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Let's Go To The Movies

Jen: Everyone who knows me knows that I’m a TV junkie. I use and abuse my FauxVo on a daily basis. I love dramas, comedies, paranormal, sci-fi. I love to escape into other worlds. But come May, the TV season comes to a close, and I need to get my fix elsewhere. Thank goodness for the blockbuster summer movie season. And this year looks like it’s going to be a great one.

Today the fourth Indiana Jones movie releases. I’ve been waiting for this movie for years. Indiana was one of my first movie heroes. When I was young, I wanted to be him, on those wild and crazy adventures. When I got a little older, I wanted to be the woman at his side. Now I just want to be the woman at the theatre enjoying the ride for a couple hours. Indiana might be getting older, but so am I and I still enjoy watching his adventures.

Lisa: I wish I had time to watch TV and movies. Now, I pretty much only see the shows I’ve been in (as an extra) just to see if I can be seen. (I also just started as a specialty costumer, but the shows I’ve worked on so far won’t come out until next year.) But once in awhile, a movie comes along that I get excited about and want to see. And it’s not always a movie people would expect me to be crazy about.

Lost Boys: The Tribe. The original was awesome, so why wreck it with a sequel, especially twenty years later, but I was a fan from the moment that movie hit the theaters. I wasn’t allowed to watch it because it was rated R, but as soon as it hit video stores, I talked my parents into renting it. Eventually, Lost Boys was the very first video I bought with my own money. And I’m still a fan. I honestly don’t care if the sequel sucks. I’m gonna love it anyway. Edgar Frog rocked my world then and he’ll do it now. Before there was Buffy, there were the Frog Brothers.

Jen: You know I’m looking forward to that movie too, for the same reasons. It’s hard to believe it’s been twenty years since the first time I saw it—at Lisa’s house on my first sleepover there. It’ll be fun to watch the sequel just for the tie-in to my youth. Interesting, two movies I’m most looking forward to this summer have tie-ins to my childhood. I guess that type of marketing works!

The other movies I’m looking forward to seeing this summer are Hancock—Will Smith playing a reluctant superhero, it looks like fun!—and two movies to watch with my son: Wall-E (I love all the Pixar movies) and Kung-Fu Panda (just the title alone makes me want to see it).

What movies are you most looking forward to seeing this summer, and why?