Seizing a Lifetime, One Day at a Time

One of our (few) Christmas traditions is to go see a movie on Christmas Eve every year and this year we went to see Moana. * Fairly predicatble plot * Weird scene with crab * Super compelling, emotional music * Great animation. The water (as water, not when it turned into the ooze ocean spirit thing) looked amazing. The grandma's manta ray was really cool. When Moana gets covered in sand I was impressed at the detail of sand on her. Overall a good movie, music that I keep listening to and a gon. (I wrote this 18 months ago and never posted it so here it is now. Since everyone waits for my reviews to figure out if they should see a movie, I apologize for making you wait so long :) )

Last night, my wife and I completed our December Date-athon (we went on 4 dates this month!) by going to dinner, getting some shopping done and (finally) seeing Rogue One. I had high expectations going into this movie based on all the reviews I've seen. Usually that's a bad sign as the movie never lives up to the expectations and, sadly, this wasn't different. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the movie. I just didn't enjoy it as much as it seemed everyone else did. Here are some of my thoughts (caution spoilers): For the most part, I didn't care about the characters that died. Maybe I didn't get attached to them because going in I knew that a lot of people were going to die, but whatever the reason, that spoiled the movie. Also, we didn't get a lot of background on all the characters so there was less attachment to them. Along those same lines, it felt like the movie had two identities. The first half of the movie wanted tell the story of the people...