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Today's topic: "My 10 favorite movies"

Since it's nigh impossible for me to pick just10 out of the bajillion movies I've seen, I'm going to alter the topic a bit and just talk about 10 movies that I've seen recently. In no particular order, I shall review 10 "new" movies I've seen in the past month:

1. The Happening: So I'm a huge fan of M. Night Shyalaman's movies and so of course I've been wanting to see his newest one for a very long time even though I've heard that it wasn't very good. Finally saw it on DirectTV the other night. It wasn't bad....it was terrible. The scary/thriller aspect was very good, but beyond that, it was painful to watch. I hope that Shyalaman's next work isn't nearly as horrid - -;

2. Street Fighter: Legend of Chun Li: I watched this last night and I'm not a huge Street Fighter fan but I am familiar with the characters and their backstories for the most part. I was actually suprised at how not disappointed I was with this movie lol. The only problem I had with it was (SPOILER!!!!! sort of) that M. Bison was portrayed as this corrupt corperate evil guy instead of the psycho dictator that he usual is. Besides that I thought the movie was pretty good.

3. Penelope: I really, REALLY like this movie a lot :3 It's cute and fun without being too terribly cheesy. I hated Penelope's mom but I think I was supposed to. On the other hand, I loved Penelope's wardrobe and just the character herself. Also the message of the movie was wonderful and I think more movies should have the same message which is basically it's more important to love yourself than to be loved by others, especially those of the opposite sex.

4. Ice Age 3: This movie is HILARIOUS! Ice Age is the only 3D Animated movie series I've seen that doesn't get progressively worse, unlike some others (coughShrekcough). I love the characters and the plot is still interesting. Also Scrat is still as spazztastic as ever lol.

5. Ocean’s 12 & 13: The first one is fantastic. The second one is pretty good. The third one is just tiresome and stupid. That's really all I have to say about that. Shrug.

6. Ghost Town: I wasn't too sure that I was going to like this one or not at first. I've only watched it once and it seemed alright. I think I need to watch it again to be sure, but it's an alright movie. I mean who doesn't like movies about disgruntled a-holes eventually becoming good people in the process of dying at least twice and helping out dead people?

7. Julie & Julia: I didn't like this movie. It's about this woman (Julie) who's obsessed with Julia Child (famous tv cook) and she basically decides to cook each recipe in Julia Child's cookbook, one recipe a day for a year. And of course she eventually goes crazy and drives her husband crazy but don't worry because everything turns out alright in the end....except for the part about (SPOILERS!!!!) Julia Child not liking Julie's blog. Which totally shatters Julie's dreams. But of course that turns out alright too in the end. I just wasn't that impressed with this movie and I didn't really like the characters that much. However, I love Meryl Streep's portrayal of Julia Child. Meryl Streep is amazing. Just sayin'.

8. Confessions of a Shopaholic: Ha. Oh this movie. I didn't think I was going to like it that much, but it was actually very funny. Also I really liked the main character's signature green scarf. I guess in some cases, this movie also appealed to my interest in clothing and accessories. Though frankly most of the clothes I'd never wear but oh well. It's a funny movie with a great main character/actress and I'll glad it add to the "Chick Flicks That I Actually Like" list :3

9. Avatar: This was the first time I ever went to the cinema to see a movie that I didn't know jack squat about. I had just heard that it was awesome/amazing/etc. and decided one afternoon/evening out on the town that I wanted to see a movie and this looked like a good choice. So saying all that, it was pretty good. It had really great graphics and the plot and characters were kind of predictable but meh whatever. It had enough action/explosions to make up for what it lacked in originality. Of course because it has the military in it, there was a fair amount of swearing so that was a negative for me. Overall, I left satisfied with my first totally ignorant to the plot/spur of the moment moving going experience.

10. The Princess and the Frog: Thank God that Disney decided to do something that wasn't 3D or poorly directed live action!! I really liked this movie a lot: the characters were fantastic, the music was fantastic, the villian was fantastically evil, charming, and creepy. Actually the only complaint I have with this movie is the fact that the villian (who is still amazing and has a great musical number, of course) was a witch doctor and dealt with voodoo. Given we have other disney movie villians who are evil witches and do black magic...however, those villians were in movies that had princesses, knights, faeries, etc. while THIS movie was set in the 1920s in New Orleans. Given both black magic and voodoo are performed in today's world but still having voodoo (and evil spirits/demons/people from "the other side") in a children's movie is a little too....yeah I don't even know how to explain it honestly. It just rubs me the wrong way. However, I will say this - the villian and voodoo stuff in this movie wasn't NEARLY as scary as the villian in Hunchback of Notre Dame o_O. That movie....was just special. Anyway, I think The Princess and the Frog was a wonderful movie and I hope Disney continues to make more like it in the future :3

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