Week-end update

Yesterday I took Amy, Lee and Aiden to the airport and then I went to Costco.  I didn't spend much money but did get some breakfast bars so that (breakfast) is taken care of for the next couple of months.  Then I went out to Johnston to go to the movie.  I was going to go to the movie at Jordan Creek but the parking lot was rather full so I left.

Hugo is  Martin Scorsese's first 3-D movie. Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.  - It moved a little slow at times but was mostly enchanting and a delight to watch.  I don't usually care for 3-D movies but Sorsese did a masterful job with it and it was not intrusive on the story but fit right in.  


The film is an homage to Georges Méliès  It is well worth watching and by the way I found the theater experience much better than the Cinemark Theater in Ames.  Not only was it cleaner but there were plenty of people to wait on you.  I even noticed that the theater had at least two young people in wheel chairs as employees.  I am always glad to see that since I have a sister in a wheel chair and am well aware of how difficult it is for people in a wheel chair to get a job.    I recommend the film and the theater in Johnston.

My dishwasher died so I am getting a new one. I hope it is soon as I had to actually wash dishes by hand today.  My hands are clean and my glasses are also but I am still not finished.  Hopefully I will get the new one tomorrow. That plus the repair from my Lazy-boy which broke.

This morning I slept through the alarm and slept until 11:30 -  Can't do that tomorrow as I have a meeting in Altoona at 10:00.  Thanks for stopping by. Hugs, j

Bad Teacher/Bad Movie

First movie I have walked out on for at least 35 years. Bad Teacher was a waste of my time and money. Doesn't even begin to be funny!


At least the pop corn (small) was tasty.  I sat there and waited to be entertained and I could see no reason to stay.  David Letterman kept saying it was funny.  I wonder how much they paid him to say that.  It dragged.  The humor that was sophomoric and the acting was really poor.  


I was more entertained at Physical Therapy (and my arm was hurting) and had a better time there.


Roger Ebert's Review here.


Jon's comment,  "I hate to say it, but what do you expect from Cameron Diaz.?"

Red

In the Christian Science Monitor Movie Review of Red the critic says:

By Pete

r Rainer, Film Critic / October 15, 2010

If you're like me, you'll put up with a lot of malarkey in a movie just to see Helen Mirren wielding a semiautomatic weapon. You may argue that Helen Mirren wielding a semiautomatic weapon is also malarkey. Maybe so, but malarkey doesn't get any better.

I think that just about nails it. I had forgotten that Helen Mirren was in the show. She is marvelous. The smallest facial tic becomes an incredible piece of acting. Just a look from her conveys tons of meaning and she does it without seeming effort.

Come to think of it all of the main group of aging super spies do this. Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, and John Malkovich but Mirren is the queen of the show.

Warning, don't take the movie seriously. It is of the "Oceans" genre in which a group (ensemble) of actors take a premise that could be heavy (killing people) and turns it into a fun romp. It is escapism at its finest. I had fun and you might also. Go see it if you wish. Have a great rest of the week-end. j