Apologies for the seeming hiatius of posts for a bit. There’s been a TON that went on this past month keeping me from having time to sit down and post. My brother got married, we took my husband up to OHSU to get another opinion on his back and they still have a ton of crap he has to go through before surgery is considered, and then, what I’ve been dealing with these past two weeks, is that I’ve been very sick. Had a horrid sinus infection after arriving back in Oregon from the wedding that lasted a week with a fever. Now it’s morphed into a nasty cough, which I may have bronchitius now, not sure and may see the doctor AGAIN next week if this cough keeps getting worse. Also, my ears, or at least one of them, has so much fluid in it I feel like I have swimmers ear.
But enough of my whining.
I saw a few movies over this time that I thought I’d share my opinion on…
1. Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - I absolutely loved this book series as a kid and had been looking forward to seeing this movie. Sadly, and this may be just my opinion, but this movie fell short of my expecations for it. There were only two characters that had any amount of character developement (Lucy and Tummnus) and even that was underdeveloped. You didn’t feel you connected with any sort of emotion with any of the characters and the story itself seemed to move far to fast because of it. Effects were okay ad the end fight was okay as well, but nothing that will motivate me to buy this movie whatsoever.
2. Smokin’ Aces - I will state that I love me some Ryan Reynolds before I give my critique of this movie. All that fluff aside, I loved this movie. The creativity behind the shoot-em-up scenes were brilliant and you came to love a few of the characters within. I love the plot twist, though predictable, and the cinematography was pulpesque and brilliant. Highly recommended and not for the feignt of heart due to some killer and gruesome fight scenes.
3. A Scanner Darkly - 5 years ago I saw Waking Life, which is by the same talent that brought this rotoscoped movie to life and I LOVED it. From an artistic perspective, I considered it’s predecessor brilliant and was anxious to see A Scanner Darkly as well. It did not dissappoint. I think, honestly, had they NOT done this movie in rotoscope format, it would not have translated as well. All actors gave a brilliant performance and there was a bit of predictability in it, however, it wasn’t enough to put me off. I’d recommend this one as well, although, due to the animation style, some of you may feel a bit seasick.
4. Farce of the Penguins - Only recently, thanks to my husband, did I learn that Bob Saget of family comedy fame, was in all acuality, a very sick, dirty comedien. Which I find amusing to no end. With Samuel L. Jackson as narrator, I was excited to see this movie and it’s potiential to be a hilarious dirty comedy. Boy was I ever wrong. It was terrible. Maybe three moments in the movie did I laugh, otherwise I found myself thinking “What a horrible romantic sappy pseudo comedy.” Don’t waste your time with this movie. If you wanna see a bunch of comediens telling jokes like that, go see the Aristocrats. Shame on you Sam and Penn Gillette for even being in this movie.
That’s all I can remember of the newer movies I’d seen recently. I’m almost finished with my HP Gryffindor Scarf and will work on recreating a Victoria’s Secret Knit/crocheted bikini that I saw in their mag recently next. I can make it I’m sure for less than the sticker tag on that baby in the mag. Also, I’m almost finished with His Darker Materials trilogy. For those of you who didn’t know, they’re making a movie of this starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. Go to Bridge to the Stars to learn more. Check out the movie poster as well. Iorek looks killer there.
Well, I have another wedding to go to today and then as of next Monday I’m starting Gold’s Gym to workout with my sis-in-law in order to get buff. Going to work on my tan as well so that I can whip myself into better shape than I was before. I have a free consult with a trainer Monday after work as well and will tell them I want to have the body of Jessica Biel from Blade 3. Rockin.
Ciao.