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So I haven't updated in a while, but no one reads this so does it matter?  Guess that goes along with the whole if a tree falls in a forest...but I digress.

What have I seen lately?  Well, of course I saw The Hobbit and it was pretty awesome.  Did they take a while to get out of the shire?  Sure.  Were there parts missing from the book?  Of course.  Did Peter Jackson really need to stretch this book into three movies?  Probably not.  But for all that, it was good.  The fight scenes were killer, no pun intended, and the scenery was beautiful, as was expected of shooting around NZ, but the best parts?  Bilbo and the dwarves.  Martin Freeman, he of the much nakedness in Love Actually which I Love Actually (the movie, not Martin Freeman's nakedness, haha), was fantastic as Bilbo.  And the dwarves were great.  Especially Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield.  Yeah, I have celebrity crush on him right now, and what girl wouldn't honestly?  I think more should have been made of Manu Bennett playing the pale orc.  He was pretty menacing and badass, if you ask me.  Of course there is Gollum who I thought would creep out my youngest, but she was down with the movie and loves all things Hobbit now.  The movie is three hours long so be sure you have refreshments, and take your potty break before it starts because you don't want to miss anything.  Can't wait for the next installment.

Finally got to see Pitch Perfect on-demand last night.  I knew this would be an all-by-myself movie as my husband would probably rather gnaw off his right hand than watch a movie about an a cappella girls group competing in a championship bout.  I am a big fan of Anna Kendrick right now and she was pretty good, but Rebel Wilson really stole the show as she seems to do in every movie she's in.  The girl is funny.  I was singing along, badly, to all the songs they sang except for The Sign, because I had to draw a line somewhere.  Yikes.  I think I still have that CD from high school. 

What's up next?  I really want to see Zero Dark Thirty and not just because Joel Edgerton is in it.  Initially I thought, eh a movie about the Osama bin Ladin raid.  Could wait for Netflix.  But the more I see about it, the more I want to watch.  Plus who doesn't want to see a movie about a bunch of hot Navy SEALs? 

The Last Stand actually looks not bad.  I know, Arnold Schwarzanegger as a town sheriff on the US-Mexico border trying to get a guy running to the border in a Corvette ZR1 (I believe--sorry, not a huge car nut so I may be wrong on the nomenclature) sounds a bit far-fetched, but it also has Johnny Knoxville and Luis Guzman.  I love Luis Guzman.  So funny.  I'd see it for that alone.  Well, maybe not just for that but it could be a big factor.

Well, it's Christmas Eve so Merry Christmas to everyone.  I'll be watching the 24 hours of A Christmas Story (you'll shoot your eye out!) and trying to get everything ready for tomorrow.  Hope everyone's stockings are full this year, and may there be peace on Earth and goodwill towards all men. :)