Movies, Film and My Opinion

 Well, to quote my husband, "Disney created another villain backstory to make the evil acceptable." It was acceptable when we saw the Disney version of 101 Dalmatians when we were kids. Unfortunately, times have changed.  But on the plus side, this movie didn't suck. Cruela had a mother that loved her. She had a birth father that loved her. And she had two mates that cared about her like family. Oh and a dog. Can't forget the dog. She did have a good heart, but turned when she found out about the murder. The role of Anita, played by  Kirby Howell-Baptiste, wasn't in the movie enough for me. I wanted to see her more. I wanted to see her meet her mate. I wanted that beginning for what we of the younger generation of the Disney movies would remember in an iconic movie. That "ah yeah!" moment. Emma Stone did a wonderful job as Estella/Cruella. The emotions, the stress, the pick-pocketing teamwork with her mates...yeah, that was well done. Her work relationsh...

  This movie wasn't as long as I expected it to be. It also didn't start off like most typical Hollywood movies - with a back story, a lead-in, the journey to where they are now....they had a cleaver way of going back and forth to the present to the past and showing the audience what lead up to why they are on the mission they are on now. And the sacrifices that had to be made in order to achieve the objectives of one organization. Most of the characters were not ones I knew or recognized so it was fun to get to know them. There was a lot of "gore", a lot of blood shed and a lot of "male butts" in this movie. And the main evil of the movie was not what I expected. Most of all, for me, I loved seeing my friend, Lynne Ashe, on the big screen. She played Polka-Dot Man's mother and she was fantastic! She looked like she was having a lot of fun and she had a great cast to play along with! For DC fans over the age of, I'd say, 12 or 13, this would be a mus...

 So, I didn't have high expectations for this movie cause it's a guy thing, but 1/4 into the movie I actually said out loud "This doesn't suck." It's actually...not a bad movie. I'm not big on the smoking thing and the drugs thing, but behind all that mess, the professional woman and the man who has no money but is so tight with his friends....stranger things have happened, of course, but yeah. This doesn't suck. This movie showed me that it is possible that a baby will change a person. Man and woman. It will change someone. And even their faces changed. So much anger, so much cussing, so much love and so much confusion. It's just ...yeah.  And for those that have seen the movie, I am a firm believer that those idiots will die for that little girl. The moment she was born, the moment that Ben told them in the waiting room it was a girl, their reaction told me that they would DIE for that little girl. They will be in her life forever. And God protec...