Night At the Museum

Monday night our Family Home Evening was spent at the Crowfoot Cineplex seeing "Night At The Museum!" It has to be one of my favorite movies of all time. What a well-done, really, really fun movie. I highly recommend paying the insane cost of a movie ticket to see it. We even took Nate (our three-year-old) and he loved it. I kept expecting him to be scared, but he wasn't, and he actually sat still to watch the whole movie.

On the same vein, Adam and I have seen two other movies this holiday season, which I cannot recommend: Apocalypto and Eragon. Wasted money if you ask me. Apocalypto was actually a great film until the extreme violence was added to it. The actual story line was so amazing, though, and I enjoyed a lot of the movie. But I was nearly sick to my stomach by the end and there was a moment I seriously considered walking out, just to spare my mind the memory of the violence. When we got home after watching it, Adam's mom asked me what was the matter. She said there was no color in my face and I looked like I might pass out.

And then there is Eragon. I've never read the book, never been tempted by it. But on Christmas day Adam's parents wanted to see a movie, and Eragon was the only one not sold out. I was bored, and disappointed that John Malkovic and Jeremy Irons weren't more prominent. Their acting was superb, though. I just thought the movie was a bit slow and I guess part of the problem was that Nate was with us and was bored during most of the film, so he was walking around and bothering the people around us. Due to the ending of the film, I imagine that there must be some more Eragon movies coming out sometime, because otherwise the ending is severely disappointing. Okay, enough of my terrible critique. I'd be a horrible movie critic because I wouldn't say much more than "I liked it" or "I hated it." :)