Movie Disappointment

Less than 3 weeks (2 weeks and 6 days, to be exact) before I have open heart surgery...

I'm a wealth of useless movie trivia. For some reason I retain a ton of information from movies that I've seen (and from some that I haven't). Never play Scene It with me, unless you like losing. I know, it's a blessing and a curse.

I love movies. I love to watch them in the theater, at home, at my friends' houses, anywhere. My very fave, as you know, is The Wedding Singer. I also love Gladiator, When Harry Met Sally, Sliding Doors, Saved, and Speed (RobbieMax and I got engaged after we saw Speed in the theater. I still don't understand how that movie put him in a romantic mood, but hey - I got a pretty ring and a wonderful man out of it).

I don't pretend to be a critic. I like almost every movie I've seen. But tonight I watched a movie that looked so promising, yet turned into such a far-fetched implausible flick, that I almost turned it off before I got to the end. (GASP!)
I've heard about The Forgotten (with Julianne Moore and Dominick West) and was very intrigued by the premise: Woman has memories of a son everyone else says doesn't exist. So I taped it off of Encore on my DVR a while ago and decided to watch it tonight. What a waste of time.

SPOILER ALERT! Do not read the next 2 paragraphs if you don't want to know what happened.

Well, it turns out that she was involved in a huge experiment involving aliens being surprised by how strong the bond was between mother and child. DUMB. The few special effects employed were cool, but not cool enough to save the movie. Once I saw where this was going, I was so tempted to stop it. But, trooper that I am, I pushed on and watched the rest of the movie. I repeat, what a waste of time.

I'm not against alien flicks. I saw and loved Signs and War of the Worlds. But the difference with these movies is that they put it all out there - you knew that you were watching a movie with aliens before you saw them. But I hate it when filmmakers try to shock us with a surprising twist about alien involvement. It seems far less believable and more like a cop out. Okay, off my soapbox.

END OF SPOILER.

And what do movies have to do with having open heart surgery, you ask? Well, I'm going to be recovering for at least 6 weeks before I go back to work. I gotta have SOMETHING to do. I'm trying to add "movies that I've always wanted to see but haven't" to my Netflix queue.

So, dear friend (or friends, if more than 1 person is reading my blog), I ask you for a favor. I would love it if you would give me some movie recommendations that I can watch during my convalescence. It would be nice to watch movies I haven't seen before.