The weather in my area has been MENTAL lately.. There was a bit of an Indian summer a couple of days ago, but now the weather is really bad. And cold. Not at all pleasant.
But, today’s topic is movies. Movies are one of the things that I love going to see, or just watching at home, when the weather’s bad. I want to write about the top five movies that I’ve seen in the last few months.
Top Five (not in any particular order)
1: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2: Tintin
3: Hugo
4: Sherlock Holmes: The Game of Shadows
5: The Hunger Games
Now, for starters, I’ll write about The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
This movie is about a group of British retirees who decide to “outsource” their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel and bolstered with visions of a life of leisure, they arrive to find the palace a shell of its former self. Though the new environment is less luxurious than imagined, they are forever transformed by their shared experiences, discovering that life and love can begin again when you let go of the past.
I saw this with my parents two days ago, and it was bloody marvellous. The plot is amazing, the filming and locations are fabulous and the whole movie is just DAMN good. I decided to see this because of the amount of awesome actors and actresses in it, and they didn’t disappoint at all. I highly recommend seeing it. The only aspect that annoyed me a tad was the fact that the gay character died first and we didn’t really get to see much of his backstory.
4.5/5 stars. – Totally worth a watch, and maybe even buying the DVD.
Next of all,Tintin.
Having bought a model ship, the Unicorn, for a pound off a market stall Tintin is initially puzzled that the sinister Mr. Sakharine should be so eager to buy it from him, resorting to murder and kidnapping Tintin – accompanied by his marvellous dog Snowy – to join him and his gang as they sail to Morocco on an old cargo ship. Sakharine has bribed the crew to revolt against the ship’s master, drunken Captain Haddock, but Tintin, Snowy and Haddock escape, arriving in Morocco at the court of a sheikh, who also has a model of the Unicorn. Haddock tells Tintin that over three hundred years earlier his ancestor Sir Francis Haddock was forced to scuttle the original Unicorn when attacked by a piratical forebear of Sakharine but he managed to save his treasure and provide clues to its location in three separate scrolls, all of which were secreted in models of the Unicorn. Tintin and Sakharine have one each and the villain intends to use the glass-shattering top Cs of operatic soprano the Milanese Nightingale to secure the third. With aid from bumbling Interpol agents the Thompson Twins our boy hero, his dog and the captain must prevent Sakharine from obtaining all three scrolls to fulfil the prophesy that only the last of the Haddocks can discover the treasure’s whereabouts.
I accidentally went to see Tintin, but I can say that it was a great mistake to make. I enjoyed Tintin, a lot. The story was whimsical, but a great watch. The 3D aspect made it SO good, and I just enjoyed it immensly. No problems with this great movie.
5/5 – One to buy on DVD. SO amazingly well done 
Next of all, Hugo.
Hugo is an orphan boy living in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. He learned to fix clocks and other gadgets from his father and uncle which he puts to use keeping the train station clocks running. The only thing that he has left that connects him to his dead father is an automaton (mechanical man) that doesn’t work without a special key which Hugo needs to find to unlock the secret he believes it contains. On his adventures, he meets with a shopkeeper, George Melies, who works in the train station and his adventure-seeking god-daughter. Hugo finds that they have a surprising connection to his father and the automaton, and he discovers it unlocks some memories the old man has buried inside regarding his past.
This movie was gorgeous. The filmography was beautiful and the child actors were SO good at their roles. I loved the references to ‘Safety First’, an iconic silent movie, and I just loved all the subtext and all the stuff about old movies. The locations were great, and it was just a fabulous, fabulous movie.
If I could give it 6/5, I would. One to definitely watch!
