After a 2 month hiatus, 1942 is DONE!

Weeeee're Baaaaack! Poltergeist II style yo. After a short break, the must anticipated return of movie watching has finally come. We bet you're all very excited! That being said, let's get right back to business...

Way way back in December, we chose our movies for 1942. They came via Netflix and have been sitting in our house collecting dust for nearly 2 months now. Well, we knew we had to get back into it soon and thanks to the snow storm of the century, we had a nice day off today to watch our 2 movies. For those who need a brief reminder - the Best Picture of 1942 was Mrs. Miniver, I picked The Pride of the Yankees, and Kim picked Roxie Hart. Let's get to it...

First, we watched The Pride of the Yankees, starring Gary Cooper and Best Picture darling Theresa Wright (she was also in Mrs. Miniver, as well as The Best Years of our Lives). This was basically a biopic of Lou Gehrig, from his childhood years up until his death, with Coop starring as Sweet Lou. The film was very well done and we both thoroughly enjoyed it. It was really cool to see the real BABE RUTH in this film as well (playing himself of course). Good times.

Then we watched Roxie Hart, which is based on the musical Chicago, starring dancing foolette Ginger Rogers. It followed the Chicago story pretty well, and at times seemed almost like a parody of it. There were some real goofy moments it seemed, like when Roxie was fighting with another female inmate, there were the sounds of real cats screaming in the background. So yeah, it was interesting. It was a very short film, only about 75 minutes, and we found it to be very enjoyable as well.

Deciding which of the movies we liked best has been one of the more difficult years to decide upon. Of the 3 we watched, none of them really stood out as superior to the others, and none of them stunk either. If we had to choose, Kim would pick between Miniver and Pride of the Yankees, while I enjoyed Roxy Hart the most, but thought Miniver and Pride of the Yankees were better films. I don't know.

Well, definitely stay tuned, we will be posting our next picks (a recent year!) very very soon! Good to be back!