PammyK

I can hardly remember the title of the Harry Potter movie I just watched...you know, the new one...in theaters now. Number 4 or 5...Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban...or Harry Potter and the Ministry of Mistries...whatever. I don't really care that I can't remember the titles or keep the storylines straight from the different movies - I just truly love being entertained by these films, and this last one was just as good.

Farm life...there was sweat, hard work, drunkeness, dirt, struggle; but there was also peacefulness, calm, green grass, light breezes, swimming holes and crickets chirping. There is a calming feel to the movie that draws you in and just the right amount of hopefulness to the struggle and the sad. I thought that the combination of calm and hopefulness made it a sad but beautiful film. It left me feeling like I was laying in a field on a warm summer night...after a hard days work and a cool dip in the swimming hole...looking up at the stars knowing that I can't control where my life is headed, but that I can control the kind of person I am.

I went to the Valentine's Day screening. I was excited about getting my Four Eyed Monsters sticker and had already decided to like the movie. How can I decide to like a movie before I've seen it? The same way that I decide that I don't want to see a movie before I've seen it - fairly close mindedly.

So did I truly like it? Would I have liked it if I had randomly seen it at a film festival before hearing anything about it? If I hadn't just had two java jive martinis and was sharing a box of chocolates with my friends on Valentine's Day? I'll never know. It was a little wacky and there was some potty mouth and swear words - things that normally turn me off to a movie, but I liked watching it.

I liked watching Arin and Susan write to eachother. I liked watching Susan at her job. I thought Arin's fantasies were funny. I liked how the birds were beautiful and fluttery and then when there was an STD in question the birds were walking around on a gross rooftop in their own poop. 

I felt like Susan could do better than Arin though, at least throughout most of the movie. Toward the end I felt like maybe Susan was being more completely herself in the movie, but Arin was acting. There were just a few scenes toward the end where I felt like Arin was himself and relaxed with Susan, and then I started to see a wonderful little four eyed monster. 

I've seen lots of different versions of "A Christmas Carol" and this one isn't the best, but it was on TV last night so I watched it. I liked it of course. You just can't help feeling so so sad about Tiny Tim and you can just feel the fresh cold air and the excitement of Christmas morning when Scrooge wakes up and realizes that he hasn't missed Christmas and there is still time to change and buy that huge goose for the Crachits. Its such a wonderful story that I'm not sure it matters which one you're watching. My main complaint about this one is that Scrooge was bald and younger looking - he should have wispy white hair and be ugly.

What I liked about this movie was how it made me think about nature and history. After the movie was done we talked about what it would be like to arrive in a new land and try to settle there - and how strange it would be to find people different from you living there. We also talked about nature and how different the Indians used the land compared to the English people. It made us really aware of how much we struggle with nature rather than work with it.

What I didn't like about this movie was that it was very slow moving. My sister fell asleep half way through and then she woke up and left the room to go sleep somewhere else. Then towards the end of the movie my dad left the room and didn't bother coming back to watch the end - it just didn't hold their attention. I also felt like the music could have been better, I kept waiting for a new more grand part of the song, but it seemed to stay at the same excitement level and the same melody. And also, I disliked that toward the end nothing bad happened anymore and it was just a romance story - what happened to the Indians? What was going on in the English settlement? There was so much struggle in settling and struggle between people earlier in the movie, and then that just disappeared and we were only watching Rebecca fall in love with John Rolfe.

It was almost a 3 star. It wasn't unique, it wasn't that memorable, it was a little predictable, it didn't end right...it was pretty much 3 star material. What got me was the fighting...it seemed realistic to me. They actually seemed frustrated at eachother, I could remember feeling that same way at times, and so...it got 4 stars for being realistic.

This was the best idea ever. I love Horton and I love Jim Carrey. I can't wait for this movie to come out. Will it beat the original cartoon, probably not...but I'm excited anyway.

http://comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=16502

I didn't think this movie was very good, even though I usually like any movie that Jim Carrey is in. I realized in the first scene that it was supposed to be unrealistic, but I think it would have been better if it had been more believable. The characters were not developed well - there was no reason for them to have a son or a maid, the only thing they had to do with the plot is that you kept wondering...don't they have a son, where is he? There were lots of "funny" parts, but they were only funny because it was Jim Carrey, not because the movie was funny. I wouldn't recommend this movie, not even to a Jim Carrey fan. Oh and also I don't like Teo Leoni.

I really like these films. They are suspenseful, action packed, romantic, funny and wholesome. Its a time when I get to see a "scary" and "action packed" movie and actually like it. The scariest characters are actually funny and the most suspenseful moments have bits of humor.  Maybe that makes it cheesey for some people, but I enjoy it.

I watched this last night to get some tips for my own house. This is from when Martha was a little younger (1993) and she was not such a perfectionist and not so successful yet. This is good and bad, I like how perfect all of her projects turn out now in her magazine and on her show, and this didn't have that perfect quality, but watching Martha from 1993 is sorta funny - frizzy hair, baggy coats and tapered paints.

The video started out with a really really cheesey advertisement for Murphy's Oil. It wasn't supposed to be a commercial or anything, it was supposed to look like they really were working on Martha's house and using Murphy's Oil...way too cheesey, but it was done within 3 minutes and they didn't bring it up again.

The best things about the film were...watching the guy patch old plaster and also watching him put up new plaster to match the old. They also put the layout of the house on the screen while they were talking about it to show where they were working or to show what walls they knocked out and why. This was very helpful in visualizing what they did to the house.

They didn't show how they decided on much of the interior decorating and they seemed to skip a lot of parts...for example, there was a little hallway that lead to a children's room and bath and Martha seemed pretty excited about it, but then they never showed the finished product.

Overall it was a sorta slow moving film with not so many really helpful tips, but if you like Martha and you are interested in rennovating then its worth watching...and maybe fast forwarding parts of it (especially the Murphy's Oil part).

I accidently sat down and watched a little bit of this the other night. I've seen it before and I did like it, but I was suprised at how much I liked watching it again, and how much I had forgotten. I don't usually like to watch movies more than once, but I was sucked right in.

I just saw this movie this past weekend.  I thought it was enchanting and also a little creepy.  At first I kept thinking...why are these kids so easily persuaded? Lucy just goes off with a stranger then Edmond does...and the strangers are almost too intimate with the children.  I was weirded out, but then the movie kept getting better and I thought less about the weirdness of the adult-child relationships. 

It was enchanting.  I think my favorite scene was the "ice on the river" scene. I disliked the beavers, but the witch was ok and the wolves were great.  The music was good, but probably could have been better and the children were good actors.  Lucy was definately an improvement from the old movie.  If you are a fan of The Chronicles then you should definately watch it, if you have read the book or seen the old movie then you should also definately watch it, but I don't think everybody will appreciate it. 

I was expecting more from this movie.  I mean it was a good watch, but I think it started out funny and then sorta drifted into not so funny and not even a really touching romance - and I wanted her to end up with the other guy.

I failed to see why this movie was so good because I was so distracted by how much better the book was.  I was living in the south at the time and I had just spent the past few weeks soaking up every last bit of the book.  I found the movie at my local library and was so excited to watch it. 

I can't even begin to list the things the movie left out, and how disappointed I was.  I recommended the book to everyone I knew, but I did not recommend the movie to anyone. 

I think its time to redo Gone With the Wind as a three part series and really get into the details of the book (like the Harry Potter series or The Lord of the Rings).  Johnny Depp should be Rhett Butler and someone new should be Scarlett because I can't think of anyone to play her...