CONFESSIONS OF A SHOP-A-HOLIC

Ever since my bestfriend, Tiara, got me hooked on the Shop-a-holic series a few years back, I wished and hoped that they would make a movie out of the books. And they did. Finally! It will be officially showing on February 13th but since Tiara has crazy hook-ups, we got to go to the pre-screening earlier today at the Scotiabank Theatre.

The movie was pretty well done considering that it was based on a novel. It was a little different from the book but it worked out pretty well. It wasn't disappointing like most of the other movies based on novels. Isla Fisher was perfect for the part of Rebecca Bloomwood- the main character.

I cracked up so many times since I can totally relate to the character. You guys have to see the movie to understand what I'm talking about. HaHaHa. But I'm sure those of you who know me pretty well will understand just after watching the trailer. Enjoy!

SCARY MOVIE

When you're watching a thriller or a horror movie, do you ever find yourself covering your eyes when you think something frightening is coming up?

I DO! I cover my eyes but most of the time i leave a little bit of space in between my fingers so I can still kinda see what is happening but not totally. Does that make sense? I just wanna see a little bit of the screen then I use my imagination to fill in the missing pieces. I figured if I don't see the (for example) scary face- the whole face- I won't have to worry about seeing that face everytime I close my eyes.

Anyway, I'm blogging about this because I find it interesting that not all the "scaredycats" cover their eyes- some actually cover their ears! Like my hubby! I never understood- and I still don't understand- the reasoning behind this. He barely gets scared watching horror movies, but when he does think something is frightening, he covers his ears! Forget all the scary faces! According to him, the real scary stuff is the sound. Dun-Dun-Dun. So as long as he doesn't hear anything, he can watch any scary thing there is!

I guess we really ARE different from each other. Oh wellz, I stopped watching scary movies anyway cuz those things are gonna end up giving me a heart attack- especially with my super wild and active imagination.

IMAGINE?!

Thank God I won't have to worry about this happening to me!!!

Can't wait to watch this movie...

L-A-Z-Y

There are so many things in my head I wanna blog about right now but I've been so LAZY ever since we got back from our mini-getaway in London. Since coming home, Brice and I have cleaned up the place and...WATCHED OLD MOVIES NON-STOP! So instead of me blogging about shtuff, I've been sitting infront of the TV, coke and popcorn in hand.

I guess I'll start my blogging when both Brice and Kyla go back to school tomorrow... 'til then...

Now where's that remote?

JUST CURIOUS

Brice and I went to watch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button earlier. It was a little long (166 minutes to be exact) but I found the premise of the movie to be very interesting. It's pretty much about this guy who ages backwards. The main role is played by Brad Pitt and he did really well in this movie. I normally get turned off when critics give a movie a pretty high rating because from previous experiences, those movies usually require a bit more thinking than I would like to do. So when Brice told me that one of those 'hard' critic dude gave this movie a 4.5/5, I told him I wasn't so sure if I still wanted to see it. But we went anyway and I was not disappointed. I don't wanna say more about it because I don't wanna give away too much of the story but I really do recommend that you go see this movie. Not only did Brad Pitt look UBER-GORGEOUS (he can still pull off a teenager's role!), the story really made me think... What if some of us really did age backwards? What will happen to us and to the ones we love?

But like Cate Blanchett said in the movie, "It doesn't matter. We all end up in diapers, anyway."

GIMME THAT CAR!

Reading Tita Emma's blog about James Bond reminded me of something I've always wanted to find out: Are the cars they use in movies REAL? For example, in James Bond, they had Alfa Romeos and Aston Martins (to name a couple) which we all know cost quite a fortune. A lot of action movies show 'expensive' cars, motorcycles, boats, etc. But what happens to them? They get BLOWN UP! They get WRECKED! So back to my question. Are these vehicles REAL? Or are they really just cheap cars made to look like expensive cars on the outside? Maybe the car companies make special "to-be-blown-up" models? Cuz really... aside from these cars looking super cool, why would they wanna waste hundreds of thousands of dollars (or maybe even millions) for a car that's just going to be blown up anyway? And they don't just wreck 1 'expensive' car- they usually wreck quite a few! I read an article about Quantum of Solace where it was mentioned that they actually used a total of 7 Aston Martins in the movie and wrecked 4! What a waste!

Is there anybody out there who can make my 2007 Tucson look like a BMW X6 or a Land Rover, maybe? Message me! :-)