So, this is what happens when an under-30 married couple gets so overwhelmed with the responsibilities of raising a family of two kids under the age of 2?
I can't remember the last time my wife and I were on a real "date" just the two of us. Wait, scratch that, because we did spend two hours together - - two whole hours just the two of us - - at the annual "Taste of Buffalo" last weekend. It was our first two hours alone without the kids in months. Sorry to mislead anyone.
Tragic? Perhaps. Are there worse fates? Absolutely, which is why enough's enough with this pity party!
This site is dedicated to the classic "movie date" except with a twist. Actually, my wife knows NOTHING about this yet! She loves surprises so I figured I'd surprise her and tell her she has a new project to work on with me that doesn't involve scrapbooking.
Since our very first days together we've shared a passion for movies. In fact, we used to go to dinner and a movie maybe 1-3 times a week depending on how much free time we had. Obviously, we had A LOT of free time back then.
Now, we enjoy the occassional movie from time to time, but mostly we've become couch potatos who would rather watch movies from Dish on Demand whenever our shows are repeats and we have a little extra cash left over at the end of the month.
So what is this all about? Well, a few weeks ago we caught the American Film Institute's (AFI) "100 Years...100 Movies" TV Special and thought it would be neat to keep track of all the movies from that list we haven't seen. Keep in mind that I am a self-proclaimed "movie buff" who studied film in college and my wife is your typical "chick flick" fan. The rule was that if only one of us has seen the movie we would need to rent it so that the other could say they saw it too.
When we were done there were 76 movies on our list. 76 out of 100. Pathetic. However, without pointing any fingers, the person who was surprised that "Cutting Edge" wasn't on the list is the person solely responsible for inflating these numbers. I'm not pointing any fingers though.
We decided to eliminate ALL the silent films from the list because the person who can barely handle watching black-and-white films definitely couldn't sit through a silent film.
What does that leave us with? We're going to watch at least 1 movie from this list of 68 (after silent films removed) each week and spend the week in between "movie dates" sharing our thoughts and comments about ANYTHING and EVERYTHING related to our "movie date," but hopefully more about the actually date itself (i.e. he said, she said; snacks; random thoughts; etc.) because that will probably be the most interesting part about all of this.
We hope you'll join us on our little adventure through Hollywood history. Who knows, maybe at the end of all this we'll be asked to become the next Siskel and Ebert and have our reviews printed from coast to coast. Or maybe we'll expand and review the new releases as well as popular TV shows.
The more likely scenario is that by the time we're finished with all 68 movies our kids will be old enough to sit through a feature film.
Disney G-Rated movie reviews anyone?
I can't remember the last time my wife and I were on a real "date" just the two of us. Wait, scratch that, because we did spend two hours together - - two whole hours just the two of us - - at the annual "Taste of Buffalo" last weekend. It was our first two hours alone without the kids in months. Sorry to mislead anyone.
Tragic? Perhaps. Are there worse fates? Absolutely, which is why enough's enough with this pity party!
This site is dedicated to the classic "movie date" except with a twist. Actually, my wife knows NOTHING about this yet! She loves surprises so I figured I'd surprise her and tell her she has a new project to work on with me that doesn't involve scrapbooking.
Since our very first days together we've shared a passion for movies. In fact, we used to go to dinner and a movie maybe 1-3 times a week depending on how much free time we had. Obviously, we had A LOT of free time back then.
Now, we enjoy the occassional movie from time to time, but mostly we've become couch potatos who would rather watch movies from Dish on Demand whenever our shows are repeats and we have a little extra cash left over at the end of the month.
So what is this all about? Well, a few weeks ago we caught the American Film Institute's (AFI) "100 Years...100 Movies" TV Special and thought it would be neat to keep track of all the movies from that list we haven't seen. Keep in mind that I am a self-proclaimed "movie buff" who studied film in college and my wife is your typical "chick flick" fan. The rule was that if only one of us has seen the movie we would need to rent it so that the other could say they saw it too.
When we were done there were 76 movies on our list. 76 out of 100. Pathetic. However, without pointing any fingers, the person who was surprised that "Cutting Edge" wasn't on the list is the person solely responsible for inflating these numbers. I'm not pointing any fingers though.
We decided to eliminate ALL the silent films from the list because the person who can barely handle watching black-and-white films definitely couldn't sit through a silent film.
What does that leave us with? We're going to watch at least 1 movie from this list of 68 (after silent films removed) each week and spend the week in between "movie dates" sharing our thoughts and comments about ANYTHING and EVERYTHING related to our "movie date," but hopefully more about the actually date itself (i.e. he said, she said; snacks; random thoughts; etc.) because that will probably be the most interesting part about all of this.
We hope you'll join us on our little adventure through Hollywood history. Who knows, maybe at the end of all this we'll be asked to become the next Siskel and Ebert and have our reviews printed from coast to coast. Or maybe we'll expand and review the new releases as well as popular TV shows.
The more likely scenario is that by the time we're finished with all 68 movies our kids will be old enough to sit through a feature film.
Disney G-Rated movie reviews anyone?
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