Movie Reviews

I watched a few movies last night. I figured I'd share my thoughts on them here. Now, just remember, I'm no Ebert and I don't do this for a living...

Star rating:
* - What were they smoking?? * * - Eh. * * * - Pretty good. * * * * - I really liked it. * * * * * - Awesome!


He's Just Not That Into You
* * * 1/2

As chick flicks go, I liked this one. Not something I feel I need to rush out and buy, but good enough to rent. If OH were watching it with me, he'd probably heckle the entire movie. Even though I had a pretty good idea about how it would end, it was a fun movie to watch.


Passengers
* *

Anne Hathaway tries a serious role that doesn't include a makeover. I kept having flashbacks to The Sixth Sense while watching this. It felt somewhat disjointed to me. And I kept wondering when it would get good.


Wanted
* * *

This movie is a good 'guy flick'. Lots of action and explosions and guns! Felt a hint of Fight Club in it at times. There are a few scenes I really got a kick out of (but am not going to write about just in case you've not seen this movie yet) and I wasn't yanked horribly out of my suspension of disbelief. If you start putting thought into it, you will probably find lots of errors about this and that. If you want a decent movie with lots of flying bullets and some nifty explosions, give it a shot.

Movie meme

Thanks to sleeping si, I have another meme to share.


One movie that made you laugh:
Shaun of the Dead
One movie that made you cry:
Stepmom
One movie that you loved as a child:
The Last Unicorn
One movie you've seen more than once:
The Crow
One movie you loved, but were embarrased to admit it:
I don't embarrass too easily anymore, so I can't think of one at the moment....
One movie you hated:
Zoolander
One movie that scared you:
When I was little, I had a nightmare about the Care Bears Movie...does that count?
One movie that bored you:
Speed Racer
One movie that made you happy:
Pirates of the Caribbean. Any of them.
One movie that made you miserable:
Where the Day Takes You
One movie that you weren't brave enough to see:
um...
One movie characted you've fallen in love with:
How about lust? Then it would be Captain Jack Sparrow.
The last movie you saw:
Get Smart
The next movie you hope to see:
Dark Knight


Consider yourselves tagged.

Domestication

Here's a photo of a painting I did a while back. It's pretty basic but I liked it enough to put it up on my wall. If you know me at all, you know that I don't hang my own artwork up. Most of it is in a portfolio in the closet. And it's from a long time ago. And I just feel kinda weird flaunting my own art in my own home. I keep wanting to change it and work on it more. Like this one. I need to fix the boulders in the foreground, but I'm too lazy to get out the paints and brushes and do it. But, that's okay, because it's my damned domicile! I can hang whatever I want on the walls, provided I don't make too large of a hole or anything...

I got to hang out with Ames again today! I hope she doesn't get bored with me anytime soon! This woman saves my sanity at times, I swear. Not to mention we get to hang out and have fun doing things that normally bore us to tears. Like going to hell, er, WalMart and doing laundry. Thank you, Ames for being my friend ::grins::

I've been knitting a manly version of the wristicuffs for a different friend of mine. Needless to say, I've almost got one of them done. After starting over 4 times... I tried to keep the swearing to a minimum while working on them, as they are a gift and should only have good thoughts attached.

I have had an idea for some foodstuffs to prepare at home. And I wanted something with a little more oomph than Ramen or instant taters. So, sometime today, I'm going to attempt to make Chili Bowls. I already have the recipes. I just had to figure out how to make biscuit bowls. A quick Google search later and I know how (or at least I have the general idea, anyway). I'll let my two readers know at a later time if/how they work out. And how much swearing was involved. If memory serves me correctly, there is plenty of swearing in the biscuit recipe. And the chili is permanently etched in my memory barring a large head wound.

I went kind of nostalgic today. SPOH (Semi-Permanent Other Half) and I rented Casper and The Order. We got The Order because the video store didn't have A Knight's Tale. Believe it or not, I want to re-watch AKT because it has Wash in it, not because it has Ledger. (Wash = Alan Tudyk)

I wondered why people bought ball-winders and swifts for their yarn several times. Now I know why. I spent several hours winding 1375 yards of laceweight yarn today. That, my friends, is not for the weak of disposition. There were a few times I wanted to just fling the whole bloody thing across the room and shriek in frustration. You try untangling a knot in something about as thick as a pencil lead. NOT a pencil. JUST the lead part. Like mechanical pencil lead. Yeah, now you understand. Luckily, I only lost about a foot or so of yarn. It just got hopelessly knotted up. Not even a needle (regular sewing needle) helped me untangle it. So I mourned a bit and cut the offending knot away after buggering about with it to get the smallest amount of waste possible. Now I need a bit of a break, though.