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Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp) is on a ship going home to England after many years of being away. He befriends a young sailor named Anthony (Jamie Campbell Bower) and tells the young sailor of a barber named Benjamin Barker who had a beautiful wife and daughter and how an evil man lusted after his wife and had Benjamin thrown out of England.

As Sweeney Todd steps onto England’s land, his first stop is in a bakery owned by Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter), who offers him an awful tasting pie…and knows it too! He inquires about the room upstairs and she takes him. While upstairs he asks about the previous tenants and she tells him of a barber who had a beautiful wife and daughter and how an evil man lusted after the beautiful wife and had the man thrown out of England. She then tells him of how the evil man, named Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman), took the beautiful wife back to his home and raped her. She then took poison and the Judge took over the care of her beautiful daughter and made her his ward. After telling Sweeney this story, she finds out that he is in fact Benjamin Barker.

Sweeney vows that he will have his revenge and kill the Judge, but how is the tricky part. In the meantime, the young sailor Anthony, sees a beautiful young woman sitting in the window and instantly falls in love. Unknown to him, she is the ward of the Judge Turpin who catches the young man staring up at her, threatens Anthony, and tells him to never come back. So the now in love Anthony needs to find out how to help his beloved escape from this evil man. Now both men need to find a way to undo the damage that was caused by Judge Turpin.

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 I really enjoyed this movie, but I was also very disappointed in the fact that it was a musical. I was not aware of that when buying it, and I felt that it really wasn’t necessary (sorry, but I’m not a fan of musicals). But doing a little research I also found out that this is a remake and originally was a musical, so I’ve accepted that issue of mine. But fair warning to those that have not seen it…it’s a musical!

To be quite honest, this movie has stuck with me. I love how it is such a dark film, but that is also the style of Tim Burton who did a wonderful job on this film. I love that it is dark, and not just because it is such a dark story, but it really captures the “dark” qualities of it. When telling the side of Benjamin’s story, it was bright and sunny and you could feel how happy he and his wife truly were. And when telling Sweeney’s side, you could feel his anger and emptiness that he had from the loss of his beloveds. 

I also enjoyed the arrangement that Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett come up with to not only take on his revenge, but to make her pies taste wonderful and get her business back up and running. However, I was able to predict the ending, which I try very hard not to do, but it was a very easy thing to accomplish. But then when you think about it, it really wasn’t a mystery and being that it was such a dark film, you kind of already knew what was going to happen. Does that mean you shouldn’t see it? Heck no! I say you should…epsecially if you are a Depp/Burton fan!! 

I’m gonna take a small break from my movie reviews to post this as it disturbs me a little…well, enough to write about it.

I got a bulletin today on MySpace with the message titled “Stop Blaming MySpace”, and this is what I read…

“Anybody happen to catch Nightline last night on ABC? In case you didn’t, one of the hot topics discussed was MySpace. It is no secret to anyone who reads the newspaper or watches the 6 o’clock news that MySpace has been in the limelight because of “sexual predators” trying to “abduct and corrupt” the youth of the world. To this I say bull shit! I see dozens of profiles a day showing 14 year old girls dressed like sluts, wearing four inches of make up and 32 layers of eyeliner, displaying their age as 18 years old and profile lines stating “Oh, I’m So Sexy” or “Hey There, Wanna Check Up On It?” Come on! The youth of today’s world are already corrupt enough due to the undying need to be “older” than they really are. I seriously doubt there are tons of people on MySpace stalking “innocent young girls” who just happen to have tramped up profiles and ages 4 years greater than their own..

On Nightline, there was a story of a 12 year old girl who was a drug-addict and attributed it all to MySpace. She claims that Myspace allowed her to easily find drug dealers in her area, as well as older men to have sex with her. Now, at the age of 14, she has been checked into a drug-rehabilitation clinic and has been away from her family for 5 months. Her parents would rather place the blame squarely on the shoulders of MySpace instead of their daughter, who even admitted that at the age of 12, had already tried weed, crack, X, and had slept with numerous guys older than herself…but of course, it wasn’t her fault, it was all because of MySpace..

Pass this on if you support Tom, and Myspace.”

This is my view on this. Since when did the internet become babysitters for any child, whether they be a child, teen, or young adult? It is not Myspace’s fault like the bulletin states that these young girls are posing as 18 year olds and dressing like they belong in a strip joint! It is the parents fault for not monitoring what their children do. 

Now I know that in this day and age both parents need to work in order to support the family, but computers are password protected! The child does NOT have to have a computer in their room! I am a mother of three and I don’t care how unliked I am by not only my children, but their friends as well, my children are NOT going to have a computer in their room! Honestly, my reasons are because with having a computer, t.v, cell phone, and gaming system in their room, they are not going to spend much time with family. But then I read this bulletin and I’m happy with the choice that I made! I know that I will be able to monitor my children better. I may not be able to know EXACTLY what they do when they go out or are in school (I mean come on, I was a teenager once too!!), but at least I know that I will be able to watch them when they are home and know that they are safe. 

I am aware of one instance where a teenage girl committed suicide because a couple of classmates pulled a mean joke on her and posed as a fellow boy who she had a crush on at school, and when she found out killed herself. I am aware that somethings are hard to control, but still, that’s not Myspace’s fault, it the user who did such mean things fault!

I just think it’s absolute baloney to put the blame on someone else rather than yourself!

                                                       
Ben (Mathew McConaughey) and Tess (Kate Hudson) just got a divorce. But the day before the divorce was finalized, Ben found a clue to a treasure they had been searching for for 8 years. Sadly, he also manages to sink his boat and that’s how he found the clue, when the boat hit the bottom of the ocean. Ben tries to tell Tess, but she figures that he is lying until she visits a web page with the clue that Ben found being right there.

So without a boat or money, Ben and Tess (separately) have an idea to go to Tess’ boss Nigel (Donald Sutherland), who is a billionaire with nothing better to do with his time or money. He agrees and gets his bored daughter Gemma to join in on the fun. On their hunt for the treasure, the Queen’s Dowry, they run into many obstacles, old friends, and new enemies. Is the hunt worth it? You’ll have to watch that for yourself.

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First, I’m glad to see Kate and Mathew back together again! The chemistry that these two have is so wonderful to see that it almost makes me hope that they do eventually get together in their movies. Personally, I think they would make such a wonderful match off screen as well…but that’s not up to me. As far as the movie goes, it is funny, beautiful, and makes me want to go treasure hunting. I even enjoyed seeing Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played “Theo” on “The Cosby Show”…haven’t seen him in a while on screen.

The only thing I didn’t like about the movie would be the accents. Maybe it’s because they seemed fake to me, or maybe it’s because I know that Donald doesn’t have an English accent and Malcolm doesn’t have a Jamaican one. All I know, is that they could have been better.

All in all, it was a delightful movie and I look forward to seeing it again!

The Bucket List is about a couple of ederly men, Edward (Jack Nicholson) and Carter (Morgan Freeman) who meet each other in the hospital. They share the same room for about a month when they both find out that they have 6 months to a year to live. After surgeries, chemo-therapy, and many experiments, Carter starts a list called the bucket list…things you want to do before you kick the bucket.

As they set off on their journey of life, they go skydiving, have a race with each other with a Shelby Mustang and a Challenger RT., and travel the world. But then life catches up to them and they have to face reality.

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This movie is such a great movie because not only does it have a good plot, but it also has meaning to it. The meaning that I understood was to live life to the fullest because life is so fast that before you know it, it’s time to kick the bucket. I think that Nicholson and Freeman were such a good team in this movie and balanced each other out so well as Nicholson played the spunky wisenheimer while Freeman was the laid back logical thinker of the two.

Although it was a tear jerker, it’s also one that makes you think and appreciate life. I would definitely recommend this movie!!