{"id":790,"date":"2007-11-29T17:47:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T21:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/movie-reviews\/"},"modified":"2007-11-29T18:21:29","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T22:21:29","slug":"movie-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/29\/movie-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some movies we watched over the holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0060390\/\">Fahrenheit 451<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>(1966)<\/p>\n<p>Ah, <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=oskar+werner&#038;rls=com.microsoft:en-us&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;startIndex=&#038;startPage=1&#038;um=1&#038;sa=N&#038;tab=wi\">Oskar Werner<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001046\/\">Julie Christie<\/a>. I remember watching this movie in Junior High after reading <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fahrenheit_451\">the book<\/a>. In a generation, they&#8217;ll be able to watch <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fahrenheit_451#Future_film\">the remake<\/a>. Sad, they&#8217;ll miss out on all the wonderful campyness of the original. <\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the dialogue is a bit tough to understand in some places because of the thick accents. But Oskar is a hottie! I like it. If you know me, you&#8217;d know I&#8217;d like it. I&#8217;d definitely recommend if you&#8217;re a sci-fi or bad movie buff like me. But if you can&#8217;t take high camp and you&#8217;re no fan of futuristic, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dystopian\">dystopian<\/a> tales, avoid.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/451.jpg' alt='Fahrenheit451' \/><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0110099\/\">I.Q.<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>(1994)<\/p>\n<p>Adorable chick-flick style movie with no weeping involved. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000212\/\">Meg Ryan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000209\/\">Tim Robbins<\/a> are an oh-so-cute, if unlikely, couple. And even though the first time I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000527\/\">Walter Matthau<\/a> in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/I-Q-Tim-Robbins\/dp\/B0000A2ZO0\">&#8220;Einstein&#8221; makeup<\/a> I thought it very unrealistic, he had me thoroughly convinced of his character by the end of the movie. Really cute, PG movie. Plus, it has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0434409\/\">Stephen Fry<\/a> in it! Recommend!<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/iq.jpg' alt='IQ' \/><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0071206\/\">Benji<\/a><\/h2>\n<p> (1974)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d never seen this one before, so I kept expecting something really awful to happen. Nothing ever did! It&#8217;s amazing the pace of the movies made just 30 years ago. Audiences today would never put up with a very slow-paced movie with such a simpleplot line, I don&#8217;t think. We also wouldn&#8217;t put up with that horrible acting! I don&#8217;t say that because I didn&#8217;t like the movie &#8211; it was cute. But the acting was really bad. Is that because the actors themselves were bad, or because of sensibilities back when the movie was made? I don&#8217;t know. Anyway, would recommend as a family-friendly movie or for kids. Amazon has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Benji-Patsy-Garrett\/dp\/B0002H3S6O\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=dvd&#038;qid=1196371753&#038;sr=8-1\">a nice review<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/benji.jpg' alt='Benji' \/><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0420223\/\">Stranger than Fiction<\/a><\/h2>\n<p> (2006)<\/p>\n<p>*Sigh* I love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/74\">Will Ferrell<\/a>, and it&#8217;s so wonderful to see his depth of character in this movie. Dave and I both really liked <a href=\"http:\/\/z.about.com\/d\/jewelry\/1\/7\/7\/D\/maggie_g.jpg\">Maggie Gyllenhaal<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0361693\/\">Happy Endings<\/a>, and it was nice to see her again. Something about the romantic parts of the movie reminded me of Dave and I, too, so it was really fun to watch. I give this movie 5 stars! Plus, it has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0355024\/\">Tony Hale<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001451\/\">Queen Latifah<\/a> in it! Rent it this weekend if you haven&#8217;t already seen it!<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/stf.jpg' alt='Stranger Than Fiction' \/><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0445934\/\">Blades of Glory<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>(2007)<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by our first <a href=\"http:\/\/who2.com\/ask\/willferrell.html\">Will Ferrell<\/a> sighting, we watched this for a second time. Oh man, this movie is non-stop laugh-out-loud funny. Ferrell and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1417647\/\">Heder<\/a> do a great job, and you gotta love the off-screen married couple of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0004715\/bio\">Will Arnett<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0688132\/\">Amy Poehler<\/a> in some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/gallery\/ss\/0445934\/07961.jpg.html\">most fabulous costumes<\/a> known to professional ice skating. If you haven&#8217;t seen this movie, rent it. Now. &#8230;What are you waiting for? <\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/chazz.jpg' alt='Chazz' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some movies we watched over the holiday weekend. Fahrenheit 451 (1966) Ah, Oskar Werner and Julie Christie. I remember watching this movie in Junior High after reading the book. In a generation, they&#8217;ll be able to watch the remake. Sad, they&#8217;ll miss out on all the wonderful campyness of the original. Sadly, the dialogue is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}