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Saturday night, dh and I watched The Thirty-Nine Steps. It is a remake of the original Hitchcock movie that was on Masterpiece Theater in the Spring.
I haven't read the novel, and I assume that the first movie was closer to the book. But, we really enjoyed this. It was an excellent remake of a film. It was different enough from the original that, even though I'd seen the original, I didn't know what was going to happen and it was still suspenseful. Dh really enjoyed it as well, and I would highly recommend it as a date movie!
I don't recall any language (though, don't hold me to that), and there are two rather sensual scenes but no s*x, and I would think some would find it appropriate for teenagers, too.
We also watched Marley and Me recently which was fun enough and not the worst movie though not amazing either. I'm still so confused about how relaxed rating systems have gotten, and I can't see how this movie is PG (though, I have trouble understanding how most PG-13 movies aren't R). Not a bad date night movie, though.
Lots of fun scenes with the dog and in many ways a good picture of a healthy family that struggles like any other. However, it ended with the whole "Dogs are people too" message which was just sort of 
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JennGM wrote:
Dh and I just watched Taking Chance last night. This is just a wonderful, heartfelt movie. Very pro-military, pro-America. It's about a real life story of a Marine officer accompanying (witnessing) the remains of a Marine across the United States to his home town for the funeral.
Just wonderful, and I would add this to the patriotic collection of movies.
Taking Chance -- we rented it from NetFlix.
It is really decent, as it doesn't show any gore, one bad word, s**t.
The body is never shown completely, never his face, just a hand while they are cleaning the blood, and blood off his personal possessions.
A whole box of tissue is required though. I didn't stop weeping one minute. It is really, really moving. |
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I finally watched this one last week and loved it. Was a little surprised by how moving Kevin Bacon was in it (I hadn't seen him in much since what, Footloose?)
Especially poignant for me as ds17 is now determined to enlist with the Marines as soon as we will sign for him 
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We watched two movies this past weekend with the kids that were NOT good!
Bracelet of Bordeaux - saw this at the library, story about some dognappers, didn't see any language warnings etc. but it was just BAD. Plot was horrible and the acting was worse!
Short Circuit - remember this from the 80's? I thought I did but being in my 20's then with no kids I guess I didn't notice that EVERY conversation was peppered with bad language, everything but the F word. It's too bad b/c the story is cute and none of the language was necessary to it at all.
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Wow, I guess with school going, no one is watching movies anymore?? 
Last night we watched Follow Me, Boys from Netflix. It's an older Disney movie with Fred MacMurray in it and was quite good. It's sort of "Boys Town" meets the Boy Scouts
Last week while dh was gone I watched Supersize Me on instant download. It was pretty interesting but definitely PG-13 as it's rated. I'd love for my ds17 to watch parts of it to show him how bad fast food is for you, but there were too many conversations about the guy's private life with his girlfriend for me! 
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Here are some we've watched since I last posted:
::Invictus - So African soccer team / Mandela. DH liked it. I wasn't riveted and got a lot of meal planning done.
::Letters from Juliette Liked it!
::Band of Brothers This was really GOOD!!! I hadn't seen it before. It was dh's 2nd or 3rd time through it.
::Ghost Writer So-so. I'd recommend it.
::The Expendables. I CANNOT BELIEVE this is probably THE movie that we saw in a theater in 2010 (we usually go once!) Typical Sylvester Stallone/action/thriller/we're-saving-the-world-one-dictator -at-a-time-film!!!! There wasn't really anything out that we really wanted to see when a friend offered to babysit, so I flippantly said, "Oh, you just pick something!" It was actually pretty good and clean..no swearing or s-x. Of course, my husband was THRILLED to see it on big screen! Boys will be boys! 
::Dear John Stupid.
::Staircase About the staircase of Loreto in Santa Fe, New Mexico!!!! We all watched it and the girls liked it a lot!
::St. Giuseppe Moscati I REALLY enjoyed this movie!
::Temple Grandin This is a GREAT movie!!!!! Has anyone seen it???? I had never heard of it, and a neighbor saw it and just picked it up and then insisted that I watch it. It's GREAT! It's the story of a young autistic woman. Clare Danes was nominated for "Outstanding Lead Actress" in it. She does such a wonderful job!
::Paul IV
::Robin Hood (Russell Crowe new version)
::Winter's Bone Compelling. Not my usual genre of movie....but I can't stop thinking about it.
::Extraordinary Measures Really GOOD!
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Last week I watched The Great Escape, an old movie about POW's in a WWII German prison camp. It's based on a true story and had some great actors, at very young ages! James Garner, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, etc.
It was excellent and 3 hours long!
We also watched the new Karate Kid. Very good, only a tiny bit of language, but of course rather violent with all the kung fu and bullying. I liked it better than the originals.
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Topic: Movie List 2010
