50 Shades of Grey Redux

I hope I used redux correctly?

Anyhow... I bought 50 Shades of Grey for my Ipad.  Now, I'm having second thoughts and think I should have left well enough alone.

I liked it when I saw it at the movies but now - not so much.  Since I've gotten to see it again, pretty much all I can see even more is everything that was left out or switched around.  It was like reading cliff notes but not understanding what was happening, only leaving confusion.

Also the digital came with a rated version, an unrated version with an alternate ending and extras.

I watched the rated movie first not knowing that it wasn't going to have the alternate ending.  Then I had to watch the unrated version.  I didn't notice anything different in the movie itself (although it might be a little different, I might have just missed it) with the alternate ending.  Even that left me frustrated, ugh.

To top it all off, the digital has a glitch.  After watching the unrated version once, I wanted to see the alternate ending again but it wouldn't play.  Also the extras, sometimes they play and sometimes they are at the end and they won't reset to the beginning.

I emailed I tunes and they had me re-download it, which naturally didn't change things so I emailed back.  Turns out I'm not the only one with the issue and they are working on how to fix it.

So, that's my review again, ha!

 

Movie Tickets

So, I bought tickets online for the movies for the first time last Friday.  I always wanted to try it so it was the perfect opportunity. 


Pro's - It was very easy and they texted me a web site with a link.  When we got to the theater, I just opened the link and the ticket taker scanned the bar code in.  It was actually pretty cool.  Made me feel very with it ;-)

Con's - Since we both were seniors (60 and over) the tickets would have been $14.00.  However, because I purchased them on line there was a surcharge for each ticket.  I paid $17.20 which is still better than paying for an adult ticket - not so much if I had only paid the senior price.

Conclusion - I probably would buy them online again but only if I knew it was going to be a very crowded movie and I would want to be assured I got a seat.  

Oscars

Although I haven't seen any of the movies, I watched The Academy Awards.  There looked like their were some good movies that I will have to keep my eyes out for when they come on TV.

How cute was Jennifer Lawrence?  I'm surprised that more women don't fall down going up to get their awards.


It was a long show (per usual) but I thought overall it was pretty good.

Eat Pray Love

I went with Magellan and we saw Eat Pray Love on Saturday.

I thought it was okay but I was expecting to love it and was disappointed that I didn't.  It did have some good quotable lines that naturally we forgot when we got out. Does that mean they were not so quotable or just bad memories,ha,ha.  I thought the movie was too long. 

Did anyone see it and what did you think?

I never read the book and was wondering if I would have liked it better if I had. Although Magellan didn't read the book and she liked it a lot.

We had an older couple sit in front of us.  We thought they were married and then we overheard them talking about each others grandchildren.  We think they were on a date.  It goes to show, it's never too late ;-)

When we left the movies, we decided to go out and eat.  The twizzlers I ate at the movies apparently wasn't enough for supper for me.  We had hamburgers, french fries (which I really didn't eat many) and chocolate milkshakes.  I would say that was a perfect ending.