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Nite at the Movies (take 2)

28 May 2009

So last Friday’s movie night didn’t work out, but we’re going to try again this Friday. Same bat time, same bat station. In other words…

When: this Friday, 5/29/09 at 7 pm Pacific time (after the #BEAtwittyparty festivities)
Where: watch the movie in your own home, comment at twitter – our hashtag for the occasion is #niteatthemovies
Who: everyone is welcome!
What: we’ll be watching the 1949 version of Little Women. Why that version? Well, because it’s available on iTunes ($2.99 to rent) and I couldn’t resist the amazon description:

Erstwhile tomboy June Allyson stars as Alcott’s famed heroine Jo, the budding writer in Civil War New England who pines for adventure, independence, and her own career. With Father off to war, it’s up to Jo, practical older sister Meg (Janet Leigh), frail sister Beth (Margaret O’Brien), and vain sister Amy (Elizabeth Taylor) to help Marmee (a saintly Mary Astor) keep the home fires warm while dealing with the rigors of adolescence. It’s all poured on with a generous amount of syrup, including lavish sets, hoop skirts, and petticoats, but anyone who’s ever read Alcott’s book will take comfort in its familiar story line. The dialogue is clunky but earnest, but you’d have to have a heart of stone not to get caught up in Jo’s plight. And rarely do you get to see such stars go at it with such gusto: Allyson and Peter Lawford (as neighbor and rich boy Laurie) are a match made in B-movie heaven, Taylor is spunky and hilarious in an early comic performance, and Leigh does the matronly thing with aplomb. And nobody, but nobody, cries and suffers like Margaret O’Brien!

A word of warning…it can take over an hour for the movie to download from iTunes, so start your download early!

See you on twitter!

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Movie Night

18 May 2009

Since there was a bit of interest in the idea of a movie night, we’re going to give it a try. The details:

When: this Friday, 5/22/09 at 7 pm Pacific time

Where: watch the movie in your own home, comment at twitter

Who: everyone is welcome!

What: we’ll be watching the 1949 version of Little Women. Why that version? Well, because it’s available on iTunes ($2.99 to rent) and I couldn’t resist the amazon description:

Erstwhile tomboy June Allyson stars as Alcott’s famed heroine Jo, the budding writer in Civil War New England who pines for adventure, independence, and her own career. With Father off to war, it’s up to Jo, practical older sister Meg (Janet Leigh), frail sister Beth (Margaret O’Brien), and vain sister Amy (Elizabeth Taylor) to help Marmee (a saintly Mary Astor) keep the home fires warm while dealing with the rigors of adolescence. It’s all poured on with a generous amount of syrup, including lavish sets, hoop skirts, and petticoats, but anyone who’s ever read Alcott’s book will take comfort in its familiar story line. The dialogue is clunky but earnest, but you’d have to have a heart of stone not to get caught up in Jo’s plight. And rarely do you get to see such stars go at it with such gusto: Allyson and Peter Lawford (as neighbor and rich boy Laurie) are a match made in B-movie heaven, Taylor is spunky and hilarious in an early comic performance, and Leigh does the matronly thing with aplomb. And nobody, but nobody, cries and suffers like Margaret O’Brien!

Sounds like there will be plenty of things to tweet about! Hope to see you there!

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A night at the movies (via twitter)

13 May 2009

A few months ago bethany and I had a marvelous time watching the Twilight movie together…even though she lives in Oregon and I’m in California. Thanks to Twitter we were able to trade comments back and forth throughout the movie…and we didn’t even annoy anyone with our whispering. Well, unless you were on Twitter and got bombarded with our tweets.

So I’ve been trying to think of another movie that would lend itself well to this type of movie watching experience and I can’t really think of anything that would be quite so cheesily entertaining. Although I am limiting myself to book-to-movie adaptations and also to movies that I can rent on iTunes. Oh, and to movies that I haven’t seen, because I’m not a huge fan of re-watching movies.

The best that I can come up with is Little Women…the 1949 version, because it’s got Elizabeth Taylor and Janet Leigh! There’s got to be some fun in there, right?

So who’s in? If I set a date and time (not this week, but probably next Friday or Saturday night), is anyone interested in synchronized movie watching and commenting via Twitter?

popcorn A night at the movies (via twitter)