What a quiet weekend I had. I was still feeling pretty bad. I hope this crud goes away soon. This morning I feel a bit better. I don't know what was wrong with blogger oner the weekend, but it rarely let me in to leave comments. That was frustrating. Anyway, I took the opportunity to be low-key and check out some movies I've been stockpiling. I got to see both "Kill Bill Volume #1 & #2", "Alien vs. Predator", "Pirates of the Carribean" and "Moulin Rouge".
I'm not able to do a great review like Grace does, but I will say I really liked all of them. The Kill Bill movies were awesome. Gotta love Tarantino. Alien vs. Predator was a whole lot better than I thought it might be. It was a good story with some great effects. Pirates I've actually seen before, but seeing it again isn't a let down. It's great.
Moulin Rouge was..... different. I actually stopped it after the first 30 minutes trying to decide if I wanted to finish watching it. All the references to modern music and to historic artists like Toulouse-Lautrec had me off balance. Plus Nicole Kidman in that role was hard to get used to. Her style reminded me of Marilyn Monroe in "The Prince and the Showgirl". Anyway, I went ahead and watched the remainder of the movie and I ended up glad that I did. I got used to all the extraneous stuff and found that I liked the movie in the end. One thing this movie proved is that Nicole is very versatile. I knew the story though. I was wondering if this is some kind of remake or maybe it's a book?
After the quiet weekend, it's Monday. There are fewer words spoken during the week that hold so much dread. Plus, to add to the Monday blahs, like a dope, I forgot to get the box of cheap Valentines that Peachy and I were going to send to everybody at work. What a bummer. So off we go into another week. Something to look forward to is shopping for more movies this coming weekend.
Geez, I'm already thinking about the coming weekend and it's only Monday morning. I believe this will be a long week.
4 comments:
I love Moulin Rouge. But I love musicals and musical type things, so that got me there.
It's also our wedding song, V and I, the first song we danced to anyhow. "Come What May"
Good one! Lots of people don't like it though...
No wonder your perceptions were off-kilter, switching to Moulin Rouge after watching Kill Bill, AVP, and Pirates OTC. That would be like switching from vodka to beer. Or switching from oxygen to nitrous oxide. Or Freddy Vs. Jason followed up by The Sound of Music. Or listening to Type 'O' Negative and the switching to Bob Denver.
BTW, great blog, very entertaining!
Whoops, I don't think Bob Denver (Gilligan) made any albums, I mean John Denver.
awww, that was nice of you to say :P
i loved the kill bill flicks, too...
and believe it or not, i've never seen moulin rouge... i keep on meaning to... but there are just waaaay too many movies out there!!! i am never going to get caught up on everything!
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