THE HELP

I went on a date night last night with DH. We drove an hour over to Jackson and ate at Ruby Tuesday's then went to Tinseltown to see THE HELP. Then we had a Baskin Robbins Strawberry smoothie after the show! Perfect date night! Don't be jealous bitches!

OK. Now...I have read the book The Help. After reading it I saw on Twitter and Facebook and places that there was some kind of controversy stirring up about the movie. The book was amazing. It is Katherine Stockett's very first novel and it's a best seller.

Husband decided to take me to see it since I had been talking about it a lot during and after reading the book. The movie was EXCELLENT! I am going to have to be honest and say this movie is going in my top 10 all time favorite movies. After I watch it again it may go into my top 5. The movie was gripping, hard to watch in some places, touching, funny as hell in a lot of places and almost made me cry three different times. I had to choke it back because I didn't have any kleenex and when I cry my nose runs. I was struggling not to cry though. SO be warned. If you go see it take some Kleenex.

I think Viola David is going to get nominated for Best Actress for her role in this movie and I think Emma Stone is going to be nominated for best supporting actress. I hope this movie gets a shit ton of nominations. It deserves it.

I don't see any controversy over it. The ppl protesting it are saying it is white washing how it really was. That the movie didn't show the full brutality of how it really was for some ppl back then. There were rapes, beatings and lynchings, etc. Why in the hell would she put all that in this movie? That's not what this movie is about. It is about a white girl writer who enlists the help of a lot of black maids to tell the stories about what it was like to work for white families. This wasn't a movie about civil rights or the atrocities of the south in the 50's & 60's. It was about a girl trying to become a published book author. Nothing more. There's nothing that says she had to involve the civil rights movement in this story. It did have a sequence where it shows when Medgar Evers was shot and when JFK was shot. But my recommendation is, GO SEE IT! The whole theater was roaring with laughter in about 15 different scenes in the movie. There are some very serious scenes with tears and pain, but they almost immediately lighten it up with something funny.

In other news. If you follow me on Twitter you know I have an addiction to Cheddar BBQ Cheetos. Well Kroger was the only place you could buy them. A few weeks ago Kroger stopped carrying them all together. All the convenience stores stopped carrying them. I couldn't find them anywhere. And then I show up today at Walmart. I look down, the angels sang, the skies parted and I saw that Walmart now carries BBQ Cheetos!! I don't know if this is going to be a permnent thing they sell or if it is a limited run type of chip or did Walmart make a deal that only Walmart can sell them now. I dunno. But I am excited!!

I'm still reading Patricia Cornwell's Port Mortuary. It's been pretty good once you get past page 30 but it still never has lived up to the intense suspense and mystery that you usually get with Cornwell novels. I am not if I would even recommend it to anyone. Especially if they have never read Cornwell and aren't a fan yet. This is not the book to start with.

So that's my ramblings for today. Go see The Help. Go get yourself some BBQ Cheetos. And live it up!