Movie Mondays- Disney, Bond, and Supernatural

Wreck-It Ralph
We hardly ever take the kids to the theater to see movies, but this one just looked too good to pass up.  I really love the humor in Disney movies, and Wreck-It Ralph was no exception.  It was fun and heartwarming, and we all loved it.  This was a great one to take our boys to.  We'll be buying this when it comes out on Blu-Ray, but then, we buy most Disney movies nowadays.

A View to a Kill
We saw this on Blu-Ray at Target for $10, and since it's one of the few we didn't yet have in our collection, we bought it.  My husband and I are big James Bond fans.  I think I prefer the newer ones, like Brosnan or later, but my husband really likes the older ones too.  He thinks Sean Connery was the best Bond.  This was a pretty good one, although I've never big a big fan of Roger Moore.  The story was good, and Christopher Walken was an excellent villain. 

 Supernatural is a show that I think could have ended a couple seasons ago, but I'm really glad it didn't because I just love watching it.  We don't have all that fancy DVR stuff, and we don't generally watch a lot of shows when they air on TV, so we've been catching it on Hulu, thus we are a couple of weeks behind.  I'm enjoying season 8, but am hoping Sam and Dean get past the bickering soon.  Oh, who am I kidding?  That's a huge part of the show every season.  There's always something to argue about.

This week we watched the following episodes (may be spoilers ahead):
Bitten: I didn't really care for this episode.  Too much shaky home video type camera work, and it just makes me feel motion sickness.  The story was interesting enough, but I would have preferred it told a different way.
Blood Brother: Good episode.  I noticed in this episode that Benny has the prettiest eyes.  I'd like to see more of his character.
Southern Comfort: Oh my goodness, Garth again.  I'm glad he's just an every once in awhile character.  I don't think I could handle more than we've gotten.  Otherwise, pretty good episode.

Me on Mondays - Dec. 13th

This past weekend I've been working on getting all ready for Christmas, and I'm getting close, although I'm not there yet.  My husband gave me an early Christmas present--a new laptop, which I'm really excited about.  It's nice to be able to relax on the couch and read all my blogs and stuff.

I went with a friend yesterday and saw The Tourist.  I hadn't seen any previews, and I had no idea what it was about going in, and I'm not sure if that made things better or worse.  I like both Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, and they did fine here, but I didn't love the movie.  It was interesting, but it wasn't spectacular.  It's definitely a renter and not a full price at the theater movie.

Also last night I watched the finale of The Amazing Race.  I think it was the first time in reality TV history that the team I was rooting for actually won.  It wasn't very tense, and about halfway through you could tell who was going to win, but I didn't care.  It's nice to be happy about a finale for once.

My husband and I have been making our way through Stargate Atlantis.  We don't have cable, so I never watched it on TV.  I've watched most of the DVD's previously, so I've seen the first four seasons and a few shows of season 5.  It's just as good on the second watch.  This show and Friends are my all-time favorite shows, and I'd be hard pressed to say which one I liked more.  Probably because they're completely different types of shows.  They're not really comparable.  Stargate Atlantis is a must see for all sci-fi lovers, though.

This week I'm hoping to get a little bit more reading done than usual.  If I can keep my computer time to a minimum, I should be able to get a few books read.  This week I'm hoping to finish:


That might be a little ambitious for me, but I'm partway through Marysvale already, the Christmas books should be fairly quick reads, and the Alcatraz book is a fast YA read.  We'll see.  That's it for me today.