{Movie Reviews}

Guess what! It was a long weekend and that means that the Husband and I watched a few movies in the last couple of days. I love hearing people's opinions on movies so I'm going to share mine with you. If you don't care then stop reading now.

Secretariat

I loved it. It was a great inspirational movie. It was hopeful and it was awesome. There was nothing fancy or tricky with this movie. It was one where you walked out of the theater feeling great. There weren't very many big name actors in the movie but I thought their choices were stupendous. This movie is based off of a true story and that just makes it that much more exciting. During the races I would sit at the edge of my seat with my hand clenched up waiting to see how 'Big Red' did. It was a great "feel-good" movie. I definitely recommend this! [Also, Mrs Tweedy had the most fabulous outfits in this movie]




Stranger than Fiction

I watched this movie when it came out in 2006 with a dear friend of mine and loved it, but hadn't thought much of it since. I recently found out the entire movie can be found on youtube here, so you should watch it tonight.
It's a lesser known Will Ferrel movie and it's great. It's not your run of the mill movie, but it's very clever. It's witty and smart and funny. If you like Will Ferrel, or if you like to laugh, or if you like to smile, or if you need to find the motivation to bake a batch of cookies, watch this movie. [Yes, I'm serious about the cookie part. While we were watching this movie, about half way through we had to pause it and the Husband and I went and made some homemade cookies {at 11:00 pm.....} before we could finish the movie. You'll know what part I'm talking about when you see it]

Tron

Yes, I was a good wife and went to go see Tron with Husband over the weekend. I don't want to say that I put up a fight about going and that I had absolutely no intention of going to go see this movie with my Husband....so I won't....but I did. Before Husband wanted to see Tron he said he had to see the old one. Luckily some friends of ours lent us their copy. Here's the trailer for the 1982 Tron:

It was probably the most boring movie ever. I could not stand it, sorry folks. The Husband loved it though. LOVED IT, friends. I cleaned the kitchen while watching it because I couldn't just sit down and do nothing through that whole movie...
Anyways... Basically I had no interest AT ALL to go see the new Tron. None. But, with much coaxing and a promised massage I went with the Husband. It was better than I had anticipated, but I had zero expectations so....yeah. Better than I thought, but it was still a little weird. I probably won't watch it again.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1



Great movie! It was a little bit darker than I had anticipated, but it was awesome. Since it was only the first half of the movie it ended a little abruptly, but I don't know how they could have done a better job of that. It was exciting and I loved it. I haven't read the books in forever so I can't say how true it was to the book, but it was a great movie, either way. I cannot wait for the second half to come out!! The characters were great and the whole thing came together beautifully. Go see it if you haven't already.




[Yes, these are all older movies that have been out for a while but we're too cheap to go see movies at the regular theater so we had to wait until they came to the dollar theater :) ]