Guilty Pleasure, Anyone?

            With very few exceptions I’m not a huge fan of watching movies. Seriously, I just don’t tend to have the patience or the money to go to the theater and spend two hours of my life sitting in a dark theater with a bunch of strangers in the dark with nothing to do if I get bored and knowing that if I want to get up and move around I’m going to miss something (most likely the most interesting part of the movie). I do however sometimes enjoy putting a movie in my laptop or DVD player at home, but will admit it is extremely rare that I watch an entire movie all at once without wandering off a few times, or watch one without knitting or another craft project taking up part of my attention. The biggest exception to this is I occasionally enjoy heading out to the Sunset Drive InTheater in Aurora with a big group of people. We love to get out there right when the gates open, snag a few front row spots, set up the mini grill and make a night of it with all of the kids. I think part of it is all the stuff going on and the fact that I can knit or fiddle with stuff during the movie, so it feeds my ADHD tendencies. The other big factor is you can see 2 new movies for less than what it costs to see one in a traditional theater. This also appeals to my frugal side.  J The other exception to me not liking to go see new movies would be a series that has fascinated me for years. I saw all three of the main movies in the theater and can admit to owning all the rest at one time or another. The next one comes out in theaters on Friday, and yes, I’m thinking about trying to pull together the money to go see it.

The movie I am speaking of is American Reunion. This is the latest movie in the American Pie series.  This series consists of the original American Pie movies (American Pie, American Pie 2 and American Wedding) which follow a group of teenagers through their senior year in high school, which includes a plot to lose their virginity on prom night, through the first part of college and all the embarrassment that ensued there and on to when the slightly nerdy but cute main character Jim from the first movie marries Michelle, the flute playing band girl he lost his virginity to on prom night. To be honest these movies are my guilty pleasure. The rest of my movie collection looks nothing like these and most people assume they belong to my husband when they see them on the shelf, but they’re mine. I’ve been watching the news, trailers, reviews and directors comments for American Reunion and I think it will be of the caliber of the original three movies, therefore I must see it. J

After the first three there were some spin offs of the movies that had a few of the original characters, while they were in themselves somewhat funny movies, they were nowhere near the caliber of the original three, being from the makers of American Pie, I gave them a watch and quickly let them move from my life. If I see them pop up as I’m flipping channels I’ll stop for a bit, but I don’t go out of my way to watch any of them.

So now I’ve given you all some insight into one of my guilty pleasures. J I thought a nice light linked post was in order this week, just didn’t have the mental fortitude to write a big serious deep one!