The Other Boleyn Girl

Funny thing happened last night, I took my seven month old infant daughter with me to watch this movie.  I sat there with a quiet child through all of the previews.  I saw two movies I want to see in the previews.  

Then as the opening credits show, my daughter starts baby babbling.  I watched for ten minutes, enraptured by the performances of Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson.  But my baby kept talking.  

I stood up to watch Ann get her assignment from her father after her sister Mary gets married.  Then I left the movie.  It is a rare time when I leave a movie but I was enjoying the movie a whole bunch.  I did not want to spoil a GOOD movie for other patrons.

I liked what I saw and will wait for DVD to finish the movie.  It is a good movie. I liked what I had seen.

2012:DoomsDay

Looking over the many full shelves at Blockbuster, I came across this movie, 2012:Doomsday.  Well once in a while I feel the need to watch a movie about the Apocalypse.  So this one, being a newly released movie, was right up my alley.

What a disappointment. First if you have tan skin and an accent you die.  If you are white with bleach blonde hair, you live.  Then, where was the research?  Sometimes research is required; especially if you are using land marks like Chitzen Itza. A person who wants to watch the movie might know something about the Mayan human sacrifices at that location, which I think Christ would not participate in. 

On the cover of the back of the movie it states that this movie was like Left Behind and The Omega Code    I have seen both of those, good movies and have to disagree with the advertising.  This movie does not hold a candle to Kirk Cameron's version of the best selling novels.  I loved that movie.  It was well made and thoughtful.  It had good research.

Left Behind is worth the time to sit down and watch, even if you are not a believer in the dogma.

Do not waste your time, like I did.  This was a bad movie.  

Beowulf

The animated adventure was enthralling.  I loved watching this movie.

The voice acting was engaging.  The animation meddled well with the acting.  You could see where the director was taking the story, even though some of the epic poem must have been on the cutting room floor.

The director, Robert Zemeckis, took really tough material and made it art.  

Beowulf is a hero for the vikings.  He is the "killer of monsters".  After hearing about Grendel, he crosses the sea to take on the monster for king Hrothgar.  After he kills the monster he goes to take on the Mother but finds himself seduced.  The problem transfers from Hrothgar to Beowulf.  

The actors, Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, and Ray Winstone (Beowulf) give themselves to their roles.  I give a special good job to Robin Wright Penn who gives her small roll as queen life.  

I think this is a good movie.  It came out on DVD Tuesday.

Barbie:Mariposa

This was a straight to DVD animated movie, I watched with my daughters last night.  It came out yesterday and I was excited to watch this film.  My daughter likes fairies, so do I but there are not that many fairy movies out to watch.  

The movie is about a butterfly fairy named: Mariposa.  She has to find a cure for a poison to save her queen.  She finds more than that, she finds that she is okay with herself.

This is a cute feel good movie that is safe to watch with the children.  I loved the CG.  The characters were believable for a children's movie.  

This is a good movie.  Go out and rent it today.

The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring

This was the first movie in an epic movie series.  This movie is good.  There is not much more I can add.

I watched this in the special edition form.  This means scenes were added to the original motion picture.  The scenes blended into the movie and made more sense to the story.

I love the books and the treatment of them was done with respect.

Peter Jackson did a good job, now there is a rumor that New line Cinema is doing a two part Hobbit.  This book was the first released.  I hope Peter Jackson directs.

Well that is the review for the day.  Have a great movie watching day!