Well, if you know me, you know I LOVE movies. I love watching them at home, I love watching them at friends houses, I love going to the movies (GO TEAM HARKINS!!!). Me and my trusty popcorn t-shirt and soda cup are weekly visitors to Shangri-La (Park West Harkins). Many a Friday night are spent leaving the realities of my already fabulous life (and a 1 year old slapping my face for the gajillionth time that day) for a little "escapism candy". I consider it Cognitive Therapy for Life-Could-Be-So-Much-Worse. Alas, tonight I will not be uplifted and edified for I have a baby-shower to attend at our new P.F. Chang's in Surprise. Hmmm...let's see...date with my husband.....or.....fabulous night on the town with equally fabulous friends? What to choose, What to choose? Okay, I hope my friend Julie knows how much I like her 'cuz that's where I'll be. Not to mention that I already looked at the movie listings (to see what I would be missing out on, mind you) and there is nothing that I want to go see this week. Very rare, very rare. But I have had the opportunity to go the last two weeks and below is my review.
Eagle Eye (PG-13) starring Shia LaBeouf and the tasty, but older, Michelle Monaghan.
It was good. It was entertaining. It had some crazy action sequences. The story was a little disconcerting in that you wonder how far off this technology is from governing our lives. The age thing was a little weird but I enjoyed it. Was it Oscar-Worthy, no. Was it worth $19.oo for 2 tickets, $2.oo dollars for soda (thanks, soda cups), popcorn was free (thanks,t-shirts), $15.00 at the Red Brick Pizza place next door, and the arm and a leg for gas to get there? Sure, if it's spent with someone you love. OOOHHHH! That was sweet.
Anyways--I give it 3 out of 5 soda cups.
The previous week we saw Ghost Town (PG-13) with Ricky Gervais (funniest man on Planet Earth right now), Greg Kinnear, and Tea Leoni.
You know how you start watching a movie and the actor is so unattractive at first that you don't think you'll be able to sit through the whole thing but by that end of the movie they have become so attractive with their great personality that you're ready to run away with them? Well, that doesn't happen in this movie. Ricky Gervais is still unattractive as a love interest, but as a friend--heck ya! Sign me up! My mom felt that he was good looking by the end and she could totally see him getting the girl. Well, if said girl was Tea Leoni who had a jerky husband who cheated on her, okay I can see that. BUT, (there's always a big butt) she also had a nice, good-looking boyfriend. What happened there? They didn't satisfy my curiosity and need for relationships to be black and white (I'm funny that way). I was happy for the dentist though and it did seem that it would turn out great for all involved, but you don't really know. You have to make up your own final chapter on assumptions. Was it worth the price as stated above (see Eagle Eye)? You Betcha!!!
My rating: 5 out of 5 soda cups for funniness, lines-which-you-secretly-wish-you-could-say-in-real-life and good old-fashioned fun.
Next Friday you will find me at my beloved Harkins on Northern and the 101 because one of my most anticipated movies of the year is being released--"City of Ember". If you haven't read it get yourself over to Borders or Barnes and Noble and pick up a copy(around $5). You'll be able to finish it by then, just don't get discouraged in the first chapter where everyone is being assigned their "jobs". Fabulous!!!
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