Here is the list for 2009:
- Blindside ( Four out of Five Eby's chose this as #1 )
- Transformers II
- Eagle Eye
As this list gets shorter each year, it is becoming apparent that our tastes are diverging. The kids have seen all the "cool" teen movies and don't want to nominate them to the Eby Favorites.
Examples of divergent tastes:
- Adam and I both saw Star Trek on DVD and we know that it was a great movie with a great story line, but the girls didn't even want to watch it. Braveheart, Gran Torino, Amazing Grace and Sherlock Holmes all fall in this category as well, just not as highly rated as Star Trek
- Carmen liked Hangover, the rest of us have not seen it yet. Carmen has seen many other movies with her friends that she did not nominate
- Jackie and I thought Julie/Julia was in the top 3 but none of the kids were interested in watching it. I let Jackie twist my arm into seeing Have You Heard about the Morgans and I enjoyed listening to her laugh through it.
Coming up with a favorite movie used to be a lot easier when we all went to the movies together. Life was simpler way back then.
2 comments:
That's disappointing, because we count on your reviews. We tell family/friends that we're interested in seeing certain movies and they send a dvd or we borrow it from friends here overseas (because you know, we're not there to see it int he movies). We almost always include movies you've reviewed because time after time we've been very pleased with the movies you recommend. Perhaps you should start a list for each Eby and one for the entire Eby clan? Its more work, but would provide a great service! You know who else is good at movie reviews, Robin. You know who's not good at movie reviews, Paul. He tends to be a little bandwagony. :)
That's disappointing, because we count on your reviews. We tell family/friends that we're interested in seeing certain movies and they send a dvd or we borrow it from friends here overseas (because you know, we're not there to see it int he movies). We almost always include movies you've reviewed because time after time we've been very pleased with the movies you recommend. Perhaps you should start a list for each Eby and one for the entire Eby clan? Its more work, but would provide a great service! You know who else is good at movie reviews, Robin. You know who's not good at movie reviews, Paul. He tends to be a little bandwagony. :)
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