She's the Man

My favorite movie is She's the Man. It stars Amanda Bynes and Channing Tatum. Amanda Bynes plays Viola, a female high school soccer player who's team at her school has been cut. The boys won't let her go out for their team, so she devises a plan. Her twin brother, Sebastian, is supposed to be attending a new school called Illyria. He decides to go to London to see if he can make it in a music career. Viola puts on a wig and learns to walk like guy and pretends to be her brother and go out for the soccer team at Illyria, which also happens to be her school's rivals. She makes the second string on the boys team and convinces her roommate, Duke (Channing Tatum), to help her make first string before the rival game in exchange for convincing Olivia, a girl at the school, to go out with him. Hilarity and confusion ensues and soon their is quite the love triangle. Viola loves Duke, who thinks she's a guy named Sebastian. Duke loves Olivia, who loves Sebastian, who is really Viola. And then when the real Sebastian returns even more confusion erupts. This is actually based on a Shakespeare play, Twelfth Night. This movie is absolutely hilarious and I just totally love it!

Newsies

As I've mentioned before I do love a good musical. One musical that absolutely love is Newsies. I'm pretty sure almost every girl I know loves this movie. It is an almost all male cast and believe it or not the star of the movie is Christian Bale. That's right, Batman singing and dancing dressed as an early 1900's newsboy. He's not half bad as a singer actually. I heard also, that Bale was not exactly thrilled to be doing this movie at the time because it was a musical. I'm sure if someone was to ask him today what he thought about it the feedback wouldn't be the best. Anyways, the movie takes place in the early 1900's and I believe it is around the time of the depression. It follows a group of orphan newsboys and the daily lives they lead. The man who runs the newspaper, Pulitzer, ups the price of a newspaper for the newsboys. They are not pleased with this decision and decide to go on strike. The rest of the movie follows the newspaper big shots trying to keep the prices of their newspapers up while the newsboys are on strike and lead a pretty big revolution in the industrial revolution period. Anyways, I love this movie and think it's hilarious to see Christian Bale singing and dancing.

Green Street Hooligans

I watched Green Street Hooligans the other day for probably the 5th time. I really really like this movie! It stars Elijah Wood and takes place in England. Elijah Wood's character gets kicked out of Harvard because he got the blame for something his roommate did. He travels to England to live with his sister, who is married and has a baby. He meets her English husband for the first time and he introduces Elijah to his brother. The brother is kind of in a gang in England, but gangs over there aren't like gangs over here. They each support a soccer team and when those teams play each other is usually when the gangs meet up and things start to get violent. Elijah surprisingly enjoys being part of this gang and continues to hang out with them regardless of his sister and brother-in-law telling him it's not a good idea. I don't want to give away the ending, but secrets come out about the brother-in-law and there ends up being a huge fight at the end between two rivaling gangs. I thought it was a really good, interesting movie. It has drama as well as some action and some humorous parts. Overall it was just a really great movie!

Taken

I saw Taken a while ago and I thought it was great. It stars Liam Neeson and is quite the action packed thriller. Liam Neeson plays Brian, a retired preventer, who is trying to get close with his daughter. A preventer was someone who worked for the government who prevented bad things from happening. He's very skilled at what he does, but his job would take him away from home a lot. He missed the greater part of his daughter growing up. After he retires he moves closer to his daughter who lives with her mother and step father. His daughter ends up traveling to Paris with a friend where she gets kidnapped and sold into female trafficking. Her father finds out through a phone call from his daughter and embarks on a quest to find her before she is sold forever. Of course it is a fast paced movie with lots of action sequences. I thought it was just really amazing and Liam Neeson did a fabulous job!

80's Films

For some reason I love 80's movies. I'm not really sure why I love them so much, but maybe it's because it's a way to experience '80's culture. Some of my favorites are Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weekend at Bernie's, Can't Buy Me Love, and Back to the Future. Molly Ringwald is definitely one of my favorite actresses. And she was huge in 80's movies. I never get tired of these movies, I could watch them over and over again. It's interesting to watch them and see how movies have changed over the years, like what's different and what's the same. Especially high school movies and the issues high schoolers dealt with in the '80's versus what present day high schoolers deal with today. Overall, I just love '80's films and can't get enough of them!

American Idol

I don't typically watch American Idol, but my mother loves it, so I agreed to watch it with her tonight. They were in Orlando tonight and the guest judge was Kristin Chenoweth. And I have to say I absolutely love Kristin Chenoweth! She's hysterical and just so unbelievably talented. For those who don't know who she is, she is very well known on Broadway. She was in Wicked as Glinda, the Good Witch. She also made a guest appearance this season on the television show, Glee. She's won a Tony and more recently an Emmy. She has this very squeaky voice, but when she sings it is like the most amazing voice you've ever heard! She is just truly, truly talented.

But back to American Idol...some of the people are hilarious! I really don't understand how they think they can sing. They must be tone deaf because absolutely no one would say they have a good voice. One guy tonight was convinced that he was an amazing singer. Well, when he found out that he wasn't, he refused to leave! He just started singing all over again! Eventually, they called security and they dragged him out and then put him in handcuffs. And all the while he kept yelling that it was completely unfair. One word to sum that whole escapade up: WOW!!

Scott Brown Wins!!

I don't want to offend anyone in this post, but I am really happy that Scott Brown won! I'm not really into politics all that much, but I really wanted Brown to win. I just thought overall he was the better candidate. And this was definitely history in the making. He came from 30 points down and pulled out the win, which whether you support him or not, that is pretty amazing and rare in a political race. I hope that with Scott Brown's win, there will be a lot of change in where our country is headed right now. I think Martha Coakley ran a good race, but her tactics weren't quite as good as Brown's. The best thing Brown said during a debate, when the interviewer asked him how he felt about possibly filling Ted Kennedy's seat, he said that it's not Ted Kennedy's seat, it's the people's seat. And he is absolutely right! We pick these people because we think they will best represent us, it's not about the person in the seat and what they want, but it's about them listening to the people and speaking on their behalf. Way to go Scott!!