plotting

I have been plotting and figured I should update this as when I am done plotting, this will be another way to get the word out that I am done plotting and have finished what I began plotting awhile ago.

In other news, I've seen a lot of movies recently. Here are the movies in ten sentences or less:

Knowing: Nicholas Cage acting sort of creepy. Would have been a good movie, except for how it ended. It was a cop out ending, lame to no end. The whole thing with the little girl, the numbers and the current kids hearing whispering would have made much more sense, and made you care more, if there was not such a cop out of an ending. It ended and I was like, "Hey, wait a minute..."

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past: I hate Matthew McConaughey. He actually annoys me to no end and I cannot think of a single movies I like that he is in. However, I do adore Jennifer Gardner, so I went to see this. For what it was, it was a very good movie. Interesting to see the lead guy go from total sleeze, to confused sleeze, to oh my god I love the same girl but I'm scared shitless to the point I'm lame. I did enjoy how all the "ghosts" came to him and were either past girlfriends or his current assistant. And the hall of girlfriends past was actually sort of creepy.

Star Trek: OMG! This was like the best movie I've seen in awhile. It had everything one would want out of this sort of movie. My husband enjoyed all the explosions and I enjoyed the whole time travel aspect. I am not really into science (nor do I understand it for the most part) so all the "wrong science" in the movie did not bother me. I've always liked time travel things, where characters are in a "different" time line, so I thought it was cool. It was also well acted. I never really watched the orginal series, so for the most part, until Spock showed up, I had no idea how the time line was different. I figured that it had changed in the first minute, but I didn't know for sure.

Night at the Musuem: Smithsonian: Funny movie. Cute funny movie. Ben Stiller did not totally annoy me to no end, the Hank Azaria did. Was he trying to sound like a gay British man on purpose? I also got highly annoyed by Amy Adam's character, Amelia Earheart. Could they carm any more twenties cutie lingo into her? Other than that, it was a cute movie.

Angels & Demons: It had been forever since I've actually read the book, but I don't think the book ended as the movie ended. Actually, I am sure it did not end as the movie ended. For one, Victtoria had a bigger role in the book than she did in the movie. Two, I'm pretty sure the priest did not die. But besides that, I thought the movie was beautiful. The way the Chruch was protrayed and shown actually caused me to see them not as a demon, which is how the chruch is sometimes betrayed in these type of situation. It was well wroth the two hours and two bucks I paid to see it.

Shopaholic: I adore this book. I adore the author of the book. The movie left me feeling luke warm due to all the changes they made. First, they seemed to have cramed at least three books together, randomly picking and choosing from the books. Second, the movie takes place in New York City as opposed to London. That pissed me off from the start. Also, I felt sort of strange as the movie seemed to just take the character of Becky Bloomwood, cram her shopping addiction in along with a few minor plot points from various books, and create a new story line and basically new story. Sort of like Gossip Girl the TV show.

Movies I saw on DVD in less than ten sentaces:

In Burges: My husband and I got this movie because he likes explosions and I was in a mood for a funny, non thinking sort of movie after spending the day watching over 8th graders for 8 hours. This movie had no explosions and required a lot of thinking. (I was really in the mood to see a movie like Star Trek when I saw In Burges.) I was rather confused and unfulled by the time the movie ended. Does the main character live? What the hell is going on? In the end, neither of us felt we had a clue what was going on, nor did we really care.

Doubt: A movie D invited us over to watch on his huge TV. The huge TV distracted me for the most part, but in the end I was not sure what the movie was supposed to do to me...make me doubt? I figured I would have understood more of the movie if I had been Catholic, as a lot of the things going on made little or no sense to me. In the end, I doubted if the movie was any good. The only thing that came out of it was now my husband randomly proclaims, "I have doubts, Ireland. I have doubts." I never had any idea what he is talking about.

No Country for Old Men: I have no idea what this movie was about. Drugs? Texas? Dirty men? This might be due to the fact I did not actually watch the whole movie because I had the flu and thought I was going to die, but my husband did not undrestand it either and he watched it all. His only comment was, "I have to watch that again."

The Departed: Another movie that left me feeling sort of unfilled. I hate movies where everyone is either dead or dying or you have no idea if they live happily ever after. Okay, I admit, I like movies that end with happily ever after. I don't mind the violence, but I hate trying to figure out who is the bad guy, who is the good guy, who is confused on to which side they are on. I did miss the middle of the movie because my husband did something that pissed me off, but I saw the start and end and have no clue how we got from point a to point b. I guess I needed the middle of the movie?

an entertaining reprieve

I finally went to see Twilight last night with two others, one of which had all ready seen it. The one who had seen it said that she liked it better the second time, the other said she wasn't disappointed because she knew she wouldn't like it. It seems she was like I and knew it was bad but just had to look.

However comma, I liked it. I mean, maybe I liked it because of all I had read on it? Maybe because I had read the movie in 15 minute by Cleolinda? Maybe because I hated certain parts of the book so badly that I was thrilled that they were MIA from the movie? I am not sure, but here is what I really enjoyed:

1. There was some Bella narrating, but I did not have to listen to 300 pages of how gorgeous, beautiful, lovely, stunning, dazzling, etc Edward was. I think I only remember her saying it once, and that was to his face.

2. PLOT SHOWED UP EARLY! Yeah, you know, the plot with those three EVIL vampires? Yeah, they showed up early! They had a back story! Oh, how exciting!

3. Edward...oh, he was actually wonderfully played by Robert Pattinson. (Or whatever his name is...). The way he was played was wonderful, the way Edward should be played. And in all honesty, seeing I hate Bella in the books, I had no probelm with Kristen Stewarts performance. She played Bella how I figured Bella would behave. Bella is sort of a stone, lacks much personality, and has nice hair. She brooeded well and played the sappy parts quite well. I heard from one of the girls that the other movie she had been in, she played that character the same way she played Bella. Oh well. So, she can't act? Nor can Bella.

4. The music was brilliant. Seriously, the music they put with each secne was perfect. I got goosebumps and the jumping insides all at the right moments.

5. I felt that the "relationship" and falling in love with Edward was a little more "developed" in the movie than the book. That was my major probelm with the book. WHAM BAM I LOVE YOU! In the movie it was more, Uh, why do you hate me? I don't hate you. Yes you do. I should hate you, I want to eat you. You're strange. We should be friends. Okay. Whatever. But I want to. Yeah, me too. Oh, you saved me. Okay, I'll take you home now. Wow you're strong and fast! I'm a killer, but look great in my James Dean outfit. Hey, let's hang out more, do you want to go to the beach? Uh, no...don't do that beach. Okay, I'll find out why. That's nice, have fun and don't die! Hey, its that Native American kid I met when I got here, let's get him to tell me something of value! Oh, what are you doing, Bella? Nothing, but I'll go to the bookstore and almost get attack by some bad, drunk boys. But I will save you in my hatchback volvo! YAY! I know, I am protecive of you. That is nice. Yeah, I hear people's thoughts, but not yours. Am I strange? No. I am. Okay. I thinkI love you. That is nice. I will read this book and surf the internet for answers. I love you, so I will follow you to the forest after you give me that evil look. I know what you are. SAY IT! Vampire bicha! Yeah, you got me, I sparkle. I love you. Okay, yeah, I love you too. Let's hang out and talk a lot and have nice sence of forsts and trees! Sounds good to me.

6. See, that was like half the movie!

7. Roselia had a bootie. That bothered me. Jasper's hair also bothered me, as did Carlise. What is with the blonde?!

8. Anyways, I enjoyed the movie for what it was. I was not expecting too much, maybe that was why I liked it?

Not Exactly Typical Chick Flick Type of Movie

There is a major element is missing from The Woman to make it the typical chick flick: cute boys. Seriously, I do not think we see a single male during The Women, till the end when one of the characters, Eddie (Debra Messing), pops out a baby boy.

The movie is what my husband calls the typical Lifetime movie, the male is painted as the reason for all the injustice in a female's life and is the "bad" guy throughout the movie. This is how many lifetime movies go, and this is how this movie is. We never see the males in this movie, but they are the constant topic of conversation throughout the whole thing. The movie starts off with a showing of high heels that are supposed to represent each character. After we get through this, we open up with Sylvie (Annette Benning) and her Hermes Birkin bag. Yeah, I lost track for a long, long, long, long time due to the fact she was toting around a Hermes Birkin bag. I lost track trying to pick out other things during the movie. However, the Birkin bag was the only purse I could pick out right off the bat. I didn't even need to see the Hermes logo on it to know what it was. Thus, I did not pay attention again, until the purse was gone. However, during this time I guess alot happened. Sylvie found out that the evil man in Mary's life (Meg Ryan with out of control hair!) was her husband and sleeping with the purfume spritzer girl downstairs at Saks. Also, we find out that Eddie has about A BILLION KIDS and is going to pop out another one at some point and that whatever Jada Pinket-Smith's character's name is, just happens to be a lesbian and currently going out (or dragging around) a super model who eats napkins. However, this all happens during the whole Hermes Purse Screen Time, thus I was staring at the purse and not paying attention.

Tragically, this purse went away and was never seen again. It was tragic, really. Anyways, the movie goes on, as Mary finds out on accident that her husband is cheating on her with the purfuem sales lady after her father fires her for having "lack of deisgn or something" from his fashion line. She has lunch with her mother (Candice Bergan) and her mother tells her to buck up and go to Maine and leave the dude for a few weeks on his own, he'll come running back. On the way to the air port, the "friend" all find out Mary all ready knows, and they all talk over one another about not being told.

Mary goes to Maine. Husband calls. Slyvie had issues with her publisher (boss) dude and how she is trying ot make her magazine something respectable that does not solely deal with super modles and clothes and sex and revenge. (she fails at all). Mary goes back home and goes to shop for underware at La Perla or something and runs into the hussy there, who is spending and ungodly amount of money on something that will live on the floor. They show off, and Mary walks off and announces she is getting a divorce.

And all hell breaks loose. Mary falls apart. Sylvie realizes she has to sell Mary out to keep her job (Mary is married to a banker who is famous?) Mary finds out that Sylvie did this, they stop talking. I get the feeling the other two ladies (Eddie and Jada Pinket Smith) have no real purpose other than to make noise at some point, as the movie seems to be just about Mary and Slyvie. Well, so Mary falls apart even more now and goes off to a yoga camp or something and does pot, which is not the actual point of the retreat, but she does pot and talks a lot. Sylvie tries to find Mary, but fails. However, Sylive finds Mary's 13 year old kids who is having major issues with the whole dirvoce thing, but no one seems to notice except Slyvie who says, "Call me. We'll talk."

While high on pot, Mary is told by some Hollywood agent who is there for unknown reasons, she needs to be selfish and figure out what SHE WANTS! SELF DISCOVERY TIME! WHOOO!

So, begin the photo montage and the transformation of Mary into a sexy ass older woman. She gets great clothes suddenly, straightens out her hair and decides to start her own fashion line, backed by her mother's trust fund or something. WHAM! MARY IS PUT BACK TOGETHER! And suddenly she notices her daughter is behaving oddly and burning tampons. Mary can't talk about that stuff with her kid, who announces she is going to call Sylvie because she can talk to Slyvie about that stuff. This, upsets Mary who runs off into New YOrk City and hunts Sylvie down.

Slyvie hunting leads to the realization that Sylvie has no job because she quit (she was becoming that sterotypical career woman and she could no longer stand it, so she will start her own magaizne because she used to be a high paid editor who never spent any money on Birkin bags). After fighting in the street (Slyvie throws a banana at Mary, yet the guy manning the cart doesn't seem to care), they start laughing and make up in that typical way that girls do when they are really friends. They start crying on some stairs and try to figure out how to move on. Mary says she missed Sylvie more than her husband and all is well in the world.

Mary's fashion show is a huge hit (it is all black, white and red....) and Saks wants a whole line and some coats for next spring. Mary panicks and we never get a straight answer out of her if she will do it or not. She wants a small line. Whatever. Eddie is going to pop out a baby in a room full of woman, so they have to get moving to the hosptial. Eddie ( who had a billion kids all ready) is very calm, while the other three all panic over and over and over. They reach the hospital, and more bonding enuses. Eddie pops out a boy and they all laugh, cry, and hug one another. The final scenes is they are all sitting on a roof top. Mary takes back her husband while Eddie pops out kid, Sylvie starts her own magainze about old woman, and Jada Pinket Smith publishes her book finally (she was a writer? Did I miss something? Was that established while the Birkin Bag was on the screen?) And I guess Eddie stops having babies because she and her husband (who she cheated on five years ago, but they got over it by having a billion babies!) said they'd stop once they had a boy and her husband has his male heir.

The end.
And only one Birkin Bag seen. Tragic. Also, I cannot seem to find a picture of said Birkin bag. *tear*

dreams, we all have draems

This morning, after my husband rolled out of bed at 5.30 am, I fell asleep and had a dream where I was making an white eyelet dress lined with light yellow and I was packing to leave a house that was to be oxidized. My husband failed to pack any of his clothes and I yelled at him. He did not seem to care that his clothes were to be oxidized with the house, but a bunch of people I knew from high school and college cared. I then got stuck in the trap door in the bed and had to be helped out by James Earl Jones and this old lady I used to work with.

I tell this story to illustrate how my mind works. I believe dreams your head bothers to remember are important for some reason, even if it seems there is no meaning behind it. My husband would not fully pack items before a move (I know this from experience) but I have no idea why a house must be oxidized, nor do I understand why James Earl Jones was in my dream. Other than he sort of went with the old house me, my husband, and all these random people were living in.

The dress is the real thing that sticks with me because I want a dress like that. I have a pattern, I just don't know to make a lined dress, let alone a dress. I am willing to try. Sewing is one of the skill I plan to hone in the dirt hole here. This is hindered though because there are no fabric stores save Walmart in the dirt hole. This is horridly tragic for a multitude of reasons. I am contemplating ordering some clothe off the internet, but am at a loss for what website to use. I think I might go to Walmart and see if they have any eyelet fabric and thin light yellow cotton. Who know? Walmart might surprise me?

The other day I saw Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 at the movie theater here for 2.50. I fell in love with Lena's clothes in that movie, sort of like I fell in love with the actress that plays her in Gilmore Girls. For almost two years I've aspired to have that girls hair cut. I finally gave up about five months ago. Just tossed the towel in and chopped it off. I now and contemplating trying to sew certain pieces similar to what Lena had in the movie. This might require a trip to a bigger civilization (or civilization in general) to get cloth, but I think I have the time to do this project.

The movie itself was good as well. I am not a HUGE fan of movies based on books that I like for a wide array of reasons. I think I screamed at the first three Harry Potter movies and I wasn't too thrilled with the first Sisterhood movie, as I thought the actress (even though I like her) for Lena was all wrong. Alexis Bledel does not look Greek, I am sorry. Though, I guess that is the point of Lena, she doesn't look Greek. I digress though, this movie I actually liked, even with all the analysis I was doing throughout the movie. It was actually a nice way of pulling the last three books into one movie. Some of the things done in the movie were pretty darn funny, though my favorite part was when Tibby fell off the donkey and then walked into the courtyard and announced "I just fell off a donkey (looks at the three other girls who stare at her) Are we having fun yet?" It was well worth the 2.50 I paid to see it.

During the previews, I finally saw the Twilight preview. Least to say, I'm not overly excited for it, but then you know my feelings about those books. I might be willing to put down 2.50 to see the movie, but I was not impressed with what I saw in the least. Maybe it will be a totally awesome stand alone movie? The tragic thing about the series is that is has potential. The story line has it, the characters have it...it just all falls down and goes boom in teen angst and a lead character that has very few redeeming qualities. I wanted to snicker through out the whole preview, but I had no one to snicker to who knew the depths of my snickers towards the books. The series has those fans that are rabid about it, and then fans who just enjoy it and you have to be careful of the rabid fans.

I think I know what truly bothered me about the Twilight preview: Edward. He doesn't look right. That actor from the Harry Potter movie looks right to be Cedric, but not Edward. He's missing something...Bella looks right (even though I have always picture as a blond, but blame Days of Our Lives for that one...) Anyways, I guess it would be hard to find a guy who was gorgeous, perfect, beautiful, had bronze hair and was as pale as one could possibly be. I think that guy only exists in the world of fiction and dreams.