Happy October/Doctor Who

It's October! 

This is my one of my favorite times of the year for three reasons:

1. My birthday! (The day before Halloween)
2. Halloween: Adults still get to dress up!
3. The day after Halloween marks the beginning of the Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Years season and Christmas music is right around the corner!

So, in celebration of Halloween, I wanted to carve pumpkins, like I do every year. THEN, my roommate and fiancé say they've never carved pumpkins before. Never. Naturally, I made them, and made fun of their "deprived childhood" the whole time.

They enjoyed it. My roommate made the B.A.B., and my fiancé made the face.

I, of course, had to get more creative and fan-based, so I made the TARDIS shooting through time and space. It turned out pretty good for a free hand design and a rotted pumpkin. (I waited a little too long to pick some up.)

Speaking of the TARDIS, the 50th anniversary

special is coming up next month! I heard they're showing in in theatres in Europe. THEN I heard that they were doing it in America, but only the big cities. BUT one of my fellow newscast workers alerted me that they WILL be showing it in OKC at my favorite movie theater! It'll be a few days after the big premiere, but that's okay since I normally have to wait a few days to see the new episodes later. I'm thrilled. Doctor Who night out!

I'll take lots of pictures. Hopefully people dress up...

Happy October!

~Tonico

Possible Adopt-A-Blog Candidates

These are blogs I am considering for my Adopt-A-Blog project. They're all movie/TV review/recap blogs that I could learn a thing or two from!

1. Film Intel
2. Cinematic Corner
3. Early Bird Film Society
4. Large Popcorn, No Butter

We're the Millers

Lately, I've been hearing all this buzz about the movie We're the Millers all over the place: Facebook, Twitter, word of mouth. Some of my aquaintences have been talking about how they're going to see it for the second and third time, and that it is simply hilarious.
So, one day I got to leave work before the late hours of the night, I pulled my fiancé along to my favorite movie theater to see this terribly funny movie.

(We're the Millers Movie Trailer)

imdb.com

Now, though I will admit, I had a few laughs, I believe this movie is vastly overrated.

It's a tale of a drug dealer, played by Jason Sudeikis, who gets roped into becoming a drug smuggler by his jerk boss. No choice. He happens upon the idea to bring together a fake family for him to travel with so him crossing the border from Mexico doesn't seem so suspicious. He and his "family," which is composed of a stripper, a runaway, and a sheltered kid that lives in his apartment building, get aboard a flashy RV and embark on a journey to bring drugs to America.

Mostly, it's what you'd expect it to be. The only thing that really surprised me was that they got to the drug keepers place and black fairly quickly. Kudos for that. The movie makers used the rest of the time to allow the family to get into all types of trouble.

*Spoiler Alert*

The Millers run into another family in the line to get back to America. It reminded me a lot of the movie RV, with Robin Williams, taking his family on a family vacation in an RV. Given, that storyline wasn't a part of a major drug smuggle, but a lot was similar. Characters: Man, woman, girl, boy, there was the other family in their RV that was almost obsessed with becoming friends, there was the RV mechanics issues that made the families have to stop overnight and be forced to bond. I guess you can't really come up with all that much new stuff for a movie set inside a moving vehicle.

Also, there was the issue of the drug dealer chasing the Millers, and the fact that the RV was STUFFED with drugs. Impossibly so. Then throw in the fact that Sudeikis's boss decides to give him a deadline to bring in the product.

The movie was entertaining, and I did laugh. But, like I said before, this movie has been vastly overrated. Everything has been done before (except maybe Jennifer Aniston's strip tease in the car shop) which made the movie pretty predictable. Now, Roberts and Anniston's characters--playing mom and sister-- were teaching Poulter's character--playing brother-- how to kiss, was new, however, them getting caught? Predictable.

I did like "Nawmsayin," a.k.a. Scotty P. He was ridiculous.

So all in all, I liked the movie, but it was nothing special.

And that's my take on We're the Millers: funny, but not hilarious.
Your opinion? Let's chat: Comment!
~Tonico

GIFs not mine :(
River: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6aw2fhUbK1r8058ko1_250.gif
Millers: http://24.media.tumblr.com/e0d242dd9b5ccd679fcfa4b865fb61b3/tumblr_mr4nwccSGe1srh411o1_500.gif