Reasons To Love Him, #21: Furthering My Addiction
Gleeful pre-post aside, that is more an exclamation! than an aside: Chris has started writing again! Please to enjoy: www.culturecide.com
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It’s perhaps no well-kept secret that I adore movies. Of all shapes, sizes and genres, and all wonderfully timeless and horrible topical story-lines. I like them big and small. I like them all. Except for when I don’t. In which case: the sky might be falling.
What I mean to say is, I enjoy cinematic entertainment. And most of the time I can take it for what it is. Be it a Moving, Whimsically Tragic Love Story, or a Wham Bam! I Just Shot You In The Shoulder While Flying Through The Air While Doing A 180 On My Motorcycle sort of movie most likely starring Angelina Jolie.
Chris has come to the slow realization that there are few things I would rather be doing than watching a really good (or see: really bad) movie. I certainly don’t waste my time (Exhibit: I did not, will not ever see Glitter, or The Love Guru, or White Girls, etc. etc.), but have I mentioned that I am endlessly entertained by movies?
OK, then.
Cue our Netflix queue. And the fact that Netflix sends reminder emails to account holders a day before said movies are to be arriving in your mailbox, looking mostly irresistible in their scantily clad red covering, especially when sitting next to a heaping stack of boring blue-collar bills.
Chris, being the afore-mentioned account holder on our Netflix account, receives those emails notifying him that he might want to be out of the house from 6-8:30pm, because Kerri’s rented another movie centering on being or wanting to be Jane Austen another movie will be arriving promptly.
As of late he has taken to forwarding those emails to me.
Even when said arriving movie might star Kevin Costner, an actor Chris might loathe more than the reality that many people can’t properly use their, there, and they’re.
Now while everyone is entitled to have their wrong opinions, especially when they haven’t even SEEN any of an actor’s best movies (I’m looking at you, baby), I will go on the record as saying I happen to very much like Kevin Costner, The Actor.
I don’t know Kevin Coster, The Person, but I imagine him to be as hip and suave (and quite possibly, drunk) as his character in Tin Cup, as hilarious and witty (and quite possibly, drunk) as his characters in Bull Durham or The Upside of Anger, and as fantastically hero-worthy (and quite possibly, drunk) as his characters in The Guardian, Robin Hood, and The Bodyguard.
I will also go on the record to proudly say Field of Dreams is a fantastic movie, and if you have no idea what I’m talking about, and have only seen Mr. Costner associated with such potentially bad decisions as Waterworld, Wyatt Earp, or The Postman, all I have to say is: DANCES WITH WOLVES, people. DANCES. WITH. WOLVES.
Netflix that shit.
Kevin Costner!? Oh dear. I can’t say I am a fan but you did point out some of his better films. I will give you that. And give Chris credit for sustaining his sanity through said viewings. :-)
I’ll BE RIGHT OVER!
I will always watch cheesy movies with you. Perhaps we’ll have to start sending the boys out for a beer and we can watch Cheesy Movie Goodness. And, I’ll come over in my PJs.
Reasons to Love Kerri Anne: See This Post.
You know I get it. Whenever I see an awesome(ly bad) movie, I feel the need to tell you about it. See: The Happening. Which you’d already seen, and yet I felt compelled to regale you with several post-viewing Tweets, just ‘cuz.
That’s love there.
you are the aaron and I am the chris.
Tatonka
I must admit that I am…”meh” when it comes to Kevin Costner. At least you aren’t professing love for Nicholas Cage (I hate THAT FACE he makes when “emoting”), or John Travolta (SO ANNOYING). Kevin is happily in my “meh” category.
As for Chris? Site added to the Reader. Of course.
Dude. I love Kevin Costner. I don’t care what anyone else says.
He’s also on My List.
OMG! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Kevin Costner! Like in a weird obsessive way!
I was just watching Rumor Has It with him in it and hot damn, he’s so charming.
/swoon
I think Tin Cup is a brilliant movie! No one ever agrees with me! Now I am more excited than ever that I will be meeting you next month. And yes, in general, I am a big fan of Kevin Costner. I didn’t even think Waterworld was that bad. At least you can’t call the man a coward! He likes to jump into those big, epic movies that are ripe for failure. When they go wrong (The Postman) they go very wrong, but when they’re good…you get Dances With Wolves.
i love kevin costner baseball movies. silly because i’m not a huge fan of baseball. *sigh*
I’m glad Chris started writing again. I checked out his blog awhile back but was hoping for more current stuff!
I have never tried Netflix- but really should because Entertainment on Demand has been sucking big time. The fact that you like Kevin Costner makes me smile. I think you are the only person I’ve ever known to say that. :)
Kevin Costner’s face (torn out of some teen mag) graced a prominent place inside my 8th grade locker.
“Netflix that shit” indeed. I just recently watched Dances With Wolves for the first time a couple months ago and it blew me away.
Oh, Kevin Kostner for the win.
The Guardian and Field of Dreams? Best sports(ish) movies EVER!
AND his ex-wife had the most beautiful wedding dress when they got married.
AND they used to own a restaurant near me that I would go to and be all, “is Kevin here?! Tell him I say GO LONG!” or whatever.
In conclusion, you are correct per the usual.
I have never seen Dances with Wolves. I was probably (quite possibly, drunk) not interested at the time. or the other 100 times.
but alas!! I do love movies… like spell it out L-O-V-E LOVE movies, so I will try it. The fact that it does not star Nicholas Cage or Hugh Grant means I can probably get Troy to watch it with me. (if he hasn’t already seen it cause he’s a sly one like that when I least expect it.)
Love Kevin Costner. BUt do you know who I love more? Robert Duvall.
Robert Duvall! And all his westerns! Broken Trail? Check. Open Space? Check. OH! And Secondhand Lions. Check. In fact, I was never interested in visiting Argentina until I learned he owns a ranch there. And now I’m all: I MUST VISIT ARGENTINA.
It is a sickness, I tell you.
i will give you Bull Durham. and Field of Dreams. but other than that?? Kevin Costner??? REALLY?
Kevin Costner is an actor? I had no idea. I can’t imagine why anyone would pay to see him in a movie.
Sorry, dear. :)
Mmmph…I think Kevin Costner’s kind of wooden. It doesn’t seem to matter if someone’s dying or he’s made a home run or if he’s in the throes of hot sex, his expression never varies. Maybe he’s channeling really mediocre sex, or maybe he thinks the person who’s dying is just really boring, but he could at least blink faster or SOMETHING. That and when he marries the unattractive girl in Dances With Wolves, a) he says “The smallness of her feet,” which is like the all time dumbest line ever, and b) couldn’t she have brushed her freaking HAIR for her wedding?! What the hell!
Sorry. I also think Renee Zelwehooha’s face looks like a puckered up dog’s bum, and she always looks like she’s smelled something bad. As you can see, I’m at odds with the Screen Actors Guild. They will be egging my house any day now.