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Movie Review: Bedtime Stories
If you know Adam Sandler movies, then this is a typical one.
A movie more for kids than adults, although we did watch it with our puppy Fez, who fell asleep as usual about 10 minutes in.
Skeeter finds that the bedtime stories that he and his niece and nephew make up seem to come true. He uses this to try and make life the way that he’s always wanted.
The moral of the story is that if you believe, anything can happen. Unfortunately in the real world this is bollocks. But hey, it’s a positive outlook for those young minds.
Look out for the cowboy dwarves and their miniature horse and cart. Miniature horse – eee!
Skeeter and Bugsy
Movie Review: Marley & Me
This movie was surprisingly good, given it stars Jennifer Aniston, Owen Wilson and a dog.
Marley is a labrador that newly weds Jennifer and John adopt. A forever puppy at heart, Marley is an excellent source for John’s newspaper column, but however Marley is also a test of the couple’s relationship.
It could have done with more puppy scenes but even so, it’s a sweet, playful, teary movie, and Owen’s nose didn’t distract me too much – that’s always good.
Scene from Marley & Me
Movie Review: Let the Right One In
Swedish vampire movie. Simply it is, but it’s also more than that.
Låt den rätte komma in (as it’s called in its native tongue) is about Oskar, a bullied preteen boy, who falls in love with the girl next door. Eli, the girl next door, happens to be a vampiress.
The coming-of-age story is about curiosity, friendship, loyalty and survival. It’s not your typical vampire movie – don’t expect anything like From Dusk Till Dawn or Interview with the Vampire. It does however still satisfy those fans who want a bit of splatter.
The kids in this movie all seem to have slightly disturbing tendencies, and I’m talking about the non-vampire ones now.
Apart from some scenes that teeter on child p*rnography, I enjoyed watching this movie.
The moral of the story: Don’t bully – especially don’t bully anyone who’s friends with a vampire.
Kid vamp
Movie Review: Watchmen
Well I wasn’t so sure what the Watchmen movie was all about. All I knew was there were superheroes in it, and being a sucker for superheroes I was keen to see it.
I was expecting something like X-Men – same, same, but different.
He has super eyebrows too
Unfortunately there wasn’t as much superheroes stuff in it as I expected. Yes, there is Dr Manhattan, but apart from him, it may as well be a bunch of martial artists at a costume party. The other characters were just extra strong hand-to-hand combat types.
The main story line is this:
The United States is facing an apparently imminent nuclear war with Russia. Dr Manhattan is one of a group of masked vigilantes of the last decade, trying to come up with a solution that would prevent the nuclear holocaust. When a fellow hero is murdered, it forces more out of retirement and they soon find themselves tangled in an ugly conspiracy.
There are some good special effects and dark comic-book brutality, but if you’re expecting an epic battle between good and evil, there isn’t one. Dr Manhattan is the only one with real powers (and a blue penis that gets a little more show time than necessary), though Rorschach is quite a compelling character (who also makes a good snow angel but you’ll have to watch the movie to know why).
The moral twist in the story was something to think about. Our world unfortunately revolves around power, money and outweighing big losses against even bigger ones.
On a lighter note, I was reminded about the reference to Watchmen in The Simpsons that also pokes fun at V for Vendetta. I will always love The Simpsons.
From the Husbands and Knives episode of The Simpsons
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