Blades of Glory

My husband and I went to see this movie tonight. I hadn't seen the previews, but knowing Will Farrell and Jon Heder were starring in it did give me pause. I knew it would either by hysterically funny, or somewhat offensive. It was both.

The premise is that two competitive figure skaters get into a brawl and are banned from figure skating forever. They realize that the ban doesn't apply to couples skating, so the two men form a team. There's a love interest for Heder, and some dirty tricks thrown in by the competition. It's predictable, no doubt.

I did laugh quite a bit but it's not a movie I'll want my kids to see.

We saw The Pursuit of Happyness today. It was really good, heart rending at times, and it made me rethink my life and my expectations. I have a tendency to “give up” when things get really rough, and yet this guy had horrible, awful things happen to him and he just kept on going. Each time I thought his life couldn’t get much worse, it did. In the movie he talks about how the pursuit of happiness is not synonymous with always being happy.