Saturday, September 18, 2010
movie suggestions
i love movies. i love recommending movies to others and lending out some of our movie selection. i especially love sharing my favourites. there are certain movies that i always lend people; dirty rotten scoundrels, fried green tomatoes, shawshank redemption, inside man and thomas crown affair (to name a few). last christmas i saw sherlock holmes and LOVED it, i think i saw it 3 times in the theatre. needlesstosay (can i write that? does it need spaces? i am never sure), i added it to my favourites list. a few weeks ago i ranted and raved about it to some colleagues and told them that it's a MUST see!! i love the time period of the movie. i love the cast. i love the slow motion fight scenes where sherlock holmes explains each hit he is going to make (sounds dumb, but it's great). anyways...a few of the ladies at work said they were interested in borrowing it. i lent it to one of them last week. she watched it and......hated it!!!! NNNOOOOOO!!! what the heck? this sucks. now no one is going to want to take any of my movie suggestions. shoot. am i really that bad of a judge of movies? i like most movies i see. hate some (usually fantasy or sci-fi). LOVE others. sherlock holmes is in my love category. dang dude, i am super embarrassed that i wasted this lady's evening, and her husband's evening, with a movie that they did not like. at least they didn't rent it....i guess that's the only upside to this situation.
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Sometimes it just depends on WHO you watch the movie with. Example: I loved the movie Fargo. Friends of ours watched it with their PARENTS and HATED it. I think they would have liked it if they watched it with us. Don't let it get you down, just remember how much movie reviewers' opinions differ (btw, my fave site for checking out movies is mrqe. http://www.mrqe.com/movies/m100072588 )
ReplyDeletei am not letting it get me down, i just feel bad that they hated it. haha. but whatever, it's their loss.
ReplyDeleteI have to say, my taste in movies tends to be very similar to yours, so there you go. But I've never seen Shawshank Redemption! So I'd like to borrow it...
ReplyDeleteGreat movie list Lael... you're not off the mark at all, although I haven't seen Sherlock Holmes. Rob took Austin and I missed it. And Dawn, you have to see Shawshank! I will too, endorse it as a great movie.
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