From The Past: September 25, 2009

We thoroughly enjoyed watching The Brady Bunch 35th Anniversary Marathon on TV Land this weekend. The Brady Bunch is a classic that I will never get tired of. Growing up, I always thought that Greg (the oldest son) was the cutest boy on the show. Watching it again this weekend and being older, I was thinking that Mike (the dad) was pretty handsome – especially in the early episodes. Oh, how things change when we get older!

We stopped by the library and Kevin got us three movies to watch. The first one was The Cat in the Hat with Mike Myers. I heard the bad reviews about this movie along with everyone else. It supposedly wasn’t meant for children and so on. I disagree wholeheartedly! The scenery was a pleasure to the eyes because it was colorful and out of proportion – just like in the Dr. Seuss books. The cat was annoying, but he was supposed to be. He was annoying in the book also. Overall, it was very entertaining, the special effects were wonderful and I will watch this again.

Cutthroat Island was another one that we watched. I had never even heard of this one, but I didn’t feel too bad because I found out that it was released in 1995. Geena Davis plays a pirate who is trying to find the hidden Cutthroat Island where her family’s treasure has been placed. Along the way she meets a thief played by Matthew Modine. I hated the first forty minutes of this movie. The acting and the words used were just too cheesy. After about forty minutes the fighting began and I kind of forgave the first part of the movie. It was over two hours, so there was plenty left to enjoy. In general, it was an okay movie, but Geena Davis just doesn’t do it for me as a pirate.

The last movie we watched was Legally Blonde starring Reese Witherspoon. This movie was great! It was relatively clean, very funny, and had a great story line. If you haven’t seen it, it’s about a girl who enrolls in law school in order to be what her boyfriend wants her to be. He wants to marry “a Jackie, not a Marilyn”. It was a cute movie and now I am dying to see the second one!