Movie Review: Big Fat Liar

Big Fat Liar (2002)
Starring: Frankie Muniz and Paul Giamatti
Characters: Jason Shepherd and Marty Wolf
Directed by: Shawn Levy
Tagline: The truth is never overrated.
Grade: A-

This is another one of those movies that people might not want to watch just because of the genre. Most people consider movies that don't have cussing or bloody violence to be bad. A lot of my favorite movies have violence and cussing (Stand by Me, anyone?) but a lot of great movies are family movies, like this one. The movie is about Jason, who lies all the time...about everything. One day, after sneaking in the window to the classroom with the help of his best friend, Kaylee (Amanda Bynes, who, as always, rocks and steals the scenes she's in), he realizes he hasn't written his paper that was due that day. So he makes up a whole story about how he was in the ER all night with his dad, who had choked on a meatball...which is soon proved to be false when his parents show up at school...his dad meatball free. His teacher gives him until 5:00 that night to write his paper...which he very fittingly titles Big Fat Liar. On his way to turn in his paper, he runs into Mr. Marty Wolf...a ruthless movie producer. After Jason accidentally leaves his story in the limo, Wolf sees it and decides to claim it as his own. Hilarity ensues, with Jason and Kaylee to sneak off to Hollywood and all of Wolf's enemies ganging up on him to force him to confess that he stole the story. All in all, a solid movie from the time when Frankie Muniz was in every movie that came out...like Agent Cody Banks (I also liked that one...but, like I said, I like pretty much every movie.) The clear "winner" of this movie is Amanda Bynes, who wins in all her movies. (See the amazing, AMAZING She's the Man.)
-MOT

More college stuff

So, I went to a meeting for John Brown University tonight and they told us some info. I had a lot of fun...and of course, my stupid ex-boyfriend showed up. Apparently he's decided he has to go there...I know he won't though cause he doesn't like working...or doing school...or doing anything besides watching youtube videos. So, I guess I'll just have to pray that something will happen so he won't go. Ugh....boys suck.

Just finished: Big Fat Liar
Watching now: Catch Me If You Can
Excited to see: Valentine's Day

Epiphany

So, I had an epiphany today in church...which I don't think people have very often. It was an interesting experience. I suddenly realized that I'm going to go to college, I'm going to meet someone that's 10 million times better than my ex-boyfriend, and I'm going to get a good job. My ex-boyfriend, however, probably won't go to college, and if he does, he won't stay long. He'll probably end up working at Chick-Fil-A for the rest of his life. It was then that I realized that he's not worth my time...so, I've decided that I'm not going to be stressed by him or anything he does anymore. And I feel much better. :)
-MOT

Just finished: Because of Winn-Dixie
Watching now: Big Fat Liar
Excited to see: Frozen