Saturday, April 30, 2011

180 degrees South (4/30/11)


Having started climbing recently Richard and I thought this might be interesting.  I so wish I could drop everything and go do things like these people do.  But there is a sense of stability that I require in my life that would make it impossible for me to just run off and leave everything behind for months at a time.  The movie was well put together, a documentary of the things that happened on this tour.  I enjoyed watching them and living vicariously through them.  It made me want to get out climbing in nature and out of the gym.  I still have no desire to go surfing, but their climbing really is amazing stuff. 

Toy Story 3 (4/30/11)


I went into this expecting to love it and I did.  How can you not love Toy Story?  The story was cute, but it did make me cry?  How is it that an animated movie can make me feel so sad?  I loved it, the imagination presented in this movies is amazing.  Love, Love, Love!

Friday, April 29, 2011

Eat Pray Love (4/29/11)


I finally got around to watching this.  I had sinus surgery and was unable to do much of ANYTHING for an entire week.  While still feeling fairly horrible this is the first TV watching I did after the surgery.  The movie is fun, predictable, but fun.  It really makes me want to go to the food section of the world to visit it.  Life seems easier, less work driven and more fun loving in other parts of the world.  I love the USA and that we can be whatever but I really do NOT like the work mentality that we have here.  Great movie, thank you Netflix for making it streaming.

Friday, April 15, 2011

The Other Guys (4/15/11)


So this was a silly spoof kind of movie.  It was funny, but a waste of time at the same time.  I liked it okay enough that I wouldn't say I've lost part of my life having seen it, but I really never need to see it again.  It has it's moments, but as a whole, yeah not my favorite thing I've seen.  I know I'm in a minority when I say this, but I'm not a huge fan of Will Ferrell, which is probably what turned me off on this movie in the first place.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Brokeback Mountain (4/4/11)


This is one of those movies I have wanted to see since it came out and for some reason never got around to it.  It has been in my netflix queue for as long as it's been available.  I stayed home from work and Richard was working so I went ahead and watched it finally.  The story is captivating, the actors are brilliant, I can see why it did so well.  The subject is of course controversial but worth it.  I'm glad that I didn't grow up when prejudice was quite so prevalent, sure it still exists but it's nice to see the world being more accepting of people. 

I know my being a Christian this doesn't always go together. I've had pastors speak about how it's wrong for same sex people to be together.  I feel you can't make people something they aren't, and you can't force people to see things the way an institution does.  I just like to let people live their lives, if they aren't hurting anyone what is the point of hurting them?