Just in case you think I’m a fan of every movie I see, here are my thoughts on Olympus has Fallen.

1. Gerard Butler and his voice coach (I assume he had one) did a nice job of hiding his Scottish accent.

2. Can someone explain to me why a guy that is picking up loaded guns off of bodies in every other scene is spending the rest of the movie getting in fist and knife fights? I waited in vain for “looks like you brought a knife to a gun fight”.


3. I think this movie is a hard sell because Americans may not be fans of such an epic fail of our security that the White House is taken over in half an hour…..or maybe that’s just me.

4. I do not think a woman who has fought hard enough to be Secretary of Defense would give up that easily. I don’t care that the president told her to. She wouldn’t let history remember her that way….but I guess very little in this movie was realistic.

5. And now for my mini rant that Ashley Judd (playing the first lady) was riding in a car in a snowstorm in a dress with thin straps and NO covering of any kind (I think she had a wrap on when she exited the building?).

This would have been a nice place for a pretty cabled cape or beautiful lace shawl. Something like either one of these would have been lovely:

6. Overall, this movie started off a bit like “Bambi” and then turned into a wannabe “Air Force One”. I didn’t love it.

Tags: knitting movie review, Olympus has Fallen

The stripy socks: (raveled here)

This pattern with the afterthought heel is just the thing for on the go knitting.

The leafy socks (test knitting): (raveled here)

This pattern is a lot of fun to knit and since I’m using a DK weight by Hazel Knits, it is knitting up quickly. This is my first time to use Artisan Lively and I’m really enjoying the feel of it.

The lacy socks (test knitting): (raveled here)

good news: I’ve got the pattern for toe decreases memorized.
bad news: I’ve been ripping out a lot of toes lately. I ripped this one back and added four rows and now I’m considering ripping back again to add a few more. I think I’m paranoid about making toes too long after the Mermaid sock debacle and am overcompensating. The Mermaids turned up recently when I was organizing the stash – I don’t know what I’m going to do with them. I do not feel like redoing the toes again. I kind of hate them now. Have considered throwing them on stage at a rock concert….but I can’t do that when the toes do not match each other. I know. You know you have OCD when….

…and here are my WIP with the book I’m reading:

Ps. To see what other folks are working on, go check out Tami’s Amis and Small Things Yarn Along.

Tags: Hazel Knits, WIP Wednesday, Yarn Along

This movie was well-cast, had great special effects and the script wasn’t bad. I expected explosions, fights, and a decent plot and I got all three. It delivered more than most sequels.
My only real complaint is that Ryan Hansen (you might remember him as Candy Andy from 2 Broke Girls) didn’t seem to fit in with the rest of the team. With a plane full of soldiers, it felt like a game of “one of these things is not like the others, one of these things just isn’t the same”. But he was really only in one or two scenes, so that wasn’t a big deal.


There was a little thing going on between Jaye and Flint and I wish there had been a little more of that. Maybe they were worried about running long as it was already 110 minutes. or maybe there’s another sequel in the pipeline.
In other news, there’s a sequence near the beginning where Flint seems to be doing Parkour, so I had to look it up and see if he’s a gymnast, looks like no, but his stunt double, Albert Valladares, on the other hand, is a different story. very cool.


Oh, and the soundtrack didn’t suck.

Ps. Work continues on the striped sock.

Tags: G. I. Joe, knitting movie review