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We went to see the midnight showing of the new X-Files movie. I want to say I was disappointed, but honestly, I wasn’t expecting much seeing as they completely hosed the show during the last two years. I miss the X-Files. Old school X-Files. 
I don’t really want to go in depth about it because I don’t want to ruin it for anybody. Then again, the writers did a good enough job of that.
After I picked Zack up from the college last night, we went to the dollar movies and watched American Gangster. Why did we choose to see this flick? Well, we didn’t look at the schedule first, and it was the only thing that was starting when we showed up. We would have had to wait an hour for anything else to start, and we didn’t really have anything to do for an hour. It seems like every time we go see a movie at the cheap theater, I notice a ton of mistakes in it. During American Gangster, I saw the boom mike 17 times. That doesn’t count the time that I walked out to use the restroom, or when I fell asleep for a few minutes (I say it was 10, Zack says it was more like 30, but I don’t think I missed anything. Maybe I’m giving the filmmakers too much credit here, thinking I couldn’t miss a half hour without missing some important plot points.) Zack thinks the theater is somehow projecting the movie incorrectly and thus showing the boom mike more than they should, but I think if it had been properly filmed and edited, it wouldn’t have been a problem. But anyway, bloopers aside, it was actually an alright movie, but waaayy too long.
I’m going to start trying to eat healthier and get more exercise, not so much as a diet or New Year’s resolution, but just to get healthier in general, and, well, also to lose some weight, but I’ll probably be more likely to stick with it if I don’t try to think of it so much as “a diet.” Fast food and San Diego banquet rooms are obviously not part of the plan; veggies and the elliptical machine are.
I’m so very happy that they’re finally making another X-Files movie. This also makes me aware of how out of the X-Files loop I’ve become. I used to be completely obsessed. I mean, far beyond what is healthy. Anyway, I’m stoked about his as long as it’s better than the last two seasons of the show, which it almost has to be.
Happy very late Thanksgiving. Zack made turkey for himself and my dad, and Tofurky for me, and there were mashed potatoes and deviled eggs and cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie…all the good stuff. In fact, a deviled egg sounds kind of good right now, and they need to be eaten pretty soon.
I keep waiting until it’s really late to post, and then I don’t feel like writing anything. I think I need to start writing earlier in the day. Right now I’m watching The Toybox This is one of the better movies we’ve seen in a while, even if I don’t fully know what’s going on.
Flight of the Living Dead is bad. Not funny bad or so-bad-it’s-good, just bad. Two thumbs down, do not rent. Fido looked promising from the preview, but I fell asleep and missed the middle. I need to go back and rewatch it later. Maybe. Anyone know of any good cheesy horror movies that just came out recently? We watch a lot of movies, and we’re running out of ideas. I mostly just grab them at random now. I have the MVP at Hollywood Video, so I don’t really worry about picking something good since I’m not paying $3 or $4 each.
