Flying is Pretty Cool

Flying is Pretty Cool
New venture...children's book

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Precious Based on novel "Push"

Precious is a powerful movie with amazing acting. The amount of abuse this girl has taken will sicken you. Fortunately, we see Precious grow greatly in her scholastics and maturity level due to some wonderful people that come into her life as mentors and friends. Both the ladies that were up for Oscar Awards were very worthy! I don't know how Monique could play such a vile role as well as she did; every scene with her has you on the edge of your seat.

The movie points out a sad state of young people in this country and, it is not solely in the African American community either. I recently heard a statistic that stated 1 in 5 children suffer some kind of abuse or neglect. Thank God for teachers and councilors that show true concern for their students.

Make sure you see this movie, I dare to say that it will change you in some way. I personally look at all children with more compassion, even teenagers!

Monday, March 8, 2010

Oscar Nominee - Invictus

Invictus inspires us to work for the good of all. It shows Mandela trying to bring a divided country to a solid force of one country through the Rugby team which represented the countries division for years. I caught myself about welcoming Mandela to his 1st game and the audience cheered the Bucks to wins. Throughout the movie you saw the shift from Us vs. Them to We.

There are some great lines delivered by the great Morgan Freeman about a "Time for forgiveness" and how "leadership comes from example, but a team also needs motivation to be better than they think they are."

This is a must see movie. Five out of five stars.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Weekend Movie: Sherlock Holmes

In my quest to see all the Award Nominated movies this one was on my list. Not to mention I do love Robert Downey Jr. as an actor. He did a great job in Iron Man and The Soloist.

This movie is a period film that had great detail in the set and costume. While the romantic relation between he and Rachel McAdams is very fun as is his relationship with his side kick Watson played by Jude law; I have to say I didn't enjoy this movie. Sherlock Holmes shouldn't be full of witch craft, high technology or unbelievable special effects. It was very slow and I found it hard to understand Roberts English accent. He seemed to be mumbling everything. This story has lost the appeal of the original stories we grew up with.

I can only give it 2 out of 5 stars.