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Sunday, January 28, 2024

Les Miserables (1998)

I watched this movie when it first came out, and Liam Neeson has been my #1 man ever since.  Tall, strong, broad shoulders, and the dominating strides.  All the package in one man.  💓💖💗💘😍

Two themes were present in this movie.

1.  How far would someone go to atone one's sins?
2.  How far would someone go to uphold the rules of the law?

There were no villains in the movie.  Everyone came from different background with different thought process.  That was the real conflict.

When Liam Neeson was trying to hold back his tears at the end of the movie because he was finally free, I cried!

Saturday, January 27, 2024

Les Miserables (2012)

When this movie came out, everyone forgot about Liam Neeson's Les Miserables (1998).  I was so mad because I thought the other movie was a far superior product.

I felt nothing in this movie.  The songs didn't inspire me.  The Thenadiers singing was intrusive.  The movie was too long.  Anne Hathaway cried her eyes, but it felt like she overdid it.

Basically I was just unhappy that everyone forgot Liam Neeson was also Jean Valjean.  Mr. Neeson should've gotten more applauses back then, not when he finally did Taken 1, 2, 3.

Friday, January 19, 2024

Horror short story, #2

I don't know what I was smoking when I had this dream.  It was so vivid that I had to write it down.

I also don't know how to classify this story because I was awoken by a noise.  Either this was a sweet family reunion short story or a murder horror crime scene.

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My brother and I were at my parents' place, which was a cottage-cabin type of house.  We came back from groceries shopping.  Plastic bags and paper bags were everywhere on the kitchen counter.  Everyone was chatting.  I decided to go upstairs to my bedroom for a nap.

Gradually the chatter died down.  Gradually I woke up from the nap.  I looked into every bedroom; I went downstairs; the groceries bags were still on the kitchen counter.  I called out for them.  Nobody answered.  I shrugged.  Maybe they went out again.

I went upstairs.  There appeared a white grandmother.  She had straight, shoulder-length grey hair.  She wore a red sweater.  She was plump but basically a regular-size grandmother.  She was not part of the family.  She was not in the cottage earlier.

My heart jumped.  I asked, "Grandmother, do you want to go downstairs?"

She replied, "Sure."

So we walked downstairs to the kitchen.  She tapped on the microwave oven and commented, "I could never figure this thing out."

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I heard a "weeeee" noise.  It wasn't too loud.  I woke up from the dream.  I thought it was the neighbor or Math Teacher.  I asked him later; he said he didn't make any noise around that time, but the neighbors were being loud as usual.

So, either the noise prevented me from meeting my white grandmother from a previous life, or the noise prevented me from being murdered by a white grandmother in my dream.

Seriously, was I high or something?  I would have never thought of this idea in a million years if I were sober.

On the other hand, I do my best writing while sleeping.

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Nine Months (1995)

This movie will be 30 years old next year!  The babies born during this movie would be 30 years old!  I feel dated~

At first I thought, wow, Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore looked young.  Then I was sad because Robin Williams was also in this movie.  Then the baby's ultrasound was on a VCR tape!  VCR!  OMG 😲  Over the weekend I met up with a friend that said her children streamed everything online.  Do they even know what a DVD is, let alone VCR?!

Everyone was so cute.  Comedy was chuckling fun.  It left me with a warm and fuzzy feeling.  A great movie to review on a weeknight.

Friday, January 5, 2024

Skyscraper (2018)

This was exactly The Rock's movie.  We could guess every trope.  The Rock's buddy was a bad guy but still good enough to tell The Rock to run.  One villain must be the sexy woman, but it wasn't right for The Rock to beat her up so they had the wife beat the woman villain up.

We enjoyed the movie very much.  I squealed in a few scenes when The Rock was in danger.  Math Teacher liked the story gave The Rock a vulnerability.  Otherwise The Rock was simply too powerful.

I liked the plot showed us some details in the beginning and then called them back in the end.  Not every movie needed to be a smart movie, but consistency made the plot flow better.  It also showed the writers at least knew their beginning, the middle, and the end.

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