Repo Men

We recently watched the movie Repo man with Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Liev Schrieber and a multitude of other people.  It is based in the future and it is about a company called The Union who manufacturers hearts, livers, kidneys, etc.  You sign papers, they finance the transplant, and if you forget to make payments, they repossess them.  Now, it is a very weird movie, but it is good.  I'm still trying to figure out the ending, as the DVD skipped at one place and threw us forward.  Any way, I do recommend this for the watching if you haven't seen it.  Rating it at three and half stars, because the jury is still out.  Have a great day!

In Honor of the Oscars - Netflix suggestions

Okay so we don't have cable and I get everything we watch either from Netflix or if Blockbuster Kiosk is working and they have a weekend deal, then we will do that, but this morning I organized our list on Netflix. 
We get two movies, and then we get two DVDs of our favorite series from television.  I love the previews and the inside page on the DVDs we get from Netflix.  Most of the time, it is something that is due out on the inside page and if it looks good we will add it to our queue.  I currently have 87 things in our queue.  We are almost done with the series Lie to Me for the season three, Terminator:  The Sarah Connor Chronicles will be over soon, and there isn't another season on that one.  We still have plenty NCIS and Criminal minds, and we have a few new series we are checking out, like Damages, Second Sight, The Remake series of the Nightstalker, and a couple of older series like Warehouse 13, and Witchblade the entire series on 8 discs I believe.  So now I have to find some new movies to add to our list so that I can complete the organization. 

So here is what we like and we are looking for suggestions.  Sci-Fi, Thrillers, Movies based on History, Westerns ( don't laugh), Some Horror but nothing like Jason, or Friday the 13th, Halloween, Scream or any of those.  I like psychological movie thrillers too!  Norman likes things like the Red Baron, Defiance, etc.  I'm not into watching Nazi movies so please don't suggest Valkyrie or Inglorious Bastards.  I don't like Brad Pitt, but love Matt Damon and Mark Walhberg.  Don't really like Tom Cruise, but George Clooney is okay.  Excellent specimen actors such as Liam Neeson, Christian Bale, and Gerard Butler are okay as well as Colin Farrel. 

Please post a comment with a suggestion.  Have a great day! 

PS if you have any suggestions for TV Series that we might like, please post a comment! 

Movie Review: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Okay first I don't go to the movie theater to watch movies.  So all my movie reviews will be after the fact, but might help if you haven't seen the movie.

We just recently watched Wall Street Sequel.  It stars of course Michael Douglas, Shia LeBeouf, Carrie Mulligan, Frank Langella, Josh Brolin, and Susan Sarandon.  There are some other actors that appear, but these are the ones with the most of the roles in the movie.  Now I never saw Wall Street, but I'm sure it was very good.  So was this one.  Does it keep you guessing?  No.  Revenge is the main theme in this movie.  It is pay back and lets see who we can make pay for how I was wronged. 

I do recommend the movie and it is a great rental.  I probably would not pay 7.00 to go see it at the theaters, but then frankly, I'm not sure any movie is worth paying 7.00 to go see.  I give it 4 stars and think you will be surprised if you haven't seen it. 

Two Movie Recommendations

Both of these movies are older movies, but things we did not get to see when they came to the theater.

The first one is Defiance.  Daniel Craig and Liev Schriber play as the leads in this movie.  It is about a band of Jews who hide from the Germans during World War II in the forest.  It is based on a true story.  The brothers in the story are called "The Beliski Brothers".  I probably did not spell that correctly, but you can probably look it up on the the Internet.  They hid from the Germans for over two years and survived.  We are not talking about six or seven people.  It was probably closer to a hundred, maybe even more. 

I love history, but do not usually enjoy movies about the Jews being hunted by the Germans, but this movie is so different and has a good ending, not the usual one where Hitler is involved.  Hitler is not even ever seen in this movie.  It is long, so it is not something you want to start to watch at eight or nine at night.  Enjoy!  It is a extremely good movie, based on a true story. 

The other movie we recently watched was Broken Arrow.  It stars John Travolta and Christian Slater and a few other actors that usually always play bit roles.  It came out probably ten to 14 years ago.  John Travolta makes an excellent bad guy and I would much prefer to see him in these kinds of movies, than Grease.  (I know I'm probably the only person in the world who does not like that movie)  It is worth watching, especially if there is nothing else on the television. 

Later, more movie reviews to come as I work on a new chapter in my book.  Have a great day!

Movie Review: Winning Season

Okay so we just wanted to spend some quiet time at home this weekend and not have to go anywhere that we didn't really want to go.  As such, we rented movies from blockbuster express because they were running a special this weekend.  We watched several movies.  Here is the review on the first one.

Dean Stockwell, plays a divorced father, who is a drunk and a busboy at a local restaurant, but gets the chance to turn his life around.  He starts to coach the girls basketball team at this high school.  There is a total of six girls on the team and one is on crutches. 

It is one of those feel good movies.  It does have some language but no sex, or violence.  Well there is one scene where one girls punches another in the mouth.  Anyway, the coach and the girls learn from each other and overcome a lot.  I give it 5 stars.  Check it out!!!

Movie Review: The Devil Wears Prada

Okay so I know it is an older movie, not even really sure when it came out, but I thought it would be a funny movie based on the trailer I remembered seeing.  However, it wasn't as funny as I thought.  I love Anne Hathaway and Simon Baker( The mentalist and it is a small role), and I'm okay with Meryl Streep, but not her greatest fan.  Anyway, what I thought was a comedy is actually not and it was sad they way her friends actually treated her. 

If you haven't seen it, Meryl Streep plays an eccentric, egotistical, editor for a magazine called Runway.  Yes the fashion industry.  Anne Hathaway is a struggling journalist in bad need of a job, and is rather plain, and her name is Andrea and she goes by Andy.  She takes the job as the second assistant to Ms. Streep whose name in the movie is Miranda something because I can't remember.  The first assistant is Emily, played by Emily Blount. 

The transformation that takes place in Andy is remarkable, because she get advise from Nigel, played by Stanley Tucci that if she wants to succeed, she has to really want the job and become the job, and that is exactly what Andy does, and eventually becomes the 1st assistant.  She did what the job called for so that in a years time she could get a job working for any magazine writing.  Her friends called her names, laughed at her, and made her feel like a villain.  Granted she did change, but she did what the job called for in order to succeed. 

It is a good movie and we both enjoyed it, but it was not a comedy.  If you haven't seen it, check it out, it is worth a rental if you have nothing else to do.

Love, L