Charlie's Angels movies- Twenty years apart

 

    I've seen both Charle's Angels movies and I wanna talk about them. First off, there is a history of these movies that came from a TV show. I've talked about the history of not only the two movies and how I felt about them...but here's a better description of it.

    Charlie's Angels was a seventies tv show that starred the late Farrah Fawcett, it also starred Jacklyn Smith as well as a few other actors. Charlie was played by John Forsyth and David Doyle portrayed Bosley. 

   All I remember is the Farrah Fawcett poster almost every male had in their bedrooms including my uncle. I want to talk about the movies.

    

   Drew Barrymore produced this movie starring her, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu. This movie was...egh. Not great, but not horrible either. It was pretty much sexualized perfection for people that want to see women change costumes constantly.

  The story was about three girls who worked with Charlie and Bosley (played by Bill Murray). Their assignment was to save a scientist that had been captured. Turns out...he was the bad guy or something like that I don't know.

    Sam Rockwell portrayed the so-called evil genius scientist that wants to kill Charlie for revenge. He falls for Drew's character, almost kills her, captures Bosley and flies a plane into Charlie's home, but gets killed before doing so. 

    It was ok, but that one of the first movies I remember Sam Rockwell in, before he would go on to do better movies.

  There was some bad blood between Bill Murray and Lucy Liu. Bill would always insult Lucy and think of her as a nobody. Thankfully, Drew, Cameron and a few other people that worked on the film thought that Bill was being rude and mistreating her on purpose.

    He was replaced by the late Bernie Mac in the sequel which I never saw.

    The recent movie, starring Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Elizabeth Banks were...passable, but not great. It came out in 2019, but since the COVID incident, it wasn't mostly seen by many people until later after the pandemic.

    I got a chance to see it and thought...it had a different style to it.

   Naomi Scott plays a character named Elana who is a scientist that is involved with the angels, named Sabrina and Jade. There are more than one Bosleys in the story. Elizabeth Banks was one of them. Patrick Stewart was a Bosley that was set to retire, but becomes the villain later.

   One of the employers that Elana works for is considered shady. She finds out the dark truth about their product called 'Calisto' which is a robot that is programed to kill people or something.... I don't remember.

    She ends up in danger after becoming a pariah in her work, ending up having someone she likes dead and going into hiding.

    She's found and Bosley reveals that he is the one involved, thinking that Elizabeth's character was the traitor. Patrick Stewart is pretty good at being evil. Eventually, the other angels go to save her at a party where they would find not only Bosley, but a few other people they were fighting with before.

    They did something interesting with one character. In the original 2000, there was a silent assassin portrayed by Crispin Glover. They had another assassin that never talked as well.

 

  At the end of the movie, Jacklyn Smith had a cameo welcoming Elana to the Charlie's Angel's group. She also meets other women that work with the Charlie's Angels. Training her to become a new Angel.

   I read that it wasn't as strong as the 2000 one, but I thought it was pretty good. There's a new Charlie, which is really Jacklyn Smith with a voice translator.

  

   I think both movies are ok. I prefer the 2019/2020 version over the 2000 version. Love Drew Barrymore, but I just feel that Charlie's Angels movie wasn't that great, and the sequel... I never saw so I can't say anything negative about that. But... both movies are ok. Just wanted to get my point of view out.

Interesting Food Combinations

 

    Some people combine certain foods. Some good...some, I would never try. When did these food combo trends start? Why start some when people might not like them? Some I would love to talk about since I've tried them before and they are good. Some I even swear by. Here are a few that seem.... interesting. 

    You've heard of PB and J. This is PB and M.... Peanut butter and Mayo sandwich. I don't know how I feel about this one. I sparingly use mayonnaise, and mixing it with peanut butter? Yuck. I mean...peanut butter and Marshmallow's ok. But using mayonnaise? To each its own. I wouldn't try it though

   I don't drink soda, so I wouldn't do this one. Some people think that combining Coca Cola with milk. I guess it can be creamy but I'm not gonna try it. Some people swear by it. Others would put boiled peanuts in their coca cola. I think that's a Southern thing when it comes to combining salt and carbonated soda.

   This is one combination that I have tried and loved but haven't tried in a while. It's putting salty with sweet. Dipping salty French fries. I used to do it a Wendy's when I ordered a chocolate frosty. They are good, but do it fast since the Frosty does melt quick.

    I love pizza, but some people like to dip their slice into ranch dressing. I never was a fan of ranch dressing. People love to dip their pizza into it. I guess it cools it down, but the taste of it....is it worth it? I don't think so. I usually just eat the pizza the way it is.

   Chocolate sauce on vanilla ice cream.... yes. But Balsamic Vinegar?  I don't know how I feel about that. Some people swear by it. I don't know who they are, but they have strange taste buds if they love putting that on their vanilla ice cream. 

   This is not a pizza pie. This is an apple pie melted with cheddar cheese. I guess some people love the taste of cheese on an apple pie. Never was a fan of pies, except for chocolate cream. This is strange combination, but some people love it. My mom being one of them.

 

   Ok, this food combo is disgusting. Who in god's name would think pouring orange juice on their cereal is normal. It's probably the same people who put balsamic vinegar on their vanilla ice cream. I don't eat cereal and why in god's name would I want orange juice poured on it?

  First, it's Balsamic Vinegar, now.... hot Cheetos? Ok, I'm confused. Maybe it's best I stick to plain chocolate. Some people love heat and cold. I guess...I'm not one of them as I like to enjoy a normal ice cream come. No sprinkles no nouts.....no Hot Cheetos.

  People love combining sweetness and savory when it comes to pizza. This one I can get behind. Homey and pizza. On the pizza.... I don't know, but some people love to dunk the pizza crust in honey. It's a popularity in Denver with one of their pizzerias doing it. I guess it's ok. Maybe one day I'll try it.

   Salty and sweet yet again. This time with Cheez its and Nutella. I like Cheez its, but I do not like Nutella. I guess it's the same thing with the Frosty and French fry. Combining chocolate and a cheese cracker is a combination a lot of people loved.

 

   Then, for the final combo I wanna talk about.... Oreos and Orange Juice. This is one combination that I love all the time. That's why I buy a small orange juice and dip... I guess mini-Oreos into them. I still do today and I love the combo. Milk is ok, but I only drink chocolate milk and I only have that mostly for breakfast. This...is one combo that you should try. Orange and chocolate are a great combo.

 

   It's strange how these food combinations start. Some good, like the Oreos and Orange Juice and some terrible. I don't know why, but some people will do strange things to make food taste better, but there are limits to what to put on certain foods. Enjoy it while you can. I do suggest the Oreos and orange juice.

What happens at the end of Matilda

 

    When I was elven years old, over 30 years ago, there was a movie based on a Roald Dhal book called "Matilda". It was about a young girl with an amazing gift. 

      What was it? Well....first off, the book is very different from the movie I'm about to tell you. But this movie was very good, and starred a young Mara Wilson as Matilda

    The sad truth about this movie is what happened behind the scenes. Mara Wilson lost her mom to aggressive breast cancer by the time the movie was finished. 

    Danny DeVito, who was the man behind the making of the movie as well as playing Mr. Wormword and directing the movie, showed Mara's mother an early screening right before she died.

 

  Matilda doesn't fit in with her family. Loving books while they watch TV. Not knowing how special she is. Nobody, except for one person, knows of her powers.

    Her teacher Miss Honey, who also has a sad backstory. She is related to the evil Miss Trunchbull and believes her father was murdered.

   What happens near the end of the movie? Well...first off, Matilda makes friends with certain kids fast as she can't connect with her family. Even her older brother would make fun of her.

    She decides to get her revenge on everyone that wronged her.  First....with Miss Trunchbull who had frightened almost every student in Chrunchum Elementary. She learns about Miss Honey's past as well finding her father's home.

   Matilda finds a way to frighten Miss Trunchbull since she learned she was superstitious. She uses her powers to frighten her and rescue a doll that was Miss Honey's favorite.

   At school the next day...she decides to use her powers and scare Miss Trunchbull into leaving the school forever.

   Finally getting her just desserts.... she escapes the school and isn't seen again.

   She becomes friends with Miss Honey; however, her parents pick her up and say that they're moving to Guam. However,...it's a ruse that neither Mr. nor Mrs. Wormwood know as Mr. Wormword is guilty of selling illegal car parts.

   Thinking they were going to Guam, in reality, both parents were going to be placed under arrest, and Mikey would be sent to an Orphanage. Thankfully....Miss Honey adopts her.

     It ends happily for both Matilda and Miss Honey as she became the new principal of the school since Minch Trunchbull left.

    Matilda rarely used her powers, unless she was lazy to get a book from the bookshelf which is how the movie ended.

   A couple of years ago, before Covid hit, they had a reunion with every cast member, including the children who are all adults. They even talked about how amazing the movie was and did a funny skit involving one of the kids, who lost a ton of weight, to do the cake scene.

    Thankfully it was a small chocolate cupcake and it was funny. 

   Now...thirty years later, this movie is still worth seeing. Mara Wilson went into writing after leaving acting. There might be a 30-year reunion in the near future. And that's how Matilda ended.

Spooky Stories I made

       It's almost Halloween season. Many people like to watch scary movies, carve pumpkins and read spooky stories. 

   I write stories. Some of them are good.... but most of them.... are creepy. I got a Stephen King like horror in me. I have seen and read some of his stories. Here are some of the stories that I wrote.

    With Halloween getting close, I wrote a story about three missing trick-or-treaters coming back seventeen years later after their disappearances...but they cause others to disappear as one teenage girl, who was born around the time the kids disappeared, throws a Halloween Party.

     Creepy things start to happen. Some of the kids get kidnapped others vanish and are killed. Her boyfriend is one of them.

 

    Another story I wrote about is a married couple whose marriage is not great. They decide to visit a couple's (retreat) vacation where they can get the help they need. However, with another married couple...they end up trapped by the owners who are a brother and sister.

    There has been another couple that act creepy around the guests. They are being monitored as both couples believe... it's a trap.

   This story I wrote is similar to game night.... however, instead of a married couple.... it's a half-brother and half-sister who can't get along since the lead male doesn't feel like his siter is his actual sister. Years later, the boy has a girlfriend who choose to play an interactive game.

      She ends up getting kidnapped as another friend mysteriously disappears after being shot. It is creepy yeas, but he finds out the girlfriend was luring him and his sister to their death. 

    Another story I wrote...it's pretty long and convoluted, but it makes sense. A sale in a town in California takes place. The male lead goes to a street called Jupiter Street and buys a necklace for his sister since he broke up with his girlfriend after graduating.

    Strange things start to happen involving a married couple that had the necklace which glows when someone vanishes. It turns out the wife of the married couple was the villain and had skeletons in her closet that she never told her hsuband.

 

   Another story I wrote takes place in Chicago. A young man has a fear of Vampires but loves other horror movies. He meets a husband and wife that only come out at night. They seem mysterious to the lead as his friend soon vanishes.

   They hire a vampire hunter who is related to Van Helsing. He even learns that other neighbors are related to the married couple that are vampires.

      Another story involves four people at a cabin that ends up losing power. One of the four ends up going crazy as the other three try to save him from himself. There are dark secrets as well as a murder from the cabin from years ago.

    One of the four tries to manipulate a friend while wanting to kill everyone else. He ends up like Jack in The Shinning, but no snow is involved...only heavy rain.

    I have a lot of other stories...some have romance.... some are dark and twisted. Sometimes I want my stories to be published...or be a miniseries/movie on Netflix or any other streaming site. 

    Maybe it will happen. However, with books about to be extinct, God knowing, I just want one of my stories to be read or seen by people if on tv. It'll happen one day. Until then....I will write because that is what I love to do. Even if they are scary stories.

Happy Birthday, Matt Damon

 

    Today, Matt Damon is now 56 years old. Born in 1970 and didn't get his stardom till the late eighties. He looks pretty good for 56. Only fourteen years older than me...but what has been in that makes us love him so much?

   Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Matt was born in October and is the younger brother of both Kent and Nancy Damon. 

    His parents divorced when he was two and he had lived with his mother and brothers. His film debut started in the late eighties with a movie called "Mystic Pizza" It was a small role as he played a younger brother of a guy who falls in love with a woman that works at a pizzeria.

   He has two siblings and is the middle child in the family. An older brother, and a younger stepsister from another family.

    He is close with his brother and thinks of him as someone that is there for him. That's how I feel with my younger brother.

   His big breakthrough in the late 90's. He and his friend Ben Affleck wrote a screenplay for a story called Good Will Hunting. Matt Damon stars as a janitor who is an extreme math genius. However, he keeps getting himself into trouble.

   Robin Williams is a psychiatrist that helps Matt's character see his full potential no matter what. He even made the cameraman laugh with one of his jokes that was off script.

  He and Ben both won an Academy Award for the movie. It was worth seeing. He later starred in other movies. One being the Bourne Identity trilogies. I didn't get into them, and they are based on a book.

   He also was in Legends of Bagger Vance, Ocean's Eleven trilogy, The Informant. He also guest voiced on an episode of Arthur. I don't know if I saw that episode. But it seemed that his acting career was starting go places.

   

    He starred in another movie called The Martian which I did see. He is stranded on Mars after his astronaut friends forget him and assumed he was dead after a threatening storm took him out. He survives and realizes he has to contact everyone to know that he is still alive.

    He spends many months on Mars trying to grow potatoes with his own fertilizer. He eventually contacts them and it takes the whole movie to find out if he'll make it home.

    Recently, Matt Damon has been a cameo in SNL skits portraying Brett Kavanaugh. It's hilarious since Matt Damon is a democrat and Brett supports (you know who). He mocks him by being a thirsty drinker and hyperactive.

   Maybe that's Brett in a nutshell, but I don't watch politics. He has also been in movies like The Odyssey portraying the lead as well as having a cameo in Oppenheimer

   Matt Damon always likes to make appearances. Especially on Jimmy Kimmel. He and Jimmy are actually friends, but Matt treats him like an enemy.

   Even taking over Jimmy Kimmel's show once. Recently, he was on celebrity Millionaire with Ken Jennings, and they won the million dollars for his charity water.org. 

   Matt has been married since 2005 after meeting his wife in a movie that was...not great. They have three daughters that are all grown up. 

   They have been with him through thick and thin...and I bet today, they will be there for his birthday. Happy Birthday to Matt Damon. Even if you started small...you made it big in Hollywood and still are today.