"Hurry home, hurry home, won't you please hurry home to my heart"

This post is about what I think is safe for me to say is one of my all time favorite chick flicks, Return to Me.  I have yet to get sick of watching it and every time I do I pick up on new little things in the movie (and this movie has been since 2000, and I've watched it a lot, so that's saying something).  The main girl, Grace, undergoes a heart transplant and receives the heart of a women who was happily married to Bob (the women dies in a car accident).  Later Grace and Bob begin dating, not knowing the she has Bob's dead wife's heart.  When she discovers who she received the transplant from, she has a hard time coping with it and is not quite sure what to do in the face of this trial.  While talking with her Grandpa, he gives her some lovely wisdom.  He says something a long the lines of the fact that sometimes the Lord gives the toughest trials to those he knows has the strongest character, so you can take that as a compliment.  I just loved that perspective of his about trials and wanted to share it. 

Deep Impact

Yesterday I watched the movie Deep Impact.  I had never seen it before nor heard anything about it, but it was on Netflix and it didn't look all that horrible.  It has some pretty big named people in it too, like Morgan Freeman and Elijah Wood, plus other actors/actresses that you see and you know you've seen them in other things but they aren't quite big enough for you to remember their name.  So after reading the plot synopsis, I just assumed the title derived from the fact that a comet was going to hit the earth and then, obviously, it would be a deep impact.  But while I was watching it, I realized how good of a job the movie did portraying all the emotions and events that would go on in the nation if an event like that were to happen.  I even started telling my husband "man, this movie does a good job showing how much of an impact...." and that's when it hit me how well the title of the movie even embodied that aspect of the movie.  Those sneaky title makers.

"Da-na-na-na-da-na-naa...." (aka the jeapardy time-running-out song)

Last night I watched the movie Quiz Show.  (Don't worry, I hadn't heard of it either) It's a semi-oldschool movie (early 90's) about a game show on TV called Twenty One. (Interesting side note-one of the main guys in it is Lord Voldemort.) It's a really intriguing movie that has a lot to do with ethics; ethics in the media, ethics in life and things like that.  The basic plot line is that this game show, in which contestants are supposedly asked questions that have never before been seen and had been previously sealed in a vault, is rigged.  It was fun to watch and to think about how tough it would be to be in some of those situations and what you would do.  It is also based on real events so it makes it even more interesting.