Mark and I find movies that we know the other would prefer not to see, but we still would like to see them. This movie trial period is called "Bad movie night" Mine usually consist of chick-flicks and Mark's are silly comedies. So after I went riding Friday, Mark was still playing games, so I picked up Shaun of the Dead for Mark and Vanity Fair for me. Saturday morning- in the bright daylight hours, we watched the first, Shaun of the Dead, which is a romantic comedy movie about zombies- has a twist there doesn't it :) Placed in Britain, zombies start taking over- we both loved the actors and were laughing throughout. The only gross part was "zombi gore" for which it received an R rating. Needless to say, some parts were truely gross. But note, this was the best of the three movies we watched Saturday.

Next we watched Vanity Fair- I mainly like these dramas because of the costumes- I am sure that they are horribly uncomfortable, but they look very elegant. We both disliked the main character- not the actress, just the character. We also didn't like her dense friend (pretty easy to figure out since she only has one friend). Overall it was a sad movie and you wonder how anyone could be so dense.

Our final movie was Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. We were longing to see this one, but expected more chemistry between the leading man and woman. We thought that the fuzzy picture with comic book-like stylization would have been fun, but it ended up irritating by the end. Perhaps it is hard to act on a blue screen (then entire movie was done in a computer)- but we really think it was the directing (on the up side, Dax was a great character).