draggin'
This week seems to be going by pretty slowly right now. I'm distressed that it's only Tuesday. However, movie night is rearing its head once more, so I'm looking forward to that. Last Tuesday night was "Monsters vs. Aliens", and I think "Year One" comes out today, so hopefully that'll be good for a laugh or two. Maybe even three!
Watched "Away We Go" last night on a whim after the Green Bay/Minnesota game started getting out of hand. It's a movie starring John Krasinski (The Office) and Maya Rudolph (SNL) as a newly pregnant boyfriend/girlfriend couple who only live where they live because Burt's (Krasinski's) parents also live there. When the parents tell Burt and Verona (Rudolph) that they're moving out of the country for two years, and that they'll be doing it a month before the baby is born, the couple decide to journey to various locales to determine the perfect place to raise their child. As they trek across the country and into Canada, they meet friends, relatives, former acquaintances and colorful characters with a variety of "eccentric" parenting techniques and eventually discover exactly what they've been looking for. I've gotta say, this was a really funny, charming, well-acted movie. Even the outlandish characters were completely believable, and the hilarity of the film was tempered really well with some of the more serious content that presents itself near the end. I'm not a fan of The Office, but I have friends and siblings that watch it religiously. The reason we decided to watch "Away We Go", in fact, was because my sister saw that Krasinski was in the movie. However, though I don't watch The Office, I can safely say that I've enjoyed everything I've seen Krasinski in. He has a very wry, but personable, sense of humor that I can immediately connect with. I liked "Leatherheads" and "License to Wed" quite a bit, and "Away We Go" has a slightly similar slant to the latter. So if you enjoyed "License to Wed", you'll probably enjoy this too. Maya Rudolph also holds her own really well in the movie. I'm not exactly a fan of her work on SNL, and the only other movie I can think of that I've seen her in was "Idiocracy" which was... okay. But she really caught my attention in this one, as she had a fantastic chemistry with Krasinski and was right there with him in every scene matching his awkwardness or outrage with her own emotional volley. There was a bit of an ensemble cast involved in the film, for those that are interested in that sort of thing. Jeff Daniels plays Burt's father, and the hilarious Catherine O'Hara (Orange County) plays his mother. Maggie Gyllenhall has a fantastic role as a "new age" (or whatever it's called) mother named LN. In short, I really dug the movie and I highly recommend it.
Watched "Away We Go" last night on a whim after the Green Bay/Minnesota game started getting out of hand. It's a movie starring John Krasinski (The Office) and Maya Rudolph (SNL) as a newly pregnant boyfriend/girlfriend couple who only live where they live because Burt's (Krasinski's) parents also live there. When the parents tell Burt and Verona (Rudolph) that they're moving out of the country for two years, and that they'll be doing it a month before the baby is born, the couple decide to journey to various locales to determine the perfect place to raise their child. As they trek across the country and into Canada, they meet friends, relatives, former acquaintances and colorful characters with a variety of "eccentric" parenting techniques and eventually discover exactly what they've been looking for. I've gotta say, this was a really funny, charming, well-acted movie. Even the outlandish characters were completely believable, and the hilarity of the film was tempered really well with some of the more serious content that presents itself near the end. I'm not a fan of The Office, but I have friends and siblings that watch it religiously. The reason we decided to watch "Away We Go", in fact, was because my sister saw that Krasinski was in the movie. However, though I don't watch The Office, I can safely say that I've enjoyed everything I've seen Krasinski in. He has a very wry, but personable, sense of humor that I can immediately connect with. I liked "Leatherheads" and "License to Wed" quite a bit, and "Away We Go" has a slightly similar slant to the latter. So if you enjoyed "License to Wed", you'll probably enjoy this too. Maya Rudolph also holds her own really well in the movie. I'm not exactly a fan of her work on SNL, and the only other movie I can think of that I've seen her in was "Idiocracy" which was... okay. But she really caught my attention in this one, as she had a fantastic chemistry with Krasinski and was right there with him in every scene matching his awkwardness or outrage with her own emotional volley. There was a bit of an ensemble cast involved in the film, for those that are interested in that sort of thing. Jeff Daniels plays Burt's father, and the hilarious Catherine O'Hara (Orange County) plays his mother. Maggie Gyllenhall has a fantastic role as a "new age" (or whatever it's called) mother named LN. In short, I really dug the movie and I highly recommend it.