This last weekend we watched three movies.
Friday nights movie: The Family Stone
This movie was so good - just an easy-to-watch kind of movie about a family coming together for Christmas and dealing with their childrens new relationships...they also have to deal with the fact that the Wife/ Mother is dying of breast cancer....
Sounds depressing but is really a kind of sweet movie about a typical family with grown children at Christmas time.....It did strike a chord with em though as the couple have 5 children. Three boys and two girls. The oldest girl is named Susannah. The oldest Son is JUST like Christopher and they also have a Son much like Laurence and a Daughter much like Abigail - so I guess that means Sam is the gay Son!
Anyway, Christmas is a big thing to the Mom...and she can't imagine not being there for future Christmases....lets just say that by the end I was crying a lot - because Christmas is MY thing.....it's a HUGE thing to me - and the traditions we have to go with it....and I can't imagine not being here to share it with my family.
Saturdays movie - Transformers.
Special effects were good but it just isn't my kind of movie! Lloyd saw it at the movie theatre a few months ago and he and Laurie love it....the rest of us - not so much lol. Typical action movie with trucks that turn into movies....and I'm told the yellow car is cool!
Sundays movie - Eight Below
Such a great movie, such a SAD movie....Lloyd told us all at the start that it's a Disney movie so the dogs will survive and be fine.....Disney movies always have happy endings......HA!!!! Lets just say I was crying through a lot of the movie! We all enjoyed this movie! Its the story of people working in the US base in Antarctica...scientists and cartologists etc and they have to leave the base quickly due to a severe storm (worst in 25 years)...they end up having to leave their 8 sled dogs behind and then find they can't get back to get them.....its a story of the dogs survival and how the dog owners struggle to get back and save them....EXCELLENT.
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