Confessions of a Shopaholic

"You know that thing when you see someone cute and he smiles and your heart kind of goes like warm butter sliding down hot toast? Well that's what it's like when I see a store. Only it's better."

Directed by PJ Hogan

2009

Viewed Sepetember 2010

Isla Fisher is adorable and this movie is super cute as well. It's about Rebecca Bloomwood (aka Bex) who LOVES to shop and use her many credit cards to buy many many beautiful things. She realizes that she is up to her eyeballs in debt right as the magazine she's writing for folds and she finds herself without a job. She ends up taking a job at a money management magazine where she takes on the persona as "The Girl in the Green Scarf" and she gives out amazing financial advice that she herself doesn't follow. As always in this type of movie, things blow up in her face and she's labeled as a fraud and she's forced to stop ignoring her debt and start facing it head on. This is a super silly and cute girlie flick!!!A

Over The Hedge

"That, my friend, is a magical combination of corn flour, dehydrated cheese solids, BHA, BHT, and good old MSG; a.k.a., the chip, nacho cheese flavor."

Directed by Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick

2006

Viewed September 2010

This is a seriously cleer movie about a group of animals whose home is being destroyed by a growing suburban community. There are many little jabs at how much we live in excess, especially when it comes to food. The voices are perfectly matched up with the characters. My favorite is Steve Carell as a hyperactive squirrel named Hammy. Over The Hedge has a little bit of something for everybody. There's humor, adventure, action, romance and a running theme of what makes a family. A

Stardust

"A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really... "Do the stars gaze back?" Now *that's* a question."

Directed by Matthew Vaughn

2007

Date Viewed: Tuesday September 14, 2010

This movie may look super lame and cheesy from the preview, but let me tell you, it's awesome. Tristan crosses into a magical world called Stormhold on a mission to find a fallen star and bring it back to the one he thinks is his true love. He catches up with the star, Yvaine, and they make a deal that if she goes with him, he'll help her get home. Meanwhile an evil witch sees the star fall and wants to capture her and eat her heart because it will make her young again. At the same time Prince Septimus seeks the star because she has a necklace that will make him king of Stormhold. Plus, if he kills her and eater her heart, he'll be made immortal. Tristan and Yvaine are on the run and they come across many interesting and funny characters (a flamboyant pirate captain played splendidly by Robert DeNiro for one). Michelle Pfeiffer is my favorite as the evil witch. She's over the top and seems like she's just having so much fun. I loved this funny, fantastical, magical adventure. A

Twilight

Bella: Did you follow me?

Edward: I... I feel very protective of you.

Bella: So you followed me.

Edward: I was trying to keep a distance unless you needed my help

Directed by: Catherine Hardwicke

2008

Date Viewed: Saturday September 11, 2009

So Bobby and I have this deal... If I watch Twilight with him, then he'll watch Harry Potter with me... So that meant that last night I had to sit through the first Twilight movie. Seriously, Edward Cullen is a huge creeper, how can people not see that? He's all overly protective of her, he follows her, he keeps telling her to get away and stay away, but then HE keeps going to her and then she asks questions and he doesn't give her any answers, but she's like putty in his hands. Creepy creepy relationship. Why should I root for them? And why does every single guy in the school want to be with Bella? She's not really anything special. And then there's the whole vampires sparkle in the sunlight thing. Seriously? Not only does he sparkle, but when the sun shines on him there's even a sparkly sound. The second half gets a little better than the first. Edward starts giving her answers and she meets his family and then has a run in with some bad vampires and one of them chases her down and tries to kill her, which was exciting. The fight scene was decent and the super fast vampire movements were kinda cool but also kind of not. I felt like they could've been done in a little better quality. So first half was lame, second half was ok, but not really that great, so this gets a C- for just being a kind of average movie.

The American

There was barely enough dialogue to add a quote up here....

The American

2010

Date Viewed: Saturday September 5, 2010

This movie opens with George Clooney and a lovely lady canoodling by a fireplace somewhere in Sweden. Then they venture out and walk on the frozen lake. Suddenly, they stop when they come across footprints. George quickly pushes the lady behind a large, conveniently placed rock and bullets start flying around them. George kills the shooter and sends the lady to go call the police. At this point I turned to Bobby and said “He’s gonna shoot her” and he did. This movie was probably the most predictable movie I’ve ever seen. Or maybe it seemed so predictable that I actually had someone with me to voice my predictions instead of just watching by myself ;) We figured out every “twist and turn” and even the “twist” ending. The other thing was that it was boring! It was in general a very slow paced movie, but nothing really happened. You never find out why people are chasing him, you never get any kind of backstory on him, all he does is build a gun and sleep with a prostitute and looks over his shoulder at every turn. Was he once a good man? How and why did he become so paranoid and broken down? (So paranoid in fact, that he finds a gun in the prostitute’s purse and gets so on edge around her that he almost shoots her.. I mean she’s a prostitute, and two scenes ago you were just reading in the paper that there’s a prostitute killer on the loose! Get a grip man!) So to sum up, this was a lame lame movie. Don’t waste your money. It gets a few points just for the fact that George Clooney is in it… D-

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

"Bread makes you fat"

Directed by Edgar Wright

2010

Date Viewed: August 2010

This movie is the definition of awesome. It's got a little bit of everything, romance, action, cool special effects, music and video game references. I loved pretty much every minute of it. Scott Pilgrim is kind of an awkward loser (as Michael Cera, who plays him, is in every movie, but it's ok cause he's awesome at it) who falls in love with Ramona Flowers and proceeds to awkwardly dump his high school girlfriend, Knives Chau. So he goes on this date with Ramona and eventually finds out that if he wants to date Ramona, he has to defeat her 7 evil exes in video game style. The fight scenes are so funny/awesome in their videogameness. The music is also awesome and I loved every one of the characters. Jason Schwartsmann and Michael Cera were superb in this movie as well. I give it an A