Realm: North Carolina. (Subject to change at Army whim)
Took my wife to Harry Potter and the Side Order of Phoenix on Sunday. An okay flick but I am just spoiled by the books. Noticed that Ron is getting less and less screen time.
I am eagerly awaiting the new Disney movie "Enchanted". As we watched the preview my wife commented that, this is a Disney movie the way I would write it. (Take the princess and Prince Charming convention and turn it on it's ear!) The shot of the rats cleaning the toilet for the princess was too funny.
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good folk do nothing.
On reading the thread on Harry Potter, I would certainly encourage to have people see the movies before reading any of the books - I, on the other hand did not do this and have been disappointed ever since the third movie.
I just finished the UK version of the seventh book - Deathly Hallows - Sunday night and although it was good, I no longer think parents should let their younger children read it alone - there were a number of things that made the book hard for me to keep reading - at a point I think I wanted to finish it just to say that I've read them all. However, the ending is good and hopefully now that HP is complete, JKR will write about something else that tickles the mind and ensnares the senses...
I watched A Good Year (starring Russel Crowe) and found it enjoyable. Nice visual aesthetic - showing cold colours in urban London financial scene contrasted with the warm and sunning rural France. It was a great story line that leaves you happy - not some of those modern movies that some say are "feel good" but leave you in "feel like crap" mode
I''ll be watching 300 tonight on DVD. Looking foreward to seeing the bounus ssection on the fighting styles they use in the movie to see if I can use in in my own sword fighting class.
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Unavoidably Detained by the World
"Irishness is not primary a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition on being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it."-Conor Cruise O'Brien
I'm such a musical geek! I went and saw Hairspray with my daughters (9 &7) and my Neice (15). We all really enjoyed it, the youngest one not as much as the rest. The songs are great, although the integration theme is pretty beyond many peoples grasp these days. John Travolta as a woman and married to creepy Christopher Walkin! Their duet was so funny! Of course the girls all LOVE Zac Efron, so that was worth it to them.
Give me a good musical any day!!
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[color=red]"I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision." Maya Angelou
The last movie I watched was "Sons of the Desert" starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. We saw it in the little theatre at the Laurel & Hardy museum in Harlem, Georgia this past Tuesday. Harlem is the birthplace of Oliver Hardy.
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"He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust."" Psalm 91:1-2
"Be what you would seem to be--or, if you'd like it put more simply--Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise." from "Alice in Wonderland"
I finally got a chance to see Pan's Labarynth last night.I've been wanting to watch it, but no one else in the house wanted to. They're all gone for the weekend, so I put it on pay per view. Quite a visual story! Scary and sad until the end. It was actually even more entertaining to have it subtitled- the Spanish language is a beautiful language and it was nice to hear it in the background.
I stayed in last night because of severe thunderstorms, so I watched The Fast & The Furious on DVD.
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Mike F.
May the Irish hills caress you. May her lakes and rivers bless you. May the luck of the Irish enfold you. May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.
Stardust- It was fun to watch and relax. That's what I need to get rid of the day to day routine.
My wife and I are going to see Stardust tomorrow morning at a theater that openned a few months ago which has very "vertical" seating, so that it's nearly impossible for anyone to sit in front of you and not be able to see.
I hear that the movie has done well and that both critics and movie goers like it!
Even though the seating is not a vertical one.The theater we went to, the screen is so big an high that it would need almost a giant to block the view,plus the seats are done so that you can recline in them.
As for the storyline goes its good and so are the special effects.