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A list of movies that I’ve watched this year in no particular order…

Edit: I forgot about Made Of Honour!
As much of a fan of Patrick Dempsey as I am, I would be lying through my teeth if I said this was good. Sure, he’s really yummy eye candy but geez…the show was pretty sad, yes? A poor man’s version of My Best Friend’s Wedding (and even the eye candy couldn’t match up to the perfect comedic timing of George, played by suave Rupert Everett). And me no likey Michelle Monaghan either.

The Dark Knight
Nice, but I really don’t think it’s as great as (almost) everyone claims. Great story line, loved the Joker, hated Batman’s fake gravelly voice, hated Rachel Dawes/Maggie Gyllenhaal (she looks so old), wonder if the bombs in the ferry were really wired to blow up the other ferry or the same ferry the people who made the decision were on…hmmm…that would’ve been an interesting twist. Out of all of Christopher Nolan’s films, The Prestige remains my firm favourite.

X-Files: I Want To Believe
Oh my god, just rename it to X-Files: The Mulder & Scully love story. It was a total waste of 2 hours. Sucked big time. For something more interesting, go download these radio episodes (we were faithful listeners when we were in UK): The X-Fools…it’s a whole lot more entertaining!

27 Dresses
Two people I find highly overrated and overhyped (two because that’s all I can think of at the moment) - Ribena Rihanna….and Katherine Heigl. Never liked her in GA, didn’t like her here either.

The Other Boleyn Girl
The book was way better. Natalie Portman, as much as I like her, did not do justice to Anne Boleyn’s character at all. For a much better potrayal, watch Natalie Dormer in The Tudors. And wasn’t King Henry VIII supposed to be blond?

Iron Man
One of my favourites this year. Robert Downey Jr/Tony Stark is the man all girls want to be with and all guys want to be. So hawt!

The Incredible Hulk
Another favourite. Edward Norton as Dr. Bruce Banner/the Hulk really made me feel for the character. And I love love love the ending.

Hancock
Interesting, but not great. Will Smith and his pursed pouting lips didn’t do it for me. Quite an unexpected twist in the middle of the show though!

21
Boring.

Wanted
Angelina Jolie in her usual hot sexy bad girl role…yawn. But that car chase scene, and James McAvoy? Phwoaaarr! That show made me wanna learn to curve a bullet (although hubby commented he doubts I can even shoot straight in the first place).

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Yawn.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indy is back! Yay! But Mutt is irritating, and did they accidentally wander on to the X-Files set at the end?!? Totally spoilt the story, sigh.

The Happening
OMG, this was one of the worst shows ever that I’ve watched this year. M. Night Shyamalan is, imho, a one hit wonder. It was downhill all the way after The Sixth Sense. And Mark Wahlberg has just proven, in this show, that he can’t act. He’s more wooden than a tree.

Two shows that I’m eagerly awaiting:
Australia & Time Traveler’s Wife. Baz Luhrmann & Nicole Kidman & Hugh Jackman - sounds like a movie marriage made in heaven. And Time Traveler’s Wife is a film adaptation of one of my favourite books of all time. I have my reservations about Eric Bana playing Henry DeTamble, mainly because I haven’t seen Eric Bana in any really good movies. Really have my fingers and toes crossed that they don’t screw this one up (ala PS I Love You gag gag and The Other Boleyn Girl).

Even though my website is still in a mess (categories, my categories are all gone!), I just HAVE to get this off my chest.

Out of sheer boredom and desperation, I finally caved in and watched PS I Love You last night. I’d originally refused to watch it because I think Hilary Swank is nowhere close to how I picture Holly Kennedy to be, and well, ever since Boys Don’t Cry and Million Dollar Baby, I’ve always thought of her as a man.

Anyhoo, I watched it…and obviously, from this post’s title, totally hated it. Why?

The story was changed so much it’s like it’s taken from an entirely new book! It’s set in New York. Holly’s brothers were dropped from the story. Holly’s father became a man who abandoned his wife and kids. Ciara looks ridiculous. Their holiday to Spain became a holiday to Ireland. Holly becomes a shoe designer. The letters are delivered in ridiculous ways, including…from a singing leprechaun! Her mom owns a pub, and Daniel works in that pub. And what’s with that ridiculous singing scene in Holly’s apartment? And who came up with this William character?!? It’s like everything that they could change from the book, they did! They should’ve just called it Oh we lost the book so we’ll make up the story as we go along. PS, I love you. And let’s not get me started on Hilary Swank and her wide-toothed, annoying smile…my goodness, she and Ben Affleck have that same cheesy, irritating Captain America smile. I wonder what would their kids look like. But I digress.

The only thing I liked about the show were Holly’s cute outfits.

Granted, the book was not a Pulitzer prize winner, but it sure was a hell lot better than the movie. It just irritates me when they make a movie out of a good book and spoil everything in the process. Let’s just hope The Time Traveler’s Wife fares much better than this one.

Premieres 24 September 2007 - one more month to go!

Yataaaaaaa!

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Kiss me out of the bearded barley
Nightly, beside the green, green grass
Swing, swing, swing the spinning step
You wear those shoes and I will wear that dress

Everytime I hear that song by Sixpence None The Richer, I immediately think of the 1999 movie, She’s All That, starring Freddie Prinze Junior (who appeared in practically every teen flick at that time!), Rachel Leigh Cook, Usher, Lil’ Kim, Anna Paquin, Kieran Culkin, Paul Walker and even a cameo by Sarah Michelle Geller.

My two favourite scenes is the part where Laney walks down the stairs after her transformation from a geek to a babe with ‘Kiss Me’ playing in the background, and the catchy dance sequence to Fat Boy Slim’s Rockafella Skank!

While searching through YouTube, I came across this video made by a teacher at Lowell High School, where the seniors actually practiced and danced the same sequence at their prom…how fun! The prom video was too dark to be seen properly, but they also made an instructional video of the dance…so if you want to relive those good ol’ days and learn the dance sequence…click play!

Now, excuse me while I go oil my creaking bones…

I’ve always been fascinated with the life and times of King Henry VIII and his 6 wives (divorced, beheaded, died; divorced beheaded survived!), so imagine my delight when I read on the paper today that there was a new series called The Tudors, where sexy Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays King Henry VIII!

Now, off to Amazon to see if there’s a DVD set available!