Garfield came in the old Netflix envelope yesterday. I don’t care what people said, I was looking forward to seeing the movie! I’m glad, I loved it! Brekin Meyer did GREAT! That guy is awesome! 🙂 And Garfield was a riot. Bill Murray was a good pick. Forget the dopey critics! They don’t know good movies anyway. If it means anything, I watched the movie with mum’s fluffy cat. She LOVED the movie. Purred up a storm when Garfield kicked Odie out of the house… hehe I think she liked the kicking out of interlopers.
The fluffy cat gives Garfield four paws up (and a belly rub)! Purrrrrrr!
I also watched Mona Lisa Smile today which was a great movie. One of those “My teacher changed my life” type movies… Always good!
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prncessconsuela said:
What was Garfield about?
Mona Lisa Smile was a great movie.
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Lady Ozma said:
Garfield was awesome!
It was just the usual Garfieldy type stuff. Garfield being lazy, trying to get milk and lasagna and that sort of thing. If you love the comic strip you’ll enjoy the movie. 🙂
The main plot though is this is when John first brings Odie home and so Garfield goes from being only cat to feeling like the new kid on the block is getting everything. He locks Odie out of the house one night and Odie disappears and it’s up to Garfield to find Odie and save him from torture from a local guy wanting to hit it big and using Odie to get there.
It’s live action with Garfield computer animated. He looks about a 1000 times more realistic than Scooby Doo, though he could use some work as well. There were times though you could forget he wasn’t a “real” cat. Which you unfortunately can’t ever do with Scooby Doo. (Great movies there but boy, that animation left a lot to be desired given what other movies have done. Shell out the bucks people…)
I love Garfield cartoons so I figured this would be a good flick for me. 🙂 I didn’t realize it would just be a good flick after the idiot critics panned it so bad! I don’t know what there trouble was! Of course they’ve been panning all the good movies this summer. *shrug*
And yes, Mona was good! I had heard from people that it was man-hating and dreadfully slow. I didn’t find it that way at all. Well I suppose you could call it “slow” but as those types of thought provoking movies go, they could all be classified as “slow”. People want to talk about slow they need to be tied to a chair and forced to watch Driving Miss Daisy. That movie was so slow it was painful. And I don’t get this whole “manhating” thing either. It was definately a women’s lib thing and I did get the impression that Julia’s character didn’t think much of housewives. I’ll give it that. However, I think the important message was that women have the whole world open to them and they need to choose what path they want to lead instead of walking the path “expected” of them. And that walking the path of expectation does not automatically bring joy and happiness. You can try as hard as you like to say that is what you want, but if it isn’t you’ll never convince yourself that it is and you’ll never be truly happy.
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prncessconsuela said:
Re: Garfield was awesome!
I loved Driving Miss Daisy!
I got something really important out of Mona Lisa Smile, though. I have always been, I guess a feminist?? I never thought much of housewives either. But after seeing this movie, I realized that if you want to be a housewife, that is totally fine! That doesn’t mean that you are submitting your power to men or anything… That just happens to be what you want to do.
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Lady Ozma said:
Re: Garfield was awesome!
You know I saw that in Mona as well. I liked that the point was made that if you want to be a housewife, you should choose it. Not just do it because “it is expected”. You don’t just do what is expected of you, it isn’t going to bring you happiness. However if you choose the life you want to live, then you will find more happiness. The one girl who got married early on… I get the feeling she only did what was “expected”. Some guy proposed so she said yes. And look how unhappy she was. Some people don’t get married that early. Some people do. You should never get married because “it is expected” and because you just want to get married.
And you nailed it. You can choose to be a housewife, that’s fine. You don’t lose anything to the man, regardless what the uber feminists say. Now don’t get me wrong, there are STILL instances of THAT happening. But that’s a whole other story.
I chose to be a housewife, but I love it. I love being home with my children! Of course those who would have you believe i sit around eating bonbons while watching Oprah would say I’ve set feminism behind. But I do so much that I couldn’t imagine having a job as well. The thing that really gets me is that even those women who choose to go into the workforce, they still do all the same crap I do. Blargh, that really sucks. So basically men haven’t increased their workload but women have. Sux.
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