Preface: Oh man, I got excited that Grease was on only to find out what I am experiencing is not so much, "Cool! Grease is on!" as "Well, at least I got to watch the last 20 minutes of Grease." Seriously, it was "There Are Worse Things I Could Do", racing, carnival, "You're The One That I Want", "We Go Together", credits. Lame! Even lamer? Grease 2 is coming on next. I like to remember it as "good". I am sure watching it will render that memory false.

Oh goodness, it's "Score Tonight" , which I thought was called 'Bowl Tonight" I have not seen this in ages, so I don't recall much. I am pretty sure that I'm gonna mark out for "Cool Rider" though. Don't judge me.

So, it's been a while. "Hello!" and all that. Congratulations on everything... the birthdays, graduations, near-graduations, completions of freshman years, acceptances to college, trips abroad, safe returns, almost-done-with-grad-schools, breakups that got you away from people who suck, (There it is! "Cool Rider!" Umm.. it's kind of lame, but better than the rest so far.), marriages, LJ deletions (boo!) and everything else. I am sure I forgot something.

Thank mole for sparing you from scrolling past my post-NBA playoffs and Draft thoughts. Basically it's this: The Magic had a good run, those puppets sucked, I am all Kobe'd out, the draft was full of guys I had never heard of, it seems focusing on football was in Paulus' best interest, I hope Shaq + LeBron brings as much ego-clashing ridiculousness as Shaq + Kobe and I think that's about it.
( Who'se gonna be my go-to 'I wonder what it will be like when ____ dies' guy now? )

"Do It For Our Country" has got to be one of the most terrible songs I have ever heard.

And, for Bean: Listen To The Band: Volume 1

Because it's Easter I watch Bible movies. It's (almost literally) the least I can do. (I also eat turkey. No ham though. I don't like ham.) Yesterday I watched The Ten Commandments. It's what a bible movie should be.. big and epic with classy, classy 1956-style special effects... Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner and Vincent Price. I faded out after a few hours, but I at least made it through the parting of the red sea. I think I threw in the towel around the time of the golden calf. I just don't have the attention span for the four-hour epic. Plus, I was sleepy.

So today, on Easter proper, I saw that "In The Beginning..." was on. I got kind of excited, expecting the super-long one made back in the 60s. I watched it a few years back, but have not seen it since then. (It seems that The Ten Commandments is the go-to Easter movie. ABC shows it EVERY Year.) What I wanted was the one where the guy was going to make a movie of the entire Bible, but found that that was kind of hard. The movie ended up being about four hours long and only go up through Abraham.
( What movie WAS I watching? And other stuff completely unrelated to bad movies. )

And now, I have decided to fill my Religious Movie Easter Quota with Clash of The Titans. Yeah, it's in 12 parts on YouTube, but that's alright, it's a classic and definitely better than what I was just watching.

The Prestige? Am I the next-to-next-to-last person (including Ma and that dude I was talking to at work yesterday) to see this? And if so, how come nobody told me how great it was? That is a serious failing on the behalf of the rest of the world.  When a movie is as good as that one, I'm gonna need people to let me know about it. (According to a friend, my brother and sister, they did. Yet, I recall nothing of the sort. Lies, I say!) You know I don't really do "going to the movies" and with it being a bit of a hassle to get to the video store (They keep closing. What's that about?), I don't keep up with movies unless they have someone who is on my "must see" movie list. (This is why, until a few days ago, I had seen the subpar Illusionist, and not the stellar Prestige. Downgrade! You got me that time, Norton! ::shakes fist:::)

I bought it (for 5 bucks at the video store. You know, the one that is closing.) for "Hugh Jackman and Magic!",  but by the end I was like "Wait a minute, am I starting to like Christian Bale?" I went into it pretty ambivalent on him (Yeah, he was great in American Psycho, but that is all I have ever seen him in. I really want to see The Machinist, but I don't think I would physically be able to look at the screen.) but by the end I was like "I think I need to see that Batman movie everyone is always raving about!" And you know things are serious if I am talking about watching a comic book movie. Good work, Mister Bale! Really, I was like "What is going on!?" for most of it. Not that I was confused; I was trying to figure out the twist. I knew from the opening speech that there had to be one, so I was paying extra attention, trying to figure it out. Then, every time I thought I had it figured out, something changed. When it was done, I took it out of the DVD player before the credits even rolled to tell Ma "You have to watch this!" I have not done that since Fight Club. And I would have immediately watched it again (as with FC), but it was 2AM and I had to work that morning. The next day I checked the book out from the library. It is different than the movie, but knowing what the big twist is makes it even better, because it's like "Oh, I see what you're doing there and I like it!" So, good work Christopher Priest!

Has anybody seen Raging Bull? I also got that one (for $5). I figured it's DeNiro and Scorsese, so it can't be too bad. I mean, they did Casino, Cape Fear and Goodfellas, so even if it is the worst of those four, it should still be pretty good, right? The dude at the register had not seen it either, just offered that "it's supposed to be a classic." Yeah, I knew that much. I will report back on this one once I have watched it. Though, up first I have to watch "Sleuth". It's got Jude Law, and everyone knows how I hate feel about him.

Because I want to watch the show again before I really get into reading/writing too many reactions (and because my download is almost done, but if I cue up the rewatch I will be up for another 90 minutes, which I cannot do no matter how badly I want to), I am doing this meme I stole from Bean. And then I am going to bed, because I have to get up early, because all I ever do is work.

Top 250 movies at IMDB.com
Ones I've seen are bolded.
Ones I've partly seen are italicized.
The ones I want to see, but have not yet, are green.
The rest of them I care nothing about.

I wanted to actually comment on some of the movies, both seen and unseen, but I am too tired for all of that. Perhaps tomorrow I will edit in something more interesting, but for now this is the best I can do. ::yawn::
( Of 250, I've seen 74. Of the ones I have not see, I only want to see three. )

I am supposed to be working, but I decided that I would much rather post. Sadly for most of you, I am mainly posting about sports. You did not know me this time last year, so allow me to say, the first fourth of the year of what is referred to here as "basketball season." So "talking about basketball" is what happens during the first few months of the year. Estimated end of sports-related posting: the first week of April. But, because I know sports is like Kryptonite to certain people, there is other stuff. And that stuff is movies. You like movies, don't you? (Though, maybe not these movies.. as evidenced by the fact that they are still around for me to talk about them.