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348: Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure

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I remember the day my mom came home with this movie. She bought it because she thought it looked cute and it came in a book size, pink clutch wallet. The movie is her's and I had commandeered the wallet at the time. Back when this first came out. I have to admit, this movie is pretty darn cute and it mainly is because of the dogs! It's also great to see Sharpay completely out of her element, taking on the world on her own, having her first crappy apartment, actually working...even though you see major growth in character in this movie from her, you can't help but be glad that she got her just desserts being treated horribly by someone who is just like her. See how it feels. And in the process, she learns that she was a horrible person and was already changing from that experience, as well as her lovely neighbor and friend. In the end, her dream comes true and the Sharpay we know and love to hate is now someone we just absolutely love. Also, it would be interesting if

347: Sharktale

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Everything is fish-i-fied! Krispy Kreme? Nope, Kelpy Kreme. Car wash? Whale wash. Time Square? Yeah that is now a reef that looks like it. Even though the animation is different and older than what we are all used to, since it has grown in quality, I still like this movie. Hilarious and the fish look like the people who voice them! Will Smith as a fish...actually just Will Smith voicing animation is perfect. He has the perfect comedy and way of talking and reacting that is pure magic. So that makes me really excited to see him as Genie in the new Aladdin movie coming next year. ;) See how I transitioned? Anyways, I still have the lyrics, "Working at the car wash," in my head today. Can you believe it? I am almost entirely caught up and we watched this yesterday. Speaking of....HAPPY HALLOWEEN! What are you guys going to be? Someone who is great at body paint or makeup should be Oscar for Halloween! Yeah, this is very last minute suggestion, but hey, it would be cool to

346: Shanghai Knights

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Roy wants to be more than what he knows best? I mean I know he wanted to be an outlaw for the women and the money, but he is writing books, working as a waiter in a hotel, no longer with John's Native American wife...yeah, what about her? I mean they were technically married by the tribe and then you also get the fact that Lucy Lui isn't in this either when she was a love interest as well? I know that they are going somewhere else, but they really knocked two things out that were important. It was kind of funny that they mention in passing with what happened with Roy and the other girl was that his, "Salmon isn't going upstream." Ha, ha. Then John tells his sister that so she won't go for Roy. Oh, the protective brother. If I had a sister, I wouldn't want her going for Roy either based on his track record. This is really the second time I have seen this movie though. I forgot all about it, what was going on, if it was good. Well it is good, not as g

345: Shanghai Noon

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"Uno mas?" I know I have said this about a lot of movies before now, but if you seriously haven't seen this movie...you must see it. It's Western meets Eastern in an action packed comedy. You get a bathtub drinking game, a bar brawl, a silly horse and two men who are complete opposites but somehow work well together. The only reason why I know, "Uno mas?" is because of this movie. Sure, I would have learned it eventually in life, but this was my first introduction to it and the meaning. My favorite movie with Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson, but sadly not my favorite with Lucy Lui. She is just like Jackie Chan in martial arts and they really didn't utilize her. Yeah, I get it. She's the princess. She is just so much more! Proves that with wanting to stay and help her people who have been put into slavery in a new country. Also, can I just say that Jackie rocks the long hair? I mean when it is loose and cut. He rocks any length really, but the wes

344: Shallow Hal

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"Shallow Hal wants a gal." I freaking love this movie. It is hilarious and the first time you see Gwen in a comedy! When you watch the behind the scenes and she mentions how she didn't want to differentiate between the outer Rosemary and the inner Rosemary. Shallow Hal spotlights how as humans we are all shallow in some way and we also need to stop being so hard on ourselves. See ourselves and others like Hal does when he sees Rosemary. It hits on some good topics, especially the..."You have a great personality, but..." I think everyone has been told that. Those people who put us in the friend-zone because we have a good personality but don't look like they want. Well, you put them into the friend-zone too. They don't deserve your awesome personality and the amazing package it comes in, they are just simply not the one for you to chase. Even though this movie flips perspective on its head, it has a great love story, great humor and just never ge

343: Series of Unfortunate Events

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It has been some time since I have seen this. I have really only one thing to say after watching the Netflix original series...the Netflix series is WAYYYYY better. I'm sorry Jim Carrey, but they really nailed it on the head with how it was executed and actually doing the rest of the books. The movie is too rushed in how they are cramming three books into one film, going out of order. Not cool. It is funny, however, that his neighbor Justice winds up in the Netflix series as the evil optometrist. I mean the movie is pretty good and there are similarities. They got the feel pretty much exactly the same in the darkness, the kind of illustration like scenery. It does bother me that the person who handles their affairs doesn't cough a lot like he does in the books/show. I could nitpick this all day when compared to the books and the show, so that is why even though it is good...it is just not the Netflix show good. It is going into the giveaway pile. Tori M.

342: Scorpion King

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Yet another movie I have seen way too many times. When this first came out I was addicted and for good reason. A prequel to who the Scorpion King was, with a better version of the Rock than in Mummy Returns. Like the quote on the picture, it is pretty action packed and I want to jump right into this movie. This is definitely in my top 10 favorite movies and I don't care what anyone else says about it. And before you ask, no I have not seen the following movies. Why? No Dwayne Johnson! Also I have a hard time believing it is any better than the original. You can't replace him and you sure can't replace Michael Clark Duncan. Rest in peace. Tori M.

341: Scooby Doo

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The live action of Scooby-Doo is just awesome. I know that the special FX could be better if done today, but I wouldn't change this movie or have it any other way. The casting is perfect, especially with respects to Shaggy. He plays the surfer hippy dude too well and looks the part. I have seen this so many times, I can quote it and remember that fart scene? Yeah, still hilarious. 😆 I recently found my paperback movie book. Remember when they used to come out with those in the early 2000? I have that one and Freaky Friday apparently, I would flip through those books and look at the pictures all the time. I also have the soundtrack to both and know the songs by heart from this. After all this time, I still love this movie and can't believe I don't have the sequel! Scooby-Doo forever! Tori M.

340: Saving Mr. Banks

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Okay, so this is my 4th time seeing this movie. DON'T google this lady and what she was like, if you don't want to absolutely loathe her in this movie and think just how she doesn't deserve the happy redeeming ending they gave her personality...then you will be fine. Ha, ha. I mean, wow. For someone to write some amazing stuff, go and travel to other places to learn about the culture and mythology of the places, only for her to have a major stick up the ass and other things I won't mention with her family. I mean yeah it probably wasn't nice of Walt Disney to constantly go after her and pressure her to give him the rights, to make her come around to animation when she really didn't want it and the singing and dancing. Then again, Mary Poppins is a classic and beloved by everyone from that movie. I never read the books, so I wouldn't know just what they were like exactly. I understand both points of view in the movie, especially if you have seen the fi

339: Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

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The last and final movie in the film series. If I had to say one thing, I like the other two movies better. Don't get me wrong, I love Martin Short. He is HILARIOUS! But there is so much stress and drama in this with his plan to uproot Santa's family, wanting to become Santa, a baby is on the way, Santa is trying to get Christmas ready, be a new dad and please his in laws with a mix of his own family and friends. It is a roller coaster ride. I do still like it and plan on keeping it, I just wasn't all that into it when I was watching it being sick and everything I mentioned. Tori M.

338: Santa Clause 2

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Yes, we have the sequel! Honestly this one is just as good as the first one, but now Santa needs a Mrs. Claus. The other 'Clause'. ;) ;) I wish I had more to say other than I love the concept of his son being older--played by the same kid--getting into trouble and his dad is Santa. Then you also get other figures, like Mother Nature, Father Time, Cupid, Easter Bunny, Sandman and the Tooth Fairy. It has a very real life Rise of the Guardians feel to it, and this was made way before that. Oh and falling in love with his son's principal, who just needs to find the joy in life after being strict. I was pretty in and out of mind at the time watching this this movie, so this is a pretty short post. Apologies! Tori M.

337: Santa Clause

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Okay so took a break from watching movies, I didn't catch up in that time period. Still feel sick and basically binge-watched The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on Netflix. So, here I am trying to catch up while the movie I am currently on is paused. I have always liked this movie and I believed in Santa for the longest time. I think I was in Junior High when I stopped. Why so long you ask? Well I had an insane imagination and I also thought I had proof when I was younger. Waking up and seeing the small bites in the cookies and half the milk gone, going outside and seeing tracks on our roof and then going back to bed and all the milk was gone in the morning. Little did we know we were close to catching my parents when that happened back in Elementary school, but I still can't explain the prints on the roof. My parents had nothing to do with that. So I mean, in some way, the spirit of Christmas still rides within me. It would be amazing if it were all real, but part of me

336: Sandlot

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A classic! Legends never die! Yet another movie I have grown up on involving baseball. I would rather play sports than watch them, but I was never really good at baseball like Smalls was. I could throw, but I couldn't hit a ball to save my life. I'm more of a basketball person. I know my strengths. Anyways, when I was younger and saw this I wanted to be just like those guys. I wanted to have a place to go to just play some ball with some friends. Well, in Elementary school I did have a group of guys that I hung out with and played soccer, tag and basketball with. I was such a tomboy. I realized while watching this again that the reason why I love this movie and Rookie of the Year, is because it is a movie about baseball that involves kids and tons of humor. I'm sorry folks, I need humor. Who doesn't quote all the time, "For-ev-ER," and, "You're killin' me Smalls,"? If you don't and you have never heard these phrases, or you have

335: Saintly Switch

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Okay, if you haven't seen this gem of Disney's, then you need to. It is hilarious! I remember going to Blockbuster, seeing this VHS on the shelf and always asking to rent it. I believe I rented it every chance I got when we would go there. The cover was so memorable and pulled you in. It's a lot like Freaky Friday, just instead of a mother and daughter, you are switching around a husband and wife. What I love most about this is not just the humor, but the love that they gain back for each other when they live each other's lives. Without communication, they had no idea what each other REALLY did beyond throwing around a ball, painting daisies, going to parties, and taking care of the kids. On top of their situation, they are expecting in 7 months! That is 7 months of being in a body that isn't your own, to learn heaps of lessons to fix their relationship and their family. Tori M.

334: Sahara

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I am so behind again!!!! Ugh! I have to say I am half tempted to just post the posters without typing about them, just because I am that far behind. I mean...I am 10 movies behind! I better crank it out. *cracks knuckles* Sahara, a movie that I have now seen twice but have always remembered one scene from it in particular. The moment when she is in the well and has to loosen the rope from around her so as not to get caught from the people looking for her and her group. Now I had no idea that this was originally a book and now I want to read it. It is kind of Indiana Jones meets National Treasure. Although, I do like it, I have to say it isn't something amazing that I would go out of my way to watch all the time. I would watch it again, but I'd have to remember that we own it when I am in the mood for adventure/action/humor stuff. Sad, but true for me. Tori M.

333: Sabrina

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First time seeing this movie and my mom has always owned this when I was growing up. VHS. Now DVD. I actually really liked it. Also when I was looking up the image for the poster for this post, I had no idea it was originally an Audrey Hepburn movie and it makes sense. It had a very Audrey Hepburn feel to it and the lead female role. It was pretty cute and I think I might wind up borrowing this movie from my mom after this. I'm not used to seeing Harrison Ford in a romance, he is still his business like self, but for once he isn't naturally charming. In fact he is more awkward and uncomfortable. It is pretty sad at the end when David realizes that he missed out on an amazing woman his whole life and didn't even know it until she went to Paris and changed her hair and clothes. She grew up. Although I do love that she wound up with Linus who has never been in love, all he knows is work and taking care of his brother's frivolity because he didn't have the obliga

332: Rush Hour 2

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Now I know what you are all thinking. Where is the first one? Well we never got the first one on DVD, we had it on VHS for the longest time and then just made a list of all of our VHS movies that we needed to get on DVD and then got rid of them. I don't really remember the first one to be honest and I remember we have always liked the second one better. One of those rare times when the sequel is better than the original. It has also been a LONG time since I have seen this. I wanna say maybe when I was in 6th grade many years ago. I wish that when we watched it that I was in the mood or head space for it, but I wasn't. I was a big miserable balloon yesterday being sick. I didn't even feel like I was in my body I was that miserable and cloudy. I couldn't even think. I wish I had more to say about this, other than I will always associate Chris Tucker with singing Michael Jackson and knowing how to dance like him to a perfect T. I thoroughly enjoy watching any movie t

331: Rookie of the Year

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Another classic. Why haven't you seen this? I am talking to those who are reading this and haven't. Those who are older than me or my age--25. I am even not a baseball fan, but I grew up on this movie. "Pitcher's got a big butt!" "Give him the BIG! STINKY! CHEESE!" Wouldn't it be cool if you were into something, really into something and something happened to you that allowed you to do it? Like for instance when Henry fell on his arm and broke his arm, having it heal where the tendon fused with his humerus tightly so then he could pitch fast and play for the Cubs. It's kind of like the baseball version of Like Mike. This just came out first and rather than shoes, it was an injury. I don't know what it is about kids being able to do professional sports or jobs that makes it so entertaining and funny in movies, but it is. It shows you that your dreams can come true. Just don't go out looking to hurt yourself in order to do it. Henr

330: Rocketman

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I have run into people who have not seen this, people who are older than me or my age...How?! How can you not have seen this? Him singing that he he's got the whole world in his hands, mentioning that the world is a giant blueberry, all those NASA trials he went through. That poor other guy who nearly went crazy in isolation because of him and joined the guy they were going to replace with multiple injuries. The one scene I have always remembered when I think of this movie is when they are finally in space, travelling and he has to make the dinner tubes. The monkey changes them around and they wind up getting toothpaste, hemorrhoid cream and a laxative. Or even when he is awake for 8 months in space, because the monkey stole his full size sleeping chamber. *shakes head* Go and watch this if you haven't seen it! Highly recommend. Such a classic. Tori M.

329: Robin Hood Men in Tights

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I grew up on this. Whenever my cousins would come over to stay with my grandma next door, we would have sleepovers and we would watch this movie. We would also watch Hook and the original real action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but this one we watched so much that we memorized it. Every time someone nearby says, "I'm so happy," we have to turn around and say it just like Maid Marian. There are so many great lines, I would have to post the entire script on this to show just how great. The songs are catchy and hilarious, the many movie references they are making and making fun of are endless and fantastic, and the historical inaccuracies are purposeful and genius. Honestly, I think I have seen this movie 100 times. It is a lot. This will never get old. :) Tori M.

328: Rise of the Guardians

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I am behind again. Still sick, but I think I am finally on the mend. Been doing some steam with essential oils added to my ways of getting better, seems to be helping. Anyways, I love this movie. It is super cute and funny, it has to be one of my favorite Dreamworks movies--even though I do love Shrek, this one just tops it somehow. The concept of all the holiday holders, the things that we are told when we lose teeth, when we go to bed, when it gets cold, when it gets dark...just all of them being real and working to protect us and give us joy and something good in our lives. Makes it seem so simple with all the bad in the world and you want to believe in them so they can make it better. What is your center? That is another topic that is brought up in this movie. What makes you, you? Find that and you can change the world, make your life the way you want it. Don't be afraid to believe in the impossible or the make believe. Tori M.

327: Riddick

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Back to basics. To the animal side. The Furian side. Let's be honest here, the dog stole the show. We all want Riddick's dog, that one, not his brother or his sister, that dog. Now that that is cleared up, I do like that they went back to the rated R that this movie is and deserves. Yeah I do love the Chronicles of Riddick movie, a lot and it is my favorite, but there is something lacking. With this you also get the whole survival of the fittest, lone wolf, in the middle of nowhere man trying to find his home and who he is again. It also wouldn't be Riddick without throwing it back to the Pitch Black days. Aliens that come out in the cover of darkness or in this case, rain. Then you also get the father of the man who was being a douchebag in Pitch Black. You know, the one that wanted to kill the girl to save his own skin? Yeah that one. Glad to know that his father is a better man than he was, but kind of sad to watch him find out the horrible thing about his son.

326: Resident Evil 2 - Apocalypse

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The apocalypse is here! Now we get to the real down and dirty, the virus has spread to society and Alice finds out she has it within her. Another Umbrella corporation experiment. I did cosplay as Alice at Salt Lake Comic Con a few years back, but it wasn't from this movie. It was from the 3rd, which I don't have. I love these movies so much, even though I do agree that the final one could have been better...not as great as it was hyped up to be, still like it. I just haven't gotten around to gathering them all yet in my movie collection. My favorite part has to be this scene pictured above. Her entrance on the motorcycle, taking down those mutated creatures and showing up all the town folk with her awesomeness. Sorry Jill Valentine, but Alice has you beat just ever so slightly. I mean she does have the T Virus now that enhances her capabilities as a fighter. I do love that Olivera is played by Oded Fehr. I LOVE HIM!!!! In case you don't remember, he was from The

325: Resident Evil

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I know what most of you are going to say and you know what? I like this movie. I don't care what all the naysayers say. I never played the game and I never will. Why? Zombies. I don't do well with Zombies, I have had an irrational fear of them for as long as I can remember. I would watched my brother play Resident Evil 4 and just about die. I am a little better now, I love this movie series and Walking Dead. I still hold to that if a zombie apocalypse ever happens for real, I am not going to hunker down and hole out. Nope. I'm going out immediately before I can even witness it and possibly get bitten and turned. I'm completely okay with that decision. I wish I was as bad ass as Alice though, then I would maybe think about surviving the apocalypse. Focusing on this movie... The one thing that shook me the most when I first saw this, it was on television and I was bored, was the laser room that she is standing in in this photo. Being cut to pieces and then don

324: Red Riding Hood

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So I actually dressed up as Valerie from this movie about 4 years or 5 back when I went to Salt Lake Comic Con. I had only one person take my picture, they were the only one who knew what I was from. I had gotten every detail I could from this to do a really cool Cosplay. That is me! I could only find this one picture from it from head to toe and it happens to be when Utah was first promoting the new Evermore Park that just opened September 29th this year. The movie! I actually really like this movie, it is a new take on Red Riding Hood and a little more dark with how the village is set up and the party they have after they think they killed the wolf plaguing their town. They not only include the story of Red, but of Peter from Peter the Wolf. It is interesting that he isn't the wolf like they think and really it is Valerie's father that is and has been for generations. I really don't have anything bad to say about Henry who she is due to wed, but I really do

323: RED

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Retired. Extremely Dangerous. I can't tell you how funny this is or how awesome this is. I can tell you that if you didn't love Helen Mirren before, you will love her now. She is a badass! You also get a softer side to Bruce Willis in an action movie. Calling a woman about a check only to talk to her and find out what romance action novel she is reading and then reads it! He really picked a winner, being able to think on her feet and calmly taking being tied up and gagged well at the beginning. I mean for her to find out that those novels she reads can be reality, maybe not the overdone romance, but to go on an adventure herself sort of along the same lines. She even says herself, "This is just like Love's Savage Secret." It does bring up a very good point with the old agents. I can't imagine having to reintegrate back into society after all that you have witnessed, killing, missions, not trusting anyone, always on the move, saving or changing the world

322: Ratatouille

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I work in a restaurant, it has taken me a long time to get here and find out to work at a place that I have always viewed as a hobby or passion at home. Watching this movie, it makes you want to cook. The food looks amazing and to find they worked with an actual Chef, who is considered the best Chef in the United States...that is pretty awesome. The message of this starts out with, "Anyone Can Cook", it is very true. Anyone can. Most think they can't and wind up going on Worst Cook's in America to improve and look at them. They learn to cook. You really just need someone to help you, whether in person or through media we have today and you won't believe how easy it is to follow a recipe. Though Linguini can't cook, he doesn't know what he is doing without Remy, he still finds that he loves where he works. He found out where he belongs, even if it is just waiting tables and running the restaurant and letting Collette and Remy do the rest. This is sup

321: Raise Your Voice

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My voice is back! It came back 2 days ago when we watched this. I have been really stuffed up in my face, so I haven't been writing my blog. So, I need to catch up! Anyways, I love this movie. I have always loved this and this movie is the reason I found Three Days Grace. That was when Adam Gontier was with them mind you. I don't listen to them anymore now that he is gone. I'm sorry, it just isn't the same. I think the only song I have with the new singer is, "I Am Machine." Now I did almost cry watching the end of this movie, with her singing her song about her brother. It made me think about my grandma a little. I mean the last time I saw this movie was a few years back and it was with her and my mom. She loved it. For those who have lost someone close to you in an accident because of someone running a red light, a drunk driver or someone texting on their phone, don't EVER think it is your fault. It isn't. Life will seem to stop for you and I

320: Race to Witch Mountain

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This is my mom's and what is so funny that it is hers is that she doesn't believe in aliens or UFO's. I mean I don't know if really do, I do believe beyond a doubt that we are not the only intelligent beings in the entire universe. I mean come on, the universe too vast and seemingly endless. We have only scratched the surface. Now what is interesting is that Sarah and Seth are humanoid, but have access to most of their brain. Kind of like the movie Lucy, they begin to exhibit physical powers to bend space, time and matter. Then of course you get the government who just wants to dissect everything, whether it is right or wrong, rather than just simply ask like Jack and Alex do. *rolls eyes* I usually don't like alien movies though, just doesn't interest me. If I do watch alien movies, it is usually like Star Trek, Star Wars, Alien, Predator, etc. You catch my drift. I didn't really care for Super 8 or Cowboys and Aliens. That is just my personal opinio

319: Quest for Camelot

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"Precisely," said just like the Griffin. I love that line so much and then there are so many references to other movies and pop culture, mainly said from the dragons alone. Oh and the Chicken/Axe minion. Now I never owned this movie growing up, but had friends that did and was kind of jealous that they had it. I loved this movie, this and Fern Gully. Same time frame and owned by the same friend. Or I would catch it on television, as for what channel I couldn't tell you. It was that long ago. I finally have come to own it and still cringe at the villain's song. It is just sung so horribly, definitely the worst song in the entire movie. My mom did laugh and she realized late in the movie just who all was voicing the characters. She knew a lot. She did ask if we had this when I was little, because I loved cheezy animation movies, but sadly she discovered we didn't. It's okay mom, you raised me on other stuff while I got these on the sidelines. I do have

318: Pyramid

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Okay, so I remember the first time I saw this movie. I rented it when I was home alone, I had some dinner and a glass of wine and I jumped when the cat ran across the screen of Shorty at the beginning in the tomb. I spilled my wine on my blanket and then laughed it off because I should've known it was coming. This movie, you watch it and know that there is some kind of jump scare that is going to happen or something is not entirely safe. It is as much a labyrinth as the pyramid they are in. I actually really like this and own it on my Xbox. It is different and then you get Anubis in it. I have to say that it was cool, but they really could have done better justice to him. I looked over at my statue of him and my statue was way cooler than the SFX. :( I'm sorry Anubis. I do like that you have a mystery of what is after them the entire time they are down there. It isn't until you get further into the pyramid and they run into the hieroglyphics telling the story of Osir

317: Push

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The science is there, the actual history is there, now the fiction is where it takes a turn and we get Push. Wouldn't it be cool to be able to move things? I mean there are other skills in this movie, but frankly I would like to be able to move things or maybe even do what Kira can. I don't know, at the same time I would be conflicted with taking people's will away from them. Oh! Oh! I know...shifter. That would be a good power to have. I actually really like this movie, it is in a different setting than you would see this type of movie, say along the lines of Jumper. It feels like that, where it could easily be believed to be real with how they build it up and explain the origins of the powers. In the end I wish I knew more, they left it on a cliffhanger with the hopes of a sequel. Well, I'm not sure we are getting that folks. We still don't know how they are going to take down the rest of Division and to save all the other people and her mom. So much untold

316: Public Enemies

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Wanna know a cool factoid about my family? So, Baby Face Nelson--who is in this movie--took my mom's great grandma...maybe great great grandma, I can't remember how many greats, it might be one, hostage. While they were driving away, they were driving for some time until they finally let her go because she wouldn't stop telling them to slow down and being a backseat driver. Now that that is out of the way, this movie is actually pretty cool. You actually kind of feel for Johnny Dillinger in the movie and see things from his point of view. Then you also get to see just how bad things were back then with the law enforcement under Hoover. Someone who didn't care about getting dirty and rough in order to get the bad guy. I can see why Melvin quit and to see his discomfort as the movie went along with what had to be done. I do love watching stuff from this time, I honestly love all the cars, the outfits and the music. I can't even begin to imagine though how it wa

315: P.S. I Love You

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Talk about heart-wrenching and beautiful. You really go on that rollercoaster ride of losing your other half with Holly and finding out who she is. Holly always has a plan, always looks nice and proper and married an Irish caution to the wind hunk. To have someone love you so much, to help you get through their death after they are gone...I see her mother's point though, in how it might make it harder for her to let go with all the letters. But, would she have ever gotten over him if he hadn't done it? I mean look at what they walked in on the day of her birthday and that was after 3 weeks. He not only helped her find something she is passionate about and make a living out of it, help her get out of her world and bubble and to live a little more without always having a plan. Can I also say how amazing Ireland looks? I have wanted to go there for the longest time and then this movie came out and made me want to go to that national park she was lost in. The rolling green h

314: Proposal

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Let's see, how many times have I seen this movie? Well, when I can quote it while watching it, or on the fly and still laugh at all the stuff, that many times. No matter how many times you watch this movie, it never gets old. It is hilarious and a good story. Not only do you have Sandra in this, but you have Ryan and Betty White! You can't beat that kind of humor that produces. Also in a different place than you normally see rom-com's, we go to Alaska. Now I know that they shot in a different place for the film, but it still looks beautiful and I know that Alaska is really beautiful with the lakes, the forests, the towns...this makes me want to go there. I feel so bad for Margaret when she gets constantly hit on and given a lap dance by Ramone. "Coconut body lotion." Though whenever I hear that song, "Relax" that he dances to, I can't help but remember that scene. It ruined me for that song. Ha, ha. I do love that this movie goes to show that

313: Princess Diaries 2 - Royal Engagement

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My voice is gone and I am sick thanks to my mom. I mean I guess the movie goal helps, but at the same time not really when you feel like crap. Anyways, the sequel to the first and we actually are in Genovia. I would love to go and visit Mia, go through the gardens and the many halls. It looks amazing and then of course you get Chris Pine and that just makes it all the more a fairy tale dream. It's great that in the movie she finds out more about herself and as a soon to be ruler. She is more sure of herself, but still that hilariously clumsy person we all know and love. The whole movie you are rooting for Mia and Nicholas, then you are also rooting for her to have it work with the Duke. In the end I am glad that she points out to the parliament that they most likely wouldn't make their own female family members do what they were making her do, and to jump forward into a modern age where a woman can rule a country. Just look at Queen Elizabeth. I would love to see a thi