Watching with the girls
I don't think there is anything that gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling
more than settling down on a cold, dark, rainy winter afternoon and
watching a funny kid flick with my two little girls (5 and 4). We
head downstairs to the home theater, turn down the lights, pull up a
warm blanket and fire up the DVD player.
Today it was Pixar's
Monster's Inc. [Info] 
[Buy] from 2001 and we
all had a grand time. They both enjoyed the show and I liked it well
enough, but just being with my girls and giggling to a silly movie
made it all worthwhile. You can read my full review
here.
Picking it up on Friday made me realize just how little I missed the
Blockbuster video store experience. It being a rainy Friday evening,
the place was mob, the shelves were a disaster, the employees harried
(even if they kept calling out from the register "Next guest please" -
give me a break already!), hardly any movies were around and the crowd
was young and noisy. Yeecchh! I've always figured I'd get the hard
to find movies from Netflix and pick up the more popular ones that
Blockbuster serves up by the dozen locally, but perhaps it is time to
change that idea. I'd rather not have to go back in there again, if
you ask me! Give me Netflix any day.
I also watched one of my Netflix movies last (Friday) night.
In
The Bedroom [Info]
[Buy] stars
Sissy
Spacek and
Tom Wilkinson as parents of a fresh out of high
schooler who falls in love with a much older woman. Set in Camden,
Maine, it was an earnest effort, with many
Oscar nominations. You can read my
review
here.
Posted by jdarnold at December 11, 2004 11:36 PM
