Movies

A week ago today, I woke up with a stomach virus and spent much of the day in the bathroom--barfing and you know what-ing. It took me until Tuesday to feel back to normal again. I stayed in bed most of the weekend and boy did I get some movie watching done.

I watched the last 1/2 of A League of Their Own a couple of times...Sleepless in Seattle...some Lifetime movie about a paranoid woman who thought somebody was 'stealing' her life (she was not really paranoid and someone really was stealing her life...really)...Atonement...and Dan in Real Life. Of course, A League of Their Own has become a classic and is always good as is Sleepless in Seattle. The best of the group was Dan in Real Life. I am a sucker for a happy ending and this has the happy ending...widowed Dan with 3 daughters finds him a woman who happens to be dating his philanderer brother. Yadda yadda yadda...blah blah blah...it all works out, they get married and will live happily ever after.

Atonement............big disappointment. Not much atonement going on until the last little bit of the movie...needed more atonement...the time spent on atonement was insignificant compared to rest of the movie. The acting was good, of course, but my opinion is that this got way more acclaim than it deserved. But, then again, I hated the ending...and the ending always colors my opinion of a movie.