This weekend I made a very important decision: to watch every DVD we own. This would be daunting for anyone who likes and buys movies I would wager to guess, but I have been to the movies in a theater exactly three times since 2007. We own a lot of movies and a lot of T.V. on DVD. Between gifts, new purchases, and previously-owned we’re up to a solid 360 individual movies. We also have nineteen fitness DVDs. I am too embarassed to tell you how many seasons of television shows we have.
I spent a lot of time thinking about how to attack this project – I decided that it’ll be quasi-alphabetical. Single movies and TV series will be in alphabetical order. Fitness DVDs will be peppered throughout – maybe one a week? (I have to admit there are fitness DVDs that have never been done. Items that came in sets – P90x has been mostly untapped.)
I’ll watch three movies, and then a season of a TV Show, just to keep it interesting.
DVD 1: Adventures in Babysitting
Chris: So, when the babysitter looked more closely at the kids, she saw that… THEY HAD NO FACES!
Sarah: Oh my God!
Chris: Just a pool of mushy goo!
Sarah: Like Spaghetti-O’s?
Chris: Spaghetti-O’s with meat!
This is one of my all-time favorite movies. (I do not like trying to pick a favorite movie, so I won’t do it here.) In fact, when our friend Kelli had an 80s themed 30th birthday party last year I dressed up as Sarah Anderson.
Between the Babysitting Blues and a sewer rat mistaken for a kitten, I have no idea how anyone could not love this movie.
DVD 2: Kathy Griffin – Allegedly
“I have such a list of people in Hollywood who can suck it they’d barely have time.”
I am a big Kathy Griffin fan. People either love her or hate her, and I fall into the first camp. I’ve seen her live 4 or 5 times. I think this is one of her best sets – it’s the BahBwa WahWah retracto-head set. There is something really wonderful about someone in Hollywood who is so frank about the bullshit that is Hollywood. Also, someone who is honest about “going to the dentist.”
DVD 3: The Amityville Horror
This is the remake, the one with Ryan Reynolds? It’s okay. I like it, but Ryan Reynolds is no James Brolin. (My copy of the original was on VHS and we donated all of our VHS to Goodwill when we moved.)
I should mention that I love this story and the orignal movie, and that it played a huge role in my childhood as the house we lived in when we lived in Pennsylvania had the same attic windows that the house in the story has. I probably wouldn’t have focused on it if my older brother hadn’t convinced me that it was the house from the story. (He also told me that Pennsylvania was Transylvania when we move there, and that they had changed the name so that people would still want to live there. He then told me, in an ominous voice, to never look at the windows if I heard someone knocking. Older brothers are magical creatures, like unicorns… unicorns that carry axes.)
I’m really preoccupied by the fact that our PlayStation wouldn’t play this DVD. I bought it used on Amazon, but the PlayStation rejected it… which is why I just watched it on the bedroom dvd player, in bed, with a sore throat. I guess we’ll find out if it was the DVD or the PlayStation when I start the next leg of this journey: Alf, Season 1.