More Movies Watched
We’ve been on a movie kick, the husband and I, and here’s a summary of a few more films we’ve watched:
Whiteout: Man, this was bad. I saw the reviews (that were almost universally bad) but the premise sounded really intriguing. Murder in the Antarctic! Nazi treasure! How can you go wrong? Well, apparently you can go really, really wrong. It wasn’t a bad plot, but the story itself was so stupid and the characters did such stupid things that you spent the entire movie irritated at them.
Wall-E: This was adorable. I think I would have liked it more if I had not just seen UP, but how can anything be better than UP? It can’t. So this was good, but not amazing. I loved the space scenes (spacedweeb!) and Wall-E’s love for EVE was adorable. Very cute, sweet movie. Husband pronounced it boring.
Monsters Vs. Aliens: This movie was weird to watch, for me. It started out kind of bland but became better the longer the movie went on. Kudos to Dreamworks for having a plot where the woman doesn’t need the love of the ‘right’ man to be fulfilled in her life. The weird part comes in where…well, let’s just say that a very large chunk of the plot here was pretty much IDENTICAL to the Young Adult novel that my agent has that we’re going to shop very soon. So that was bizarre to watch play out.
The Devil’s Tomb: Husband and I love horror movies, and there are certain things that are insta-rentals for us. A tomb filled with an ancient horror and people are trapped there? Pretty much hits both of our horror movie kinks. Sadly, this movie did not deliver. The plot was WAY bad and implausible, the writing terrible. The ‘tomb’ also looked more like an army bunker, so there went any hope of archaeological creepiness. Sigh. It was also gory and gross for the sake of being gross, which meant Husband liked it more than me. Blech.
I am told that tonight we are going to watch OUTLANDER (my pick). It features Vikings and Space Aliens and a monster, so it will either be awesome or totally suck.
