In Bruges

The one thing that this movie will do for sure is make you want to visit Bruges. I mean the place looks like a fucking fairy tale (I think they say something like that in the movie too). Bruges is “the most preserved medieval town in Belgium” whatever that means. The city is like another character in the movie its fairly important and I am sure you can tell from the title of the movie. I don’t think the movie could take place anywhere else unless it was in “the most preserved medieval town in Germany,”
The movie is a dark comedy and while it has some serious morality issues it deals with for the most part it’s a very entertaining comedy (including Midgets!). Most of the comedy is from the dialogue. Colin Farrell’s character is ridiculously funny and I think 90% of the humor is from him. I remember thinking to myself many times “WTF are they talking about? This is awesome!”
I thought the background music was really good and it was done by the same composer who did Fargo( which the movie is really similar to).
So yeah pretty much if you have seen and like fargo you should watch this movie and even if you haven’t you should watch this movie then if you like it watch fargo.

JUNO. (just like my high school story)

so of course i would be writing about this. it almost felt cliche that this would be my comeback post, but I had to do it.

After watching this movie when it first came out at the Angelika, it wasn't as funny as the trailer made it seem... but then when I watched it again in New Hampshire, I guess my expectations were lower, because it was so so funny. Maybe things are funnier up north. But probably, I just needed to have watched it without having too many expectations going in. NO FREAKING WONDER IT WON BEST SCREENPLAY. right right?

it even made michael cera look semi-hot. he looks like a guy i would have liked in my tween stage (cough matt cough) heh heh
and im sure if he were a red-head michelle would be all over it too.

ah. teenage love is cute.

oooh this post is short. i may be a little rusty in my older age.

ah but you know what this means.....
PORNOGRAPHERS ARE BACK :)

Hollywood Ending

I didn't even know this movie existed until netflix recommended it to me. I read the description, read the name Woody Allen and I added it to my queue. The plot of the movie, I thought was quite interesting. Woody Allen plays a director who is living in the memories of his glory days. When he gets a chance to make a comeback as a director he goes psychosomatically blind! That’s the foundation the movie builds on.

Woody Allen's Character in the movie is his usual neurotic, nervous, awkward character. Although the fact that he becomes psychosomatically blind does add to his awkwardness. Also there is some slapstick humor that is drawn from the blindness. You can imagine that him not being able to see can open up quite of few slapstick opportunities. One thing that really kept me into the movie is the dialogue whenever Allen's character is present. There is a constant stream of one-liners in his dialogue, which are not all hilarious but are certainly smirk worthy. Don't get me wrong there are laugh out loud parts in the movie, but that isn't what the movie is built around. The humor is typical of his other comedic movies. One aspect of the movie I liked was the reporter’s voice-overs through the filming portion of the movie. The consisted of her reading excerpts from her notes. It worked smoothly as a transition between different groups of scenes

Overall the movie was very entertaining and I stayed interested throughout. The plot doesn't really drive the movie it’s more of just a backdrop to Allen's one-liners. I think the movie had great premise and could have lived up to it better, but its still a very funny and interesting movie. I would recommend you check it out if you like Woody Allen movies. If you don’t enjoy his movies then you probably won’t enjoy in this one

Mr. and Mrs. Smith



mmmm... so I saw this movie the day it came out but I decided to post about it since I was in the mood after posting about the Sandler movie.
I thought this movie was pretty average because I guess I wasn't all that impressed with the plot of the movie. I hate movies with two main conflicts if they do not seem to mesh well together. This movie seemed longer than it should have been and I guess if I were it's teacher I'd give it a "C" and a "Nice effort but missed the point"
It had a handful of funny one-liners but nothing that sticks to your memory.
I do however like how the seasoned lead actor and actress acted.
I may be being too critical of this movie seeing as how it has made over 50 million dollars worldwide and I may be the only person in the world who has anything bad to say about it... but there it is.
I'd recommend the movie below more than this one.


The Longest Yard


A post in a long time....
Well I saw this movie today and I must tell you I was hesitant because I had wanted to watch Batman Begins.. but I've gotta tell you, I was ROLLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING! It was HILARIOUS!
For as much as it was publicized (or wasn't) and for how little I heard about it after being released, I thought it was an average comedy. I was pleasantly surprised. I almost wanna say that this is Adam Sandler's best movie, but upon consideration I'll take it back. It definitely wasn't his funniest performance, nor the best, but it was his funniest movie. the combination of actors that they had for the movie was absolutely amazing though I was somewhat disappointed in Chris Rock's performance. He of course played the same funny, racist-like, black man role, but in this one his jokes/one liners weren't as good as usual. He is of course still very funny, but it's not the usual I'm-peeing-in-my-pants funny...
The music I thought was great... mostly because I like rap and would someday wanna be black, but that's just me. There is also a lot of ripped black men without their shirts on, so if you're into that kind of thing, you'll definitely enjoy it.
So I recommend it and I'd even watch it again in theatres (and that rarely happens)


Hotel Rwanda

I have to say I was amazed by Don Cheadle! He sort of blew me away. I haven't seen many movies where is plays a serious part and he did an amazing job with his role.

Most people are familiar with the Genocide in Rwanda; but to most people it seems like something bad that happened far away. That’s kind of what I felt about it before I saw the movie. I really don't have a good grasp of what really went on. When I saw the movie it was all very clear.

One very important message the movie sends is that most people will see something bad happening and say "OMG that’s bad" and then not do anything. There is a part in the movie were a camera man gets footage of many dead bodies and brings it to his reporter. He later noticed that the Hotel manager was there, who is a local, and says sorry for showing that to you i didn't know you were there. The manager says "No I’m glad you got that footage, people will see it and then they will have to send help." The camera man responded "you don't get it most people will see this and say that’s bad and then go on eating their dinners."

The hotel manager’s character goes through a transformation in the movie. The transformation deals with how much importance he put on other people besides his family. It’s very interesting to see how he changes and what does due to those changes.

The movie was rated PG-13 and I was wondering how a movie about Genocide was not rated R. The movie isn't at graphic as it easily could be, but there are still graphic scenes. The movie focuses more on the emotional/human aspects of one character. This character helps many people survive the genocide and you get more of the emotions. I think focusing more on that one aspect makes the movie that much more powerful.

I think people should see this movie just to realize that some really horrible things going on in the world. It may even convince people to do more than just have pity for people in tragedies and actually act if it affects them. This movie is powerful and it is also a little graphic but it is worth it.

Apocalypse NOW (Redux)

I watched this movie long time ago didn’t understand it too well so didn’t like it much. But now I saw it again and it was Amazing!!

We are reading Heart of Darkness and school so I decided to watch the movie and I got the Redux addition. Man-o-man the movie is long!! It was already long before the redux version where 50 minutes of footage was added. I like long movies.

Setting the movie Vietnam was definitely a better choice than keeping it in the congo like the book. It adds the much needed action the book lacks. It really has some parts with war action and it gets the blood flowing.

But the action isn’t the best part of the movie, the philosophical parts are. It deals with a humanity and our actions. It deals with our evils and our goods. Its cool how as he gets closer to Kurtz he finds out more about himself! All this stuff in the movie is just MIND BLOWING!! It makes the movie a cut above!

How Marlon Brando plays Kurtz is awesome. He seems so perfect for that role. After seeing him as Kurtz I myself wanna meet Kurtz

Robert Duvall’s character is fun to watch. He is a general the cares too much about surfing! He is really driven by that. He also delivers the most memorable line from the movie. “I love the smell of napalm in the morning………it smells like victory”

Francis Ford Coppola is awesome. The beginning sequences are awesome. They really get you into the movie and I just love them. I love how willard is all mentally torn up trying to get back into the war! The cinematography really helps to show his feelings and is great throughout the film!

Friday Night Lights

(I love the Movie Poster!)

Wow I think this might be my favorite sports movie, EVER! I mean after I saw the movie I was just like WHOA! I really really like this movie it’s the kind you would buy twice just for fun!

Its about a high school football team in Odessa Texas. The Permian Panthers are kind of a legend. They have the whole MOJO thing going for them. I remember when our high school played them my freshmen year we had shirts that said Mojo Schmojo.

Well of course there is lots of cool football action in the movie. It made me wish I could still play football. I like how the scenes are cut it works out well. I just wish they showed more of some of the games when they are in the playoffs. The team was undersized and so my team! There were other parallels that really got me into the movie. I mean I was deep in to the movie, almost like it was happening to me!

Besides there being lots of cool football action there lots of off scene drama that is really good. I really got into the sub stories. You get a feel of how important High School football is to that community.

The whole Boobie story line was very sad especially this one scene of him and his uncle in the car. Man I really felt for boobie his whole life was dependent on football his life changed in an instant. Everyone who watches this movie will feel for boobie.

They changed up a lot of thing in the movie from the actual historic facts. The didn’t play Carter in the state final they played them before I think in the Semi-Final. The games wasn’t a shoot out like in the movie it was a low scoring game. Also they left out the a whole issue where carter got its state title revoked because the principle changed a players grades so he could play. They decided to leave that out to avoid controversy I am glad they left that out it wouldn’t contribute to the story.

If you played high school football WATCH THIS MOVIE. I saw this movie after I played my last high school football game and I think it wouldn’t be the same if you were still playing football, but it is great nonetheless.

Unbreakable

M. Night Shyamalan is a good director. I love his movies and more importantly I love the way they turn out. I also like his style it really shows the feelings in the movie.

Most of the people that I talk to say they don’t like this movie and say its M. Night’s worst movie. I actually like this one the best! I just like the whole concept of the movie how it deals with superheroes but in a more realistic way. Its sooo exciting!

In the movie the main character’s family and himself aren’t very happy. The movies does an unbelievable job of portraying that. I mean the dialogue, the facial expressions, the camera angles, the shot lengths EVERYTHING!! I just sort of blew my mind how in the movie you can really feel the sadness of the characters.

One really cool scene is when Samuel L. Jackson is trying to sell that comic painting to a customer and he finally convinces him. The customer says my son is going to be happy and Jackson asks him how old is your son and the customer says four. Samuel L. Jackson say NO NO and doesn’t sell it to him.

Of course like any of his movies there is a twist at the end. I like this twist a lot. It just feels right like it makes more sense after you know everything.

I really like this movie and I think most people would like it. I still don’t know why people don’t like it. Maybe because there are some confusing parts, well that was what the lady at blockbuster said. You can watch this movie over and over because I have!

my computer ahh!

dam computer doesn't let me see the website, bastard.

movies galore!

i saw a bunch of movies this weekend and i don't want to make separate posts.. so here it is... i'm resourceful... not lazy....


first, we have this kinda bad movie. i don't know why j. lo is doing bad movies back-to-back-to-back-to-back.. come on.. after the cell, i figured she'd do maybe a bad movie and then a good movie.. but no... whats the point of having a crapload of filler movies on your film credits if they are indeed crap? i liked ralph fiennes' character though...


i liked it surprisingly. i'm so easy to please.



took me way to long to finally watch this movie. man ... pure genius. its amazing how actors can switch accents on and off like kate winslet and the howard guy who i've already forgotten the name of. reminded me of memento.. but better and not so frustrating. 10 thumbs up assuming i had 10 thumbs



indie films are the best. man i reallly really like this movie. its an adaptation of macbeth and it is amazing. i love the little references or the jokes that i understand from having read the play. i guess this is one good reason why we read it in english... so i can better understand a film haha... who needs literary merit, right? i think i'm going to have to recommend this to everyone i know. personal mission. yep.