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We started a new tradition at our house on Tuesday nights.  Once DJ (my step son) has all his homework done and everyone’s home from work, we have pasta and watch a movie.  Dan is an excellent cook, so he’s always whipping up new and different kinds of pasta, and it’s always delicious.  That’s not the trouble, it’s finding a good movie to watch.  We’ve hit a run of B-A-D movies lately.  I think we’re something like 2 for 8 on picking out movies.  The only criteria we have is that we like to try and find a movie that none of us has seen, here in lies the problem. 

On our inaugural pasta and a movie night we watched “Swing Vote” with Kevin Costner.  It was awful! I mean, we watched the whole thing because we just had to see who he ended up voting for… which the movie doesn’t even show... it just ends!  After that we watched “The Waitress.”  WOW, was that bad.  But, we’d already got so into the movie that we wanted to see if the ending would redeem itself… so not the case… ugh!  After that we stumbled across a really bad Robert De Niro movie.  I cannot remember the title (Control * Alt * and Deleted from my mind), but it was so bad we just turned it off after 20 minutes!  The only good movies we saw were “Wedding Planner,” which Dan had seen and “BeWitched,” which Dan had seen and also had horrible reviews.  But, compared to the duds we’d seen lately, that movie was really cute! Silly, but cute.  There have been others, but I cannot remember at the moment. 

Do you have any movie suggestions, new or old?  We need some real help!  This Tuesday we’re watching “Marley and Me,” which I’m mildly excited about.  I mean, I’ve heard the movie’s good, but everyone whose seen it already tells me, “It’s sad,” so I’m pretty sure the dog dies.  I don’t like knowing that ahead of time, it takes away from the movie.  The only exception is when it’s a movie based on real life, like Titanic or Rudy.  Somehow even though you know the boat sinks, it’s still a great movie.