I'm categorizing this as a fairy tale/comedy, cause it really kind of was. Obviously not Peter Pan fairy tale-like, but there was a little bit of that element to it. Or at least I thought so. It was a little weird to get past the fact that there's a sex doll as one of the main characters (or at least the main topic). But once I got past that, this movie had some sweet moments.

I don't know, I'm not really sure why everyone is all crazy about this movie. It seemed far too jumbled up. For example, the townspeople not jiving with Bianca and going along with it. Then suddenly they were all okay with her and even taking her out to do stuff without Lars around. I don't know if it was some kind of message I missed, like they were trying to get her away from Lars to help him snap out of it, or if it was genuine. But even if it was genuine, with the flow of the movie, it just really didn't flow well.

I did love the woman who played the doctor. I don't know where I recognize her from, but she's been in a couple of movies I've seen and I like her. I also liked the actress that played Margo. She was really cute! The scene in the beginning of the movie where one of his fellow churchgoers gives him a flower to give to a girl and then Margo says hi and he throws it? I was actually really laughing hard at that.

This was probably the first movie on the list where I was actually pretty disappointed overall and kept watching the clock to see when it would be over. Cause I can't stop the movie, that doesn't work with my rules. I gotta watch the whole thing. Like with August Rush, the great music in it made up for the lackluster story line. There just wasn't enough in this to hold it together.

Tags: fairy tale, comedy

The Break-Up was pretty funny. It's really another movie that I wouldn't search out again, but I would watch it if I happened to catch it on TV.

I did enjoy the fact that this wasn't another romantic comedy where everything worked out in the end. And there were lots of moments where it was very drama filled and I liked that too. I know it didn't do too well in reviews and stuff, but I don't think it was that bad. The only character I really didn't like and I think it was VERY smart to cut a lot of his scenes was Brooke's brother. He was just such a dumb character. I even enjoyed Christopher; it seemed like the writers and the actor that played that role wanted it to be the big funny ridiculous thing. But I liked him so much more.

I loved the scene in the beginning where Gary and his friend were sitting at the Cubs game and his friend was bitching about the guy sitting next to him and how he was sitting. It just made me laugh because I totally related it to sitting at Preds games. That was great.

I think this movie will make any couple watch it and say, Oh yeah, we've had that fight before. I know I definitely felt like that. But, you know, we've never gotten to the point of breaking up, so that's good! But their fights were definitely realistic feeling. Anyway, I did enjoy this movie and I think Jennifer Aniston & Vince Vaughn played these characters really well. And I always love seeing Joey Lauren Adams. She's great and I love when she's in a movie I'm watching. I also like the extras on the DVD. The little tour of Chicago is fun to watch. I think I'm going to watch this movie with the commentary on.

I need to find movies that have really good commentaries. Those are always fun to watch. Anyway, off to watch another movie!

Tags: comedy, relationship

So third on the list is Half Nelson. I really didn't think I'd like this movie, I was just curious to watch it after all the reviews it got when it was out in theaters. But I was surprised and really liked it! In fact, I would go buy this movie. While there's a lot of people that didn't like Lost In Translation, I did, and this movie left me with the same feeling I had with Lost In Translation. This kind of uneasy feeling, but it felt right. This movie also reminded me of it with the way they really used music and the setup of the shots to convey the feeling of the movie. There wasn't a lot of dialogue in the scenes where there was a lot of emotion going on. I really like when that can be pulled off well. Some films try to do that, but it just doesn't work out. But it really did in this movie.

I liked the characters were played in this film too. None of the characters were over the top. They all seemed to be normal people, just living their lives and doing questionable things. But they handled it in a normal way. They all seemed to struggle with the choices they made - but only when someone seemed to "catch" them. If that makes any sense. Which is how I think a lot of people act in real life. Oh and I take back the none of the characters being over the top part. Cause I felt like his parents were a bit over the top. Sure, I know there are people like that in real life, but I don't know. See and I say that, but then I think, well maybe that's why Dan is the way he is. Maybe that's a small part of what made him how he is today. So maybe it's not over the top.

I do think that Ryan Gosling deserved the Oscar nomination for this role, he did really well. I don't know that he should have won for it, I haven't seen The Last King of Scotland (although it is on my list to watch this year), but he definitely deserved the nomination for this. I think everyone in this movie played their characters perfectly. It often felt like I was peering into someone else's life. One that could be really going on somewhere.

Tags: drama

LOL! Wow. So this movie - it's not that I watched this movie in shock or awe. I guess I was dumbfounded. But I still laughed. I mean, come on, if you've seen the show on Adult Swim, you should know that it's pretty much going to be an extended episode where there's going to be more crude humor than they can put on a cable TV show. So if you watch it expecting that and knowing it'll be the show's humor x 10, you'll have nothing to be upset about. Well, that is, if you like the show. Which I do, or at least it makes me giggle enough to enjoy the movie.

The song they play in the beginning about what not to do during the movie? It should totally be played at the beginning of EVERY movie. Or at least until people get the message. Oh! & the opening segment where it said, Billions of Years Ago. Egypt, etc. (I don't want to give away the funny stuff) was hilarious!

All the favorite special characters were there, the famous Boston terrorists Ignignokt & Err and Oglethorpe (my favorite) and Emory. The scene in the hallway with Master Shake yelling at them to get a room was funny.

I think what I enjoyed about this movie was the little lines and moments here and there that made me giggle a lot. & that's what I did, I giggled a lot. Not a lot of laugh out loud worthy moments, but some smattering of laughs and giggles abounded. Meatwad with the teeth, Ignignokt & Err with their gun, the hallway scene I mentioned earlier, Meatwad getting laid, etc. & honestly, that's what makes the show so funny. It's not the overall storylines, it's the few episode characters that pop up and the one liner scenes that happen between Frylock, Meatwad and Master Shake. So the fact that they were able to transfer that into a movie (which is so much longer than their normal 15 minute shows) that pretty much followed the feel of the show? That's not bad at all.

I enjoyed the movie, but again, I enjoy the show. If you don't, you won't enjoy the movie at all. It really was just like an extended episode. Except of course for the fact that they took advantage of their R rating and got to go a little farther with the jokes. Oh and there's definitely no end to the movie. It literally just stops.

Tags: comedy, animation, tv show

Alright so first on the list was 2007's August Rush.

Ok, first things first, apparently the person that writes the blurbs to go on the stickers on the front of the Netflix envelope do not watch the movies they are writing the blurbs about.

I say this because it mentions that August runs into a caring stranger (played by the ever annoying Robin Williams) who helps him develop his musical talents. Okay, first he doesn't help him develop his talents, he just provides a chance for August to get ahold of an instrument & then pimps him out. Second, caring my ASS! Robin William's character was creepy as hell and a jerk! So yeah Netflix. You should probably at least watch the movie before you have someone blurb it for your stickers, not just watch the trailer (cause yeah, in the trailer he does seem like a caring stranger).

ANYWHO, overall it wasn't a bad movie. But it wasn't a great movie. I wouldn't buy it, that's for sure. I probably wouldn't watch it again, unless I was flipping channels and it happened to be on and I couldn't find something else to watch. So it was a lazy Saturday type movie. The ending felt rushed. Like all that build up with Lyla searching and then the end. I just felt like they could have added about 10 more minutes and cut out some parts here and there and a nice explanation would have ended it well.

The kid who played August did a good job - he didn't make his aloof/sincere-ness over the top. It easily could have gone that route. The bullies in the movie though, TOTALLY over the top. I kinda giggled at the beginning when he's in the orphanage. Oh and the girl who meets August in the church was hella cute. I remember when she was playing tennis on the Wii at the Oscars with Jon Stewart. That just makes her more cute.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers did a good job too, I especially liked the scene with him & August in the park. I feel like Keri Russell is trying too hard with her movies lately. Waitress was kind of a letdown, as was this. Like she's trying to get romantic/indy cred. But it's not working. Not that she was bad in this movie, she wasn't. It's just the record she's building up for movies lately seem to lean in that direction. OH! & I KNEW that was Mick St. John from Moonlight on there; I don't know his real name, but I knew that was him!

The music was really good in the movie. I actually went on iTunes and bought two of the songs by Kaki King that August plays on his guitar in the movie. Luckily it never got down to the hokeyness of the Opus that Mr. Holland wrote.

So overall, wouldn't seek out to watch it again, but if there was nothing else on TV and I had nothing better to do I'd probably waste some hours on it.

Next up is either No Country For Old Men or the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie. We'll see which one I get to first.

Tags: romance, fairy tale, music