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Leap Year

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No this post is not about the 1 extra day we get every 4 years. It is about the movie starring Amy Adams and Matthew Goode about a girl who flies to Ireland to perform an old Irish tradition of a woman proposing to her boyfriend on Leap Day, February 29th.  This movie is just the start of my 101 movies to watch list from Netflix that I am slowly knocking down.

For Matthew Goode, the role and romantic comedy is similar to Chasing Liberty. He has to help a woman get to where she wants to go albeit this movie is more for late 20-somethings rather than late teenagers so he is growing in that aspect.  It was hard to understand his accent at the beginning so it was hard to get involved in the story line at first.  Once I got used to the accent (and Amy Adams voice a little too) the storyline was pretty good. Adams plays the straight laced, picture perfect on the outside character very well. She is out of her element being in Ireland and showing that through facial expressions and body movement is hard but she does it very well. As an observer, you can see her character slowly begin to get comfortable with her surroundings and her guide in Goode. 

We all know how these movies end however the way this movie progressed to the end was different - I was pleasantly surprised. SPOILERS DO NOT READ IF YOU WANT TO SEE THIS MOVIE

Adams boyfriend proposes to her and she moves back to Boston and Goode back to his bar in Ireland. Adams realizes what she really wants so dumps her fiancee, flys back to Ireland to win back Goode and when she makes her speech he doesn't say anything and leaves her standing in the middle of his bar. She leaves and he follows her to tell her he just had to get something - his mother's claddagh ring. And they lived happily, no plans, ever after.  That ending brought the whole movie together for me. It made me feel good at the end of it and happy that I watched it. To me, that is what a movie should be all about - making you happy and giving you entertainment.

Next on my list, The Last Song. Go ahead and make your jokes. The book by Nicholas Sparks was amazing I could not put it down and even though Miley Cyrus is in this movie, I have heard from reliable sources that the movie is worth seeing. I am pretty sure it is a box of tissues kind of movie but that is why it is part of date night :)

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