DVR movie recording reviews #3

Well, well. I saw these movies about two weeks ago and meant to comment on them, but we were pretty busy last weekend. We ended up going to the Houston Auto Show. Although we aren't big car enthusiasts, it was only 10 bucks and close by. It turned out to be pretty damn cool. There were a few car companies that had test driving, in which you got a gift afterwards. We test drove a Honda Accord and got two  $10 gift cards for Target. We then test drove Volkswagon. I drove the Passat and my hubby drove the Beetle. In the end we got two pairs of sunglasses. The rest of the show was good. Not that we are car hunting but it was nice to get a close-up view of cars that we deemed nice or seemed slightly interested in by watching Top Gear or other sources. We also had high hopes for some cars, but it turned out that they weren't as good or nice as we had thought they were. Still love the BMW X5 (hubby says it's big, I said I can really see myself driving that thing), loved the Volkswagon, loved the Honda. But anywayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, enough about our super-exciting life of non-car enthusiasts, here are three movie reviews:

• Me and Orson Welles: I have never seen a Zack Efron movie (I tried to watch the one about him seeing his younger dead brother, but I got as far as 15 minutes into it and gave up. High School Musical....forget it), but that's not to say that the guy is not cute. He can look hot in some cases. Anyway, this movie is about him being in high school and him getting an acting job in an Orson Welles production of Julius Caesar in 1937. Love the clothes and make-up of that era. It was pretty good. Claire Danes also comes out in it. I don't recall how old she is supposed to be, but I do know that she will do "whatever it takes" for her to meet the right people so she could move up. Zack tries his best in acting to satisfy Orson, but also wants to be true to himself. I don't know much about Orson Welles, but I do know that he comes out in everything he directed, or was it produced? Either way, he is portrayed here as an egotistical bastard that does whatever he can to get his way. Even if it means not giving credit to people who deserve it, or using people just for a grand opening and then firing them after the production is over. I would suggest watching the movie, it was pretty decent.. not at the theater though. I would give this 2.5 Daisy-girls, but since I love my Daisy TOO much and not dare cut her in half, I suggest 3 Daisy-girls.
• The Perfect Family: I had been wanting to see this movie when it came out last year in the theater, but never got a chance. I'm glad I waited. It stars Kathleen Turner as a devoted Catholic mom who is being nominated as  "Catholic of the Year" by her church. She is excited about this, but once she is told that her family will be interviewed so they can see how a Catholic's life should be lived, her happiness quickly fades away. She is married and has two adult children, a son and a daughter. Her husband goes on day to day doing his usual routine of going to work and listening to his wife talk about what she did at church. The son, played by Jason Ritter, is married, but leaves his wife to be with a manicurist. And her daughter, played by Emily Deschanel, is a lesbian and engaged, but mom doesn't know that just yet. Mom tries to hide all this from the church and her competition (Sharon Lawrence), who she has known, I think, since high school. It turns out that the more Mom tried to fix, hide, and ignore things, they do not go away. In the end, she ends up writing a letter to her church telling them the truth and they realize that she could in fact by the "Catholic of the Year" based on her being truthful to everyone. It was a good movie...for Lifetime, which is where I saw it on. I would not suggest paying to see this movie. Just like the Auto Show, my expectations seemed a bit high for such a TV-like movie. I give this movie 2 Daisy-girls.
• The Woods:  I was flipping through the guide and this movie sounded interesting when I read it. I don't know anyone who comes out in it, except for Patricia Clarkson and Bruce Campbell (Burn Notice, which my hubby watches). It turns out that Bruce's daughter Heather burned something down and was taken to a a bad-girl school located in the woods. It turns out that some scary crap happened in the woods years ago and that if you go in there, you will most likely not come back. Has to do with some three girls being called witches and how they had been outcasted by everyone at the school. I think they either ended up killing them, oh yeah, they did with an ax. Well maybe hurting them, but wtf gets hurt with an ax to the head or face? Anyway, back to current time, the bad girl gets called a fire-crotch by the mean girl. Strange stuff happens at night that has to do with fog and tree branches. It's kind of a trippy movie, and they do talk about the axed girls in the woods from the past, so you get the back story to all this that is going on. BUT, it turns out that those girls from the past aren't really dead. No, they are not zombies or anything like that. But it's trippy in a way. Like when Dad and Heather are forced to drink some blood from the headmaster and they both barf and there is either a small branch or a leaf coming out of their mouths. It turns out that the woods really play a BIG part in this movie. If you want to see something different, not scary or gruesome, just mysterious, watch this movie. I give this 3 Daisy-girls.