Guess the year wouldn't be complete without me finishing up this month with some books and movies!
Movies:
The Nativity Story: This was the first time I'd seen this, and I liked it. The ending was a bit like um what now guess we have to wait for the sequel to find out what HAPPENS NEXT?
While You Were Sleeping: Such a cute movie!
The Heat: At first I thought it was okay, and then gradually it just got . . . lame.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: The movie of the month! We watched this (and all the special features) to get ready for . . .
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: I thought it was great, but it is on a different (i.e. lower) level of epicness and awesomeness from LOTR in my opinion. And it's super long - I somehow forced myself to see the entire thing without a bathroom break and this was not a good idea.
Pacific Rim: Pretty cool movie. Lots of battles in the water where I couldn't really tell what was happening. Also a lot of stupid moves on the parts of humans and aliens.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: So sweet and touching. I almost forgot that this is pretty much a Christmas movie.
Won't Back Down: Kinda fun, but I'm a sucker for movies about angry moms reforming schools.
The Decoy Bride: I expected this movie to be totally cheesy and awful, but it had David Tennant and the girl who voices Merida in Brave, and they totally saved it! It was only somewhat cheesy and awful.
American Girl movies: I got really into "the mood" and watched the Samantha, Molly, and Felicity movies. The Samantha one is the funnest to make fun of, but the Felicity one was my favorite for reals this time. I also think Felicity is most faithful to the books. Molly stinks.
Miscellaneous Christmas movies: Miracle on 34th Street (the newer one), The King is Born, A Child's Christmas in the Wales (favorite!), A Christmas Carol, Hans Brinker (shout out to this one - it is really quite fun, especially when you haven't seen it in years but you still remember the funny parts), The Polar Express
Books:
American Girl books: I really got into my past this month - I read all the Molly books and Kit books, and a few random others. It was fun going back.
All Creatures Great and Small: I was too tired to find an exciting new book to read, so I just returned to this old favorite by James Herriot. I just love his stories - the content and the style.
Theater:
The Light in the Piazza: Ooooh this play/musical about a girl vacationing with her mother in Italy bothered me. The acting was excellent and the story was intriguing and the music was okay but I just felt like it went from temporary left everything unresolved and was far too (like unbelievably) optimistic about a lot of things. It went from temporary fairytale to full blown Never-ever-whatever-land.
