B.S. (2004)
Oscar (1991)

Horror Flicks

Today after the third Bourne movie ...
we switched over to the horror genre.
Horror movies often include sci fi and action.
Undead (2003) - meteorites create zombies
Slither (2006) - alien plague creates zombies
Planet Terror (2007) - bio weapon creates zombies
Death Proof (2007) - scarred stuntman stalks women
The Gathering (2002) - it's a mystery!!! (so not telling)
PS - I really do not get the allure of zombies!

Bourne Trilogy

We watched one a day Sunday thru Tuesday.
Randy was anxious to see the third installment.
I agreed to watch all three "action" flicks.
The Bourne Identity (2002)
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)

Weekend Viewing

Saturday we "chilled" with family animation:
Happy Feet (2006) - it's a musical!!!
Ice Age (2002) - reminded me of Jungle Book
Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) - environmental awareness

Serious Sunday: The Song of Bernadette (1943)
similar to The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)

Weekend Events

Mom and dad come over for dinner Saturday.
I made Hearty Chicken and Noodle Casserole,
Blissful Ambrosia and Chocolate Cream Pie.

We finished watching about two dozen Buffy episodes.
Then we started watching season one of The Closer.
Movies we watched were Fargo (1996) - AFI Pick
and Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) - computers.

Monday Tuesday Viewing

Monday:
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
Aftershock (1990)
Fierce Creatures (1997)

Tuesday:
Wedding Crashers (2005)
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" - pilot episode

Randy enjoys Buffy so wanted to share that with me.
Expect to watch a few more select episodes as we ...
await the final season of 4400 in the mail anyday.

Weekend Viewing

Friday:
Duck Soup (1933) - AFI pick
The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
Children of Men (2006) - good

Saturday:
Final Destination (2000)
Final Destination 2 (2003)
Final Destination 3 (2006)

Sunday:
Unlocking DaVinci's Code (2004)
and associated video (need to grab title)
Gattaca (1997)
Evolution (2001)

Mostly Sci Fi

Wednesday:
Americanizing Shelley (2007) *
Queen of Outer Space (1958) *
Princess (2008) (TV) - ABC family - very cute

Thursday:
Puzzlehead (2005) *
Cypher (2002) *
Idiocracy (2006) - ridiculous!!!

*movie rentals from B&G

Sci Fi Movie Day

I am having a tooth extracted tomorrow.
Decided to enjoy some sci fi flicks today.
Sphere (1998) - so many great actors
Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L Jackson,
Peter Coyote, Liev Schreiber and Queen Latifah
Crossworlds (1996) - very interesting
Philadelphia Experiment II (1993) - sequel

Thrillers

We watched some thrillers the last few days.
Many of them were also action and horror.
Resident Evil (2002)
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
The Invasion (2007)
Thr3e (2006)

Back to Classics

After watching a number of sci-fi movies/series lately ...
decided to watch a few classics the last couple of days.

The Fountainhead (1949) - thought provoking
It's about intellectual property - an architect's work.
He dared to design his own way and demanded ownership.
His unique designs reminds me of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) - romance abroad
Three American girls working in Rome find love.

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) - AFI pick of the week

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) - fantasy romance

Frankenstein Legacy

Over the weekend we watched these movies.
Frankenstein was written by Mary Shelley in 1818.

Frankenstein Legacy set:

Frankenstein (1931)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Son of Frankenstein (1939)
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
House of Frankenstein (1944)

The first two were directed by James Whale.
The middle one was directed by Rowland V. Lee.
The latter two were directed by Erle C. Kenton.

To follow it up:

Gothic (1986) - the story of the night Mary Shelley
gave birth to the horror classic Frankenstein.

Frankenstein (1994) - updated version

I have never read the novel but this is said to stick closer to the original. I enjoyed this one more than the 1931 version. Maybe partially because it is distinctively different than other version.

Joshua

Joshua (2002/I) - definately a movie worth recommending to others.
It's about how people would react if Jesus walked among us today.
In actuality it is probably not much different than 2000 years ago.
What stood out was how skeptical people can be about others helping.
Yes, people can be that interested in others even mere strangers.

Joshua appeared to be a wanderer just appearing in the town.
He saw there was work that needed doing and went about doing it.
A church building had been destroyed by a storm so
he started fixing it and in turn other townsfolk joined in.
People of all faiths and backgrounds joined in the effort.

Weekend Movies

Saturday was crime drama movies.
We wanted something more intelligent.
They all had to do with computers/hackers.

Swordfish (2001) starring John Travolta
Convicted hacker played by Hugh Jackman
is recruited by Halle Berry to work for Travolta.
He has to do it because his daughter is being held.
In the end the federal authorities recognize that.
So he and his daughter are allowed to reunite.

Firewall (2006) starring Harrison Ford
Bank's security expert is forced to hack for crocks.
His family was held in their home while he was to continue
to go to work and find a way for them to hack into system.
His wife was played by Virginia Madsen
and his assistant was Mary Lynn Rajskub.

Johnny Mnemonic (1995) starring Keanu Reeves
This one had a sci fi element.
He was hired to carry in his brain data.
The problem is they overload him causing problems.
The challenge is to get the information out
preferably without him losing his life.

Sunday night Randy watched the Detroits Tigers.
So I decided to watch a few movies on my own.

Flirting with Disaster (1996)
A comedy starring so many good people.
The cast aside this was a pretty odd story.

Casanova's Big Night (1954)
A classic comedy starring Bob Hope.
I had seen this before; wanted to see it again.

Adventure Movies

The AFI movie tonight was Easy Rider (1969).
I guess it depicted the hippie-stoner life style.
Rather than find other movies like that ...
I decided to take the "adventure" element
to find other movies to watch with it.

Earthsea (2004)
Listed genres as fantasy, drama, adventure
Admittedly I have never read the books it is based on.
I really liked this - it kept my interest thru out
moreso than Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings.
It does seem to be a cross between the two -
it has a magic school for wizards like Harry Potter
and there is the adventure/quest like the Lord of the Rings.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Listed genres as adventure, comedy, sci-fi
All I can really say is this is very odd.

Flint not Clint

Thursday movies in review -

I am not big into action movies.
I probably have not see much with Clint Eastwood ...
but I do like Derek Flint and found out so did Randy.
Derek Flint is played by James Coburn in
Our Man Flint (1966) and In Like Flint (1967).
These movies are a spoof of James Bond "007" movies.
The Flint character is very intelliegent on many subjects ...
"Flint is the worlds greatest secret agent, ...
an expert on electronics and Dolphin speech
and goes to Moscow for Ballet (To Teach!)"

We only had one of the Flint movies so had to rent the other.
At the rental place Randy also picked up a horror flick ...

Bug (2006) - suppose to be a dramatic horror thriller
I saw quite a bit before falling asleep and saw NO horror.
Randy said he also never saw bugs. (scratch head now)
Randy said it was moreso a physchological thriller.
It stars Ashley Judd which is usually pretty good.