Beautiful Creatures hits the theatres tomorrow…

Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Toronto screening of Beautiful Creatures. I won tickets from Beauty Crazed, and was super excited.

Basically it is about a young woman who arrives to a small town, full of bible thumping…enthusiasts (okay…I am tempted to use the word “nuts”, as they were. Being Christian, it makes me cringe when I watch things that show how…extreme some people who label themselves as Christians can be. The thing is, it is so backwards when you come down to the basics of it. Not cool to think you are better than another in any way. Thus their views are not mine…). She is the niece of a man who seems to keep well to himself, and not really looked fondly upon by the other town members. As soon as she shows up, the whole school seems to dislike her immediately…except for Ethan. Of course, Ethan has fallen head over heels for her, even before meeting her in the flesh…and so we see a bit of romance happening. Okay…I’m not the best person to tell you about the main storyline. Watch the trailer and check out IMBD.

I actually had two papers due that week…and…I messed up my priorities, but hey…at least I enjoyed the movie!

First things first, I was under the impression that this was a YA movie, but really did enjoy watching it. There were cheesy lines, but they were funny, and I found that it really suited the movie. The main actors did their part well (in my view), and really seemed to help the story move along.

I did think that it was a tad longer than it needed to be, especially when the ending that it ended up with, however I came out of the movie theatre wanting to read the book. Thus I think it is safe to say that despite the length, and how they ended it, I enjoyed it.

I’d def watch this again over watching Safe Haven, even when factoring in seeing Josh on the big screen lol

Are you planning on seeing a movie for Valentines Day?

*I won tickets through a giveaway, and was not paid to write this post.
I merely wanted to share my experience*

Getting to watch a free movie is always nice…

So I had an opportunity to go to the Safe Haven premiere earlier this week.

Well, I had a chance at getting tickets. When I got there, all the general admissions were already out, so I had to wait in the “Rush” line. I had arrived 45mins prior to the movie time, and had just missed it…well luckily my friend didn’t mind waiting around with me, and we were the first in line, so we did get tickets in the end.

Well, it was nice seeing Julianna Hough and Josh Duhamel in person. They stood nearly in front of me, as they posed for pictures with the fans. It was so amusing actually. As soon as they stepped in the doors, this Asian girl just ran up to Josh (past the security barrier) and screamed, “Can I get a picture Josh?!” when he said sure, she yelled at the security, “He said OKAY!” So they wouldn’t drag her off of Josh lol

Anyway, I kind of wanted to get pictures with them, but was a tad too shy. Didn’t help that my iPhone has been acting up, and isn’t taking pictures well in dim places. It used to perform decently…ah well.

I got pictures of Josh taking a picture with a fan, who might I add, got at least 4 with him because he moved too quickly. Same with her friend. Was hard on the others who wanted to take pictures with him as well :T

I got this blurry picture of Julianne signing for people. The picture doesn’t capture it at all, but the dress was quite lovely on her. Just flowed right, and looked quite nice.

Once my friend and I got in to the theatre, we waited to see Josh and Julianne again.

Except, they said hi, and then left.

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The papers said that they would be in attendance IN the audience…

But then again, there are many actor/actresses who don’t watch the final cut of their movies. I think it was Julianne who even said she had only seen it twice.

Just think that if they aren’t going to be in the audience, don’t pretend, and don’t save prime seats in the middle for them. Guess that is more on the PR than them though. They probably didn’t even know what was going on.

So…

What did I think of Safe Haven?

First off, Josh’s character, Alex’s daughter Kristen (Mimi Kirkland) was AWESOME lol she was just too cute. Same with the son Josh (Noah Lomax). They did their parts well.

There were awkward parts in the movie, which I found out later that they were awkward because they were ad-libbed. Well I am hoping that the parts I found were awkward were ad-libbed, as there is no other excuse really for it.

However the backdrop of the town was lovely, and I did find that I wasn’t necessarily bored by the movie.

I do think you can tell just after the halfway point how the movie, or the main point, will end. At the very least, you will bring up a question to yourself about it, and then have it confirmed in the end. You won’t be sideswiped like the 6^th Sense (yes, I made that mention. I mean COME ON, who the heck knew that before the last 15 minutes of the movie?! If you did…well…maybe I can blame my youth for not realizing it sooner lol).

At the Q&A, which again I wasn’t impressed with, as we were told everyone would have a fair chance in answering…except the individual from Kiss 92.5 wore heeled boots that wouldn’t let her run about, so she retracted her statement and stuck with the first few rows. Some people tried to move down closer, but was too late by then, as time had run out.

Anyway at the Q&A there was a lady who mentioned that this was one of the top 3 movies that made her cry.

Apparently she hasn’t seen many movies, as this would not even crack the top 10 for me. So just to compare, if you tried the first 10 minutes of UP (PIxar movie), I HIGHLY doubt you will cry for this. It wasn’t emotional in that way. It was just more of an, “aaaahhhh….awwww.” reaction.

So with this long entry, to sum up, I wouldn’t say that this is a awesome romantic movie. I probably wouldn’t say that it is a great romantic movie either. Just, okay. There were some parts that were done extremely well, but they didn’t really make up for the entire movie as a whole. I would also probably suggest against watching it full price. Either get tickets from campus ($9.50 for a ticket), or go on Tuesday. To be completely honest, despite being a Nicholas Sparks novel based movie, I probably wouldn’t have watch it, even if it came out on DVD. But hey, maybe it is cause I like sappier, cheesier things, like Sweet Home Alabama or the beginning of UP.

But hey, don’t let my view, one of many; stop you from checking it out. Josh was quite cute in it, in a scruffy looking way, so that was worth it for sure :P

Anyway it comes out February 14th if you wanted to know.

**I was not paid to write about this, and I won the opportunity to get
free tickets from a blog giveaway**

You would think they would care a bit more…

This is a rant.

So if you don’t care for it, please continue on.

But I’m just so unsatisfied with Yorkdale Cineplex Odeon that I have officially vowed to ban that location from my places to go.

A few days ago, I wanted to watch Les Miserables with my mother. She hasn’t gone to a movie since I was born, which is just too much time. Plus I wanted a mother daughter date. So I picked up the cheaper movie passes on campus, and we headed to Yorkdale to watch it (out of my way by a lot, but it was the only place showing at 1:05pm).

Now when I get there, there is one person manning the ticket booth. Okay, that’s fine, I mean considering the time. Usually Matinees aren’t busy.

HOWEVER, there was a group of high school kids, and some guy that was currently being served that was backing up the line. There were 5 people ahead of me, not including the high school kids, and the man already at the counter. But this worker was going SUPER slowly! I should also mention that right in front of me, was an elderly man, and an elderly woman in a wheelchair behind me.

It took me 7-8 minutes to get to the counter.

All this time, he worked alone.

It just so happens when I get to the damned counter, that is when the other guy comes.

Now I bring this up, “Look, if you are being backed up, you should call for backup instead of making us wait like this. Thankfully because of the previews I haven’t missed my movie.”

To that he replies, “I called for someone see,” and gestures to the guy.

“Well calling someone near the end of the issue, and after so much time has passed, isn’t really helping the situation is it?”

Then the MORON, yes I will call him a freaking moron (seriously dude, if I saw you on the street, I would probably want to kick your shins,) didn’t scan my Scene cards correctly. My mother and I each have our own. I separate the tickets and the cards, and told him to process them, “This ticket on this card, this one on the other”. That isn’t a hard request.

I finish up and check my receipt. He scanned ONE card, putting both tickets on the one card. You Jerk. “Why did you not do as I asked?”

“Well cause I can process them both on one card.”

“Well obviously you need to read your manual on the Scene membership, as you just failed to redeem an extra 100 points for me. Forget it, I’m going to catch the movie”

and I left.

Once I got to the entrance, I was so bottled up by the moron’s rudeness, that I ranted. Right to the two guys that were standing there. The other Cineplex workers.

I gotta say, they know that when a girl needs to rant, let her rant. Just nod and say nothing until you are asked. They did a great job. Once I got that out of my system, one of the guys (the other slowly sidestepped away…) asked if he should call the manager for me, if the rant wasn’t enough. I laughed and thanked him, but told him if anything I will talk to him after the movie.

Except when I sat down, I was still peeved.

So I went back out and asked him to call a manager for me.

Now the manager experience was interesting. At first I was glad that he was listening, and understood that there should have been an apology, and a quicker reaction time to a call for help from the ticket booth. But the problem there was that I realized afterwards, he kept cutting me off. And I HATE that. You listen to my issue, and then you can have your turn.

So he told me he would add the points on for me after the movie, and include vouchers.

But guess what.

I was watching the movie, and realized that something was off. The screen was not calibrated properly, and scenes were being cut off weird. Like a huge shot of Russel Crowe’s face, cut just above his eye. It was just off! Not to mention that it was overly loud. Like, I wish I could stuff my ears with cotton loud. Which I know is not normal :T So it was definitely uncomfortable in the beginning of the movie, and I dreaded any moment that would have a musical scene with drums and such.

So, one trip where Cineplex Odeon dropped the ball not once, but twice.

I understand it is a matinee show. HOWEVER, you need your staff to do the work properly. Not ignore their duties. What do you pay them to do then?

It also wasn’t cool that the Cineplex Odeon twitter account also ignored the issues I raised. I checked their previous tweets, and it seems that they only use the account to mention new movie releases, movie facts, or giveaway. No interaction with those on twitter otherwise. What a fail at using Twitter.

Okay, now that I got that out of my system…

Back to regular blogging lol

 

 

 

 

 

Crank & 17

To celebrate the end of exams…(I’m losing count as to what year this is -_-;;) I checked out these two movies with a few friends…

Crank
First off, I don’t mind them. Both the first and the second. BUT I would say save your money and catch it on DVD. Bai Ling was incredibly annoying, though that was her role, and there was more boobs than I remember seeing in the first one. A TOO much more…Though I can’t say I didn’t laugh for a good 3/4 of it…Plus because of the speed, I felt as if this movie ended in like 30 mins! Talk about speed~

17 Again
This was one I did really enjoy watching. I was leaning towards watching Wolverine, with the rest of Toronto but we decided against it and selected 17 Again as our choice.

I am not a big fan of Efron. He just doesn’t do anything for me, but I enjoyed his performance in the movie. I liked the little Ned parts, when he tries to woo his woman. The encounters between Scar and Mike (the teen version).

What I didn’t like…was the fact that WOMEN/MOTHERS bought their kids, who were under the age of 6 into the movie.

“Mommy…What’s a bastard?? Mommy tell me!!!”

There was a baby who cried at least for half of the movie. I was infuriated by this, namely because of the fact that the mother is negligent in terms of the infants hearing. If the infant develops any anamolies in the future, the child has no other person to thank than their own mother.

The toddlers who were sitting behind us, were SO BORED that they started running back and forth in front of the of back seats, and kicking our own chairs.

Mothers were blatantly having their own conversations LOUDLY, ignoring their children. I mean as long as they are within the vicinity, they can’t get lost, so might as well unwind.

I understand that its not easy being a mother, and that you are entitled to watch a movie. BUT NOT AT THE EXPENSE OF EVERYONE ELSE! I didn’t pay $12 dollars to have some child kick my chair at 4 minute intervals, and to have crying infants cause me to struggle in hearing what is going on (Yes the crying was THAT loud).

But it did make me think of my first movie in the theatre.

My Little Mermaid had just been released, and my Dads siblings decided to take me. (Perhaps and excuse to go watch it themselves?? lol) In any case, I remember them turning up the volume of the TV as loud as possible, so I don’t get startled by the intense sound, and cry or something, and they turned off the lights, and told me that when we are in there, we need to be quiet…they taught me, even at that age, how to act appropriately. It was just kind of funny to reminisce about.

Do you remember your first movie??
Would you bring in your infant child into the theatre, at the risk of their hearing?
Have you watched the movies??

Not the best picture of these two, but its a shot of my two :P

Now I must attempt to FINISH cleaning my disgusting room for the umpteenth time. Seriously…it never gets done. Always mess it up again before I do :T Anyway one else get into this much trouble when trying to clean?? I can clean other areas of the house, or even friends rooms without a problem…its just my room I can’t seem to completely tackle…