So In Love with the Avengers Movie

The Destruction in Superhero Movies

Transformers Movies

When my brother and I traveled last week, we really talked extensively of how we loved The Avengers movie. Actually, he was scheduled to watch a second time when he back to Manila. He wanted to watch the 3D version.

Now, I know that we are not the only ones raving about the The Avengers. You see, the movie has set a new record in the domestic box office because it earned a whopping $200.3 million on its opening weekend this summer 2012. It is the largest by far in history, beating even Harry Potter.

And overseas, the superhero film earned $441.5 million, which makes its worldwide total of $641.8 million. For only one weekend, it had already surpassed the lifetime totals of other superhero flicks, namely Captain America: The First Avenger ($364 million), Thor ($449 million), Iron Man ($585 million), and Iron Man 2 ($624 million). Imagine that!

It is reported that The Avengers may earn a total of $1 billion worldwide. Well, the movie is really deserving so job well done to everyone involved!

On my part, I guess it is the fact that I also want to like what my husband is raving about. But whenever we are done watching a movie, like the recent The Avengers movie, I would tell my husband that I am glad that superheroes are not real.

That is because whenever and wherever there are superheroes, there are also super villains and their fights cause so much destruction to the city. Just imagine metal buildings getting melted or smashed to smithereens. But in real life, the only big devastating event where we have seen a metal building collapsing was during the 911 terrorist attack. That was a singular event but it killed many people so how much more if superheroes do exist!

So anyway, I will just continue to watch superheroes in movies and I hope they stay there. We wouldn’t have room for them in the real world! LOL No offense.

The Romantics

You know very well by now that I am not into drama movies because I don’t want to cry. But well, this isn’t a really sad story and I was encouraged by its trailer on You Tube that I decided to watch The Romantics with Dennis. The characters of Josh Duhamel and Katie Holmes were passionate and artistic. They were former lovers but then Duhamel was getting married to the character of Anna Paquin, who was incidentally Holmes’ roommate and supposed best friend. Paquin here is just very controlling that she actually took over the life of Holmes. And eventually, she she got Holmes as her maid of honor.

Anyway, I am just thinking if such neurosis does exist.

Okay, I will not reveal the ending to the story, just in case you want to watch it. The situation is just not something that you want to happen to a friend or worse, your daughter.

The Romantics plot

Seven college friends reunite six years later for the wedding of Lila (Anna Paquin) and Tom (Josh Duhamel). Things go awry when the maid of honour Laura (Katie Holmes) and the bride clash over the groom, with whom Laura was once romantically involved. The story moves slowly trying to explore all the relationships of people in and around the circle of friends. The movie ends with the wedding getting ruined by rain, just before the marriage can be concluded. It is implied that, in the end, the controlling nature of the bride is too much for the groom and he still loves the maid of honour.–Source: Wikipedia

The Romantics stars Katie Holmes, Anna Paquin, Josh Duhamel, Dianna Agron, Adam Brody, Malin Åkerman, Elijah Wood, Jeremy Strong, Rebecca Lawrence, and Candice Bergen.

An outdoor wedding scene in the movie, The Romantics.

Yeah, in this weather and temperature, a lot of people stand to get dehydrated. So the best thing to do is to drink a lot of water and then maybe some Gatorade so as to maintain the moisture inside the body. It would also be good to spray yourself with water from time to time so that the body heat will disperse. If you can take a bath three times a day that would be best, even if it is just a shower to cool yourself off.

That is why a misting fan would be a great investment at this time. You can have one outdoors, like on the terrace, then maybe a smaller one inside the house. You can have one unit each of small misting fan inside the living room, the dining room, and the bedroom so that the heat is controlled without you having to spend so much on electricity.

Piper Perabo and Eion Bailey on Covert Affairs

I could just imagine the heat in the beach scenes of Piper Perabo and Eion Bailey in the opening scenes of Covert Affairs. The scenes were taken on a summer night in a tropical paradise and they were sweating so it seems really hot. But they were in love so they seem to be oblivious to the heat around them. Geezz…if it were me, I would put a misting fan to spray some coolness on their hot bodies! lOL

Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway in Bride Wars

Bride Wars is the romantic comedy film that is quite memorable for me in the sense that I felt so affected with the fact that two best friends became the worst enemies just because both of them wanted to have the perfect wedding.

Cirected by Gary Winick and written by Greg DePaul, June Diane Raphael and Casey Wilson, Bride Wars stars the indefatigable Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, veteran actress Candice Bergen, Bryan Greenberg, Chris Pratt, Steve Howey and Kristen Johnston.

Bride Wars Synopsis
According to Wikipedia:

Emma Allen (Anne Hathaway) and Olivia ‘Liv’ Lerner (Kate Hudson) are best friends who have planned every detail of their weddings, since first witnessing a wedding 20 years ago at the Plaza Hotel. Therefore, they both have made it a lifetime priority to be married in the same location in June.

The movie begins with the two women getting engaged at the age of 26. They then schedule their weddings with New York’s most famous wedding planner, Marion St. Claire (Candice Bergen), but due to a clerical error they are scheduled to have a wedding on the same day, June 6 (3 and a half months later). A week of passive aggressive hostility passes before the two women make it clear that neither will compromise, especially after Liv tries to take advantage of Emma’s passive nature and outrages Emma in the process. During this time, Emma’s fiancé, Fletcher (Chris Pratt), begins to show signs of being controlling.

Both women attempt to sabotage each other’s wedding, including Liv making Emma’s tan turn bright orange, Emma tampering with Liv’s hair dye to turn Liv’s hair a shocking blue-white colour, Emma showing up to Liv’s bachelorette party to out-dance her, and Emma secretly sending Liv candy to make her too fat to fit into her dress. Eventually, Emma and Fletcher get into an argument regarding Emma’s manic behavior of sabotaging Liv’s wedding and their friendship.

Sometimes I wonder if these situations have actually happened in real life. Would you really give up a life-long friendship for a wedding? Anyway, in the movie though, it was just as well because Hathaway’s character found out that her fiance is a rather control freak and that she is better off without him. Oh well, I guess I can say that everything ends up well for this movie.

A wedding reception scene in Bride Wars

Transformers 3

You know what? I love these super hero flick. I am not sure why but the excitement was heightened because my husband is such a fan and of course, we watch these movies together. No, they are not romantic, but it is nice to find something that we both like.

Hehe You would wonder what I would so like about these Transformers because they are robotic? They are just made of metal and held together with bolts and slot nuts.

Well, maybe it is because of the action. Or maybe because of the human interest. Or maybe because despite the destruction, it is not realistic because we all know that such giant robots, both good and bad, do not exist.

But anyway, I do like the Transformers but I would not like to collect them though. They’re not cute. LOL Thankfully, my husband is not asking to collect action figures. But we just bought Avengers toys from Petron. teehee The movie was just so memorable for us that we can’t help but buy these toys. And well, it helped that they are cheap. teehee

Avengers Toys from Petron

The Avengers movie poster

Yesterday, we had a movie date with our cell group mates to watch The Avengers movie. No kiddos with us. We went to watch the 5:50PM screening at Robinsons Movie World. It was the second day already yet there were so many people!

But we were happy that we did catch it on the big screen! We love it! I am not a very critical person but I do have some comments with these superhero flicks but for this one I love! We don’t feel that the story is too short or what. We felt satisfied after the movie without feeling left hanging. Hubby feels like Iron Man while I feel like Pepper Potts! LOL Well at least we are a perfect combination.

Love the effects, the humor, and how they were encouraged to work together to defeat the enemy. We could really learn a lesson from this movie, in the sense that in the ultimate fight against evil will mean that we should know who we are and we should not be at war with our brothers because we will easily fall.

Watch it from beginning to end and don’t go out to pee because you will miss a lot! It is fast-paced and packs a lot of action. So if you haven’t watched The Avengers yet, better catch it soon!

The Avengers characters

The Avengers Cast of Characters
Robert Downey Jr – Tony Stark or Iron Man
Chris Evans – Steve Rogers or Captain America
Mark Ruffalo – Bruce Banner or The Hulk
Chris Hemsworth – Thor
Scarlett Johansson – Natasha Romanoff or Black Wi
Tom Hiddleston – Loki
Clark Gregg – Agent Phil Coulson
Gwyneth Paltrow – Pepper Potts
Samuel L. Jackson – Nick Fury

The Avengers synopsis
Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) of the secret organization called S.H.I.E.L.D. brings together a team of super humans to form The Avengers to help save the Earth from the alien villain Loki (who is incidentally the stepbrother of Thor) and his army.

Something Borrowed

As usual, the home movie dates that hubby and I have at home are feel-good movies. This romantic comedy was released in 2011 and stars Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson, Colin Egglesfield, and John Krasinski. It was distributed by Warner Bros.

Goodwin plays the role of Rachel White–a down to earth and humble lawyer who is best friends with Darcy (Kate Hudson)–a feisty lady who always gets what she wants. And this includes Rachel’s long-time crush, Dex (Egglesfield).

You may think that it is the usual story where in the end the nice girl gets the boy, but just watch it because the scenes in-between are interesting. I am not really sure if I felt good afterwards so I will not consider it a feel-good movie other than it is a romantic comedy film. But I was entertained and I love Kate Hudson here. She is just a natural for these roles.

Something Borrowed was directed by Luke Greenfield.

Ginnifer Goodwin and Colin Egglesfield as Rachel and Dex in Somethng Borrowed.

Look at how fat I have become. And the weight problem is only the tip of the iceberg. It is just one of my many health problems right now.

As a work at home mom, I am prone to abusing myself in terms of diet, lack of exercise, and excessive home entertainment exposure, like watching TV overnight until the next day. hehe I am guilty of that.

The least I can do really is to take some supplements and also to detox and cleanse from time to time in order to rid my body of toxins.

But mine is not really those structured cleanses. I will just skip a meal and then maybe drink some vegetable or fruit shake. Or a combination of both. But what I would like to do is to do a cleanse like that of Clean Program. It is like resetting the body’s system in order to make it more efficient.

The Clean Program has a special recipe of shakes, which, when combined with the right diet and some exercise, will really have a profound effect on your health. The cleanse is actually simple–to take their shakes in the morning and evening, have regular lunches, and then take their supplements. It sounds really good and I am interested to do it. For good health.

I sure wish I could do it soon. I need to be healthy, for the sake of my family and myself.

And why? That is because we watch Law & Order SVU! Yes, up until now the addiction hasn’t stopped and almost every night, hubby and I watch at least one episode of the show. If I can’t sleep yet, we continue up to three episodes! And what makes it something to write about? We start around 12 midnight, sometimes around 1 am, so that means we end up around 3 or so AM! waaaaaa And still I have to wake up around 7:30am to get Dindin ready for school.

Of course I know that I could not do this if I am working in the office. That is one of the perks of a work at home mom. But this TV addiction has got to stop because I also need to sleep. I need to turn off the TV after one episode. I mean if only it is for unwinding. LOL Now, I have a couple of zits on my face, thanks to SVU! LOL And you know what? I think I am starting a crush on Christopher Meloni. hahahaha

Also read: Getting Hooked on Law and Order SVU