Reviews

I've seen almost a dozen movies in the past few weeks. A couple have been at the cinema but others have been through my Netflix queue--a couple I even watched on my computer! Some were good some were bad and some were really bad. I saw Love & Other Disasters with Brittany Murphy. It takes place in London and what made it good was her nutty gal friend--very AbFab-esque character. Hoot was better than I expected but I still don't want to read the book. The little owls sure were cute though. I went to the cinema to see Confessions of a Shopaholic which was similar to the book and also different. Isla Fisher did a very good job. I also saw He's Just Not That Into You at the cinema. It had an amazing cast but I didn't leave the movie feeling very good about dating as a whole. Jennifer Aniston's character was great though.



I watched some girl-heroine-kicks-butt action flicks. The first was Elektra (dumb) and then there was Ultraviolet (which was Ultra-dumb). I watched two Jessica Simpson movies. I know, a waste of time right? Not exactly, plus I've been feeling pretty bad for her because of all the negative talk about her figure. Blonde Ambition started off okay but then when they vamped up her character (a.k.a. made her look slutty) it got stupid. Private Valentine started off dumb but got better after her slutty character changed into a focused army type person. In conclusion, Simpson can be pretty funny when she's not being a diva. I also watched Monsoon Wedding--it was a little difficult to follow because the characters spoke in English and Hindi (I guess) with subtitles thrown in every other sentence. It was a sweet and sad story. I saw two comic book movies---The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and The Punisher. Both were dumb but entertaining nonetheless. I watched The Messengers which is a horror flick (that kind of made sense!). It scared the crud out of me but I only watched it during the day.



I've started a great new young adult series. It's Percy Jackson and The Olympians. It's kind of like Harry Potter meets Greek Mythology. I finished book one last week, The Lightning Thief, and now I'm reading book two The Sea of Monsters. There are five in the series (as far as I know) plus a companion book. The fifth book is scheduled to be published in May of this year. I'm learning a lot and eager to read as often as I can.





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