My Movie Reviews

I've seen several movies in the past two weeks and thought I'd share my non-movie critic reviews.

Court, Irish and I saw Water for Elephants the other night. Although I did not read it, the book, I heard it was amazing. The movie, I'm afraid, does not live up to the book's standards. While the story is good; set during the Depression, a Polish vet student leaves school after his parents are killed in a car accident. He jumps on a train that happens to be a circus train and is able to become the company vet. He winds up falling in love with the owner's (the bad guy) wife and and Rosie the elephant (my favorite actor) is thrown in there too.

The movie itself is gorgeous to look at. The set and costume people really did an amazing job. The biggest disappointment is the lack of chemistry between Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson's characters. I found myself thinking, "You guys are in love? Coulda fooled me."

Not being a Twilight fan, I blame it on Pattinson as I adore Ms. Witherspoon and would never accuse her of bad acting.

Mom and I saw The Conspirator together. If you are not into history, do not got see it because you will be bored to tears. Luckily, I love history so I found it to be very good. It is also pretty historically accurate. The movie, directed by the gorgeous-for-79-years Robert Redford, is about the trial of Mary Suratt. Suratt was the only woman convicted and tried for the conspiracy to murder Abraham Lincoln (and attempted murder of the Sec of State and VP). A young attorney, who fought in the war for the Union, Frederick Aiken is assigned to defend Suratt. The story centers around Aiken struggling to defend someone who potentially aided in the murder of his president and then his struggle to see she received the fair trial she deserved (instead of there being a jury made up of her peers, it was a jury made up of all Union soldiers; and witnesses tainted by the prosecution.)

You're probably asleep reading this, aren't you?

I also saw Something Borrowed with Kate Hudson and Gennifer Goodwin (whom I love). I went by myself, which I think everyone should do on an occasion. The movie was cute, a good chick-flick. I will say that it did not end the way I thought it would.

I'm super excited about a few movies coming this summer, mostly The Help. Read the book and watch the trailer. You'll be excited too.