Escape

I rented and watched three movies over the past two days- all of them were decent.

First, I watched Cowboys vs. Aliens...which was really interesting...up til the point I fell asleep. It's not the movie's fault- I'm apparently an old woman. What I saw up til the point of slumber was pretty good though. I like Daniel Craig as an actor (I especially love the way he walks. Watch him walk away...It's like that saying goes: I hate to see you go, but I loooove watching you walk away. Hello, nurse!) Olivia Wilde was not looking as cute in this movie, but I think it's because they swaddled her up in that old fashioned dress. If you want to see Olivia looking gorg, look at The Change Up or I guess, anything else she's been in that doesn't involve period dress.

Anyway, what I got from the movie was that old dude's wife (Daniel Craig's character's wife) had been abducted so he was super haunted by that, and there was some alien creatures out and about that they had to fight and...I gotta go back and look at that movie.

The next day, wide-eyed and bushy-tailed, I watched Hanna. Love Eric Bana!!! I am the president of the fictional Eric Bana fan club... No! In fact, I am the Dear Leader of the fictional Eric Bana fan club. I'm not cool enough to be in a real fan club. The girl who played Hanna did a fabbo job- Saoirse Ronan. Basically, Hanna is a superhuman young lady who was trained to fight and speak a bunch of different languages by her dad, Eric Bana. Back when she was young, her mother was killed by Marissa (played by Cate Blanchett)and she and her father had to escape.

Basically, the whole movie is about her evading her pursuers and trying to make it on her own in this crazy, crazy world. Can you imagine going from living as a recluse with no technology to being around a lot of people and a lot of electronics? Crazy. I liked the movie, but what I liked the most about the movie was the song that played while she was escaping from the government facility- it's Escape 700 by The Chemical Brothers. This song makes me which someone was chasing me, just so this song could play in my head as I ran.

The Game was the last movie I watched. Michael Douglas was in it and was, as usual, a great actor. The movie was a psychological thriller so it had all the twists and turns of psychological thrillers. Michael Douglas' character signs up for this recreational "game" and then has to go through all these twists and turns as the game plays out. I'm not going to go into the ending or anything, but I will say this: crappiest birthday present EVER! I would be so mad. Hadn't they heard of gift cards? Geez Louise!