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By no means am a movie buff, geek, dweeb, or nerd. Often times I'll sit in a conversation when others are talking movies and just nod my head and chime in with the occasional chuckle. And it's not that I don't like movies, I just am not motivated to go see a «blockbuster» in the theater and by the time it comes to DVD I forgot I wanted to see it. That being said, once in a while I get into a movie kick ... and that happened this weekend.

Kelly and I went with some friends on Friday night to There Will Be Blood. To be honest, I had not heard of the movie until 90 minutes before the show began so to say the least I was not ready for what was ahead. I've inserted the trailer below if you too have not heard of it:

I walked out a bit shocked. It was an excellent film but please do not go in thinking it's action packed. As we walked out, I heard many mumble «that was slow» and «did anyone talk in first 25 minutes?» with a few «too long» sprinkled about. Take all those comments with a grain of salt. The acting was spectacular and the storyline amazing (note: the movie is based on Upton Sinclair's novel, Oil!.

Now onto Juno. Sunday afternoon we decided to catch another movie -- after all, 2 movies in one weekend is very rare and in this case a great choice. Juno was a wonderful film that made me laugh, made me uncomfortable and made me laugh again. A great flick, and considering Campbell is due Feb 4th, the whole pregnancy thing was very timely. Oh yea, Jason Bateman was in the film. I had flashbacks to Teen Wolf 2. Yes I said that!