Friday January 7, 2017
Sorry
it's been so long since I've made a blog entry. Like most of you I
suspect, I was pretty busy over the holidays. In addition, I also had to
work through part of it, so I wasn't just at home for the last two
weeks. I am now back at work and slowly settling back into the daily
routine.
Among other things I did when I was off was see movies.
My sister, niece, nephew and I saw "Sing" last Friday and thought it
was pretty good, though I wouldn't have minded if it was a bit shorter.
For those unfamiliar with the plot, Buster Moon (a koala bear) owns an
old theatre which is hemorrhaging money. To raise money to pay his
creditors (i.e., loan sharks), he comes up with the brilliant idea to
hold a singing contest where the winner goes home with $1000, only, due
to a rather unfortunate typo, the amount on the flyers ends up reading
$100,000. As expected, contestants line up around the block. Their
try-outs were rather enjoyable, and much preferable to watching their
human brethren (I'm not a fan of "American Idol" et al). Eventually the
list is whittled down to a few solid acts, and we spend the rest of the
movie getting to know these characters. The performance scenes at the
end were definitely the stand-out moments of this film and left me
wanting more.
On New Year's Eve my husband and I went to see
"Rogue One," the newest "Star Wars" prequel. Although I thought the
fight scenes were better in this film, I kind of almost preferred last
year's JJ Abrams adaptation, if only because it had more familiar faces
in it. We do get a glimpse of R2D2 and C3PO and another surprise face
from the past (at the end), but otherwise it's mostly a new cast of
characters. I also had a hard time taking Darth Vader seriously after
seeing James Earl Jones on "Big Bang Theory," not to mention that
Volkswagen commercial with the little boy pretending to be Darth Vader.
That's just me though (trying to suppress giggles). Still, it's a decent
enough film and you don't need to have seen the others to enjoy it.
Also, don't try to keep track of the characters and the timeline. It's
all a bit confusing and really unnecessary. Just take each film on its
own merit.
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