A Movie Weekend

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I feel a little guilty for skipping the last three days of blogging. I made a commitment to blog daily in March, and I already broke it. I feel bad for that, but the trouble is that I wouldn’t want to change a thing. I had a wonderful weekend with my husband that I wouldn’t trade for the world. I hope you can forgive me :)

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You see, my husband surprised me (yay!) on Friday by coming home early from work so we could catch a matinee showing of Watchmen. Both of us had been looking forward to this movie. We’re fans of the superhero genre. Plus with Zack Snyder as director (we loved 300, 5 out of 5 stars), we figured that would make it all the more interesting. Well for the most part we were entertained, and I give it a solid 3 out of 5 stars (my rating system is explained briefly on the sidebar of my Books and Movies List).

Afterwards it was a nice, casual sushi dinner with decent live music at the Crossroads Mall food court. This place has a wonderful energy of community that’s hard to explain and which I’ve not found in another mall so far but was probably the original intent for the mall concept. I’ll have to tell you more about it some other time.

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Anyway, Saturday was another movie day. After a very late lunch, we finally got around to seeing He's Just Not That Into You. It was a cute movie that we both enjoyed. The characters were likable (though we only get to know them on a somewhat superficial level) with moments that had us either laughing or tearing up (just me on that one) a bit. It’s another 3 out of 5 stars with sugar on top. On a side note, I’m very grateful to my mom for never telling me that a boy did or said something mean to me because he liked me (that’s the basis in the movie for women’s dating predicaments).

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Finally, Sunday came and we decided to do a Deadwood marathon. As I mentioned in a previous post, we don’t have cable so we hadn’t seen this show yet though we heard so much about it from a friend. Well we’re about halfway through the series, and really liking it so far. (Thanks, Ken!)

Yeah, so you can see that we were on some movie kick this weekend and had a good time. Have you seen any good movies lately?