Summer Fun Thus Far

Saturday nights, Ryan and I sometimes manage to squeeze in dinner and a movie as a date night-sometimes just the two of us and sometimes with the gang of sales reps.

So far these are the restaurants we've tried:

Cheesecake Factory: always good, too many options, over priced, great dessert

Bahama Breeze: awesome beach-like atmosphere, excellent food {you gotta try their wing appetizer...mmm} long service-we had a bad waiter

Kabuki: sushi was alright, long wait for sushi, nice waitresses

Maggiano's Little Italy: too die for. favorite. good prices, good food, good atmosphere, good service. Go there if you are ever near a Maggiano's

The Melting Pot: only go here for the dessert otherwise you're spending WAY too much. Buy your own fondue pot and boil the meats in broth at home. It's a fun 1 time only experience, and then if you're the adventurous type, do it at home and don't go back.

These are the movies we've seen:

Thor: it was cool, but I'd probably wait to see it in Redbox or Netflix. Seemed like it was too rushed and that they produced it only so that people knew who Thor was for next year's film the Avengers.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Um, there really are no words. The very first Pirates was good, after that one, they've all gone down hill. This was better than the last one-slightly. Redbox or Netflix.

X-Men: First Class: I personally liked the other X-men movies and Wolverine more. There was a lot of plot in the movie and the fighting was a little over the top to make up for lost action scenes. But, overall it was a good flick and I like knowing why Professor Xavier and Magneto don't get along. I'd watch it again, it was good, but not an epic and no where near the magnitude of some critics' comparison to The Dark Knight.

Super 8: ok, the only reason I thought it was lame is because I don't like scary movies with monsters, ghosts, and aliens. However, this is a good movie and definitely worth watching. The characters are well developed and the child actors are superb. The movie keeps you on your toes and has some unexpected thrills. After it's over, you really can ingest the movie and analyze the different story lines and how they wove together in the end. You can also see how the underlying themes relate to real life. It was good. See it if you're not a 'fraidy cat!

Green Lantern: My favorite super hero movie of the year so far. Good acting and interesting interpretation of the comic series. I think the directors could have been a little more imaginative because of all the endless possibilities of the Green Lantern's super power, but over all this was a fun light flick that I quite enjoyed and definitely will watch this again! Also, the love story in this was also believable and not gushy or just thrown into it for the sake of putting mushy crap in--like most other movies in similar genres {Thor and Transformers for example}.

I want to see Harry Potter, Captain America, and Mr. Popper's Penguins. Ryan wants to see Cowboys and Aliens which I'm nervous about...