at least i can sit up without being in pain today. i'm watching the critic's choice awards and started missing my little bloglet. so here's the films i'm glad i saw this year, and these are the ones i must see:
SAW: (not the movie)
wall-e
the curious case of benjy button
doubt
tropic thunder
the dark knight
iron man
MUST:
!!!let the right one in!!!
the wrestler
slumdog millionaire
gran turino (though i guess that's technically 2009)
frost/nixon
the reader
revolutionary road
ghost town
milk
vicky christina barcelona
the wackness
dammit! i thought the ones i'd seen would outnumber the ones i hadn't! i mean, if we count the trash i saw this year (sex and the city, the spirit, twilight, indiana jones) then it's a different story
i like how they introduced common as "common", but ludacris is "chris bridges". you do a piece of trash like CRASH, an underground sensation like hustle and flow, and some episodes of law and order svu, you're too good for your rap name. even though after hundreds of years ice t is still ice t, ice cube is still ice cube, and marky mark is still marky mark. at least in my heart. ice t was there for the roast of flavor flav on comedy central, and i think it was greg giraldo who made my favorite joke of the night, "ice t is so old the first thing he bought after he was signed was his freedom"
aww mclovin and katy perry are presenting best composers and song and they're so damn cute. i just fucking love her clothes. ooo hans zimmer and danny elfman up against each other! but of course slumdog millionaire won. this movie better be amazing or i'm going to be really pissed. man these songs are crap. i hope slumdog wins this one because the rest are trash. ok well bruce springsteen won i guess that's ok. if miley cyrus and child-abuser travolta won i would have shat my pants. o wait i did that like 15 minutes ago not on purpose. i hate being sick.
to clarify, i've never liked creepy scientologist travolta, but when his poor son died of a seizure last week, i decided hate was an appropriate emotion. as you know scientology doesn't condone medication to help people with emotional or psychological problems. i'm going to go out on a limb and assume that since travolta chose to treat his mentally handicapped son as though he had no problems, he also did not medicate him for the condition that eventually killed him. some people are sick.
on a lighter note, marisa tomei looks beautiful. how old is she? i genuinely have no idea.
i was so excited for best supporting actor, and the payoff was worth it. heath won! what a tragedy, cut down in his prime.
i love the minglecam, seeing saint angie and her buttboy go over and kiss clint eastwood made my black little heart smile.
ok i'm downloading a pirated let the right one in hooray. luckily for my sick ass it's a good day of tv (golden globes, the exquisite rock of love bus, desperate housewives?)
i think i want to see notorious in spite of myself. obviously morgan won't go with me because there are a few black actresses she arbitrarily dislikes in it :O) but maybe i can find someone else to come
awww amy adams is so damn cute. yay wall-e won best animated film!
sarah silverman was the funniest presenter, obviously. her dress was damn cute. john adams won? i thought that was supposed to have sucked and recount was supposed to have been great? whatevs.
ok anne hathaway's speech was very cute, but angelina's bitchface during it was comedy gold.
i guess i have to see slumdog millionaire.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Friday, December 26, 2008
so i went and saw three movies in the past three days
twilight: pretty, and pretty damn similar to the book. i was pleased. bella was understated, but i liked her. i mean, come on guys, bella doesn't have much of a personality to begin with, it grows as the books progress. also i realized that none of the other six people in the theatre were fangirls because no one shared my one laugh, at edward's line (obviously in reference to jacob, SPOILER ALERT) about throwing bella to the wolves. obviously rob pattinson was super hot but i thought both jasper and alice were hotter. that's one vampire sandwich i'd love to be the meat in.
the spirit: it was visually arresting but the rest of it found me leaving to go to the bathroom like five times. there are like two plot points, the characters are one dimensional, and scarlett johannson was fucking terrible. and i usually like her.
the curious case of benjamin button: this movie started at 4:25 and i had to leave it at 7 to get to work. i didn't want to because i really liked it, but the damn framing plot with old cate blanchett about to die just reeked of lame. there's some storm coming and her daughter is reading her benjamin's journal or something (as per usual i was about five minutes late) and i just didn't care. after benjamin left the story i bounced (like i said i had to, i don't like missing the end of movies). not like i don't love cate blanchett and she was spectacular in this (i think she's the best actress of her generation. i'd put tilda swinton soon behind and she was a great surprise in this film as well) but it just seemed super out of place. but maybe i missed the establishing shots of it that might have made it seem a better frame for this great story. david fincher, who is great at creepy and weird (se7en, fight club), made a beautiful, touching, longass film that, what else, makes me wish i'd find my next great love.
anyway that's that, the other movies/shows i watched this week were a night at the opera (hilarious, marx brothers classic), raising arizona (superb, coen brothers classic) , three seasons of law and order:svu (i eventually had a dream that i was boning chris meloni and then i had to find him because he disappeared. when i realized that my svu related dreams weren't nightmares, i realized i'd watched too much), metalocalypse season 2 (fucking hilarious obviously), and the first season of twin peaks (i think i already established that i love this. i can't watch it too late at night though after kyle maclachlan's dream with the midget talking backwards in the red room. david lynch throws that fucking midget in everything he does and he terrifies me every time.)
ok now i have to poop
twilight: pretty, and pretty damn similar to the book. i was pleased. bella was understated, but i liked her. i mean, come on guys, bella doesn't have much of a personality to begin with, it grows as the books progress. also i realized that none of the other six people in the theatre were fangirls because no one shared my one laugh, at edward's line (obviously in reference to jacob, SPOILER ALERT) about throwing bella to the wolves. obviously rob pattinson was super hot but i thought both jasper and alice were hotter. that's one vampire sandwich i'd love to be the meat in.
the spirit: it was visually arresting but the rest of it found me leaving to go to the bathroom like five times. there are like two plot points, the characters are one dimensional, and scarlett johannson was fucking terrible. and i usually like her.
the curious case of benjamin button: this movie started at 4:25 and i had to leave it at 7 to get to work. i didn't want to because i really liked it, but the damn framing plot with old cate blanchett about to die just reeked of lame. there's some storm coming and her daughter is reading her benjamin's journal or something (as per usual i was about five minutes late) and i just didn't care. after benjamin left the story i bounced (like i said i had to, i don't like missing the end of movies). not like i don't love cate blanchett and she was spectacular in this (i think she's the best actress of her generation. i'd put tilda swinton soon behind and she was a great surprise in this film as well) but it just seemed super out of place. but maybe i missed the establishing shots of it that might have made it seem a better frame for this great story. david fincher, who is great at creepy and weird (se7en, fight club), made a beautiful, touching, longass film that, what else, makes me wish i'd find my next great love.
anyway that's that, the other movies/shows i watched this week were a night at the opera (hilarious, marx brothers classic), raising arizona (superb, coen brothers classic) , three seasons of law and order:svu (i eventually had a dream that i was boning chris meloni and then i had to find him because he disappeared. when i realized that my svu related dreams weren't nightmares, i realized i'd watched too much), metalocalypse season 2 (fucking hilarious obviously), and the first season of twin peaks (i think i already established that i love this. i can't watch it too late at night though after kyle maclachlan's dream with the midget talking backwards in the red room. david lynch throws that fucking midget in everything he does and he terrifies me every time.)
ok now i have to poop
from morgan's wall
me: NOW hot topic is carrying a harry potter scarf. and i just saw the half-blood prince commercial and it becomes abundantly clear to me that i do not remember the plot of that book whatsoever. when the hell did it come out?i know i read it, because i know who the hbp is, but still...
ilena: it came out the summer before we went to college
me: ok that means i read it at boarding school so there's no way i was high or anything. i totally remember the ending because when i lent the book to the next kid on the list (we only had like three copies among the whole school) i said "get ready to have your heart ripped out!" and ran away crying (keep in mind everyone cried all the time at carlbrook). that's a lot to recall about a book whose plot has entirely escaped me.
ilena: it came out the summer before we went to college
me: ok that means i read it at boarding school so there's no way i was high or anything. i totally remember the ending because when i lent the book to the next kid on the list (we only had like three copies among the whole school) i said "get ready to have your heart ripped out!" and ran away crying (keep in mind everyone cried all the time at carlbrook). that's a lot to recall about a book whose plot has entirely escaped me.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
chelsea and i are bitches
o my god! chelsea handler and i were both teased in school by kids barking at us and calling us a dog
i love her. yay.
i love her. yay.
Monday, December 22, 2008
twin peaks
twin peaks is happening to me right now
it is exquisite
every shot, every change in the music, every person, every line
i'm just entranced and i can't believe i waited so long
i've been waiting for kyle maclachlan, and he did not disappoint, his entry scene, with the noir-y detective music, with voiceover, driving into town, ahhhhh ok i need to stop typing so i can watch
it is exquisite
every shot, every change in the music, every person, every line
i'm just entranced and i can't believe i waited so long
i've been waiting for kyle maclachlan, and he did not disappoint, his entry scene, with the noir-y detective music, with voiceover, driving into town, ahhhhh ok i need to stop typing so i can watch
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
malia!
if you're like my friends and myself, on election night you logically traveled from yelling "yay obama!" to "i love you little jill biden!" to "maliaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
"After a visit to the White House, Malia told her dad that she planned to do her homework at the desk in the Lincoln bedroom because “I’m thinking that will inspire big thoughts”."
-perez hilton today
awwww i love the obamas. they're just swell. and malia is the breakout star of a generation. this little bitch is going to be ruling the world you just wait and see.
"After a visit to the White House, Malia told her dad that she planned to do her homework at the desk in the Lincoln bedroom because “I’m thinking that will inspire big thoughts”."
-perez hilton today
awwww i love the obamas. they're just swell. and malia is the breakout star of a generation. this little bitch is going to be ruling the world you just wait and see.
ok, my adorable and sweet little niece has been playing with the american girl felicity doll i passed down to her and i'm sad to miss it.
my adorable and sweet little dog shat on my floor today. not while i was out at work, but after i walked him after work. at 12:45 am. god dammit. i realize dogs do this shit but what the fuck he's been peeing inside and maybe it's my fault because the walks have been short because it's fucking freezing, but i am a little more willing to snip him day after tomorrow after this bullshit. pun intended. now i'm going to give him a hug because i've calmed down. he looks all penitent, his ears are flat and he's being a pie. o i just can't help spoiling him he's so cute. he just accidentally knocked down half my blinky lights so he ran back in my room to hide. o well.
by the way, toby the dog (from the stanley steemer commercial where he drags his ass on the ground) is about to win hot slut of the month on dlisted. if you haven't voted for this truly amazing dogperson, DO IT!
anyway i started writing poems on napkins at work. maybe when i start drinking again i'll post a couple. my fave is the one about how poetry blows nuts. anyway time for the daily show and my bong and i to have a special moment.
my adorable and sweet little dog shat on my floor today. not while i was out at work, but after i walked him after work. at 12:45 am. god dammit. i realize dogs do this shit but what the fuck he's been peeing inside and maybe it's my fault because the walks have been short because it's fucking freezing, but i am a little more willing to snip him day after tomorrow after this bullshit. pun intended. now i'm going to give him a hug because i've calmed down. he looks all penitent, his ears are flat and he's being a pie. o i just can't help spoiling him he's so cute. he just accidentally knocked down half my blinky lights so he ran back in my room to hide. o well.
by the way, toby the dog (from the stanley steemer commercial where he drags his ass on the ground) is about to win hot slut of the month on dlisted. if you haven't voted for this truly amazing dogperson, DO IT!
anyway i started writing poems on napkins at work. maybe when i start drinking again i'll post a couple. my fave is the one about how poetry blows nuts. anyway time for the daily show and my bong and i to have a special moment.
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