My friend Anna, as a method of passing time while doped up after surgery, decided to have a Bad Movie Off. The starring features were Steven Seagal’s On Deadly Ground, and Lou Diamond Phillips’ Alien Express. The utterly wonderful verdict is here. *laughs and laughs* I liked her writeup so much I read the entire thing out loud to the boys. :)
My personal contender for Worst Movie Ever is probably the 2000 Godzilla with Matthew Broderick, because I have never before or since found myself shouting, “STEP ON HER! *STEP ON HER*! *AWWW*,” at the monster when it did not squish the .unbelieveably. insipid and *stupid*, *stupid*, *STUPID* blonde bimbo lead. On Deadly Ground is unquestionably a worse movie, but Godzilla is the only one that ever made me shout at the screen. :)
And speaking of movies, Ted and I went to see Red Eye tonight, and although my goodness, that was the longest setup I’ve ever seen, especially in a movie that’s only 85 minutes long, it was really pretty decent. I like Cillian Murphy (how could I not, with that name?) and Rachel McAdams is fine, and it was suspenseful but not gross (yay PG-13!), so I really rather enjoyed it. But the best part was when the teenage girl who was directly in front of me got increasingly nervous about what was going to happen, and started crawling up into her seat and sitting on her heels, until her head and shoulders blocked the better part of the screen, and I leaned forward to touch her shoulder and ask her to scoot down and she went BLEEEEEEEEEE! all over the place. *laughs out loud* That was the best part. :) I didn’t *mean* to scare her. *laughs and laughs*
We came home and my big strong handsome boys took the kitchen lights down. I helped a little, but mostly it was Ted with some relief pitching by Shaun. Tomorrow I’ll wash the ceiling, and then the nice men from the electrician company will come over bright and early and put up new lights, and the kitchen will look completely different. Cool!
miles to Mount DOOOOOOOOOOM: 80