Apollo 13

This is the movie I have been waiting for. I've been waiting this whole time to get to this movie. I've never seen it before! I know, some of you out there are thinking "How can such a wonderful girl with such great taste in movies never have seen Apollo 13 until now?" Well the answer is simple. When this movie came out I remember my family renting it, but I just thought it was too long and boring and I didn't really understand it. Then the hundreds of times it's been on tv since, I just haven't caught it at the very beginning. So I have seen a few pieces of the movie, but never the whole thing. Since it is such an epic and wonderful movie, I was extremely happy the day that Andrew bought this. 

First off, it's got such an amazing cast and director that things just can't go wrong with this. Ron Howard, Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, Kevin Bacon, Ed Harris, Bill Paxton, and the real star of the show Clint Howard. It's just so shocking to see how young all of these guys are. Bacon looks like he just stepped out of Footloose!

So, we have Hanks, Bacon and Paxton go into space to land on the moon. Gary was suppose to be on the flight, but was predicted to get the measles, so Bacon replaced him.  It's ok, because he saves the day! I was a little grossed out after they settled down from launching into space, and Paxton just vomits everywhere. Space, gravity-free vomit. It looked like the same stuff you make in science class when you are trying to make your own silly puddy. Well,while doing some routine system checks, part of their ship explodes, which then starts leaking all their oxygen. Uh oh. They don't get to go on the moon anymore, because they will be lucky if they even get back to earth alive. After days in their freezing space ship, tensions start to rise as well as Paxton's temperature. He's not doing too well and just makes me feel like he's a 12 year old boy because he's so sick and sad. Well Mission Control really did a good job of thinking outside the box and helping save them. They had to turn off all their power to conserve energy for a while so they would have enough for re entry. Then their CO2 filter becomes too full and so they have to Mcgyver how to fit a square filter fit into a cylinder one. What do you know?! Duct tape saves them.  After a lot of doubts and sticky situations arise, they finally land safely into the South Pacific. Hooray! The best part is that this was a totally true story! I love these kinds of movies.

For 3 Ninja fans out there, I'm not going to forget to point out that the actor who plays Tom Hanks' oldest son is the one and only Colt!

This movie is awesome. That's really all that can be said about it I think.I was really impressed with how real the shuttle launch looked.In response to this, Andrew said "There's one thing about Ron Howard, he does nothing half ass." If you haven't seen it yet, go out right now and rent/buy it. Excuse me, I have to go read the IMDB trivia for this movie now.

Andrew's Closing Thought: One of my all-time favorite movies

Up Next: A-Team

American Gangster

Now, I was really unsure about this movie. Andrew really loves this movie, we even have a framed movie poster of it in our hallway. It was pretty long, so I will try and condense it as much as I can.

Frank (Denzel) is the ganster. He inherits his knowledge and connections and whatnot from his mentor who just passed away. His main avenue of business is selling heroin. Frank is different than all the other gangs out there, and he goes straight to Vietnam and buys directly from the supplier. This is not only cheaper, but also more popular with his customers because he is selling pure heroin. All the other heroin being sold out on the streets in NY is cut, even corrupt cops (Josh Brolin) are cutting heroin to get a profit. (If you didn't know what cutting is, its when you add a bunch of other stuff that's not heroin so that you dilute it. I learned in my Drugs and Behavior class that this is one of the main reasons why people die from heroin. You never know what kind of crap is mixed in with it. Some people even put in rat poison.) Anyway, so his stuff, Blue Magic, is 100% pure heroin and he sells it for cheap. He becomes insanely successful and is living large. He marries Miss Puerto Rico, and moves his entire family from North Carolina to help with the business. He believes that the flashiest man in the room is the weakest man, so he normally has a clean cut appearance and can go unnoticed. Well then his lady buys him this ridiculous chinchilla pimp jacket that he feels obligated to wear. This is the moment that changes everything. This is when people start to notice him and start asking questions about who he is and why is he so rich. The corrupt and the good cops take notice.

Then we have another storyline going on at the same time as this, and that is of Russell Crowe's Character Richie. He is a cop, soon to be attorney, who is basically the last clean cop in the tri state area. His partner looks exactly like Inigo Montoya from the Princess Bride. Sadly, his partner was a junkie and ends up dieing from Blue Magic, because it was just too strong for him. This sends Richie on the path to leading a federal investigation over this heroin. It takes years and years before everything is figured out.

Since Frank had such an amazing product, he ended up putting a bunch of other gangs out of business, and so he unbalanced the drug world. So naturally people were likely to start coming after him. On the flip side of that coin, Richie starts asking way too many people way too many questions about Frank and also has a hit put out on him. Finally the cops get lucky and catch Franks cousin who is also his driver attempting murder. So they use him to catch Frank and find the dope. He was using military planes to transport the bricks of heroin from inside the coffins of fallen soldiers. This ended up being a problem once the Vietnam war ended, because there were no more troops there and his whole operation on that end fell apart. Well anyway, the drugs would then be transported through a 'cleaning services' truck to the packaging unit. Well a ton of agents storm on this place and shoot it up all while Frank is in church and doesn't know whats happening. He gets sent to jail, and Richie works with him to put every corrupt cop that was apart of Frank's system  in jail.

This is based on a true story, and I was amazed to see that in the end, because of his cooperation, Frank's 70 year sentence was pushed down to 15 years. He went to jail in the 70's and came out in the 90's. The last few minutes were just of Richie and Frank walking around town, and I can't even imagine how jarring and scary it would be for Frank to be in this new world that he knows nothing about. Let's face it, these two decades are really different. 

Overall  I had a really hard time getting into this movie. From the beginning until like the last 15 minutes the two main characters weren't in a scene with each other. There were two separate storylines going and they slowly blended into one. But the end was really great. I actually was feeling really bad that Frank was going to go to jail. That could have been because it was Denzel though. If there's one thing though that you take away from this movie, is that its very real. There are many close-ups of people shooting up drugs, heads exploding, naked women making drugs and lots of dirty grimy people. For some reason I just have a dislike toward movies where the people always look dirty and sweaty. But hey, that's reality. After like an hour into the movie, Andrew had to give me a little pep talk about how I just have to appreciate the movie for what it is, and so I tried to do just that. It made a huge effort in emphasizing that it was during the Vietnam War and during the Civil Rights Movement throughout the movie, and I always like movies that fit in historically.

Andrew's Closing Thought: Denzel is a beast!

Up Next: Apollo 13

Almost Famous

Today was the perfect day for a movie. It was Andrew's day off, raining, and we had some burger king. This is obviously one of my movies.Andrew never ever wanted to watch this movie. Mainly because people in high school acted like this was the peak of movies and it became a very hipster thing to like, all because of the scene where they sing Tiny Dancer on their bus. While we were watching I tried to gauge what he thought of this movie, and I don't think he really liked it. However, I still really like this movie. One reason is because it has an all star cast. Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Francis McDormand, Anna Paquin, Kate Hudson, Billy Crudup, Jason Lee, Rainn Wilson, Zooey Deschannel, Jimmy Fallon, and that kid from Sky High.

Our main character is William, who is a genius and super ahead of his grade level. He is suppose to graduate high school when he is fifteen. His mom is really crazy and anti everything. Due to her stubborn beliefs, her daughter rebels and goes off into the real world once she has turned 18. One of the funniest moments is when little William learns that the reason he looks so much younger than all of his classmates is because he's 11, not 12 like he originally thought.  It seems in the years that pass, her mom kind of mellows out because she lets William go to a concert and listen to rock music, which is something she was against before. William goes to interview black sabbath, but ends up bonding with their opening act Stillwater. They consider him 'the enemy' but still really enjoy his company and want him to make them look cool. He also meets Penny lane who changes his life. Kate Hudson does a great job in her role, but isn't quite believable as a 16 year old in this movie. Then Rolling Stone Magazine gives William the opportunity to go one tour with Stillwater and write a piece about them. Well the entire movie ends up being a battle of whether William should tell the truth, even though it might not be that pretty, or stay loyal to his new 'friends' and write a puff piece. Along the way we see the true nature of William's idol, Russel-the guitarist. He ends up just being a butthead, but eventually learns a lesson at the end of what is really important. During a near death experience, the band mates let their secrets out which causes lots of drama. William then goes home and writes the truth of this band, and they are so mad about it that they lie and say that it's all false. So now William doesn't even get his article. Well eventually Russel makes everything right, and becomes the good guy again and William get's his cover and article. There is a love triangle throughout this movie. William loves Penny, but Penny loves Russel, and well Russel thinks he loves Penny. I also have to mention that I think Jason Lee should really be the lead singer of a band somewhere (even though he didn't really sing in this) . He can really pull off the Jesus look.

I think that this is a really great coming of age story. Not just for William, but for Penny and Russel as well. It gives you a glimpse of what the rock scene in the 70's was like. From a modern perspective of course. If you haven't seen it, I think you definitely should go rent it. Right now!

Andrew's Closing Thought: It wasn't as bad as I was expecting      

Up Next: American Gangster

AVP: Alien Vs. Predator

Well we decided to just do a double feature tonight and followed up Alien, with AVP. Now, I actually enjoyed this one a lot more than I did with Alien. There was more of a plot to it (even if it's still not a good plot) and I just was able to understand a lot more of it.

Our heroine Alexa is a super good scientific guide, and so Weyland Corp hires her to guide them to an underground pyramid in Antarctica. Well the Predators are planning on visiting right at the same time unbeknownst to the humans. She and some other really nice archeologists join up with the corporate/military goons who of course go against what the commands of the mission are, but are focused on personal gain. Spoiler alert, they die. Well, the humans awaken the pyramid and Queen Alien starts making some alien eggs, and so then Aliens start running rampant and snatching humans up for breeding. The predators don't like this and so they kill lots of aliens and even all the humans that weren't snatched up by Aliens. Except for Alexa. She and her comrade Sebastian are the only two left, and they finally learn the history of the pyramid and discover that the Predator just wants his gun back, which is conveniently located in Alexa's backpack. Well Sebastian gets taken by an Alien and Alexa is not happy. After she gives the big bad Predator his gun back, they become instant BFF's, especially after they kill an Alien together. She even gets marked with sign of a Predator Warrior. They go back and find the nest and Sebastian is just about to explode a baby Alien. Well Alexa feels like its her duty to kill him, which makes the Predator respect her even more. They blow up the whole pyramid and run really fast, but the Queen Alien catches up with them on the surface, and after a big fight Alexa drowns it in the freezing Arctic Ocean. Sadly the Predator dies, and a Predator King rewards Alexa with her bravery and friendship with the fallen soldier. Meaning he doesn't kill her. Then the big shocker at the end, at the dead Predator's funeral on his spaceship, a alien/predator hybrid pops out of his tummy! Lead up for a sequel we thankfully don't own.

I liked this movie. There were lots of action sequences, and I was on the edge of my seat most of the time.

Andrew's Closing Thought: I want to befriend a galactic hunter

Up Next: Almost Famous

Alien

Alright, I know that this is suppose to be one of the greatest movies ever in cinematic history, but  I just don't see it. I knew nothing about this movie except for the fact that there is Sigourney Weaver and an alien that pops out of a person. ( I only first learned of the last one because of Spaceballs). According to the critics this is the baby if Jaws and Star Wars decided to shack up. I do see how back in the day it was pretty scary.

This chronicles a commercial towing spaceship that's on its way back from it's job and its' ship goes crazy and puts them off schedule. In this cast we have Sigourney Weaver, Bilbo Baggins, and Ollivander. And like 3 other people that we don't really care about. And a cat! Well they decide to go and explore the planet the the "Mother" ship is leading them to. There they find a space jockey (apparently a common term to Andrew), that has been dead. Well Ollivander decides to be really dumb and go explore and look at some alien eggs, and then goes to touch one. Well the thing attacks him. Throughout the movie Sigourney is the voice of reason and I just wish people would have listened to her, except there wouldn't be a movie if they did. Anyway, Bilbo disregards her orders and lets the contaminated spacewalkers back onto the ship.
 The facehugger stays on Ollivander for a while, while making a baby alien in his stomach.
Then we are honored with one of the greatest moments of film history, when this alien pops out of his stomach. His castmates had no idea what was going to happen only that something was going to pop out of him. So all of their emotions are totally real. That was pretty cool. Well Bilbo protects the alien the entire time because he is secretly a robot put on the ship from the company that payed for the mission because they wanted to research the alien. Well everybody dies except Sigourney, and she and the cat make it safely home even after the alien stows aboard her escape pod and she throws the alien out in space.

As I said earlier, this movie wasn't my favorite. It was really long and boring during most of the movie. I also noticed that there was a lot of silence throughout the movie. It makes sense since it was in space, and in space "no one can hear you scream".

Andrew's Closing Thought: "Sticks his tongue out and waves it around" Not as scary as I remember, but still good.

Up Next: Alien vs. Predator

Across the Universe

Yes! The first musical we've gotten to. Andrew hates all of my musicals. He only likes Sweeney Todd, which is his. Now, I'm going to be frank with all you readers out there, I don't like the Beatles. (Please keep reading my blog though!) However I do like Beatles songs when the Beatles aren't singing it, just like in this movie, or in Glee, or in the Olympic Closing Ceremonies. I thought Russel Brand actually did good! Anyway, Andrew hates when other people sing Beatles songs, so this was already not a good start. I made him watch this once before many years ago, and he didn't like it then. Well his feelings haven't changed.

We meet our main character Jude, who travels from grungy Liverpool England to good ole cookie cutter America in search of his biological father. Well, that doesn't turn out as wonderful as he hoped it would, so he ends up hanging out with his new friend Max. They become bosom buddies and after Max drops out of Princeton, they move to New York to live the Dream. They join a ragtag group of other people who are just as lost as they are and are looking for a way to survive in this world. In this group we have Prudence, a lesbian who spends half her time pining after women she can't have, until she finally accepts who she is and becomes comfortable with herself and her sexuality. There is also Sadie, the landlady of this group as well as Rockstar. Then there is JoJo, who has come to New York to escape the heartache after the loss of a loved one in the Detroit Riot. He joins Sadie's band and show's off his mad guitar skills.  Max's sister Lucy eventually joins the group after her sweetheart dies at Vietnam. Sadly though, Max is then drafted into the war. Before he departs they go on some crazy trip (both the traveling and hallucinogenic kind) where Eddie Izzard and Bono turn the movie from a film that is actually quite enjoyable, into a movie where you just go "WHAT!??"
Once they are back to reality, Max gets sent off to war while Lucy joins an antiwar activist group. She gets super caught up in it,3
. leaving poor little Jude behind. He has no cause to fight for and gets really depressed without Max. He starts throwing strawberries at the wall. Well he totally loses everything. Lucy, his sanity, and his free ticket into America. He gets shipped back off to Liverpool and tries to settle back in England but it just doesn't seem right anymore. Meanwhile, back in the states, Max is finally back after getting injured in the war, and Lucy's activist group gets a bit too radical. Jude decides to come back to the states the right way and goes through immigration laws, because he wants nothing to stop he and Lucy from being together. After success tears Sadie and JoJo apart, they finally get back together in an 'impromptu' concert on a roof. This too is where Lucy and Jude reconcile, and all is right with the world!

One thing I really like about this movie is the way that is blends in with real historical events and things. They go and eat at the Katz Delicatessen, the most famous deli in the world according to Andrew. As mentioned before, the Detroit Riot is a key part in one of our characters lives, and there is also a pretty awesome song being sung during it. There is also a riot at Columbia University and a protest gone wrong that Lucy is involved with. She narrowly escapes being blown up as her radical activist friends die from their own bomb. I'm not sure if these last ones are real, but it seems like they are.

Not only is there great music in this movie, but there is a lot of good commentary about the dichotomy between Small Town America and the Crazy, Unruly, Liberal world of New York.

 Back to the music. I have a hard time picking out who I think is the best singer in this movie.  I know we all fell in love with Jim Sturgess after finding out he can sing like an angel, but I find myself torn between Max and Jojo. I think Jojo wins just because of his rendition of Oh, Darling. The best song I think is the "Let it Be" that is being sung during the Detroit Riot and subsequent funerals. Both of these songs just have such raw emotion that I can't help but get goosebumps! For those of you who have seen the movie, what are your favorite songs/singers???

Oh, and Sadie is suppose to be a Janis Joplin figure, and Jojo is suppose to be a Jimi Hendrix figure. There are also some celebrity cameos. We have Joe Cocker, Bono, Eddie Izzard, and Salma Hayek all adding their voices to the soundtrack.

Andrew's Closing Thought:I don't even know what that movie's about!

Up Next: Alien

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

This is without a doubt my favorite of the Ace Ventura movies. It's just altogether so much better and funnier than the first one. Andrew even agrees. He says that Ventura is less weird and more funny in this one. First we meet up with him while he is trying to rescue a raccoon. This is seriously a heartbreaking moment for me. I think i teared up a little tonight when the raccoon's cables broke and he fell into a snowy abyss. Ace takes it pretty hard too and goes to a monastery for a while. He tries to get a slinky all the way down the huge staircase of the monastery, and it stops on the very last step. Every child in the world ever after seeing this tried it at one point or another. It doesn't work unless your staircase is slanted. Anyway, he is hired to find a missing bat from an African tribe. First one of the greatest moments of this movie, when he is doing the greatest shadow puppet show ever during his briefing of his case. Hi Ho Silver Away!! Then he meets with the tribe and has a loogie hocking contest. This I absolutely cannot stand. I just gagged while typing that previous sentence. I can't even handle it in Titanic when Jack is teacher Rose how to spit like a man. So then Ace is welcomed into the tribe, fingerprint dusts the sacred room of the bat, and has some crazy witch hands made out of zucchini. He does some great undercover work of stalking a guy named Quinn, in which we are delighted with another wonderful montage of him blending in with different animals. The absolute best is when he is inside a robotic rhino, breaks his air conditioning, and tears his way out of the rubber butt while tourists are thinking a baby rhino is being born. Greatest moment of the movie.
                                                                                                               

 He then visits a rival tribe and fights to stay alive by taking their Wachuchu tests. This involves walking on coals, fighting on a log, removing something from a body, and finally a fight to the death. He fights a crazy little guy that always makes Andrew and I think of Jaleel White. Sadly in the credits his name was nowhere to be found. Ace turns out to be such a sissy girl that they let him go. He then goes on to solve the case which involves teleporting his spirit to seek guidance at the monastery, a stampede comparable to the one in Jumanji, and a monster truck race through the jungle
 Andrew would pre quote almost all the lines in the movie. So I think I'm going to sing along with every song in our next movie.

 Andrew's Closing Thought: Shikaka!

Up Next: Across the Universe

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

 

I know its been a while since the last post. Andrew's work schedule hasn't allowed us to watch any movies recently. Plus I've kind of gotten really into Call of Duty: Black Ops. And there was this little thing called the OLYMPICS!!! But we should be able to start watching movies more regularly. Tonight we are doing a double feature of both Ace Ventura movies. We just watched the first one, and now Andrew is making us some chicken strips using our brand new deep fryer. Then we will watch the second.

So I was never allowed to watch this movie when it first came out. There was a lot of adult material in it which my mom deemed inappropriate. I have however seen pieces of it here and there when it is shown on tv, but I've never seen it all the way through. Andrew however has this movie memorized. He and a friend of his growing up would watch this movie every single day. It must be that one year age difference between us, and he's just a lot more mature than me so he can handle the adult content.

Well the movie starts and I'm laughing already, because of Ace Ventura being super dramatic and making sure to break the glass of a fragile package delivery while secretly rescuing a stolen dog. Hilarious.  I was immediately struck with just how young he looks! The Miami Dolphin mascot Snowflake has been stolen, and he is on the case. One of Andrew's favorite scenes is when Ace is investigating Snowflakes holding tank and does a Star Trek impression in the big echoey pool. He just thought it was the coolest thing. Andrew was also really appalled to find out that they had removed the part of the movie where Ace poses as the dolphins trainer and talks to the press. According to IMDB this was taken out of the movie, but then put on the VHS when released to video. I wonder why it didn't make it onto the DVD?? I suppose that's a mystery not even a pet detective could find the answer to.



I love the cop guy in this scene, and Andrew does to. I have only scene him in the movie Surf Ninjas though!!



Anyway, Ace discovers a gem stone in the pool that belonged to a member of the 1984 Miami Dolphin Superbowl Team. The only person left that it must be after a funny montage of finding former football players and looking at their rings is the one and only Ray Finkle. He lost the game in the end for the team by missing his field goal, and has gone crazy over it. He blamed Dan Marino for it and was intent on destroying the Miami Dolphins and killing Dan. Ace, along with his sidekick Melissa (Courney Cox) go to the mental institution where Finkle escaped from and do some detective work. There was a scene where Ace accidentally steps on a lot of bubble wrap while trying to be sneaky, and jumps up and down on it. This instantly took me back to New Years Eve, and its a tradition of my family that at the stroke of midnight we jump around on lots of bubble wrap that we have been storing up the entire year. I digress. Ace figures out who the kidnapper is, and saves the day! (I'm not sure if I should tell you who the kidnapper was, and Andrew didn't seem too keen that I was giving away spoilers). But if you wanna know, google it!

The best thing about this movie, is that Andrew was basically smiling the whole time.It was really fun for him to be the one for a change to be excited about a scene that he used to love as a kid, the same way I did with 3 ninjas.

Andrew's Closing Thoughts: Finkle is Einhorn!     (oops! so much for the spoiler!)

Up Next: Ace Venture: When Nature Calls

300

This was my first time ever watching 300. I was pretty worried about how gruesome it would be, but it really wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I always love a good war story, because I love seeing what kind of creative military tactics a group will come up with. Well Leonidas and his gang had plenty. I also appreciate when a movie is different and has the super cgi feel, especially when its based off of a graphic novel. The blood wasn't that bad, its just parts like when someone gets a spear through their bicep that I can't handle it. Luckily I had Andrew there telling me when something really gross was about to happen.  There were a lot of historical figures in the movie, and I'm not talking about Spartan/Persian figures. Did anyone else realize that the old creepy men in charge of the oracle looked shockingly like The Emperor from Star Wars? And that the Persian messenger who gets killed in front of the wall of dead men talked like Bill Cosby? The biggest shocker was that the Councilman who is the Queen's ally was actually Abe Lincoln.

Now can I just say a few obvious things that we were all thinking when we saw this: Michael Fassbender!!
 I'm pretty sure Xerces was a drag queen. The Persian Immortals looked like ninjas! The queen is awesome, especially her hair.

In any kind of war movie, the one thing that I really can't stand is when horses die. Even CGI ones.


Around the time that this movie came out, I was taking a Western Civilization class, and we actually learned about the real history of this movie. So while watching it, I knew the fate of the 300, but at the very end of the movie, when all of Sparta and Greece go after the Persians I don't know who won. So it's a dumb question, but who was it? I assume Persia lost?


Overall I really liked this movie once I could get over all the gore stuff, and if I were to watch it again I would be ready for all those moments. There was a strong female lead and an awesome army with cool military moves. It reminded me a lot of Gladiator. The two women kind of look alike, Maximus and Leonidas both yell a lot, and the field of wheat!  I also really liked the way it was filmed. When the oracle is going all crazy, that was filmed with her being underwater!! Pretty cool. 

Andrews Closing Thoughts: Just as good as I remember.


Up Next: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

27 Dresses

This is one of my favorite movies. It's like one of the 6 movies I like to watch whenever I am feeling blue or sick.  For those who haven't seen it, it's about this girl Jane, who is the ultimate bridesmaid and helper. She is super good at being a bridesmaid, and has been in 27 weddings. She's suffering from unrequited love with her boss, which everyone knows about except for him. (That's how I was with Andrew. For 2 years!) Her sister comes to town after failing at life, and "falls in love" with George the boss even though she's just super fake and gets caught up in the moment. They decide to get married after like a month of meeting, and Tess the bridezilla basically steals Jane's man and her dream wedding. Along the way we meet Kevin, played by the dazzling James Marsden. He's funny, sarcastic, cynical and still such a dreamboat. He's writing the Sunday spread about weddings and is writing an article about the Dream Wedding, and secretly Jane's story of bridesmaid-hood. Basically any scene that has Kevin and Jane interacting is great because they have good chemistry and are pretty funny. The best is of course when the get drunk and sing Benny and the Jets to a full bar. I think that was actually the first time I ever heard that song shockingly enough. Eventually after all hell breaks loose, and the story about Jane is out for the world to see and her sister destroys their mom's wedding gown and adds pieces of it to another dress. Fun fact: This dress is a mass produced dress by Amsale, and can sometimes be seen on the Oxygen show called Amsale Girls, which chronicles the work life of consultants and dress finding adventures at the Amsale Studio in NY.
(I'm still waiting for season 2 btw!!)

 Then, Jane grows a spine and finally stops being a pushover! She wreaks havoc on her sister at the rehearsal dinner and exposes the truth of Tess. But Kevin is there to comfort her and makes her go through one more loop after a long day riding her emotional roller coaster. In the end she finally gets the closure that George is not the man for her and the Kevin is. She gives a great speech on a yacht wedding and Kevin romantically tells her to "get over here!"

 
One year later they get married in a beautiful beach wedding.

It was fun watching this after just getting married, because I could be all corny throughout the movie and make Andrew wish he wasn't here with me. During the movie, Andrew decided that he was going to use my strategy of watching movies I've never seen before, which is to just ask questions all the time, predicting what's going to happen next. So he kept going on and on throughout the movie about what he thought was going to happen.  I actually caught him genuinely laughing during this movie, so whether he admits it or not, I'm pretty sure he enjoyed it!

I absolutely loved Katherine Heigl in this movie. This and Life as we Know It are my favorites. She nails all the comedic bits and also uses her Grey's Anatomy drama skills to deliver some killer zingers.(Ex: You're not my baby sister. You're just a bitch who broke my heart and destroyed my mother's wedding dress) Also she has really great clothes, and her hair is amazing. I wish I had her wardrobe and hair. Now I'm going to get all English Minor on you, and show how her clothes progress with her transformation throughout the movie. At the first big party we see her at, she looks pretty mousy and not confident in herself at all. Then when she is seeking revenge on her sister, she looks like a glamazon and really brings the drama and passion through in her look. Then in the final party outfit, she is comfortable with who she is and moving past being a pushover, and that alone gives a new glow about her, along with a sophisticated and understated look that is stunning.

 

Andrew's Closing Thoughts: After watching the 4 3 Ninja movies, this was the greatest movie I've ever seen in the whole wide world.

Up Next: 300