Tag: movies

Home video: The Christmas Club

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Here’s another edition of Lockup Library Home Video. Its the Christmas season, so it’s another Hallmark movie. Hey in my defence (as bad as it is), there’s nothing on TV at 7:30 in the morning. So I usually catch the last 15 minutes of one movie, and then I can catch the whole next movie.

This weeks movie is The Christmas Club.

In all honesty, I haven’t really been paying attention to the movie, but the plot is tried and true.

Two strangers meet to help an old woman find her live savings, which by the looks of it totalled about $80 dollars. One is a dance instructor, the other, I think is in real estate. They have total chemistry. And by chemistry I mean it’s like a lab rat and a scientist type of chemistry.

She finds out that his client wants to buy her dance studio and turn it into something.

I think he’s going to surprise her by buying another building for her studio.

It’s a Christmas miracle.

ALL THE PLOTS ARE THE SAME.

Christmas in Rome

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This is the second post with the awesome new graphic from Crystal! I love it! I forgot to mention it on last Sunday’s post. It’s perfect for when I want to talk about what I’m watching on TV or Netflix.

So for the first ever Lockup Library Home Video. I present to you a Hallmark Channel first; a documentary on Christmas in Rome. I’ve never heard of a documentary on the Hallmark Channel. So I was excited to watch, and learn about Christmas in a different country.

Narrator: it was not a documentary on Christmas in Rome.

Welcome to Hallmark Channels Christmas in Rome. A quirky rom-com. Stating that chick from Mean Girls. In this alternate universe, fetch never happened, and she’s living in Rome as a tour guide. She gets fired and literally walks into low rent Captain America. Who’s in Rome to broker a take over deal for a factory. He hires her to show him around Rome. The fall for each other, then a miscommunication happens, then he fights to get her back.

Hallmark ending. Everyone is happy. Cue Christmas music.

Home video: Homeland

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Here’s where I watched Homeland Season 1, Episode 2: Grace. It first aired in 2011 on Showtime. Now it’s on Netflix Canada. So I figured that it’s a lazy Sunday here, and the fact that it’s -27 with the wind, I watch an episode. I started watching it last week, the pilot episode was better than most pilot episodes that I’ve seen.

This is the main character, Carrie, played by Claire Danes. Carrie works for the CIA as an operations officer, and she suspects a recently returned POW is a double agent. It’s a very good slow burn. Little bits of action thrown in here and there. Carrie has the POW, Brody’s house wired for sight and sound, but couldn’t afford to bug his garage, where unknown to her, prays in the morning. He’s Muslim.

Every twist, and every turn has you asking yourself, is Brody a double agent? Is Carrie mentally fit, or is she paranoid about Brody for no reason. I have to find out. I’ll be watching more of this show for sure. I like shows like this where it’s a slow burn, and they always keep you guessing. I suppose it’s more like everyone’s good and bad. It’s all different shades of grey. It’s not just black and white.

And as I recall, we both kinda liked it

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So, the last couple Saturday’s or Sunday’s, I’ve been taking a little time for myself, and watching The Twilight Saga on Netflix Canada. Well, I finished the last movie last weekend. So I’ve been thinking what to watch (or finish) next.

So I thought that I’d finish Dark. Then I said to myself “self, no. Think about this; you and Crystal are on the same episode. Finish the season when she gets here.”

Good idea, self.

So, after that, I’m always up for a train wreck, and when I think train wreck, I’m thinking Riverdale. Gimme some of that Gryphons and Gargoyles, and some sweet sweet Jingle Jangle. Riverdale could be a possibility.

Or I could go old school, and time travel back to 1998, and back to the creek. I randomly watched Dawson’s Creek back in the day. So this would be a little nostalgia, and new territory. I don’t know, if I remember it right, it was a show of a bunch of little shits using big words and sounding smarter than they actually are.

Or, do I just concentrate on movies? Then there’s the question, what movies? I’ve been out of the loop for a while. I don’t know what good and what’s crappy.

Any suggestions for me?

I had adrenaline rush. It’s very common, you can Google it.

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How can a movie be so different from the novel of our generation? Welcome to Forks, where the girls are pale, and the boys are vampires.

So many things are wrong about this movie. The pacing is off, and all of the major plot points are all wrong. I’m pretty sure only the names are the same, because while close to the book, it’s also miles off.

And that’s kind of annoying.

Hulk smash!

The plot points from the book and the movie just don’t match up. Nor do the visuals. Why would they take the Jeep and the BMW to school. LOW MOTHERFUCKING PROFILE.

I believe book Edward said, and I quote, “ostentatious”.

One of the few things that do match up is the baseball game, and the glorious 2006 Muse hit Supermissive Black Hole – which, I’m told was written just for this scene, and never released again.

He’s probably doping.

The running to Phoenix, was so blink of an eye fast, and then Bella gets away by simply walking out the front door of the hotel? That’s some serious bullshit I tells you.

Do you have a moment to talk about your saviour?

This isn’t how in my minds eye, how I pictured the ballet studio scene to go. I don’t know, I pictured in more in the day light for some reason. then suddenly slap fight and blonde evil vampire is a fireball. Anticlimactic much?

There’s the happy ending we’ve been waiting for. I believe this is the first time I’ve seen the whole move from start to finish. Will it replace the book for me? Hell no. This is a book for our generation. Without the first book, there’s no SAGA. Remember that.