Media Mommy–I am a plugged in Mom. I love my kids, social media–and a good deal!

My husband and I got the chance to go out on a child-free date a few weekends ago. Ironically, we chose “Morning Glory” a movie about the TV industry!

No matter what I do, I’m never far from news. While some of the characters in the movie were a bit like what it’s really like in the TV biz, some were just caricatures.

Rachael McAdams plays the producer, Becky Fuller. I’ve been in her shoes–a morning show producer. Underpaid, sleep-deprived, trying to lead a somewhat normal life. In the beginning of the film she’s on a blind date in the middle of the afternoon. Been there!

Later her alarm goes off at 1:30 a.m. so she could get up and go to work. As she leaves, her neighbor is coming home from walking the dog. Done that!

I wondered what “normal” people would think of the movie, since so much of it is about the business. I was surprised it didn’t just turn into a romance movie—though there is romance— it focused on her career as she jumps to a network morning show job from a local station. From the girl with bad bangs–to the polished New York career woman.

The whole movie is centered on the “Today” show as the mecca for producers. In the end, after working her tail off to prove herself over at a made-up network “ibs,” Becky gets the big interview at NBC–but in the end makes an unexpected choice.

I felt bad for Harrison Ford and Diane Keaton as the lead anchors. There wasn’t a lot of “meat” in the characters they played. Again–characters at best.

I give it an “A” for folks in the business. Probably a C+ for normal people.

I haven’t watched a movie in a while: hence no movie reviews! But we did recently get “Sherlock Holmes” in the Netflix red envelope.

I love Robert Downey, Jr. I love Sherlock Holmes. I do not love Robert Downey, Jr’s English accent. It made it very difficult to figure out what the heck was going on throughout. It did not get better.

I did like director Guy Ritchy’s use of flashing forward and back to tell the story. That helped me figure out what was going on. This was not the best choice for the kids though. But once we were into it, we couldn’t turn it off. We were too tired from moving all weekend. (see previous post)

Yes, dear friends, I paid for a movie. For my entire family. And it was worth every penny.

Of course we’d seen the first two and loved them both. So my expectations were high and I just didn’t think we could wait for the DVD. So last Sunday all five of us went to the evening show. I believe the tickets were $33.50 (we saw 2D not 3D) and the popcorn and drink set us back another $10.50. Ouch. But so worth it.

The movie starts off with scenes of Andy playing with his Buzz and Woody dolls in old home movies, then cuts to Andy as a teenager. He’s heading to college and hasn’t played with his toys in years. What’s left of the old gang are in his toy box in his room. With Andy leaving his Mom has an ultimatum–attic, trash or donate.  Andy chooses to put most of his toys in the attic, and surprisingly he planned to take Woody with him.

Here’s where the plot twist comes in. As usual, I don’t want to give anything away–you’ve just got to see it. In the end, grown-up’s and older kids will cry, but the young ones will love it. The next day my son told me he had rearranged all his stuffed animals on his bed to show them he loves them. How cute is that?

Toy Story 3–A+++