The movie sucked.  It wasn’t as bad as Sucker Punch, but damn it, it wasn’t THAT far off.  The plot of the movie was this: Bana plays a guy (Erik, yes, same name, lamo) who’s taking care of Hanna, played by Ronan.  He’s also training her to kill people.  Hanna gets all pissy that she’s in the woods–oh yeah, Erik is hiding from…something.  The CIA or something, we don’t really ever find out, or if we did, I wasn’t paying attention.  So back to Hanna–she decides she’s ready to leave their little cabin.  So Erik lets her activate some kind of homing device.  He runs away, and the CIA/whatever swoops in and takes Hanna into custody.  Hanna then wreaks havoc in the holding facility, escapes, and makes it her mission to…well…I *think* it was to kill Marissa, played by Cate Blanchett, but honestly, I don’t know if that was really spelled out.

I suppose there was a plot, but there was no POINT.  I’d write more, but honestly, I don’t even want to intentionally remember more about the movie.

The movie opens on the death of a woman, Baby Doll’s (Emily Browning) mother.  She has left her inheritance to her two daughters, leaving her husband (Baby Doll’s step father) out of the will.  Aggravated, he attempts to kill/rape/who knows what to Baby Doll.  When he fails, he turns to her younger sister, killing her instead.  Baby Doll is blamed, and is sent to a mental institution.

At this point in the movie, I must have had a seizure, stroke, or suffered some kind of amnesia, as the mental institution is transformed into a brothel, and Baby Doll is now a dancer with a bunch of her co-whores.  But when she dances, we’re treated to an awesome tour d’ force of her beating up a bunch of mythical creatures (co-whores included).

So as I understand it, Baby Doll has, as a coping mechanism, transformed the mental institution in her imagination.  I still don’t know the plot.  Enjoy the movie.

Oh–by the way–it sucked.

When Amazon released its first Kindle, I was convinced one would be in my future, though I couldn’t justify the price.  The second one, which was just released, was a good upgrade to the first, but I still couldn’t spend the money.  But my mother bought one for my father for his birthday.  Ah, how fortunes turn.  Dad, as much as he loves reading, doesn’t like electronics.  The mere idea of reading from a tablet like device makes his eyes roll.

So I relieved him of it.

And have already read a couple books just this weekend–with more in store. Though I hope I don’t break my wallet doing it.  Even though the books are cheaper, they’re not THAT much cheaper.  But it’s definitely transparent–just like reading a real paper book.  Sweet!

1. Show people doing stuff.
2. People or person finds dead body.
3. Next scene shows cops at crime scene, checking things out.
4. One cop makes witty/sarcastic on-liner, eg: “That fall had to hurt.”
5. Cut to credits.

CSI Miami is no exception–except the actor doing the one-liners is David Caruso.  I no longer watch CSI Miami as regularly as I used to, and here’s why:

Please make it stop!!!

Enter Risk.  If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a strategy board game that lets  you take over the world–or any map.  I actually haven’t played Risk, but a company called SillySoft makes a Risk game called Lux.  Boy, is this game addictive.  It takes between 5 minutes (if you’re playing a map with bad players) and hours to play.  Because the online game is networkable, you can play with your friends over the internet.  Very nifty.

Anyway, they make an iPhone version of the game, too, and it’s just as much fun (though a little more difficult to play).