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Weekend means movie time for the whole family, then just Mommy and Daddy. That is if Hubs is off from work of course. He is off all weekend so yesterday we watched SALT and The Expendables after going to the park, then pizza and ice cream for lunch . I’ll post my thoughts on each sometime. But for now, here was the conversation that took place between Hubs and I early this morning.

Wifey: What movies do we have?

Hubby: Robin Hood

Wifey: Hmmmmm, the Kevin Costner one?

Hubby: No, the phone thrower.

Wifey: Oh, the Gladiator guy

Hubby: Like I said, The Phone Thrower.

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So while watching the 2010 Winter Olympics in the bedroom with the Hubs (who else?) last night, a trailer of Johnny Depp’s new movie Alice In Wonderland came on. I commented how Johnny Depp is doing all these creepy roles now. I mean Tim Burton is great and he and Mr. Depp are friends and respect each other’s work but Johny seem to be  in these fully made-up creepy character roles nowadays. My husband thought to challenge me and asked to name all these creepy characters that Johnny Deep has played.

Well, there’s Scissorhands to start with, then he was Willy Wonka, Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Carribean. Hubs disagreed that Jack is not really “creepy”. He’s right, not really but I’m talking about creepy as in a little out there and wearing all sorts of make-up. Stay with me . Then there was Sweeny Todd, and now it’s The Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. Then I added his character in Secret Window. Hubs argued that that was not creepy under full of make-up look. I said, but he was creepily bad there which is creepiest of all because he actually looked like your neighbor. Who knew he’s capable of doing bad things?. He makes you want to lock all your doors. Now that’s creepy so Mort Rainey from Secret Window makes the list . BTW, can you believe Scissorhands is now 20 yrs. old?

In regards to the Olympics..

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Sunday was spent taking the Christmas decorations down, laundry, then a DVD movie marathon which the husband rented after he took C to get his haircut. We had to watch all 3 movies in one day because they were all due the next day, which was today, Monday. Pardon my short review but I’m really not good in writing long movie reviews. I’m better at saying either “it sucked”, “ooooh that was good”, or “ehhhh, it’s alright”. So yeah, bear with me .

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian – This is the sequel. The Museum of Natural History where Ben Stiller’s character Larry, worked at on the first movie was closing. The museum decided they’ll transfer all their stuff to the Smithsonian archives basement. See, Larry has become successful and is enjoying the luxury of having been invented the glow flashlights. Larry couldn’t possibly let his “friends” be stuck in boxes so he traveled all the way to Smithsonian to retrieve and eventually save them from the other artifacts in the basement who of course came to life after being in the vicinity of the tablet. New characters were introduced. If you have kids, you might have to explain who they are. Even Al Capone is in it, heh. Then again, Dark Vader and Oscar the Grouch are in it as well. It was an OK movie. The first one was so much better. I’ll give this a 3. Albeit it’s not as good as the first one, it’s still a nice flick for the whole family to enjoy.

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After Hubby’s scare last week, weekend was much better. He felt ok and seem like it must have been just some kind of peak of pain that day coz he’s now back to working out again and was all energized with the chores and even cooking dinner (and Sunday’s breakfast). On Saturday he and I had a movie marathon “date”. First it was GI Joe around lunch time then Angels & Demons once the children were in bed. Well, not the little girl coz she started feeling sick last Saturday so she was in and out of her room. But we managed to finish watching Angels & Demons somehow.

G.I. Joe –- sucked big time. I heard it did but I mean it’s G.I. Joe, we all grew up with it so we must watch it. Yah know? Plus I like Channing Tatum, hah. I’m not an expert of G.I. Joe but most part of the movie were just unrecognizable. Sienna Miller’s character supposed has a Russian accent. Sienna didn’t even try in this movie. The supposed comic relief provided by Marlon Wayans was not funny. It was bordering annoying actually. In the middle of it, the damn story turn into a love story. But whatever. Nice effects and in nay case, I still like Channing,

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ME : I was shoving french fries in my mouth non-stop (I was hungry) and the guy on the right lane was intently watching me.

HUBS : I was too, I don’t care

ME : I wonder if he was getting off watching me eat.

HUBS : *speechless*

ME : "Oh Yeaaaahhhh, look at that woman eat fries, she knows how to eat"

HUBS : *flabbergasted and speechless*

Or maybe the guy was disgusted at watching me shove fries in my mouth…. LOL.

Happy Friday and Great Weekend ahead. Hubs handed me a glass of wine. Kids have settled in. We’re about to watch "Get Smart" (Anne Hathaway, Steve Carrell and The Rock). G’night everyone…