Movies

Dan and I watched two cartoon movies in the past two days.  I feel like I’ve been watching a lot of movie lately.  I think it’s an avoidance strategy.

The first movie was called Ponyo and is a Japanese Disney movie, but it was dubbed in English by famous Western actors like Matt Damon, Liam Neeson and Cate Blanchett.  It held our attention, but it got VERY weird.  I mean, it’s weird enough in Japanese movies that kids are respectful to teachers and the elderly are respected (what?!), but this went waaaay beyond Japanese niceties.  We’re talking about the moon coming too close to the earth, a fish turning into a girl with chicken leg hands and legs (yes, both) and then into a real girl and then back, a man that looks like a woman who lives in the sea and is married to the goddess of the sea (who is also about 50 times the size of her womanish husband), and a mom who drove like a Nascar driver with her kid in the car.  It was just craziness.  Imaginative, corny (in places), and very bizarre.  I like it, but I was also sort of scared of it.

Today, we saw Toy Story 3.  It was really good and I definitely was not confused by any fish/chicken/little girls.  I almost cried at the end and I think “they” left it wide open for a Toy Story 4, if they want to go there and I kind of hope they do.

Tomorrow is the beginning of my last official week of exams (not counting some extra revising that will be going on in a few weeks).  I’m worried about not feeling finished so instead I’m going to think about Harry Potter 7 opening in November.  Can’t November be tomorrow?