anatess
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- Jul 26, 2011
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My husband and I are big movie freaks. FREAKS. We have "Date Night" every Friday night and for some reason, we always end up going to the theater. We both just love it. But no, I haven't seen all the movies because we sometimes watch the same movie over and over. For example, we saw The Matrix at the theaters every single weekend - sometimes twice a weekend - from the day it came out to the day it disappeared from the dollar theaters. Yeah, that's over 20 times. We watched Avatar in Real3D, Imax3D, regular 2D, for a total of... eh, about 12 times. Yeah. Freaks.
So, last weekend, we saw Act of Valor. I LOVE THAT MOVIE! And I'm not big on war movies, especially the R-rated ones. I loved it so much, I saw it 3 times in one weekend. Critics give it low rating because of the "bad acting". Interestingly, that was WHY I loved the movies sooooo much! The movie stars 8 Navy SEALs. The real deal. Not actors portraying SEALs. The action scenes were actual training missions that the director incorporated into a fictional story. And they added things that would tie the training mission to the fictional story by letting some of the SEALs say some lines - which, of course, were badly acted because... these are SEALs not Tom Cruise. It's such a refreshing movie.
So... I watched the Academy Awards over the weekend and they showed Tom Cruise. And I can't help but think - here's this guy portraying all these impossible stunts in Mission Impossible and he can't hold a candle to a real-deal Navy SEAL... man, it makes me want to watch Act of Valor again. We're probably going to watch that movie every weekend for the next month or so...
And the crazy thing about it is... the Filipinos are the bad guys in the movie! It's quite jarring to see a Filipino strap a bomb to her chest. But, it brings home to me the fact that my country is neck-deep in their fight against terrorists. They've been fighting these extremists since the 70's. My dad quit his job as a district manager for Procter and Gamble in the early 70's because he was assigned to Southern Philippines and he would be riding in the delivery truck and a stray bullet would zing by through the windshield from the constant skirmishes between the military and the extremists...
Anyway, the Academy Awards was great this year. I was hoping Hugo would win. I was hoping Nick Nolte would win. Warrior was another one of those movies we saw plenty of times at the theater. But yeah, Merryl Streep was great in Iron Lady so I think she deserved that win. I was also thinking that girl from the Dragon Tattoo movie deserved an Oscar as well. And, like before, Angelina would look much better if she'd eat 4 Big Macs a day. LOL.
Act of Valor won't get a single nomination for the Academy. But, that's fine. It already won with me. Hoo-yah!
So, last weekend, we saw Act of Valor. I LOVE THAT MOVIE! And I'm not big on war movies, especially the R-rated ones. I loved it so much, I saw it 3 times in one weekend. Critics give it low rating because of the "bad acting". Interestingly, that was WHY I loved the movies sooooo much! The movie stars 8 Navy SEALs. The real deal. Not actors portraying SEALs. The action scenes were actual training missions that the director incorporated into a fictional story. And they added things that would tie the training mission to the fictional story by letting some of the SEALs say some lines - which, of course, were badly acted because... these are SEALs not Tom Cruise. It's such a refreshing movie.
So... I watched the Academy Awards over the weekend and they showed Tom Cruise. And I can't help but think - here's this guy portraying all these impossible stunts in Mission Impossible and he can't hold a candle to a real-deal Navy SEAL... man, it makes me want to watch Act of Valor again. We're probably going to watch that movie every weekend for the next month or so...
And the crazy thing about it is... the Filipinos are the bad guys in the movie! It's quite jarring to see a Filipino strap a bomb to her chest. But, it brings home to me the fact that my country is neck-deep in their fight against terrorists. They've been fighting these extremists since the 70's. My dad quit his job as a district manager for Procter and Gamble in the early 70's because he was assigned to Southern Philippines and he would be riding in the delivery truck and a stray bullet would zing by through the windshield from the constant skirmishes between the military and the extremists...
Anyway, the Academy Awards was great this year. I was hoping Hugo would win. I was hoping Nick Nolte would win. Warrior was another one of those movies we saw plenty of times at the theater. But yeah, Merryl Streep was great in Iron Lady so I think she deserved that win. I was also thinking that girl from the Dragon Tattoo movie deserved an Oscar as well. And, like before, Angelina would look much better if she'd eat 4 Big Macs a day. LOL.
Act of Valor won't get a single nomination for the Academy. But, that's fine. It already won with me. Hoo-yah!