If you have been reading the CraftEaze blog for a while, you probably have noticed I have a soft spot for Netflix movies. Earlier this summer Netflix came out with a new movie that I thought was great. This movie was “Always Be My Maybe”
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Sometimes it is nice to have a Friday night at home. It could be that you had a long week and you don’t really want to be around a crowd tonight. Sometimes it can be because you aren’t feeling 100%. Other times it can be nice just to hang out with your significant other on the couch relaxing.
Tonight is one of those type of Friday nights for me. I have been battling a nasty cold the second half of this week so I decided to have a laid back night since my fiancé is also out of town. So I have my Yeti 30 oz tumbler full of water, Hulu/Netflix on the TV, and Panera’s tomato soup to help me bounce back to normal.
The following movies are perfect for a low key Friday night. All are currently on Netflix (as of March 15, 2019).
So this was actually the movie I watched this afternoon once I got home from work. This movie is the perfect low key Friday night movie because it is lighthearted and you have probably seen it a hundred times. So if you fall asleep during the middle of it, you can easily know what’s going on when you wake up.
I enjoy watching this movie because Elle Woods breaks all sorts of stereotypes. In the beginning, everyone thinks she is just a dumb blonde that decided to go to law school on a whim. As the movie progresses, she grows more sure of herself and proves everyone wrong.
Have you heard of the Fyre festival? If you haven’t, here is a quick rundown. Billy McFarland came up with this idea for a music festival on a Carribean island. He used social media and influencers to promote this music festival, but it was all too good to be true. This documentary tells the story of this failed festival from the start to the disastrous end. After you watch this documentary on Netflix, be sure to watch the other Fyre documentary on Hulu. It gives a slightly different perspective.
Maybe you want to relive a part of your childhood this Friday night. Did you know that It Takes Too is on Netflix?? This is the perfect movie to help remind you of a time when your biggest worry was what to put on your birthday list and a time when Mary-Kate and Ashley were the twins you wish you were friends with.
This movie is about two girls who are identical that switch places. One girl, Alyssa, has a rich dad who is engaged to a terrible lady. The other girl, Amanda, is an orphan. The two girls switch places to stop Ashley’s dad’s wedding. In the process, Ashley’s dad meets Amanda’s caseworker. Will it all work out for the two girls? Will everyone live happily ever after?
National Treasure is a great movie to watch as a family on a Friday night. It may not be historically accurate, but it is fun watching the characters travel through our nation’s capital, Philadelphia, and New York City trying to find a treasure. Be sure to eat some popcorn with this movie.
Dumplin’ is a Netflix original movie that came out last December. It was aimed more towards teens, but I found it enjoyable. Willowdean is the plus-size daughter of a former beauty queen (Jennifer Aniston). Her mom also happens to be the director of the local pageant. Willowdean feels that her mom doesn’t understand her. She along with a few other outcasts sign up for the pageant. As the movie progresses, Willowdean becomes more confident in herself and the relationship with her mother improves.
This movie is a good movie to watch on a girls night while drinking wine. I like to drink wine out of a stainless wine glass like this. It keeps the wine nice and cold throughout the movie.
So this is a documentary that is a little out there. It is about the flat earth conspiracy theory. This documentary talks to some of the most influential people in the movement. There is a guy on this documentary that makes some really cool woodworking projects including a motorcycle made of wood. Now, I just have to clarify that I do not believe in the flat earth conspiracy. I just find the movement fascinating and could see how some people can be convienced that the earth is flat.
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So I don’t normally like to write back to back blog posts on a similar topic, but the recent announcement from Elon Musk and SpaceX made me excited. Earlier this week he announced the first civilian that will be traveling into space.
So in honor of this announcement, I decided to make a list of my favorite movies that are out of this world. Some of the movies on this list are older and some are relatively new. These movies can also help you get ready to see First Man which is coming out soon. I saw the trailer last night on HGTV and it looks really good. These movies are perfect to watch while curled up on the couch with a glass of wine or working on an outer space themed project. One of my favorite outer space projects I have ever worked on was this outer space blanket by Whistle and Ivy. The pattern is very easy to follow and fun to make.
Apollo 13 is one of my all-time favorite movies. It was one of the movies that got me interested in engineering. This movie is about the true story of NASA mission Apollo 13. The crew of Apollo 13 were supposed to land on the moon, but an explosion happened in space and the mission changes to one of survival and trying to get back home.
Against all odds, the astronauts make it back to earth safely. The movie goes back and forth between the astronauts and mission control. It also focuses some on the wives and family of the astronauts. The movie shows who everyone worked together to get astronauts home.
One of my favorite scenes is when engineers at mission control are given a box of items and they are told to make the spare air filter fit into the system. I think this is one of the most accurate descriptions of an engineers job. Engineers have to find a solution to problems within all sorts of parameter ranging from cost to materials.
This is one movie that my boyfriend and I actually went to the theater to see when it came out. It is also a movie that I watch every time that I see it on tv. Mark Watney is an astronaut for NASA goes on a mission to Mars. While on Mars a storm causes him to be left by his crew who believes he is dead.
After the crew leaves and the storm is over, it is revealed that Mark is really still alive. Mark is a scientist that studies plants and starts to grow potatoes on Mars for food. He eventually gets into contact with NASA and they try to figure out a way to get Mark home.
The movie is based on a book by Andy Weir with the same name. I borrowed the book from a coworker and enjoyed reading it.
Space Camp was one movie that I watched a lot growing up. My sister and I would watch it almost every month. We both thought it would be cool to go to Space Camp based on this movie.
Space Camp tells the story of a group of campers. The leader of their group is an astronaut who wants to go into space, but she is passed over several times. Her group campers include the typical 80s teen movie characters including the bad boy, an ambitious girl, a nerd, the athlete, and popular girl.
The nerd in this movie is actually younger than the rest of the group. He talks he counselors into letting him stay in the teenage camp because he has been to the junior camp so many times. Since he is younger, he doesn’t really have any friends his age. He ends up befriending a robot, just like in his mind Luke Skywalker.
The movie shows their time at camp up until the final days of camp. During the final days, they are allowed to sit inside the shuttle. While the group is on the shuttle, a computer malfunctions and sends the shuttle to space. At that point, the group has to figure out how to get back to earth.
I know that I included October Sky in my favorite book to movie list, but it also makes the list of my favorite space-related movies. I also like that it is based on a true story and it is a story many in rural areas can relate. When I watched this movie in middle school/high school, I really related to Homer. I knew that I want to go to college and become an engineer. Some of my classmates didn’t understand why I enjoyed math and science so much. They didn’t understand why I liked to learn more about these subjects in my free time.
This movie tells the story of Homer Hickam. Homer grew up in a rural West Virginian coal mining town. He knows he doesn’t want to mine coal the rest of his life. After Sputnik is launched, he becomes interested in learning how rockets work and how to make the best rocket.
After a few mishaps, his teacher encourages him to enter the local science fair and gave him books to read about rocketry. He ends up competing in the national science fair where he receives many scholarship offers for college. Homer ends up graduating from college and eventually gets a job at NASA where he works with the space shuttle program.
So I am going to start off by saying this movie is not scientifically accurate, but it is still entertaining. It is another movie that is on FX all the time. I watch it frequently when I see that it is on and there isn’t a football game or new show on.
Armageddon is a movie about a giant asteroid on track to hit earth. NASA is forced to call upon an oil driller whose patent for a drill they are trying to dissect. NASA is unable to figure out how to make the drill work, so they ask him to create a crew that he trusts to go to space along with the astronauts. The goal is to blow up the asteroid to prevent it from hitting earth. He creates a crew of various misfits that do not really fit into the traditional astronaut mold.
Will the crew succeed in blowing up the asteroid and will everyone get back alive? Will the young couple get the chance to live happily ever after?
I have watched this movie with my parents several times. It stars Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner. Like many of the other movies in this list, it was filmed and released prior to the Columbia disaster. It seems after the Columbia shuttle disaster the number of outer space movies decreased greatly up until the last few years.
So the movie begins with a Russian satellite has veered off its course. During an investigation, NASA discovered that the navigation system was from an American design. As a result, NASA tries to convince the developer to go into space to help stop the satellite. Unfortunately, the developer of the system is a retired Air Force pilot who is still mad that he was told he would be going to space when NASA was formed, but never got the chance too.
NASA finally convinced the retired pilot to go to space, but he had one condition. His teammates (who are also really old) have to be allowed to go too. There is a lot of old verse young dynamics in this movie as the current NASA astronauts see the pilot and his team as only old men.
Arnold’s (the classmate who always has something go wrong) cousin Janet is visiting the school. She is going on and on about how her grade school is better than Arnold’s until Miss Frizzle takes the class to outer space to learn about the planets.
This episode does referencePluto as a planet, but other than that it is a good introduction to the solar system for kids. However, the Pluto controversy is back again. I recently read this article that says some scientist believe it should have never been downgraded. You can watch this episode on Netflix (Season 1, Episode 1).
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Sometimes it is nice to invite all your friends over for a girls night in. It’s an opportunity to break out the junk food and the wine while catching up. It’s also a chance to watch movies that you may not frequently get the opportunity to watch.
This is my personal top 7 movies currently on Netflix that are perfect for a girls night in. Some of the movies are added for nostalgia. Other movies are on the list because they are funny. And then there are some movies that are added because they are, currently, some of my favorite movies.
1. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Day
I remember this being one of the first movies that was a go-to at sleepovers in middle school and high school. So be ready for a nostalgic trip back to a simpler time! Andy is a magazine reporter who is writing a “How to Lose a Guy” how-to article. Ben is trying to win a bet that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 2 weeks. How will they be work through their conflicting objectives?
2. Leap Year
So this movie may hit a little to close to home for some of your friends who have been waiting patiently on their boyfriends to propose, but hopefully, the beautiful Irish setting and the Irish accents will help them enjoy the movie. Anna has been waiting on her boyfriend Jeremy to propose for some time. He is going to be in Ireland on February 29, so she decides to fly to Ireland to propose. Irish tradition states that if a woman proposes to a man on Leap Day, he must accept. She has many detours along the way to finding her very own happily ever after.
This is one of my favorite Netflix finds! This is a British comedy that also stars Anna Farris. Nat and Josh meet at a party and fall in love at first site. They then marry a couple of months later. They have very different personalities and many quirky friends and family members. Even the characters know that they are very different. At one point in the movie, Josh even mentions that he is a thinker and Nat is a doer. This movie follows the couple through their first year of marriage. Will they make it to their anniversary??
4. Candy Jar
This is a Netflix original movie that came out in April 2018. Bennett and Lona are two ambitious high school seniors. They are each other’s biggest competition in debate even though they go to the same high school. At the individual district competition, neither qualify for the state competition. It’s very important for these two kids to qualify to compete at state so they can add it to their college applications. So their last chance is to work together and compete as a team. Through the movie, the two students realize that they are more similar than they originally thought and slowly became friends.
This is one of the movies that I can watch it over and over again. Will is going through a divorce when he picks his daughter, Maya, up from school. That night Maya begs to hear the story about how Will and her mother meet. He didn’t want to tell her the story at first but eventually gives into her begging with one big exception. He wasn’t going to use the women’s real names. So Maya would have to figure out who her mom was. The movie is basically told in flashbacks of how he ended up in New York and eventually marrying her mom.
Jenna is a dorky unpopular girl in middle school. On her 13th birthday, she makes a wish to be 30. When she wakes up, she is 30 years old and living what she thinks is a perfect life. Over time, she realizes that the perfect life she thinks 30-year-old her is living isn’t quite what it seems. I remember watching this movie in high school when it came out, but it is a different viewing experience today. At that point, I was a dorky 14-year-old hoping that by the time I was 30 my life would be perfect. Today, as I am getting very close to 30 my life (for the most part) isn’t like the life I imagined at 14 and I’m totally ok with it. Like there is no way I can afford to fly in a helicopter to my 10-year high school reunion, nor would I want to because that is a huge waste of money.
7. When We First Met
This is another Netflix original movie that came out in 2018 that I found to be entertaining. Noah is hopelessly in love with his best friend Avery. They had chemistry when the first met at a Halloween party, but somehow he ended up in the friend’s zone later that night. He always wonders what went wrong, until he finds a magically photobooth that takes him back to that day. Will Noah and Avery finally end up together or will he figure out that the perfect person for him may not be exactly who he expects?
Now that you have a list of possible movies to watch, you can start planning your next girls night in!