Alright - I'm changing the category name because some movies are good boosting energy and they allow enough of a distraction that 30 min of boring cardio on an elliptical goes by quickly.  These are only the movies that I can remember.  I am missing about 10 from January - but i'm not sure anyone actually cares.

Forrest Gump - One of my favorite movies but I have seen it too many times.  It's kindeve a slow paced, no-action movie.  It's all heart and story.

The Express - BORING CITY.

Fireproof - WORSE THAN BORING CITY.  VOMIT CITY.  This movie is about a man (career fireman) that i assume gets busted looking at pornography online by his wife.  THe story line is about how he tries to earn her respect and win her over again.  His dad gives him this list of 40 things to do in 40 days - to quote imdb.com "In an attempt to save his marriage, A firefighter uses a 40-day experiment known as "The Love Dare". "  It's corny and really cheesy.  Way too religious for me.  There was one scene where his father was trying to make a point to him about God and forgiveness and then the scene cuts from the man being frustrated sitting on a tree stump - to the father leaning up against a big wooden cross with the sun beaming behind him.  The acting was bad and i thought Kirk Cameron was either trying to do a really bad fake accent or he talks funny!

Tomb Raider - enough action, but it's a silly movie and I'm not a big Angelina Jolie fan.

Minority Report - action, Tom Cruise - not too bad.  But there was this one scene where they were giving him an eye transplant and I had to look away.  I'm not squeamish but there was something about they way they were prying open his eyelids to pull out his eyeballs that made me have to turn away.

Secondhand Lions - I don't really know what this movie was about.  It had Haley Joel Osmet, Michael Caine, and Robert Duvall.  I didn't quite understand the dynamic of Michael Caine and Robert Duvall and it kept flashing back to a story that was like the Princess Bride.  I guess I needed to see more than the 35

the Longshots - kinda cute, this is the movie about the young girl that plays quarterback for a school football team.  It's one of those predictable feel good movies.  Cute and it was entertaining enough because I haven't seen it.

City of Ember - I wanted to take Stewart to see this when it was at the theater, I thought it looked cute and entertaining.  The story was a little slow to take off.  I started it at the beginning and my 35 minutes ended before the movie hit its apex.  We rented it for Stewart and he liked it. 

The Secret Life of Bees - eh.  I'm not a big Dakota Fanning fan and despite her recent family tragedy, I can't stand Jennifer Hudson.  I'm not quite sure what this movie was about.  I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

Babylon A.D. - Lots of action.  But Vin Dissel is a bit much at 5:30am.  We did rent this movie later and it was ok.  It was all action and engergy and then it fizzled and sold out in the end.  It was pretty to look at and provided a good distraction.

the Notebook - I've never seen this movie - which may come as a surprise to some of you that know me cause you know I'm a big fat sucker for a love story.  I think I was turned off by this movie because of all the hype (like the DaVinci Code.)  Anyway, It seems like a predictable and sweet love story and I actually spent 45 grueling minutes on the elliptical watching the movie.  I've seen parts of it about 5 times and I've never seen the end. 

Today's movie is Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark, tomorrow is Legally Blonde, Saturday is Madagascar 2, Sunday is Oceans 11, Mondays movie is really suckish Bring it On.  So Monday is going to be my rest day.  I am actually looking forward to my workouts because I like those movies.  I almost think i could go all through Oceans 11 - it's such a fast past movie, and I really like it.

So there it is, my boring post about movies that no one cares about!  :)  This helps me keep track of what I find motivating.

We rented these movies this weekend - all crap. 

Babylon AD is visually pleasing and Bill said it sounded great on the surround sound - but the story sucked. 

Pineapple Express - really stupid.  It is way too much about smoking pot - and since I've never smoked pot, or even a cigarette - I don't find this kind of comedy funny.  Judd Apatow and Seth Rogan have made some funny movies - but this isn't one of them.  Skip Pineapple Express, and go watch Superbad again.  

Apaloosa - dumb cowboy movie.  Even Bill said it wasn't that good.  Save your $1 and skip this.  I fell asleep.  

Clint Eastwood doesn't make a bad movie - unless it's a lame cowboy movie!  Bill and i went out to lunch and to a movie today.  Yay!  A DATE!  I must admit I wasn't very excited about seeing the movie but it's a really good movie.  Clint is a really grouchy old man who grunts.  A lot.  (This is the guy that Bill will become if I happen to die first.)  The previews always show him growling "GET OFF MY LAWN" while holding some kind of gun.  I thought the line was a little played out - it was said a lot in Monster House (cartoon.)

The movie was good.  i liked it.  It was a bit predictable but it was funny.  Really funny - despite not being a comedy.  The movie is very much a drama yet it is still a funny.  I haven't heard so many racial slurs (Asian ones) - well - never.  I've never heard that much ever - not even on the Chappelle's show.

I know my dad would really like the movie and I think my mom might too.  She'll probably think the sister reminds her of me (or Kristin) - she is really smart, and funny, and cute.  

I won't comment on the ending but I thought it was predictable.  Actually - the first time I saw the preview, i predicted the whole story - and I was pretty close.

In honor of it’s recent release on DVD, I am taking the time to re-post my original movie review of Indian Jones and the Crystal Skull (the worst movie in the history of suckish movies.) I can't believe i wasted valuable time (i could have spent sleeping) to go see this movie at MIDNIGHT the day it was released.  Uber disappointment.

Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the Crystal Skull is the worst movie ever

by Tracey 5/22/2008 11:05:00 AM

So my friend and I got all psyched up and we went to see the movie at the 12:01am showing (that's right, midnight.)  The first thing that was obnoxious - the theater was packed full of high school kids that were loud and annoying.    The guy that sat down next to me, turned to his friends (the whole row behind us) and told them that he was late because he was pooping.  Seriously.  Wha's the deal with parents these days.  I don't think i would have been allowed to go see a movie, on a school night, at midnight.  I probably wouldn't have even asked  because i knew the answer.  They were loud and obnoxious and obviously die hard fans of the trilogy.

The movie was a big fat disappointment.  I don't even think it is worthy of the Indiana Jones title.  It was so bad, so unbelieveable, and so corny.  i think George Lucas has lost his mind, already talking aboout a story line for the next one.  I love all of the Indiana Jones movies, the last crusade is my favorite.  Being the last of the three and, in my opinion, the best of the three i thought the 4th installment should be good if it kept with the trend.  But it wasn't.  There was one snake joke - which i think was the best part of the movie.   You know, sometimes when you leave a movie, everyone loved it sooo much that there is clapping and cheering and the room is full of big fat happiness?  Not the case here - when the credits started, there was this weird silence.  Like no one was ready to admit how much it sucked.  They were trying to let it sink in, just incase they missed some small tidbit of a redeeming quality for the movie.  Once you got to the parking lot, people were saying it sucked.  I will say that you have to see it just to know how bad it was but i am in no way recommending it as a good or even decent movie.  And i don't give refunds because i'm telling you right now, it's bad.

I have this mental list of movies that i would like to see in a theater, if ever given the opportunity - and the Indiana Jones movies are on that list - Just not this one!  To summarize in one sentence - this new installment of Indiana Jones was like watching a really long X-files episode that had an Indiana Jones cameo.

But - this video is really funny - http://gizmodo.com/392495/indiana-jones-theme-secret-lyrics-uncovered

Poor Harrison Ford, I never thought he was an overly attractive man but he looked all worn down and tired.  Harrison Ford looked like thanksgiving leftovers, 3 weeks old, overheated in a microwave.  And his voice sounded like it was digitally enhanced and then dubbed over (especially evident in the first 15 minutes.)  His clothes kinda looked like they were too big - it looked like he was draped in an indiana jones costume that was too big for him.  (kinda like one of those generic kids halloween costumes that come in 3 generic sizes with a big plastic mask with eye holes.)  

Cate Blanchet was awesome - you can't blame her for wanting to be in an Indiana Jones movie and working with Lucas and Speilberg - but didn't she also think it was shit when she read the script!

And what the hell is the deal with the animal jokes?  The groundhogs and the monkeys?  At one point I thought Shia was Tarzan. 

Oh Well.  So much for my big exciting midnight viewing of Indiana Jones.  At least the video at Gizmodo is funny.  (http://gizmodo.com/392495/indiana-jones-theme-secret-lyrics-uncovered) 

BTW: what the heck was the deal with the large ants!?  are those real?!?!? 

*********** Funny enough, i just found this article SAYING THE SAME THING!!!  *************

http://io9.com/392616/indiana-jones-delivers-the-best-x+files-movie-of-summer 

Indiana Jones Delivers the Best X-Files Movie of Summer

It's not necessarily a good sign when you can only describe the latest entry in one summer franchise, Indiana Jones, by reference to another franchise, X-Files. that is also pumping out a summer movie. And yet the whole time I was watching Steven Spielberg's serviceable little action flick, full of Harrison Ford's trademark lopsided smile (still cute) and jungle chases (still pulptastic), all I could think about was how this was the movie X-Files: I Want to Believe should be. It had exotic locales, new agey aliens, marvelously bad pseudo-science, and a plucky male-female team at its heart. I mean, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is X-Files with monkey jokes instead of paraphilias. But is that a good thing? Weirdly, yes.

***** if you want to read the rest of the article, go to the webpage. ******

Still thinkin about it . . . Indiana Jones spoilers

by Tracey 5/27/2008 2:05:00 PM

because i'm still irritated at the crappiness of the movie - I'm going to list the reasons why it was so awful.  If you haven't seen the movie but really want to - or you don't want to know the plot, don't read cause i'm gonna lay it all out there.

1.  any decent action movie does NOT end with a wedding.  Especially Indiana Jones movies.  This wedding adds to the corny factor of the whole movie.

2.  Indiana Jones doesn't have kids.  Indiana Jones has hot girlfriends and he's an eternal bachelor.  He's a loner.  Don't saddle him up with a past her prime wife, and a punk ass kid. I don't care if they still have good banter or not.

3.  Aliens - are you kidding me?  The crystal skull belongs to aliens?  LAME-O.  I will say their shiny crystally skeletons looked cool - but gimme a break.  I didn't go see this movie wanting some mystery about magnetic ALIEN SKELETONS.

4.  The first 20 minutes.  I know every movie has a bit of unbelievability (is that a word) but what the heck.  He located the crate with the stupid magnetic alien skeleton by throwing gun powder in the air and chasing it.  The fight with the big Russian looking guy ended when they somehow launched a jet engine into the desert - and he survived only to wander into some fake town that gets nuked - and he survived by climbing into a lead lined fridge that got thrown MILES by the blast - and he survived to climb out of the fridge and stand on a cliff and look at the mushroom cloude in wonder and amazement.  I was sitting there in my seat looking at him with wonder and amazement at how stupid the whole scenario was/is.

5.  Indiana Jones is known for great chase scenes.  It would have been halfway decent had they not lived through the angel falls falls - all three of them. 

6.  Using a snake as a rope.  That was only good for the "I hate SNAKES" line - i don't care what kind of non-poisonious rat snake it is - its body isn't strong enough to pull out a 180 pound man from quicksand - AFTER it already pulled out his 140 pound old lady.

7.  i know i mentioned it previously, but when Mutt was swinging through the amazon WITH THE MONKEYS - that was a bit too much for me. 

I think that's about it.  This must be how the die hard Star Wars fans felt with Episode I came out. 

. . . a movie sooo bad it causes a nap!

Friday night we watched Don't Mess with the Zohan.  Or i should say Bill watched it.  I only caught parts of it before and after my nap.  It was an awful Adam Sandler movie.  AWFUL.  I'm partial to Happy Gilmore and Spanglish - or even Big Daddy.  This movie was stupid.  I think Bill thought it had some funny/ridiculous scenes.  I feel like I've moved on from his comedy.  I can't even really give you a plot summary since i napped through most of it.  I wouldn't waste your money on a ticket though.  I would wait for it to come out on TBS or watch it at www.watch-movies.net (like we did.) 

  We watched this last night.  I'm not quite sure what to say about it.  His movies are never believable - they are somewhat fantasy.  This movie wasn't any different.  If you don't wanna know about the movie, then don't read this because i'll probably give away the story.

Let me first say that Mark Walberg (or however you spell it) was good.  Zooey Deschanel wasn't good.  Kinda obnoxious.  She's the go to girl for closeups on a girl with big puppy dog eyes - her acting, not so much.

it was a scary movie.  I'm not sure what made it so scary, I think it was just that the "thing" that was killing everyone couldn't be seen yet you knew it was coming.  You know it was right on the heels of the main characters.  (This movie would have been bad for Stewart to see since he is scared of the wind as it is.)  So when the movie ends, you never really know what it was - everyone has their own assumptions but what was clear to me is that this was another stupid story about being eco-friendly.  When everyone started speculating that the  the plants were releasing toxins as a defense mechanism - i think i rolled my eyes so hard they rolled out of my head and off the bed and onto the floor - we all know the on top of spaghetti song.

Stupid Al Gore and his stupid shoving it down your throat to take care of the planet.  I'm not saying that i don't think pollution is a problem blah blah blah - i'm just saying that I don't need it force fed to me while i'm trying to relax and watch a movie - FOR ENTERTAINMENT.  Happy Feet had an eco-friendly message that was annoying.  This movie, in my opinion, had an annoying eco-friendly theme, WallE, Independence day, . . . I just want to watch a movie. 

because i'm still irritated at the crappiness of the movie - I'm going to list the reasons why it was so awful.  If you haven't seen the movie but really want to - or you don't want to know the plot, don't read cause i'm gonna lay it all out there.

1.  any decent action movie does NOT end with a wedding.  Especially Indiana Jones movies.  This wedding adds to the corny factor of the whole movie.

2.  Indiana Jones doesn't have kids.  Indiana Jones has hot girlfriends and he's an eternal bachelor.  He's a loner.  Don't saddle him up with a past her prime wife, and a punk ass kid. I don't care if they still have good banter or not.

3.  Aliens - are you kidding me?  The crystal skull belongs to aliens?  LAME-O.  I will say their shiny crystally skeletons looked cool - but gimme a break.  I didn't go see this movie wanting some mystery about magnetic ALIEN SKELETONS.

4.  The first 20 minutes.  I know every movie has a bit of unbelievability (is that a word) but what the heck.  He located the crate with the stupid magnetic alien skeleton by throwing gun powder in the air and chasing it.  The fight with the big Russian looking guy ended when they somehow launched a jet engine into the desert - and he survived only to wander into some fake town that gets nuked - and he survived by climbing into a lead lined fridge that got thrown MILES by the blast - and he survived to climb out of the fridge and stand on a cliff and look at the mushroom cloude in wonder and amazement.  I was sitting there in my seat looking at him with wonder and amazement at how stupid the whole scenario was/is.

5.  Indiana Jones is known for great chase scenes.  It would have been halfway decent had they not lived through the angel falls falls - all three of them. 

6.  Using a snake as a rope.  That was only good for the "I hate SNAKES" line - i don't care what kind of non-poisonious rat snake it is - its body isn't strong enough to pull out a 180 pound man from quicksand - AFTER it already pulled out his 140 pound old lady.

7.  i know i mentioned it previously, but when Mutt was swinging through the amazon WITH THE MONKEYS - that was a bit too much for me. 

I think that's about it.  This must be how the die hard Star Wars fans felt with Episode I came out.