Silver Linings Playbook

                                   Silver Linings Playbook

So I was spoiled this weekend and went to see 2 movies!! I saw Silver Linings Playbook along with OZ.  I was wanting to see this pretty bad before it was nominated for Oscars and once I saw the outcome of the Oscars that was my push to actually go.  I am so glad I did! This is my favorite movie so far this year that I have seen!! It was such a pleasant surprise!  I didn't really understand fully from the previews what it was going to be about so I didn't have great expectations. That made me enjoy it even more!

I don't want to say too much about the movie and ruin it but I will say it is a super romantic, great love story between two crazy people. This movies offers something for everyone.  It's funny, sad, romantic, mysterious, and involves sports which most guys would enjoy.  It's not a total chick flick like I expected.

Life can be pretty F'd up sometimes and this has great examples of that. It wasn't some unrealistic chick flick that gets girls hopes up for unrealistic expectations for their own love life. It's a real life story.

I finally got to enjoy watching a movie that didn't follow the same formula as every other movie.  I loved not knowing exactly where they were going with it and what would happen next. Watching so many movies all the time, I can usually guess the outcome before it's finished and that gets tiresome.

I loved the cameo of the Led Zeppelin song "What Is and What Should Never Be". Greatest rock band ever and fit in with the scene beautifully!

The cherry on top would have been Bradley Cooper winning an Oscar as well as Jennifer Lawrence but going up against Lincoln, that's a tough one to beat!

So basically see this in the theater if you get a chance! I'm hoping it comes out on video soon so I can buy it!

OZ The Great and Powerful

                               OZ The Great and Powerful

Me and my husband went to see this movie on this past weekend as a date to celebrate our 6 year wedding anniversary. I don't normally go on opening weekend to see a movie.  It has to be a special occasional or some really anticipated movie coming out.  In this case it was both!

This was a really cool concept for a movie and they definitely tied it in with the original Wizard of Oz movie in several different areas. I didn't catch any real loop holes. It added so much to the Wizard character and all the witch characters.  I never paid much attention to the fact that Dorothy's house lands on the wicked witches sister in the original movie. I knew it happened but it is a short little part that you forget about. That witch that gets smashed under Dorothy's house is a full blown character in this new OZ movie which is so cool!

If you aren't even a fan of the Wizard of Oz this would be worth seeing even just for all the special effects and computer graphics.  It's sooooooo colorful they almost even went overboard but I guess they figure why not go overboard since we can do these special effects this day in age! And of course Disney can pretty much afford anything right?!

Danny Elfman supplied the music for this film which is always a winning situation! Here's a funfilled fact too about Danny Elfman: He was the lead singer and songwriter for the band Oingo Boingo!! They did the song "Wierd Science" for that film and "Wild Sex (in the working class)" that was in the John Hughes film Sixteen Candles.  I knew of his composing for The Simpsons, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and all other Tim Burton projects but never that he was in an 80's rockband! That just makes him even cooler!

One sad thing is that I don't think this will match up with the Dark Side of the Moon album but at least we got Danny Elfman!

Bottom line, you should definitely see this on the big screen in the theater!!

Safe Haven

                                             Safe Haven

I went to see this movie last night with my mom and sister. I was expecting your basic Nicholas Sparks chick flick and that's exactly what we got.  It did deliver. I wasn't pouring out tears like I did with the Notebook but it was definitely good. I'm not a big Julianne Hough fan but I did like her more in this movie than anything else I saw her in.  Josh Duhamel was a pleasure to watch as usual. I liked this Nicholas Sparks story more than some of the other ones. I won't say anymore about the movie because I wouldn't want to give anything away!

THEATER!!!

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters

                           Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters

I saw this movie last night with my sister. Sometimes I feel the need to see movies that I know are probably going to be a disappointment but I appreciate them trying to come out with a new concepts of old ideas that nobody really cared about to begin with. I didn't expect much of this movie but they did surprise me a little bit. 

This was pretty violent and graphic and they made the witches super duper ugly.  There was a pretty good amount of blood and gore in this movie too.  I think they were trying to compensate big time for this just being a children's story and go in the completely other direction and make it super gory and violent and made for adults. It was an interesting take on Hansel and Gretel. It did involve one nude scene too.  At this point I grabbed my phone to see what the heck this movie was rated.  I guess I assumed it was PG-13 because this type of movie would probably be most appealing to teenagers but it was rated R! The previews didn't really lead me to believe that it was going to be a hard core version but hey I'll take it!  

RENTAL (unless there's nothing better to see and you really feel like going to the movies like me for this week.)