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A wave of sickness swept over the Morales household this weekend.  David, getting over a battle with croup cough, battled a stomach bug that Rhonda probably passed him.  I was also feeling under the weather so we settled in for a long day of watching movies.

The Sting : Neither Rhonda nor I had seen this before.  Excellent film that I have owned on DVD for more than a year (HD-DVD) but never watched.  We kept remarking how much Robert Redford looked like Brad Pitt in Ocean’s Eleven.   I would presume that many of the thematic elements of the more recent Ocean’s Eleven film are sourced from this film alongside the 1960 Rat Pack version.  Wonderful, inventive film all around.  Love the music, the art directions, costumes, sets, etc.  I wish the Hollywood studio system would endeavor to make more films like this, there would be an audience for films that respected characters, narrative and the audience.

X-Men and X2 : Watched back to back, and was David’s first time seeing them.  Solid films that we really enjoyed.  Bryan Singer is a great director and almost think that these were better superhero films than his follow up, Superman Returns.