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Movie Review: Rock Of Ages

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Jun 202012

The other day when awaiting for Snow White and the Huntsman to start I saw a preview for the movie Rock of Ages. From the first notes of Pour Some Sugar on Me I knew I would have to see this movie. Then it happened…Tom Cruise showed up on the screen singing Bon Jovi.

The wrongness of it all cannot be put into words. How that scrawny little arrogant man got into this movie….arghhh. I had to see it anyway.

Tonight my sis-in-law, my mom and I dined without kids and went to see the movie of my junior high/high school years. It was a fun movie. Silly at times, outrageous at other times. Gross. definitely gross at times, but it is a movie about Rock and Roll.

So Mr. Cruise didn’t do a bad job. In fact, while his voice was no Joe Elliott, he didn’t butcher the anthems either. He also showed the craziness that comes with intense fame. He strutted around like Axel Rose with his chest puffed out and was so not good-looking, but many rock stars aren’t good-looking they are just famous and rich.

The singing, dancing and acting was very Mama Mia, and that is what made the movie so fun. The citizens fighting against rock and roll reminded me of watching Tipper Gore on TV talking about needing a rating system for music when I was a young teen. Twenty-some years later I thank her for that as it makes my parenting a bit easier, but at the time all I remember was thinking who names their kid Tipper and why does she hate my music! I never knew that I would vote for her husband someday. Time is funny that way.

I loved watching the movie show the transition of the hair band peak into boy bands coming to the forefront. It reminded me that my brother and I, only two years apart, had a big difference in musical taste. He loved MC Hammer and I took him to a Vanilla Ice concert (and hated it btw). Thank goodness grunge came to redeem him or he would still be running around in those pants!

If you were a rock child of the eighties go and see this movie. You’ll have fun, sing along and feel like feathering your hair! They played about four Def Leppard songs, some Bon Jovi, Poison, Warrent, Journey and more. Good stuff.

Movie Review: Snow White And The Huntsman

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Jun 162012

Finally! I got to see Snow White and The Huntsman… I mean today I took the older girls to see the movie Snow White and The Huntsman. They made me go, I am way to old to want to watch grown up fairy tales. Who wants to watch Snow White be transformed from a delicate flower to a kick-butt woman? Okay I do.

I love it when princesses kick some bottom…and are brunettes!

So how did this movie do on a scale of 1-5? I give it a solid 3. It was fun, had great special effects and the twists to the old tale were a lot of fun.

Meg and Mita are twelve and don’t get grossed out easily or scared silly with things, so the movie was great for them. Not in a million years would Enu be ready for it though, and I really would caution against taking younger kids. The other Snow White movie was great for Elle and Enu and we all enjoyed that one as well.

Here’s something I loved…no love scenes! There started to be one, but it was pretty tame and ended quickly…very refreashing that a PG-13 Movie doesn’t get all sexed up. It was pretty violent though, and had quite a bit of blood to it as well but like I said if your kiddos are okay with fantasy and sci-fi they should be good.

Of course the timeless tale is about beauty both skin deep and within. Purity and innocence wins out in the end as it should and it was nice to see Snow White be such a fighter. Snow White is played by ~~bella~~ I mean Kristen Stewart. She did a good job, as her character was to be stoic, serious and reflective. This Snow White was rough and tough, but had that magical quality that we know Snow White to have and Stewart did pretty good with it. I did have a hard time not seeing her as Bella from Twilight fame though. At one point Snow if injured and laying on the ground writhing and all I could think of was that’s what Bella looked like when James bit her! I guess my imagination isn’t that great!

Charlize Theron nailed the evil queen! She was very enjoyable and very evil. The evil queen played by Julia Roberts earlier in the year was also good at being bad, but there was an air of comedy with her as that movie was lighter. Theron was spooky evil.

If you are looking for an action movie, meets fairy tale, meets a bit of a love story Snow White and The Huntsman is a good one to see! No one asked me to review this movie. I’m just participating in NoBloPoMo and saw a movie today ;)

Movie Review: Breaking Dawn

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Nov 212011

I saw Breaking Dawn on Sunday with Hubby. Please don’t tell my friends because I went without them. If said friends are reading this I will go with you and see it again, so please don’t hate me!

Breaking Dawn is the fourth and final book in the Stephanie Myers Twilight Saga, just to bring you up to speed if you are not up on the sparkly vampire series. This book is being split into two different movies (a la Harry Potter 7) and what just came out was part one. My review is more of a book made into a movie review than a movie review, as the books are usually my first love. If you have not read the books the rest of this will have spoilers, just to warn you. If you have read the book, I won’t give away any movie secrets. Though I will tell you they threw something in the beginning that was so book one I was a bit miffed, but I think it was done for the non-readers to catch them up a bit.

The movie begins with the wedding. This wedding has to be the best movie wedding I have seen in a long time…if not ever. The wooded scene with simple white flowers, the way they said their vows like they were the only people in the world, the silly and sappy wedding speeches were all perfection. I did not cry by the way, but I did hear some sniffling in the theater.

Of course Isle Esme was as beautiful as I imagined in my mind, though the white room wasn’t as white as it should have been. The honeymoon went pretty much per the book and I will not go into detail..ahem.

Bella’s pregnancy through the delivery was portrayed quite well. They really made Bella look sick and emaciated. The house (which I adore) was a big part of this movie as they spent a long time in it. It is not set up how I imagine it in the book and my mind kept thinking the rooms could have been more dramatic and kept the family closer, but that’s just my mind playing tricks I guess.

Edward looks better in this movie than the other three. All of the vampires have lost some of the ultra-heavy makeup and don’t have that startled look they once had. For those of you that don’t know me, I am Team Edward, but the book Edward, not the movie Edward (sorry Robert Pattison, but you will always be more of a Cedric Diggory than an Edward Cullin). In the movie I find Edward to be more human than ever. His character has grown and he seems less demanding than the first few books/movies. He seems to be more angry at Bella than himself in the movie, while in the books he is angry more at himself and what he has allowed to happen.

Jacob. Poor, dear Jacob. The film did well with portraying the book Jacob. The wolves were more involved in the movie than ever and it was done well. I won’t go into details but there was some changes from the book, but they were done to make the movie more action packed and the changes didn’t bother me.

I adored this movie. It made me happy. Yes. I know it seems lame to some, but oh well! Some people watch reality/tabloid TV and I enjoy sparkling vampires…life goes on for all of us!

I will give you Hubby’s review. Hubby has seen all the movies now, just because he kinda likes me ;) He didn’t like this one as much because he said it there was too much time in the house and not as much action. Then there was the imprinting part… he laughed. Out loud. In the theater. I think if there was any chance he would ever enjoy the series, it was lost at that moment. He doesn’t get it!

There is more blood and gore this time around, not horrible, but enough to warn you!

Go and see if you are so inclined and tell me how you liked it!

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BABIES! Just in Time for Mother’s Day

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May 052010

A few months ago

I was at the movies with some friends (it feels like years ago!) and we saw the preview for Babies. I instantly fell in love and wanted to have a baby right then and there. Hubby didn’t see this preview and did not feel the same. Actually, I think he could have watched the preview and still would have had the same sort of negative thinking!

This movie is about the first year of four infants from different parts of the world: San Francisco, Mongolia, Namibia, and Tokyo. The film promises to be beautiful and I hope that Breastfeeding is a big part of this film (fingers crossed). This film may be a great opportunity for us all to learn from other and come to respect our different ways of parenting.

I have included a few links to share with you with previews and shots from this movie. Enjoy!

My preditcition is that the birth rate will be rather high come next March. By then I will be working again in the field of Lactation and be as busy as ever! Busy with babies..how great is that. Unfortunately I cannot seem to find a theater in this part of Ohio that is showing Babies this weekend so our birthrate may bounce once it comes out on DVD or On-Demand. Oh the life of a country bumpkin! Here are a list of theaters.

(Disclosure: I was provided with these links through the BABIES Ambassador Program. Sharing these can lead to me winning prizes like diapers and baby stuff. As I don’t need these items anymore (boo hoo) in the event of my winning they will be split between our local pregnancy center and my niece Ali!)

We Went To See The Wizard!

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Sep 252009

The Wicked Witch Was Awesome!

Last Wednesday night hubby and I took the kids to see the 70th Anniversary Screening of The Wizard of Oz (in high definition) no less! Meg saw this movie when she was about five years old, but the other three have never seen it. As Meg is playing a Munchkin in a local The Wizard of Oz production, we have been talking a lot about the characters and plot around the house and Mita, Enu and Elle have had no idea of what we were talking about!

The movie was wonderful, of course, as it is a classic. I’m not much of a techy, but the quality did seem better than the old TV version I used to watch as a kid.

The first time Meg saw the movie I watched her carefully when the movie turned from black and white to color. Meg’s look of amazement was something I will always remember and I wanted to watch the other girls looks as well. I was wondering how I was going to watch three faces at the same time. Meg solved this for me when she blew the surprise when I overheard her telling Mita how the film goes from black and white to color. Enu was sitting far from me besides Hubby and I couldn’t watch her face. So I watched Elle and I was not disappointed!

As Dorothy opens the door into Munchkin land and the screen fills with color, Elle’s jaw drops and she says,”WHAT!”. too cute and a magical memory I will always have, along with Mita crying up a storm when Dorothy is held captive in the Witch’s castle. Enu was so happy with the bag of candy gorp I gave each of them, she would have been willing to watch movies all night. With Meg mouthing the words and dancing in her seat, we were all very happy.

On the way home I told the girls about the times when Uncle Josh and I were little and we would watch Oz and then go out into the woods during the commercials to be scared! Those flying monkeys are creepy looking, even now! We were softies I guess, because they weren’t scared (after Harry Potter and Narnia it’s hard to scare kids with monkeys!)

Good memories that we will remember forever, or at least I will! Elle wore a blue-checked shirt on Thursday and really wants Meg to play Dorothy, or as she calls her “that nice girl.”

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I’m to lazy to edit Meg’s eyes and she thinks they look cool anyway!

Our 3D Experience

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May 162009

Hubby and I took the kids to see Monsters vs. Aliens since it was a rainy afternoon. This was the first 3-D experience for all of the girls. The first thing I noticed was the increased ticket price we had to pay. I guess the glasses do cost money. They are nerdy-looking black glassess that are an improvement over the old cardboard red and green glasses.

I must admit that the movie was forgettable, even the kids said it wasn’t the best, but the 3-D was amazing. When hubby first suggested the movie, I thought “Oh no, I’ll get car sick”. But I had no motion sickness at all.

The beginning scene is a meteorite flying through space. It was coming right at us and Enu kept yelling, “Owe, that hurts!”. She finally settled down, but I still don’t think she liked it really well.

While this movie wasn’t the best, we did see a preview for UP that should be coming out soon. It looks like a fun one and the girls laughed a lot at the trailer.

Of course Meg and I are anxiously awaiting for July when the new Harry Potter movie comes out. It may not be in 3D but, we are sooooooooooooo excited!

Have you seen any good movies lately?

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