I’ll admit this isn’t the best film I’ve ever seen, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as everyone below me has made it out to seem.

The whole beginning and it’s over the top family values is to show how Tom has assimilated into what he thinks is family life, which since he doesn’t understand what a real one is like, he is overly nice and over the top, because he doesn’t know any better. It’s also clear that he has mental issues, since he tried to get rid of his “bad half” even though it ended up catching up to him when his picture was on the news and his true self was forced out. And the whole fight scene with his son and how he defends his dad’s life is perhaps illustrating a theory that this kind of behavior is passed down through family members and even though the boy didn’t realize his dad was a murderer, he already had it in him to be one too.

And lastly, I think Tom’s fighting skills are extremely realistic to his character, since that’s what he did for a long time before he became “normal.” I’m taking a self-defense class that is teaching us similar moves and despite the warnings of what could happen if we use these moves, it was still a wake-up call while watching this movie to see a person using them.

This book was absolutely amazing. I couldn’t put it down for days and I finally finished reading it today. It left me with a lot of questions and a lot of pity for poor Elphaba.
The book was so descriptive and well-written that you couldn’t help but feel bad when something bad happened to her or someone close to her died.
The book had a lot of political and religious talk in it as well, which only made it more believable. I imagine some people found that aspect of the book boring, but it needed to be there to provide some movement and meaning to the story.
Even though this book was just another version, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to watch the Wizard of Oz the same way again. And it really makes you wonder what Frank Baum had in mind when he was writing the book.

All I hafta say is the book was waaay better. They cut out so much stuff, which I understand because of time constraints, but they didn’t have to totally change parts of the story. Oh well.

This movie was a total emotional rollercoaster. One minute people are crying, the next they’re laughing and hugging each other. Despite these ups and downs, the movie turned out to be really entertaining. I think most of this was due to Sarah Jessica Parker’s performance and of course, Luke Wilson’s. The rest of the cast was excellent, but these two stuck out the most to me. Also, Diane Keaton was really good in this and anyone who is a fan of her work should like this movie.

This book was one of the best I’ve read in quite some time. It opened my eyes up to another way of life, which always interests me. How accurate the author was at portraying the Geisha lifestyle does not detract away from his ability to paint a beautiful picture of one girls journey through life. It really could have been anyone trying to overcome adversity and still have been appealing.

One of my favorite quotes from this book was, “sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.”

It’s such a simple thing to say, yet it captures the whole spirit of the book. The entire time, the main character is able to survive anything, due to her ability to see past the hardships and onto what she thinks will become her destiny. I think anyone who refuses to be deterred from following their dreams will like this book very much.

Danny is a guy, who like a lot of us, gets sick of living the same routine day after day. By accident, via helium balloons tied to a chair, he ends up lifting himself out of his dull, meaningless life and lands admist an explosion of fireworks, into this town who instantly adores him, despite one mean-spirited cop.

He finally has the chance he’s always been dreaming of to start over. He finds a woman he gets along with, way more than his current girlfriend; he finds a more meaningful job and even dabbles in politics, something he’d never considered and has all the friends he could dream of having.

It’s at this point, however that the movie starts to get a little predictable. We all know that good things don’t last forever and that there are consequences to just uprooting your life and beginning anew. Some of the old stuff comes with you. And so, all of the things he’s left behind slowly catch up to him, since by this time his girlfriend and friends have wondered where he floated off to and are looking to find him.

The way his past catches up to him and his current life in this new town are interesting, but you can see where this movie is going a mile away. That doesn’t make it any less entertaining, in fact it proves the point that you can’t have everything you want without a cost, but that coming close to it is easier than we think. Perhaps we’d all benefit from tying ourself to a chair linked with balloons. Sure we’d probably all hit electric wires, but in theory getting away for awhile wouldn’t kill us. Maybe all we need to do is to travel or just mix things up a little like Danny did. Something good has to come of it.