After having been away from home for the last two weekends, I really should have done some household chores, like, bleurgh, cleaning and the like. Instead I opted for a lazy, movie weekend :D

I did start off with a few tv series though. I finished watching the final episode of:

Quintuplets, I saw some bit of this series and managed to find it, so watched a few episodes last week and watched the final ones this weekend. It's a pretty standard comedy, but I liked it. It's also fun to see April Matson and Jake McDorman before their roles in Kyle XY and Greek respectively.

I also watched the latest episode of Doctor Who (still not sure about the Tate woman), Battlestar Galactica, which I loved and, of course, The Tudors. Late but that's due to my absence :(

As for my movie weekend, well a mixture of recent and old movies. First up, the most recent ones:

Juno Quirky (as in major-league quirky) but very enjoyable movie about a first love and an unplanned pregnancy. An odd movie with lots of comedy and some dramatic moments too. Odd soundtrack too ;)

Good Luck Chuck another standard romantic comedy with perhaps a bit more nudity and crudeness than your average romcom. It won't win an Oscar but I enjoyed it. The acting was better than the script

Enchanted a fun-filled family-friendly flick ;) with a good script and seamless integration of animated and real characters. I like the role-reversal at the end and the clash between fairytale and reality.

Superhero Movie faithful readers of my blog will know I watched Drake and Josh not too long ago. This movie starred Drake Bell and spoofed various superhero movies, a bit like Scary Movie. While Drake did a good enough job, the script followed Spiderman 1 too closely, it lost the element of surprise and even the bits with Leslie Nielsen and Pam Anderson weren't all that funny. A wasted chance in my opinion. Pity.

Cloverfield I love bigger-than-life monster / end-of-the-world movies and this is a great one. The first-person camera point-of-view did drive me crazy though... but it did add to the experience even though, in the back of my mind, I was aware of the fact that it was some sort of gimmick.

After 5 recent movies, I moved through time a few years to watch (wait for the final two movies in this blog for that comment to make sense):

Sweet Home Alabama from 2002. One more romantic comedy with a pretty standard script and a more or less predictable ending. It was saved by excellent performances from Jush Lucas and Reese Witherspoon in particular. Both this one and Enchanted featured Patrick Dempsey, but since I've not seen a single episode of Grey's Anatomy, he didn't make such an impression on me. I mainly remember him from some 80s teen comedies and I'm impressed with myself ;) that I even know he's in Grey's.

Finally, I watched Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and its sequel Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. Both starring a young Keanu Reeves, these are Excellent!!! movies dude.... Though the first one is a lot better than the second one.

There now, wasn't this a much better spent weekend than if I'd actually done some household chores ;) :D

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