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Elisabeth Shue, Maia Brewton and Keith Coogan In Adventures in Babysitting, Elisabeth Shue’s character Chris Parker agrees to baby-sit after her date stands her up. When Chris’s frantic friend Brenda calls and needs to be rescued from the bus station in downtown Chicago. Babysitter and kids leave their safe suburban surroundings and head for the heart of the big city, never imagining how terrifyingly funny their expedition will become! In the The Sitter, Noah Griffith played by (Jonah Hill), has been kicked out of college, and finds himself living back at home with his lonely divorced mother. Reluctantly, Noah agrees to baby-sit the kids next door so his lonely mother can make a love connection. When Ari Graynor, who plays’ Noah’s user blond girlfriend, calls dangling sex for picking up some of cocaine, our hero packs his charges into their family minivan and heads out to a dope dealer's den. One of the big differences better the two movies is in The Sitteris funnier, and a bit more realistic than it’s predecessors. The children are not just cast for their cuteness, the three mini terrors, include perpetually angry Rodrigo (Kevin Hernandez), a Venezuelan adoptee who is also a enthusiastic pyrotechnician.; little Blithe (Landry Bender), a tarted-up Britney Spears want to be; and Slater (Max Records), a neurotic teen ("I've got issues!"). The best part of The Sitter me was Sam Rockwell who played, Karl the coke dealer with the strangest man cave, gym, lab and lounge I have ever seen. This ostentatious boy palace adored with grotesque body-builders heaving weights. Karl is a whacked-out sociopath who is just fun to watch. One of my favorite lines from Karl, (Hugging Noah, he gushes, "You're so gorgeous and shy ... you remind me of my Aunt Shirley!") Normally, the original is the better choice, Adventures in Babysitting certainly had a closer relationship between the characters. But, The Sitter has better laughs, more believability and character diversity. Watch both and see what you think but for now...
In the words of Noah's too-cool buddy, the doorman at one of the dives our hero visits, the movie's final good advice: "Make love to the night, m-----f-----!"
Nicholas Sparks The Lucky One is a romantic movie is based on Nicholas Sparks' book and starring Zac Efron and Taylor Schilling.
First, let me say I never expect books converted to movies to reflect the book perfectly. My thinking on this issue is if you have 100 readers, you also have 100 imaginations who see each character differently. By the way my imagination never saw Zac Efron as Thibault. There is one exception, Tom Hank’s movie adaptation of Stephen King’s the Green Mile.
For the most part The Lucky one movie is hampered with Hollywood stereotypical characters: from the beautiful single mom, the chivalrous ex-solider, the feisty grandmother, the controlling ex. and the precocious son. The movie does do one thing better than the book, Efron’s character is touched by post traumatic stress, after all as soldier he would have lived thru to sleeping in a trenches, to hear the sounds of weapons being fired at all hours, and seeing friends die. The book just says Thibault hit’s the road on foot with his dog in search of his lucky charm. The movie shows the aftermath of the Iraq war on Thibault goes home to Colorado, he jumps at every loud noise, and accidentally attacks his nephew who touches him while he is sleeping. This is the seg-way to hitting the road, and it works.
Like the book, this is more of a lifetime movie with no surprises, but enjoyable for what it was. It was the nicest stocker movie I have ever seen. By the way my imagination didn’t mind Zac Efron as Thibault.
Watch the movie for yourself and tell me what you thought
You have probably seen the unsmiling serious image of a military person in his or her dress uniforms and thought how strong they appear to be. The question is, can we understand what it takes: for a person to sleep in a trench, to hear the sounds of weapons being fired at all hours, and to see the amount of death a soldier has to endure? To answer the question, probably not. I am reminded of an old saying, “there are no atheists in foxholes.”
Nicholas Sparks’ fictional book The Lucky one, explores how far a soldier will go to have something to believe in. Thibault, is a soldier in the Iraq war. He finds a photo amongst the rumble. At first Thibault attempts to find the person who lost the picture. Over time,the photo of a young women wearing a shirt that says lucky lady across the front, becomes Thibault’s life line. Thibault’s best friend Victor convinces him that the photo is his lucky charm.
When Victor doesn’t make it home and Thibault does, the journey to find Thibault’s lucky charm begins.
Don't pick it up expecting something earth-shaking, but if you pick it up looking for a light read with a dash of mystery, a splash of action and some tender romance, then you're in for a treat. Overall the book is predictable, but it isn’t a bad thing.Sparks reminds us “there are no atheists in foxholes.” Thank God.
