single forever

so, a single man really is a beautiful movie and colin forth is just perfect in it. he's looking strong and handsome, i just love it. it's painfully sad, but i didn't cry. i usually only guy when things are really happy and this one doesn't get there. the flashbacks of love are really prefect and movie. and julianne moore all drunk and unhappy is wonderful. the previews make her seem crazy and in denial, but i thought she was more drunk and lonely. and who doesn't feel like that sometimes?

tom ford really knows how to make men hot and shirtless and the 60s really look smooth and inviting. it's a great meditation on loss and love.

now i'll stop calling her temperence brennen

so, the HBO movie temple grandin was totally amazing and i was crying better much the whole time because she's so amazing and her actions and thought are so powerful. you know about her, right? autism and killing cows? either before or after you watch the hbo movie, you should really watch some clips of temple grandin explaining things. she's so amazing, but so autistic, you know. seriously cried the whole time.

clarie danes is really doing something right. i guess i never disliked her, but she was really great in this and me and orsen wells. i like that she's older and less vacant.

hot tubbing

so, the preview for hot tub time machine totally sold me on it and i laughed. but, mostly at the beginning. sometimes i think comedies like that just can't go the distance because they have too much of a plot and there is more plot and less jokes at the end, which is never good.

the jokes in this one were mostly of the poop variety, which is just fine with me. that black guy from the office is really funny. the best thing in the movie, for sure.

repo faster

so, i was out for drinks with my other student teachers yesterday and we were talking about movies and i was saying that melissa should just watch the first 30 minutes of the assassination of jessie james in fast forward because it's really slow but the ending is good. and i couldn't remember a movie liz and i had done that with that was totally good because the ending was important and kind of amazing.

so, liz just taught me how to see what movies we got from netflix and it was repo men. that movie was alright, but it was slowish and liz had to go to bed, so i just started fast forwarding, but the ending is this real kicked ass hard core. and, kind of crushed my soul.

why not me and orsen wells?

so, i got the movie me and orsen wells because the preview looked cute, i love orsen wells and i love zak efron. and, it's deliveried. it's set during the week before orsen stages caesar. it's his first broadway play and it's his theater, the mercury, of course, and things are crazy. zak comes along as a high schooler looking to belong.

it's directed by richard linklater, which i didn't know but totally makes sense because it's nice and funny and understated. i really liked because because orsen wells really came off as a genius. it's about how's he's a womanizing dick, but he really does have everything under control all the time and has read everything and remembers everything and knows everything. basically, i want to be orsen wells, and not just because he's sexy while 20 pounds overweight.

oh, and clare danes has never been so good. i think she's finally growing up and not hard to watch.

date night every night

tina fey has really come into her own and i just love it. i really laughed during date night. it's nice because the good parts aren't all shown in the preview. it got a little dumb with the stripping silliness (no one would think that was hot) but otherwise it was totally great.

i love markie mark without his shirt on and i love to laugh, so i was totally set.

i see the losers sequel already

sometimes i want to watch everything. visiting aram last weekend reminded me that some people watch foreign films or good films, and i pretty much watch trash. but, sometimes it's really great and it's hard to know.

i got the losers because it looked like an action movie i'd like. i didn't even know it had denny from grey's anatomy (and the weed's dead husband) in it. and, he didn't die, which is pretty amazing.

mostly, it's about a special military unit who should have been in a helicopter with a bunch of kids when it exploded, but they weren't. so, they go out to find the guy who ordered them killed and kill him and clear their names and come back from the dead.

it's smooth and funny and stringer bell's in it with a wicked scar. the villian was pretty weak, but he'll be in the sequel too, i'm sure.

chris evans was in it. he's like the new paul walker. he's the white, young, action star that is totally forgettable. he was in this pretty cool action movie push and he was an ex in scott pilgrim. he's everywhere and then forgotten.

all graphic novels, all the time

ok, so i'm working on blogging, here goes. scott pilgrim vs the world was totally amazing. everyone's famous in it, at least all of the boys and some of the girls. it has it all. i didn't know much about it when i went to see it and i don't want to tell you too much. have you read the books? i haven't.

kiran culkin plays a sarcastic gay the way only a culkin can i just love him for it. michael cera is the best actor in his 20s out there, for sure. there's girl named knives chan and she's totally perfect. i couldn't figure out if it's supposed to be set in the 90s or if that's just canada. there are two bands in it and they're both really great.

mostly, it's about how you have to work through all the bullshit past in relationships and fight for love. only in this movie, the exes are actually trying to kill you. and, one of her exes is a famous actor now and it was funny because they dated in eighth grade before he became a famous tool.

it was great to see it in theaters because it's loud and colorful and action packed and that stuff has to be on the big screen.

liz liked it because it's clearly not real life, which is nice because movies don't have to be real.

Cigarettes will kill you

Remember Ben Lee? He was that superyoung cute kind of twee singer songwriter from Australia, from the 90s? I saw the first few minutes of a new-ish movie he is in. He's older and less cute or maybe that's just the movie. So, the story is he's a senior in high school who gets beat up for being gay and he has hippie new age parents. He catches his mom going down on a lady. His dad is not susceptible to anger. His best friend is a nerdy girl who is totally hot. There's a film contest at the school and a cash prize for the person who makes the sunniest film about the school. He makes a ringer called Life is Super Dooper, and it's cute and has appearances by people smiling and talking about how great the school is. So he wins. Then there's a screening and he switches the winner for another version, same title, but it's all hidden camera footage of teachers talking about trying to sleep with students or wanting to kill them and how upset his dad was that his mom went a little lezo. Then he decides to get an office job? None of it really makes any sense. I fell asleep about 30 minutes in. It's called The Rage of Placid Lake and his name is Placid Lake. I guess at the end he gets weird again and everything is cool. It was not that great of a movie.

The Dame with the Great Get Away Sticks

My laptop is broken. Well, I'm not really sure if it's completely broken, but maybe the keyboard and mousepad won't work. I'm putting it away for a little while, I was too addicted anyway, and I've been reading more books which is making me less stressed out. This is why I don't take those moving floor things in airports. Sometimes you need to go slow. Of course, I never have anything too heavy to carry. I'm throwing stones from a glass library. I should probably also suspend my Netflix account. This means I'll be watching more DVD's and will be at the mercy of collection of whatever library I happen to be working at that day. I'm going to have to start requesting TV DVDs now. Starting with Ms. Mars.

Speaking of, this is a great show. Thank you for telling me over and over again to watch it. You were right. There are great cultural references and I wish there were more. She and her father did this whole bit where they talk like detectives from the 1930s and it was awesome. I like her friends and how people have flaws. I love the actress who plays her dead best friend. I got really psyched when she showed up as a hallucination to her brother and as a ghost to VM. I'm totally grossed out that VM might be a Kane, so don't tell me how that plays out. And, seriously, who killed Lily Kane? Okay, don't tell me that either.

I love Veronica Mars. One issue I take with it is that she changed superficially a lot when she eschewed or was eschewed by the popular kids. I like that Buffy stays the same, like wears cheesy girl clothes and stuff. But I like VM's new hair better than her bad wig from the popular days, so, really, what am I complaining for?