Inspired

I apologize about not blogging recently; I have been super busy with "life responsibilities"! This movie lover has so many things to keep on top of, she just hasn’t found the time to relax and watch some flicks. Which leads me straight to the point of this blog.



I recently Netflixed My Sister’s Keeper, which is a must if you have not yet seen it! Sometimes, I try to stay away from a movie that will evidently make me cry but this movie was more than a tear jerker, it was inspiring. Sometimes, in our busy lives we are so busy “doing” that we don’t step back and appreciate what we done. Sometimes we need a reminder that while we are living our lives one day at a time, that “time” is limited. I’m not trying to sound pessimistic but it is a reality for all of us. Death and taxes, right? After I watched this movie, which is about a teenage girl who is dying of cancer, I was inspired not only to live but to live it fully. The story is a good one, heartfelt and written beautifully!

After I watched My sister’s Keeper I watched The Lovely Bones, without going into great detail about it, it was everything you would expected from a Peter Jackson’s film, thrilling, lavish cinematography and a touching story. This movie was about a young girl whose life was cut short by a sick, creepy, murder. What I loved about this movie was the seeing how the story develops after her death. How differently people deal with death and I loved the scenes of Susie’s after life. I always enjoy seeing how people invision the idea of heaven.

Watching both these movies within a week’s time struck a chord in me. I feel as if I’m always working towards a milestone or chapter in my life when I will finally feel fulfilled and truly happy, that I let so much of life pass me by trying to get there. I want to be happy in every moment, even in my transitional, grey ones. So instead of always talking about wanting to learn to play guitar, I finally signed up for it and took my first class last week. I learned to crochet this month and finished a scarf yesterday. Although this may seem like nothing to some people, it’s exactly what I have always wanted to do. Now I have too many hobbies to keep up with! LOL but I’m proud of myself, and while I’m on this road to a more fulfilling everyday life, I’m looking to volunteer more often with NYCares.org. I loved the few projects I picked up last year and would love to do some more.



So my message to you today is: Go out and get inspired! Do that thing you always wanted to do and become a better version of you! I'm sure there are tons of wonderful things inside you just dying to come out, let that bottled up creativity find its place in the world. As long as you're alive...it's never too late.

The scare was there to stay…

Scaredy cat doesn’t begin to cover it! So, last night my bother-in-law, once again, brought over a scary movie to watch. Even though I told him I refused to watch Paranormal Activity, it made no difference. There I was against my own good reasoning enduring, what I feel, is plain human torture! If you haven’t seen this movie, I won’t ruin it for you. It’s not a scary movie in the sense that it has all those suspenseful scenes; it has everything to do with messing with your head. The whole idea of the unseen is sometimes harder to deal with than seeing it right in front of you. It definitely plays on all those things that happen to you at night that you just brush off by saying, “Oh, it was just the wind”…or was it? The fear of the progression of those little things is frightening, “what if my hand hangs of the bed… will something pull on it?” That idea of being pulled off my bed by an unseen entity, by any of my extremities, was all I needed to keep me up at night. We later attempted to watch Tim Burrton’s 9 but it was no use, the scare was there to stay! It was 4 in the morning and there I was lamp on, door open (so my dog could sense the evil being and I could jump in to prayer action before it was too late) and the TV on, watching The Hills and I still bugged out. “What if…?” By the way, I chickened out in the end of the movie and physically stopped watching it, but I remained in the room crocheting as the movie was still playing. I would look up now and then but I was really too Chicken to keep watching it. So if you are excited by any of this, go ahead and rent it. Come back and let me know how you slept or if you slept at all!



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A world to fear, a world to love:

Two hours of my life that I will never get back:

First of all, I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year! I’m very excited to start a new year and especially love that feeling of being able to start over on a clean slate. I have a few New Year resolutions in mind and one pertaining to my blog. I would like to keep a list of ALL the movies I watch this year, when I watched it and how long the movie was. I want to calculate exactly how many movies I watch in a year. I don’t have a number I want to hit, just curious to see how much time I spend watching movies. The reason this came to mind is because every time I watch a movie I really did not like I always say, “two hours of my life that I will never get back!” Which left me wondering, “How many hours of my life do I spend watching movies????” Too many, I’m sure. In any case, I’m going to find a way to keep this list on my blog and hope that I can keep it up all year.



A world to fear:

This one here is for my one and only brother-in-law… who insists that I watch horror flicks (including some B rated movies at times). Which I can tell you right now, I usually do not enjoy… but as usual, I can be a masochist and watch a scary movie anyway. Two nights ago I wanted to watch The Orphan, which I still have not seen and been wanting to see since it was in the theater, when along came the bother, I mean Brother-in-law and suggests that we watch Drag Me to Hell instead.

I cannot say that is was scary and kept me up at night but it was suspenseful and made me scream a good one the middle of it. I don’t know what you know of Gypsies but BEWARE!! OK, I guess I can’t speak for all gypsies, but I have yet to have a positive experience with one and this was no exception. The movie is a about a loan officer named Alison(Christine Brown) who, in a selfish act, denies a gypsy a chance at keeping her home by not approving a loan. In return, the Gypsy puts a curse on her, which is followed by a chain of creepy events in which she is haunted by evil spirits. Some of the scenes were ridiculous and more funny than scary. Director Sam Raimi told this story through interesting camera shots and his unique filming style and surely succeeded at grossing me out! If nothing else, he leaves you with a moral to the story: "If you can help someone in need, do it! Especially if it’s some weird-old-creepy-looking gypsy lady!!"



I’m not sure that I would recommend this one. It wasn’t horrible but these kinds of scary movies leave me disappointed. This is definitely not The Exorcism of Emily Rose, which I still find to be one of the scariest films I have ever seen!



A World to love:


I finally got the chance to see Avatar which I absolutely loved! I loved the storyline and most of all the beautiful world of Pandora created by James Cameron, who interestingly enough had written this story many years ago. He had to literally wait for technology to catch up with his vision, so that he could create this world he had seen in his mind. Around the year 2005 and he finally felt ready to start and began his journey to tell us of a world unlike you and I have ever seen but would certainly love. Visually it was stimulating and wondrous!

Avatar is a movie about a paraplegic marine veteran, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), who goes on a mission to the world of Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na’vi people. The humans leading this mission want to remove the Na’vi humanoids from this land that is rich in valuable material. Lead by their greed, they succeed in destroying the peaceful land and culture of the Na’vi. The humans were able to synthetically make a Na’vi that could be linked and controlled by the human mind. This enables Jake to be able to walk again as he is linked to this his very own Avatar. He is sent out to a world that inhabits the most dangerous and unique creatures known to humans. The more he interacts with the native tribe and learns their ways, the more he falls in love with their culture and the lovely Neytiri. Ultimately, he has to choose between completing his mission lead by the greedy and heartless humans or betraying his own kind and protect the planet and the people of Pandora.

I highly recommend this film to all those fantasy lovers. I saw this movie in Real 3D and it was amazing! Not to mention “Sam Worthington”! Hello!!