for freeeeeee

I debated about posting this because I don't want to go to jail...if they send you to jail for stuff like this??

So you know when you go to the movie and it's super expensive just for tickets, but you really need popcorn cause it's a movie and you just NEED it!?!

Well, did you know that if you buy a large popcorn it comes with free refills?

And did you know that sometimes they forget to mark off on the tub that they gave you said free refill?

So then you can use it over, and over, and over, and over again!!

My husband likes to point out that this isn't honest, but is it really honest to charge so much for popcorn!?!

I decided to try and see how many times I could get away with getting free refills. 

My record so far is 5 times.

I admit I started to feel guilty, but it also felt really good to stick it to the man! 

(I don't know who the man is that I was sticking it to, but it felt like a sticking it to the man moment)

 

I think I'll keep my max at 3 from now on, cause really is the bucket sanitary for that long? Plus I feel like I'm owed more than 1 free refill with how much we spend at the theater every month.

Ps- Don't tell on me.

we should be best friends

I started writing this post a month ago, but life is super busy these days and I never got around to finishing it until now. I have to say it for the world to hear though, Jennifer Lawrence is my latest girl crush. Yes, I get girl crushes, quit judging. Seriously though, how cute is she!?! Not just looks wise (though she is hottie), but her personality. Every interview I see of her makes me love her more and more, and how cute was she at the Oscars falling down!?! I'm pretty certain that if we ever met we would be instant best friends...either that or she would get a restraining order on me.

 

Seriously don't you just want to eat her up! She's such a dollface! Well that's all I have to say about that.

Sundance 2013

We had another successful Sundance movie going experience again this year!
To see the goodness from the last two years go here and here.
Here's what went down this year:

The Summit

This was an awesome documentary about the most dangerous mountain on earth, K2, and what happened when 11 climbers died on an expedition in 2008. Just to give you an idea of how crazy K2 is, 1 out of 4 climbers who try to peak that mountain die...yeah, not good odds!

Pemba Gyalje, a Sherpa from Nepal pictured below with my hubs, spent over 90 hours in the deathzone trying to save lives! It's called the deathzone for a reason...you do NOT want to be there for too long. He was so humble and nice!

The hubs has talked about climbing Everest for years, but after seeing this documentary I think I will have to squash that dream. I know it's a different mountain, but I could not handle having him in danger like this!

Sightseers

This film had a Hot Fuzz feel to me (which I guess this director is friends with Edgar Wright so I shouldn't be too surprised). I don't want to give anything away, but it's funny and dark and awesome.

Hell Baby

Nothing but LOVE for this film!! Comic gold! I think the Q&A afterwards with all the funny cast was my favorite part. Plus we got to see Sam Rockwell at the film since his girlfriend Leslie Bibb was in it. Scott has a major man crush on that man and was trying to stalk him to take a pic....yeah he was being creepy.

 

The hubs was major fan boying! Haha!

Sam Rockwell!!

Magic Magic

Meh. I couldn't wait for this film to end, which is not a good sign, but it did have an interesting take on a girls journey down to crazy town. The best part was one of my girl crushes, Emily Browning, was in the film. She's so pretty!!

Look who it is!! It's the boy from Sky High!! I had to get a pic with him cause I love that movie! Haha!

No, my huge grin isn't cheesy & starstruck at all.

In Fear

This was a scary film and the last Sundance film I went to. What was cool about it is the director didn't give the cast the whole script so they were really being scared during the film! I think that's awesome!

Two thumbs up for Sundance this year!

angry dancing

I've come to the conclusion that I don't have enough anger in my life. I've never just HAD to dance cause I was SOOO angry and I'm a little bit bitter about that. Maybe the key is to find your secret place to do said angry dancing then the angry dancing will just come...kinda like Field of Dreams "If you build it they will come"?? Don't get me wrong now, I shake what my mama gave me from time to time, but I feel like if I did it out of anger I would be an unstoppable angry dance force, which is kinda like being a super hero...probably.

The original, Footloose:

The remake: Footloose 2011:

Hot Rod:

FOTC:

Billy Elliot 

It wouldn't let me embed the video, but just click on the name for the link. Love this kid!

There is some language (If British cussing really counts in your eyes. I don't think it's real cussing cause it has a pretty accent.), but if you skip to 35 seconds you miss it.

If anyone makes their own angry dancing video it's imperative that you send it to me.

Please and Thank you!

good ol' Wes

Movies on summer nights are the best!

We finally went and saw Moonrise Kingdom over the weekend. I know, it's about time!!

Serious LOVE!!

Wes Anderson makes some of the most amazing movies!

He's actually my hubs favorite film maker, which inspired this costume of his a few years back

He even had a costume change that he was pretty proud of

(I was Iron Maven from Whip It, but next time I have a fur coat and blond wig to be Margot so that we both can be Tenenbaums together)

Life Aquatic & Royal Tenenbaums have been his favs for years, but Moonrise Kingdom may have overtaken them (which is really saying something for this movie snob).

Go see it if you haven't yet, I promise laughter will be had.

Also, this is one of my favorite summer outfits

The pockets are big enough to hold my phone, my Thor pez dispenser, & chapstick.

Love!

aaannd....action!

For those that don't know, my hubs makes short films with our friends.
Our friend Jon, aka Madbeard, is the main instigator, and he really has some good stuff!
You need to check out his You Tube.
Especially watch Chunderstruck, it's one of the most recents and some of his most genius work if I do say so myself.

Anyway...making movies is sooo much fun!!

No, their not big budget stuff,

but we have a good time regardless.

Here's the first one Scott helped direct:

THE LAST ZOMBIE MOVIE EVER!

(A rare moment with me in bangs and straight hair)

 

Eventually they'd like to get something into the Sundance Film Festival,

but that may be a ways off.

These last few years we've been doing the 48 Hour Film Project.

Which is a bit tiring!

They participated in one this last weekend and Scott only got a little over 3 hours of sleep the whole weekend!

You see, for the 48hr you draw out a genre and then you have to write, film, & edit all within the 48 hours.

If your late then you're out of the judging and you will never know how your film held up to others made.

Unfortunately the guys were an hour late this year :-(

Their film will still get viewed, just no awards for them.
Bummer, I know!

 I don't have this years movie yet, but here is the film they made last time which I really loved:

Horror is kind of our genre, but there are plans to branch out this summer.

Sundance

In case you haven't heard, Scott and I love movies!

Going to Sundance is one of our favorite (very tiring) traditions we have every January.

Some of our all time favorite films have been from Sundance, so we are always looking forward to what we'll see.

Here are some pics and films we saw:

First night Sundancing we saw Red Lights with Cillian Murphy, Sigorney Weaver, Robert DeNiro, & Elisabeth Olsen. 

Scott wasn't a fan of the end, but I loved it!

Waiting for the film to start

Q&A after the film with:

Cillian Murphy, Elisbeth Olsen, & Sigorny Weaver

Scott has a big crush on miss Lizzy Olsen

Next Film was a documentary called Room 237

It was a documentary about the Shining. Meh! It was interesting because the movie was cool, but I was wanting more hard facts from people that actually worked on the film and not just random opinions of what they thought the significance behind the film was.

Another documentary called Imposter. This film was weird and interesting!

It was a bout a boy who was kidnapped from Texas and appeared 3 years later in Spain.

I recommend it just because it's a weird situation that really happened.

This kitty lived at the store...Scott always seems to find cats wherever he goes!

Usually Scott and I have really good luck with the Park City at midnight films so we're always sure to fit one in.

This year we saw Grabbers.

It was a funny throw back to old monster scary movies.

We enjoyed it, but it wasn't up there was some of the past midnight films we've seen.

(Dale & Tucker vs. Evil, Dead Snow)

Still funny and worth a see though.

 

Our most favorite thing we did was go to Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Hit Record.

It was him talking about his independent project he has to get indy film makers, writers, singers, bands, artists, ect out there. Plus he showed some of the work from this website.

We were second row and got some great footage!

Seriously this boy is so darn cute!

Parker Posy stopped by and gave some input

JGL ended with singing a couple songs for us. 

Baby Mine from Dumbo (so so cute)

Hey Jude. I recorded this song, but I'm struggling on getting it to upload to my blog. I will post it as soon as I figure out how to!

Until next time Sundance!

(Ps-some of the pics look blurry, but if you click on them you can see them clearer)

Sundance 2011

I love going to Sundance! It's so awesome to meet the directors and actors and hear what they have to say on the movie. Plus it's just cool seeing something before the masses, it makes me feel posh and better than everyone. :-) This year Scott and I got a little carried away and spent a lot of money and saw a bunch of movies! Which was awesome, but also exhausting! Here are some of the films I saw in order of most favorite to least favorite:
(side note: most titles are links to their trailers)

1. Silent House. It was filmed all in one take and was scary and had a twist...It. Was. Amazing! Plus I think Scott is now in love with the Olsen twins little sister. She did do a pretty spectacular job though.

2. Troll Hunter. A foreign film and a documentary revealing the truth about trolls!

3. On the Ice. This one felt genuinely Sundance to me because there were no big names and it was the directors first big film. Plus the music and cinematography were beautiful!

4. Knuckle. A documentary about bare knuckle boxing in Ireland. Really interesting! By the end I really cared about this little family we were following even though I couldn't understand everything they said.

5. Submarine. This was an all around good film. I liked the way it was directed and the script, but I mostly just liked the director. Richard Ayoade is hilarious!! Seriously the best Q&A I've ever been too. I now need to watch the British series called the IT Crowd with him in it.

6. Perfect Sense. Ewan McGregor & Ewen Bremner. Love me some Scottish men! It did have excessive boobies in it which I was not a fan of, but the story was really cool and interesting.
7. Vampire. While watching this film I felt how long it was and got a little bored. It did move slow, but it was one that lingered with me. The cinatomagraphy was really good and the movie kept me thinking about the content long after it was over. It made you root for the serial killer...cause by golly he had standards!

8. Son of No One. All star cast!! Katie Holmes, Channing Tatum, Ray Liota, & Tracy Morgan. Another New York cop movie and yes I may have cried a bit.

9. The Guard. Another cop movie set in Ireland with Don Cheadle and Brenden Gleeson, it was pretty hilarious!

These last two films weren't bad by any means, it's just that I felt I would have been OK to wait a month and see them for half the price in the theater when they come out. Which they will eventually because of the names attached to them.

Every year we learn something new about how we want our Sundance experience to be the next year. This year we learned that it's not worth going unless it's the premier, no more shows in Ogden, and try not to pack so many films into one day when you had to get up at 4am. So excited for next year already! **Please note that Scott would probably not place these films in this order. You will have to ask him his opinion. Also, he saw 2 more films. Devils Double and Hobo with a Shot Gun.

The Head Cheese

I've been thinking about who I think are the best directors lately...not that I'm any kind of a professional, but I could be if I wanted cause I watch a lot of movies. This isn't in any order cause I would really have to do some research to make someone a number one...and I'm just not willing to put that kind of time into it at this moment. So this is just a top 5 of awesomeness.

1. Baz Luhrmann: Australia, Moulin Rouge, Romeo + Juliet, Stricktly Ballroom
2. Quentin Tarantino: Kill Bill 1 & 2, Inglorious Basterds, Sin City, Four Rooms, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs
3. Jon Madsen (Which I'm thinking he should rethink his name to something that is a bit more edgy cause he sounds like he should be in sports and not film...just a suggestion): The Last Zombie Movie Ever, Massacre on West Capital, Cyber Stalker on Center, Aladdin
4. Alfred Hitchcock: The Birds, Psycho, Vertigo, The Man Who Knew Too Much, To Catch a Thief, Rear Window, Dial M for Murder, North by Northwest
5. Tim Burton: Alice in Wonderland, Sweeney Todd, Corpse Bride, Big Fish, Sleepy Hollow, Edward Scissorhands, Batman, Beetle Juice
I don't need to go into why each one is legendary because their films speak for themselves. All of them have their own unique way of telling the story that makes each shot art. Good job fellas!!

Zombie Flicks

With an amazing zombie cabin outing earlier this month and the filming of our very own zombie movie I've been thinking about what would be my top 5 zombie flicks. Scott may be upset with me for this order but I will explain my reasons as I number them.

1. Zombieland: This could be number one because it's the newest...who knows?! It may be knocked down a few notches after I've seen it a few more times. I dig it so much because I feel that this movie is educational as well as entertainingly scary. Also, it doesn't scare me as much as other zombie movies. It is one that I could watch a lot without having to break out my night light...which I'm a fan of not being scared in my bed at night.

2. Shawn of the Dead: This movie started my love of zombie movies. It's legendary! Yes, it does scare me a bit...but in a funny sort of way...if that's possible. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are a mixture of awesomeness and atractivness, making this movie a classic must see multiple times a year!

3. 28 Days Later: This movie definitely has it's scary parts! Yes, I think people being infected with "rage" is ridiculous, but take that away and this could totally happen! I just know in some lab somewhere they are testing monkeys with some obscure virus and it's bound to get out!

4. Fido: This movie is about life after the zombie outbreak and having zombies as servants. I know I'm not the only that would love a zombie pet!

5. I Am Legend: This movie is freaky!! The zombies in this one are smarter than your average zombie, which I think that's why it freaks me out so much. The old classic zombie movies have them shuffling about, being slowdy powdies...creepy, but nothing I can't handle. When they start to get really fast and devious, then I have issues.

I realize that a lot of these movies on my list are funny ones. I'm going to let you in on a secret....I don't really like scary movies! In fact, I'm not as into zombies as everyone thinks I am. I just feel that zombies are the one part of scary movie world that I could actually handle if it were to happen in real life. Because what I think about when I watch scary movies is "What would I do in that situation?", which is why I get so scared in them. I gotta admit, that in most of the scary movies I see I would survive, because I'm totally a survivor!...and I would make Scott save me.


**If you click on the movie link above you can watch the trailer to our zombie movie!