#11 - An Education

Me and Tim Approx January 7, 2010

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Directed by: Lone Scherfig

Written by: Lynn Barber (memoir) 

                  Nick Hornby (screenplay)

Starring: Carey Mulligan 

              Peter Sarsgaard 

              Alfred Molina

Plot Synopsis:
An Education is set in the 1960s in a suburb of London. Carey Mulligan plays the mature (read arrogant) 16/17 year old Jenny. She works hard in school and is very bright with a promising future ahead of her. Her parents, especially her father, push her to succeed and lead a better life than they did. Her aspirations are aimed at Oxford. That is until a boy comes along and she throws her whole fucking life away to become his happy little housewife. Peter Sarsgaard is the much older David who swoops into her life all romantic and charming with promises of an exciting life of travel and culture and decadence. So when David proposes to Jenny she decides to give up going to Oxford with her parents blessing, but to the dismay of her teacher. Why would a woman need college when she has a man? Am I right gals? But when Jenny finds out David is made of lies she realizes she might have made a tiny mistake in giving up her dreams.

Review:
I have no idea what kind of person Carey Mulligan is. She's just starting her career and this is the only thing I've seen her in, so for all I know she could be a total hag. But probably not. She's probably a very delightful person and obviously a wonderful actress. She brought so much to the character of Jenny. Who, although arrogant and painfully naive, is so full of life and passion that you only want good things for her. We should all have such ambition and thirst for adventure. That being said, I was happy to see her get her comeuppance and come to her senses. I'm sure everyone dreams of meeting someone more exciting than themselves. Someone who can show them the world. But I think that's because most people are too scared or lazy to discover it on their own.

I'm trying to think of a way to describe this movie. It wasn't sad or shocking or even educational (Do you see what I did there? I'm so clever.). I'm going to say it was romantic. I don't mean that in the kind of romantic things that happen between two people sense. I mean romantic like the ideas and hopes and views of one person. Someone who has beautiful daydreams and believes in love. Jenny is a very romantic character who wants so much to experience life.

I'm just rambling about nothing really, aren't I? I assure you that a lot happened in this movie and it was very entertaining and the characters were all very interesting and I think you should see it. I really enjoyed it. 

#10 - Broken Flowers

I watched this on January 7, 2010 all sad and alone.

I know I haven't been updating. I also know no one cares. But this isn't for you it's for me. I am determined to force myself to do this. I know it's silly and seemingly pointless but I really want to have the discipline to actually finish all the millions of stupid projects I start. Me doing this has nothing to do with movies. It's a way to get me to write and think and be productive and not fall victim to laziness and I just can't seem to maintain a normal blog. Okay momentary neurosis over. Sorry about that.

 

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Directed by: Jim Jarmusch

Written by: Jim Jarmusch

Starring: Bill Murray
              Julie Delpy
              Jeffrey Wright

Plot Synopsis:
Bill Murray is a man-whore who finds out he has a bastard son. His girlfriend Julie Deply leaves him and as he's wallowing in his own self-righteous-patheticness he gets a mysterious pink letter from a former lover telling him he knocked her up and now their 19 year old son is trying to find out who his father is. With the help of his wacky neighbor, Jeffrey Wright, he attempts to find out who sent the letter. Murray aka Don Johnson goes on a quest to visit 4 of his old girlfriends and potential letter writers. Each one being more eccentric than the last. All of this fucks with his brain and he ends up going crazy. Okay I embellished a little there, but it does have a very awkward ending that makes him out to be sad and creepy.

Review:
It was aight. I love all the actors in it so I enjoyed it. The story was okay..... I don't know. It was kinda a little too goofy at some parts. Maybe goofy isn't the right word - Zany? Tilda Swinton looked fucking gorgeous. I would have liked more of her. I think maybe I didn't get this movie. If there was a point I missed it. Murray's character doesn't really grow or change or discover anything about himself. In the end he's just as sad and narcissistic as he was in the beginning. The only person that acts like a real person is the boy at the end. None of the other characters are believable which sort of leads me to believe that the crazy of these women is all just Don Johnson's fucked up version of them. Maybe that's why this woman never wanted her son to meet his insane father. Maybe there is no son at all. Maybe I'm reading too much into it and I should just take it at face value. Who fucking knows? Like I said it was aight.

#9 The Core

I (sort of) watched this on January 6, 2010. I wasn't paying much attention because I was painting, I think, so I just had it on in the background. There is something you should know about me, I love bad movies. Bad movies are my guilty pleasure. It can't be any bad movie though it has to be the right kind of bad movie. Movies like Armageddon or  Cellular or The Core. So I guess mainly action movies that are suppose to be good but are hilariously bad. 

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Directed by: Jon Amiel

Written by: Cooper Layne

                 John Rogers

Starring: Aaron Eckhart

             Hilary Swank 

             Delroy Lindo 

             Stanley Tucci

Plot Synopsis: Okay so let me just write the things I remember off the top of my head without looking up the summary on imdb. A bunch of birds start smacking into buildings and cars and people. (This is the best part of the movie.) Then some monuments get destroyed by earthquakes? This is due to the Earth's core and it's lack of spinage. So some rouge scientist who specializes in something puts all the pieces together and contacts some government people or something. They put together a ragtag team of badasses to go on some outlandish mission to save the Earth. Their plan is to nuke the Earth's core to get it spinning again and Hillary Swank is there for some reason.

Review: This is a bad movie. It's terrible. It's like a bad Armageddon and Armageddon was bad. (Armageddon is the perfect bad movie by the way). I wasn't paying much attention so I don't remember the extent of the bad. But I'm sure it's boring and tedious. I like the parts where it tries to be emotional cause it's kind of embarrassing which makes it funny. Or the parts where it tries to be funny because it's cheesy which makes it funny. There isn't much to say. This is a bad movie and unless you're a masochistic bad movie perv like me there is no reason to watch it.