A relaxing weekend wraps up with a day of TV and movies, which is always quite nice.

First, I finished off the first season of Desperate Housewives, which is usually not my kind of show, but it ended up much better than I expected. I am a little miffed that they killed off one of my favorite characters, but the show must go on, heh.

Next I watched (most of) Land of the Dead, George Romero’s latest undead flick. Not bad as far as zombie movies go, always in the mood for watching a juicy walking corpse chow down on some man-tar-tar.

Last but not least, I actually left the house and went to see Saw II. I wasn’t extremely impressed, but I was not disappointed either. it had a halfway decent plot, plenty of gore and “ouch” moments, and some new/interesting twists. My only bitch was that the acting was not very good, even for a horror flick which is only a couple notches above porn in the acting expectation category. Saw, however, should strive for sometime a little more substantial in the tradition of the first film, which was decent, IMO. At any rate, it was worth the 6.50 to see Shawnee Smith get tossed into a pit of hypodermic needles. I haven’t liked that girl since her role in The Stand, one of my favorite movies, btw. I guess I am showing my rather odd movie tastes.

I saw a few previews tonight that sparked an interest in upcoming movies as well:

Underworld: Evolution

I wasn’t overly impressed with the first one…I thought it was a little on the boring side, actually. However, who am I to pass up 2 hours of seeing Kate Beckinsale in skin tight leather? :)

Hostel

I am not a Tarantino fan (quite the opposite), but this movie looks deliciously shocking…just how I like them. Obviously by watching gory films like this I am desensitizing my already altered conciousness to the sights and sounds of human suffering and death….heh, just kidding.

I have a few others on my to watch list as well, but I will go over those later.

Goodnight all!