movies i'm excited about: #1

The Brothers Bloom

starring: Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo

"A globe-trotting comedy about the last great adventure of the world's best con men."

i saw this film at the San Diego Film Festival last fall and fell completely in LOVE. Adrien Brody is incredibly sexy, Rachel Weisz is adorable and Mark Ruffalo is quite the mastermind. it is easily in my top 5 favorite movies of all time and i HIGHLY recommend it. i saw it twice at the film festival and i am anxiously awaiting its arrival in Ventura.

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i thought i had seen movies that shook me to my core; that made me have realizations that i thought were monumental. i just finished Rachel Getting Married and my eyes are red and puffy, my head aches and my stomach is grumbling because it was a roller-coaster of sorts, but it was an incredible experience. i'm not going to go too deep into this, but this movie made me acknowledge things that i forgot were waiting to be acknowledged, and while it sucks, and while i feel a bit more weight on my shoulders, i feel good. it's a great movie for sisters and a great movie for people who have dealt with big things. it's not delicate, it's very honest and, despite everything i have said about the oscars and benjy b. and slumdawg, this movie should have been nominated, and it should have won. and i swear to god, had there been no scenes of a crying dad i would have been fine. crying dads get me everytime. and btw, i didn't know this before i saw it, but the guy from TV on the Radio plays the groom (and he does a REALLY good job). cooooool.

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i'm currently watching the Golden Globes red carpet thing on E! and i'm realizing how much i miss dressing up. while i still indulge in big jewelry on a day to day basis, i've yet to have a legitimate reason to wear a gorgeous dress. maybe i should have joined a sorority after all...

i've also realized how much i truly hate Anne Hathaway. she better not fucking win.

i saw a movie called Baghead the other night and reallllly liked it. it's about these 4 friends who go to a cabin to make a movie and they come up with the idea of a creeper wearing a bag on his head doing creepy things to terrorize a group of friends stuck in a cabin. the film seems to be pretty low-budget camera wise though i don't really know anything about cameras. the acting was good and believable, the film was scary and funny and the plot twist is a good one. highly recommended.

i found an AMAZING website called Fuck You, Penguin. it's a blog that takes a cute animal picture and rips it to shreds. it's a way of expressing that feeling you get when something is too cute. check it out.

finally, what do you think of these sunglasses? i'm newly obsessed and 90% positive that i will be spending my first paycheck on them. 

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whenever i'm home for any reason, whether it be a weekend to get away from idiots or month long breaks, i watch movie after movie and read book after book. had i been reading more recent books i would write mini reviews of those. but i've been catching up on the classics, and i highly recommend "The Winter of Our Discontent" by John Steinbeck. it's AMAZING. i think it's my new favorite book.

after i finished that book i read a few magazines, including Filter, whose offices are in L.A., which means i'm looking into a summer internship. after i finished the magazines i settled in and watched a movie called "Towelhead."

"Towelhead" is a movie about a 13 year old girl's sexual experimentations with her army reservist neighbor (played by Aaron Eckhart), a classmate and herself. it was graphic and uncomfortable and sometimes went a bit too far and included some unnecessary plot twists, but overall it held my interest and gave my insomniac mind something to do. 

the other night i watched a movie called "Reprise." it's a french new wave film described as a "postmodern Norwegian coming-of-age story," starring some unknowns (in america at least). it starts off like "Amelie" with a narrator describing little stories of things that we could assume might happen in the lives of the two protagonists. the two protagonists are aspiring novelists. one has a few mental breakdowns and the other is kind of an observer. as an aspiring novelist myself i found the film to be interesting and thought-provoking. it inspired me to start the novel i've been planning on writing for the last year. so we'll see what happens. overall i would recommend it if you don't mind subtitles. 

but my favorite movie of the week is "Marley and Me," of course. 1. it was about a dog. 2. it had owen wilson. 3. owen wilson and jennifer aniston's characters are a cute married couple that both write for newspapers. it was cute all around, made me laugh and made me cry. it was inspirational (because of the writing aspect) and it was different than the other movies in that it was based on a book/true story and wasn't trying to be super artsy. it had a great flow and a great story and didn't have to try very hard to get it's main point across. see it.

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when i woke up today at 12:30 to a wonderful phone call about what drank i would like to have purchased for me tonight, i looked out my window and saw gray skies. not sure what's wrong with me but seeing gray skies made me the happiest i've been all week. i was feeling a bit more healthy after being plagued with a cold for the duration of the week and i decided to treat myself to a day off doing what i do best, watching movies. 

the darjeeling limited has to be one of the best movies to wake up to. vivid colors, an exciting culture, adrien brody and jason schwartzman and natalie portman, a highly enjoyable soundtrack and lots of prescription drug abuse. but what got  me most were the colors. bright colors and sparkly things are like magnets. i'm automatically drawn to them and, if they are buyable, i will buy them. with this film though, wes anderson's style is extremely attractive to me. especially with the indian colors. i could go on and on about colors but they are beyond describable. i wouldn't do them justice.

 

tonight consists of $3 chamapagne and daft punk slow jams. i'm pretty excited.