i got the movie killshot because mickey rourke and that kid with three names from 3rd rock for the sun.... josph gordon levitt are both my boyfriends. i don't know why i love mickey rourke but i really do. like, i'm hot for him. i was looking at pictures of him when he was younger and i've seen barfly and diner and he doesn't really do it for me. he just looks like bruce willis. but now, with that totally fucked up face, i kind of love him.
killshot wasn't anything special. rourke plays a native american assassin, levitt plays a fuck-up idiot who gets involved. everyone dies, you know how it is.
but, i just saw a preview for ironman two and mickey rourke's in it and i'm just glad he's famous and shit. and i love robert downey jr. like, for real.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
mr. foxy fox
i watched up in the air by myself on saturday because my sister went to her friend's house and although she invited me, we haven't been getting along super great and i felt like she needed some space. and, sometimes being around people i don't really relate to and/or just makes me more lonely.
those feelings were kind of perfect because up in the air is about being a lonely. and, it didn't seem like he was that sad about it. i know that he's not me and that i need people around to feel happy and alive, but i do need less people around and it was and interesting movie. it's strange to think how isolated a lot of adults are. they have their job and a couple friends and some family and that's it. it just seems so lonely to me.
i know that point of the movie (have you seen it?) is that it's hard to be happy all alone or that once you're not alone, you don't feel good about going back to being alone. or something like that. what do you think.
i also watched men who stare at goats. i watched it a while ago, did i blog about it. george clooney is simply amazing.
those feelings were kind of perfect because up in the air is about being a lonely. and, it didn't seem like he was that sad about it. i know that he's not me and that i need people around to feel happy and alive, but i do need less people around and it was and interesting movie. it's strange to think how isolated a lot of adults are. they have their job and a couple friends and some family and that's it. it just seems so lonely to me.
i know that point of the movie (have you seen it?) is that it's hard to be happy all alone or that once you're not alone, you don't feel good about going back to being alone. or something like that. what do you think.
i also watched men who stare at goats. i watched it a while ago, did i blog about it. george clooney is simply amazing.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
fox double feature
last weekend was rainy. here's how i dealt with that the first day of it:
a fox double feature with the fox and the hound and the fantastic mr. fox. we watched it with my new roommate, his friend and her two boys, age 7 or 8 and 11 or 12. my new roommate is gonna be an excellent gardening ally. at the gardening store yesterday i bought a "real shady" seed mix for a 10x2ft dirt spot on one side of the yard; i can't wait to grow sunglasses, alisa. anyway, we only got through the fox and the hound before the kids had to go to bed. they seemed to really enjoy it and they found things funny that it wouldn't dawn on me to laugh at. wouldn't it be nice if i could remember what those things were? the fox and the hound was alright but i didn't like the hound baby talk and i didn't like the big mama owl songs. i did like the hardy country old lady that takes the baby fox in and raises him. she names him tod, one d, isn't that intriguing? plus she stood up to the hunter, the hound's owner, when he wants after tod. tod is a such a good dude. even though the hound, his friend, goes after him, he jumps in and helps the hound avoid the biggest, scariest bear. and the fox finds a foxy ladyfox not too long after the country lady decides he has to be wild and not domestic. so, it was alright.
i wish i could say something about seeing the fantastic mr fox for the 3rd time but i fell asleep almost immediately once the movie started playing.
a fox double feature with the fox and the hound and the fantastic mr. fox. we watched it with my new roommate, his friend and her two boys, age 7 or 8 and 11 or 12. my new roommate is gonna be an excellent gardening ally. at the gardening store yesterday i bought a "real shady" seed mix for a 10x2ft dirt spot on one side of the yard; i can't wait to grow sunglasses, alisa. anyway, we only got through the fox and the hound before the kids had to go to bed. they seemed to really enjoy it and they found things funny that it wouldn't dawn on me to laugh at. wouldn't it be nice if i could remember what those things were? the fox and the hound was alright but i didn't like the hound baby talk and i didn't like the big mama owl songs. i did like the hardy country old lady that takes the baby fox in and raises him. she names him tod, one d, isn't that intriguing? plus she stood up to the hunter, the hound's owner, when he wants after tod. tod is a such a good dude. even though the hound, his friend, goes after him, he jumps in and helps the hound avoid the biggest, scariest bear. and the fox finds a foxy ladyfox not too long after the country lady decides he has to be wild and not domestic. so, it was alright.
i wish i could say something about seeing the fantastic mr fox for the 3rd time but i fell asleep almost immediately once the movie started playing.
kick-butt
the movie kick-ass is a movie dream come true. it even has some great nick cage, or the artist formerly known as nick cage.
the main character is a 15 or 16 yr old kid, no mom, single dad who seems nice but sad, and he and his friends and everyone gets mugged all the time, etc, and he gets sick of it so he buys a scuba suit and decides to become a real live superhero and his nerd self becomes his secret identity. his friends are pretty great, they all hang out in a comic book shop and are nerds. anyway, he gets his ass kicked a bunch but then he starts kicking ass with the help of a few more vigilantes. he becomes friends with his crush because there's a rumor going around that he's gay (he's not) and aaron and i had this conversation about whether that storyline was homophobic. the verdict is: it wasn't homophobic. also in the movie there's an emo pseudohero and a mob boss bad guy and the most violent 11 year old girl in the history of 11 year old girls. her and the mob boss guy have a great fight scene. overall, kick-ass manages to be extremely adorable and very violent.
it says it takes place in new york city, i think brooklyn, which i didn't recognize any of. i did, however, recognize a bunch of toronto, because it was also filmed there.
the main character is a 15 or 16 yr old kid, no mom, single dad who seems nice but sad, and he and his friends and everyone gets mugged all the time, etc, and he gets sick of it so he buys a scuba suit and decides to become a real live superhero and his nerd self becomes his secret identity. his friends are pretty great, they all hang out in a comic book shop and are nerds. anyway, he gets his ass kicked a bunch but then he starts kicking ass with the help of a few more vigilantes. he becomes friends with his crush because there's a rumor going around that he's gay (he's not) and aaron and i had this conversation about whether that storyline was homophobic. the verdict is: it wasn't homophobic. also in the movie there's an emo pseudohero and a mob boss bad guy and the most violent 11 year old girl in the history of 11 year old girls. her and the mob boss guy have a great fight scene. overall, kick-ass manages to be extremely adorable and very violent.
it says it takes place in new york city, i think brooklyn, which i didn't recognize any of. i did, however, recognize a bunch of toronto, because it was also filmed there.
Friday, April 16, 2010
the vicious what?
this morning i watched the vicious kind. it was on my netflix instant queue and it said comedy. i laughed a couple times, but i don't think that makes it a comedy. it stars the was movie star from party down (i watched the first episode of party down after) as a fuck up brother. he picks up his fratboy brother and his brother's new girlfriend at college and drives them to their dad's house for thanksgiving.
it's a sad, quiet kind of writer/director movie about families in pieces, heartbreak, doing things you shouldn't, forgiveness and anger. i'm pretty into all those things right now, so i gave it 5 stars. plus, the two brothers are hot.
the best part was that the fuckup brother had just gotten cheated on and was a real mess about it. like, crying in the diner, picking fights with everyone mess. it was nice to see a guy that kind of mess, although i don't think he was dealing with it the way i would have.
i think it takes place in Connecticut. who really lives in Connecticut?
it's a sad, quiet kind of writer/director movie about families in pieces, heartbreak, doing things you shouldn't, forgiveness and anger. i'm pretty into all those things right now, so i gave it 5 stars. plus, the two brothers are hot.
the best part was that the fuckup brother had just gotten cheated on and was a real mess about it. like, crying in the diner, picking fights with everyone mess. it was nice to see a guy that kind of mess, although i don't think he was dealing with it the way i would have.
i think it takes place in Connecticut. who really lives in Connecticut?
Thursday, April 15, 2010
jens lekman music video with rollerskates, directed by drew barrymore
why haven't i blogged about whip it? maybe because i still have it, although i have watched it. i even watched it with a former roller derby girl (derby name: sugarbush), so i had someone to tell me things that i didn't know and probably didn't need to know.
these days i've gotten resucked into the buffyverse (actual buffynerd term) because that show (all 7 seasons!) is streaming instantly on netflix. but a month or so ago, i did watch whip it. and it was okay. there were a lot of jens lekman songs and other good soundtrack stuff. it all had me thinking: i bet drew barrymore makes a pretty mean mix.
but the movie itself was not awesome. all the actors are great but they all seemed kind of flat. kristin wiig was the best and not always in the silliest way. marcia gay harden and the tall guy from city slickers and home alone were ellen page's parents,and they were okay. there was some not-as-funny-as-drop-dead-gorgeous paegant stuff and some not-as-awesome-as-the-warriors rollerskating stuff. i guess a lot of illegal rollerderby moves happen. andrew wilson was alright as the coach. maybe from arrested development (maebe?) was okay as the best friend. juliet lewis was an excellent mean girl, but where her character came from was confusing. oh, but she has a great speech about how ellen page is this 16 yr old girl just starting at rollerderby and how she (jl) didn't start until she was 30 and ellen page isn't old enough to play and she can go screw. i'm not sure how i feel about jl's agism, 16 yr olds deserve stuff too, but it's a good speech. who else was in it? it seems like everyone. i felt like, how can this not be awesome? such a great cast, good soundtrack, killer sport. oh! i just remembered another great speech. ellen page is dating some rocker boy and she finds out he's philandering and he tries to deny it but she lays into him like, i don't want to care, so i'm not going to, peace out. it was nice.
and yet, it was meh. if this review is meh, i blame whip it.
these days i've gotten resucked into the buffyverse (actual buffynerd term) because that show (all 7 seasons!) is streaming instantly on netflix. but a month or so ago, i did watch whip it. and it was okay. there were a lot of jens lekman songs and other good soundtrack stuff. it all had me thinking: i bet drew barrymore makes a pretty mean mix.
but the movie itself was not awesome. all the actors are great but they all seemed kind of flat. kristin wiig was the best and not always in the silliest way. marcia gay harden and the tall guy from city slickers and home alone were ellen page's parents,and they were okay. there was some not-as-funny-as-drop-dead-gorgeous paegant stuff and some not-as-awesome-as-the-warriors rollerskating stuff. i guess a lot of illegal rollerderby moves happen. andrew wilson was alright as the coach. maybe from arrested development (maebe?) was okay as the best friend. juliet lewis was an excellent mean girl, but where her character came from was confusing. oh, but she has a great speech about how ellen page is this 16 yr old girl just starting at rollerderby and how she (jl) didn't start until she was 30 and ellen page isn't old enough to play and she can go screw. i'm not sure how i feel about jl's agism, 16 yr olds deserve stuff too, but it's a good speech. who else was in it? it seems like everyone. i felt like, how can this not be awesome? such a great cast, good soundtrack, killer sport. oh! i just remembered another great speech. ellen page is dating some rocker boy and she finds out he's philandering and he tries to deny it but she lays into him like, i don't want to care, so i'm not going to, peace out. it was nice.
and yet, it was meh. if this review is meh, i blame whip it.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
just great
have you seen tout va bien, the super-marxist godard one with jane fonda? i read this morning on the imdb page that it was released internationally with the title "just great."
the movie starts out with a man and woman voicing a conversation about what the movie should be about: a man and a woman, they love each other, but things go sour, and what else? a class struggle? some social criticism? all this over footage of a hand signing checks for all the mundane expenses of filmmaking: electricians, wardrobes, etc. and then it starts but i can't remember how.
there's a strike at a gross meat factory. jane fonda is a reporter so she goes to interview people and her has-been filmmaker husband tags a long. but they get held hostage with the boss, who workers locked up in his office. the union shop steward is mad because the workers messed with a foreman, who is also in the union, and that the workers' behavior is messing up negotiations between the union and the factory for better conditions, pay, etc. but the workers don't want to hear it anymore! they're sick of limited 5 minute bathroom breaks and getting groped by the foreman! there's some great equality stuff that comes up too. a woman calls her husband to tell him she needs to stay at the factory to strike, and you only hear her part but you can tell that he's giving her crap about not coming home to make him dinner, but then she lays out that when he had a strike she took care of the kids and stuff without complaining, and he must've understood cos the call ends amicably. they hold the factory for 5 days and then it seems like nothing much happens. we see more violence, jane fonda and her husband fighting, some discussion of the intellectual's place in the class struggle. what?
a lot of it is people as types (union guy, boss, worker, woman, man, reporter, director, etc) explaining their position or version of events directly into the camera. there's lots of talk of leftists and marxists. one thing that comes up a lot is "i can't explain" or "he didn't explain it right," a lot of people have problems with explaining or explanations.
there's also some great back and forth pan shots, one of a cross section of the factory, like the boat-cut-in-half scene in life aquatic, and another of a supermarket that troublemaker revolutionary students take over. the movie takes place in 1972, with jane fonda (wasn't she all about anti-war? i've totally seen an old as dirt car here that has a bumper sticker that says "screw jane fonda") and the student/worker freakouts in france in 1968 are talked about a lot, too, like that people are still frustrated.
there's a lot of blue, white and red, too. and painting over pictures. while they're holding the factory hostage, the workers paint the whole interior blue. whenever i see blue in a french movie, i think "liberty!" because of kieslowski.
just great is just right, i think, for a title.
the movie starts out with a man and woman voicing a conversation about what the movie should be about: a man and a woman, they love each other, but things go sour, and what else? a class struggle? some social criticism? all this over footage of a hand signing checks for all the mundane expenses of filmmaking: electricians, wardrobes, etc. and then it starts but i can't remember how.
there's a strike at a gross meat factory. jane fonda is a reporter so she goes to interview people and her has-been filmmaker husband tags a long. but they get held hostage with the boss, who workers locked up in his office. the union shop steward is mad because the workers messed with a foreman, who is also in the union, and that the workers' behavior is messing up negotiations between the union and the factory for better conditions, pay, etc. but the workers don't want to hear it anymore! they're sick of limited 5 minute bathroom breaks and getting groped by the foreman! there's some great equality stuff that comes up too. a woman calls her husband to tell him she needs to stay at the factory to strike, and you only hear her part but you can tell that he's giving her crap about not coming home to make him dinner, but then she lays out that when he had a strike she took care of the kids and stuff without complaining, and he must've understood cos the call ends amicably. they hold the factory for 5 days and then it seems like nothing much happens. we see more violence, jane fonda and her husband fighting, some discussion of the intellectual's place in the class struggle. what?
a lot of it is people as types (union guy, boss, worker, woman, man, reporter, director, etc) explaining their position or version of events directly into the camera. there's lots of talk of leftists and marxists. one thing that comes up a lot is "i can't explain" or "he didn't explain it right," a lot of people have problems with explaining or explanations.
there's also some great back and forth pan shots, one of a cross section of the factory, like the boat-cut-in-half scene in life aquatic, and another of a supermarket that troublemaker revolutionary students take over. the movie takes place in 1972, with jane fonda (wasn't she all about anti-war? i've totally seen an old as dirt car here that has a bumper sticker that says "screw jane fonda") and the student/worker freakouts in france in 1968 are talked about a lot, too, like that people are still frustrated.
there's a lot of blue, white and red, too. and painting over pictures. while they're holding the factory hostage, the workers paint the whole interior blue. whenever i see blue in a french movie, i think "liberty!" because of kieslowski.
just great is just right, i think, for a title.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
you're the boss
I watched Happy-Go-Lucky this morning. What a turnaround, huh?
It made a good breakfast movie because there's a lot in it.
Like, is this woman totally daft? (british slang, right?)
Is this woman totally needy and desperate for attention and that's why she's so annoying to everyone? Gosh, she was so annoying! She kind of drove me crazy (haha pun) in the driving lessons, like was she there to learn to drive or was she there to make silly jokes that the stalker-racist-instructor would get mad about?
Is she trying to show the world niceness is it and she's strong enough to set an example even though people are crappy/creepy sometimes?
To be honest I hated the character (even though she looks like pj harvey, kind of, and dressed cute in a funny way) and the movie for the first 45 mins, with the high point of hatred being the after-club-drunk-girl-circle. So gross! Am I a misogynist? Did Mike Leigh mean for that to be awful?
At some point, I started liking the movie. Maybe it was the roommates talking about books and making masks out of paper bags and talking about being teachers. That was neat. Then I felt like, oh this woman is 30 but people think she's younger because she hasn't had her card punched with marriage, kids, mortages etc (oh! that scene at her sister's house was pretty great, i love the roommate and the littlest sister and her speech about loving all the parts of her life. i really liked the part where she said it's hard sometimes but that's life or something, then I realized she's not the idiot she seemed in the first scene), she likes to go out and have a fresh one or get silly but she's dedicated to her job, she might be annoying but she's just trying to be nice. So then I stopped hating it. I started really liking it.
Then the stuff with the abused child and the finale with the driving instructor, she really tried with people and ignored the bad in favor of the good or whatever she could appeal to. So, I liked it even though it was frustrating but overall it was a good start to my day.
It made a good breakfast movie because there's a lot in it.
Like, is this woman totally daft? (british slang, right?)
Is this woman totally needy and desperate for attention and that's why she's so annoying to everyone? Gosh, she was so annoying! She kind of drove me crazy (haha pun) in the driving lessons, like was she there to learn to drive or was she there to make silly jokes that the stalker-racist-instructor would get mad about?
Is she trying to show the world niceness is it and she's strong enough to set an example even though people are crappy/creepy sometimes?
To be honest I hated the character (even though she looks like pj harvey, kind of, and dressed cute in a funny way) and the movie for the first 45 mins, with the high point of hatred being the after-club-drunk-girl-circle. So gross! Am I a misogynist? Did Mike Leigh mean for that to be awful?
At some point, I started liking the movie. Maybe it was the roommates talking about books and making masks out of paper bags and talking about being teachers. That was neat. Then I felt like, oh this woman is 30 but people think she's younger because she hasn't had her card punched with marriage, kids, mortages etc (oh! that scene at her sister's house was pretty great, i love the roommate and the littlest sister and her speech about loving all the parts of her life. i really liked the part where she said it's hard sometimes but that's life or something, then I realized she's not the idiot she seemed in the first scene), she likes to go out and have a fresh one or get silly but she's dedicated to her job, she might be annoying but she's just trying to be nice. So then I stopped hating it. I started really liking it.
Then the stuff with the abused child and the finale with the driving instructor, she really tried with people and ignored the bad in favor of the good or whatever she could appeal to. So, I liked it even though it was frustrating but overall it was a good start to my day.
Monday, April 5, 2010
sleepless nights
liz and i watched an education last night, it wasn't great. like, solidly ok. but, i went to sleep at 9:30 because i was super sleepy after my bike ride and then i woke up at 3am and couldn't fall back asleep.
so i watched ball of fire, a 1941 gary copper movie. i've never seen gary copper in movies, but i think he's a totally fox from pictures and he delivered. this movie was pretty basic stuff, but when i see a really good gary copper movie, i'll let you know!
so i watched ball of fire, a 1941 gary copper movie. i've never seen gary copper in movies, but i think he's a totally fox from pictures and he delivered. this movie was pretty basic stuff, but when i see a really good gary copper movie, i'll let you know!
Sunday, April 4, 2010
watch everything
I also watched demetri martin. person. yesterday. i laughed, he's just so cute. and i watched the great buck howard. it was also pretty good. i think tom hanks made it so his son could star in it, but that doesn't make it a bad movie, right?
i'm reading this book called the monstrumologist and the great buck howard reminded me of the book. they are both about older, obsessed, not very nice bosses and their young assistants. it makes me think about admiring someone without liking them. i think that's a hard truth to learn.
i'm reading this book called the monstrumologist and the great buck howard reminded me of the book. they are both about older, obsessed, not very nice bosses and their young assistants. it makes me think about admiring someone without liking them. i think that's a hard truth to learn.
is happy annoying?
have you seen happy-go-lucky? it's on instant and i'm really into that these days. i watched two movies last night, cuz i'm avoiding school work, my sister went to bed and i don't have anyone to go out with on saturday night.
so, happy-go-luck is about this elementary school teacher in london who's always happy and smilely. she lives with her best friend zoe, wears totally crazy outfits and is just good and taking everything in stride. she starts taking driving lessons when her bike is stolen and the driving instructor is really grumpy and a little crazy.
it's marked as a comedy and i was sure she was going to find out that the driving instructor is really cool deep down inside and she was going to fall in love. she takes flaminco lessons with a friend and i thought he would be there. spoiler? you haven't told me if you're ok with spoilers.
anyway, it's a mike leigh movie. we had a mike leigh section at the video store and people loved him, but he always seemed too serious for me, although i love write/directors. i've only seen topsy-turvy, but that's cuz i love gilbert and sullivan.
mostly it's a movie about her life. she has this really amazing fight with her sisters, really realistic and interesting to see. and, she's just a good person. she's happy-go-lucky, but very serious and loving.
and, there's this part in the end where the driving instructor asks if this guy was her boyfriend and she doesn't answer. i never know when not to answer. i would have just answered, but i guess not answering was the right thing to do. have you help me with this please?
so, happy-go-luck is about this elementary school teacher in london who's always happy and smilely. she lives with her best friend zoe, wears totally crazy outfits and is just good and taking everything in stride. she starts taking driving lessons when her bike is stolen and the driving instructor is really grumpy and a little crazy.
it's marked as a comedy and i was sure she was going to find out that the driving instructor is really cool deep down inside and she was going to fall in love. she takes flaminco lessons with a friend and i thought he would be there. spoiler? you haven't told me if you're ok with spoilers.
anyway, it's a mike leigh movie. we had a mike leigh section at the video store and people loved him, but he always seemed too serious for me, although i love write/directors. i've only seen topsy-turvy, but that's cuz i love gilbert and sullivan.
mostly it's a movie about her life. she has this really amazing fight with her sisters, really realistic and interesting to see. and, she's just a good person. she's happy-go-lucky, but very serious and loving.
and, there's this part in the end where the driving instructor asks if this guy was her boyfriend and she doesn't answer. i never know when not to answer. i would have just answered, but i guess not answering was the right thing to do. have you help me with this please?
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