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Snowed-in movie night!
Sure, it’s cold outside, but you know … there’s just something about being snowed in that says, “Movie Night!”
Last night we rewatched a couple of oldies/goodies that were on the tube. One was a fun-fun-fun monster movie we like, “Pitch Black,” from 2000 with Radha Mitchell and Vin Diesel. They’re a on a team of space workers stuck on a planet that goes into a lonnnnnnng nightfall, during which swarms of vicious (hungry!) creatures come out of hiding. It’s a bit of a second cousin to “Alien,” but keeps to itself pretty well and has lots of good jolts. The interplay between Mitchell and Diesel is sexy-strong, too. Check it out.
After that, we popped over to TCM, which has been running a great string of Oscar-winning classics this month leading up to the Academy Awards (don’t forget: two Dayton-area folks, Steve Bognar and Julia Reichert, nominated this year! yay!). The movie that was on was “Stalag 17,” with William Holden trying to stay alive in a German WWII POW camp, and it’s a tremendous old B&W flick. Seen it a dozen times, at least, and will always watch it again. What was it about Holden? He seemed like he was jackhammered from a slab of granite, and yet had some deeper well of feeling he always struggled to hide. Nobody like him today.
I came home to find my wife laughing out loud over “In Bruges,” a recent hitman comedy-action caper with Colin Farrell that she said was dark but hilarious. I haven’t heard her laugh that hard over a movie in a while. “You’ve got to watch this,” she said.
OK! More snowed-in tonight!
Sooooooooooooo, there’s snow on the ground at your house, too, I bet: Any recommendations to share?
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By Mariaaa!!!
February 10, 2010 4:42 PM | Link to this
Well, my wife, youngest son, his girlfriend and another friend are watching “Beowulf” right now. Yesterday, the complete family went to the Ceenayma DeeeLuxx and saw “Avatar”. It’s a good movie that should do well.