I have been doing a good bit of work so I have neglected in updating what I have watched and read. Since I have work I need to be doing now...I am just going to do a quick version.
Watched - Girl with a Dragon Tattoo. - It was very good. Followed the book fairly closely and was good enough that I wish they would make the other two novels into movies.
The Help - I was a little disappointed with this movie. Had I not read the book I probably would of been happy with it. But having read the book - I thought they changed and left out some important parts. So while it was good...I was kind of let down because the book was so good.
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 - It is what it is. Movies have never done justice to the books. Actors suck. But of the movies this has been the best one - so maybe Part 2 will be even better. But overall just so disappointing that such good books with such potential were ruined by crap D-list caliber actors.
Footloose - With Julianne Hough - And I was pleasantly surprised. I was really kind of expecting something on the level of Dirty Dancing Havana Nights (what were they thinking?) but this remake was really not that bad. It was good enough that I didnt' spend the whole time comparing it to the original. I think it helped that they were smart enough to cast real dancers who could also act! So it was a cute and fun little movie!
Mad About You - I just love this TV show. It shows on some channel at 5:30 every afternoon and I have it set to record, so when there is nothing on regular TV I watch episodes of this. It is the best. I just love Paul Reiser. And now going back and re-watching these episodes, I have realized that Everybody Loves Raymond, stole from Mad About You. So many episodes of Mad About You were redone on Everybody Loves Raymond ...even down to characters. Paul's mother acts and treats Helen Hunt just like Marie does to Debra on Everybody Loves Raymond. Paul's character is the laughable sometimes oblivious husband to Helen's uptight, stressed, freak-out prone wife. Very similar to Ray and Debra. Ray Ramano copied Paul Reiser!
READ -
I finally finished the last book of the Girl with a Dragon Tattoo series. Those novels are just quick 1,000 page books! ha! It was just as good as the first - If only the author was still alive and writing more really griping and twist filled novels.
My hubby broke down and bought me The Hunger Games. Got to see what all the hype is about. And I must admit it was a very good book. I read the entire thing in one Saturday afternoon. And yes, with its mere 375 pages, it was like a short story compared to Dragon Tattoo books - so I blew through it. Now I have to read the next two in this series. Even though I googled them and know how everything turns out. But I think I will still read them anyways.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Friday, March 9, 2012
Inception
Goodness...it seems like it has been awhile since I actually watched something I haven't already seen a bazillion times. But the hubby and I attempted to watch "Inception" the other night. Leo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. It was one of those movies that got so much buzz, yet it just never jumped out to me, so I never really made the effort to watch it.
But it just so happened that another blog that I read made a post about how much she loved "Inception" so I thought, might as well give it a go. We knew pretty quick into the movie...we had made a mistake. When the plot takes about 3 turns before the opening credits are even finished, you might be in trouble. And I am all for a few twists and turns but this thing had so many that I spent the majority of the movie looking at my husband and saying "what!??"
Leo's character goes into people's dreams to steal their ideas. Futuristic corporate espionage. Already sounds far fetched but I will give it a little latitiude. His partner is Joseph Gordon-Levitt. If that isn't confusing enough, they attempt to plant an idea in someone and it requires all these different dream levels and making someone think they are dreaming within a dream...I don't know but I am confused already just trying to remember it. And to add to the confusion, Leo's character has lots of drama with his wife who got lost in their dreams and then commited suicide because she thought reality was really dream and she keeps showing up in his dreams trying to kill him...
Things just get so confusing that about an hour in the hubby and I were both checking to see how much longer the movie lasted. (Never a good sign) And to our horror, it was a 2 and half hour movie! But we were committed and going to finish it! And of course I shoud of known with a movie this frustrating there was no way it was going to end resolved. The ending left you hanging. Just infuriated me that I had spent 2 and half hours watching this craziness to be left hanging!
The bright spots of the movie for me were definately Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character. He had a little bit of wit, was an impecable dresser (why don't men dress that way all the time now? Oh how I long for the days that men wore 3 piece suits and hats...can fashion please revive the 1940's!!!) And watching him tie floating people together and float them down a hallway and into an elevator was just comical. (It wasn't supposed to be but I found it utterly hilarious!)
If you haven't seen it..don't waste your time. If you have...did you like it? Really? Why?
But it just so happened that another blog that I read made a post about how much she loved "Inception" so I thought, might as well give it a go. We knew pretty quick into the movie...we had made a mistake. When the plot takes about 3 turns before the opening credits are even finished, you might be in trouble. And I am all for a few twists and turns but this thing had so many that I spent the majority of the movie looking at my husband and saying "what!??"
Leo's character goes into people's dreams to steal their ideas. Futuristic corporate espionage. Already sounds far fetched but I will give it a little latitiude. His partner is Joseph Gordon-Levitt. If that isn't confusing enough, they attempt to plant an idea in someone and it requires all these different dream levels and making someone think they are dreaming within a dream...I don't know but I am confused already just trying to remember it. And to add to the confusion, Leo's character has lots of drama with his wife who got lost in their dreams and then commited suicide because she thought reality was really dream and she keeps showing up in his dreams trying to kill him...
Things just get so confusing that about an hour in the hubby and I were both checking to see how much longer the movie lasted. (Never a good sign) And to our horror, it was a 2 and half hour movie! But we were committed and going to finish it! And of course I shoud of known with a movie this frustrating there was no way it was going to end resolved. The ending left you hanging. Just infuriated me that I had spent 2 and half hours watching this craziness to be left hanging!
The bright spots of the movie for me were definately Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character. He had a little bit of wit, was an impecable dresser (why don't men dress that way all the time now? Oh how I long for the days that men wore 3 piece suits and hats...can fashion please revive the 1940's!!!) And watching him tie floating people together and float them down a hallway and into an elevator was just comical. (It wasn't supposed to be but I found it utterly hilarious!)
If you haven't seen it..don't waste your time. If you have...did you like it? Really? Why?
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