Movie Review ~ Morning Glory

Romance / Comedy, Released in 2010, Starring Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton

A young morning show producer is let go from a job and struggles to find another,  She manages to land a position on a failing network morning show, only to learn why it’s failing. She struggles with a new anchor and trying to make it work until she’s told the show has six weeks left, it’s being cancelled. Desperate, she makes a deal to bring ratings up and keep the show running, but can she manage it?

 

I enjoyed this, it was fun and funny. The breathy voice that Harrison did throughout was a bit much but over all it was good.

Movie Review ~ Cowboys & Aliens

Action / Thriller, Released in 2011, Starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde

A spaceship full of aliens arrives in nineteenth century Arizona to take over the Earth. They start with capturing people to discover their weaknesses, but have the misfortune to capture the wrong man, Jake Lonergan. When he wakes up with a strange metallic thing on his wrist and no memory of how it got there, or his life before, he starts investigating. Once he realizes what’s going on he knows what he has to do… but who will win? Jake or the Aliens?

 

We enjoyed it. there were a few recognizable faces and, to me, lots of recognizable landmarks and historical mentions. A little strange but still good.

Christmas is over

The hubster has gone back to work after 10 days off. The kids still have another 4 days at home, but things are finally starting to get back to normal.
I’ve spent much of the last ten days working on learning to fully use my new Kindle Fire, and waiting for amazon to make the wordpress app availible for it in their aneroid market. As of this post, they still haven’t,  however I have found a way to side load it, and it’s working great.
The other major project I’ve been working on is a final edit of a book for publication, as well as getting my author sites and profiles up all over the Internet. I’ve learnedly that there’s as much networking to publishing and selling your work as there is writing and editing.
I still have lots to get done, and the time to get it done is shrinking as my deadline looms.

Movie Review ~ Green Lantern

Action / Adventure, released in 2011, starring Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard.

A test pilot with a history of risky behavior is chosen by an alien ring that gives him amazing powers. But is he willing to do what needs to be done? Or is it just to hard, will he quit before he finishes his training?

 

Not bad, not wonderful. Entertaining and fast moving but nothing deep and moving.

Movie Review ~ Armageddon

Action / Adventure, released in 1998, Starring Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck

When a giant asteroid is on a collision course with earth NASA comes up with a plan to save the planet. But the problem is getting the person who can do the job. Harry Stamper and his crew of roughnecks are recruited to fly to the asteroid and drill a hole for a bomb to split it so it will miss the earth, but can they do it?

 

This has long been one of my favorite movies. While Bruce Willis’s acting wasn’t the best in the film, the roll was. It strongly reminds me of John Wayne’s roll in Hellfighters.

Movie Review ~ Batman Begins

Action / Drama, Released in 2005, Starring Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Ken Watanabe

Bruce Wayne has watched his home, the city his father loved turn into a crime riddled wasteland as he grew up. Now, as an adult, he decides to become the hero that Gotham needs. But can he keep from being defeated by his old mentor?

 

I’ve enjoyed this version of the old tale since I first saw it. It’s a new twist on the old story that I watch over and over.

Movie Review ~ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2

Adventure / Fantasy, Released in 2011, Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint

Harry, Ron and Hermione search for the remaining of Voldemort’s Horcruxes and battle with the Death Eaters in an effort to save the wizarding world from the evil they represent.

Movie Review ~ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1

Adventure / Fantasy, Released in 2010, Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint.

The first half of the seventh book by J.K. Rowling, this movie follows Harry and his friends as they search for the Horcruxes that prolong the life and prevent them from killing Voldemort. Along the way they battle the same enemies they’ve battled for some time, as well as some inner demons.

 

It’s not a bad portrayal  of the book, but, as with any really great book turned to movie, they had to leave so much out it’s like they’re telling a different story.

Movie Review ~ The Change-Up

Comedy, Released in 2011, Starring Jason Bateman, Ryan Reynolds, Olivia Wilde

Two men, friends since grade school trade bodies after a night of wild partying. The single underachiever steps into the live of his friend who’s married with three kids and a soaring career. At the same time the overachiever struggles with what he finds out about his laid back, never finish anything friend.

 

This was funny, but very sexual in humor, definitely not something to watch with the kids around. I enjoyed it but it’s not something I would buy and watch over and over.

Movie Review ~ Hereafter

Drama / Fantasy, Released in 2010, Starring Matt Damon, Cecile De France, Bryce Dallas Howard.

A professional woman has near death experience in an island tsunami, and upon returning to her life is haunted by what she remembers.

A boy looses his twin brother to a tragic accident and  struggles to deal with his death.

And a man who can connect with the spirits of those past but struggles with what the experience does to him, and to those he lets know of it.

All these people have death touch them in some way, what differs is how they deal with it. Can they find peace with who they are and their lives?

 

This was good, you hopped from one person to another, following the story of each, but it wasn’t hard to follow. One person’s story was mainly in french which meant you had to watch subtitles, not one of my favorite things, but still a good movie.