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I Wish you a Merry Christmas

So, are you on the lookout for a good holiday movie? Well, me too. I ended up working an extra Saturday this month, which really cut into my movie watching time. I had all these plans to see the following movies:

Polar Express
National Treasure
Lemony Snickett's Series of Unfortunate Events
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera

I'm sure there were others I wanted to see, but I don't remember what those are now. Out of all the above movies Brian and I have seen National Treasure. I have to say, despite some doubts I had at the beginning it turned out to be a pretty good movie.

If you are in to U.S, History, you'd probably find this a good movie. I mentioned some doubts I had at the beginning of the movie. For example, In one of the opening scenes of the movie a grandfather is explaining the history of the Masons organization to his grandson and, having just researched the masons for a library customer, I'm not sure the grandfather's explanation was entirely acurate. Also, some of the things in the movie happened just a little too effortlessly, which required a lot of suspension of disbelief on my part and I wasn't sure I could stretch that far, lol!

Those things aside though, it was a good movie. I am somewhat into U.S. History and I've been to D.C and Pennsylvania which is where most of the movie is set. So, it was interesting to watch the movie and see the places I've visited in a new light. Plus, I love the whole idea of secret maps and buried treasure. The acting was great too. All in all, I highly reccomend this movie. It was a good action flick without all the swearing and w/out a *ton* of violence (although there was some). Oh and no love making going on either, so yaay for that too. This movie gets my thumbs up. Oh yeah, my husband gave it a thumbs up too.

I'm pretty busy this weekend, both Saturday and Sunday, but I plan to carve out some time to go see the Lemony Snickett movie. Phantom comes out on the 22nd (in limited release). I just hope it opens at a theatre near me. If it does, believe me, I'll be there! Look for more reviews here in the near future.

Hope you all have a happy holiday and have fun movie-ing.

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