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Hope you had a great holiday

Catch any good movies this holiday season? I did. Out of all the movies on my list, I only got to see Phantom of the Opera. It was a pretty good movie, depite a couple of little things. Well, a good movie if you don't compare it to the stage show. I really liked the scenes and costumes. The girl who played Christine had an amazing voice, but Gerard Butler, who played the Phantom didn't grow on me until about the last third of the movie. Also, the movie was told from a flash back point of view, so there were some black and whilte flash forward scenes that kind of threw me off. The end of the movie, though, sent chills up my spine and left me wanting to see it again. All in all, I give it a two thumbs up.

Brian and I scored well on the DVD scene this Christmas. He got Office Space, Red Dwarf series 3, Stars Wars Trilogy, Jersey Girl, and Better off Dead. I got the ulitmate gift, the boxed set of Lord of the Rings Extended Edition. This set truly rocks and I'm not even one quarter of the way through all the special features and commentaries. Unfortunately I'm working the next seven days straight so I won't have a chance to watch anymore until Monday the 17th. I got a second set of LOTR dvds (not extended edition) from my husband, so he insisted I take them back and get something else. It's my plan to get series 4 of Red Dwarf. I'll keep you posted.

Now that the holidays are over, it's back to normal...at least for a couple of weeks, that is. Then my husband has a birthday and I have one three weeks after that. Here's to getting more movies for each of us!

Have a great night/day (whenever you're reading this).

Juli

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