DVR recorded movie ratings #23

Had a busy weekend, so not much for watching movies. Saturday we went to the Celtic Music Festival and Highland Games. It was a nice outing seeing as we hadn't done that in quite some time. Since it had rained on Friday, the weather was very nice over the weekend. On Sunday, it was Free Museum Day and we went to the Jourdan-Bachman Pioneer Farm not too far from us. It's a living history park and once again the weather was very nice, which made it fun for the amount of walking we did. The best part, seeing a lady spinning some yarn from freshly picked cotton, and petting and feeding the donkeys. But before I get all childish-mode on you on how excited I was about the donkeys, I will stop now and do my movie reviews. If you ever get the chance to ask, PLEASE do!

• Stranger Than Fiction: I had seen this movie playing a few times over the past few months, but never really checked it out. I'm not much of a Will Farrell fan, especially his comedy movies. this was not one of them. Will plays a guy who lives his ordinary life from day to day, only after some time, he hears a voice narrating his everyday life. Not predicting it, but describing things he is doing at that exact same moment he is doing them. Then you have Emma Thompson who plays a writer suffering from writer's block. Her stuff is much more gruesome, imagining herself getting killed or dying in a horrific way. Well, it turns out that she is in fact writing about Will's life, unbeknownst to her that he is an actual person. Only problem is, she kills all her main characters in all her books. When confronted with this, she has a hard time wrapping her head around all this and must either decide if she should kill this new-found stranger or keep killing her main character as she has in her previous books. Maggie Gyllenhall, Dustin Hoffman, and Queen Latifah also star in this movie. I really liked this movie, I give it 5 Daisy-girls.
• Play Misty For Me: Ya, I know this movie is old and I have never seen it. This was playing late last night and we were fully awake, so why not watch it. I didn't catch the first ten minutes, so I hope nothing MAJOR happened. This movie was Clint Eastwoods first directorial debut. He also produced and starred in it. This is the movie that a lot of other movies are influenced by. He plays a radio DJ and some lady calls requesting him to play Misty. Well he ends up meeting this lady at his local restaurant, only he doesn't know it's her right away. He ends up giving her a ride home and she tells him who she is. They end up sleeping together, then she becomes obsessed with him. Following him everywhere he goes, mingling in his personal life, bothering his friends. I mean she goes fucken psycho, more than Glenn Close's Fatal Attraction character. This lady tries to kill Clint, his girlfriend, housekeeper, friends, anyone that is close to Clint. She is taken to an asylum, but is soon then released and while he is working he gets a request to play the song Misty. He freaks out, but she assures him she is moving and won't be bothering him. She ends up taking an ad for a roommate and it turns out that it is Clint's girlfriend who had posted the ad. She ends up his friend, and wanting to kill him. There is a lot of stabbing motions, lots of struggling and then she falls out the window and down a cliff into the ocean. Very interesting movie. I give it 5 Daisy-girls.
• Smashed: This is about an alcoholic couple who love each other, but I'm pretty sure they loooooooooove to drink more. She is a teacher, he is a writer who reviews bands. She ends up barfing in front of the students and they ask if she is pregnant, she says yes, and the lies start to escalate from there. Then one night she leaves the bar and this girl who is outside takes it upon herself to get a ride from her. She asks the drunk girl if she can smoke and she says ok, then she whips out a crack pipe, she offers the drunk girl some and she is hesitant at first but then does it. She ends up waking up in an undisclosed location and she freaks out. Goes home and tells her hubby what happened and she wants to stop drinking. At first he is not supportive and asks if he has to stop to, she said she just needs some support. At work, the principal thinks she is pregnant, but after some time the drunk girl confesses that she never was pregnant, she just had a hangover. The principal, feeling as she was taken advantage of, feels disgusted and ashamed for believing otherwise and she ends up firing the drunk girl, even though she has been sober for quite some time. She ends up relapsing, goes home and her husband is not supportive of her wanting to He's trying to drink. He tries to understand whys he would start to drink again and she tells him she got fired. Even though he wasn't really supportive of her being sober, he realizes now (that she is drunk) that she was really dedicated to her sobriety and she turned to drinking because of her losing her job, not drinking for fun as they had before. This movie is very emotional, and very real. This was another movie on my IMDb.com watchlist and I loved it. Not very enjoyable (seeing as it is a movie about alcoholics), but a very interesting one indeed. I give this movie 5 Daisy-girls.