One for the Money, Jane Eyre 2011, Snow White,The Hiding Place, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

I am finally updating on the movies I've seen.

I watched The Accidental Husband a while ago.  It has Uma Thurman, Colin Firth and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in it. It's about this radio talk show host, Emma Lloyd, (Uma Thurman) who gives advice about love.  Emma tells a lady who calls that she should break up with her fiance. The lady does and the ex-fiance (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) seeks revenge on Emma and trouble ensues.  It's a romantic comedy. There were some funny parts, but for the most part it was okay.  I don't think I would watch it again.

I saw One For the Money with Kathryn Heigl and Jason O'Mara.  Stephanie Plum (Kathryn Heigl) is unemployed and newly divorced.  She is offered a job in the bail bond business through a family connection. One of her assignments, that she must capture and bring in to be arrested, is an old flame (Jason O'Mara).  The job ends up being much more dangerous than Stephanie originally thought and she must keep herself safe and try to put the pieces of the case together quickly before anyone else gets killed.  It was also only okay for me. It didn't do much for me. 

I love Jane Eyre. I have read the book (although it has been a long time).  I have seen a couple of versions of the movie, but I had not seen the newest version from 2011 until a couple of weeks ago.  I liked it.  It was pretty good.  I need to read the book again to remember.

I watched Snow White and the Huntsman.  It was a twist on the original fairy tale. I didn't like it all that much. The evil queen was a bit too scary to me.  The actors didn't have much chemistry in my opinion.

Since I recently read The Hiding Place, I decided to watch the movie with the same title.  First of all, in order to understand the movie you must read the book.  They don't give much background information in the movie and at some points it was a little confusing even after having just read the book. (There were some people there that had never read the book and they had no idea what was going on.)  Second of all, it was a little slow, but I thought it was a well made movie. (From the trailers I thought it would be much cheesier) Third of all it misses some important parts of the book (I do realize they can't put everything in the movie otherwise it would be forever long)  Overall, I liked the movie.  I am glad I watched it and at the end the real Corrie ten Boom comes onto screen and talks for a few minutes.

The last movie I've seen recently is The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.  Watching it really made me want to visit India.  It is such a beautiful, dirty, different, exotic place.  The movie is about a group of retirees that are enticed by a hotel in India aimed at elderly people.  The cost of living is cheaper and it is a new and exciting place to live.  It goes through the trials and adventures of the people as they get settled and get used to the culture of their new place.  I must say that there was a  bit of sexual content in there but they don't ever show anything.  The show had potential to be awesome.  I did love all of the scenes of India.

The Wham Curse, Snow White and the Huntsman

The Wham Curse by Virgil Alexander is a novel based on a historical event from our county. In 1889, a group of local citizens allegedly rolled a boulder blocking a pass, then ambushed a company of Buffalo Soldiers and stole the Army payroll for a several local army forts. The citizens were tried and acquitted, and the money (over $30,000 in gold and silver coins) was never found. The event is known as the Wham Paymaster Robbery because the military unit was led by a Major Wham. The novel asks the question, "What if that treasure were to be found now?" It's a police detective mystery, with a murder and a whole lot of local geography getting starring roles. I loved reading about the history and locations of our county. The author is clearly a real history buff and has a deep love of the area. While there are a few flaws in the novel (it's self-published, so some things do crop up), the story itself pulled me through the novel. Good characters, great setting. I'll gladly share this with friends.

For date night we saw Snow White and the Huntsman. It's a pretty dark retelling of Snow White (not that the original is all rainbows and unicorns) with the evil queen able to keep her youth and beauty only by eating the actual human hearts of beautiful young women. Um, yuck? Pretty much. Cannibalism is what we're accepting as our entertainment these days, I guess. Well, anyway, as truly gorgeous as Charlize Theron was as the evil queen, I didn't quite get an evil vibe from her. And I know they kept saying Kristen Stewart is the fairest of them all, but really? Prettier than Charlize? Mmm, no. Yeah, yeah, based on what was in her pure heart. Fine. And the movie did emphasize that. Okay. Since the title is what it is, I kind of expected a little more romance than it delivered, which was a bummer. Much as Chris H...what'shisThor... did fine in the role (seemed like Thor showed up in the fairy tale), I didn't see any chemistry between him and Stewart. But the mirror was totally cool. And the 8 dwarves were great. And the special effects were fantastic! Loved them. Best I've seen in a while. That pushed the whole movie up a star. But it's LONG. And it felt long. I kept checking my watch. I don't know. This movie was a mixed bag. 2 1/2 stars. Maybe 3, if it weren't for the cannibalism. Nope, I gotta go back to 2 1/2.