Lights, Camera, Action

We went to the movies with some friends this weekend.   And the movie we saw left me ..... well confused.   We saw Tinker Tailor Solider Spy.   I'm all for a good spy movie full of Brits - and Colin Firth to boot so why not.  My only concern was that it might be violent.   My only concern should of been that I might not know what in the world was going on.  Some in our party thought this was the worse movie they had ever seen, I will not make that statement.  I enjoyed the acting and to be honest I think they movie would of made more sense had I read the book.   Which I just might try and do.   There were parts in the movie were it felt like things were skipped.  I mean we have all been in movies where we read the book and thought - they left out this - but we can still roll with the movie because we read the book.   This I believe is the situation with this.  Gary Oldham was good - not sure if he should win best actor for the Oscar good but he was good.  And Colin was his usual adorable self.  Not worth the $15 dollars but I would not discourage others from renting this one.   Who knows you might get it.

Also, this weekend we rented Moneyball.  I must preface this by saying:  not a huge Brad Pitt fan, not a huge Jonah Hill fan, not a huge baseball fan.   Why, you might ask, would I rent this movie?   Its based on a true story which I love and everyone said it was a great little story.  I enjoyed it (remember this is shortly after the Tinker Toy fiasco) and I thought it gave some great insight into the world of sports namely baseball.  We paid $1 for it and it was definitely worth that.

As long as we are talking movies I will tell you some I've seen lately that I did enjoy.

The Descendants - yes it is set in Hawaii and yes George is in it in all his glory so really how could I lose?   But honestly it is a great story.   You laugh and you cry a little in this one.   And I of course loved the music as well.

On rental I would recommend:   Super 8 (great kinda close encounter of the third kind meets stand by me) and Mr Poppers Penguins (not anything like the book but a good little film with no violence and penguins!)

Ok that's all I got for now....enjoy!