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Movies: You're Next and The World's End
Aug. 25th, 2013 09:07 pmI intended to spend the weekend to recover. While it's better, it still needed some rest. So I skipped working out and went to the movies.
After lunch on Saturday, I went to see a matinee of "You're Next". This horror movie has a great indy vibe that I liked. When a family gathers for an anniversary party at their parents' remote vacation "mansion," things go terribly wrong when they are picked off by unknown assailants wearing animal masks. The killers, however, are in for a surprise when one of the guests at the party has an unusual talent for survival. The movie stars A.J. Bowen (right), who is a super-handsome bearded bear of a guy. I've seen him in several horror movies and I've now elevated him to my short list of potential celebrity husbands for me. I'm definitely buying this one when it comes out on DVD.
I've not done a double-movie day in a long time, but I really wanted to squeeze in "The World's End" this weekend too. So before the first movie started, I sent out a text message to several friends asking if they wanted to catch an evening showing of it.
After the movie, I went home and did some laundry and cleaned the bathroom. I finally found a combination of cleaner and scrubbers to get my bathtub as clean as the day I moved in. I've been fighting that hard water discoloration for years and it's gone. I know it's strange to get excited about something like cleaning the bathtub, but it really is nice to have it shiny and new-looking again.
So that evening, a group of us, including ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chrisglass and _decibel_, went to the new theater in Oakley to see "The World's End". I adore Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Edgar Wright. "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz" are among my favorite movies of all time, and this film didn't disappoint. When a down-and-out man decides to get his old school buddies together to repeat and finish the 12-bar pub crawl from their youth, they find out that their old home town has changed in ways they hadn't expected -- people have been replaced with "robots." The men continue the pub crawl in an effort to not be noticed, but beer after beer makes it harder to do. It's funny and exciting as the bar fights begin and the effort to escape gets harder. Definitely one to add to the collection.
Even more fun was that the movie was filmed in part in Welwyn Garden City outside London where I did a work trip in 2005. I saw a few familiar sights as the guys were racing around from pub to pub.
Sigh... tomorrow is Monday. These weekends just aren't long enough.
After lunch on Saturday, I went to see a matinee of "You're Next". This horror movie has a great indy vibe that I liked. When a family gathers for an anniversary party at their parents' remote vacation "mansion," things go terribly wrong when they are picked off by unknown assailants wearing animal masks. The killers, however, are in for a surprise when one of the guests at the party has an unusual talent for survival. The movie stars A.J. Bowen (right), who is a super-handsome bearded bear of a guy. I've seen him in several horror movies and I've now elevated him to my short list of potential celebrity husbands for me. I'm definitely buying this one when it comes out on DVD.I've not done a double-movie day in a long time, but I really wanted to squeeze in "The World's End" this weekend too. So before the first movie started, I sent out a text message to several friends asking if they wanted to catch an evening showing of it.
After the movie, I went home and did some laundry and cleaned the bathroom. I finally found a combination of cleaner and scrubbers to get my bathtub as clean as the day I moved in. I've been fighting that hard water discoloration for years and it's gone. I know it's strange to get excited about something like cleaning the bathtub, but it really is nice to have it shiny and new-looking again.
So that evening, a group of us, including chrisglass and _decibel_, went to the new theater in Oakley to see "The World's End". I adore Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Edgar Wright. "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz" are among my favorite movies of all time, and this film didn't disappoint. When a down-and-out man decides to get his old school buddies together to repeat and finish the 12-bar pub crawl from their youth, they find out that their old home town has changed in ways they hadn't expected -- people have been replaced with "robots." The men continue the pub crawl in an effort to not be noticed, but beer after beer makes it harder to do. It's funny and exciting as the bar fights begin and the effort to escape gets harder. Definitely one to add to the collection. Even more fun was that the movie was filmed in part in Welwyn Garden City outside London where I did a work trip in 2005. I saw a few familiar sights as the guys were racing around from pub to pub.
Sigh... tomorrow is Monday. These weekends just aren't long enough.
