Movie Review - "Jaws"

This is Movie Review number five!  This is one that we've had for ages, and decided to watch it next.

PLOT

This is set on an island called Amity Island which is near Cape Cod on the East Coast of America (that's in between Boston and New York City)  It starts with a bunch of teenagers having a barbecue on the beach one summer evening and two of them decide to go off for a late night swim, except one is too drunk so doesn't go in.  The other one does, and is partially eaten by a Great White Shark!!!  Oh, this has Roy Scheider in it as the Local Police Chief, and Robert Shaw as the shark bounty hunter and a very young Richard Dreyfuss as the posh university "I know everything about sharks" chap.

Anyway, it's the height of summer season and there's loads of tourists come to the island for a little beach holiday.  And one by one, they get eaten by The Big Shark and there's a big Hoo-Haa about whether they should shut the beach or not.  Anyway, Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss go off in a little boat (that turns out not to be big enough!!) shark hunting, but then get hunted down by the shark!!!  (One of the really good scenes is on the boat when Robert and Richard start comparing scars, and Robert Shaw does a narration of a big American WW2 naval disaster..... quite captivating!)

It's a REALLY SCAREY MOVIE (well, it is for a little mouse like me!!)

RECOMMENDED??

Yeah!!  It's rather a scarey movie, as I just said, but it's entertaining!!!

SCORE

Beanie gives it 8 squeaks out of 10!!!

RECOMMENDED SCOOBY SNACKS
Shelled prawns/shrimp with 1,000 Island Dressing dip. 

Cable boxes, grafitti and drain covers!!!

 We found some new grafitti'd cable boxes recently!!  This one used to be the Lemur picture but it's now a crab on the beach!!!

 And these two used to be the big yellow "23" but now........

 ...can you tell, yet?!....

 I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Then we found some painted walls.....

This used to be a grafitti map of Brighton.

This is a new butterfly cable box that we haven't seen before.

And finally, we found a new drain cover!!

Update on Beanie's Sketchbook!!!

They've added more dates for the Sketchbook Project Tour!!!

April 17 to 18, 10 am to 4 pm Rochester NY - Monroe Community College
April 19th, 4 - 10 pm, Albany NY - Upstate Artist Guild
April 20th, 2 - 8 p.m., Hudson NY - CCCA Arts Columbia
April 21st, 2 - 9 p.m., New Paltz NY - Suny New Paltz
April 22nd, 12 - 6 p.m., Purchase NY - Suny Purchase.

So if any of you can make those locations and dates, you can look up my Family Sketchbook!!!

Oh, and I sold another magnet off my Zazzle shop and I sold a sheet of giftwrap off my etsy shop this week too!!

Movie Review - "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea"

This is Movie Review number four!  This isn't one of the new DVDVDVDDs we recently bought, but one that we got as a Christmas present last December!

PLOT

This one is set in we think Victorian times Europe (vaguely 1880s), starting off in a fishing/naval port.  It stars Kirk Douglas as a seaman-for-hire and a French chap as a professory type and James Mason as The Mad Evil Guy.  It's about stories of a seamonster that attacks and sink ships that start circulating around the sea ports and start scaring people.  The French Professor wants to go to sea to see if it really exists and tries to find a ship and seamen to take him. He eventually does (that's how he meets Kirk Douglas!) and they head off towards the USA.  Or it might be based in the USA and they head off towards the Pacific, we're not sure.  But anyway, eventually, they get attacked by this seamonster and the ship sinks, BUT the French Professor, his assistant and Kirk Douglas escape in a life boat.  They they get rescued by the seamonster that actually turns out to be The World's First Submarine!!!!  (I think, since the story is set in the 1880s, it must be a steampunk submarine!!!)  Anyway, the story then goes on about life underwater, what they eat, how they farm for food, and electricity, and escaping maurauding cannibals off a desert island - and THEN ends up on a Prison Island called Rura Pentay (and that idea was later pinched for an alien prison planet with the same name in one of the Star Trek movies!!!) which is when the French professor, his assistant and Kirk Douglas decide to try and escape!!  But I won't ruin the plot by telling you how!!

RECOMMENDED??

Actually, this is quite a fun story!!  It's quite a long movie -  made by Disney probably around the 1950s ..... but it's a good yarn with some funny bits in it as well as some scarey bits!!!

SCORE

Beanie gives it 7 squeaks out of 10!!!

RECOMMENDED SCOOBY SNACKS
Sushi, with squid's ink dip. 

Another update!!

I just sold 30 Montmartre magnets off my Zazzle shop, www.zazzle.com/Andreas_art !!!!

I'm amazed!