A Plethora of Movie Reviews

For the record, I strongly dislike the word "plethora."

However, it seems to best describe this latest batch of movie reviews, which are rather...erm...varied. I suppose it reveals the diversity of crap that Bobby and I are willing to pay outrageous prices to watch on a big screen.

Also, at this point, I've reviewed every movie that we've seen this year! Yay me! Granted, we've only seen six so far, but it's a good start.

Per usual, I will try to be careful with spoilers, but if you want a movie to be an absolute surprise, it is probably best to skip my review of it until after you see the movie for yourself.

( Letters from Iwo Jima )

( Norbit )

( Hannibal Rising )

Valentine's Day, Snow, and Rantish Thingy

First of all, Happy Valentine's Day, Flist!

I'm not a huge fan of Valentine's Day as a "romance holiday," despite being married and therefore "entitled" to Valentine's Day benefits. But any day that makes people feel as universally bad as this one does not make me happy. Also, gifts and cards given because Hallmark says, "Thou shalt show thy love on this day!"...and it was? Nah, I much prefer surprises, Bobby buying me a little gift for no reason other than having seen it and thought, "Dawn would like that!" And going out on Valentine's Day...hmph. I don't think so! I do not wait in a vestibule for hours only to receive shoddy service because the servers are stressed and overworked on this day and bad food because the cooks are the same and are probably pre-cooking everything. (I used to be a cook; I know what goes on behind the swinging doors.)

And so I prefer to make Valentine's Day about all sorts of love, not just the romantic kind. So I send my best wishes to my flist.

Also, I would like to offer an LJ gift to the whole flist. I was going to buy a few of these for people that would appreciate the humor, but they cost 99¢ apiece and I--my friends--am cheap. So you get to see it in my LJ whenever you would like rather than on your userinfo page for two weeks.

This is especially dedicated to my lovely sister Sharon, ssotknapsack.



Also, if you are on Ye Flist and would like a dose of Dawn Felagund heart-related poetry, then I dedicate this to you as well! With warnings because my poetry is baaaad.

( An Eeenteresting Valentine's Day )