What the Beck???
Happy Birthday Ruthanne!!!
Secret Santa Gifts
December 11th clue: For a cold night
December 12th clue: If you didn't eat it all, these will help.
Are you ready? Do you have an answer??
December 11th gift: Tortilla soup and a box of Holiday Wheat Thins.
First of all, Wheat Thins are my favorite.
All you add to the soup is a can of diced tomatoes and some water and wa la - soup's on!!
I can't wait to try it.
December 12th gift: Rubbermaid containers.
This will come in handy as there is no
possible way that I can eat all of that soup in one setting.
Bucket List Update
Academy Award Nominated Movies
2010 Black
Swan
starring: Natalie Portman,
Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey,
Winona Ryder, Benjamin Millepied, Ksenia
Solo, Kristina Anapau
plot – Natalie Portman
plays Nina, a ballerina, who obsessively strives for perfection. Nina gets the lead
in Swan Lake but has major competition from
Lily, who will use whatever it takes to get the
role away from her “so- called” friend.
Not being a big ballet fan, it took me awhile to get into this
one. The competition between the two was what drew me into the movie. Nina’s
thoughts and hallucinations were disturbing.
2010 The
Fighter
starring: Mark Wahlberg,
Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo, Mickey O’Keefe
plot – Mickey Ward wants to be a great
fighter like his older brother, Dickey. His mother is the manager for both boys
until Dickey’s fame goes to his head, and he decreases
his training time. Mickey does the opposite and rises to a great contender.
This was a surprising movie for me to like at all. It had a lot of
boxing, which I usually do not like, but the acting and storyline drew me in to
the film. The family dynamics and reactions are outrageous, but interesting to
watch.
2010 Inception
starring: Leonardo DiCaprio,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page,
Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe
plot – DiCaprio plays Dom
Cobb who can get into people’s minds and steal secrets. This film is about a challenge
for him to actually plant an idea in a brain, rather than discover one they already have
imbedded. The enemy figures out what he will try to do.
This was an interesting idea, but I wasn’t a big fan. The movie is
an action film, but it didn’t hold up for me.
2010 The
Social Network
starring: Jesse Eisenberg,
Rooney Mara, Bryan Barter, Dustin Fitzsimmons,
Joseph Mazzello
plot – This is a film about
Mark Zuckerberg, and how he created Facebook for university students. He stole
the idea, and made it tremendously popular.
Zuckerberg was sued by the men he stole
the idea from, and lost his only friend in the
world.
This was bothersome to me. I thought Zuckerberg must have been a
great guy, but discovered through this movie that he was pretty much a snake
with little or no people skills. I was really angry when he turned on the
friend who helped him rise to the top.
2010 Toy
Story 3
starring: Tom Hanks, Tim
Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty, Don
Rickles, Michael Keaton
plot – Andy
is all grown up and going to college, and the toys
are going to be stored in the attic. Unfortunately,
the toys end up being donated to
a day-care center, and it is rough. The group plans
an escape.
I had actually viewed the first Toy Story movie when my niece,
Rachel, lived with me. I liked the original the first time I saw it but tired
of it after the tenth viewing. Rachel truly loved this movie. I liked this third movie, too.
2010 Winter’s
Bone
starring: Jennifer Lawrence,
Isaiah Stone, Ashlee Thompson, Valerie Richards, Shelley Waggener
plot – Ree Dolly is a
teenager who is in charge of her ill mother
and younger siblings. She hunts for her father
who is going to lose their home to the bail bondsman. She gets in a lot of trouble when
everyone wants her to cease looking for what
happened to her Dad.
This was an amazing movie. Jennifer Lawrence is outstanding as
Ree. The movie was quite intense, but I loved the entire movie from beginning to
end.
2011 Hugo
starring: Ben Kingsley, Sacha
Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Chloe Grace Moretz, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer
plot – Hugo lived in the
walls of the Paris train station where
his father tended the clocks prior to his death.
His Dad was also great at building machines.
His Dad created a metal man called an
automan.
I really liked this movie because I had read the book when I was
still teaching. The actors did a great job! I really enjoyed the acting of the
policeman.
2011 Midnight
in Paris
starring: Owen Wilson, Rachel
McAdams, Kurt Fuller, Mimi Kennedy, Michael Sheen, Kathy Bates
plot – Owen Wilson plays
Gil Pender, a writer for movies and
books. He and his girlfriend are in Paris on boring
tours with a know-it-all. Wilson goes out at
night and time travels back to the 20’s in Paris.
He meets all the biggies and loves old Paris.
He struggles with the differences between
the past and present.
This was a really good movie. I was really sucked into Wilson’s
struggle. He did a fabulous job in this role, and was very believable. I liked
the story line a lot.
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