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Movie Roundup // 06

February 18, 2015August 25, 2015 Crystal // Dreams, etc. Post a comment
Movie Roundup // 06

Hello, everyone! I’m back with another post on movies that I have watched recently. I watched all of these over the weekend, so they’re all fresh in my mind and I’m excited to talk about them!

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT

While recovering from an injury, Jack Ryan is recruited to the CIA and, years later, travels to Russia to investigate the financial transactions of a company. My friend and I watched this on Valentine’s Day, because we thought a rom-com would be too cliche and I enjoyed this film much more than I thought I would. I loved Jack Ryan, but his fiance Cathy drove me crazy, especially at the beginning. Some of the action sequences had me holding my breath and had me at the edge of my seat. I felt like this was heavy on the action and light on plot, but I really enjoyed the story. And Chris Pine is in it, so that’s a plus! This was a lot of fun and a great movie to whisk you away for a couple of hours!

THE LAST FIVE YEARS

A musical that chronicles the five-year relationship of budding novelist Jamie and struggling actress Cathy. They each tell their story in a different order, with Cathy telling their story from the end to the beginning and Jamie telling their story from beginning to end. I really liked that each character told their story in a different order because I really enjoyed Jamie and Cathy individually and as a couple at the beginning of their relationship, but not so much at the end, so I was able to watch that time period that I really enjoyed all the way through the movie. Other than that, I don’t know how I feel about this movie. I feel like I need to watch it again in order to fully process it. I appreciated the movie, but I can’t say that I really enjoyed it because it was hard to watch at times to see what they went through. This is a musical, so it’s all in song. If you don’t like that kind of storytelling, you might not want to watch this, but if you enjoy musicals, this is definitely one to look into. I loved the music so much that as soon as I finished it I bought the soundtrack. I bought the original soundtrack with Sherie Rene Scott and Norbert Leo Butz, because I love them, but I can see myself buying the movie soundtrack at some point too, because I also love Jeremy Jordan.

IF I STAY

Based on the novel by Gayle Forman, a teen must choose between life and death when she’s comatose after she and her family are in a car accident. I loved this book, so I was excited but also a little nervous when I heard it would be a movie. I wasn’t quite sure how they would make a movie out of the book, but I thought they did a fantastic job. It’s been a few years since I read the book, so I can’t say how true it stayed to the novel, but everything that I remember about the book made it into the movie. I loved watching this story, because I was able to connect to some of the characters differently. I felt a distance from Mia’s parents in the book, but in the movie I
really felt like I had a chance to get to know them and grow to care
about them. Of course, that could also be the spin put on it by the filmmakers, and while I didn’t have a problem with any of this in the novel, it was nice to see the story in a different way. I also thought the filmmakers did a great job of jumping back and forth between the past and present. I really enjoyed this and will definitely watch it again. (It’ll probably be sooner rather than later because I watched this pretty late at night and I think I fell asleep for a ten to fifteen minute stretch so I don’t remember an important event in the story.) I’d love it if they made a movie out of Where She Went as well, because that was my favorite of the two novels.

HAVE YOU WATCHED ANY OF THESE? WHAT MOVIES HAVE YOU WATCHED RECENTLY?

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If only we always remembered to be in touch with o If only we always remembered to be in touch with our loved ones regularly; to tell them that we love them.

This thought has been on my mind the last few weeks as I’ve been in touch with one of my best friends almost daily. They’ve been navigating a scary situation.

But that’s what everyone says, isn’t it? Reach out to those you love. Tell them you love them. Don’t let a lot of time pass.

We all know that. We think about it sometimes. We hear about it when others are in crisis. We’re thankful that we aren’t the ones in crisis and we can remember this lesson through someone else.

But eventually we get caught up in life. Our daily “I love you’s” are reserved for those we live with and sometimes we forget to text someone back… or it takes a few days to do so.

This week as I wondered why we don’t remember this more often I realized it’s probably a good thing. It’s a good thing that we can live life without worrying that tragedy is right around the corner. That would be an exhausting way to live.

It’s also good that we can get little reminders, sometimes not from our own life. So from someone who spent one week numb, another week weepy, and this week sad, remember to send your friends a text. Tell them you love them.
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When I was younger I used to imagine what it would be like if we got so much snow that it would be piled high above our doors. I wondered if we’d be able to create tunnels in the snow to move around in.

And this year might just be the year we find out. I’m kidding, of course, but at this point I feel like we’ve been buried in snow. We’re even on track to beat some snow records I think (the amount of snow and the number of consecutive days with snow on the ground.

So. What’s the weather like where you are?
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It wasn’t without its stresses and rough moments but I’m grateful for the good that can be found, even when it’s hard.
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Between Iceland and the below zero, windy, and snowy weather we had last week (which came with requests from my parents not to go) it’s been a few weeks since I’ve been to the dam and I miss it!
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Reykjavik, I hope to see you again one day. Soon. Probably not in December, but I’m glad I got to see you in December once.
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It was completely different in Reykjavik this year. You actually had a chance to skate on the ice rink if you wanted (and I never did the conversation, but I think it’s cheaper) and you could actually walk up to the Christmas tree. Two very different Christmas in the city experiences.
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