The last muggle to see Harry Potter

I can't talk about Harry Potter, because I haven't seen it yet. I know. I KNOW! I need a refresher of the previous movie, and I've only read through book three. Harry Potter marathon needs to happen pretty quickly at casa de mine so I can go see it. The husband saw it and liked it.

Here are some other movies that I HAVE seen as of late:

Saw this last night. It was fantastic! My anxiety level was through the roof for about 98% of it. (It probably didn't help I had to use the bathroom but wouldn't leave 'cause I didn't want to miss anything) Go see it, like, tonight. If you don't like it, than we probably don't like the same types of movies. So, yeah.
Tangled. So cute and Disney. Loved it.
Red. Really funny and I liked it.
Life As We Know It. Tear Jerker. Or it was that time of the month. Either way. Predictable and enjoyable. At least McHottie is enjoyable to look at. Oh yeah!
Due Date. We went to this when I was way late to meet my friends one night (sorry!) and this was the only thing playing. It was funny.
Love this time of year because of all the good movies out/coming out!

What are some good ones you've seen?

Yes, We Really Had This Dead Serious Conversation

Jessie, as she's getting out of my car after seeing Transformers 2: Watch and make sure I get through the door. Don't let Optimus Prime get me.

Me: Optimus Prime? Optimus Prime is the good guy, remember? It's the decepticons that we really need to look out for.



Maybe the late show was a little too late for us.



And... go see it. It's good.

Up

I was hesitant to go see this, but it was so cute! My kid and I loved it. Go see it.

And maybe I cried twice during the movie underneath my 3D glasses. Maybe.

9 out of 10.

You Can Take The Boy Out Of High School Musical, But You Can't Take The High School Musical Out Of The Boy

We went and saw this tonight and it was a hoot.

At the beginning of the movie, I thought we might have accidentally walked into HSM 4: The College Years, but then the singing and dancing stopped and I knew we were in the right place.

We laughed throughout the entire movie. The funny dad-type of things that came out of Zac Efron's mouth were a riot.

Good movie. I'd recommend it. Did I mention it was funny?

And I'd never want to be 17 again. However, I'd take back that size 0 waist any day.

I give it a 9 out of 10.

Have you seen 17 again?
Would you ever want to be 17 again?

Confessions Of A Shopaholic

Chalk it up as one of the worst movies Jessie and I have ever seen. Poor acting, horrible story, bad finish. I thought the story was choppy, unfunny and boring. We both hated it.

Things I wish we would have done instead of finishing the movie:

• Made a noose out of our red ropes and hung ourselves.
• Gone into Pink Panther 2 an hour late.
• Gone home.
• Gotten on Facebook on our phones and read all the dumb status updates. (Like: "It's 4 am and I'm up drinking coffee ready to go run 18 miles and then go to the gym and do 3 classes and then clean my house spotless and then cook a 7 course meal out of everything organic." or "I'm mad.") Guess what? No one cares! We like to pick out the most ridiculous Facebook status updates and read them to each other. And laugh our heads off.
• Pretty much anything else. Anything else. Including cleaning toilets.
  

I give it a .5 out of 10. The .5 only because I like New York.

Let me do you a favor. Don't go see it. You will save yourself some money and save 2 hours of your life that you can never get back.

Final Answer? A For Awesome

Anyone still there? All 8 of you? Well, I took a break and now I'm back.

And lucky for you, it's another movie review! Are you getting sick of these yet? If you aren't, than great! If you are, than suck it.

Click poster for synopsis

I think this may be one of the best movies I've seen all year. And last year, cause it's only February. It is definitely one I will own. Good message, a little tense in parts, but so awesome. Jessie and I felt like we could burst into tears at any moment the entire movie. But we didn't. I think the R-rating was a little harsh, for I only heard 2 eff words. Very well done.

I give it a 10 out of 10.

Did anyone else see it and love it?

He'e Just Not That Into You

I quite liked this movie. It was funny. Not laugh-out-loud-throughout-the-entire-movie kind of funny, but definitely some good chuckles. I'd see it again. Especially since my SIL talked through the entire thing and I missed a lot.


I give it a 7.5 out of 10.

Taken

“I don’t know you who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you’re looking for a ransom, I can tell you, I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills acquired over a very long career in the shadows, skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that will be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you. And I will kill you.”

-Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills in Taken

Wow. Do yourself a favor and go see this movie tonight for Date Night. You won't be disappointed. And if you are? You suck.

It was excellent. Liam Neeson is a bamf. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time and I'll probably go see it again asap.

Gran Torino

Let me just start off by saying that I don't make it a habit to see R-rated movies. Although some of my all time favorite movies are rated R (Braveheart and Last of the Mohicans), I put these in a different category because they are war/history movies. I love history. It's hard to make a historical war movie without guns and dying. That is war.

But movies today are getting worse and worse. More filthy and crude than the rated R's of old. So, I pick and choose which ones I see, but the pickins' are slim.
We went and saw this tonight and it was amazing. Here is a brief synopsis:

"Walt Kowalski is a widower, grumpy, tough-minded, borderline-hateful, unhappy old man who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors, a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1973 Gran Torino he keeps in cherry condition. When his neighbor Tao, a young Hmong teenager, tries to steal his Gran Torino, Kowalski sets out to reform the youth. Drawn against his will into the life of Tao's family, Kowalski is soon taking steps to protect them form the gangs that foul their neighborhood."

The movie was funny and slow at parts, but the end was intense. I was sweating. Minus all the cursing and racial slurs, I thought it was great. Lots to take away from it. And Clint was pretty much a bad-A!

In my opinion, Clint got screwed by The Academy.

What I Do When My Kid Is Driving Me Bonkers

I get a freaking babysitter and go to the movies!We went and saw The Secret Life of Bees. It was great! Loved it. I have never read the book, but I've heard from a lot of people that it is awesome. The movie sure was good and definitely did not disappoint!

Go see it! And bring your tissues. It's a tear-jerker.

*My kid woke up after I got home. I let him get out of bed and we cuddled on the couch and watched Enchanted. It made me forget about what a little sh!t he was all day. I loved it and I love him!

What do you do when your kid(s) is/are driving you bonkers?

Sad Ending, Happy Ending, And Holla Back

We went and saw this two nights ago. Extremely slow, sad, realistic but it was excellent. If you like happy endings, this movie is so not for you. But there weren't a lot of happy endings during the Holocaust, so it's to be expected. I love WWII history so I thought it was great. I'd definitely recommend it.

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Tonight, we had a date night and Jessie and I talked our husbands into Twilight. Nate was not a happy camper before the show, but I think that he secretly wanted to see it. Grant wanted to see what all the hype was about.Ooh. Don't you love this picture It's hot.

During the previews I leaned over to Nate and said, "Don't say anything about the movie that will ruin it for me." He did a pretty good job, but he did say that Edward looked like Bam Margera from Jackass. But I disagreed.

Both husbands liked it. I think they liked it more than they would say.

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On a completely unrelated note, I'm getting address labels ready for Christmas cards. Please email me your address, even if you think I have it. If you want a Christmas card, and you know I don't have your address, email me. And... I love receiving Christmas cards... so send me one hoochies! Thanks. I'm really looking forward to seeing a picture of your family sitting by the tree in your Santa hats, Christmas sweaters, and sipping your mugs of cocoa.

sharonater (at) gmail (dot) com

It Did Not Disappoint

We thought it was awesome.
So we saw it twice thrice.
In 12 57 hours.
And I'm sure we'll be seeing it again muy pronto.

How did you like it?

Because We Rented 1 & 2 From Blockbuster, And Had To See How It Ended

A few weeks ago, Jessie and I went and saw HSM 3. Why? Because we're cool.

And then we hung out with the gang after their prom/the movie.It was about this time I was standing next to Sharpay and the cute curly hair boy, that a theater employee walked by saying the f-word about 436 times in the same sentence. I politely told him to watch his offensive language, because really, how many times can you say the f-word in one sentence? One too many. And then that employee told me to eff off. Maybe he wanted to stand next to Sharpay. Or the curly hair boy. And then he lost his job the next morning.

It was an awesome night. I thought it was the best of the 3. Definitely had the biggest budget.

And I think Zac Efron wears more make-up than I do and I'm sure he spends more time on his hair. Fo shizzle.

Did you see it?
Would you be embarrassed to take pictures in front of the HSM cut-outs whilst people are filtering out from various movies?

We have no shame whatsoever. Obviously.

Shia's a BAMF

We saw this tonight and if freaking rocked! I loved it. Definitely my kind of movie. My heart was racing a thousand miles a minute the whole time. And so was my bladder.

I give it an A+. Really. And I'll probably go see it again in a couple of days to catch the parts I missed while I was in the bathroom. Did I mention that I loved it? And Shia's a freaking *BAMF? Well I do, and he is.

P.S. My husband met Shia and said he's awesome. They talked about golf. Of course. So I guess he's just as much a BAMF in real-life as he is on the big screen.

Have you seen it?
(If you haven't, you better see it tomorrow!)
How did you like it?

*Bad Ass Mo Fo.

Not The Good Kind Of Cereal

I went to see this tonight.
Overall, I give it an A-. The minus is because I think they forgot to throw some subtitles in, and then I had no idea what the hell they were saying. Me no likey.

But forget about the movie, let's talk about the serial killer who sat in front of us.

The late show started out fine and dandy. Jessie and I walked in and were totally stoked that we were the only ones in the theater. Great, we thought, now we can talk out loud, and no one can shush us.

So we chose the seats right smack dab in the middle of the auditorium. Wouldn't you? Of course you would. That's what everyone does.

Then... the serial killer walks in. Shaved head, black clothes, creepy eyes. And he sits right in front of us. Out of all 76 seats that weren't occupied in the theater, he chose the one right in front of us. Who does that? Serial killers.

He kept turning around, twitching nervously, trying to start a convo about 4 times. Way uncomfortable. And then he spit out something to the effect of us being the only three people in the theater. (Nervous laughter from us) He's crazy, but at least he can count. Maybe he was counting to see how many people he was going to have to fit in his trunk. Two. (except that Jessie is about 10 months pregnant, so it would be like fitting 2 normal-sized people and a midget in the trunk. Probably pretty hard... I'm guessing)

During the previews I decided I needed another beef jerky, because I horked my first one so fast, and Jessie wasn't about to stay alone with s.k. so we headed out to the concession stand. I asked the kid that was selling tickets if the bald guy that purchased a Traitor ticket was a little... unusual. He said he didn't get any weird vibes, but Jessie and I were getting weird vibes from the ticket seller, so that didn't do us a damn bit of good. So I asked the projectionist to check up on us periodically, to make sure that we were still alive. He laughed, but agreed.

We go back in to watch the movie. We move down a couple of seats, because who wants to sit behind someone during a movie in an empty theater, and who is also a killa? Not us.

As the movie progresses, we get a little nervous every time he goes to grab his drink, or his candy, or his popcorn, because for all we know... he's got a knife, a gun or nun chucks. You can't be too cautious or flinch too many times.

I had to go to the bathroom about an hour in, and I asked Jessie if she was going to be all right while I was gone. She said she would, and I told her to tell me what happened. I go and do my business as fast as I can (because come on, what's she going to do, hit him with her belly?) I come back and sit down. She's alive. Thank goodness. So I ask what happened while I was gone on my lightning speed bathroom trip. She says, "I have no idea. After you left, he started rubbing his face and neck all weird, and it freaked me out and I couldn't concentrate." I just had to fill in the blanks on the movie.

Projectionist came in about twice, and we would give him the 2 thumbs up, and let him know that we were still breathing, but not letting s.k. see us, because then he would bust out his nun chucks on us. Projectionist would chuckle, and then leave.

To make a long story even longer, the movie gets out and we just kind of let s.k. get out before us. But it's the slowest exit ever. He stands up right as the credits roll, and moves .000001 miles per hour. It was torture. We thought this would be the last movie we would ever see. (And if I'm going to be watching my last movie ever, I'm watching something with Christian Bale. Or Ashton Kutcher)

Before we exit into the parking lot, we see s.k. get into his gold convertible mini cooper. And I really think we were spared because he drove a mini cooper. And not a truck or an old Cadillac. Because really, has anyone ever fit 3 1/2 people in a mini cooper? I don't think so.

My husband tells me I'm crazy.
But I don't believe him.

Trust Me On This One

I went and saw this movie last night. 1 hour and 28 minutes of pure. torturous. hell.

I could have been doing other things with those 88 precious minutes. Like, sticking a fork in my arm. Repeatedly. Or, paper cutting my entire body, and then bathing in lemon juice.

Either would have been less painful.

The End.

P.S. For those wondering... no, I don't normally see this type of movie. I actually can't stand Mike Meyers.

We (Jen, Jessie and I) just really wanted to get out of the house. You know those days. And the theater has really good Diet Coke. Our options are limited right now for movies. But we can't wait until this and this comes out next Friday!

And yes, paper cutting is a word. Look it up. Okay don't. I made it up. And I say it all the time.

Coke, Popcorn & Ashton

I just got back from seeing this movie for the 4th time. That's right. Four times. It just might be my favorite movie of the year. If you saw it, you'd understand.

And if you didn't like it? I'll come and ring your doorbell. When you answer, you'll get junk punched, all up in your business, and when you ask why? I'll just point and say "YOU know why!"

What has been your favorite movie this year?