A Harry Situation

Last night Kurt and I had our first date without ANY of our kids.  We went to see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.  Now I'm not going to give my opinion on the movie as you may have thought.  I am just going to say that we loved it even though it may have omitted something I was expecting and added something that wasn't in the book.  It was also more funny than the other Potter movies.  But moving on, as I had said we didn't have ANY of our kids with us.  And right before the movie started I noticed that there were two babies in the theater.  A theater employee did his little speech and in it asked that if anybody had crying babies to take them out to the lobby until they have quieted down.  Being a mother of three we've never shied away from taking our children to the movies.  They have MOSTLY always been good.  During the movie one of the babies started to fuss.  It didn't bother me because I always hear kids fussing and I've learned to tune them out if they are not my child.  When it started to get bad somebody got up with the baby and stood with him/her in the hallway.  The fussing turned into cute baby talk and really wasn't distracting... to me.  After five minutes of the baby talk a lady from the audience yelled, "Will you please quiet down that baby!"

THIS is was bugged me!  The other couple that had the quiet baby started yelling at the lady to leave if she couldn't hear, the whole audience had a, "Ohh!" moment and it distracted A LOT more than that baby ever did.  I do believe though that it had to be pretty annoying for the people who were sitting by the talking baby but the lady who yelled was further away.  And I do believe that if your baby is a big disturbance to take it out but I personally wasn't disturbed.  So my question to you is what would do, say, who would you be?  The yelling mom or the yelling lady?

Edward Who?

At least there's one hot guy in the movies right now.  Kurt and I saw Quantum of Solace last night and although it wasn't as good as Casino Royale, which I LOVE, I still liked it and it just might be because Daniel Craig is James Bond :)  I was giggling like a little girl in this movie and I didn't even come close to it in Twilight.  They should have casted Daniel Craig as Edward even though he's old enough to be Edwards dad.  Mmmm.....

My Twilight Review

I dragged Kurt to see Twilight with me and here are my thoughts.  If you haven't seen the movie yet you may not want to read this.

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Going to the movie I had no expectations.  I LOVE the book but I knew from feeding of Stephenie Meyer's website that the movie was going to be different.  I was totally okay with that.  It's so rare to find a movie derived from a book, that's kept all the scenes the same.  I was not going to let myself get hyped up over small changes.  However, with Rob Pattinson, whom I loved in Harry Potter and was actually excited for him to be Edward, and Kristen Stewart, whom I love in her movies, as Bella I did not expect the acting to be so horrible!  There was a part at the end of the movie when she was in the hospital, stuttering, not wanting Edward to leaving and her acting job was so bad that the audience was laughing.  We were actually laughing at the times that weren't funny just because the acting was so awful.  Then, then, two thumbs WAY down for the directing.  There were times in the beginning where I thought something was wrong with the directing, but I let it go.  But by the end of the movie it was so well pronounced that again Kurt and I were laughing when we weren't supposed to.  For example, at the Prom, Edward went inside and left Bella on the bench.  The next shot was Jacob Black coming out from behind a tree and practically said her name before seeing her.  Again at the prom Edward and Bella went outside to a Gazebo to dance where there were two other couples and it just so happens that as soon as they walk out there the couples leave.  I know these are things that should be over looked but it's so completely obvious that the director should have caught how poor the scene was.  Apart from the second rate acting and directing I did find a couple parts funny enough to laugh out loud.  Like when Bella came into the classroom and she walked in front of the fan.  Edward made a face like she stunk, that was hilarious.  Charlie and his shotgun was funny, and I liked Emmet thinking she was Italian because her name was Bella.  Overall I don't know what their budget was on this film but I've seen independent films with a guaranteed smaller budget but with blockbuster results.  I really wanted to enjoy this movie but after seeing it I was embarrassed.  The kind of embarrassed where a loved one is on stage singing way off key and all you want to do is hide your face.  This opinion of mine is solely based on the movie itself.  Not of the book made into a movie but the movie as if I've never read the book and from the trailers, actually thought it was going to be good.  And again it's just my opinion.