Since I’d rather not get into all the crap that I ate this weekend (we’re talking all-time low for me), I’m going to tell you about the movies I saw this week - as I shudder in thought of my weigh in tomorrow.

First, I finally got around to watching the Spiderwick Chronicles.  I adored this movie!  I haven’t read any of the children’s books that it is based on, but might have to pick the first one up (at the library, of course, Shawna!).

I also watched A Mighty Heart with Angelina Jolie and if you hate to cry in front of people, I suggest you watch it alone.  I loved it, but it about broke my heart.  It’s the story of Mariane Pearl’s struggle to find her husband, journalist Danny Pearl, in Pakistan.

One of my co-workers gave me a huge stack of horror movies to watch.  I’ve only watched the first so far and also loved it.  It was 30 Days of Night and is now one of my favorite horror movies of all time.  It was great!  Josh Hartnett really is a good actor.

We then rented Get Smart and while I had heard terrible reviews for it, I LOVED IT.  I seriously cracked up over and over again.  Sometimes I think Steve Carell goes a little overboard, but I really liked him in this movie.  There’s a scene with his boss and a swordfish that I found particularly funny for some reason.

We also rented The Visitor with Richard Jenkins.  We watched it today and all I can say is that I never wanted it to end.  I was literally sad to see the ending credits. I wanted more.  I highly recommend watching it if you haven’t.

Finally, tomorrow is my dad’s birthday and instead of wanting to go out to eat, he wanted to go to the movies this morning.  Guess what he wanted to see?  W.  We’re both die-hard democrats (as I’m sure you’ve figured out by now), but we all thought that the movie was really slow and were thankful when it was over.  My mom was more disgusted with Bush than ever, my dad had no change of opinion (didn’t see anything he didn’t already know) and I thought that the movie was very sympathetic to Bush.  It seemed to show him as a person who was only trying to make his dad proud and who was a little overzealous.  It also made it seem like all of his underlings (Rumsfeld, etc.) set him up to fail.  I guess it is worth a watch, but I thought it was rather boring (and I love politics).  The most interesting part for me was in seeing the relationship dynamics between him and his parents.

Okay, that’s it for Pamela’s week in review.  Overall, I’d say it was a success (movie-wise anyway) - only one dud in the bunch.  Hope you all did better OP this weekend than I did!

Have you seen any of these movies?  If so, what did you think?