Mkay
so, there wasn't really anything terribly unique about this movie that made me want watch it. No director that I loved, no actors I thought was great, no outstanding reviews.
What made me want to watch it was the plot I guess…and not even that it was distinct or anything I just felt…I dunno how to explain :P
The film is about a girl whose life is just shit, her dad left, her mum is terrible, her younger sister is suicidal. Then, her English teacher kinda opens her up to the world of poetry and apparently she is really talented.
Long story short, the English teacher ends up taking advantage of her (although she somewhat initiated it :/ which was fucked) and basically just ends up fucking with her already fucked life…
as I said, nothing outstanding, just a plot that hit home....ish
For a really long time I’ve had issues with teachers.
Most of you know what I’m talking about…especially inside the school, news travels fucking fast.
Some of you were there afterward, one of you were there with me at the time…
But I lost A LOT of people that I really cared about. All because of that fucking asshole of a teacher…fuck. All because he decided he wanted to feel superior…rip my fucking soul out and just hand it out to the fucking class thank you very much.
What the fuck, I mean, I can deal with the humiliation…I could deal with the fact that he publicly told me how disgusting I was, telling me about God and shit (which luckily didn’t affect me, but I can only imagine if I was religious) and let the whole class in on something that even I wasn’t grasping at the time.
What I couldn’t deal with is how I was totally alienated from there on. One of my favourite teachers from elementary school refused to speak with me…and when he had to, he never looked me in the eye.
It’s a topic that my friends know to avoid because I can just go on an hour long rant. What I don’t understand is how the fuck some of these people are allowed to become teachers!?!
I mean this guy wasn’t as obvious…I trusted him, a lot of people really liked him, but that just made it worse.
But what pisses me off is when it is SO obvious.
Woodshop teacher. Yah…obviously perverted. And anyone who went to my elementary school knows EXACTLY what I’m talking about. Don’t know how he made it that far in his career. Sure enough, by the second day of class he slapped my fucking ass…yah, along with at least two other girls that I talked to in class. Well…obviously from the incident above, I’m out to slaughter these fucking teachers. Cops are there next day and he’s in jail now. Another great experience with a perfectly reliable teacher right?
Oh, did I mention that my senior kindergarten teacher was also arrested for child molestation two years after I had him as a teacher? No? well…he was.
It’s disgusting and it’s pathetic and it pisses me off.
I can honestly say that I’ve had…probably two teachers in my life that I will actually have a conversation about anything other than school with. Other than that…fuck em. Seriously.
I feel like, from past experiences, saying anything other than ‘Hey, I don’t understand how to do question 6’ will come back and bite me in the fucking ass. So…I’m fnished with them. :)
Wowww…that actually felt really good!
Haha, the thought of blogging about anything personal has always turned me off…but its fun to bitch, that’s what I do best.
Everything aside…as a movie it would get:
5/10
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
The Departed
I thought it was a pretty decent film. I read that it was based off another film ‘Internal Affairs’, a Hong Kong movie or something? and might want to check that one out too.
The plot was okay, decent...nothing special or unexpected really…. I mean, I don’t think…
Basically you got two cops…one is undercover for the good guys, one is undercover for the bad guys.
I liked the ending ish...I won't say exactly what happened in case someone wants to see it, but I really wasn't expecting what happened when the elevator door opened. It surprised me at first…but then the more I thought about it mehh…it lost its appeal.
Uhm, this is another one with Leo...huh, I've been watching a lot with him in it lately (I’ve seen Shutter Island, Revolutionary Road, and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape all within the past week). I really liked him in it, I thought his acting was good, and he is incredibly good looking to boot. And Jack Nicholson!! He was old and fat lol! (I’ve also very recently seen him in ‘The Shining’ and ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest’) Once I got over that, I really liked him too, the perfect asshole. I think that’s how a total dick is supposed to be played. I think the assholes always come off too full of themselves and it just turns me off.
Now, negative aspects of the film, some of the situations just seemed a little bit too far-fetched. I know its Hollywood; I know it’s a movie blah blah blah. I always keep that in mind, but this went a bit over that.
I hate Matt Damon. That’s it. I think he's a terrible actor in the first place, and I thought his character was pretty one dimensional. I think that’s all the acknowledgment that guy deserves, I really despise him. Same with Mark Wahlberg…oh man, after I saw The Happening, I can never look at him the same again. I never thought he was a good actor…but that movie…fuck.
Also, believe it or not, all the 'fucks' just desensitized me to the word, and then when it could have really made an impact...it didn’t.
Uhm...also the love triangle between the two guys and the shrink...what really was the point of that? I’m probably just being really thick, but in the beginning the way they played it up, I expected it to be really significant later on…and it just wasn’t…I don’t think.
7/10
The plot was okay, decent...nothing special or unexpected really…. I mean, I don’t think…
Basically you got two cops…one is undercover for the good guys, one is undercover for the bad guys.
I liked the ending ish...I won't say exactly what happened in case someone wants to see it, but I really wasn't expecting what happened when the elevator door opened. It surprised me at first…but then the more I thought about it mehh…it lost its appeal.
Uhm, this is another one with Leo...huh, I've been watching a lot with him in it lately (I’ve seen Shutter Island, Revolutionary Road, and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape all within the past week). I really liked him in it, I thought his acting was good, and he is incredibly good looking to boot. And Jack Nicholson!! He was old and fat lol! (I’ve also very recently seen him in ‘The Shining’ and ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest’) Once I got over that, I really liked him too, the perfect asshole. I think that’s how a total dick is supposed to be played. I think the assholes always come off too full of themselves and it just turns me off.
Now, negative aspects of the film, some of the situations just seemed a little bit too far-fetched. I know its Hollywood; I know it’s a movie blah blah blah. I always keep that in mind, but this went a bit over that.
I hate Matt Damon. That’s it. I think he's a terrible actor in the first place, and I thought his character was pretty one dimensional. I think that’s all the acknowledgment that guy deserves, I really despise him. Same with Mark Wahlberg…oh man, after I saw The Happening, I can never look at him the same again. I never thought he was a good actor…but that movie…fuck.
Also, believe it or not, all the 'fucks' just desensitized me to the word, and then when it could have really made an impact...it didn’t.
Uhm...also the love triangle between the two guys and the shrink...what really was the point of that? I’m probably just being really thick, but in the beginning the way they played it up, I expected it to be really significant later on…and it just wasn’t…I don’t think.
7/10
Monday, March 29, 2010
Jacob's Ladder
Mkay. So, basically, this is about a soldier, Jacob, who was in the Vietnam war. The movie starts out in the middle of the war, they're under attack, then suddenly flashes to after the war. Now, after the war, Jacob is seeing all these creepy people and voices and shit, and he's kinda on a mission to figure what the fuck is going on.
I think this is one of these movies where you either love it or you hate it. I mean, I wouldn’t really know…no one I know personally has seen it, so I haven’t been able to talk it out with people, but I get the feeling that some people would just totally give up on it. It’s definitely not for people who are looking for a movie that serves you the answers on a platter…it brings up question after question. And when it finally seems like your getting your questions answered, BAM they get you with the big ‘What the fuck!?’.
Anyway, Tim Robbins plays the main character. I think he's a strange guy lol...Ever since seeing Shawshank Redemption, I just think he’s really funny looking! And it was honestly hard for me to get past that, it was so strange.
I didn't think that the acting was great...but the plot made up for it, it really did.
I think my favourite character was Louis the chiropractor!! He had some of the best lines. Amoung my favourite: "Eckhart saw Hell too. He said: The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you, he said. They're freeing your soul. So, if you're frightened of dying and... and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth"
Most of the film is dark...and it gets darker as it goes on (I feed off of this stuff in case you haven't noticed lol) BUT you get the dark and gory feel without an excess of actual gore. Then, when they do throw a bit of gore in, the impact is much more intense.
Usually, I would have hated the way this film ended...I won't go into great detail...because doing so would totally ruin what I love about this movie, and would be beyond unfair. BUT Jacob's Ladder actually pulled it off.
It made me feel content with an ending that I usually hate, because it just fit, and they made it work.
I dunno. I loved it though.
9/10
I think this is one of these movies where you either love it or you hate it. I mean, I wouldn’t really know…no one I know personally has seen it, so I haven’t been able to talk it out with people, but I get the feeling that some people would just totally give up on it. It’s definitely not for people who are looking for a movie that serves you the answers on a platter…it brings up question after question. And when it finally seems like your getting your questions answered, BAM they get you with the big ‘What the fuck!?’.
Anyway, Tim Robbins plays the main character. I think he's a strange guy lol...Ever since seeing Shawshank Redemption, I just think he’s really funny looking! And it was honestly hard for me to get past that, it was so strange.
I didn't think that the acting was great...but the plot made up for it, it really did.
I think my favourite character was Louis the chiropractor!! He had some of the best lines. Amoung my favourite: "Eckhart saw Hell too. He said: The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you, he said. They're freeing your soul. So, if you're frightened of dying and... and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth"
Most of the film is dark...and it gets darker as it goes on (I feed off of this stuff in case you haven't noticed lol) BUT you get the dark and gory feel without an excess of actual gore. Then, when they do throw a bit of gore in, the impact is much more intense.
Usually, I would have hated the way this film ended...I won't go into great detail...because doing so would totally ruin what I love about this movie, and would be beyond unfair. BUT Jacob's Ladder actually pulled it off.
It made me feel content with an ending that I usually hate, because it just fit, and they made it work.
I dunno. I loved it though.
9/10
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Blue Velvet
I really enjoyed this movie...I’m starting to become a pretty big David Lynch fan. It’s dark, full of dark humour, it was great.
It starts out with the main character, Jeffery, and he finds an ear lying in the middle of a field. Eventually, he gets all wrapped up in the investigation following the discovery of the ear, and discovers some things about his town I’m sure he found surprising and disturbing :)
My favourite character was night club singer, Dorothy. I just felt like she really developed especially compared to the other female role, Sandy, played by Laura Dern. I just really don’t like Laura Dern, I think she’s a terrible actress. For me, she’s never really brought anything that I haven’t seen before, nothing interesting, nothing. Plus, she sucks ass at crying…Like, really. It’s terrible. The first movie I saw her in was Novocaine I think…which may be why I dislike her so much :P
Okay, on to something else I really loved. The scene where the cameras slowly zooming in towards the grass, then it takes us into the dirt and there’s all bugs and shit. Yes, I’m aware I do the scene no justice. I liked the whole introduction into a dirty sketchy kinda world underneath everything else that is seemingly perfect.
I also thought it was really neat. When the main character found the ear in the field and we were taken on this eerie trip like through…into the ear. And I totally didn’t even notice (shame on me) that the camera never came back out…until the very end of the film, when all is well, and we get the same journey except out of the ear.
Something I kind of noticed was that when a scene was kind of portraying innocence, that kinda thing, the dialogue and everything seemed really cheesy, and dumbed down kinda, and when the darkness was added back into the film everything seemed to improve. I don’t know if that was on purpose…I mean, I got the feel that it was, but I could be wrong. I thought it was neat anyway.
The music and sounds were fantastic, and the contrast between the black and white and colours, most notably the red curtains that kept popping up, were incredible.
Would recommend it for sure!
Although, with saying that, there is some nudity/sex/rape etc…just wanna put that out there.
8.5/10
It starts out with the main character, Jeffery, and he finds an ear lying in the middle of a field. Eventually, he gets all wrapped up in the investigation following the discovery of the ear, and discovers some things about his town I’m sure he found surprising and disturbing :)
My favourite character was night club singer, Dorothy. I just felt like she really developed especially compared to the other female role, Sandy, played by Laura Dern. I just really don’t like Laura Dern, I think she’s a terrible actress. For me, she’s never really brought anything that I haven’t seen before, nothing interesting, nothing. Plus, she sucks ass at crying…Like, really. It’s terrible. The first movie I saw her in was Novocaine I think…which may be why I dislike her so much :P
Okay, on to something else I really loved. The scene where the cameras slowly zooming in towards the grass, then it takes us into the dirt and there’s all bugs and shit. Yes, I’m aware I do the scene no justice. I liked the whole introduction into a dirty sketchy kinda world underneath everything else that is seemingly perfect.
I also thought it was really neat. When the main character found the ear in the field and we were taken on this eerie trip like through…into the ear. And I totally didn’t even notice (shame on me) that the camera never came back out…until the very end of the film, when all is well, and we get the same journey except out of the ear.
Something I kind of noticed was that when a scene was kind of portraying innocence, that kinda thing, the dialogue and everything seemed really cheesy, and dumbed down kinda, and when the darkness was added back into the film everything seemed to improve. I don’t know if that was on purpose…I mean, I got the feel that it was, but I could be wrong. I thought it was neat anyway.
The music and sounds were fantastic, and the contrast between the black and white and colours, most notably the red curtains that kept popping up, were incredible.
Would recommend it for sure!
Although, with saying that, there is some nudity/sex/rape etc…just wanna put that out there.
8.5/10
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