I'm a bad movie-picker-outer

Admittedly, I am not one who sees a lot of movies. I have seen the classics. I have my favorites that I have seen countless times. But on a yearly basis I go to one or two flicks at the theater and I may rent another 5 or so over the year. That "renting" includes finding one on Showtime or HBO. I think that it has become a self-fulfilling prophecy of only seeing poor films. Usually I just have too many other things going on, and when a movie looks good in the trailers I always seem to not have a free night to go to the movies. Then, that one day comes along and I am in the mood to sit down with 100 strangers and see a movie on the big screen and I have no idea what is playing.

So, last night was one of those nights. Movie night for Serge. I know I wanted to see the Hangover as EVERYONE I know who has seen it has loved and said that I would love it to. So, I looked up show times on my phone and it was playing at 9 and 10 PM around town. It was 7:30. I did not feel like finding a way to entertain myself for an hour and a half so I decided to play movie roulette. Bad move Mr. Traylor.

The last time in this predicament we found ourselves at Walk Hard. A spoof on the Johnny Cash movie. It was a comedy with an actor who was good in a previous movie I'd seen. Was I wrong! Horrible. I still don't know how I sat through all 84 minutes of it.

Last night it happened again. I get to the mega-plex 130 screen theater in west county. And here is a list of movies in front of me that I had either never heard of or had no interest in seeing. Sorry, I am not a Harry Potter guy. So, I rolled the dice. GOODS.

Ouch! Even with a cameo by Will Ferrell it was horrendous. Two or three laughs. Almost painful at times.

So, why am I so bad at picking out movies? I think it is a law of averages with a healthy helping of not knowing good actors/actresses names. If you only go to bat twice, you have a good chance of striking out twice, like me. If you go to movies all the time, not only is your average better but your memory of bad movies is worse. Then you put a little, "well the only actor I have heard of on any of these movie posters is Jeremy Piven, so let's see that one" on top and you have a recipe for disaster.

Does anyone know a good movie review site? Not the Siskel and Ebert one, one that guys in their 30's might enjoy or relate to? I need a go to spot next time the mood hits me. Cause one more strike out like that and the side is retired.

I admit my geekiness now

I remember the days when my magazine subscriptions were Maxim, Men's Health, Baseball Weekly, ESPN the magazine. Now, none of those get mailed to my house. I fashion myself as a guy who is still "in the know", but for some reason those publications just don't warrant me spending $10 - $20 a year now in subscription.

What happened? When did it happen?

I look at my coffee table now and I see Fast Company, Inc., St. Louis Magazine, Consumer Reports.

Damn, I am old. Or as I would have titled myself a few years ago, I am a geek (to some extent).

I remember the days when I was on the road day in and day out that I would watch SportsCenter at least 2x a night, and again in the morning. I knew every little thing that was going on in sports with thanks to the World Wide Leader in Sports. Now, I check my Google Reader and see what is going on from a few bloggers out there on teams that I care about (Cards, Blues, sometimes KU basketball and sometimes Steelers football).

I am becoming a business man. Actually, I guess I am full-fledged business man. Getting old is weird. I won't even share with you the geeky publications I have on my desk at work...

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