Aha! Monday Blurbs!

Sometimes I'm so smart I scare myself. *grins* I figured out what to post on Mondays! Blurbs of what I watched over the weekend {with an especial look at whatever my family and I watched on Masterpiece Theater Sunday evening of course *winks*}. So, what did I watch this weekend?

On Saturday I watched Little Women {1994} starring Winona Rider as Jo and Christian Bale as Laurie. This particular version of the classic book by Lousia May Alcott sticks fairly close to the story in some scenes, such as Amy's near death experience falling through the ice, Meg's trial at Vanity Fair, and such. However, it does take a certain amount of liberties concerning the dialoge and sequence of scenes {Jo didn't learn that Aunt March was taking Amy with her to Europe until she was already in New York, not before} and there are several Hollywood kisses {a.k.a. long and unwanted} but I still rather enjoy it every time I watch it. *grins*

In the evening after the NASCAR Nationwide race {which was very exciting in that Steven Wallace, one of the young hotheads in my opinion but son of legendary Rusty Wallace, kept crashing everyone; Kyle Bush won}, my siblings and I watched TRON: Legacy {2010} starring Jeff Bridges as Kevon Flynn and Clu {the obvious bad guy} and some guy named Garret Hedlund as Sam Flynn. So, while my siblings and I have yet to see the ground-breaking predesecer, this movie was deemed "interesting" by all of us. My brothers liked it because it was similar to the video games they enjoy playing; my sister liked all the action scenes, and I liked Sam Flynn. *grins and winks* However, none of us liked the ridiculous costumes at all; they just look so uncomfortable and stupid, even for a video game movie! Haven't decided if I'm writing a review or not.

And in the evening we watched the next episode in the PBS show MI5 which we've only recently started watching. I'm not entirely sure which episode we watched exactly nor do I know how it all fits together chronilogically. I do know that I don't like Richard Armitage's character's girlfriend or all the kissing scenes. However, I do like Armitage's character, Lucas North, and since Saturday's episode ended on a major cliffhanger conecerning him I'm keen to see what happens to him next week. *winks*

On Sunday - err, yesterday - we watched the NASCAR Sprint Cup race which was fairly uneventful and won by Ryan Newman which was cool. In the afternoon my sister, one of our brothers and I watched The Eagle {2011} starring Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell and Donald Sutherland for about the fifth or sixth time since we got it a couple weeks ago. That movie is AWESOME! Marcus {Tatum's character} is totally cool and definitely my favorite character while Esca {Bell's character} is the perfect best friend for him and Sutherland was grand as the uncle. I shan't tell you any more however since I'm planning on writing a review on this grand movie. *winks*

And in the evening we tuned in for the debut episode of PBS' new mystery/action-adventure/drama show called Zen which is way cool! Starring Rufus Sewell as Italian detectiove Aurelio Zen who, unfortunately for his career but fortunately for us *winks*, has the reputation of being honest. Zen is awesome and totally stylish while still coming across as sweet and human {like, banging his head on the steering wheel after dropping off the girl he likes only to see her leave the destination in the company of a man whom he immedately assumes is her boyfriend}. About the only thing I really didn't like was a kissing scene near the end, some conversation essential to the plot but still not very appropreate and the fact that both Zen and his love-interest begin a relationship while still technically married to tehir respective spouses. *sighs and shakes head* Ah well. You'll have to double-check back here tomorrow for a link to Ruth over at Booktalk and More's awesome review on the episode. *winks*

Note: This was suppose to have been posted yesterday but my internet died on me. :(