Jane's film list August 25

While waiting to meet Ceili I stopped in Wal-Mart to get Jane some of the intellectual junk food she wanted. Number one on the list was the new Starship Troopers film—direct to DVD. Boy, I can’t wait to see the shower scene in this film. Do you like bugs? Do you like killing bugs? Do you have a fear of bugs killing you? Never mind, SST is pure trash, prepared by the mind of one of the great fascist sci-fi writers of the USA. Just the kind of junk Jane will need to see.

Also high on the list was Scorpion King 2; Rise of a Warrior. I believe this is another fine example of a film that detoured around the theaters and went straight to DVD. There’s a gag reel on this one!!

Jane has never seen When Harry Met Sally and it has always been a fantasy of mine to reenact the restaurant scene. Plus, I thought that after all the blood and gore of the first two films my pacifist little wife would enjoy a classic love movie.

And so, I also got her A River Runs Through It. Did you know that you could pick French as the primary language of the film? But seriously, a story about taking a dysfunctional family and putting a writer in? Who would have guessed all the fun that ensues?

Finally, Jane has been a fan of Will Ferrell’s movies for a while. Gotta love the Baby Jesus scene in Talladega, right? Am I right? God bless the little baby Jesus and NASCAR too. She hasn’t even seen Semi-Pro yet and she’s a sports fan for goodness sake.

I’m looking at the top of the dresser, where all the new DVDs are kept, and I see she received Sicko from me last time she was in the hospital. That one, though she is a liberal socialist, is still unopened. For shame.

She also hasn’t opened Big, Bad Wolf. I guess that’s a sign that I don’t always know her taste in film. I’m not sure what it’s all about, but I’m sure it is a lot of fun when you’re hallucinating on hospital pain killers.

Gosh, she didn’t open Empire of the Sun, Hoosiers, the Replacements, Bottom of the Ninth, Parallel Lines or Prey either. Prey, a film I’m sure I purchased because it is not rated and the cover of the DVD shows Bridget Moynahan in a tight top, her nipples showing through… Why wouldn’t she open that one?

But she did like what I purchased for her today. She almost directed me to get these films for her. As my cousin Helen says, sometimes you have to tell people what you want to get it.