I was kind of drunk last night when I posted! For that I apologize. But I could go on and on about how satisfying Chronicle was and I can't wait to see it again. I am watching Bridesmaids now and am thinking about 2 things. One is that I cannot believe two of my most randomly favorite songs from when I was a kid are used in the movie. I got picked on in elementary school but was oblivious to it back then for liking Hold On by Wilson Phillips and That's What Friends Are For, sung at King's Island Karaoke and recorded on tape by my sister and her friend Whitney....I adore their version and wish I could find it!!!
But the other thing that I cannot stop thinking about is that Kristen Wiig got snubbed this year. I laughed like a hyena at her shenanigans on the plane when she was xanaxed!!! It was scene stealing when she and ROse Byrne who plays Helen are trying to get the cop's attention....Mellisa Mccarthy was brilliant at silly! I love that a woman got nominated for an academy award in a silly comedic performance, but, Kristen Wiig brought an extra level of depth...at times she was brilliantly hysterical and at other times she was relatable!!! She is one of those actresses who works her ass off, pardon the language but sometimes it is necessary to add a much needed spark of enthusiasm...Kristen Wiig is a chamelion like Meryl Streep and Cate Blanchett are and I look forward to what I have complete faith in to be an amazing future career in the bizzz!!!! Kristen Wiig wins my oscar this year!!!!!
These are the characters you should look up on hulu for a good laugh..... Kristen Wiig---Penelope, GILLY, Target Lady, Surprise Lady, ummm I forget, but there are many more that should do their job and make you lyao!!!
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
Drunken Rambling and Raving
Sooo I have lost a ton of notes about a neww review of the movie Wall E !!! Which I love, but, I cannot write a review of ubtil I find my notes or watch it again!!!
But, I just saw a new movie, It's called Chronicle. It's A found footage movie and is one of the better movies I have seen in 2011-12. If it was brought to theaters in 11' I would put it into my top 10 list because of one thing I wasn't expecting. It was DEEP!!!! The movie withought going into spoilers,(surprsie twists) is about a teen who is bullied in school, and at home with an abused and therefore abusive family, (the dad is angry that the mom has an illness, so he takes out his anger with the help of alcohol on the son) and who discovers some super hero powers and takes this power to the extreme. The movie is brilliant!!! It completely tskes it's time to establish character development in order to provide the utmost effective storytelling. The best friend/cousin who shares this power sees danger in the progression of power his "family" is achieving as weakness brought on by anger..... therefor the moral of this story is tooooo much power can be very dangerous!!! Because it leads to destroying human lives and a complete loss of humanit... the other message is that when a person is brutalized sooo much so that they become vengeful towards humanity,,, they lash out on their anger 10 FOLD and want the attackers to feel their PAIN and this can destroy an innocent civilization in it's most populated...... the mesage is about anti-bullyism... and anti-war/terrorism,,,,,,human beings who illegitimately, and inhumanely justify "WAR"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SEE THIS MOVIE!!!! It's serious and if you ever find yourself laughing at the wrong moment, it only proves you a true ignoramusssss!!!!!!!!!!!
But, I just saw a new movie, It's called Chronicle. It's A found footage movie and is one of the better movies I have seen in 2011-12. If it was brought to theaters in 11' I would put it into my top 10 list because of one thing I wasn't expecting. It was DEEP!!!! The movie withought going into spoilers,(surprsie twists) is about a teen who is bullied in school, and at home with an abused and therefore abusive family, (the dad is angry that the mom has an illness, so he takes out his anger with the help of alcohol on the son) and who discovers some super hero powers and takes this power to the extreme. The movie is brilliant!!! It completely tskes it's time to establish character development in order to provide the utmost effective storytelling. The best friend/cousin who shares this power sees danger in the progression of power his "family" is achieving as weakness brought on by anger..... therefor the moral of this story is tooooo much power can be very dangerous!!! Because it leads to destroying human lives and a complete loss of humanit... the other message is that when a person is brutalized sooo much so that they become vengeful towards humanity,,, they lash out on their anger 10 FOLD and want the attackers to feel their PAIN and this can destroy an innocent civilization in it's most populated...... the mesage is about anti-bullyism... and anti-war/terrorism,,,,,,human beings who illegitimately, and inhumanely justify "WAR"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SEE THIS MOVIE!!!! It's serious and if you ever find yourself laughing at the wrong moment, it only proves you a true ignoramusssss!!!!!!!!!!!
tv too...
So, I love the new thanggg I JUST WANT MY PANTS BACK!!!
I just nowhave some time to blog! I love the show on MTV and I amlso guilty obsessed with THE JERSEY SHORE because I have this weird theory that Vinny is totally in love with Pauly D, which is a guy roommate for you who dont watch the Guily Pleasure show where Snooki is now growing in a way that may be just temporary, but, she's being surprisingly optopmistic about Mike's urge to CHANGE!!! I hope that's wherre this show is going because I see change in everybody and I get very impatient, but keep folloowing shows like Glee, The vampire Diaries, Secret Circle, and I just Want My Pants Back, thinking they will stop making cash grab executive decisions and kepp it moving faster.... DRAMAAA...
But, here is what i'm thinking about now... I've been working a lot lately so It's been hard for me to keep consistent with this blog!!!!!......
I just nowhave some time to blog! I love the show on MTV and I amlso guilty obsessed with THE JERSEY SHORE because I have this weird theory that Vinny is totally in love with Pauly D, which is a guy roommate for you who dont watch the Guily Pleasure show where Snooki is now growing in a way that may be just temporary, but, she's being surprisingly optopmistic about Mike's urge to CHANGE!!! I hope that's wherre this show is going because I see change in everybody and I get very impatient, but keep folloowing shows like Glee, The vampire Diaries, Secret Circle, and I just Want My Pants Back, thinking they will stop making cash grab executive decisions and kepp it moving faster.... DRAMAAA...
But, here is what i'm thinking about now... I've been working a lot lately so It's been hard for me to keep consistent with this blog!!!!!......
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
1/18/2012 Daily Soundtrack Song
1/18/2012
Daily Soundtrack Song:
Daily Soundtrack Song:
The Lord of The Rings Theme
Into The West
By Annie Lennox
1/18/2012
A star is born in MMA fighter Gina Carano, starring in what may be the best female driven action movie of all time, HAYWIRE!!!!! In Theaters this Friday!!!
I am currently watching an old movie from when Ethan Hawke was a kid, Explorers. SUrprisingly, it is holding up. I haven't seen this movie since I was very young and I cant believe it, it's pretty impressive and Spielbergian!!!
A star is born in MMA fighter Gina Carano, starring in what may be the best female driven action movie of all time, HAYWIRE!!!!! In Theaters this Friday!!!
I am currently watching an old movie from when Ethan Hawke was a kid, Explorers. SUrprisingly, it is holding up. I haven't seen this movie since I was very young and I cant believe it, it's pretty impressive and Spielbergian!!!
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The Great Film Artists 1/17/2012
1/17/2012
SO, when I think of the great directors of my generation, there are 3 names that automatically come to my mind. This is solely based on quantity of films I consider to be masterpieces. All 3 of these film makers have very distinctively different visual styles. One goes for epic cinematic realism, the other goes for epic cinema, but loves to take the viewer away from reality, while keeping a work mildly reality based. The third artist is a master of the surreal. He is Poe, Van Gogh, Fritz Lang, Edvard Munch, Salvador Dahli all rolled up into one gothic, beautifully abstract and original artiste! These guys should come as no surprise, so call me cliche!!! They are Spielberg, Scorsese, and Tim Burton.
I consider these artists to be sooo dependable that I have no worries that I'm not going to have a blast with whatever they do next. The fact that I can list their "okay" films on one hand IS saying something.
Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is my least favorite work of his because I felt dissappointed. Maybe there was just too much hype that he would bring to life the beautiful trippy colors and characters of the Disney Classic. I was so hoping for a mix of his black and white style with a splash of bright neon colors, much like his usual palette in the films Edward Scissorhands and The Corpse Bride. Instead what I had to settle for was his first completely modern, CGI(computer generated imagery) visual feast led by a brilliantly spooky Johnny Depp performance, but Johnny can do no wrong. His movies aren't always gold but his performances are. Okay, so Tim Burton sold out in my opinion with Alice. Where were my giant scale sets of mushrooms??? It was all done on a freakin' computer.
I adored his take on Charlie and the Chocolate factory. I loved Sweeney Todd and thought it was a wonderful musical homage/tribute to the musicals of the 50's and 60's. I think Corpse Bride is one of his best, Sleepy Hollow is almost a masterpiece, Planet of the Apes had some good makeup work but I'd like to forget about that one please. Edward Scissorhands is one of my favorite movies of all time, Beetlejuiice =brilliant, Ed Wood is his masterpiece, and Batman captured the magic of a comic book before any other film could. I could go on and on!!! Tim Burton has an original style that is at times disturbing and at times ahead of it's time, bold, new, beyond inventive, pure genius. And you just get the feeling he wants to preserve something that is wonderful. Until Alice, I respected most that he defied any conventional sacrifices to the computer technological advancement and opted to stick with practical effects as much as he could. Puppet wizardry, animatronics, stop motion, claymation. He would build mini-sets and use camera trickery to make the viewer actually think they are watching the camera float over a real suburban neighborhood. He is a genius. And this is where Steven Spielberg comes in.....
Spielberg is my favorite director of a century. This guy's two truly mediocre movies are 1941, a war satire that is even that bad, and Hook, another movie that really isn't all that bad. Artificial Intelligence is not the best film ever but it is underrated for sheer visual wonderment. This guy made us scared to go in the water. He made us cry for a little alien to get home safely. He made me duck down when U.F.O.'s flew over Richard Dreyfuss's head. He brought to life such icons as Indiana Jones and the T Rex. He made quiet masterpieces with equally strong emotional impacts( Shindler's List, Munich, Catch Me If You Can) . He also made me cautious to be driving on an open road alone with a semi truck on my tail. And then there's Minority Report and Saving Private Ryan. I personally feel that The Terminal, guided by Tom Hanks's absolutely mesmerizing and absorbing performance as a man who is not allowed a home for some time, is right up there with his best work. And War of the Worlds is brilliant as well. This man is proving to be dependable at this very moment as I anticipate his latest, War Horse. I had a blast with Tin Tin, by the way. The guy can do almost no wrong. I love that he loves fantasy but likes to ground it in reality. I love that he, like Burton, loves epic cinema and opts to use hands on effects over computer effects. These guys are masters of their craft. And Martin Scorsese is no different.
Martin Scorsese has not made one single bad film in his whole career. Bringing Out the Dead is probably his least respected work. And yet, even it is an engrossing film. Hugo just reminded me why I love movies so much. They bring magic to life!!! His gangster movies are so wonderful and throw an emotional punch at you that feels very relatable and hit's harder than Robert De Niro in Raging Bull! Spielberg gave me chills when he first showed the scope of his shark in the pond. You could see the length span from the shark's fin to it's tail. Then, the shark swims under. There is an intelligence that works against any land dwelling victim. You see the startled boys watch as the man swims to their boat(which is not even half the size of this shark.) Then, as the man reaches their boat the camera changes to an ariel view and from just above, you see the full body of a giant shark sneaking up, mouth wide open, going in for the kill.... Ahhhhhh! I can see that image in my head to this day. Scorsesw was able to create a similar tension with a paranoid drug induced Ray Liotta in Goodfellas, set to his brilliant soundtrack. Add to that a helicopter and the panic of the wife.....Terrifying!!!
These guys are living, breathing geniuses. They are masterminds in the heroic sense. I love them and will forever consider them to be some of the greatest directors in the history of cinema. Until next time, Gumby Out!----- I dunno why some of the text got highlighted!-----
SO, when I think of the great directors of my generation, there are 3 names that automatically come to my mind. This is solely based on quantity of films I consider to be masterpieces. All 3 of these film makers have very distinctively different visual styles. One goes for epic cinematic realism, the other goes for epic cinema, but loves to take the viewer away from reality, while keeping a work mildly reality based. The third artist is a master of the surreal. He is Poe, Van Gogh, Fritz Lang, Edvard Munch, Salvador Dahli all rolled up into one gothic, beautifully abstract and original artiste! These guys should come as no surprise, so call me cliche!!! They are Spielberg, Scorsese, and Tim Burton.
I adored his take on Charlie and the Chocolate factory. I loved Sweeney Todd and thought it was a wonderful musical homage/tribute to the musicals of the 50's and 60's. I think Corpse Bride is one of his best, Sleepy Hollow is almost a masterpiece, Planet of the Apes had some good makeup work but I'd like to forget about that one please. Edward Scissorhands is one of my favorite movies of all time, Beetlejuiice =brilliant, Ed Wood is his masterpiece, and Batman captured the magic of a comic book before any other film could. I could go on and on!!! Tim Burton has an original style that is at times disturbing and at times ahead of it's time, bold, new, beyond inventive, pure genius. And you just get the feeling he wants to preserve something that is wonderful. Until Alice, I respected most that he defied any conventional sacrifices to the computer technological advancement and opted to stick with practical effects as much as he could. Puppet wizardry, animatronics, stop motion, claymation. He would build mini-sets and use camera trickery to make the viewer actually think they are watching the camera float over a real suburban neighborhood. He is a genius. And this is where Steven Spielberg comes in.....
Spielberg is my favorite director of a century. This guy's two truly mediocre movies are 1941, a war satire that is even that bad, and Hook, another movie that really isn't all that bad. Artificial Intelligence is not the best film ever but it is underrated for sheer visual wonderment. This guy made us scared to go in the water. He made us cry for a little alien to get home safely. He made me duck down when U.F.O.'s flew over Richard Dreyfuss's head. He brought to life such icons as Indiana Jones and the T Rex. He made quiet masterpieces with equally strong emotional impacts( Shindler's List, Munich, Catch Me If You Can) . He also made me cautious to be driving on an open road alone with a semi truck on my tail. And then there's Minority Report and Saving Private Ryan. I personally feel that The Terminal, guided by Tom Hanks's absolutely mesmerizing and absorbing performance as a man who is not allowed a home for some time, is right up there with his best work. And War of the Worlds is brilliant as well. This man is proving to be dependable at this very moment as I anticipate his latest, War Horse. I had a blast with Tin Tin, by the way. The guy can do almost no wrong. I love that he loves fantasy but likes to ground it in reality. I love that he, like Burton, loves epic cinema and opts to use hands on effects over computer effects. These guys are masters of their craft. And Martin Scorsese is no different.
Martin Scorsese has not made one single bad film in his whole career. Bringing Out the Dead is probably his least respected work. And yet, even it is an engrossing film. Hugo just reminded me why I love movies so much. They bring magic to life!!! His gangster movies are so wonderful and throw an emotional punch at you that feels very relatable and hit's harder than Robert De Niro in Raging Bull! Spielberg gave me chills when he first showed the scope of his shark in the pond. You could see the length span from the shark's fin to it's tail. Then, the shark swims under. There is an intelligence that works against any land dwelling victim. You see the startled boys watch as the man swims to their boat(which is not even half the size of this shark.) Then, as the man reaches their boat the camera changes to an ariel view and from just above, you see the full body of a giant shark sneaking up, mouth wide open, going in for the kill.... Ahhhhhh! I can see that image in my head to this day. Scorsesw was able to create a similar tension with a paranoid drug induced Ray Liotta in Goodfellas, set to his brilliant soundtrack. Add to that a helicopter and the panic of the wife.....Terrifying!!!
These guys are living, breathing geniuses. They are masterminds in the heroic sense. I love them and will forever consider them to be some of the greatest directors in the history of cinema. Until next time, Gumby Out!----- I dunno why some of the text got highlighted!-----
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