What’s Your Favorite Movie

The Princess Bride

So one of my least favorite questions to be asked is, what is my favorite movie. People judge you based on your response and it’s an impossible question to answer. It depends completely on my mood and what I feel like watching. After years of boring people to death with a long list, a couple years ago I just started telling people, The Princess Bride.

I love The Princess Bride, it is one of my go to movies. If I just need something on in the background or want something to fall asleep to, I put it in. The thing is, I don’t always want to watch it, sometimes I feel like something less romantic and more cheesy or something with more action.

Anyway, I’m ending this movie review year with a question. What is your favorite movie? If you want to give me a list or just the response you tell others when they ask, go right ahead. Be forewarned you will be judged, though I will do my best not to be mean.

I’m truly interested in what you have to say and hope I get a lot of responses.

Happy New Year!

Priceless (Rylee Adamson #1) By: Shannon Mayer

Priceless

Priceless (Rylee Adamson #1) By: Shannon Mayer

Plot:

“My name is Rylee and I am a Tracker.” When children go missing, and the Humans have no leads, I’m the one they call. I am their last hope in bringing home the lost ones. I salvage what they cannot. I’m on the FBI’s wanted list. I have a werewolf for a pet, a Witch of a best friend, and have no need for anyone else in my life. But when a salvage starts to spin out of control, help comes from a most unexpected direction. One that is dangerously dark, brooding, and doesn’t know a thing about the supernatural. One whose kisses set me on fire.

Review:

Wow! This book is so great and it blindsided me. I’m always looking for something to tide me over until the next Ilona Andrews or Patricia Briggs book comes out, but no matter how many recommendations I get nothing ever measures up. This was as close as I’ve gotten and I’m so freakin happy!

Rylee reminds me of Kate Daniels, she’s not as big a badass, but she’s got that same moral compass and feel to her. O’Shea is definitely not the beast lord but he’s the perfect match for Rylee and I love him already.

Enjoyed all the strays that were picked up along the way and I’m looking forward to learning more about the world.

When I bought this it was $.99 and it is worth so much more than that. As soon as I finished I bought the second one and I am thrilled to see that I have so many books ahead of me to read.

5/5

Neighbors (2014)

Neighbors

Neighbors (2014)

Director:

Nicholas Stoller

Starring:

Seth Rogan

Rose Byrne

Zac Efron

Plot:

A couple with a newborn baby face unexpected difficulties after they are forced to live next to a fraternity house.

Review:

I get it, I really do. They just had a baby, they’re trying to figure out who they are now. It’s difficult. I’m there right now. Thankfully they’re not trying to make a movie from my transition because it went a lot smoother.

Honestly there were moments I really liked but over all I was a bit disappointed. I thought the adults should have woken up to their responsibilities sooner, but then that’s just me. I have a hard time when people in movies shirk their responsibilities for too long. I want them to accept them and learn faster.

I also would have liked it if Zac Efron had grown up faster too. Him winding up working up at an Abercrombie was believable but ended the movie on a downer.

3/5

 

The Interview (2014)

The Interview

The Interview (2014)

Director:

Evan Goldberg

Seth Rogan

Starring:

James Franco

Seth Rogan

Randall Park

Plot:

Dave Skylark and producer Aaron Rapoport run the celebrity tabloid show “Skylark Tonight.” When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, they are recruited by the CIA to turn their trip to Pyongyang into an assassination mission.

Review:

A surprising number of well shot action scenes, I screamed at the TV multiple times, and, of course, tons of offensive jokes.

I did not go into The Interview expecting anything more than a Seth Rogan movie, and that’s exactly what I got. I don’t think it was as funny as This is the End, but I definitely enjoyed it. There were a few lulls that slowed the movie down and I’m getting a little tired of the weird relationship between Franco and Rogen that they like to put in each of their films, but not enough to alter my rating of the movie.

I had no problem with the changed ending, and thought that what they went with probably degraded Kim Jong-un more.

All in all, it was just what I expected, and I don’t have a problem with that. Boobs, ass, toilet humor. What more could you ask for?

4/5

The Fat Man: A Tale of North Pole Noir By: Ken Harmon

The Fat Man The Fat Man: A Tale of North Pole Noir By: Ken Harmon

Plot: A satire of traditional Christmas stories and noir, The Fat Man makes the perfect gift for the literary-minded. A hardboiled elf is framed for murder in a North Pole world that plays reindeer games for keeps, and where favorite holiday characters live complex lives beyond December. Fired from his longtime job as captain of the Coal Patrol, two-foot-three inch 1,300-year-old elf Gumdrop Coal is angry. He’s one of Santa’s original elves, inspired by the fat man’s vision to bring joy to children on that one special day each year. But somewhere along the way things went sour for Gumdrop. Maybe it was delivering one too many lumps of coal for the Naughty List. Maybe it’s the conspiracy against Christmas that he’s starting to sense down every chimney. Either way, North Pole disillusionment is nothing new: Some elves brood with a bottle of nog, trying to forget their own wish list. Some get better. Some get bitter. Gumdrop Coal wants revenge. Justice is the only thing he knows, and so he decides to give a serious wakeup call to parents who can’t keep their vile offspring from landing on the Naughty List. But when one parent winds up dead, his eye shot out with a Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model BB gun, Gumdrop Coal must learn who framed him and why. Along the way he’ll escape the life-sucking plants of the Mistletoe Forrest, battle the infamous Tannenbomb Giant, and survive a close encounter with twelve very angry drummers and their violent friends. The horrible truth lurking behind the gingerbread doors of Kringle Town could spell the end of Christmas-and of the fat man himself. Holly Jolly!

Review: The first two thirds of this book were good bordering on great. I was wondering if Ken Harmon had any more books to read and was planning on looking into them immediately. Then I was side swiped with an overly sentimental and religious ending and it totally killed my buzz. The book was filled with all kinds of innuendo and language so I was surprised at where Harmon went with the ending. I wasn’t surprised at the inclusion of Christ in the story, he had everyone else associated with Christmas, I was surprised at the complete change in tone of the story. It went from very noir in language and feel to just another religious Christmas book.

2.5/5