Collateral  

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With Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx
120 minutes
Rated R

Cab driver, Max (Foxx), is making his rounds when he picks up Vincent (Cruise), and his whole night changes. Vincent is a hired killer, in town to take care of some 'bad people' by his morning flight. He pays Max to be his driver for the night...and Max finds himself in a situation beyond anything he could ever want. Witnessing murders is bad enough, but when he discovers who the final target it, Max does everything possible to stop Vincent.

Terry and I watched this the other night and it was first, so full of language that it was hard to watch. Second, it was pretty boring for the first hour and a half. It didn't get good until the last half hour, but by then we were just wanting it to be over. So much of it was unrealistic, it was hard to get through. The ending espeically. There is NO WAY a person can physically do the things that Cruise did at the end of that movie if he was really shot in the head. (Sorry, spoiler....) It was stupid, to be honest. Not one we'll watch again.

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Happiness Sold Separately  

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ISBN: 9780446699396

Elinor Mackey discovers on accident that her husband has been cheating on her with a physical trainer from their gym. She decides to get them together in the same room to see how they react....then she let's him know it's over. During the time of separation, Elinor remembers the times over the recent months when they were going through infertility treatments, when Ted would try to comfort her and she would shut him out. Now, she realizes that is most likely what drove him away.

Ted, on the other hand, has found himself in love with 2 women. His wife and his mistress. He wants to stay with his wife and loves her immensely, but finds himself missing Gina and her son. But how can that be? How can he make that decision? He is soon able to, when he finds out that El is finally pregnant with their child. They get back together...but can they make it work?

I wasn't particularly happy with this book...mainly because of the lack of morals that the characters seem to have. There were a couple of minor characters in the book that could have been left completely out of it and the story would have been fine. I especially didn't like the ending. I won't spoil it here, but the ending was very unsatisfying. Nothing was resolved and the characters didn't learn anything throughout the story. I like my books wrapped up nice and neat at the end of the story! LOL

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Healing Stones  

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Healing Stones
by Nancy Rue and Stephen Arterburn
ISBN 978-0849918902

Caught in the act of adultery, Demi is now faced with losing not only her position at a prestigious Christian College, but she is also losing her family. And her friends. Now, she has to find a new job, make new friends, and find a way to make peace with herself and with her spirituality.

Enter Sullivan Crisp, a therapist on hiatus, who is asked by a friend to talk to Demi and help her work through things. However, by forcing her to work through her situation and deal with her past, he is also forced to deal with his own past and his own demons.

Can he do it? Can she? Where will their pasts lead them?

My favorite thought in the book was "the only way to deal with an issue is to go through it." I thouroughly enjoyed this book in how it dealt with therapy sessions. It was so true to life and very honest. There is so much to be dealt with in all of us...regardless of our sins or our situations...and so much can be gleaned from this book on how to work through those issues.

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The Spiderwick Chronicles  

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Freddie Highmore
Rated: PG
Arthur Spiderwick has figured out that there is another realm of creatures living amonst us, but are invisible to us (unless they allow us to see them). He has all the secrets chronicled in a book. But there are some bad creatures who want to have control over the world and he discovers what he must do: protect the book. The book much never leave the circle. Fast forward many years and descendants of Arthur's come to live in the abandoned house and soon discover the hidden creatures. Can they protect the book? Can they get the answers needed? Can they keep the Ogre from getting ahold of the book?
Full of cool special effects and a good story line, this movie offers some intensity while some fun parts too. Clayton didn't like it...he was too scared. But the rest of us really enjoyed it!

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Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull  

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Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LeBouf
Rated: PG-13
Another installment of the famous Indian Jones. Well, it's obvious he's old now and they don't hide it...they actually make fun of it a bit! Many things come back to you as you watch this new movie...things from the other 3. You're sitting there watching and all of a sudden you think, "Oh, I wonder if they'll show... " and they do! It's really a creative twist on bringing all three movies together for one final hurrah, while at the same time having a whole new plot to mix in.
The crystal skull is said to have special powers over the brain...and the one who can gain that power can have power over the world. Can Indy help find his friend and break the powers that the crystal skull has over him? Full of action but also full of many things that leave you saying, "Okay, that's really soooo not possible!" or "There's no way anyone can really do that!"...so you know all along that it's all just make believe. It's not one of those movies that makes you think how cool the special effects are or lead you to feel like the person who just got whacked really got whacked! It's very blatantly obvious that it's a movie!
We were a bit disappointed in the language. The other Indiana movies didn't have quite as much language and it was mild when it was there. From out of nowhere, LeBouf shouts "BS!" which is really uncalled for...both in real life and in the script. There was no reason for it to be there. I just thought since so much of the movie was obviously goofy, they could have left out the language and really made it a family movie.

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The Bee Movie  

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The Bee Movie
Jerry Seinfeld, Matthew Broderick, Renee Zellweger
Rated: PG

What an awesome and funny movie!!! We laughed all the way through this movie...

Barry (Seinfeld) is 'graduating' and is getting his first job. Only in the process, he does something that is against Bee Law: he talks to a human! They form a friendship and he discovers that humans are using honey to make money!! He sets out to put a stop to this injustice and in the end puts all the bees out of work. Can he fix what he messed up??

Full of hilarious 'bug' things, an insight is offered into what life might be like for bees. You have to listen carefully to some of the comments and quips made in order to really catch what they are saying, but when you do it's funny.

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The Lake House  

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The Lake House
with Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves
A good movie with a PG rating, but very slow!
Kate leaves the Lake House and puts a letter in the mailbox for the next renter. Alex retrieves the letter and reads it, but gets confused by her statements. Writes her back basically telling her she's daft. Kate then informs him it is 2006 and gives her address...which in his time (2004) hasn't even been built yet. They continue their correspondence and even 'take a walk' together through Chicago. The end of the movie offers a twist that makes the movie worth the wait! Do they end up together? OF COURSE! It's a movie after all!

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