Sunday Movie Funday

I love weekends where you veg out on the couch and watch whatever is on, yesterday we watched Sherlock Holmes, Transformers 2 and the new HBO show Game of Thrones. I loved all 3.

I love Sherlock Holmes! Like really love this movie, I love the characters, the sets, the story, the costumes...the depth of the characters is perfect and each actor plays their part spot on, Downey is perfect as Holmes and Law as Watson. I really hope they do a sequel soon. I just searched and there is going to be a sequel-December 16th! (yippee!)

I prefer Transformers 1 to 2 b/c 1 doesn't have all the cheesy romance between Shia & whats her butt, she was so pretty before! I loved her, she was perfect and then she got her lips and ego inflated and now she looks like a trashy whore and her acting blows. Back on point, I really enjoy the cinematography of the films, they are bright and sharp.

We have HBO free right now (yippee!) So last night was the series premier of the show Game of Thrones. It has a lot of great actors (sadly I know none of their names off hand), it is a fantasy type story, with scary things hiding in the dark but it is set in an Arthurian-esque landscape so I suppose that is a bit romance/medieval? It's typical HBO so lots of nudity and gore, but the story seems deep and changing and I am hooked. I said about 5 times before bed "I wanna see the neeeext ooone"...

Never Let Me Go

I knew I would like this movie simply because I love Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley. And it's British. Have you seen An Education? I liked that movie too. I had read about Never Let Me Go first in an article in Vogue featuring Ms. Mulligan while flying from LA to Minneapolis. It was quite a while ago and I kept an eye out waiting for it to come to theaters when all of a sudden to my delight it was available for renting.

I really liked it, Never Let Me Go has such a simple, pretty sadness to it. The clothes are functional and beautiful, the setting is elegant and whole, the characters are so endearing in their naivete, it's like a period piece, which it is I suppose, but with a twist. It left me wanting, I want to wear clothes like that and live in a cottage and always have perpetually cozy weather...sigh.

Watch it, I think you will enjoy it.

Maybe not always have weather like that...

Back-Up Plan vs. The Switch

And the winner iiiiiiissssss.........The Switch! As you can see from the picture...Congratulations Jennifer Anniston and Jason Bateman, your single woman impregnating herself movie was way better! You should be proud, your portrayal of a biological clock ticking was a joy to watch, you offered new humor and better acting skills.

The movies are different I spose, J-Love's is about the actual pregnancy where as Anniston's skips all that crap I don't want to see (no offense Jess), Anniston's actually doesn't cover any of the pregnancy, just before and after when she has the most awesome little kid ever. I love this child. He is awesome. I hope my children are like him. I've never been pregnant so I guess I can't judge, I just don't think it turns you into a rambling slob, hormonal and moody sure, but this b is just plain annoying...and a little gross...

So basically what I'm trying to say is J-Lo acting is less than stellar*, the dude is in the same boat and there is just a bunch of cliche' unrealistic situations. The Switch probably has a bit as well but there is actual character development, humor, and Bateman is more the main character which I think is different and refreshing and the child is really cute and funny. Hands down, the win goes to the switch.

Fantastic Mr. Fox

This movie is bloody brilliant! Is bloody a cuss? I think it's like saying the f-word...I often ponder this...I suppose I could Google it...eh.

So this movie made me laugh, made me cry (I don't think I cried, I did when I watched UP though, I cried like 5 times during that movie, like sobbing!) This is one of those movies that makes me appreciate simple things, like when you have wine, cheese, grapes and bread and you've never had a more satisfying meal, little french phrases, the endearing elegance of Mr. Fox, the detail and attention that went into this film, I love when things as such are created and I can enjoy them as though they were made just for me. And they were, people like me anyway.

I'm not sure if it's a kids movie, it's like The Royal Tenenbaums...for kids, for realz, it was made/produced/whatever by Wes Anderson. George Clooney was phenomenal (I heard he helped direct), and my fave character was probably Cousin Kristoffersen, although I liked Coach too, and good ol Mr. Fox, and Ash, and Mrs. Fox, and the minnow guy, the badger, the rat...oh they're all great.

I like to think I would have enjoyed this as a youngster but I'm not sure I would have understood the subtle nuances and layers of humor, but maybe I get those layers even more because Ive hung out with kids so much...If you're into Wes Anderson you need to watch this movie, you can pretend your 10 years old if you want, or enjoy it as an adult, as I did.

Bright Star

The tale of Love between John Keats and his Fanny truly bespeaks of yearning. The simple, complete elegance...breathtaking imagery....sigh. I found a small blue book as a young teen and was captured by the verses of Endymion, oh to yearn for love and pure love, true love. I wish I could find that book, I had to be careful with it-it was old...and my mums...I hid it carefully so that nothing would happen to it and alas, I hid it too carefully. I tore through my old things at my parents after watching this movie but to no avail, I should have left it in mums care. I pray that someday I may find Endymion and recapture the emotion felt upon first read...first view...like listening to Claire de lune...