MOVIE - Jane Eyre

a lovely film for a classic story
Limited release 3/11/11
on DVD 8/16/11
viewed 4/28/11 alone
PG-13 (2:01)
RT 84% cag 90%
Director:  Cary Fukonaga

MOVIE - New Moon (Twilight Saga)

Decent entertainment, glad it wasn't any longer...
Released Nov. 20, 2009
PG-13 (2:01)
12-1-09 at El Con with Amy and Alyssa
RT: 29% cag: 60%
Director: Chris Weitz

Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner

Pretty much followed the book. Nothing particularly new or exciting - the trailer and previews showed the high points. It was fun, but nothing special. I'm still so disturbed by Bella's submission and dependence on Edward. Sure, he's a cutie. And Taylor Lautner did a great job as Jacob. Oh well, it's fiction, right?

I was THRILLED to see Graham Greene playing Harry, the dad's Native American friend (the one who has a heart attack and dies). He's a great actor, and I haven't seen him enough in recent years.

MOVIE - The Time Traveler's Wife

Better than expected
Released Aug. 14, 2009
PG-13 (1:48)
El Con with Kate and Sheila
RT: 36% cag: 89%
Director: Robert Schwentke
Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams

It made perfect sense to me, the book took me lots longer to figure out (and I read the book ages ago, so it wasn't that my "exceptional" memory helped me out at all). Some friends loved it, some didn't like it much, some didn't like it at all. It was supposed to be really sad. So I didn't think I'd like it. Wasn't even looking forward to going to the movies! Yes, tears rolled down my cheeks quite a bit. But I though this was great story-telling, and I loved the two leads as well as the young ladies who played the daughter. They had to have been sisters, they looked so much alike. Good, solid entertainment, but it left me drained.

Henry has a weird genetic honomoly that makes him travel forward and backward in time. He has no control over it, and although it usually takes place for a brief amount of time, sometimes it's for longer. He meets Clare on one of these trips, when she is a young child. They meet again and again until they finally meet in "real" time. It's a love story. A good one. She is beautiful. He is beautiful. Time well spent.