Hi, everyone! How are you guys this fine morning? I'm doing well. The sun is shining. Hooray! I know what you guys are saying. March 25th Lew? Why was your last post all the way back on March 25th? I'm sorry. I've been crazy busy and preoccupied lately. But I'm back and plan to post more frequently.
Okay. So for today I'm going to review two movies I've watched recently, Julie and Julia and UP as well as the tv show Hoarders.
I watched UP last week and I must say that it was such a refreshing and ridiculously cute animated film. It is about an elderly man named Carl Fredricksen(voiced by Ed Asner) who decides to go on a lifelong wanted adventure to South America and suspends his house by thousands of helium balloons. A young eager Wilderness Explorer named Russell (voiced by Jordan Nagai) gets caught up in the adventure and have the time of their lives. It was made by Pixar for Disney and was released in 3D in theaters. Too bad I missed the 3D because I rented it but it was definitely worth the rent. I teared and laughed the entire adventure through. This film won Academy Awards for Best Animated film and Origianl Score and it deserved both awards. I definitely recommend you rent this film for the entire family and score it- A.
The second movie I most recently watched was Julie and Julia starring Amy Adams and Meryl Streep. It's based on two books, one by Julie Powell in whcih she tells of her expereince of cooking all of the recipes (524) in Julia Child's infamous cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking in one year; the other book is My Life In France, Julia Child's autobiography. The two books are masterfully interwoven to present the dramatic comedy and I absolutely loved it! Meryl Streep's portrayal of Julia Child is spot on and she is radiant as ever. The movie is written and directed by Nora Ephron and received a number of Academy Award nominations. I recommend this film to everyone and score it A.
Okay. Unfortunately, on a less enthusiastic note, I want to briefly talk about the new TLC show called Hoarders. The show is reality tv at its best (sacasm). It goes into the lives of people who for some reason decide to keep everything they come in contact with and place the items everywhere in their home until piles and piles of junk and trash are formed and they are drowning in it. Ummm. I don't get it. I don't get why people would do this. And this is coming from a person who chooses to keep most documents acquired for long periods of time. But it never gets to the point of what you see on this show so and of course I don't find any logical reason for keeping what is obvious trash so....what is it that makes these people want to keep everything until they are living in piles of germ containing filth and someone has to come and make them clean it up? I just don't get it. I know there is a psychologist out there somewhere who perhaps know exactly what is wrong with these people and they need to explain it to me. It's just plain nasty and most of these people are adults. Moreover, making this matter into a tv show is just plain wrong. This issue like rehab, finding love and every other private matter that people SHOULD NOT place on tv but do should not be shared with the world. I can't watch the show for more than a minute each time;exactly who is watching this show and why? TLC is primarily known for it's bay and birthing shows (reality tv that is understandable since it's pretty educational as welll as interesting) but they went completely wrong with this one. Sigh. SMH.
Well, that's what I have to say about that. Let me know what you think.
Until next time,
Lew
