Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts

Monday, July 27, 2009

Shana's Update: Date night & Tomatoes

I had a really good weekend. Josh and I had a real date night on Friday night. He didn't have to work all day Friday, so he had a refreshing day of leisure. When I got home from work (officially working half days now) we rested so my swelling could calm down a bit. Then we went to see the new Harry Potter movie. I was really excited for this movie to come out, but right now I am still scratching my head as to what I thought about it.

Definitely was a little disappointment with the ending, in the book the castle battle scene is way bigger. I think I might listen to the last book again on my IPOD to know what is missing again. I know when I saw the last movie I was scratching my head to with some of the pieces they left out. I guess the one thing this movie series has going for it is that they release the films so far apart that people forget what is missing, or it might just be my dumb brain. I will say this though. People are still taking their little kids to see these Harry Potter movies and I think they are nutz. This one and the last one are a lot darker and every time we have seen really small children in the theaters. This time there was a little boy behind us actually ducking down behind our seats and crawling into his mother's lap because he was scared. Crazy!

After our movie we did some window shopping and went to Target to get a few things that we needed still in getting ready for Baby Stringer. We purchased a Cargo bag to go on top of our CRV so that we can haul more stuff on road trips since folding down seats won't be an option anymore. We are pretty excited to try this out. We also purchased a trash can (i know exciting) and a funky hat that was a couple bucks for fun for Josh. I think he looks super cute in it. This picture is a bit dark, but you can see he is wearing it on our date night Friday.



After all that we went to dinner at Mimi's Cafe. We reflected about how in the old days (I know we have only been married 5 years) we used to do things like this all the time. It was a nice evening reflecting on where we had been in life and how God had grown us together and as individuals. Mimi's cafe was alright, I have said this before, I just don't enjoy eating out as well anymore because my husband is an awesome, creative home-chef. It was a relatively cheap meal out, 35 w/tip. But for $35 I was thinking man I could have had filet mignon cooked to perfection at home for this price. No worries folks I still cook, but Josh just knows how to cook meat really good. That is probably the most expensive thing we buy for special occasions.

Sunday I did my first attempt at canning. Judy walked me through it all on the phone, thanks again. But here is my final product.



I am super proud that it actually worked. It took a ton of tomatoes though to fill this 1 quart jar, 14 tomatoes. That is a lot of stinking tomatoes, but our earth box is mass producing so maybe I will get another one out of it. These tomatoes taste so good too. They are heirlooms. We'll use this jar probably in the winter sometime to make chili or something like that. We use lots of tomato things in our cooking, now we just have organic home grown tomatoes.

Well, that is all for today. Talk to ya'll later

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Movie Update

I'll post something more "meaningful" later, but here's a long update on the movies we've seen in the past couple of months.


We Are Marshall

3 boxes of popcorn. I'd probably give this a little butter if Matthew McSixpack didn't annoy me so much. I think he's a little over the top in this one. The other Matthew (Fox) was much better.







Thank You For Smoking

3 boxes with a little butter. This movie was a very witty and clever parody of the smoking industry. Watch out for the language. The ending is hilarious.








Baby Mama

3.5 boxes of popcorn. Hold the butter. I find it funny that Hollywood makes movies like this since they are so Pro-Choice. The entire movie while Amy Poehler is pregnant they talk to the baby like it's ALIVE! What a double standard. After you get past that aspect, the movie is clean and funny.





Goodfellas

2 boxes of popcorn. Wow. So disappointed. This is supposed to be one of the best gangster movies of all time. I give it 2 boxes because the first part of the movie is worth 4 boxes and the second part is worth zero. The story starts off great. Ray Liotta, DeNiro, and Joe Pesci are great. Then the story gets too long and too sad and just pathetic. I guess you're supposed to feel sorry for the Ray's character, but eh, not so much. No where near as good as any of the Godfathers or The Departed.




You Don't Mess With the Zohan

3 boxes of popcorn with butter. Not 4 because this movie creates a moral/ethical delima for me. It was rather sexual. Not so much like the S.I. Swimsuit calendar, but more like The Full Monty sexual. I'll leave it at that. We watched this in mixed company which apparently left some people feeling a little uncomfortable, but I was laughing. Sandler was old school Sandler. I just wish the writers could figure out how to end movies like this a little better. The ending was weak, but that's not why they make these kinds of movies.


Shaun Of The Dead

Hilarious. 3 boxes of popcorn with light butter. Not four because if fell off at the end. The language was a little rough, and it was pretty bloody. However, it was zombie fake blood. Not for the kids or the faint of heart. The basic idea of the movie is a marriage of a British comedy and a zombie movie. The best part: when they fake like they're zombies so they can move through the town without being noticed. Very funny.





Casino Royale

4 boxes of popcorn. The best Bond movie in a long time for sure. I saw this one in the theater, but Shana missed it so we Netflixed it. She loved it as did I. Daniel Craig is a great Bond and Shana has a crush on him.






Quantum of Solace

3 boxes of popcorn, hold the butter. This is the first Bond movie that was a sequel. All of the other ones are stand-alone movies. This one picks up right where Casino Royale leaves off. It was a bit hard to follow throughout, but the action was great. The story ties up nicely with a "take-that" ending. I don't like Judy Dench as "M". They need to bring back "Q," have more cool cars and at least one gadget per movie but not too much. Then it just gets cheesy.




Body of Lies

4 boxes of popcorn. Leonardo DiCaprio. Russell Crowe. Ridley Scott. Great movie. I don't know how it happened, but DiCaprio somehow became a great actor. I don't get it. I used to not be able to stand the guy but then came The Departed and Blood Diamond and now Body of Lies. Excellent movies.






The Spiderwick Chronicles

3 boxes of popcorn. This movie is geared for kids and was a bit of a stretch for us. We watched this on Thanksgiving Day with the Falls. We all agreed that we were pleasenty surprised. The story moves quickly but I think the main bad guy is way to scary for little kids. I would have peed my pants. It's kind of like a modern day Labyrinth with great CG effects.




Get Smart

4 boxes of popcorn with a side of Twizzlers for Shana. This movie is great. Steve Carell is so funny (and I don't even watch The Office). Definitely worth seeing. There are subtle references to the TV show which are nice. But Carell makes this movie. If you like him you'll like it.






Step Brothers

1 box of stale popcorn that Shana would have returned. This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I didn't even finish it which means that, along with Jury Duty, there are now two movies that I've turned off due to its absurdity. It was riddled with inappropriate profainity, terrible sexual jokes, and John C. Reilly - who is just not funny. The premise of the movie was good but the writing and acting was horrible. Don't waste your time or money.



Wanted
2 boxes of popcorn. This is a movie that Shana and I really wanted to see. Shana has a crush on three famous people: Peyton Manning, Daniel Craig, and this guy James McAvoy - who plays the main character in this movie. It also stars Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman. Overall - A Let down. The action and effects were awesome, but I could never buy McAvoy as a stud assassin. He's scrawny and just not tough. Even after the obligatory "training sequence" in the movie. Plus, there was tons of f-bombs which made it hard to watch. Cool premise for a movie, but just never delievered.



We watched all of these movies over a few months. I just haven't updated the movie portion of this blog in a while. The only ones we saw in the theater were Quantum of Solice and Body of Lies.