Thursday, November 17, 2011

3 2 1 Action!

I’ve always been really into movies, especially when I was younger. I always watched Disney movies, the older ones; like Cinderella, Beauty and The Beast, Snow White, Lady and the Tramp, etc.  There still isn’t a day that I wouldn’t sit home and watch them all. Even though Pixar movies are generally made for the younger ages, they’re still my favorite. One of my favorite movies is Up.  Up is a movie that I will literally sob over every time I watch it... Pathetic, I know but it’s one of the cutest movies I’ve ever seen. The main character is 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen that easily sends the message that it’s important to set your dreams high and pursue them, no matter what it takes throughout the entire movie.  Another one of my favorite movies is Grown Ups. Grown Ups is easily a comedy that does not hesitate to make me laugh every time I watch it. Grown Ups stares the actors, Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob Schneider. I couldn’t imagine the movie without these actors in it. Also, another great movie in my opinion is Just Go With It. The first time I saw Grown Ups, I nearly had tears as I was watching it. The main actors of Just Go With It are Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Griffin Gluck, Brooklyn Decker, Bailee Madison, and Nicole Kidman.  The movie shows a lot of comedy within sarcasm and jokes while watching. Movies that were made in the 1990’s to movies that are made now have drastically changed. Sometimes we watch movies and in the end it does/could change our opinion on certain things, for good or for worse. In my opinion, there are a lot of movies that are pointless and useless but everyone has different opinions.  

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

What Are Books?

I haven’t ever been much of a book reader, literally ever. Last year in Miss. MC’s English eleven, we were given four book reports throughout the class. It was often hard for me to find a book that we liked; we didn’t have long to pick a book and it was hard to find a book within fifteen minutes that you wouldn’t lose interest for fast. In the third semester I was having really bad luck trying to find a book that I liked and hated every book I picked up, the sub librarian recommended a Stephen King novel titled, The Long walk.  The beginning of the novel did not spark my interest what so ever, I began the book at page 102 out of 389 and was confused at first but then got really interested in the novel. As the story went on I obviously became more confused, I learned that the novel stated all the facts that are required to understand the book thoroughly.  I then restarted my novel and was bored to tears, but only for about.. roughly fourteen pages and I was then hooked onto the story.  The story left me in suspense towards the end; it definitely ended with a cliff hanger and I haven’t got the chance to read the story that is based off of the one I had the chance to read but I’m looking forward to reading it. I’ve never even had the slightest interest in reading, unless it’s a magazine or something like that; but after finding a book that I actually look forward to reading each night, opened my eyes to give it a chance.  Although I haven’t read a book since and I don’t think I’ll ever run to do it, in my opinion/perspective still has changed on reading and when the time comes, I’ll read another book.. Maybe.