Where
is everybody in their quarantine movie marathon? Or maybe that’s just us. We do still have that 1,000 piece jigsaw
puzzle on the table. And Chris is still
perpetually sewing on a quilt. And it
still takes me all week to prepare for the Sunday Seaside Online
broadcast. But hidden in there somewhere
is our homage to the antique practice of theater-going. Movie theater, that is.
It
makes it easier that we have quite an extensive collection of dvd’s. Even the ones that made it through Hurricane
Ike (with a thorough cleaning, of course. Yep, we had to do it back then, too. And we made it through. All is not lost in the Corona-infested world)
remain in a notebook designed to hold that even more antique collection of
letters – the CD. So we have a plethora
of options to choose from when it comes time for viewing.
So
far our prime movie viewing time has been in conjunction with our evening
meal. You know, dinner theater. Yum.
For
some random reason we started our personal marathon with the H’s. No idea why, other than the fact that there
are six Harry Potter movies. We saw Hancock,
a Will Smith movie where he is a disgruntled super hero. High Crimes was another one. It was a kind of forgettable thriller about a
lady trying to clear her husband of war crimes charges. And then there was Heaven Can Wait, one of my
all-time favorites. It’s about a
professional football player who is accidentally allowed to die by his
new-to-the-job guardian angel. As a
result of the snafu, the angel has to find him a new body to inhabit. Lots of light-hearted fun there. And some romance. True love and all that, of course.
But
our latest quest has been to make it through the three Hobbit movies, followed
by the Fellowship of the Rings trilogy. One
movie a night, you understand, so it has really helped us pass some time
together. We almost had a crisis last
night, though. We were on the very last
movie – Return of the King. The glorious
climax of the whole series. And the disc
– one of those that made it through Hurricane Ike – started glitching. Apparently there was a serious enough scratch
to disrupt the laser reader. We restarted
several time. We even went to Disney
Plus to watch it there, only to discover it was not free. You had to rent it. Plan C.
We went back to the original disc.
We bypassed the offending scenes by selecting one a little further down
in the story. And it worked. All we missed was Aragon recruiting the dead
soldiers to fight for him. It helps fill
in the blanks when you have read the book and seen the movie a time or two.
Where
to next? Another trilogy? Individual favorites? Any recommendations from the Peanut Gallery
out there?
Psalms
46:10 says, “He says, ‘Be still, and know
that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.’”
Father,
thank you for being there when we do finally stop for a minute and be
still. Amen.
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