More Magical Movies

Everyone get really excited because PITCH PERFECT IS NOW ON DVD AND BLURAY!!!! And you know that I've already watched it quite a few times...

But, also get excited because I have quite a few more movie reviews for you! Y'all know the drill by now right?

1. Barney: Night Before Christmas (1 Star)
What kids didn't watch Barney when they were little? After watching the cooks Christmas special, I don't understand how any kids could find entertainment in this. Lots of little kids singing loudly and playing with a bunch of dinosaurs that conveniently disappear whenever the parents are around... I will give Barney a little credit though, he always seems to teach the kids a good lesson, and this one was just a little more Christmas-y.

2. The Polar Express (3 Stars)
Everyone thinks I'm crazy because I had never seen this movie before, but I really hadn't! It was a cute movie though, it certainly had the Christmas Magic that enforces the belief in Santa in young children. My only complaint is the crude animation. It makes the people look really creepy. My favorite part is the music; the score from this movie is incredible. I can definitely see everyone's draw to this movie though!

3. How About You (2 Stars)
This isn't your typical Christmas movie, that is for sure. It's about a retirement home! A bunch of cooks, grumpy old people live there and drive away any new tenants and most of the workers. However, I the Christmas Spirit they learn that they are just one gigantic dysfunctional family. Also, I'd like to throw out that the lady who plays Professor Umbridge is one of the cooks old ladies.

4. A Golden Christmas (3 Stars)
This was a cute Christmas movie and definitely worth watching. It's about a lady who revisits her childhood home in hopes of buying it. She has a special connection to that house from when she was a little girl and had a little rendezvous with a boy from camp. Little did she know, someone had already bought the house. In her attempt to buy the house from him, she rediscovers her childhood love.

5. A Golden Christmas 2: The Second Tail (3 Stars)
I have to say this sequel was a bit of a disappointment. I had assumed that it would be a continuation from the first love story, but rather it was a totally different love story. The only reason it could be considered a sequel is because the parents from the original movie are in this one. It was still a cute story though and worth the watch!

6. Yes, Virginia (4 Stars)
This is a really cut TV special about a girl named Virginia in the search to find out whether or not Santa is real. I loved this movie because even when Virginia had doubts about Santa, she still embodied the Christmas Spirit, always helping others, even when she was in need herself.

7. Bah Humduck! A Looneytunes Christmas (3 Stars)
If you haven't seen enough movies related to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, then I have another one for you. This isn't my favorite adaptation of A Christmas Carol, but it puts a different spin on it that could be more relatable to a younger audience.

8. Christmas Lodge (3 Stars)
This is one of the best representations of a good Christmas Story I have seen thus far. It's a good, wholesome, Christian movie, and doesn't glamorize Christmas like Hollywood. You can really see how the people in the movie represent their faith to the fullest. On a side note, the movie is about a woman who helps restore an old lodge she used to spend her childhood Christmases at, all the while finding love in the lodge's new owner.

9. A Magical Cartoon Christmas (2.5 Stars)
This is another collection of short holiday-themed animations. This is my favorite collections of the ones I have seen this year so far, they weren't all super creepy, but rather had a classic animation feel. It did have a few repeats of the ones in other collections though!

10. An Angel For Christmas (2 Stars)
Yet another animation about the true spirit of Christmas, and of all of the movies I've watched this winter, this is the first one that has mentioned the Story of Jesus. It's about a town in Ireland that has forbidden Christmas and an Angel is sent down to bring it back. With the story of Jesus and Christmas on her side, she is able to bring Christmas back as its rightful holiday.

11. Bob the Builder: Christmas to Remember (2 Stars)
Alright, part of me wants to admit that this was actually pretty good, and then the other part of me thinks this was painfully awful. Seriously, the cars can talk to people... AND Elton John is a guest star... BUT, it has a cute storyline. So... I'm torn. Either way, it wasn't the best so far, and it was Bob the Builder... One of the oddest kid shows ever.



ALRIGHT. Now for some more fun non-Christmas movies.

WRECK IT RALPH.
I went and saw this movie the other day, and it was pretty much AWESOME. I don't know about y'all, but when I was younger, I thought that the SuperNintendo was the coolest thing EVER. I played it all the time, I guess you could've called me a gamer. Wreck It Ralph brought back all those awesome memories of playing SuperNintendo when I was a kid. The main character Ralph decides he's tired of being the bad guy in his game so he jumps from game to game to prove that he's more than the villain. There are so many references to games both new and old and it puts a really cool modern twist on arcade games. I strongly recommend this movie to both young and old, although I doubt younger viewers will appreciate the old references as much. My only complaint is the one slip of the tongue when one character calls another character a pussy, which is absolutely unnecessary in a children's movie... But other than that its wonderful!

More movies for y'all later!

Gettin' In That Holiday Spirit

Ok, I am pleased to say I have found the good Christmas Movies that are actually worth watching on Netflix. I've also watched a few not so good ones too, but get excited for the good ones. To make this a little more fun for both you and me, I will progressively build up to the ones that are AMAZING by starting with the sucky ones.

1. Holiday Favorites: Volume 2 (1 Star)
This is some more of those creepy animations from the 50s. I don't understand why they had to draw the creepiest looking kids back then. And the stories are kind of morbid for a children's movie. Like hating your toys and all kinds of nonsense.

2. Holiday Favorites: Volume 5 (1 Star)
This collection is only slightly better than the previous because it consisted mainly of black and white "music videos" of choirs singing classic Christmas Songs/Hymns. That part I liked and sang along too. But another part of it was creepy stories again like The Little Match Girl, a Hans Christian Anderson classic.

3. A Perfect Day (2 1/2 Stars)
Now we're getting into the slightly better movies. This was also a full-length movie! Yahoooo. It's about a man who becomes a very successful author in a short span of time and loses sight of who he really is. It takes outside help, but he finally realizes how far he has strayed from who he is. The only reason it's considered a Christmas movie though, is because it takes place around Christmas time. Still, it has a good moral.

4. Kung Fu Panda: Holiday (3 Stars)
I'm not particularly a huge fan of Kung Fu Panda, but this short animation wasn't too bad. The Panda is supposed to put on this huge dinner for the Kung Fu Masters and gets so caught up in the dinner that he forgets how important it is to spend the holiday with his dad. It wound up being a pretty cute story, that emphasized the importance of family around the holidays.

5. Snow (4 Stars)
6. Snow 2: Brain Freeze (4 Stars)
Alright I'm putting these two movies together because Snow 2 is obviously a sequel to Snow. In Snow, Nick Snowden, who is Santa, must save his reindeer from this evil guy and winds up falling in love with Sandy. They get married blah blah blah and here comes Snow 2! Now Sandy is pregnant, but unable to tell Nick because he falls through his magical portal and forgets who he is, so Sandy must help him discover it without ruining the magic of Christmas. Both movies are ABC Family originals, so of course super cute. Only weird thing is Sandy is played by the same actress that plays Victoria in How I Met Your Mother, so I keep picturing her as Victoria, not Sandy...

7. Dreamworks Holiday Classics (4 1/2 Stars)
SOOOOO FUNNNNNYYYYY. Please go watch this right now. It's four Holiday shorts. One is with Madagascar characters, (and that one was my absolute favorite. Me and my sister have been quoting it for days.) one with just the Madagascar Penguins (another great one), one with Shrek (funny, but kind of weird), and one with How To Train Your Dragon (which was also super cute). All four of them combined are about as long as a regular movie, and they are definitely worth your time. I laughed so hard while watching these and they are cute cartoons. What can I say, I'm a sucker for little kid movies.


Finally, one last movie that you all need to see that is NOT on Netflix, but IS in THEATERS.
The Rise of The Guardians (4 Stars)
In this movie, The Guardian:, Jack Frost, Santa Claus, The Tooth Fairy, SandMan, and The Easter Bunny, must work together to stop The Boogyman from diminishing all hope and wonder in the children all over the world. As my sister describes it "TROTG is like The Avengers, but with historical characters." In a way, I can see where she is coming from. I originally thought that this movie was a Christmas movie, based on the commercials, but its actually set in March or April, but its not! Everyone should see it anyways. I was definitely pleasantly surprised by this movie, considering I wasn't planning on seeing it at all,

That's all I have for now! I'm still trying to watch all the Christmas Movies on Netflix, but I keep finding more and more so I'm not sure if ill be able to watch them all! I'll certainly try my hardest though!

It's Christmas Break Y'all

Alright, alright, Christmas Break is finally here! That means I will spend my whole break doing nothing but watching movies and reading books. YEEEEE.

So I already have a plethora (ya like that fancy word?) of reviews for you. I'll make them short and sweet though, I promise. P.S. I've got a special non-Christmas movie related surprise for y'all at the end so be sure to read the whole post. Thanks.

1. Kipper: Let It Snow. (Two Stars)
This was a cute little collection of Christmas/Holiday related episodes of Kipper. I used to like Kipper when I was a little kid. I guess now is no different, I still think its a good wholesome show and I love British Accents. It's mostly about snow and winter though, not so much Christmas.

2. In Search of Santa (Two Stars)
First I'll start by saying the graphics in this movie are definitely low quality, so it kind of bugged me to watch the movie. Other than that it had a different story line from the typical Christmas movie, which was nice. It's about these penguin sisters who have to go get proof that Santa is real in order to save their kingdom. The weirdest part of this movie was that Hilary and Haylie Duff are the voices of the penguins, so I had this urge to start watching Lizzie McGuire...

3. The Christmas Bunny (Three Stars)
This has got to be one of the most depressing Christmas movies I have ever seen. It's about this girl who is adopted by this family, but she is really reclusive and doesn't want to open herself up Eventually, she finds this bunny whom she finally finds companionship in. The ending is super happy and makes you feel all warm inside and all of that junk that comes with every Christmas movie, but the rest of it kind of made me want to cry... But, I will admit that a lot of movies make me want to cry.

4. The Tangerine Bear (Three Stars)
This has probably been one of the cutest Christmas movies I have seen so far this year. It's the story of a bear who's smile was sewn on upside down (so it looks like he is frowning) so no one wants to buy him for Christmas. Eventually he learns that he can be loved by the last person he would've expected and makes a bunch of new friends. It's a cute movie with a great moral, especially in the spirit of Christmas.

5. Santa and the Three Bears (Two Stars)
This movie was not that great. It's a typical bear Christmas movie where the bears try to stay awake during hibernation period to find out all about Santa and Christmas but of course nothing goes as planned until the end when they finally see Santa. Hoo-Rah.

6. Fat Albert's Christmas Special (Two Stars)
I had never seen an episode of Fat Albert until I watched this, and let me just say that show is creepy. The Christmas special had a bit of a Christmas Carol feel to it. A grumpy old man is stingy with his money but by the end of the movie has changed his ways to help the less fortunate. Also, I noticed that there wasn't a single white character in this movie... But as always it has Bill Cosby's wonderful humor in it.

7. The Littlest Angel (Three Stars)
Great movie that really truly embodies what the true Christmas Spirit is about. I highly recommend that everyone watch it this Christmas. It's only 24 minutes long, so I know you all have time you can spare to watch this cute movie.

8. Christmas Time in South Park (One Star)
This is a compilation of seven Christmas related episodes of South Park. I have gone my whole life without seeing a single episode of South Park and I am absolutely disgusted by that show. It is so sacrilegious in so many ways. And don't get me wrong, I can tend to have a sick, twisted sense of humor, but they really over do it. All of these episodes focused on Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo and I swear I thought they were going to make me barf by the end of it... Definitely not my kind of show.

9. He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special (Two Stars)
Talk about a weird show... I don't exactly understand the concept of this one at all. These two kids wind up on another planet and some weird skeleton thing is trying to kidnap them or something so He-Man and She-Ra have to rescue them, as well as get them back to earth before Christmas.


NOW FOR THE BEST PART.

I FINALLY WATCHED 21 JUMP STREET PEOPLE. THAT IS POSSIBLY ONE OF THE FUNNIEST MOVIES I HAVE EVER SEEN. LIKE SERIOUSLY, IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT GO WATCH IT RIGHT NOW, I'LL GLADLY WATCH IT AGAIN WITH YOU.

And, I'm going to try and find the original show, starring Johnny Depp, and watch that as well. I've heard it was a good show back in the day.

Ok that's all for now, keep looking back often over break or you'll fall behind and nobody wants that!

Perfect 10

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!! I know I sure did!
And of course, now that Thanksgiving is over, I can begin to watch Christmas Movies 24/7 with NO SHAME.

I apologize now for the extremely long post you are about to read, but I promise that it will totally be worth it. Today I have for you 9, that's right, I said NINE Christmas Movies and one non-Christmas movie!

I'll start it out with the non-Christmas movie, Red Dawn.

THIS MOVIE WAS AMAZING.

I have not seen the original yet, but I plan on seeing it ASAP. I have heard from people that have seen the original that the remake movie is does it justice, so everyone go see it!
Red Dawn is about a group of teenagers who are fighting against the North Korean Army that have invaded the US and are trying to take over. This movie was actually filmed four years ago, but because of some problems with MGM, it was not released into theaters until recently. It has an all-star cast including Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck (a very skinny Josh Peck if I might add), and Josh Hutcherson. The reason I added the tidbit about it being filmed four years ago is because of Josh Hutcherson. He looks MUCH younger that he did in The Hunger Games, and now you know why! I have to say, I was surprisingly impressed with this movie. I went into the theater not knowing a single thing about the movie, except that Josh Hutcherson was in it. (My sister is absolutely obsessed with Hunger Games so we went to see this movie purely because Josh was in it). I will warn you that this is a war movie, so there is a lot of vulgarity and death, unfortunately, but overall I LOVED it. For those of you that saw the original, go see this one anyways! The ending is a bit different, or so I've been told. Personally, from what I've been told, I prefer the ending to the original Red Dawn, but I haven't actually seen it yet, so I can't say much.

Ok, now onto my NINE Christmas movies. I know that sounds like a lot, because it is, but it spans over my whole Thanksgiving Break. Basically all I did the whole break was eat and watch movies. And watch football. It's not Thanksgiving without football...

So I have set another goal for myself, hopefully I can actually finish this one. I plan on watching EVERY Christmas movie available on Netflix through the Instant Streaming. Even the super cheesy kid ones, you'd be surprised at which ones turned out good. To make this easy on y'all, I won't go into full detail for each movie, but rather just give a brief description, my rating, and my suggestion if you should see it or not! Here we go!

1. Good Luck Charlie: It's Christmas
Not a fan at all, but I'm not a big fan of the show Good Luck Charlie either. My mom watched it with me and would've given it two stars, but I give it one. It was an incredibly painful movie to sit through. The family decides to go to Palm Springs for Christmas and everything that could possibly go wrong does. Half the family flies there while Teddy and her mom are stuck back home trying to find an alternate way to get there. They bus, hitchhike, bike, walk, etc. Please don't waste your time watching this movie, it's not worth it AT ALL.

2. Desperately Seeking Santa
This is one of those super cute ABC Family Christmas Movies. I gave it four stars! It starts out like and ABCFam movie does, a blonde girl acts like a major B and finding a man helps her become a better person. (This seems to be the pattern in pretty much all their movies, so original...) In this one, however, the main character is in charge of a mall and to increase revenue for the holiday season, she sets up a "Sexy Santa" contest. The winner, David, and the main girl, Jennifer, do not get along at all, but of course start falling for each other and by the end of the movie, Jennifer must make the choice between her love life and her career. Totally typical ABCFam, but cute nonetheless. Watch it!

3. Holiday Engagement
A first, I didn't think I was going to like this movie, and I literally had to force myself to sit through the whole movie and finish it, but in the end, I'll give it two stars, it was an OK movie. The main character Hillary is super annoying and she looks like she could be related to Amy Poehler. Hillary is worried about bringing her fiancé home for Thanksgiving, and then he calls off the engagement. To prove to her mom that she has a fiancé though, she hires an actor to play Jason, her ex. Shelley Long plays the mom, and she is SO ANNOYING. I love Cheers, but her character Diane always bugged me and Meredith in this movie is just as annoying. Of course, Hillary's plan doesn't go too smoothly and the family learns that "Jason" is actually David the actor, but by then Hillary had already fallen for David. Family drama, fun fun, sounds like a normal holiday in my family household... I'm on the fence about this movie overall. It's cute, but its definitely not one of the greatest Christmas movies. (Actually its a thanksgiving movie...)

4. Saint Nicholas: A Story of Joyful Giving
You can never go wrong with Veggietales. I LOVE Veggietales, they have never disappointed me. This was actually a really interesting story about how Santa came to be and of course it incorporates the true meaning of Christmas, giving and helping others. It has a great moral and a super cute story line. Four stars, show it to your kids, or younger siblings, or just watch it for fun.

5. The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas
First of all, this title is very deceptive. Second, I didn't expect to like this movie, but it did. I gave it two stars, because it was an OK movie overall. It's about a bear who is determined not to hibernate during the winter so he can find out what Christmas is. So he goes on a long journey until he finds out what it is. Aww how cute right? Well this movie definitely had some major flaws, like the fact that the bear can talk to humans and inanimate objects and both can talk back... Anyways, it's pretty cute so you should watch it.

6. The Christmas Orange
This is probably one of the worst movies I had to endure. Can I give it negative stars? It's about this brat who asks for 600 presents but only gets one and an orange. He then precedes to sue Santa, forcing Santa to cancel Christmas. Then everyone hates the kid because he's a selfish little brat who couldn't be happy with what he was given. In the end the kid saves Christmas blah blah blah and everything is right in the world again. Happy ending or not, this kid deserved a spanking and his parents weren't even in the dumb movie... Don't watch this stupid movie.

7. Christmas Classics: Volume 1
This is a collection of animated Christmas shorts from the 50s. According to my sister they were scary. I just thought they were weird. Not really worth your time...

8. Alpha Bots Christmas
This was the absolute WORST movie of all ten I watched this weekend. It's about 26 alpha bots, each representing a different letter in the alphabet, who don't want to wait in their boxes so they escape and play around. Their version of playing is forming each of the 26 letters of the alphabet by working together. But then each of the robots lose all their power so Z Bot saves the day by recharging all of them using his box. Woo skipedee do. This is supposedly a movie for kids age 0-2 but I would never put my child through that kind of torture. Ever.

9. A Very Barry Christmas
I gave this one two stars but it was probably one of the cutest ones I watched. On a test run in his sleigh, Santa falls out and the reindeer mistake Barry for Santa, who look incredibly similar. So basically Santa and Barry trade lives until they are reunited once more. It's pretty cute.

Dang are y'all tired of movies yet? I'm not!!! Hope y'all found this helpful when looking for Christmas movies to watch this holiday season!!! I'll have more for all of you soon!

And So It Begins

IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN.

YES I AM REFERRING TO CHRISTMAS MOVIE SEASON.

NO IM NOT GOING TO STOP TYPING IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE I LOVE CHRISTMAS MOVIES.

What are your favorite Christmas movies?
Mine are White Christmas and Arthur Christmas.
If you haven't seen either of those, stop what you are doing right now and go watch them. They are DA BEST.

Fortunately, ABC FAMILY's Countdown to the 25 Days of Christmas started yesterday. Which means I will be watching Christmas movies constantly and reviewing them for you all so you know which movies are worth your time!!! Last night I watched my first Christmas movie of the season!!! Now I'm going to tell you all about it, yea yeaaaaaaaaa.

This movie is 12 Dates of Christmas. It's really cute and its really cheesy and of course has a wonderful Christmas-filled ending. Basically, this girl relives Christmas Eve 12 times until she lives it the "right way" and changes herself from a total B to a caring and wonderful person. If you've ever seen the movie Groundhog Day with Bill Murray (which everyone should have its a great movie) it's basically the same plot as that movie, just more Christmas themed.

So what are you waiting for. Watch this movie! (It's on Netflix!!!) or better yet, just turn on ABC FAMILY and watch Christmas movies from now until Christmas! Woowoowoo!

Merry Christmas (and Happy Thanksgiving)!!!

Two For One

Ok, I'll admit. I've been a tad bit lazy lately when it comes to posts. BUT I'm going to make it up for you right now by revising TWO MOVIES IN ONE POST!!! Man what a steal, right?

So first things first.

I watched another movie from "The Book" putting me at 71 out of 1001 Movies I Must Watch Before I Die! That's 7% of the movies from "The Book"! I'm making great progress, huh?

Last movie I watched was Clueless. I gave it two stars in case you were wondering, which you were, I'm sure.

Here's a few reasons I thought this movie was just, OK.
First off, it's a total wannabe Mean Girls. (I say this ironically since Clueless was made almost 10 years before Mean Girls came out.) Second, it stars Kathy Griffiths who is a self-proclaimed D-List Star. Third, the main character acts like a whiny baby for most of the movie before falling in love with her MUCH OLDER STEP-BROTHER. According to "The Book" this movie is supposed to be a modern-day take on Jane Austen's novel, Emma, but it is a very LOOSE translation of it. It's mainly the whole falling for your step-brother thing. Anyways, the acting was second-rate at best and the storyline was simple and semi-predictable. I will say the music was fantabulous though, but that's expected from any 90s movie. I probably could have lived without ever seeing this movie, but now I can tell everyone that I watch Clueless and survived to tell the tale. Take that.

Now for the second movie. Drum roll please.................................
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2
Welp, I just realized how ridiculously long that movie title is. Hmmmm.

Now, before we get any farther and all of you start to judge me or disregard the rest of this post, let me share some background with you so you can get a better feeling of where exactly I stand.

One, I am fully obsessed with Harry Potter.
Two, I have read and enjoyed all of The Twilight books multiple times.
Three, my loyalties still stand with Harry Potter.
Four, I have gone to every single midnight premiere for the Twilight movies.
Five, I love to make fun of the movies.
Six, I kind of sort of like the movies a little bit.
Seven, I HATE KRISTEN STEWART. SHE IS A HORRIBLE ACTRESS.

Ok, I think that provides enough background for you. As much as I like the Twilight movies, I still think they are incredibly ridiculous and awful and I love to point out their flaws and make fun of Kstew's horrible acting. HOWEVER, the last movie of the series is AMAZING. And y'all know I'm super picky about my movies but I absolutely loved the last one. It stays true to the book so well, except for a little surprise twist, but I don't want to ruin it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet. It was so good I didn't even notice that Kristen Stewart is a bad actress, I actually kind of liked her a little bit in the movie. But just a little I swear. This movie really is the greatest movie of all of the other movies, and I HATED this part in the books. It was one of my least favorite parts because of reasons I cannot explain without ruining the movie for many people. Anyways... For those of you who haven't read the book, here's a little run down of what happens.
Bella is now a vampire and the Volturi are after The Cullen's because they think they have created an immortal child (which is illegal). So the Cullen's set out to find friends (vampire friends of course) who will stand witness against the Volturi (and possibly fight) to prove that Bella and Edward's child Renesmee is an actually child, not an immortal child.
That pretty much sums up the entire movie. It doesn't sound like much, but trust me it is.

Well that's pretty much it for now.
Bye.

Scary Movie Season

Halloween is one of the best times of the year in the movie world. It's the time when everyone watches scary movies, despite whether or not they actually like scary movies. You cuddle up under a blanket because its starting to get chilly outside (and because you can hide in it when things get really scary) and then you let the fun begin!

Halloween is this Wednesday, of course, and if you're looking for something scary to watch, I have just the movie.

Grave Encounters is a scary movie that came out about a year ago, and didn't get much time in the limelight. It's considered an "underground" horror movie. It's about a TV show called grave encounters and the movie is the unedited footage shot for the sixth episode of the season.

The TV crew goes to an old abandoned psycho ward, where an old doctor used to perform lobotomy on the patients, and basically all of the patients were trapped in this prison against their own will. There are stories of different suicides within the ward and the most famous story of all is when six patients broke out and murdered the doctor in his dungeon laboratory.

So, the TV crew locks themselves in the ward over night to get all kinds of footage of paranormal activity and from there everything else just goes downhill... I'll let y'all watch it to figure out what happens of course.

The movie was pretty creepy, not gonna lie. I'm not really one to get scared easily at movies, and this was no exception, but it had a few pop-out, freak-out moments. There's also a lot of gore which is just gross.

But anyway... It's a pretty good movie overall, and I don't know about y'all, but I love the thrill of watching scary movies, especially on Halloween!!!

BOO.

Hehe, gotcha didn't I?

Well anyways... Y'all enjoy your Halloween and watch lots of good scary movies for me!

This is NOT Sparta

So far, the best thing about college is when your professor assigns a movie for HW. I could get used to this... Even if the movie does suck, I'll still watch it.

For one of my classes, we had to read the play, The Persians, by Aeschylus II, which is based off of the real life battle between the Persians and Spartans. Then, we had to watch the movie 300, which is also about a battle between the Persians and the Spartans. However, in the play, the Persians and slaughtered. In the movie, the Spartans are slaughtered...

Anyways, back to the movie. It is based on the famed battle the Persians fight at Thermopylae in 480 B.C. King Leonidas, the kind of Sparta, leads 300 men into battle against over 3,000 Persians. Somehow, the Spartans managed to hold off the Persians for three days with little to no casualties, but finally, in the last battle, all the remaining soldiers were killed.

Now, as great and wonderful as this sounds, I really didn't like this movie. I've always wanted to see this movie because it is so famous for it's line when King Leonidas, portrayed by Gerard Butler (one of my favorites), yells "WE ARE SPARTA!!!" and plus I had heard this was a really great movie.

Firstly, I couldn't stand to watch the movie because it all looked like a really bad animation. Secondly, the movie had very little story line, it was just a straight war. It just didn't hold my attention very much. Thirdly, the people in this movie were not attractive AT ALL, and all of them loked like they had fake abs because of the horrible computer graphics...

I really don't have anything nice to say about this movie. I didn't really like it very much, and it certainly didn't live up to it's hype. But, as I said earlier, I will gladly watch movies for Homework... even if they aren't the best movies in the world.

Oh, and just a little warning for those faint of heart. There is A LOT of blood and guts, and a LOT of nudity. You've been warned.

That's All For Now!

Nothing Perky About This Movie

It's no secret that I have been DYING to see The Perks of Being a Wallflower. I have been waiting for this movie to come out since it was announced like 2 years ago, mainly for two reasons: Logan Lerman and Emma Watson. It was finally released Nationwide this weekend, so of course me and one of my best friends jumped at the chance to go this morning!





That is seriously one of the most depressing movies I have ever seen.





Just let that sink in for a little bit. I'm still trying to grasp the whole concept of the movie myself. All I know, is that as soon as it was over, I felt like there was this huge gaping hole in me, like I was missing something. I honestly felt a little depressed, and I still do. That movie is just a straight downer.

I don't know what I was expecting from the movie. I just thought it was going to be a great story about this kid with no friends who finds great friends in HS and they all live happily ever after. Boy was I WRONG.

The characters in this movie all have something terribly wrong with them; they are all these broken souls in deperate need of fixing. Yet, nothing can fix them. Even with this great friendship they have, they are still broken.

I can't really tell you anything else about the movie without spoiling the whole concept, but let me tell you know that if you go and see it, PAY ATTENTION. It can get really really really confusing and they don't start answering any of the million questions you will have until the last 15 minutes of the movie. So prepare to be CONFUSED and DEPRESSED.

Now on the bright side of things, shall we?

I thought that the acting in this movie was SUPERB. Emma Watson proves that she is an AMAZING actress outside of the Hary Potter movies. Not only is she drop-dead gorgeous, but she portrays her character Sam so well, it's like you've known Sam your whole life - she does a spot on job. The other actors are incredible too, allowing you to really connect with the characters, even if you have absolutely nothing in common with them. That's probably why I felt so depressed after the movie, because I felt like I had gone through all the same troubles and traumas of each character.

Needless to say, this movie was not what I was expecting at all, but hopefully y'all will be prepared if you decide to go see it. It's definitely a movie you can't forget, but it's not going to be one of high acclaim either.

I'm not going to tell all of you to go run out and see this movie right now, but I'm not going to discourage you from seeing it either. The choice is yours, just keep in mind what I've said, it is in no way a feel-good high school movie like it appears to be!

That is All....

You Just Got Pitch Slapped

OH. MY. GOSH.

OK - so I know that yesterday I said that Troy was the best movie ever, but I take that back. Pitch Perfect is. I mean, that movie is amazing. I literally just got home from the movie theater and it is taking everything I have not to turn back around and go see it again. Really. I'm not kidding. It was so good.

The movie is about an acapella group who is trying to make it to nationals, after having a horrible performance the previous year. I know what y'all are thinking right now... "That seems a lot like the show Glee." Well... It is, but it's way more awesome.

Don't get me wrong, I love Glee. But Glee has NOTHING on Pitch Perfect.

This movie was just one of those feel-good movies. There really isn't anything negative about it, and I love that it was set in a college environment instead of the cliche high school one that most movies seem to rely on.

And for those of you that aren't big on the whole "glee" thing, the movie isn't just about singing, it has other storylines too. Of course, it has a somewhat gooey romance, but it's super cute. Plus, one of the main characters is a MAJOR movie buff, which of course is super awesome, because obviously I am too, and he was so adorable, I loved his character.

Even if you don't like any of what I've said so far, there is one last reason you should go see this movie: FAT AMY. Many of you will recognize Fat Amy. She is played by the actress who plays Brynn in Bridesmaids (The Fat British one with the Drinking Worm tattoo) and of course she makes the movie so funny, there is never a dull moment. We laughed the entire movie, mostly because of Fat Amy.

Other notable faces you may recognize include: Anna Kendrick (Jessica from Twilight), Brittany Snow (Prom Night, The Pacifier, John Tucker Must Die, Hairspray - all amazing movies that you should watch), and Elizabeth Banks (Effie Trinkett from The Hunger Games!!!).

Honestly, words cannot express how much I loved this movie. It had a really great classic storyline (and by that I mean slightly cheesy, enticing, and hilarious), a really awesome soundtrack (like really really really awesome, I'm buying it as we speak), and a really awesome cast (aside from those that I already mentioned of course).

I will probably be laughing maniacally to myself for the next week or so as I remember various lines from the movie. In fact, I just started laughing as I remember one particular Bridesmaids-esque scene. *Hint-It envolves a rather unfortunate bodily function*

OH. FUN FACT!!!!! This movie was filmed on LSU's campus! Now speaking as an Aggie - SSSSSSSSSSSSSS. But speaking as a non-ag, THAT IS SO COOL.

So anyways... Go see it, and I hope all y'all have the same opinion as me!

Laytaaaaaa.

Where has this movie been all of my life?

OK - Seriously guys. Where has this movie been all of my life?
I just watched Troy. I'm sure you've heard of it.

If you haven't... Go flush your head down a toilet.

And if you've heard of it, but never seen it. Go watch it. NOW.

It's only 3 hours long, so no biggie. But don't read this post until you've seen it. Because this post is worth waiting for. That movie... you need to go watch now. Don't wait any longer.

That is seriously one of the best movies I've EVER seen.

The best part is that this movie has a little something for everyone in it. It's got a lot of action, a nice romantic storyline to it, and a ton of drama. Even a little bit of comedy in there.

This is the perfect date night movie too. Wanna know why? Simple: Guys - this movie is about war. Blood, guts, fighting, macho-ness, you got it. Girls - this movie is about war. Muscles, eye candy, hot guys fighting, hot guys sweating, hot guys, yum.

So seriously...

Still want to know more about this EPIC movie. (Do you see what I did there??)
Troy is based off of the EPIC by Homer called The Illiad. Basically... This guy named Achilles is this wonderful warrior and leads Greece in a war against the Trojans because the Prince Paris, from Troy, stole Helen who was the wife of the king of Sparta. Bam. There's the movie for ya.

But seriously. Watch it. This movie is absolutely amazing in all restrospects (Not just the fact that there are hott guys, I actually really enjoyed the storyline and film itself). If it wasn't three hours long I'd probably watch it again tonight.

Still not conviced? Here are some more reasons you should watch this movie right now...
Guys - Diane Kruger, Siri Svegler, Saffron Burrows, and Rose Burn (yes she plays Helen in Bridesmaids.
Ladies - Eric Bana (HOLY MOLEY SMOKIN' HOT), Brad Pitt (This is the only movie I find him attractive in, and let's just say, that's an understatement), Orlando Bloom ('Nuff Said), and Sean Bean. Not to mention all of the other ripped, half-clothed warriors fighting. (;

I think that pretty much sums it all up. Enjoy. (:

Words Words Words

Who here thinks that Bradley Cooper is mega-sexy?
That's right, everybody... So everyone needs to go see his newest movie, The Words.

The Words is kind of like inception, except it's about an author (played by Dennis Quaid) who is reading his newest novel, The Words, to a group of people. As he reads his story, we get to see it played out on screen. Its the story of a young couple (portrayed by Bradley Cooper, yum, and Zoe Saldena, from Avatar) living in New York. Bradley Cooper's character, Rory, is an aspiring author who just can't seem to make it in the publishing world. Then one day, he stumbles across a story written Post-WWII in Paris. Before he knows it, Rory submits the story as his own and it becomes a mega-hit. Enter The Old Man (whose name we never find out). This old man then tells Rory his story, which is also played out on-screen. Are you starting to get the whole inception concept?!

Anyways, I don't want to give out too much more because I don't want to spoil the movie for you, but I strongly recommend that you go see it!!!!!!! I highly enjoyed this movie, plus it really makes you think.

Also, Perks of Being a Wallflower comes out Thursday night, which has Emma Watson in it!!!! GET EXCITED. I am!!

That's all for today folks!
Lataaaa.

A Little Late, But Here It Is!

OK, so before I get started, I'm going to let you know that my opinion on this next movie tends to stray from the normal opinions. Everyone I know loves this movie, except for me...

The movie is Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
The movie is a "parody" of The Odyssey, but not quite a parody, because they aren't really making fun of it... But the movie is based on The Odyssey, even though the people who wrote the movie had never actually read the book. It's complicated...

Anyways, it has a rockstar cast including George Clooney, that weird guy from Holes, John Goodman, a couple of other recognizable faces, and only one black guy. Great, huh? P.S. I love love love George Clooney, he is gorgeous for an old guy.

So basically, these three fugitives break out of prison (thus the fugitives) on the quest for a treasure that Clooney's character buried a while back. On the way they face "constant sorrows" while trying to evade the police/sheriff or whatever it was called in the south during the late 1930s. Then there is a bit with the cyclops, a bank robber, even the KKK, but really Clooney's character was lying the whole time, there was no treasure, he just wanted to stop his wife from getting married to someone new.

And the three fugitives and their black friend become superstars as The Soggy Bottom Boys!!!!

I honestly don't like this movie because it is so bizarre and weird, but I LOVE THE SOUNDTRACK. The music in this movie is the best hands down, so if anything watch the movie for the music, and maybe you'll wind up liking the movie too. It's actually starting to grow on me a bit...

Well that's really all for now, sorry this isn't the best review... Hopefully I'll have a new one soon!!!

Love y'all!

I Don't Have A Creative Title For This Post

Well Howdy Everyone!

School starts tomorrow, which is kind of a bummer, but I am so excited to be a part of the Fightin' Texas Aggie Class of 2016 (AAAAAAA)!

Anyways.... Yesterday I got a little bored, so I watched a movie of course!
And it was quite a happy surprise if I might say so myself!

One of my favorite actresses is Audrey Hepburn, just in case you were wondering. And part of that is because my mom loves her too (Fun Fact)!

Well, lately, I've been trying to watch her movies, and yesterday I set out to watch Charade. Well, little did I know, I had actually seen this movie many times before, I just never knew that I had seen it! Haha!!!! It's actually my favorite Audrey Hepburn movie! I just didn't know the title I guess...

Oh, well, I watched it anyways! (:

I'm highly disappointed that it's not in "The Book"... But everyone should watch it before they die anyways. (:

This movie was made in a golden era of movies, when movies were still extremely entertaining without everything being so risqué. It had a good, clean plot full if twists and turns and suspense, but yet was comedic and romantic at the same time. You can't find good movies like that nowadays...

Audrey Hepburn played recently widowed Regina Lampert who is being chases by four men from her husband's mysterious past. Mr. Lampert, in her army days, stole a bunch of money from the American Government and was killed by his "friends" because they want the money. Now, these men are after Regina, thinking Mr. Lampert left the money to her. With the help of Cary Grant's character, Peter Joshua, Regina must elude the men, find the money, and return it to the American Embassy.

It's quite a wonderful movie. So go watch it. I will gladly watch it with you!

Goooood Byyyyeeeee. (:
And have a great school year everyone!! (If you're still in school that is)

L.O.L. (That Means Laugh Out Loud)

My next review took a few days for me to actually process... I watched it on Monday, and I honestly still don't know how I feel about this movie.

The genius that is Miley Cryus (and I really hope I can emphasize my sarcasm right now because Miley Cyrus is NOT A GENIUS.) came out with a movie recently called LOL.

Obviously LOL means "Laugh Out Loud" right? Well that's exactly what I did during this absolutely ridiculous movie. But, the movie is called LOL because the main character Lola goes by Lol for short (pronounced like Lull). Honestly though, why does Lola even need to be shortened in the first place!! And on top of that, she was only called Lol like three times the entire movie!!!! Ugh, Miley Cyrus drives me absolute bonkers.

Ok, guess I should kinda sorta tell you about the movie now, huh?

Basically, I think it was supposed to be a drama/romance?! Honestly, I have no idea how to explain this movie. I'm not sure if it even had an actual plot. But here goes nothing...

Lol is IN LOVE with her BF, Chad, but of course they break up two minutes into the movie. And soon Lol falls in love with her BFF Kyle, but "they're just friends, honestly". Oh and towards the end of the movie she becomes a lesbian with her best friend Emily, even though she's dating Kyle...

Yep, I think that pretty much sums it up.

I actually highly recommend a movie night with your best buds and watch this. I actually plan on watching it again soon.

Why you ask? (Because it really was an AWFUL movie).

This movie is extremely HILARIOUS, because it is so absolutely RIDICULOUS!!!!! We made fun of the movie the whole entire time, and I don't think we ever stopped laughing, just because it was so ridiculously horrible.

So grab your buds, some popcorn, and your choice of drink. Prepare for some amazingness that is so awful you just can't help but love it.

It's the bestworst movie of the year! (:

Kbye. <3

Scandalous darling...

Watched another movie from "The Book", what, what?! Yea that's right. I'm up to 70 now! Only 931 more movies to go... (ok, that is depressing. I thought 70 was impressive but not when you look at the other side of things...)

Well anyways, I guess y'all want to know what the movie is right? And whether or not you should watch it right? Ok(: I'll tell you then, you don't have to beg or anything...

The Graduate was considered extremely scandalous to the standards of movies in 1967, but to us here in 2012 it probably wouldn't have even been rated R. But the scandal and sexual tension of the movie is what credited The Graduate as a movie you must see before you die!

However, it wasn't a highly entertaining movie... When you look at it from the perspective of how many barriers it broke down in the film industry then it's amazing, but the movie just wasn't very interesting. Honestly, it was a big old ball of AWKWARD...

The main character, Ben, is played by Dustin Hoffman, an absolutely amazing actor. I think his acting in this move was WONDERFUL! The first half of the movie, he's a very awkward inexperienced college graduate looking to take the next step in his life, whatever that may be. Then Mrs. Robinson comes into the picture. Played by Anne Bancroft - quite spectacularly if I might add - Mrs. Robinson is an alcoholic who just really wants to get in bed with young Ben. Now comes the awkward part. Ben doesn't really know what to do with himself around Mrs. Robinson. Obviously he is very attracted to her, but he knows that their affair is wrong on so many levels, not to mention that her husband is business partner's with Ben's dad!!! Yet they continue the twisted affair for almost three months meeting every night in some old hotel.

Then the second half of the movie, things start to change. Mrs. Robinson's daughter comes into town and Ben falls in love with her. Mrs. Robinson does not like that of course... Then there is this big old hot mess and basically Ben turns into a psycho stalker creep and follows the daughter around every where until he can convince her to marry him. Then there's this really weird kind of depressing but sort of happy ending. I wasn't really sure what to make of it honestly.

And BONUS!!! Mr. Feeny from Boy Meets World plays Ben's dad! Yea!!! But he's really skinny and really young and has a super high voice so it's kind of... Awkward. Just like the rest of the movie!!!

Most awkward scene award: Dustin Hoffman jumping into the backyard pool in full scuba gear. The perspective is from the mask on Ben's face but all you can hear is Ben breathing. You can see everyone at the party shouting stuff and pushing him in the pool but you have no idea what they're saying. Then, there's a virtual tour of the pool underwater, score! AWKWARD!

That is all.
(:

Prepare to Be Amazed!

OK, definitely just read one of the best books ever. I'm not going to even compare it to Harry Potter because nothing is that great, but this series may just give The Hunger Games a run for its money. And I highly enjoyed that series, so this book must be amazing right?!

The series is called The Secrets of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel! Now I know what you're thinking... Isn't Nicholas Flamel a character in Harry Potter?! The guy who worked with Dumbledore and used the Philosopher's Stone?

Yes, that is the same Nicholas Flamel, but contrary to popular belief, Rowling based Flamel off of an actual historic figure. Nicholas Flamel was a very well known alchemist who lived in Paris during the 1400s. He is also the basis for this new series.

Now let me tell you how awesome these books are (so far...). I just finished the first book in the series, The Alchemyst. And it was AMAZING.

So... There are these twins, Sophie and Josh Newman, who happen to cross paths with the legendary Nicholas Flamel. Then, evil Dr. John Dee comes and attacks Flamel, stealing an ancient book called The Codex which holds all of the secrets to alchemy, necromancy, magic, and anything else along those lines. Dee wants to use it to awaken the Dark Elders, ancient magic beings that history refers to in mythology and legends as different Gods, and take over the world and turn it evil. Enter Sophie and Josh. They are part of an ancient prophecy that can either save the world, or destroy it, so the twins must go with Flamel on a journey to stop John Dee.

Another super awesome part of this series is that all the characters (except for the twins) are based off of historical of mythological figures!!! It's a lot like the Percy Jackson series, but way cooler.

So what are you waiting for?! Go to your local bookstore and pick up a copy, you won't regret it!!

Love y'all!

Yeeeeaaaaaa Buddy!

Woot woot!!! Get pumped! Get excited! Because you know what?!?!?! Yea!!! That's what!!! Mmmmhhhhhhmmmmm. Oh yea!!!!

Ok, I'm a little excited can you tell?!
Today marks a very special day!!! I have had this blog for exactly..... Wait for it....

ONE YEAR, SIX MONTHS, AND FOUR DAYS!!!!!!!!! That my friends, is pretty amazing. If I do say so myself...

It has been an incredible journey and I am so blessed for those that have followed me from the beginning and for those that probably just found out about my blog today. BUT!!! You are all very incredibly awesome and I couldn't keep writing without y'all! Now, in saying so, it seems that many people, older and newer followers, don't really know what this blog is really all about.

Let me guess, most of y'all just think that I review movies and I want to see 1001 movies before I die. WRONG. I probably already have seen that many movies, honestly. I love love love to watch movies.

So today's post isn't a review of the latest movie, book, or TV Show that I've gotten into. Today's post is just going to be a recap of the true meaning of my blog.

Here's how the story goes...

Once upon a time there was this little girl named Shelbi who dreamed of becoming a best selling author, much to the likes of J.K. Rowling, Rick Riordan, or C.S. Lewis. Then one day, Shelbi saw a movie called Julie and Julia and she knew that she was meant to start a blog. However, Shelbi needed a topic of interest. In the movie, Julie wrote about the different recipes she made from Julia Child's cookbook. Shelbi did not like to cook. But she loved to read, write and watch movies. Shelbi even had a book called "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" (The 5th Edition)! She knew right then and there that her destiny awaited... DUM DA DUHHHHH.

Anyways.... That's how this blog started. That movie inspired me, so I set about to do movie reviews and books reviews. However, the title of my blog is The Quest to See 1001 Movies Before I Die because I want to see the specific 1001 movies from the book I mentioned in the paragraph above. I think that has been confusing some people so I just wanted to clarify. I will, however, watch movies and take suggestions that are not from the book specifically. Also, the title of the book is incredibly long, so in many of my posts, I refer to it as "The Book".

Is everyone on the same page now?! Awesome!!!

I hope to have some more reviews for y'all soon!!!! And don't forget to add your friends to the Facebook group so we can spread the love and the blogging goodness!

Love y'all!!!!!

Be Brave My Wee Friends!

Hi, my name is Shelbi, and I'm a sucker for kid's movies.

[Everybody joins in] Hi Shelbi...

Yea, y'all better not judge me, but it's true, some of my favorite movies are designed to entertain little kids, like Tangled for instance.

If you haven't guessed it, I'm going to do a review for a kid's movie... (:

Yes, ladies and gents, Disney Pixar's Brave is the latest and greatest movie out on the streets! And honestly, it wasn't that bad, but compared to other Disney movies, I couldn't say it ranks in my favorites.

Brave is about a Scottish Princess who must choose between three suitors, one from each clan besides her own. However, Merida, the princess, is no ordinary princess. She loves Archery, goofing around with her three younger brothers, and nothing related to being a princess. Because of this, Merida and her mother, Elinor, don't get along very well. Elinor sees one thing for her daughter, while Merida sees something completely different. Not to mention her three choices for a husband were NOT impressive, at all. So Merida escapes and stumbles upon an old witch in the woods, whose voice might sound familiar to you (Because it's Mrs. Weasley!!!). Anyways... Old witch gives Merida a spell that turns Elinor into a... Bear!!!! And since bears are not looked on very highly in the kingdom, Merida and Elinor must run off and hide while learning to face their differences!!

Ca-yoot movie, but like I said, not my favorite, and definitely not what I was expecting after seeing the previews!! Kind of reminded me a little bit of that old bear movie, Big Brother!

However, I still recommend that you go see it with your family! It's a Disney movie, it can never go wrong! Plus it's a good, clean-cut, wholesome movie with a great moral!!!

My final rating is 4 stars! (:

See y'all laterzzzzz.

Roman's Suggestion #1

Alrighty, so I'm getting better at this suggestion thing, huh? The latest one was from a friend Roman, who has actually suggested two movies for me to watch. The first, he suggested about a year ago and I have yet to watch it, the second he suggested yesterday and I've already watched it.(:

That is the extent of my good mood though. My momma always taught me, "if you ain't got nuttin' nice to say, then don't say nuttin' at all..."
OK-so maybe not quite as hickish, but something along those lines anyhow...

Well the movie I will not be saying anything about is called Daydream Nation. Let me tell you, it had potential. I love Andi McDowell and I love Kat Dennings. I just absolutely hated that movie. (Sorry Roman)

So just for the readers' future reference, which would be all of you, I ask that you please not suggest anything that heavily revolves around drug use, or anything remotely like this movie. Because... I did not like it AT ALL.

It's set in the druggie capital of America. Well, Here's Your Sign! Oh, and it has this creepy love triangle between this sex-crazed girl, giant pothead, and suicidal, depression ridden, psycho teacher.

No, not cute student teacher relationship like Ezria, this relationship was sick. The whole movie was sick. They even throw in some random serial killer for grins. The serial killer really had no point in the central storyline, this movie just had a really sick crew working on it I guess.

Definitely not my kind of movie. And it has forever tainted Kat Dennings for me, who ironically played a character named Caroline. (for those of you who don't know, Dennings is in a TV series called 2 Broke Girls where she plays Max and her best friend's name is Caroline, hence the irony)...

So if your into the druggie stuff, it might seem like a good movie to you. But not me, lo siento amigos.

G'Night

Lucas's Suggestion #2!

I'm a thinker, that's just the kind of person I am. I love things that get me to think. I'm a big puzzle solver, I want to be the person who figures everything out and it bugs me when I can't remember something or solve the problem or puzzle or whatever it is.

That's why I really enjoyed Lucas's 2nd suggestion, Exam. It's a movie that really makes you think. The whole time I was trying to figure everything out before the end, and I'll admit, they had me stumped. I'm no Nancy Drew, I'll tell ya, but I sure wish I was sometimes...

So, like I said the movie is called Exam. It's set sometime in the future, but there no indication of how much farther into the future it is, aside from some medicinal advancement references. And judging by everyone's accents, probably set somewhere in England or close to...

Basically, the movie is about... An Exam, duh. Pretty evident by the title if you ask me. Only 8 people take the exam, and we are introduced to each individual character at the very beginning of the movie with abstract close-ups of each individual, giving some kind of glimpse into their personality before you're able to tell what they look like fully.

The Exam is given to these 8 people as the final step into the very long, difficult process of an application for a job at this biomedical company. The rules to the exam are simple: They were each presented a sheet of paper with one question which would require one answer. They were not allowed to communicate with the man administering the test, nor the guard inside the room. If they chose to leave the room, they would be disqualified. And finally, it they soiled their exam paper, intentionally or not, they would be disqualified. They had 80 minutes to complete the exam.

Well, little did they know, absolutely nothing was on each person's sheet of paper. Let the mind games begin. Muahahshahahahahahahahahaha. Ha.

It was almost like The Hunger Games in this little bitty exam room. First everyone worked together to find the question, but soon, everyone started turning against each other until the 80 minutes were up. Actually, the more I think about it, it was a lot like THG...

I definitely enjoyed this movie and may or may not watch it again. The suspense may be ruined though because I know what's waiting at the end unlike all of you people reading this review instead of going and watching the movie!

And if you aren't convinced yet, one of the 8 exam takers is quite the looker, just sayin' (;

What are you still doing reading this post?! Go watch it!

You'll regret finishing this, so go watch it now!!!

NOW I SAY!

Ha. Well thanks Lucas, hopefully I can get everyone else to watch it too.

Keep the suggestions coming guys!

Love y'all!

Lucas's Suggestion #1

I finally had my first movie request/suggestion! (well aside from Hot Rod which I may or may not ever get to...)

My friend Lucas from school suggested two movies to me on the Facebook group yesterday and I watched the first one this morning!

This movie was called Boy Wonder, and it wasn't that bad. It's a thriller, which isn't my usual movie type, but as I let it sink in, I kind of enjoyed it. It was something different from my norm, which was nice; refreshing even.

I've seen thrillers in the past that I like better, honestly, but here's a little about Boy Wonder:

In BW, a teenage boy is tormented by his past. He witnessed a carjacker murder his mom as a very young boy. The kid, Sean, grew up with a vengeance and became a Peter Parker type character, going around "righting justice" by killing wanted criminals who, too, had been charged with previous murders.

In many ways, the character Sean reminded me of Spiderman without the super powers. He lost a member of his family, so he goes around NYC killing people who did others wrong.

Unlike spiderman however, Sean was very sloppy... He used the same gun every time, the men he killed all lived in the same neighborhood, and he looked up mug shots at the local police department, where a detective starts to pick up on things.

That's just an overview of it mostly. At first when I started watching the movie I didn't think I'd like it. But it was actually pretty good and towards the end, a lot of strings start tying together and the suspense builds up to a twist at the end of the movie. And as sloppy as Sean was, he was actually a smart kid and pulled a lot of stuff over unnoticed. Pretty cool if you ask me, except that he got away with murder on many accounts... That's not cool.

If anyone else wants to, I love suggestions! That was a good one Lucas, can't wait to watch the next!

Thanks! Love y'all!

Fixed it!

Ok, so I recently (5 minutes ago recently) apologized for my issues with the setting on my iPad and in my blog posts.

Welllllllll...... I think I might have figured it out, so thanks for being so patient with me and reading my posts even though they looked a lot longer than they should've been...

Also, thanks for putting up with any grammatical or autocorrect error in any of my posts. I do my best to proofread each one, but I'm only human!!!

Thanks again, love y'all!

And keep on reading! (:

Apology

Firstly, I would like to apologize for a couple of things... Apparently whenever I post from my iPad, the setting are a bit different. I'm not sure if you noticed but in some of my posts, the post is a long giant paragraph. Others a a bit more organized into little neat paragraphs. I'm trying to figure out what the issue is, and hopefully I'll be able to fix it because I prefer blogging from my iPad than on my computer. I will also try to fix the previous posts because a big long paragraph is less appealing to read than short paragraphs... Love y'all!

Woody's Latest

It's pretty well known that one of my favorite movies is Midnight In Paris. I absolutely LOVED that movie. I never get sick of it. Ever.

Ever since I saw that movie I started getting into Woody Allen's other films. Granted, I haven't seen many, but there is some quality of his movies that I seem to love. Aside from MIP, I haven't seen one of his movies I just absolutely adore, but there is something about them that makes me want to watch more, even if I don't enjoy the storyline, or some other aspect.

Every year, Woody Allen directs a new movie, this year was no exception. His latest is called To Rome With Love, starring Woody himself, and other greats such as Penelope Cruz, Alec Baldwin, Ellen Page, Jesse Eisenburg and many other familiar faces, along with a slew of new ones.

When I first saw the commercials I was so excited and I couldn't wait to go see it, but as I sat in the very empty, very cold movie theater, I wasn't really warming up to the movie itself.The movie, TRWL as I will shorten it, follows the path of many different groups of people, mainly couples, who either live, or vacation in Rome. There's the American girl who meets the Roman man and falls in love. Her parents who fly to Rome and are the complete opposite of his parents. Your average Roman middle class worker who becomes famous overnight. Two Roman newleyweds moving to Rome. A Roman prostitute with the wrong customer. The American students studying in Rome with a slight love triangle. And then there was Alec Baldwin's character, a famous architect vacationing in Rome but mainly just plays a part as the subconscious of different characters (it was really creepy and weird).

Honestly, TRWL had the makings of a really great chick-flicky romcom, but something went wrong in all the plots. Each plot had the potential to be really cute, but Woody would add some weird bizarre twist to it that would just be... Well... Weird. As my friend Megan put it during the credits, the movie was "interesting.....".

I can't really think of a great way to describe the movie. As I was telling Megan, many of the storylines would have been very cute and enjoyable, it they hadn't done this or that, which was actually quite disappointing. Maybe I just went into the movie with too high of hopes because it definitely was NOT what I was expecting to see.Who knows, perhaps one day I will watch it again and change my mind, my first judgement can be too harsh sometimes... I'm just saying, if I were the director/writer/producer, I would've changed aspects of the movie to make it less... Bizarre.

Peace Out Kids.

Rainy Day Movie!

Man you gotta love those rainy days. (:
I sure do.
It's the perfect atmoshpere to curl up in bed or on the couch and watch a movie, which, of course, is exactly what I decided to do. (While painting my nails, BONUS!)

So the movie I picked for today was Nine Lives. It's a rather odd movie actually, and I give it two stars at best. It was a series of vingettes, short stories, about 9 different women's relationships with someone. Whether it be a mother, father, child, lover, or themself, each story was about 15 to 20 minutes long.

It was just enough time to really start connecting with the character, then BAM. That's it, shows over folks, let's move on to the next girl...

Super ANNOYING. And if that wasn't torture enough, the directors/writers/producers decided that in each story they would sprinkle in one of the previous, or yet to be mentioned character, as a very minor role. Like someone at a funeral, or the nurse, or a police. They don't have a main part in that person's story, but they are there nonetheless.

In addition, the whole movie makes many refrences to how small the world is and how each person is connected to another. Central Theme maybe? Just a hunch anyways.

One thing that this movie had going for it was it's cast: Robin Wright (who played Jenny in Forest Gump), Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter), Amy Brenneman (who's in one of my favorite The Jane Austen Book Club), Amanda Seyfried (the reason I watched this movie, one of my favorite actresses and also Karen from Mean Girls), Sissy Spacek (mainly known for Carrie, but in numerous other films), and Glenn Close (who doesn't know Glenn Close? Sarah Plain and Tall, 101 Dalmations, and MUCH more).

So yea... See it, don't see it. Up to you really. I'll probably never watch it again, but no biggie if I do. I honestly am just kinda nuetral on this movie. It had it's ups and downs I guess. Actually, don't watch it, probably a waste of your time.

Peace Out Kids.

Not So Magic Mike

Ask any girl around the world, "If you could only see one movie in theaters the whole year what would it be?" I guarantee most people would say Magic Mike. Yet, no one really knows, or knew, what Magic Mike was really about!I'll admit wholeheartedly that I went into the movie theater "blind", knowing nothing about the movie itself aside from its painstakingly beautiful cast.

Now, let me tell you a little bit about the movie.

IT. SUCKED.

Sure there was a TON of eye candy, but aside from that, it was awful. And even with the eye candy there was actually not that many scenes of them "stripping" and by stripping I really mean some sexually-charged dance movies and some very skimpy clothing. The biggest disappointment was the fact that Channing Tatum's character 'magic mike' never really stripped to much less that his pants or shorts.

Also, there were as many boobs in the movie as there were buttcheeks! The producers had to know that no straight guy would go see this movie so why bother adding that!? Girls don't like staring at other girls' boobs!

So yea, that movie pretty much stunk, and the ending was awful. There were a million different pathetic storylines - if you can even call them that - and the ending only finished maybe one of them! Now, I heard a rumor that they're already started writing a sequel movie, so hopefully it will tie up some of the loose ends but someone else will have to tell me because I refuse to go see it. And trust me, I'm not the only person who feels this way!! Everyone that I went with had the same reaction and as a group we gave it a C-, just saying...

But it's up to you! If you think $10 is worth maybe thirty cumulative minutes of hot sexy bods, then go ahead and waste your money, but I don't think it's worth it...

Peace Out Kids.

It's a bird! It's a plane! NO, it's just another superhero movie!

First, I'd like to apologize to everyone because I promised that this summer I would be watching a lot of movies, thus there would be more posts for y'all to read. Well obviously that hasn't happened... But I'm going to try and start posting more, I promise!!!

Not to mention that I've been crazy busy so far this summer and I wasn't really expecting to have so little free time!

Well anyways, here is the first review I have for you this summer, and for once it's actually a movie that just came out into theaters! Woohoo I'm on top of the game this time!

Last night instead of sitting outside watching the fireworks, my family and I decided we would go see a movie together instead! The consensus was The new Spiderman movie, even though I was really pushing for Brave... Oh well, it was still an amazing movie! (hehe, anyone catch that? AMAZING?! As in The AMAZING Spiderman...) So anyways... It was really good! Now, I haven't seen the original Spiderman movies with Tobey MaGuire and Kirsten Dunst in a really long time, but I enjoyed those movies thoroughly. But as far as I remember, the story line to the new movie, which had an absolutely wonderful cast might I add, was actually almost the same as the original ones! Except, this movie had Gwen Stacy instead of Mary Jane! But like I said, it's been awhile since I saw the others, so I could be mistaken. (my sister thinks theyre almost exactly the same too.)

Needless to say, I liked this Spiderman WAYYYY better than the old ones and I can't wait to see the second one! Hold onto to your seats folks because this movie is getting a coveted 5 stars from me, I know, shock. Maybe it's because I'm a major sucker for Emma Stone, or maybe it's because Andrew Garfield looked amazing in that skin tight spidey suit, and has an adorable smile... (:

Either way this movie is a winner. Anyone who goes I suggest you stay for the credits because there's a special little sneak peek into the next movie and you don't want to miss out on that now do you!?

Well I think that is going to be all for now. Hopefully I'll have something else for y'all in the near future!

Peace Out Kids.

Hello, Mr. President

Ok. It's time for a big hardy congrats for me!!!!! GUESS WHAT!!!???!!!??? Ok, you'll probably never guess but...... I FINISHED A WHOLE SERIES TODAY! Remember that a while back I said I had never seen a whole series from beginning to end (except for How I Met Your Mother and Glee which are both still on the air...) Well, my mom and I watched the mini-series The Kennedy's today. I guess technically its not a whole series, but it is a mini-series so I feel extremely accomplished. Don't judge me OK? I still finished a whole series, mini or not. It was actually a very good series and it was an accurate depiction on The Kennedys' lives. After each episode my mom would nudge me and say "next one", we just couldn't get enough. We really enjoyed it, but it left out some details - and some people - Ted Kennedy to be specific, but it also included many things that we didn't know much about. Anyways, if you have any time go check it out! Supposedly it wasn't aired on TV because it was too controversial,but I'm not sure if that's true or not! Either way, I loved it!!!!!!!!!!! Peace Out Kids.

HOORAH!

Good news everyone! I Think I've finally figured all of this new stuff out on Blogger so I will not be quitting! [Everybody say "YAY!"] Yay!

So anyways. Some more exciting news... I'm filling out an application for Seventeen's Freshman 15! It would be so cool if I got to be one of their bloggers! Like a dream come true! So wish me luck guys!

I promise I'll start blogging more now that it's summer because not only will I have TIME to blog, but I'll have time to watch movies!

I've had time lately honestly, but I've been using all that time to watch Modern Family. I just got into that show three days ago and I'm already halfway through the second season. It's honestly the best show ever and I can't believe I'm just now getting into it. I want to kick myself for the next three years because I missed three years of awesomeness.

Well this just distracted me, so I better get back to my application!

Peace Out Kids!

Deeeeelish

So I guess the blogoshpere hates me because they decided to change everything up on me, and it really kind of pisses me off. Because.... I don't know how to change half of the things on my profile. So I wanted to let you know that I've now seen 69 movies out of 1001. (:

But since it's not letting me change that. I don't know what I'm going to do. This blog kind of sucks now.

I'm totally unmotivated to continue this blog because everything is so different and I don't feel like relearning everything at the moment.

Maybe I'll keep blogging. But I'm not sure. Right now I'm too pissed to blog.

I was going to tell you not to watch Delicatessen because it sucks, that's the latest movie I saw, Be Tee Dub.

Peace Out Kids.

I Want to Go to Europe!!!!

I'm a bit if a sucker for a cutesy romance movie, not gonna lie. It doesn't matter what the age audience it's supposed to appeal to, it will get me every time. I'm just a hopeless romantic like that.

One such movie in particular is monte Carlo starring Leighton Meester, Selena Gomez, and Katie Cassidy. It was a really cute movie actually! I really kinda liked it a lot.

I think Leighton Meester's character Meg was my favorite. But I also love Laightob Meester. I use to live Selena Gomez until she turned lesbian and started dating Justin Beiber! Bleh Puke.

Basically, these three girls go to Monte Carlo and meet Emma's (Selena) look alike. Time and time again, Emma is mistaken for this celebrity and is forced to go in her place around Europe to promote this auction.

Basically the movie is The Lizzie McGuire Movie in steroids. Just sayin'. But it was still really good.

So go see it!

Peace Out Kids.

Spring Busy

I swear, I jinx everything, literally. I have jinxed practically everything this week. For example, yesterday at the rodeo, this guy I really wanted to win tie-down had a great shot of winning, but I said, "Watch, he'll probably miss the calf when he tries to rope him..." and he did...

I also said earlier that all spring break I was going to watch a ton of movies, and relax and tan and so forth...

I've done none of that.

This has been the busiest Spring Break EVER. Bu that's OK, because today was all about movies. Me and my sister have been watching movies all day. (And for me last night too).

First things first, No Strings Attached. Definitely one of my new favorite movies. It had Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher. OMG I LOVE ASHTON.

The movie was actually really cute though. It had a really cute romantic storyline. All I can say is that I want to find Ashton's character in real life because he is Mr. Perfect, literally.

Next, me and my sister went to go see The Lorax this morning. It was sooo good. I love the Lorax by Dr. Suess, but the movie version was amazing. The same people that did Despicable Me did this movie and it was great. It really embodied everything and more that Dr. Suess tried to teach kids by writing that story.

OK- Last movie for now... The Kids Are Alright.
So Hunger Games comes out Thursday and my sister wants to watch all the movies with Josh Hutcherson and Jennifer Lawrence in them. This movie was one of them. Not a big fan of the whole lesbian family portrayal, but it was a good movie overall, not that I ever plan on seeing it again, but at least I can say that I've seen it. It definitely Had the same feel as most of the movies out there with all these awards, which is probably why it got so many nods and awards. But like I said, not my cup of tea. And it probably should've been rated NC-17 or X, R is a little generous. But yea, that's all for now.

Peace Out Kids.

Wayyyy Cool

Netflix is getting awesome! Correction: more awesome than it already was!!!

It just released a ton of documentaries by CNBC and they're actually really neat. I just watched one about McDonald's called Big Mac: Inside McDonald's. Not only did it show the good aspects of McDonald's but the bad aspects as well. I learned a lot of cool things too!

Did you know that McDonald's has a head chef? Yep! He and other chefs are constantly inventing new things to go on the menu! So cool!

If you have time, check out these documentaries, they're only 45 minutes long! (:

Peace Out Kids!

Being Famous

Before I get started, I wanted to clarify a few things. Just like J.K. Rowling did in the The Goblet of Fire when Hermione told Krum how to pronounce her name!

Many people ask me, "You only want to see 1001 movies?" or "You haven't seen 1001 movies yet?"
People seem to think that this blog is the quest to see ANY 1001 movies before I die, but that is NOT the case.

Trust me, I've seen many more than 1001 movies already, just look at my Netflix account for proof...
This is the quest to see a specific 1001 movies before I die. I SPECIFICALLY want to the the 1001 movies that are in the book: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die.

Now is everything crystal clear? Or do you need to clean your screen with some Windex?

Now time for the good stuff.

Another actress that I really want to see all of her movies is Sandra Bullock. Let's see how I'm doing so far, shall we?

• The Blind Side (4 Stars)
• The Proposal (5 Stars)
• All About Steve (2 Stars)
• Miss Congeniality 2 (3 Stars)
• Two Weeks Notice (4 Stars)
• Miss Congeniality (5 Stars)
• Lisa Picard is Famous (1 Star)
• Practical Magic (4 Stars)
• Hope Float (3 Stars)

That would mean I've seen 9 of the 42 movies Netflix lists her in. That's almost as pathetic as the number of Meryl Streep movies I've seen. That's 20 % of her movies...

Of course, just because she's in a movie doesn't mean she's actually "in" it...

For example, last night me and my sister watched Lisa Picard is Famous... She was "in" it for about 10 minutes.

This movie LPF (as I will shorten it) is a mockumentary. This is my first experience with a mockumentary. I didn't like the movie at all, obviously. The whole time I thought it was a documentary, before I was on Netflix that it was a fake, but then I was a bit relieved.

This movie follows the life of Lisa Picard and her best friend Tate as they travel on the long hard road to becoming famous. The documentarian is constantly asking people if they think Lisa will cut it, when she very obviously does not have what it takes to become an actress, but they of course, always say yes. The whole movie is basically making fun of the millions of people who think they have what it takes to become the next big thing, when in reality, they are nothing close to it.

It features a lot of celebrity cameos, with the likes of such, including, Charlie Sheen, Spike Lee, and of course, Sandra Bullock.

Her part in the film was actually one f the funniest parts. Lisa and Tate ran into her at a US store and start talking to her like they've known her their whole life. Poor Sandra, so confused, but pretends to know them, she even let's the documentarian interview her for a bit. But her 15 minutes of fame in that movie did not make it worth it to sit through the whole thing. So please don't waste your time. This is your final warning.

Oh, and I hope you all know that my translation for Spring Break is Non-stop movies and blogging, so keep up with my posts or you'll be very behind and might miss something important! (;

Enjoy the break while it lasts, and watch more movies!!!

Peace Out Kids.

Ok - weird.

Haha so I just got done watching Winter's bone with Jennifer Lawrence. She's the main reason me and my sister watched it. My sister is freakishly obsessed with her just because she plays Katniss in the Hunger games.


Don't get me wrong, I love Jennifer Lawrence, but this movie was no bueno.


Don't watch it. Honestly.


I'm giving it two stars.


Jennifer received an Oscar for her role making her the second youngest person to win. It was much deserved, honestly, she's an amazing actress in the film.


But the movie was awful. I got so bored halfway through it I started doing random stuff, like painting my toes and getting on pinterest.


It's about a girl searching for her drug maker father so she can support her family, but it's violent and hick and weird... Everyone she meets is related to her somehow. That southern backwoods thing I guess.. Except northern in like wisconsin or something. I don't know...


Well anyways...


Peace Out Kids.

Movie Day!!!!

Ok be prepared for lots of short posts! After each movie I watch I'll update you!


Rainy day + me + bored sister = lots of random movies...


First was some stand up comedy routine by Zach Galifiniakis (or however you smell it...)


It was pretty funny, we give it 3 stars. I've seen funnier but it was so random and funny. I mean, zach g is so funny, look at him!


They had a bunch of interviews with his "twin brother" Seth, but I have an inkling that it was just zach in disguise...


My favvv part was the end where he does this weird ripping paper thing like he did on SNL, which I strongly recommend his episode of SNL, or any episode of SNL for thy matter.


Ok time for the next movie, so I'll be back soon!


Peace Out Kids.

Bang Bang, Shoot 'Em Up, Shoot 'Em Up, Yeah

So, I have this thing, where I feel the need to watch every movie by a certain actress and/or actor. You might have noticed that in my past posts. I've given a "counter" of movies I've seen by Resse Witherspoon, Meryl Streep, Woody Allen, Jennifer Aniston, Rachel McAdams, and now, I'm about to do one for Amanda Seyfried!

Yay! (Get Excited!!!)

Ever since I saw her in Mamma Mia! I fell in love with her as an actress. Then, I found out she was dumb Karen from Mean Girls! This girl is a great actress! So anyways, I've actually seen a majority of her movies and she was a main character on the show Big Love for a while, so I'll have to make a point to see that eventually. But yea, here's what I've seen and what I thought of it!

• Mean Girls (5 Stars)
• American Gun (2 Stars) - I actually watched this today, so the review is coming afterwards!
• Mamma Mia! (5 Stars)
• Dear John (4 Stars) [and a great book if you haven't read it]
• Letters to Juliet (5 Stars and one of my all-time favs!)
• Started to watch Chloe, but never finished it...

OK - so I haven't exactly seen that many... 5 out of 14 that have been released into theaters. So basically a third... But that's pretty good progress compared to some of my others! (:

Now, like I said, I just watched American Gun, which Amanda Seyfried was in for a total of about two minutes... >.< But, I watched it and can cross it off the list, Thank Goodness.

SUPER DEPRESSING.

American Gun is a story about three different stories (I know confusing) that all have to do with guns. A lot of people get killed, a lot of guns are shot, and there's a lot of bombs dropped (not the killing kind though, the f-bomb). It wasn't exactly my cup of tea. The movie was really disjointed, and a bit confusing, but overall it was just pretty depressing.

It had a lot of semi-big-name actors and actresses: Donald Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Nikki Reed, and Marcia Gay Harden, but they just didn't sell the movie to me. It just kinda put me in a bummer mood honestly. The ending was awful, it left so many unanswered questions. But, it was one of those movies that really get you thinking. It left a real impact on me, in an unexplainable sort of way.

I wouldn't exactly recommend watching this if your looking for entertainment value, but if you looking for something that will leave you thinking, it's not a bad choice. My instinct was that I hated the movie, but the more I thought about it, I just wasn't a fan, and it was OK overall, which is why I gave it 2 stars. It's not really something I plan on seeing again, but I can always say that I've seen it.

Also, I've noticed that my entries are a lot longer when I do them on the computer... Haha.

Kbye.

Peace Out Kids.