I mentioned that we had our annual viewing of the Fellowship of the Rings trilogy. Well, we're on a role - it's old movie time at the Andersons. Setting aside one non-memorable movie that we rented, we're scouring the book shelf for those old classics that we have accumulated. For instance, the other night it was the 165 minute epic "Once Upon a Time in the West" - one of Sergio Leone's classic spaghetti westerns with Charles Bronson and Jason Robards. Can you say fifteen minutes of closeups before the actual gunfight? Then it was "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade." Last night we started the Star Wars trilogy (which used to be our annual tradition the week before we went overseas). By the way, that's the original Star Wars trilogy - none of this jazzed-up version.
After that, we've got several waiting in the wings - "Bull Durham," "Hunt for Red October," "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" "Dancing with Wolves." Might even watch "The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming" again though we've seen that one recently.
Why Old Movie Time? Because there is nothing - absolutely nothing - on TV sports-wise. We don't do ML Baseball until it's play-off time (sorry, Sis - even if Josh Hamilton is hammering them out of the park) and watching every one turn left is no better...so it's Old Movies until the Olympics start, and then (being an Olympic junkie) it's 24/7 Olympics and then we're back to football.
However, that's only 3 weeks away and we have lots of movies to watch. Better get on it.
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Even I contemplated watching a movie yesterday afternoon since I felt cooped up by the heat and the cost of gas. But I got over it. Baseball was lousy last night though.
Yes, I'm pretty excited myself about the Olympics starting myself...we love the Olympics. We don't follow baseball, either, especially since the Pirates are SOOO bad. We just keep up with one or two LOST episodes on most evenings, and wait for better TV to come along.
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