#8 THE MUSIC MAN (Erika's Choice)

This post has been a long time coming, Dave and I finished The Music Man all the way back on July 18th. I say "finished" because we started it a week earlier and then got "distracted"—which we all know is code for "started making out and turned off the movie".  Needless to say TMM, didn't hold Dave's attention the way I thought it would, and come to think of it, it didn't hold my attention the way it did when I saw it as a kid.  I should also mention that July 18th also holds a special significance because it was our one year anniversary and while we may have grown bored with Meredith Willson's songbook, we still haven't grown bored of each other.  After the jump I'll explain the better movie story from our anniversary and why I've put off writing this entry. 

#7: PALINDROME (Dave's Choice)

Woo boy. I've actually been putting off writing up this one because it means reliving this film, but inorder for this dear project to continue, I must persevere.  Dave and I knew going into this that eventually there would come a time when one of us would present the other with a film we—well, I'll say "strongly disliked", but we all know that what I mean is "hated".  This experience can be compared to cooking up an old family recipe and serving it to Dave, only to have him (as politely as possible) spit it into his dinner napkin. But going on with the food analogy, it's always not a mismatching of flavors or the way a meal is cooked, sometimes it's your own taste buds that cause your gag reflex to go into effect. Watching Palindromes for me was as if director Todd Solondz took a pepper shaker, unscrewed the cap, and dumped the entire contents into a soup.  And let's just say that I have a very sensitive stomach.

#6: THE DINNER GAME (ERIKA'S CHOICE)

It's always nice when things happen to come full circle, especially in a relationship. It gives an illusion of order to the chaos and randomness of a world full of millions of that could possibly bring two total strangers, like Dave and me, together.  Such is the coincidental case of The Dinner Game. Last summer, Dave was courting me, wooing me, romancing me. He was "lovesick" (as he puts it) over me. And I, well I was being an idiot. When I wasn't being an idiot, I happened to tell him that he simply had to watch The Taking Of Pelham 1  2  3 before the surely horrible John Travolta remake came out later that summer. And when I heard that the upcoming movie Dinner For Schmucks was a remake of an old favorite of mine The Dinner Game, well, history was about to repeat itself—only this time around (as I write this days before our one year anniversary yikes!) I think it's safe to say we're both pretty lovesick.