Josh Madagan

The Academy Awards is on tonight. I haven’t seen a single one of the films that are being nominated. I frankly can’t afford to spend $10 – $15 per person to go see a movie in the theaters any more. I don’t go to the movies alone, so my out of pocket is anywhere from $20 to $40 for two of us to see one movie. They charge extra for 3D movies, and all the new movies seem to be coming out in a 3D version.

It will be interesting to see which movies win the Oscars tonight. I’m looking forward to watching most of them – when they come out on DVD.

The summer blockbusters are starting to get the advance publicity and commercials. All the talk show hosts are having movie stars as guests who are there to promote their new movies.

I’m looking forward to some great new action films, like the new Star Wars and the new Terminator. In a few weeks the new Transformers will be in theaters. This will be a summer of big movies, I can already tell.

I woke up early yesterday morning and decided to turn the T.V. on for a few minutes.  I couldn’t fall back asleep so I was hoping to find something entertaining on.  As luck would have it I saw a great movie.  It was called 21 and was based on a true story.  It revolved around the case of 4 college boys taking over Vegas by learning how to count cards.  When I say taking over Vegas I believe they made something over a million dollars in BlackJack.  For a skill that takes a few months to master that aint too bad.  The movie is great especially if you’re into gambling.

I saw an interesting movie this morning about one of the greatest composers vonBeethoven.  The story chronicles his life from when he was first starting out producing music until his death.  The intersting parts included his references to God and his relationship with a young woman named Anna.  I don’t know much about his life or if parts of the movie were just added to make it more interesting, but I have to say that now I am interested in finding out more about Beethoven.  In the movie it mentioned that at one point he had lost his hearing as well.  I don’t think I have ever heard that before.  I am going to do further research and hopefully read his biography to get a better idea of his struggles and passions.

The other day I watched that movie What Women Want for the second time.  It’s hard to admit that I watch any movie more than once, of course unless it’s Star Wars or any action flick.  For some reason as I was flipping through the channels I stopped on What Women Want with Mel Gibson and I suffered through it again. 

The fate of Nick (Mel Gibson) has got to be the worst luck any man could have.  He actually has the ability to hear what women are thinking.  I think this is one power I would rather not have.  I like to believe that all women want me and that I am the greatest guy in the world.  I will just continue to believe this until I hear otherwise.