The Vow

On Tuesday, February 28, 2012, I went to see the movie The Vow, featuring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum.

The story is about a married couple, Paige and Leo, who are very much in love.  However, they suffer a tragic accident where both of them were injured.  Paige suffers head trauma and does not remember a single thing.

The movie centres on the journey that takes place after Paige returns home to try to piece her life back together.  However, her estranged parents see this as an opportunity to try and repaint her life and erase her past...

What happens in the movie?  You'll have to watch it to find out.  I didn't cry in it though.  Maybe Channing Tatum's performance was not strong enough in it.  Although, he had some tears.  That's an improvement to his previous acting where he had no tears.

Happy Feet 2

On Sunday, February 26, 2012 I went to see the movie Happy Feet 2.  I finally got the chance to see it.  This movie takes off where the first one finishes...  With Mumble and Gloria now having their own children.  They have a baby, but he's a bit choreography-phobic.  He doesn't really dance like Mumble, but he is being encouraged.

The story is that due to global warming, the glaciers are changing around them and the Emperor penguins in Emperorland get closed in because of ice...  So they were looking like they would be dead meat...  However, other penguin nations working together helped keep them alive, for now...  Will they escape?  Will humans help?

This movie was very well done and I though the parts where they had the animation and the human acting was done very well.

The Secret World of Arrietty

On Tuesday, February 21, 2012, I went to see the movie The Secret World of Arrietty.  This is Hayao Miyazaki's lastest movie.  The movie is based on the book The Borrowers, which is about these small peole who borrow stuff from human beings (known as beings in the movie) to make their house.

The movie starts off with the family who needed more sugar and tissue paper.  However, while the father and daughter team (the daughter being Arrietty) being seen, they have to move to another location or risk having their home and possibly even family destroyed.  The twist is that the human being that sees them is someone who's going to be having heart surgery for his heart.  What happens at the end of the movie?  You'll have to watch to find out.

Shame on Ottawa Citizen

I came across this article today while reading news online.

So, it appears that the Ottawa Citizen wrote to the owner of Vikileaks30 and booby trapped a link to this person, so that they can track whom it came from, or at least where it came from.

Shame!  Shame!  Shame!  Shame!  Shame!

Why would anyone do that?!!  This is not journalism.  This is equivalent of revealing your source.

But of course, Ottawa Citizen is a shit newspaper, I would expect nothing less.  They were probably overjoyed when the Conservatives were elected a whopping majority.

Any newspaper that gives ammo to the Conservatives...  Should be shot.

TinTin: The Adventures of

On Tuesday, February 14, 2012, I went to see the movie The Adventures of Tintin.  It was directed by Steven Spielberg.

The big debate here is whether or not I should have seen it in English or French.  I know that Tintin has Belge origins.  However, I saw episodes when I was young of the series in English.

Regardless of which version might be better, I went to see it in English, because it's the only one that's still playing downtown Montreal.  I enjoyed it.  I thought that it was quite funny and well done.

The voice work was also done very well.  I don't know Jamie Bell, for example.  However, Daniel Craig and Simon Pegg, those actors I do know.

A well done film that I enjoyed.  Perhaps because I don't know the Tintin series very well.

Whitney Houston, dead at 48

I heard about the news about Whitney Houston, a very talented singer, being dead at 48 years of age.  That's truly a very sad affair indeed.

Although Whitney was not my favourite diva or singer, I do have a bit of her stuff on CD and I always appreciated her songs.  In fact, one of her songs is a great pick-me-up when I am going through difficulties romance wise:  It's Not Right, but it's Okay.  I don't know how many times that song has picked me up when I am going through rough patches romantically.  I also enjoy the duet that she did with Enrique Iglesias:  Could I Have This Kiss Forever.

Of course, some of her earlier stuff was excellent as well.  I remember when I was in elementary school, I sang The Greatest Love of All.  After hearing that song on the radio this morning, I just felt I had to make this post.

Sure, Whitney had her demons.  We are not perfect.  However, 48 years old is indeed way to young to leave us.   I am quite saddened by this and I will miss Whitney on the music scene, even though she was having difficulty hitting the notes that she used to be able to hit.

My condolences go out to her family and Whitney, we will always love you!

Carnage

On Tuesday, February 7, 2012, I went see the movie Carnage featuring Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly and Christoph Waltz.

The movie is about a cordial meeting between two sets of parents about their sons and an incident of violence on the playground, but it turned into quite an evening themselves.

This film was done by Roman Polanski.  Though I adore Kate Winslet, this movie was yet another one that I do not like by Roman Polanski.  Don't bother watching the movie.