Friday, November 30, 2012

10 Things About Breaking Dawn Part 2:

1. Horribly self indulgent opening credits.
2. Really cheesy and bad for first 30 mins. Cheesy and boring next 50 mins. Pretty alright next 25 mins. Last 10mins cheesy and bad.
2. Acting on Pattinson's and Stewart's consistant through all of the movies. Take that as you would like.
3. Worst CGI decision ever. Ugly baby face.
4. Good casting on foreign vamps.  It's rare you get to see the supporting cast out act the main cast...unless you count every Twilight movie.
5. Lots of fake mountain shots.
6. I'm pro stripping Taylor Lautner.
7. I want a pet werewolf.
8. Best 20 mins of any Twilight movie. Dirty vampire/werewolf fight. Disappointed it wasn't real. They should of just changed the ending of the book.
9. I wish Bella could have at least almost died in this whole mind sharing/future seeing world.
10. Horribly self indulgent end credits. Do we really need to re-credit all those people? Seriously, it's a montage of every speaking role from every movie. Ew.




Sunday, January 8, 2012

New Year's Eve = Uncomfortable


Not going to lie I usually find bad movies perfectly entertaining. I love the smell of other people's failure and laughing at crowds of people buying into stupid stuff. This is why thought New Year's Eve would at least be some fun, but man I was just SO uncomfortable.

Okay, first off I'm pretty sure Garry Marshall didn't really direct anyone. I mean some of these people are good at acting, but man pretty much everyone was really bad. Hillary Swank did win two Oscars... Right?

Just so you know I hardly ever feel bad for people. I know all these people get paid way more money than I ever will, but they whole time I truly felt bad for them. I'm not talking about there characters i'm talking about the actual actors from the "amazing" cast.

So let us begin:

Zac Efron: I think he really tried, unlike other cast members, but trying is not good enough here buddy. I think he was trying to be a little gangsta or something. I'm still confused and its been weeks.

Halle Berry: Like pretty much everyone else she was given horrible dialogue. A my goodness! How do you make one of the prettiest women alive look that bad? I know, you could say they're trying to portray real life people and blah, blah, blah, but they aren't. If your gonna give the her dumbest things to say and the most unrealistic things to do she might as well look pretty.

Jessica Biel, Seth Meyers, Sarah Paulson, and Til Schweiger: Given the worst storyline ever! It had to be from a really bad sitcom episode that was never taped. I mean why? WHY???

Katherine Heigal: Looked fat but not all at the seem time. Also stuck in a dumb storyline.

Jon Bon Jovi: Nice try?

Ashton Kutchor: Actually was just the usual Ashton Kutcher caught in yet another bad sitcom episode. I mean how times do we have to watch people stuck in an elevator?? And with Lea Michele

Lea Michele: I felt bad because I think she was just as excited for being in this movie at Zac Efron was.

Michelle Pfeiffer: She actually gave the best performance and I know she was suppose to be a dumpy old women but man she looked SO bad. This woman used to be a hot chick and you know how those Hollywood ladies get when they start getting old. This was no confidence boast. I mean really you don't have to make her look like my grandmother crawled out of her grave. You only go that ugly for a role if your gonna win something.

Abigail Breslin: Not a cute little girl anymore. Kinda scary looking.

Sarah Jessica Parker and Josh Duhamel: I guess they did ok. I almost forgot they were in it.

Hilary Swank: Horrible dialogue, horrible hair, horrible make-up...

I really don't blame any of these people. I don't think they had any clue what they were getting into. Oh wait. There was Valentines Day... I've never seen it, but I'm sure it was some sort of sign.

So I guess thank you for making me feel bad for a lot of people I never thought I would feel bad for.

I can't believe how money goes into this crap. Give it to me or feed some starving children.

Young Adult.... I think I know that girl?



When I walked out of the theater, after watching Young Adult, I felt bummed out. I'm pretty sure it's because I know that girl, because the
entire time I kept thinking "Oohhh I've been there" and "Oh shit! Could of gone there".

Ok, in noway was I the most popular girl in high school and i'm not half as successful as the pathetic girl Theron plays (counting i'm almost half her age ;)), but watching the girl who loves everyone hating her, feels a little like home. I mean who hasn't tried to steal someones boyfriend or loved being every mothers worst enemy? I guess it's probably a lot of people,
but I did it a couple of times, lucky unlike Mavis Gary I grew out of it.... I think.

Diablo Cody (Writer) takes the girl we all hate, but wanted to be, in high school and shows us her life 20 years later. Jason Reitman did a good job of telling us her story. He takes "that girl" and shows how she never really grew up, because the best time of her life was everybody else's worst. She dwells on the past while the rest of the world was happy to move on. Charlize Theron had this character down perfectly, you hate her sometimes, feel sorry for her sometimes, and then hate yourself for feeling sorry for her.
Patton Oswald plays, Matt, who becomes a mentor, ally and conscious, for the girl who has none, and does amazing. He manages make it completely believable that the least popular boy, who really did get the crap beat out of him, becomes a wise cripple man who becomes the one popular, alcoholic, girl's only true ally.

Other characters in the film did seem a bit one dimensional, it would have been nice if that had more to them but I didn't mind it. It helped keep Mavis isolated and accentuated her inability to grow up. Almost like a cartoon where you never see the parents faces because they are just boring grown ups, and here Mavis is the entertaining, 43 year-old, teenager.

After reading many of the bad reviews for this movie I see they are mostly from men who think it's just about a girl who went to get back her old high school flame. But I definitely understand this girl I saw her in high school and sometimes I was her. It's much more about who she is than what she is doing. It's the girl who just couldn't grow up, because she never needed to and it's a little sad.