Movie night: Everest

My sister Sara and her fiancé Henrik came to visit this week, so we decided to watch Everest at my sister Hanna's place (after my niece had fallen asleep).  

I spent the majority of the movie being really upset that they seemed to be climbing the mountain for no valid reason whatsoever. If the intention was to make me feel like mountain climbing is the most selfish sport in the world (where you throw your life away for fun) then they succeeded in doing just that. Had I known why they took the risk, I would have been okay with them loosing their legs/fingers/heads due to the cold. Even rooted for them, as they did it..

 Me, attempting a selfie with my sister and her boyfriend's hands in the background. Successful, wasn't I? 

The story of: Ugh

For some reason, I thought it was a good idea to watch Cape Fear last night. Like a reward for studying as much as I have, or something.. (Damn you, cost-benefit analysis! When I'm done with you, I'll burn thine information in a righteous hate fire) 

Ugh.

To rectify the queasiness Max Cady made us feel, we decided to watch The Talented Mr. Ripley right after. You know - go into it blindly, take our mind off things.. 

UGH. 

 UUUGH! 

Julia left when someone beat the other someone to death.

I got nightmares.

 The end. 

Movie night: Christmas Eve

Every Christmas Eve at 3 PM (we celebrate on the 24th in Sweden) we gather in front of the TV to watch Kalle Anka och hans vänner önskar God Jul. It's a compilation of short films/snippets from Disney movies originally titled "From All of Us to All of You" and has been a tradition in Sweden since 1960.

Behold: My brother Stefan's head and my sister Julia's feet. Also behold the candelabra in the background, by the sofa. In the following days my sister Sara will trip over it and break all of the candles, except two.

Also traditionally (since 1994), Swedish Television shows Kan du vissla Johanna? directly following "From All of Us to All of You". I have no idea why it's become a Christmas thing, since it takes place during summer..

We didn't have it on for more than five minutes. My brother thinks it's too depressing, so we put on The Santa Clause instead (usually my sister Hanna's very adamant that we watch Kan du vissla Johanna? together, but she was giving my niece a bath and couldn't stop us = win!).
 

Here's my sister Sara in front of the TV. We were playing my favorite game "Can't Stop" and she won. Both times. I don't know how much of the movie we actually watched..

After dinner and a visit from Santa, I got to watch my favorite thing: Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton. I'm the only one in my family that loves it but I'm okay with that (and I can't be alone in this.. it's been on every Christmas Eve since 1975)!

It didn't stop my family from stealing the candy though.. 

Then I took a nap, while my mother and two sisters watched season one of Poldark. They got two episodes in, before I woke up and that's when they decided to put on season one of Luther instead. I watched it with them and we kept watching until six in the morning.

Movie night: The Man from U.N.C.L.E

My sister Julia picked me up, we drove for an hour, picked up our friend Mattias and then headed for the beach to meet our sister Sara and her fiancé Henrik. It's been unusually warm in the north of Sweden this week, but it still drops back to normal temperatures at night (around +5ºC). Consequently, the water was freezing.

After some pizza, we watched The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Henrik and Sara were THIS excited for the movie:

I really liked it! I felt like the plot was a little too confusing and predictable, but the acting/way it was told, more than made up for it. Sara + Julia really loved it and Julia even went as far as naming it one of her "all time top 10". 

Movie night: My mothersister's birthday

On Friday I had to quit my summer job because of stress-related issues and - even though it's sad, I'm proud of myself for realizing my limits in time (I was still sort of trying it out and I actually made no money from it). To make myself feel better I snapped this picture of the view going home and then went to my sister Hanna to snuggle with her turtle Gunnar:

Friday night was then spent watching The Other Woman while finishing up some presents for my sister Julia's 20th birthday. 

We celebrated her birthday (and my mother's; they're born on the same day) on Saturday by playing lots of boardgames and eating chocolate cake. I then rounded out my weekend with semi-watching Transformers 4.

Movie night: "Waiting for my niece"-edition

Since both me and my sister Hanna have been home during the weekdays (she's waiting for her baby, I'm waiting to start my summer job) - we've been hanging out; eating ice cream and watching movies. We saw Gravity at her place and then we watched both Honeymoon and Fifty Shades of Grey at my parent's house, with our sister Julia (she hated the latter movie and I couldn't agree more). 

The greatest benefit of living in the north of Sweden is the constant daylight in the spring- and summertime. I took this at 1 AM in the morning.

 On Sunday, I went to visit my other sister Sara for a few hours. I had a long make out session with their Dalmatian Freja (the love of my life) and then I went home to watch Cinderella on repeat.

Movie night: Easter edition

Since all five of us siblings were home this weekend, we actually made time for two movie nights; on Friday we watched The Matrix and on Saturday I made everyone (except my not-easily-persuaded brother) watch The Usual Suspects. 

On Easter Sunday we went about 15 minutes from where my parents live, ate some sausages and climbed a mountain (where I had to rest every ten steps or so, due to equal parts exhaustion and euphoria):

 My sister Sara tried to embody Legolas. My mother did not.

 

When I got home, I finished this crayon picture while watching World War Z. 

It was a fantastic weekend. I'm so blessed!

Movie night: Cinderella (+ a lot of Elementary)

Julia was driving, I was in charge of the music (took full advantage of that fact and chose 'hits from 1998') and Hanna (blue hat) fell asleep in the back seat. We arrived at 6 pm and the sun still hadn't set! 

Cinderella was much better than we'd thought (it only got two stars in our local paper) and I have to say it's my favorite fairytale retelling to date. 

The rest of the weekend was spent re-watching season one of Elementary, eating blood oranges and doodling dinosaurs in top hats.  

Movie night: Fifty shades of Grey

I did better than I thought I was gonna do! My sister Sara was peeking through her fingers for the majority of the film, but I only closed my eyes twice. It wasn't great - but it wasn't awful either. The dialog was really horrible ("I don't make love, I fuck. Hard!") but the actors took it seriously and that helped. I'd say that it was very much like watching a movie made from a Harlequin book.. and that's essentially what it was! 

When I drove home (without feeling tired at all), we had a long discussion about obsession and being able to focus on other things in life, besides your partner. Anastasia wasn't and I think that that really was why Sara closed her eyes as much as she did..

My niece-to-be was in the car with us too, which helped me stay awake!

Movie night: JuRaSsIc PaRk

Back home after watching Jurassic Park one and two (a first for me) tonight. My brother-in-law made dinner and then we just powered through them. I don't know if I like watching the old movies before watching the newer ones anymore, though. Because now I'm not as excited (if I'm even excited at all) for the one coming this June. 

That's the only reason I liked Die Hard 4.0 as much as I did - because I didn't know anything about what had been before.. I just enjoyed it for what it was.

Even if I've ruined the upcoming movie for myself, I still had fun hanging out with two of my sisters, their feet and what I presume is a T-Rex.. frozen on the screen.