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Movie Review:Love, Simon

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So I thought that I would come back here with yet another review. This time it is a movie review for Love, Simon. This movie is based on the book Simon vs the homosapiens agenda by Becky Allbertali. Since, the movie has been out only a week I thought this would be fairly timely, I’ll first off have to admit that I haven’t read the book yet, so a review on the book will be coming later this year. The book had gotten so many rave reviews that I was expecting no less from the movie.

I almost had to talk my boyfriend into going this movie, although he says that he didn’t need that much arm twisting since the trailers for this movie looked so good. Seriously, you should go watch a few if you haven’t already. We saw this movie the Wednesday after it opened and the theater was still packed even for a week night!

In the movie, you follow the story of Simon narrated by Simon, but from his letters to a guy named Blue. Well at least the first part of the movie is narrated through a letter, but you won’t find this out until later. In the movie the school Simon goes to uses a message board to communicate messages anonymously and one day Simon is alerted to a post by his friends about a boy on a Ferris wheel. Simon is intrigued and feels that he can relate to this person that he starts to communicate anonymously with him at first and then he accidentally signs one of his letters revealing his identity. Blue doesn’t feel so inclined to reveal his identity in the same manner. In a fluke of strange luck, Simon one day is interrupted writing an email to Blue on the school’s computer by the school’s principal and doesn’t think to close his email. The computer is then used by the school’s clown who decides to use the information Simon has tried to keep private for so long against him. Simon ends up making some bad decisions affecting his friends and then the school’s clown decides to out him on the public forum. Simon isn’t ready to be outed and feels his world come crashing down.

I won’t spoil the ending, but in case you haven’t figured it out everything turns out relatively ok in the end. As the boyfriend would say, the whole movie had a very John Hughes vibe to it. I loved it from the very start to the very end. It deserves all the praise it is getting by everyone. The cast was great and it was good to see Katherine Langford, of 13 reasons why fame, play someone who isn’t dead. Also in case I haven’t sold you on seeing the movie yet, Jack Antonoff of Bleachers and his own fame does the musical score for the film, so even if you hate the acting at least get lost in the music.

Let me know if you have seen this film and what you thought of it. Does it live up to the hype? Is it super different from the book if you have read that? More posts and reviews coming soon!

 

Movie Review: A Wrinkle in Time

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I’m back this time with a book to movie adaptation. There will be quite a few of these coming in the next month or so. Be prepared and brace yourselves for all these movies. This review is going to be about Ava DurVernay’s adaptation of Madeline L’Engle ‘s A Wrinkle in Time. In case you didn’t read my review on the book, which I read earlier this year, you can read it here.

I immediately knew that I was going to see this movie after reading the book besides it has an all-star cast for Disney, which means it didn’t come cheap. I mean Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mndy Kaling, Chris Pine, Michael Pena, Rowan Blanchard, and I could go on. Not to mention the new faces that we are being introduced to in this movie.

As I said you can refer to my book review for a synopsis of the book/ movie. In short though I overall loved the movie and thought it was great in many ways. It did fall short in some ways though. I was disappointed about the parts that were left out because it would have lead in other directions and other movies. I was also disappointed that the wrinkle was never explained in the movie and only in the trailer, I found that to be a critical element to the story and the understanding of how Mr. Murray disappears so quickly. Also I was disappointed that the IT was not further explained and how it grabbed a hold of Charles Wallace in an instant and not anyone else.

It is a great movie don’t get me wrong I just found a few hangups with the movie that didn’t translate from the book. I would recommend that you give it a watch if not in theaters then when it comes out on DVD. This isn’t a movie I would recommend you take young kids too though because I think the not understanding of the IT and not being able to really see IT would scare them.

If you saw the movie or read the book let me know your thoughts. Thanks for continuing to read along here:) I promise that I will be back soon with another post. Let me know what other movies you would like me to review, I would love to hear from you. See you soon!

 

Scaretober-Movie Review: Saw

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For the month of October I’ve dubbed it Scaretober in which I will be blogging every day in October. No, it’s not just random blogs in October but specifically scary movies movies. I’m definitely not one of those girls that enjoys scary movies by any means in fact this is a HUGE challenge for me since I’m such a wimp when it comes down to it. Some of the movies reviewed will be super scary and others will just be 90’s cheesy scary compared to today’s standards. There will be a few days during this month that I will be putting up more than one posts, because sometimes you can’t hold any awesome back when it comes to the blog.

Today’s movie is Saw.

I had about this movie so much before, but had never seen it so I thought that I would give it a shot. Oh yeah, I know I’m behind on post regularly so some days you may see more than one post as I’m trying to catch up. Back to the real reason you are here.

Here’s a quick run down of this 2004 movie. The opening scene of the movie a man awakens in a dilapidated darkened bathroom very confused as to what happened. When the lights in the room turn on suddenly he sees another man in the room along with what appears to be a corpse in the middle. Both of the men are chained to pipes on the sides of the room. The men tell each other their names and then they find a tapes in their pockets and one man finds a bullet and a key. After both men try the key in their locks they then notice the rape recorder and gun in the corpses hands. The first man’s tape tells him to escape and the other man’s tape tells him to kill the other man in order to save his family. Upon listening to the tape again the find 2 saws in the toilet tank and one of the realizes they might know who the killer might be. The movie flashes back to a crime scene where the media and the police first discovers the Jigsaw killer. The police find one victim that actually survived her capture. Meanwhile, the one man’s family is being held hostage by another person. After that the movie flashes back to present day and after that the movie moves rather quickly toward an ending.

I will keep to my promise and not spoil the entire movie for you. Why do all the horror movies end in what feels like an incomplete way? I have so many questions about this movie that I can’t seem to find anyone to answer, so let me know if you have seen this movie and can answer my questions. Definitely recommend this movie, I would definitely say I understand why people revolve their Halloweens around Saw movies.

I hope that you enjoyed this selection of the Scaretober series and that you will keep coming back throughout the month to see what other movies I watch. Also if you would like to see what movies that I have watched in the past you can find them here.  Also feel free to leave suggestions on videos or movies that you think I should watch. See you soon!

Scaretober-Movie Review: Monsters

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For the month of October I’ve dubbed it Scaretober in which I will be blogging every day in October. No, it’s not just random blogs in October but specifically scary movies movies. I’m definitely not one of those girls that enjoys scary movies by any means in fact this is a HUGE challenge for me since I’m such a wimp when it comes down to it. Some of the movies reviewed will be super scary and others will just be 90’s cheesy scary compared to today’s standards. There will be a few days during this month that I will be putting up more than one posts, because sometimes you can’t hold any awesome back when it comes to the blog.

Today’s movie is Monsters.

This is yet another Netflix recommendation and if you have been following me for a while you will remember how much drama Netflix caused. Still we move on, don’t worry I have more movies coming that are better, I think.

Here’s the rundown on the movie: This 2010 British movie opens with text talking about NASA finding the possibility of alien life and bringing back samples. The space craft that brought the samples back exploded and the samples were strewn over Mexico. Flash forward several years to the US and Mexico government trying to contain the creatures. In the movie what appears to be the next day a man named Andrew travels to a hospital in San Jose, Central America to find a girl named Sam, who is his employers daughter. Andrew is given orders to take Sam to the coast so that she can get back to the US. Sam calls her dad to reassure him that she’s ok and then she and Andrew get on a train to the coast. Andrew actually admits to Sam that even though he’s a photographer he hasn’t had his big break yet. The pair is told to get off the train since the track is taken out half way to the coast. They walk for awhile and then are taken in by a local who tells them that the ferries stop running in 2 days. The pair stays the night and then makes it to the ferry dock the next day. The official at the docks tells them that there is only one seat left on the ferry and that it costs $5000 and that the last ferry leave the next morning. The pair stays the night in the town and things get a little weird between them. Andrew stays out a little longer and ends up sleeping with a local who robs him. By the time Andrew and Sam get back to the dock the ferry has already left and there are no longer tickets available. The official tells them that they could go to the infected zone for money, and so Sam pawns her engagement ring to get them passage.

I will keep to my promise and not spoil the entire movie for you. I can say that this is one of those forward backward movies where the director shows you the end, except that you won’t know that its the end until the end of the movie. Overall, I wasn’t impressed with the movie. You never really see the alien creature and nearly half the movie is shot during the night. I suppose that I understand that the alien creatures only come out at the night, but at least use night vision. I would recommend this movie only if you were interested in aliens , but overall it is not an impressive alien movie.

I hope that you enjoyed this selection of the Scaretober series and that you will keep coming back throughout the month to see wat other movies I watch. Also if you would like to see what movies that I have watched in the past you can find them here.  Also feel free to leave suggestions on videos or movies that you think I should watch. See you soon!

 

Scaretober-Movie Review: Jaws 2

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Hey!
For the month of October I’ve dubbed it Scaretober in which I will be blogging every day in October. No, it’s not just random blogs in October but specifically scary movies movies. I’m definitely not one of those girls that enjoys scary movies by any means in fact this is a HUGE challenge for me since I’m such a wimp when it comes down to it. Some of the movies reviewed will be super scary and others will just be 90’s cheesy scary compared to today’s standards. There will be a few days during this month that I will be putting up more than one posts, because sometimes you can’t hold any awesome back when it comes to the blog.

Today’s movie is Jaws 2.


When I did the view of Jaws, I knew that I would need to do the whole series no matter how bad it got. Yes, this series still makes me afraid of the ocean and deeply afraid of sharks, so you probably won’t hear about me going into the water anytime soon.

Here’s the rundown on the movie: This 1978 movie is done a few years after the original movie. We find ourselves back on Amity Island several years after the first movie happens and Sheriff Brody’s children are slightly older. The town welcomes the opening of a new hotel to the area and Sheriff Brody is still avoiding the ocean as mush as he can. The first shark attack in the movie is of 2 divers after discovering the wreckage of the orca. The next shark attack is of a speedboat and a surfer with the shark taking down the surfer first before circling back for the driver this time there are witnesses to the attack, but they don’t notice the shark. The shark gets bruises from this attack. A few days later a whale carcus washes up onto the shores of one of the beaches and Brody’s oldest son, Mike discovers the body. Sheriff Brody goes to the mayor and the town council and asks them to close the beaches due to the shark attack. The mayor and the council refuse and Brody takes it into his own hands to watch the beach. After an embarrassing false shark sighting Brody is fired as Sheriff and his two sons sneak out of the house to go hangout with their friends on a boat.

I will keep to my promise and not spoil the entire movie for you. There’s another ambiguous ending in which the shark dies, but the people aren’t in safety. Sorry, if that’s a spoiler, but it is what happened. At this second movie, I was particularly annoyed by the mayor and council for not believing Sheriff Brody on the shark attack. How can you be so unfeeling about people’s lives?!? It’s even more annoying when his own sons don’t believe him. I suppose I’ll keep watching the series even though it’s beginning to annoy me more than scare me.

I hope that you enjoyed this selection of the Scaretober series and that you will keep coming back throughout the month to see what other movies I watch. Also if you would like to see what movies that I have watched in the past you can find them here.  Also feel free to leave suggestions on videos or movies that you think I should watch. See you soon!