Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

          I'm willing to bet that most everyone knows the title "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" and some might even remember reading the book. Well there's good news for all those people out there that don't like reading the books and just wait for the movies to come out: it's a movie now! So if you told your parents, "Heck naw," and refused to read the book when you were a wee little baby, you can finally go see the movie and find out the story that you've waited your whole life to watch.

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Poster. Wikipedia. Web. 11 Oct. 2014.

          Summary:

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          I'm sure everyone has had one of those days; those days where it feels like everything says, "You seem like you've been having a good time lately, so here, have some of this." For Alexander, every day feels like one of those days, while it seems like everyone around him gets along perfectly. Tomorrow is Alexander's birthday and today he just had enough, so for his birthday wish, he wants everyone else to know what it's like to have one of those days; and what do you know, his wish came true.

          Now, there's not much that I could spoil for you in this movie unless I explained every way that everything went wrong on Alexander's birthday, but where's the fun in that? Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is a fun movie to go see. You might go with family or you might just want to see something to lift your spirits, but whatever the case, this movie will cheer you up.

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil

          At first glance, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil might look like another horror flick, where murderers run amok and whittle a group of people down, person by person; but take a closer look. You can watch the trailer here, and even through the short trailer you'll see that it isn't really what it seems like. If you had to sum it up into one sentence you might say that it's the opposite of all the other movies that involve college kids and a couple of hillbilly looking guys.

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil Poster. 2011. IMDb. Web. 8 Oct. 2014.

          Summary:

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          Tucker and Dale are just two misunderstood hillbillies looking to get away for a bit, and they finally have a place to get away to: their new vacation home. At the same time that Tucker and Dale are taking their vacation, a group of college kids decide to take a camping trip in the woods. As you can see from the poster Dale isn't an ugly guy, he's just.. different. The problem is Dale psychs himself out, and gets pretty nervous around the ladies. The first time that the hillbillies and college kids really meet is at a gas station, where Dale does his best to strike up conversation with a very pretty college girl named Allison. Because of the aforementioned psyching, Dale comes off just a bit creepy to these college kids; they react like he might be deranged or something, (weird right? He looks like such a nice guy on the poster.) Later on, while the college kids decide to go swimming, Tucker and Dale are fishing in the same lake, and save Allison when she almost dies. Tucker yells to the rest of the kids that they've got their friend, and the kids think that Allison is being kidnapped. Things begin to go downhill fast when the college kids start accidentally killing themselves while trying to rescue Allison from Tucker and Dale.

          In my own opinion, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil is a great movie. It has plenty of one liners, "Are you okay?" along with the chaos caused by some oblivious people on both sides of the action. Granted, the movie gets somewhat bloody, which you don't really get from the trailer, but if you were to find a more mature trailer, which there are, you may see what I'm talking about. If you can make it past the blood or if blood simply does not bother you, and enjoy the movie for the humor it really has, it'll be worth it.