January Movies & Book(s)

So after my disastrous choice my husband took week two. He thought we should watch It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. While I get that it's a classic and it is amazing that all of these actors were in one movie, I didn't enjoy as much as he wanted me to. I have this talent for fixating on one point and in this case I didn't enjoy people trying to screw each other over for the possibility of a fortune. In fact my observation was that the elbows and shoving and pointless greed can be see in footage of a Walmart on Black Friday.

 Nominated for one Oscar.

Sadly, we let a week slide but got back on the wagon with The Wolverine. It was a more thoughtful superhero movie as most are trying to be, but to me not worthy to watch again. On a personal mission to see a movie a week on my own, I saw Austenland. Okay, I am falling victim to the Mormon girl porn. No touching, no kissing, just quietly falling in love and making sweeping declarations that will be rejected and misunderstood, but then ultimately redeemed. Yeah, watched it many times. Skipped to the parts that would give me lady, ummm, tingles(don't judge). Then in a fit of stupidity got the book. 

Yes, the more you watch and the more you read, the more you see the cracks in the foundation and I'm starting to understand why this is a bad movie and a bad book. But like the men and their non-sexual guy porn, let this time wasting fun go on. I want to see bad true love bloom and win. Screw you certain parts of Love Actually. 

I suppose that could count as my book for the month, but my official choice was Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons, Tales of Redemption From an Irish Mailbox, by Greg Fitzsimmons. I will say that my experience with reading Carolla books, this is not just a rehash of radio bits. These are personal stories, some I've already heard and some that go deeper. I enjoyed it and it's well written, but I do not necessarily recommend it to the casual reader. I do recommended it to Fitzdog fans, but no need to, because they most likely have already read it.

Finally, my husband's second choice was Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. I was happy to have the story end at the end of the movie. No to be concluded in 2015 crap. Yes it was okay, but I'm tried of the action sequence, pause action sequence, ect. formula. I'll say that I came out watching this movie realzing that me and my husband have a bad habit of finishing a movie then abandoning each other for TV Tropes and Wikipedia to read more about the movie.

So, a mostly miss set of choices for January. My instainct to pick Oscar winners burned me in the beginning, so as you see I am treading lightly for now. I must declare soon. Don't want to get stuck in another three hour epic. Though I bet I'll laugh more during Hamlet. (To be fair, I'll just be thinking of Rosencarl and Guildenlenny.)