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- Grab your tub of popcorn and your Milk Duds, cause we're talking movies. From the latest kid flick to the loudest blockbuster, I will take you through a guided tour of Hollywood's finest offerings. Butter-like substance not included.
So sit back, relax and please remember to turn off your cell phones. This is Reeling.
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This Is Your Wallet On Cars
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 5:30pm 15 Comments 1 Like
Cars has been a major presence in my house for quite some time. For a while it felt like the DVD was on auto-play on my TV and I can’t go five feet without stepping on a Cars toy. Ever since the Bean could sit up by himself, he was obsessed with wheels. So it was only natural that…
Super 8 (a personal, yet spoiler free review)
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 11:30pm 8 Comments 2 Likes
A lot of things ran through my mind as I watched Super 8. The old Amblin logo that kicked off the movie triggered a sensory response in me, as it was meant to do. I thought about my dad and his repeated attempts to bond with me, a kid whom he didn’t completely understand. I wasn’t into sports like he was. I wasn’t really into much of anything for a while. It would be many years before I stopped having panic attacks because of the movies, paving the way for them to become something…
ContinueNon-Texters, Let This Be a Lesson To You
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 2:23pm 9 Comments 2 Likes
As a movie fan, I believe the best way to see a movie is in the theater. But that's not always easy, especially for us parents who have to deal with the high cost of tickets, snacks and the even higher cost of babysitters. And when you get there, some douche-nozzle is usually texting away during the flick.
This is why I wish I lived in Austin. The Alamo Drafthouse is one of the best places to see a movie in the country. Partly due to stuff like this:
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ContinueFast Five on a Friday
Posted on April 30, 2011 at 3:50pm 2 Comments 0 Likes
I originally didn’t intend to see Fast Five. The fourth one was pretty awful and ruined my appetite for the franchise. But curiously Fast Five started to get decent reviews. And since WonderWife™ had planned on going to sleep very early, having gotten up in the middle of the previous…
Hop Along
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:38pm 4 Comments 2 Likes
I wanted to write a review of Hop this weekend. I had it all planned out too. My tickets were bought and my favorite movie companion was by my side. But as we munched our popcorn, the Bean got a little spooked… Continue Latest Activity
"Rob...It's amazing that Pixar has both brought my child into loving movies and then repelled him from them. Toy Story 3 was an incredibly traumatic experience for him. They took characters he loved and put them in extreme…"
"As a longtime Pixar fan and father of a little Pixar fanatic, it feels weird to say it, but lately the company has been letting me down. Cars had a message and heart. The message in Cars 2 was too weak and the content too violent. …"
Floor Pie commented on Reeling's blog post 'This Is Your Wallet On Cars'"We saw it today. It was fun! I had pretty low expectations after reading the reviews...maybe that was the key.
The plot twists were a little implausible, but whatever. It reminded me of those spy/jewel thief Disney movies we used to love as…"
Andromeda commented on Reeling's blog post 'This Is Your Wallet On Cars'"I like Cars. I have to say, even after watching it every day, multiple times a day, i still like it. i've actually watched it half a dozen times in the last week.
i don't know how i feel about the idea of Cars 2, but i…"
MamatothaMax commented on Reeling's blog post 'Non-Texters, Let This Be a Lesson To You'"I worked for a couple years as an usher/concessionista and that crap just didn't fly in our theater. My boss expected us to crack down on folks using their phones. We didn't have those batons which made sneaking up on tweens using their…"
ks commented on Reeling's blog post 'This Is Your Wallet On Cars'"I may or may not take the boys to Cars 2--depends on time and money issues, both of which are in short supply this summer. Plus, N's summer camp class will be taking a field trip to see it next week, so A may have to just wait for the…"
"If your girl is stubborn, like my Sprout, you'll have a tough time. She refuses to think about attempting to poop in the potty."
"The original Cars was almost 2 hours also. And yes, I agree there were a lot of scenes of cars talking, but nothing really funny going on. And I often found myself thinking "oh come on, really?" And in a movie that's…"
Floor Pie commented on Reeling's blog post 'This Is Your Wallet On Cars'"There's also a Lego tie-in with Cars 2, which explains my boy's sudden enthusiastic interest in the movie. Does he want to get the first Cars DVD out of the library before we go see the sequel? No. Because Legos."
"I liked Kung Fu Panda 2, but I didn't love it. I felt the first one succeeded both as comedy and as an action movie. The second one lost a little bit of the magic that made the first one so charming. However, the action scenes…"
mightyninjamom commented on Reeling's blog post 'This Is Your Wallet On Cars'"Will there be crossover merchandising with a fast food franchise? Because they are usually involved as well.
My kiddos liked the first Cars well enough, and watched it obsessively for a few months, like they do with most Pixar films. I'm sure…"
"Pixar's got it set up so that they tell Disney what to do. Not vice-versa. So I don't believe that Disney meddled in the movie. But I'm sure they offered up several dump trucks filled with gold doubloons so they…"
mcglory13 commented on Reeling's blog post 'This Is Your Wallet On Cars'"Disney, with Lilo and Stitch, Tangled, and the Emperor's New Groove, has actually been doing the most progressive, really for children stuff out there for the past decade."
kanachick commented on Reeling's blog post 'This Is Your Wallet On Cars'"It's because Disney is part of the process. I hold nothing against Pixar...just Disney. "
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