Red 2 : a movie review

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Movie day of the weekend and we were so looking forward to Red 2 since we loved Red so much. We also absolutely look forward to seeing the new previews and there were two intriguing previews, funny enough cast with our favorite older actors; Last Vegas with Michael Douglas, Robert DeNiro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline and I forget the title of the movie, but it involves Sylvester Stallone being a professional prison out-breaker and he gets conned into trying to break out of the most secure prison in the world and oops he gets stuck. Did I mention that Arnold Scharzenegger is also in the movie and is one of the prison mates? It seemed intriguing.

When I said funny enough, I just meant that it seemed apropos that the previews match the cast of the movie we were seeing, older action stars showing the younger generation just exactly the way it is done. These are all feel good movies, in my opinion. If Helen Mirren can blow away the bad guys and still look sexy and elegant while doing it, I feel pretty good about being almost 46 years old. Crazy thought I know but what can I say, seeing Bruce Willis, John Malcovich, Helen Mirren and the adorable Mary-Louis Parker run circles around the bad guys puts a smile on my face. I also adored the scenes in Paris, you see the beautiful architecture and just the feel of Paris all around. We laughed, jumped, gasped and sighed, we loved it.

Daily prompt : A fly on the wall

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history, postaday2013, thoughts, writing

If you could be a “fly on the wall” anywhere and at any time in history, where and when would you choose?

There are so many junctions in the historical record that I would love to be privy to or at least an eye witness. I think that one of the most important events that I would really want to be witness to is the burning of the great library of Alexandria, perhaps I could have done something to stop it because that was one of the greatest crimes against our historical record ever. Any time books and manuscripts are destroyed marks a great crime against humanity. When I think of all the knowledge lost, it makes me so very sad.

Another point in time that I would have loved to be a fly on the wall was the 18th century in Paris, France, especially the time of the grand salons where all the great philosophers, playwrights and artistes gathered discussing the grand thoughts and ideas of the era. Actually, I amend that, I would really want to be there where the founding fathers were, when they were discussing and planning the constitution, I want to know exactly their thoughts and their aims, so much has been bandied about in terms of their intentions some 200 hundred odd years later, that I want to be an eyewitness for myself. Would it make a difference in the grand scheme of things, no except for myself. I would know, plain and simple.