Movies have always been a big part of my life. I grew up watching classic films on TV (anyone who grew up in the D.C. area remember Channel 20?) My parents took us to lots of movies, starting with Disney and progressing through Star Wars and Norma Rae.
When Mr. Sandwich and I were dating, he lived in California and I lived in New Jersey. We sometimes went to the movies when one of us was visiting the other, but in between we would have Transcontinental Movie Dates–we’d pick out a movie and we’d each watch it–and then talk about it the next evening.
But over time we fell out of the habit of going to the movies–so expensive! So full of people who won’t stop talking on their mobile phones!
Then, of course, we had Baguette, and trips to the movies fell by the wayside. With a few exceptions (both Iron Man movies, True Grit, The Town, Dark Knight Rises), we just stopped going.
But this year, there are actually quite a few movies I want to see. Are any of these on your list?
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
And it turns out that we have a friend with a role in Jack Reacher, so I’m now interested in that in spite of Tom Cruise.
I wonder how many we’ll actually get to.
Photo by Jörg Weingrill, via Flickr.
Those are the very movies on my must-see holiday movie list. And one of them I’ve actually already seen: Argo. It was terrific: two hours of edge-of-your-seat drama with taut performances and a fascinating historical setting. Of the others, I’m probably most sentimentally excited by The Hobbit. Peter Jackson’s LOTR are some of my favorites of all time and I can’t wait to see what he comes up with this time around.
I hear great things about Argo! Hopefully we’ll get to see it soon.
I NEED TO SEE Twilight…OMG I am a huge Fan. Argo was perfection, I would love to see Lincoln too.