It was movie day today...

[agilebrit]

We went to the theater to see "Christmas with the Kranks" and "National Treasure." The critics are apparently hating them both. Ignore them; they're idiots.

"Christmas with the Kranks" was a lovely little holiday movie. Quite enjoyable for the whole family, it's about family and neighbors and giving and all that mushy stuff. It wasn't good enough to go in the video collection, but it made me sniffle at the end, and it was better than okay. Ya know, I've never seen a sucky Tim Allen movie... Three stars out of four, for me.

"National Treasure" was a whole nother ball of wax. Oh, my goodness, the droolworthyness of Nic Cage and Sean Bean on the screen at the same time...*cough*straightening clothes*ahem* Okay. Yeah, anyway, there was a plot too, and it was quite excellent. The characters were interesting and engaging, the action was terrific, and the payoff at the end was GREAT. It rocked from beginning to end. This one is definitely going in the DVD collection. Four stars out of four. Yeah.

The nice thing about both these movies was that there was nothing terribly offensive in either of them. A "damn" in "Kranks" and some gunplay in "NT" was all. It's unusual to be able to go to a pair of movies and not say "You know, they would have been great except for [insert gratuitous profanity, nudity, or violence here]." And it proves that you can make good movies, that people will go to, without all that garbage.

Hollywood, listen up.

Comments

[whirligigged.livejournal.com]

Oh, loved National Treasure. It seemed sort of implausible - As someone pointed out, why couldn't they have used some of that money for the revolution? - but it was realistic enough that I was able to suspend any and all disbelief.

My one complaint is that they shouldn't have put that dramatic music at the point where he saw the hole that fit the pipe. I thought they were just going to find stairs, and then they played the dramatic music, and I finally figured out they were going to find the treasure, and - sigh. I'm slow, I wouldn't have figured it out without the music!

The main reason I loved it was because of Riley (is he this Sean Bean you mentioned?). He was freaking funny. "I'm staring at a giant, bluish-greenish man..." Hee. XD I kept laughing in the theater, then looking around to make sure no one was staring at me for disrupting or anything.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Sean Bean played Ian Howe, the bad guy. You might also remember him in a little film trilogy called "The Lord of the Rings." Riley was hilarious, too, though. "You're both freaks!" That was so funny, moreso because I understand the kind of freakishness that Ben and Abigail had. The scrolls from the library at Alexandria? *slobber*

Man, and for a 5:40 show on a weekday, the theater was packed. Does my heart good.

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

veryyyy cool!