watch more films

I don’t go to the cinema, don’t have Sky Film channels and seldom buy DVDs. All my friends and family do one of the above and talk about what they have seen. I have realised I have missed out on a load of really good films that won’t be on terrestial television for years.

Watching a film has been difficult as my partner doesn’t seem to be able to stay focused on a film for 2 hours or so, and I never seem to find the time to sit down on my own to watch any.

But I know that when I am watching films, I really enjoy it and it is a great way of relaxing. So I am going to join LoveFilm, and rent a number of films each month, making my way through a list that I am slowly making for myself! The great thing is that I can watch the DVDs on my laptop so I can go anywhere in the house to enjoy them.

I am looking forward to setting some proper time aside to curl up and enjoy myself.

I always seem to fins something more pressing to do rather than commit 2 hours to a film. BUT, I’m starting to relax and enjoy that time more.

Think I should organise a girly night with lots of junk food and stay in and watch lots of chick flicks and rom coms including:

1. Notting Hill
2. Hitch
3. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
4. You’ve got mail
5. Sex and the City
6. Pretty Woman
7. Dirty Dancing
8. Ghost
9. Sleepless in Seattle
10. Jerry Maguire
11. When Harry met Sally
12. Four Weddings and a funeral
13. High Fidelity
14. While you were sleeping
15. Serendipity
16. Sweet Home Alabama

Also, films out in the cinema that I really want to see are 7 pounds and She’s Just not that into you.

I want to start going to the cinema more and also watch lots of cult classics and chick flicks.

DVD’s I already own which I haven’t watched yet:

1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2. Hero
3. Jodha Akbar
4. Ocean’s 11 and 12

My aim is to watch all of these by the end of Feb.

Also really want to watch Pulp Fiction, Breakfast Club, Sin City, City of God, Kidulthood, Adulthood.

Usually I’m not a big fan of Jim Carey, but he seems to be mellowing a bit as he gets older?! The premise of Yes man is not such a bad one and having come away from the film thinking that it may not be such a bad idea. It moves along at a pretty quick pace and there are some truely funny moments in it. Definitely worth a watch.

Also watched at a late night showing on Friday night was the dubbed and undubbed Django, unfortunately I didn’t get to see much of it as had a really hard week at work and a bit to drink earlier on in the evening.. so it was a it of a blur.

:)

I got through them all.
Here is what I’ve watched in the last couple of months. I’ve listed them in order of my enjoyment.

• In Bruges
• Cinema Paradiso (Italian)
• Agnes and His Brothers (German)
• Four Minutes (German)
• The Diving Bell and The Butterfly (French)
• Persepolis
• Paris Je Taime (French)
• He Was A Quiet Man
• Elizabeth – The Golden Age
• The Proposition
• M (German)
• Heaven
• We Own The Night
• Lucky Miles
• The Interpreter
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
• There Will Be Blood

• Gia
• The Matrix
• Jaws
• 12 Angry Men
• The Godfather
• The Italian Job
• Le Fabuleux destin d’Amelie Poulain
• A Clockwork Orange
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Butterfly Effect
• Wall-E

Doing this on these summer days, it helps me enjoying time and not thinking too much.

I signed up to this a few months ago and I have to say that I have been watching more films. (Not that many more because I am only on the 2 dvds a month deal). I recently saw The Libertine, Paris, Je T’aime, Hairspray, Not Here to be Loved, Moliere, The Pursuit of Happyness…and more. Anyway, I thought I didn’t like films but actually I just didn’t like the same films as my ex. So i got out of the habit of watching them. The more you watch the more you are inspired to see. I am doing well with this “Thing”.

I watched “Sex and the city” and yesterday “Because I said so” and “A fish called Wanda”.