Today was all day movie day, not just 1, not 2 but 3 movies were watched today. We were a family of couch potatoes all day (other than when miss diva needed the potty as were now potty training her. More on that later.)
Humm what did we have for snacks, we had sweet home made pop corn naturally no dips this time as neither 1 of us wanted to go to the shop and sweets from my very special sweet bucket.
The first movie we watched was called Kiki's special delivery service.
This is a movie about a thirteen year old witch who now has to go into training according to a tradition, so she leaves her home to embark on a year alone in a new town to become a full witch. She kisses her mum and dad bye, she sets off with her mothers broom and her dads radio and her best friend a black cat called Jiji
She finds herself in a seaside city of Korico, and sets up a flying delivery service, to take advantage of the only magic she knows - flying a broom.
The biggest challenge Kiki faces comes when she loses her magic. Flying, which was as natural to Kiki as breathing, no longer comes so easily to her.
She overcomes these obstacles with her resourcefulness, and with help from people she meets. Osono and her baker husband, who gave Kiki a place to stay, take good care of Kiki as sort of surrogate parents. Tombo, a boy whose biggest dream is to fly, befriends Kiki and makes her laugh. Grandmotherly Madame, who Kiki delivers a pie, treats Kiki with kindness and care to give Kiki the energy to go on. And a young painter, Ursula, gives Kiki good advice as someone who not so long ago went through the same struggle as Kiki is going through now.
In the end, Kiki finds her independence and the meaning of self-reliance.
All in all the kids seemed to enjoy the movie and so did I would I watch it again probably not.
Dinner time then bath and bed for the kids. whew lol. So on to the next movie.
The kids are now in bed so it's just the hubs and me snuggled up on the sofa, like 2 love birds without a worry in the world. (haha yeah right).
California Man
This was the next movie on the agenda for the evening is a movie I love love love...
Two teenage boys find a cave man while digging a pool in their back garden, but they get more than they bargained for when the cave man thaws out. The two boys bring the cave man up to date with modern culture and embark on an hilarious adventure in the practice of everyday life.
This film is a must-see especially for younger viewers, with the subjects being teenagers. It is much more than just an ordinary teen flick though, with brilliant performances from Sean Asten(The Goonies, Lord of the Rings) and Brendan Fraser(The Mummy). Another source of amusement comes from the character "Mr.Stoney", a chilled out but at the same time fun seeking hippy. This film is one of the many highly underated films of modern time. (I did not writ this review)
I loved this movie when I was younger an still loved watching it again made me laugh all the way especially Links dancing. lmao.
Now for the last movie of the night, my favorite of the day.
The Kingdom
So lets get back to the movie because this is defenantly 1 to watch, it will have you feeling every emotion in such a short time frame for a manner of different reasons.
It also (well in my opinion) gives you a kind of double sided view on things we are facing in our world today and the kind of war we are facing in our times. It allows one to see the side of both groups of victims as well as to the fact that it is not just one group of people that suffer, however I also think it is wrong of the movie to suggest that we are all suffering to the same degree I think that, that is just misguided, but then again this is a hollywood movie.
I was going to write my own review on this movie but its getting late and its a bit long for me at this time. So here is a review and break down of what the movie is all about.
Here is the review from the Sunday Times.
The Kingdom - the Sunday Times review
The Kingdom makes a liberal gaffe in the Middle East, but as an episode of CSI: Saudi Arabia, it works brilliantly
I can’t remember when a big action movie provoked so many sniggers and sneers in advance as this one. Pearl Harbor? The story goes that poor Peter Berg thought he was directing an action film with a brain and the good liberal message of “Let’s not be beastly to the Arabs” – and bloodthirsty preview audiences in America have been whooping and hollering “Hooray, USA!” whenever an Arab baddie is blown away. It’s the kind of high-minded liberal gaffe that the American journalist Tom Wolfe would no doubt dub “radical sheik”.
For this, Berg – best known in this country for his acting role opposite Linda Fiorentino in The Last Seduction – has only himself to blame. The film’s prologue gives us a potted history, through newsreels and charts, of the dubious oil-based links between the USA, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and terrorism. Here we go: smart, savvy thriller on the way, we think. Once the history lesson is over, however, we get a very different film. It’s not Syriana with more explosions and a higher body count, but a tense crime thriller: CSI goes to Saudi Arabia.
The Kingdom begins with a baseball game at a guarded American compound of oil workers in Riyadh. A sudden terrorist attack leaves hundreds dead and many more wounded. One of the dead is an FBI agent, and her colleagues back in the USA want to fly out to help solve the case. The Saudis don’t want it, the American government doesn’t want it, but special agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) and his crack FBI team – an explosives expert, Grant Sykes (Chris Cooper); a forensics ace, Janet Mayes (Jennifer Garner); and an intelligence analyst, Adam Leavitt (Jason Bateman) – make a secret trip to Saudi Arabia to find those responsible.
In a race against time – they have only five days – the team turn up at the crime scene and find their hands tied by their Saudi minder, Colonel Al Ghazi (Ashraf Barhom), who resents their intrusion. Whereas the Americans resort to the appliance of science in tracking the killers, the Saudis go in for a little old-fashioned torture. To add to the tension, the FBI team are a target for the next terrorist attack. One clue leads to another and, in the final 40 minutes, the action changes gear and races towards a glorious eruption of exploding cars and exploding terrorists.
This is a film produced by Michael Mann, and it has the trade-mark of his slick, character-driven crime capers. Berg has shot it like a docudrama, which gives us an intimacy with the people and events. Okay, it’s your basic detective-hunts-criminal scenario, but what gives it an interesting twist is that the FBI team faces an unusual kind of obstacle: here, they must battle with the dictates of custom. We get a study of a culture clash between a test-tube-toting bunch of secular western professionals and a form of Islam that regards such people as interfering, foul-mouthed infidels, insensitive to their deepest religious convictions. Can such cultural differences be overcome in time to catch the bad guys? Slowly, Ghazi and Fleury realise that what they have in common is more important than what divides them. Both are regular guys, family men, dedicated professionals who want peace.
Appealingly, Berg takes you inside the Saudi way of life to a degree that few films ever do. Poor old Hollywood: if it resorts to standard views of Arabs, everyone complains of stereotypes; if it tries to show them as humans like us, it is accused of the sin of “moral equivalence”, by which is meant that it’s being soft on terrorists, which this film actually isn’t.
Berg has assembled a collection of fine actors, but whenever I see Foxx in a role like this, I can’t help but think, ‘I bet they tried, and failed, to get Denzel Washington.’ Foxx is always competent, but never inspired. And having someone as good-looking as Garner as an FBI boffin is bound to provoke cynicism, though this is to assume that professional women of a scientific bent must look like Dr Frankenstein to be authentic. Cooper is at his laconic best, but the man who really steals the show is Barhom, giving a nuanced and moving performance as the decent colonel. There may not be much in the way of food for thought here, but as a gripping cop story, it’s a triumph.
15, 109 mins
They give it 3 stars but I give it 4 Stars, its a movie to watch and make up your own mind about.
That was the end of our movie day for another week.
xoxo
