Creepers - Book Review

I just finished Creepers by David Morrell. It was a good page turner. The book is written well and its not one of those suspenseful books that you can guess the next plot twist or the ending which is always a plus. Sadly, it just wasn’t really my taste. I like a little more mystery in my reading, now if it had included a ghost it would be a keeper, but this one will be going back to the lender. I was also disappointed the hotel, the books main feature wasn’t real, at least I couldn’t find any information online.

Grade: B+
Recommended: If you like suspense

Hott fuzz - Movie Review

We also went to see Hot Fuzz in the theater. If you like Shaun of the Dead you will LOVE this movie. I love those two and the movie is great. I was worried they would use too many of the same bits and such from the first one, but they didn’t. I love how they can make a spoof and you don’t even realize your watching a spoof. See this one soon.

Sweet Charity

Sweet Charity:
So Matt and I went to see Sweet Charity last month. It was really good, but I wasn’t impressed with the ending. I won’t give too much away. It was neat to see Molly Ringwald on stage again. The next Charity is going to be Paige Davis.

The major disappointment of the night was that we went to a matinee and they didn’t have any swag for sale. I collect pins and I get a pin at every show we go to. Now I don’t have a pin for Sweet Charity. I even looked online for one…nothing. It saddens me.

I know the show has left but if you get the chance to see it you should… and pick me up a pin.

The Jane Austen Book Club - Book Review

Finished The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Fowler last month but was so bored by it I had forgotten to do a review. The book isn’t so much bad, as it just wasn’t my style. The writing was fine, I just didn’t feel there was a plot and even after reading it I’m left wondering the purpose and plot of the book. There isn’t a climax or even a story line in my personal opinion. A book should be working towards a main theme and hopefully that theme/problem will be slightly resolved in the end. Well Fowler never had to resolve the issue because she never developed an issue so in that since I guess the mission was accomplished.

Grade: D
Recommend: Probably not

Another Theater Rant

So when Matt and I were in the theater on Tuesday I as slightly annoyed because apparently theaters are not sound proof. I don’t understand why someone would build a room with a huge ass screen great sound system and put it next to an identical room without sound proofing either one. And the least these cheap non sound proof owners could do is use a little common sense and say not put Rambo next to My Girl. And why wouldn’t you do this? Its simple your patrons don’t want to be in the middle of a quiet love scene while Rambo is killing off another bad guy. I’m not sure why but for some reason a man spilling his feelings for another kind of loses something when there is gun and bombs blaring in the background. Usually there is a little carry over noise from other theaters but not so badly that the walls shake.

Movie Ticket Prices

Recently I posted an entry on 2007 movies I wanted to see. January 26th Blood and Chocolate came out, a movie based on one of my favorite books in school. So I decided Matt was going to take me to see said movie when it came out but my master plan hit a snag. This is the story of that snag.

Now I have to go off topic here to give some background information. Matt and I normally frequent a theater where we can see any movie they are playing on Tuesdays for 2.50 a ticket. So yes we’ve been a little spoiled in that department.
Now back to my story…

Our favorite cheap theater only has five screens and they aren’t using one of them to play Blood and Chocolate for some unknown reason. So needless to say we had to find another theater which wasn’t hard, just a few miles down the road. But after surfing their website I decided just to take a look at their prices to see how much a full priced movie cost these days.
::Insert panic attack here::
The price for one regular priced adult movie ticket at this theater is EIGHT bucks! Now this theater isn’t new, it hasn’t gone through any renovations or upgraded their equipment so why exactly did their ticket prices go up almost two dollars? I have a guess and it involves the words minimum wage, increase, and Granholm, but that’s story I’ll save for later in the week.
So let’s do the math here:

Adult movie tickets	8 x 2	= $1
Couple Combo	13 x 1	= $13
Total	-	$29.00

So it now cost twenty nine dollars to see a movie in theater whish you never knot if that movie is going to be worth thirty dollars. You would think if the movie theater is going to increase their prices then Hollywood could at least try to make quality flicks rather than this crap they keep dishing out. People continuously bitch that the movie industry isn’t making enough money anymore and no one can figure out why. Maybe because the prices keep going up, but the quality keeps going down with all these shittastic remakes? It wouldn’t work that way in any other industry why should the movie one be any different – supply and demand people . There is no original thought in Hollywood anymore. Don’t even try and fight with me about this either because I’ll break out my review of the Wicker Man remake and that’s a trump card.

It reminds me of the US Postal System. The cost of stamps keeps going up but the quality or quantity of services hasn’t changed. Why would we pay more for the same products? And I know everyone will says it’s because FedEx and email bla bla bla crappity crap. Well my friend those are excuses they need to work on their system. If FedEx can do it cheaper so can they. If all mail carriers charged that much I might believe it actually cost thirty-nine cents to mail a standard one ounce letter, until then I’m skeptical. And just to keep you up on gossip there are rumors surfacing that the cost of stamps in the spring.

But I digress; we were discussing movies not the failures of our postal system. Basically at this point it is cheaper for Matt and I to buy movies from Wal-Mart and watch them in the safety of our home while eating a ninety-eight cent BOX of popcorn on the couch. The best part is we won’t have to sit next to someone hacking up a lung on us or small children crying. Wal-Mart has a great selection of movies for $5.50, $7.50, $9.50, $13, and their highest price 20 bucks. So anyway you play it you can get at least one movie and still save money on going to the theater. You can even get a Season of a television series for thirty-two dollars only two dollars more. And on the even brighter side you get to take those movies home and add them to your collection.

So that was my rant about movies. For now we’ll be staying home and watching the five movies we bought for the price of going to the theater. At least until Blood and Chocolate comes to the discount show.

Nothing Last Forever

Just finished reading Nothing Last Forever by Sidney Sheldon. I’d give it a C+ at best I was very unimpressed. I love books and reading so for me to give something a C means don’t waste your time. I’ve heard such good things about Sheldon but honestly I found the book to be way too happy and unrealistic, the dialog was unbelievable and of course the ending was just puppy dogs and rainbows all around. Not my general type of enjoyed reading. If I wasn’t trying to start a library in our home one day I’d probably try to sell it…yes it was that bad. I mean I’ve read worse but this one is closing up the rear of the train.

Two Stars
Maybe if you like medical stuff