Julie and Julia

I am so hungry...

I was very glad that I had food to eat while I was watching this movie. I had just finished a Pot Roast dinner as I sat down to watch Julie and Julia, a movie based on a book. A women named Julia, played by Amy Adams, who discovers the a cookbook by Julia Child, played by the great Meryl Streep, and vows to cook all 500+ recipes in one year. It also shows the life of Julia child and the struggles she went through to become a famous chef. I was so hungry watching this movie. They make so many delicious looking dishes that I was waiting to see what was next.
The movie itself was good. The story of Julie was ok, the best parts were with Julia Child. She seemed like such a fun person to be around. Meryl Streep plays her part very well. My mother-in-law said she played her exactly as she was on tv.
The movie was set in New York City and in Paris. You do get to see a bit of each city, but the majority of the film is in the kitchen, as it should be with a cooking movie. I watch this movie with a grin on my face for most of it, of course food always makes men happy. I recommend this movie for anyone who is a fan of cooking and of Meryl Streep.

6.7 out of 10

500 Days of Summer

Most days start out average...

500 Days of Summer is a movie about a greeting card writer named Tom who meets a girl at work named Summer. The movie is a non linear movie, meaning it jumps from current to past and half way back again; as tom tries to figure where the relationship went wrong. He gets great advice from his younger sister whose sage advice makes me wish we all had a 10 yr old sister who spoke like she was 85. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is great in this film. Between this and Brick he has redeemed himself from 10 Things I hate About You, in my eyes. Zoey Deschanel is great as a quirky young lady who does not believe in love and is not looking to fall for it, causing the whole plot to take place.
The cinematography of this movies is great. It has a big budget independent feel to it. It is set in Los Angels, but almost looks like and artsy part of New York. It shows you many places in LA you don't normaly see in movies. In this film you get to see that there are trees and grass in parts of LA.
I liked this movie, I didn't love it, but I liked it. It was definitely worth the short hour and 1/2.

I give it 6.5 out of 10

It Might Get Loud

Rock Doc... suitable for the Whole Family.

I can't tell you how happy I was to see that this was rated PG. When I first saw who this documentary was about I wondered. I had no idea that I would love it as much as I did.
It Might Get Loud is a documentary about 3 very strong character guitar players:

Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin
The Edge of U2
and Jack White of the White Stripes and The Raconteurs

The movies is a get together/jam session with all three players telling their stories of how they stared playing music, their personal history, their bands histories and some great music along the way. The film consists of videos from past/current concert footage, old photos, and personal stories. It was enjoyable to see three guitar players who span the past three decades of music talking about the one thing that they all have in common... Guitars.
One of my favorite scenes is the opening scene with Jack Black at his house in Memphis. He is dressed in a bow tie and a black three piece suit (minus the jacket)standing in front of his porch building a guitar out of a piece of wood, a piece of wire, a Coke bottle, and a pickup. We watch him build this thing in less than a minute. He plays is for a bit and then unplugs stating 'Who says you need to buy a guitar." I like the contrast of ideas here. The clothes he wears, the loud electric guitar in front of a bunch of cows. Awesome!
The live concert footage shots of U2 are great. They are very clear and loud. I wish I knew what they were taken from. My only negative about this movie are the scenes with Jimmy Page. They seem very slow. That is probably just because I'm too young I guess. Don't get me wrong I still enjoyed them, I wish they would have showed more footage of Led Zeppelin and less of the other 50 bands he was in as a youth. I see the importance, but would rather see the band he was famous for.
I guess I need to figure out some sort of a rating system for this blog. Should I do a five or ten star rating or just a simple I liked it? Who knows?

All I know is that I loved this one. 4 1/2 out of 5 or an 8 out of 10.

So it begins....

This will be my lowly attempt to keep track of my thoughts on movies that I have watched and hopefully enlighten others on them as well. I will not give away the ending, (as hard as it may be) to allow you to fully enjoy, or not enjoy, each movie. What I will try to do is give you my take on the overall plot, acting, and cinematography of each film. So with that said here we go.....