DVR recorded movie ratings #30

I can't believe that I have been on vacation for the past 5 days and all I have managed to watch are 2 movies. With our 2 year anniversary and Christmas here and preparing for them, I don't know how the time just flew by. We didn't do anything big; it was just my hubby and me. oh, by the way...

MERRY CHRISTMAS or uhm HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!

It is Christmas morning right now and we are going to the movies today to watch American Hustle, but for now here are reviews from my DVR:

• Beasts of the Southern Wild: This little girl, starring in this movie... I can see how she was nominated. She was GOOD and cute. Her dad, who is verbally abusive and Hushpuppy live in a rundown bayou along with other people. They make do with what they have, which isn't much. Dad gets sick and disappears for days, but then comes back and still verbally abuses her. Hushpuppy , although basically alone in this world, has neighbors that care for her, and at some point we also see dad taking interest in her, is radiant and sees the positive in what she has. She wants to find her mom, but only goes so far before returning to the bayou and the life she knows. I keep calling this movie by the wrong name (sorry), and I wasn't expected to like it as much as I did, but I give this movie 5 daisy-girls. 
• Heaven: I don't really like the way this movie is described in some sites. It stars Cate Blanchett and Goivanni Ribisi. The movie starts out in Italian, and mixes in English throughout the movie. Cate puts a bomb in a building to kill a drug lord that she says is responsible for her husbands death (drug overdose), except, she ends up killing 4 innocent people. Why she would think the drug lord would be the only one killed/hurt in this big building where she placed the bomb is unbeknownst to me. I mean you put a bomb in a building, you know other people work there! Anyway, she gets arrested and since she wants to be tried in her native language (English), Giovanni (a police officer) becomes the interpreter.The police think that she works for an organized crime business or is a terrorist. He ends up falling in love with her (even though he just met her) and decides to help her escape. She also happened to be his younger brother's teacher. Giovanni ends up confessing his love to her and she is hesitant, but then also says she loves him. They both shave their heads and his dad gives them money so they can leave the country. It gets a bit wild in the end, but it was a pretty "huh, how did that happen" ending. I give this movie 4 Daisy-girls.
• Revolutionary Road: Movie stars Kate Winslet and Leonardo De Caprio as a married couple in the 1950's. He works at a job, which he despises and she is a stay-home mother of two. They are both bored with their everyday lives, until she gets this brilliant idea of moving the family to France, where she will get a  secretarial job in an embassy. He is hesitant about the idea of this major move, but he gets talked into it and although he has a good job and is about to get promoted, he could care less about it. There is a lot of arguing with the couple and affairs happen. She gets pregnant by her husband and doesn't tell him. As soon as he finds some abortion paraphernalia, they argue some more and he tells her that they are not moving. She tries to convince him that it is for the best of the whole family, but more arguing ensues. Lots of shouting matches between the two, great acting. In the end, after another argument, she ends up aborting after all, but she doesn't do it properly and calls an ambulance. We see the husband sitting at a hospital and he is told that she didn't make it. I give this movie 5 Daisy-girls. Took me a while to actually watch this movie, and it was worth it. 

DVR recorded movie ratings #29

     It is 4:30am and I am wide awake for some unknown reason. I haven't really liked Sundays for the past 5 years. I can say 5 years because I never recall this happening back in L.A. I wake up just to check the time and mind starts to fill up with things I have to do for work on Monday or things that need to get done on Sunday. So, anyway, here I am wee early in the morning, wide awake, typing reviews for all of my own followers.

• This Is 40: This movie stars Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd. They play a couple with two daughters and they are both turning 40. Leslie has a hard time dealing with it and Paul is just accepting to it as his next cupcake. It is a longish movie, but it has some parts ANYONE can relate to, no matter what age. I guess I can relate to it age-wise, other than that not really. Not a mom, don't own my own business, no mortgage, DEFINITELY do not have a body like hers. Like I said, it has it's moments and never a bore. I give this movie 4 Daisy-girls.
• Valentine Road: Documentary about 14 year-old Larry who was shot by his classmate Brandon in 2008. Larry was a homosexual who wore it loud and proud on his sleeve and heart. He wore heels and make-up to school and flaunted it toward the straight boys. He was made fun of and bullied. He liked Brandon and had been telling others that Brandon and he were a couple (which was not true), Larry also had told his friends that he was going to invite Brandon to the school dance. Brandon got fed up with it all and turned on Larry. Teachers, friends, family were interviewed during the documentary. Some say that it was Brandon who was bullied by Larry, and others vice versa. As of now, Brandon is in jail, and a tree that a friend had planted on school grounds is not able to be dedicated to Larry, even as of now. It's quite a ripping documentary and after hearing both sides, one can still be torn of who caused what to happen. I give this movie 4 Daisy-girls.
• Pitch Perfect: This was one of the movies that was shown on HBO during the free preview over Thanksgiving weekend. It was an okay movie. Lots of singing (obviously), reminded me of Glee (even though I have only seen 2 episodes). Ga wants to become a music producer, works at school radio station, has a love/hate relationship with a guy, dad disapproves of what she wants to do. Decides to give school a chance (thanks to dad bribing her to give it a year and he will fund her dream to come true), gets into a A Capella group and competes with other groups, finally wins at the end. I give this movie 3 Daisy- girls.
• In Their Skin:  This movie could have been a lot better, more could have been done. A couple and their son go to their remote cottage up in the mountains, hills, forest and meet a couple with a son who give off a bad vibe. Strange couple ask strange questions and we soon learn that this strange couple want the other couples life because they see it as perfect. It is known that the couple had lost their daughter in a car accident. Well, there is not a big struggle or fight with the bad couple, kind of just blah. Not a total loss of a movie, but it could have been better. I give this movie 2 Daisy-girls.
• Grace: Didn't catch the first 15 minutes f this movie, but husband dies in an accident and a new mom is forced to raise her daughter (which was stillborn due to the accident and has miraculously came back from the dead). Mom realizes something is up with the baby, not wanting to accept her breast milk. baby knaws on mom's boob til it bleeds and mom realizes that THIS is what the baby wants. Mom goes to the market, buys meat and drains the blood. Soon a doctor comes to see how she is doing and mom ends up killing him and giving is blood to the baby. Mom struggles with grandma and kills her, then it's shown that time has passed and mom's boob is pretty much shredded because the baby  is now teething. This movie is a bit gruesome, not much is told and we never find out what the fuck is going on with Grace (the baby), is she a vampire, demonic, just wants blood since she came back to life? Which is it? I feel there could have been more. I give this movie 3 Daisy-girls.

DVR recorded movie ratings #28

     For some reason from my last post to this one, it seems much longer than a month ago. Perhaps, it's because there is so much going on. I'm not talking about shopping, which we avoided the day of Thanksgiving, BUT we did go out on Black Friday and it was pretty dead. I was referring more to actually working. Yes, I may work very close to our home, but I've been busting my ass with trying to clean (yes clean) my classroom, getting some curriculum going on in the class (instead of having handwritten sheets of stuff for the students to do), and just plain trying to organize the classroom. I'm not quite completely done with how I want everything to be, but for now, what I have done will do.
     We've also been pretty busy with the community events that are going on in and around Austin (we love it!). So, now that I've had numerous days off due to Thanksgiving, I figured I should watch some movies, that and HBO/Cinemax  were free for 4 days. Go DVR Go!

• Drive: Okay, so I must admit, this was a movie I recorded, but not from a movie channel. It was playing on the Esquire Network and I'm quite sure that I missed a lot from the movie. I'll still review it and it was pretty good. Lots of names: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Albert Brooks, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman, and many others. Ryan plays a mechanic/Hollywood stunt car driver/ getaway driver. He gets involved with Carey, and her hubby who just got released from jail. Things go wrong and there is a death count which involves almost everyone. The movie is a bit quiet, not a lot of dialogue, especially between Ryan and Carey, but it works. If it ever comes out on a movie channel without commercials or it being cut, I would watch it again. I give this movie 5 Daisy-girls.
• Identity Thief: I love me some Jason Bateman, ever since Valerie's Family/ The Hogan Family. He is turning mighty nice looking for an everyday looking type of man. Once this movie was over, I told my Hubby that this was a  good free-type movie. As in, I would not rent this movie, or go watch this at the movie. It showed on HBO or Cinemax, one of the two and I recorded it. It was pretty okay, I've seen WAY worse, but it just seemed so long. I managed to do a load and a half of laundry, eat popcorn and ice cream (not together and I am on vacation man!), go online, read info on movies, download some music and the damn movie was still on. Guess I'm not used to comedy movies being 2 hours long. Anyway, it stars Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy. It's pretty easy to see what this movie is about due to the title. She not only steals his identity, but a lot of identities. So much that she even has a credit card machine maker. Lots of fouls and comedic scenes, but just too long. I give this movie 2 Daisy-girls.
• Little Voice: This movie was hilarious. It's about a gal (Jane Horrocks) who hardly talks and rarely ever leaves her house, which she shares with her mom (Brenda Blethyn) above their record store. Dad died some years ago and the only way this gal feels close to him is by listening to this old records (old as in 1930's and such). Anyway, the gal sings along at times and mom's date (Michael Cane) heard her and wanted in on how much he can get at his lounge for the cash cow. The mom is funny, I don't know if it has to do with her yelling, her actions, or just her attitude, but even my Hubby was laughing his ass off. So much that he even turned off the speakers on the computer while he was playing a game so he could hear the movie as I was watching it. The movie stars Ewan McGregor (yum), but he hardly has much of a role. Jane singing is all her own and she is magnificent! This movie came as quite a surprise and from time to time you need movies like that. Something to break the usual barrier of whether a movie will be good or bad. I give this movie 5 Daisy-girls.
• Mama: I don't know if I have ever mentioned this, but every time there is a Spanish movie (not really from Spain, but Mexico and South America) playing in the theater or a movie channel, I am ALL for it. This movie, when it came out in the theater, I had been wanting to watch. It's also been on my watchlist from the time I saw the preview. I thought this was one of those oh-let's-take-a-foreign-movie-and-remake-it-with-American-actors, but it wasn't. The preview that I had seen (which caught my attention) was a very short clip of a movie that was in the making. The movie is basically about two little sisters who were abandoned by their dad (heh ya, abandoned) and were raised for the next five years by an unknown entity. The girls became feral during that time and when they were found (thanks to their uncle not giving up a search for the girls), they went to go live with the uncle and girlfriend after the court decided this would be the best choice for them. Strange stuff happens, the younger girl hardly talks, but is quick to say, "Mama." Well, it turns out that "Mama" the entity that raised the girls in the abandoned cabin in the woods, decided to invite herself along to moving in with the uncle too. Uncle gets hurt, so now the girlfriend has to raise and protect the girls from this entity that has become more violent, because she fears that the girlfriend would take the girls away from her (shown in past scenes, the entity had given birth, but her baby had been taken away from her at the nunnery. She then escapes with her baby and leaps off a cliff. Only thing is, the mom dies in the water, and the baby had hit a tree branch and died). So, she thought it was happening again. The ending gets a little iffy, but it was still a good movie. Reading more about it afterwards made it more haunting, especially the actor playing the entity/Mama and the rehearsal footage is creepy as fuck! I thought the girls were fantastic actors, the ones from the beginning of the movie (younger versions) to the girls who played the characters five years later. I give this movie 4 Daisy-girls. Almost 5, but not quite there.
• The Condemned (Los Condenados): I saw this movie late at night when the Hubby was already asleep. I figured okay, once this movie creeps me out, I will put it on Animal Planet for a few minutes before falling asleep. That didn't happen and I watched the whole movie. Not worth the time. This movie is also Spanish, but it failed in the scary department for me. I've read about it and some reviews actually like it. I just felt there wasn't much there. There was a nice twist at the end, but other than that it didn't budge me from how I was sitting at all. Sure, the walls moved and such and you saw some shadows moving about, but nothing major. Girl takes her ailing dad back to the mansion where dad used to be a doctor caring for cancer kids. She wants to make a museum and everyone in the town does not want to take part in it. There are flashback scenes in which the doctor is talking to some moms saying that if we treat your child with this new radiation treatment, there may be side effects, but we are willing to pay you every month for the next 25 years. Of course, the parents went for it, seeing as it was in a kind of poverty area. Twist turns out that the "daughter" is not the young one we had been seeing throughout the movie, but she was an aged daughter who had repressed her memory into thinking otherwise. She had blocked off the idea that she had helped her dad (doctor) out and had been a nurse and was assisting him with the cancer kids. I give this movie 2 Daisy-girls. There wasn't much there for me.

DVR recorded movie ratings #27

Once again, it's been a while, or so it seems. Been busy trying to get my job interviews in check and not confuse the directors and the job sites. There's 3 potential places, I say potential because all 3 have called me back for either a second interview or a working interview. So, at this point, one of them better hire me. Some of these movies I've seen about two weeks ago and some more recently.

• Exam: I had seen this movie about a year or so ago and it was playing again. My hubby and I both enjoyed it because it was more of a critical thinking suspense movie. 9 candidates are brought into a room for an exam which consists of a simple question, only the question is not really noticeable, at first. There are 2 rules, something to the affect of not tainting the exam and the other is not talking to the Invigilator or the guard on duty. Oh, plus, they have eighty minutes to come up with the response. The candidates don't know much about each other, except for their appearances. So, they come up with code names based on how they look. There is some threats, resistance, fights... breaking up among them, but yet no one leaves the room willingly, even after the guard escorts them out for breaking one of the two rules. It has it's twist moments and a-ha moments. I read some of the boards on http://www.imdb.com/exam and I'm not too thrilled by it, making it seem as if the movie was so-so and it wasn't really all that. I feel that they were/are wrong and I loved this movie. I wanted to see it again as soon as it was over to see if I could get the clues I had missed. In a way, it reminded me of http://www.imdb.com/FermatsRoom, which is another GOOD movie. I give this movie 5 Daisy- girls.
• The Master: Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams. Joaquin plays a navy veteran who returns back home and isn't himself. He feel disconnected and not happy of where his life is. He happens to come upon a boat while being out drunk. Next thing you know, Phillip is talking to Joaquin and apparently Joaquin had told Phillip that he was a sailor. At first the communication between them is a bit superficial without anyone wanting more than just work. Soon things change one night when they both start to talking about what Phillip does. He just so happens to be the Master of the Cause. He is very charismatic with his words and very charming to everyone around him. At first it seems as if he is just hypnotizing people and asking them questions about his past, but he wants it more as in to relive your past experiences and learn from them to become a better person. He gets called out on the Cause being a cult and his wife (Amy) is one to come to his defense. Damn, I want her as my wife. Joaquin soon involves himself So much into the Cause that he loses the little bit of faith he had in anything else, even himself. he becomes putty in Phillip's hands and Phillip is loving it. Showing others how he has helped Joaquin reclaim his life and how he is a new person. It's actually quite sad because we see Joaquin in the process of doing so and there is no one to stop him until Phillip decides Joaquin has had enough. The movie is long and monotone in a lot of pars. Overall, I give this movie 4 Daisy-girls, because I am still unsure of a few things in it.
• Prometheus: Starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Guy Pierce, and a few others Okay, so I had read that this movie is supposed to be the prequel to the Alien franchise. Don't hit me, but I have only seen Alien Ressurection. I've seen parts of Alien and Aliens, but not one to claim I have actually seen the movies. This was another long movie and it was pretty interesting. It seemed to have started out good, but then it went all over the place. I don't know if it's cause it felt longer than it was, I was in the middle of making dinner, or what. Even my hubby pointed stuff out (WAY more than I did). There were just some stuff that was duh, other stuff was unexplainable, or not explained. As in, if they went to a planet/place that no other human had gone to and there is a perfectly lit tunnel with wires and such all over the place... Why The FUCK are you not going to question that or the fact of uhm...maybe we shouldn't be walking in this tunnel in the first place. Anyway, I can go on about the story, but in a nutshell here it is: Set in the future, undisclosed mission, find traces of early humanity, think human race came from here, they are wrong, aliens live there, aliens try and kill them and vice versa, struggle for survival. I give this movie 2 Daisy- girls.
• Zero Dark Thirty: Movie about the capture of Osama bin Laden by the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6. It was an interesting movie. It was also long, but it didn't feel as long as other movies. Sadly, it took 10 years to kill this motherfucker and we didn't even get a chance to glimp at this killer or even fucken torture him for what he had done. Anyway, I wish I had seen this movie much sooner. First of all I missed it in the theater, then it sat around on my DVR for quite some time because I didn't feel like watching a 2+ hour movie late at night. I give this movie 4, almost 5 Daisy-girls.
• Blackfish: This movie had been on my moviewatch list on http://www.imdb.com/Blackfish for quite some time. Then I saw that http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/Blackfish was going to air it on October 24, so I told my hubby to put that shit on the calendar. We didn't watch it right away, we waited until this past weekend and Oh MY FUCKEN GAWD! I don't like Seaworld as it is and this film made me hate it even more. Sadly, my cousin works/worked for them, but in the souvenir shop, but still within the family. About 10 years ago, she gave my mom and me passes to check it out, seeing as I had never been there. I wish I hadn't. There I was with my video camera handy and hoping (honestly REALLY hoping) that I was wrong about what I had read about this place. But, I wasn't wrong, I was right. We went to one of those aquarium where a wall is just a large window to look at the marine life and there at the bottom was a manatee, just floating, but not the usual floating you see. Some people asked the workers what was going on with him and they explained that it was tired. Hmm first smirk. Then we went to a dolphin show and there was a dolphin on the side making a lot of dolphin noises and half of its body was out of the water. Once again, when asked what was going on, the workers said it was greeting the audience and its trying to communicate with the people. Hmm again, second smirk. The day went on and there were more smirks, but anyway, overall experience, I did not enjoy it. I later mentioned this to my cousin and she said that the dolphin had died and the manatee was sick and may not recover. Okay, so going back to Blackfish, they had interviewed past killer whale trainers, past SeaWorld employees and they all pretty much said the same thing. That SeaWorld is just a front for mistreating the sea life animals. They were instructed what to say/do when questioned by the public, they lay claim that it was the trainers faults whenever they got mauled, bitten, killed by the killer whales. They tried to cover up the fact that Tilikum, the killer whale had never killed before and that it was all the trainers faults. There IS evidence that no killer whale has actually killed a human out in the wilderness. They showed the baby killer whales being separated from their moms and families and the families crying out to the babies for hours on end. It was a very informative, sad, disappointing, educating film. I dare anyone to see this and not feel affected by what they just witnessed. At the end of the film, it is noted that the filmmakers tried to get in contact with SeaWorld so that they may have their say, but SeaWorld  either declined/ or refused to be a part of the story. I give this film 5 Daisy-girls.

DVR recorded movie ratings #26

 For some reason, I haven't been wanting to do these movie reviews. It's not that I don't care to do it anymore or I find it boring or that I don't know what to say about the movies, it's more of I've been feeling blah and don't really care to want to do anything I normally want to do. But regardless, if I'm watching movies, I should write about them.

• Detachment: This movie stars Adrien Brody as a substitute teacher that is pretty much emotionally detached from everyone around him. He is dealing with his mother's tragic suicide from years ago, and his grandfather being on his death bed in the hospital. In one of the classes he substitutes, he meets a female student who has pretty much given up on herself due to a bad life at home and being bullied at school. He somewhat sympathizes with her, but is quick to pull back. It's too late, the student sees him as a someone to look up to and someone to confide in. He also comes across a teen prostitute who he feels bad for and has her come over to stay at his place. He feels as if he should help her out, but at the same time, he doesn't want any involvement in her life. The movie is pretty somber and quiet. It's a downer of a movie, but we can see why, with so much negativity going on around him. He wants to be engaged with people, but is also afraid to do so in the long run. After some time, he finally gives in that these people need him as much as he needs them, but before too long, there is a tragedy with the female student. He ends up helping the teen prostitute and in the end there is happiness and satisfaction for him. I give this movie 5 Daisy-girls.
• Oz The Great And Powerful: This movie stars James Franco, Mila Kunis, Michelle Williams, and Rachel Weisz, among others. This movie was really pretty with all the colors and it did kind of resemble The Wizard of Oz as far as scenery goes. Let it be known, that I was watching this movie in bed with my hubby sleeping next to me and I had to put the captions on because the movie goes from being quiet to REALLY FUCKEN LOUD. Especially when the flying monkeys (who looked with a cross between monkeys and rabid wolves) came on the scene or the Wicked Witch was screaming at Oz. But, regardless of that, the movie wasn't too bad and it was pretty entertaining. I give this movie 4 Daisy-girls.
• The Perks Of Being A Wallflower: My best friend had given me this book as a gift years ago. I remember reading it and loving it. So, when word got out that a movie was being made based on the book, I felt a joy of glee. Then the fact that it was being made by the author of the book made it even more special. The movie stars Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, and Logan Lerman as Charlie, the main character. Charlie has gone through a lot in his short life. He goes back to school, but is shunned out by almost everyone and the fact that he has been in a hospital for quite sometime doesn't help him much. He has an older sister, but she is too busy with her boyfriend, who beats her up a few times. Charlie befriends Ezra and Emma's characters and a friendship develops. They are pretty much close in every aspect and everything seems fine and dandy except for a few teenage dilemmas. Such as Ezra being gay and having a closeted affair with a football player ( a big no-no in the athlete's life), and Emma who has had to deal with a bad reputation at such a young age for sleeping with older men. YES...MEN. Charlie then forms a bigger circle thanks to Ezra and Emma's long time friends but there is a struggle for a bit. Before long, the three best buddies are close again, thanks to Charlie beating the shit out of some football players. We see the dark side of Charlie and we also see how Charlie came to be the person he is (told in flashback mode) due to the guilt and "over-loving" coming from his best aunt who was killed in a car accident. Charlie got admitted to the hospital once again, but this time he was able to open up to the psych and there was a breakthrough in his thought process. In the end, Ezra and Emma leave for college (they are 3 years older than Charlie), but come back during the breaks to see and hang out with him. I give this movie 5 Daisy-girls. Nice to know who your true friends are.

DVR recorded movie ratings #25

Okay, for some reason I recorded a movie which I thought I hadn't seen. I knew what the movie was about after seeing the name and jumped on it. After watching the first five minutes, it seemed somehow familiar. After 10 minutes passed, even my hubby had said something to the same note. Then I went on to summarize the movie and I came to my blog and noticed that I had not reviewed it. Very few times has that occurred and it's quite upsetting because I really want to keep track of movies I've watched at home on my DVR. I've watched a few other movies that weren't recorded and most I don't blog about because it's simply not worth it at all. But anyway here goes...

• Red State: This was the movie I was referring to when I said that I had seen it. This movie was done by Kevin Smith and SO not like his other movies. Some dumbass teenagers want to get their fuck on and they go to a trailer where some haggard older lady lives. Ya, three teenage idiots are planning on fuckin this one lady, cause you know, it's a fuck and nothing else. Well, they get more than they bargain for. Get knocked out and one awakes to find out he is inside a cage and taped/tied up. Someone pulls the cover off the cage and he sees his friend nailed to a cross and about to be crucified for some religious thing. Somehow, the caged boy manages to break free and run away only to get caught again and tortured for a bit. The movie goes on with him struggling and trying to escape. I thought the movie was okay, sadly there was this one actor who I don't really like and he kinda killed it for me. I give this movie 3 Daisy-girls and don't go out through some gravel/dirt road to a nasty looking trailer to fuck an old haggard lady. Unless you REALLY want to.
• The Innkeepers: This was not a recorded movie  and I kind of got caught up in it. Not because it was all interesting and shit. Well, it kind of was, but I was waiting to see what would happen. It turns out that there are 2 innkeepers who are asked to stay to work for a few days and since staff is low and the inn is about to close soon, they agree to work and sleep there. It is somewhat known that the inn is haunted and the guy innkeeper has a site about it. He tells the girl innkeeper about it and they even have a microphone to record noises they may happen to hear. Well, the girl starts to experience some of that scary shit and tells the guy about it. He kind of plays it off and tells her to just relax and go with it. They decide to get drunk and she happens to get the idea of going down to the basement (where some lady hung herself) to see if they find anything creepy. It's a fucken maze down there and no fucken way would I ever go down there. Anyway, They sit RIGHT where she killed herself and the girl calls out to the lady. They feel a tingly sensation and the girl feels the lady. The guy just sits there with the recorder. She then says that the dead lady is right in back of the guy, he gets creeped out and runs out of the basement. Fuck that, I would have too. When back at the inn, he tells her he made shit up on the site and that he has never experienced anything of that sort whatsoever. He decides to leave and the girl is there by herself, except for 2 customers. She then goes to find shit on her own and she goes back down to the basement when the door closes behind her and she runs over to the doors that go to the side of the house. Those doors are chained and the next scene is of an ambulance and the guy talking to the cops. He told the cops he left after hearing scary shit and that the girl stayed. There is no explanation of how she died, but the guy was holding her asthma inhaler. I've read a few reviews of this movie and a lot of people didn't like it. I thought it was okay. I guess her death was more of leaving it up to the viewers. My guess is she either died of an asthma attack or the fucken ghosts/spirits/whatever killed her somehow. I give this movie 3 Daisy-girls.
• Somewhere: Ooooh Stephen Dorff is aging very nicely. He plays an actor who is pretty much burnt out with being a celebrity (even though he is an up and coming actor), but still embraces it. He has the cash, the car, stays at a nice hotel in Beverly Hills, and has girls around him at all times (of course, he pays them). He gets a wake-up call when his 11-year old daughter shows up saying that mom had to go do something. He doesn't know what to do at first and still has women coming over at night while the daughter is sleeping, but is there having breakfast with them the  next morning. He takes her to wherever he is going to be making an appearance or working locations and soon becomes close to her. She makes nice meals for them and he states he hasn't had that in quite some time. The father-daughter relationship grows more and more and time passes by and he is loving it, but in the back of his mind he knows that it will not last and isn't sure if he is fit to be a full-time dad. In the end, she goes away to a summer camp and you can see how it affects him and her. This is a Sofia Coppola movie and her movies tend to be surreal and quite making the scenery speak for itself. I loved it. I give this movie 5 Daisy-girls. 
• The Brothers Bloom: This movie was on while I was getting ready for a job interview. I saw that it had just stared and decided to record it because it looked pretty amusing. It stars Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz, and Rinko Kikuchi. Adrien and Mark are con brothers, they've been that way since they were young. They come across Rachel, who has mega bucks and want it on it. She is a kooky character who had been raised indoors because she was allergic to so many things. But that wasn't really the case, and she was allergic to the aluminum that was used on the syringes. Moving on, she realizes it's a con but goes along with it since her life has pretty much been blah. So, she decides to go along with it. But this con has ups and downs, kooky turns and such. It was a very amusing movie and I wasn't expecting much, but I got a lot. Rinko was hilarious as Bang-Bang and only spoke about 5 words in the whole movie. I give this movie 5 Daisy-girls.

DVR recorded movie ratings #24

My time had been consumed by a show that I didn't really think I would get hooked on. People had told me it was an addicting show, and I didn't deny it or accept it, I merely took it for what it was worth. Last week, for three straight days, I saw nothing but the Breaking Bad marathon. Ya, I didn't watch the news, or other shows we recorded. If I was home, the tv was on AMC. Sure, I didn't catch all the episodes (I think I missed about 8 of them), it was either too late (4am) or too early (8am) and I was sleeping. Someone had told me why didn't I record those episodes. Well, I didn't record them because then I would probably had seen the finale sometime within the past 2 days or so. Instead, I opted not not see some episodes and somehow fill in the blanks of what was happening with the shows I did watch. Anyway, even my hubby (who didn't watch as much as I did) was swept away with what he did watch. The ending was great and sad. Never again will I do a marathon of watching a show leading up to the finale. It didn't drain me, it consumed my time and I grew to love the characters that by the time the last episode ended, I was positive there were going to be other episodes to follow. How could I not think that seeing as I had watched all 6 seasons with a 4 day span? I was used to non-stop Breaking Bad shows and when it ended, I was sad.
Then I slowly started getting into my daily routine of watching movies and watching other shows.

• Argo: I wanted to see this movie to see why it was a big deal and won awards ( some movies that have won awards, I don't see why or how that was possible, sure some were good, but others that were nominated could have won in my opinion). It was actually a pretty decent movie. Better than I had expected. Not much of a Ben Affleck fan, but it was good. Great cast too with Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Bryan Cranston, Victor Garbo, Tate Donovan, Clea DuVall, among others. Set in 1980 during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran, there were 6 Americans hiding. A CIA agent plots a plan to get them out of the country safe and sound by saying that they are scouting grounds to film a movie. They had to make it seem realistic that a movie was going to happen. So, the had to make a script, have some background workers, illustrations, movie posters, ads in magazines. It was a close call, but they did it. I give this movie 4 Daisy- girls.
• Frances: Okay, when I first heard of Francis Farmer, for some reason I thought she was a fictional person. Like from a story book, you know related to Old McDonald, the one that has a farm. Little did I know this was an actress from the 1930's who lead a horrible life. All she wanted to do was act (either on Broadway or movies) and be taken seriously for her acting. But when Hollywood got a hold of her, she got rolls based on her looks. During the time she had a contract with a movie studio, she decided to take a break and go back to New York to act on stage, which she had missed. She refused and when she was threatened, she went back to Hollywood, but was treated as an outcast and she had finally had enough. She ended up slapping some lady and walked out of the set. She  was then arrested and was in court for slapping the lady. Francis wasn't putting up with that shit and through a fit in the courtroom. Then she was sent to be analyzed. And you know back then what that meant. She was stuck there for quite some time and she was drugged and given shock therapy. After a while she was released, but had to go live with her mom who had hold of how Frances ran her life. After some time, she runs away, but is caught and is sent back to her mom. Not putting up with that, mom calls the hospital, Francis and mom get into an argument and Francis walks out  to the orderlies and gets in the van. Once again, she is put through the ringer, only it got worse. She was not only drugged or given shock therapy, orderlies were raping her, or letting in military men  rape her as the orderlies held her down ( I guess anything to fuck a supposed crazy ex-starlet). There were stories that she even went through that horrendous "ice-pick" lobotomy, but supposedly there are no records of it. After about 6 years or so, she was declared sane and was released. She didn't really go back to acting, but had a show or appeared in some shows. After all this misfortune, she ended up dying of esophageal cancer in 1970. Such a sad life. I give this movie 5 Daisy-girls.
• Roman Polanksi: Odd Man Out: This is more of a documentary and it has to do with the infamous director, writer, producer, actor, who in the 1970's drugged and raped an underage girl, then he moved to Switzerland to avoid being extradited back to the U.S. This was also the director that was married to Sharon Tate, ya the one that was murdered by the Manson people. This documentary is about him and leading up to his arrest when he decided to go to an award show in Switzerland and all the hoopla surrounding it. Everyone involved was pretty much interviewed for this, except Polanski, even the 13 year old girl (who is obviously an adult by now), her mom, and other people who knew Polanski. It was pretty detailed and well thought out. It was also very informative and no matter what he was in the wrong and he knows it. Even the girl (now woman) has asked if he can be pardoned by the president, but I don't think that happened. He shelled out money to keep her shut about it, some say he bought her out. She said it happened to her so she can do what she wants with her story, which is true. But her forgiving him for what he's done to her is different from the court deciding whether or not he is a pedophile and has to register as so is SOOOOO not the same. In the end, Switzerland decided not to send him back to the U.S. and he continues to make movies and live his life like a free man. I give this documentary 5 Daisy-girls.

DVR recorded movie ratings #23

Had a busy weekend, so not much for watching movies. Saturday we went to the Celtic Music Festival and Highland Games. It was a nice outing seeing as we hadn't done that in quite some time. Since it had rained on Friday, the weather was very nice over the weekend. On Sunday, it was Free Museum Day and we went to the Jourdan-Bachman Pioneer Farm not too far from us. It's a living history park and once again the weather was very nice, which made it fun for the amount of walking we did. The best part, seeing a lady spinning some yarn from freshly picked cotton, and petting and feeding the donkeys. But before I get all childish-mode on you on how excited I was about the donkeys, I will stop now and do my movie reviews. If you ever get the chance to ask, PLEASE do!

• Stranger Than Fiction: I had seen this movie playing a few times over the past few months, but never really checked it out. I'm not much of a Will Farrell fan, especially his comedy movies. this was not one of them. Will plays a guy who lives his ordinary life from day to day, only after some time, he hears a voice narrating his everyday life. Not predicting it, but describing things he is doing at that exact same moment he is doing them. Then you have Emma Thompson who plays a writer suffering from writer's block. Her stuff is much more gruesome, imagining herself getting killed or dying in a horrific way. Well, it turns out that she is in fact writing about Will's life, unbeknownst to her that he is an actual person. Only problem is, she kills all her main characters in all her books. When confronted with this, she has a hard time wrapping her head around all this and must either decide if she should kill this new-found stranger or keep killing her main character as she has in her previous books. Maggie Gyllenhall, Dustin Hoffman, and Queen Latifah also star in this movie. I really liked this movie, I give it 5 Daisy-girls.
• Play Misty For Me: Ya, I know this movie is old and I have never seen it. This was playing late last night and we were fully awake, so why not watch it. I didn't catch the first ten minutes, so I hope nothing MAJOR happened. This movie was Clint Eastwoods first directorial debut. He also produced and starred in it. This is the movie that a lot of other movies are influenced by. He plays a radio DJ and some lady calls requesting him to play Misty. Well he ends up meeting this lady at his local restaurant, only he doesn't know it's her right away. He ends up giving her a ride home and she tells him who she is. They end up sleeping together, then she becomes obsessed with him. Following him everywhere he goes, mingling in his personal life, bothering his friends. I mean she goes fucken psycho, more than Glenn Close's Fatal Attraction character. This lady tries to kill Clint, his girlfriend, housekeeper, friends, anyone that is close to Clint. She is taken to an asylum, but is soon then released and while he is working he gets a request to play the song Misty. He freaks out, but she assures him she is moving and won't be bothering him. She ends up taking an ad for a roommate and it turns out that it is Clint's girlfriend who had posted the ad. She ends up his friend, and wanting to kill him. There is a lot of stabbing motions, lots of struggling and then she falls out the window and down a cliff into the ocean. Very interesting movie. I give it 5 Daisy-girls.
• Smashed: This is about an alcoholic couple who love each other, but I'm pretty sure they loooooooooove to drink more. She is a teacher, he is a writer who reviews bands. She ends up barfing in front of the students and they ask if she is pregnant, she says yes, and the lies start to escalate from there. Then one night she leaves the bar and this girl who is outside takes it upon herself to get a ride from her. She asks the drunk girl if she can smoke and she says ok, then she whips out a crack pipe, she offers the drunk girl some and she is hesitant at first but then does it. She ends up waking up in an undisclosed location and she freaks out. Goes home and tells her hubby what happened and she wants to stop drinking. At first he is not supportive and asks if he has to stop to, she said she just needs some support. At work, the principal thinks she is pregnant, but after some time the drunk girl confesses that she never was pregnant, she just had a hangover. The principal, feeling as she was taken advantage of, feels disgusted and ashamed for believing otherwise and she ends up firing the drunk girl, even though she has been sober for quite some time. She ends up relapsing, goes home and her husband is not supportive of her wanting to He's trying to drink. He tries to understand whys he would start to drink again and she tells him she got fired. Even though he wasn't really supportive of her being sober, he realizes now (that she is drunk) that she was really dedicated to her sobriety and she turned to drinking because of her losing her job, not drinking for fun as they had before. This movie is very emotional, and very real. This was another movie on my IMDb.com watchlist and I loved it. Not very enjoyable (seeing as it is a movie about alcoholics), but a very interesting one indeed. I give this movie 5 Daisy-girls.

DVR recorded movie ratings #22

So, I guess I should have looked at my last post to see when I had done it. It seems to me as if I have watched a lot of movies lately....once again. So here goes, reviews and ratings for seven, yes 7 movies.

• Life Of Pi: I remember what a big deal this movie was when it came out in theaters, how the effects looked, how the story was told, blah, blah blah. It won some awards and stuff. Ya stuff. What kind of stuff? I don't know, that's why I call it stuff. It has to do with a family owning a zoo, but after some time, they have to let it go, but the animals are theirs. So they pack themselves and the animals up on some boat to go somewhere else, except a big storm came. The boat went down and the only survivors, for the time being, were the guy, a tiger, a hyena, and a zebra. Well, the zebra died due to the hyena attacking it, and the hyena died due to the tiger killing it. It was about survival. The tiger took over the boat and the guy had to do a make-shift boat roped to the main boat. He was writing a diary about all this until it got blown away during another storm. He somehow manages to train the tiger to a certain extent that they are both able to live on the boat. Some magical stuff happens ( I think he was delusional and was hallucinating). There are three times I felt sad in this movie. One had to do when the guy killed a fish and he was very apologetic (he's a vegetarian), so I felt his pain, but I understand if you're ever in survival mode, anything is up for eating. The second one was the prairie dog island (that apparently doesn't exist according to other people). They were everywhere, so cute too. Third, was when the tiger left the guy (after reaching some Mexican beach). The guy felt as if he was abandoned by the tiger. It was a movie about self discovery and survival. I didn't care for the underwater lights and such, but it was a decent movie. I give this movie 3 Daisy-girls.
• The Frankenstein Syndrome/The Prometheus Project: Some doctors were doing illegal stem-cell research to find a cure for anything relating to stem cells. They have these girls who are then impregnated and tested on, but every test they do fails. One girl dies, and one of the genius doctors decides, "hey, let's shoot this runaway girl up with this serum and see what happens, after all, we made a heart start beating again." Well, ya, it all went fine and dandy, but don't play God. This girl goes on a rampage and starts attacking everyone. The lock her up in a cage, yes a cage and then kill her. One of the guards does some type of cage fighting and he soon dies and once again, playing God, is resurrected by the doctors. He seems to be more tamed seeing as the doctors actually measured the injection instead of just shooting as much as the first girl got shot. Mom doctor (that's what I call her because she worked with the guard to learn simple tasks) has control over him, but sooner than later the guard starts to attack the doctors and everyone around him. He has visions of the dead girl (she was pregnant by him and the doctors aborted it thinking it was one of their test pregnancies) who he had become close to. Soon enough, the mom doctor sees him behind a glass door and he calms down enough to call her mom and walk away. Mom is relieved. Another doctor, who lived to tell the FBI about all this and is wearing a creepy looking mask throughout the movie in the present time, gets mauled by the guard before he dies. At the end of the movie, she is looking at herself in the mirror, removes the mask and her face is fucked up big time. We didn't expect much from this movie and it got pretty bad reviews, but we actually thought it was pretty decent for a 1am movie. My hubby had input in this review, so WE are giving this movie 3 Daisy-girls.
• Love, Marilyn: There is something about famous people that die young which intrigues me. Especially ones that are too hard to believe. My theory on why Marilyn Monroe died has to do with the movie company. As in, they owned her and they decided what she can and cannot do. So I figure that either they told her to do something and she refused, or they were tired of her trying to take over her own life and do what she wanted. Either way, I think the company pressured her and she was forced to take the pills because they threatened her one way or another. OR she felt pressured by the company and decided to show them who is boss by killing herself while still in the limelight. But anyway, enough of my theory, this is more of a documentary about some diaries she wrote that were discovered in some attic. I liked that we were reading her words, how she felt, how she was doing, how she managed things in her life even though she agreed or disagreed with things going on around her. What I didn't like was all these celebrities who were reading her words. They added to it as if they knew how Marilyn Monroe felt at the time. It sounded too much like spoken word sessions instead of what it should have been. The actors walking around, rubbing their arms, as if they felt her pain and her remorse. If you're going to read someone elses words and you weren't there, then just read as is, we don't need your input of stuff that happened to someone in real life. That set aside, I give this documentary 3 Daisy-girls.
• The Gingerbread Man: Hmm this movie, well my review might go all over the place. I started to watch it, lost interest so I started doing something else while it was playing in the background, then something happened and I became interested again. Some divorced man fucks a caterer girl and soon enough he is entangled in her life about her crazy dad. He wants to institutionalize dad because from time to time he stalks the caterer gal. Dad goes to a hospital, but then his hillbilly, yes hillbilly, friends come, cut the fence with wire cutters and break him out. Then it's a cat and mouse chase. The guy and girl are followed by an unknown person his kids are threatened that he takes them out of school, and lots of wtf do we do shit happens. Well, after some time, they decide to confront dad at his hillbilly cabin and the guy shoots dad (because he thinks the dad kidnapped the kids) and he dies. After it turns out that he didn't have the kids and the kids are now save somewhere. Later on, when he is trying to put the puzzle pieces together, he is told that the dad had a will and he leaves everything to his daughter, the caterer girl. Well, this land is worth  A LOT of $$$ cause it has black walnut trees in it. After some time, the man realizes that he has been played by the caterer girl and her supposed ex-husband (who are still married). Thing is, they wanted the dad dead so they can get the land and do whatever they wanted with it. It's a bit confusing and slow at first. It took time to get interested in it, but overall it was okay. I give this movie 2 Daisy-girls.
• We Own The Night: Joaquin Phoenix is a club owner and is doing illegal shit with the mob. Robert Duvall is the Chief of Police and Mark Wahlberg is his son who becomes a cop. Oh and Eva Mendes is in it as Joaquin's girlfriend. I also forgot to mention that Joaquin is Robert's other son too. Ya, this plays for a story, doesn't it? Mark builds a task force to bring the mob down, but needs an informant, so he calls on to his brother Joaquin. Only he doesn't want to get involved because he could lose everything, including his life. Things get messy, lots of chasing and shootings, arguments, and losses. It was good, the beginning is good with Blondie music and Eva getting finger fucked by Joaquin. Hahaha. Anyway, I give this movie 4 Daisy-girls.
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Old English people go retire to an exotic hotel. That was what they thought, but as time went by, they learned to love and appreciate this beaten down hotel and grew to like it. Starring Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith, Bill Nye and a a few other older actors. It was a nice and charming movie. I can see why this won awards ( I think, I hope so!) and these actors were recognized for this movie. I just read a few days ago that they are making a sequel to this and the actors all want to come back. Sorry Tom Wilkinson, you're not invited, and if you see this movie, you will know why.  *sniffle*. I give this movie 4 Daisy-girls.
• The Sessions:  This is the movie, in which I think Helen Hunt got an award, or got nominated for being a surrogate sex therapist. This is also the movie in which she bares it all, multiple times. Not oops, you turn away and you missed it, no, full blown front and back nakedness. A 39 year old man in an iron lung is a virgin and wishes to be devirginized. That's where Helen comes in for 6 sessions, 2 hours a session. He can't move but he is able to get an erection and climax. The sessions start a wee bit slow (about 5 min of small talk, she is stripping) and move on toward only 4 sessions. Which by this time they have had full penetration and they both have climaxed. She grows close to him, but realizes it is her job and it was done. The guy had three loves in his live. One was an attendant of his who was fairly young and she left after he told her he loved her. The second was Helen's character. The third was a volunteer who he met at the hospital after the power had gone off where he lived and he had to go to the ER. He was with her for 5 years claiming she was the love of his life. All 3 women and friends showed up at his funeral where the volunteer lady read a poem he liked, which was the same poem he had mailed Helen while they were doing their sessions. I give this movie 4 Daisy-girls.

DVR recorded movie ratings #21

Wow, I have no idea how I went from hardly watching any movies in a week to watching six since my last posting. Having a free HBO and Cinemax weekend, how can I not go through the schedule and see what movies are playing so I can record them? Sometimes these are great weekends, but most times they are a bummer only because when these premium channels are free for the weekend, they end up showing cheesy old movies mixed in with new stuff. Not all the movies listed are from the free preview channels.

• History Of The Eagles: I've had this recorded for quite some time and let me tell you, I am kicking my own ass as to why the fuck did I take so long to watch this music documentary. It was great, it was informative it was fun and sad, and it was 3 hours long. The first 90 minutes has to do with how the band came to be and old interviews entwined with new interviews from the band members and other people who became involved with the Eagles (thank you Linda Ronstadt!). The other 90 minutes had to do with them getting back together after being apart for 11 years for the Hell Freezes Over concert tour. I hadn't realized how long ago that tour was until I saw this documentary. As a birthday gift, I took my dad to that concert and he had the time of his life. There we were swaying ( a bit) and singing along to a band that has always made my dad have a smile on his face and the look of nostalgia upon him was priceless. So, as I was watching this documentary I thought of my dad and how much fun we had that night. he was mesmerized and I was enjoying every minute of seeing my dad so happy. I wanted to call him up and tell him what I was watching, but what was he going to get out of it? Nothing, he doesn't have cable. So, I went to Amazon.com/HistoryoftheEagles and I put that on my shopping list for future use. This documentary has an advantage because it is close to my heart, I give this 5 Daisy-girls. Great band, great music, great times.
• Restless: This movie is going to sound way more depressing than what it seems like. A teen whose parents died in a car crash likes to draw chalk outlines of his body on the ground also likes to attend strangers funerals meets a girl who is dying of cancer. These two form a friendship and soon start to fall for each other. She gets the bad news that she doesn't have much longer to live and has accepted that she will die sooner than later. He doesn't really want to acknowledge the fact that she will die and tries to make the most of what little time they have left. It is a sweet movie and sad at times, but overall, it is a movie in which you wish you were a part of their bonding friendship. I give this movie 5 Daisy-girls.
• Broken Embraces: For me to not really like Penelope Cruz much, I sure end up watching more of her movies than I ever cared for. But, as I've mentioned before, I don't like her acting in English movies, but I love her in Spanish movies. This movie is about a blind man who is affected by the death of someone from his past. Told in flashbacks, he (wasn't blind at the time) is a director and falls in love with Penelope's character, only she is married to an older man her used to be her boss and helped her out financially when her father was dying. So, she feels that she needs to stay with him as a payback of everything that he has done. Only, her husband realizes that there is something going on with his wife and the director. So he hires a guy who records Penelope and the director every time they get together. The husband also hires a lady who reads lips and she translates to him what the two are talking about in the recordings. He realizes that she has slipped away and in order to keep her to himself, he "accidentally" (lightly) pushes her off the staircase. She then feels compelled to stay with him and tells her lover director that she can't leave her husband or else he will bash the movie (because after all, the husband is the producer). So she decides to stay with him until the movie is complete and the director has finished in the cutting room. Except, that doesn't happen. She shows up at his place all beat up and they both decide to go away together. After some time, they read reviews of how bad the movie was (the husband fucked with the final production to sabotage the movie) and how it was a good thing that the director and actress did not show up to the movie premiere. This angers the director and decide to go back into town and clear some things. Someone follows them in another car and soon you see a crash. Penelope dies and the director becomes blind. His assistant final confesses that she had something to do with the bashing of the movie (under the orders of the producer) and also mentions that he is the dad of her kid (who is now in his 20's and who the director has been telling this flashback story to). This sounds a bit more complicated than how the movie was. The movie was an easy flow to follow, I don't know why I feel my explanation is all over the place. I give this movie 4 Daisy-girls.
• Desert Flower: Okay, this movie is a sad and depressing one. Another foreign film that has to do with a Somalian girl who was circumsized (AKA Female Genitalia Mutilation) at the age of 3, sold to marriage at age 13, ran away from Africa to go to England, and later the United States (became a supermodel), and finally retired to become a UN spokeswoman for female genitalia mutilation (FGM). My husband watched bits of this with me and he commented on how and why could I watch fucked up movies. At times, I know what kind of movie I'm getting myself into, but other times I don't and this was one of them. I thought she just grew up poor, was discovered and became a supermodel. When I've never heard of a movie, I rarely go read further information about it until after I've seen it. I don't care for spoilers, I actually love them, but a part of me doesn't want to watch a movie and know little bits of information that make the movie much more touching. So, I just tend to read the little snippet of information the guide gives me and if it sounds good I record it. A few times, this movie was hard to watch, especially when she was a little girl and when she showed her roommate in England her mutilation. They don't show it, but the looks on their faces say it all. I give this movie 4 Daisy-girls.
• Phil Spector: I did not like this movie. I didn't really know what I was expecting. Maybe a backup story as to what led to the event of Lana Clarkson being shot dead in his house. Maybe how Phil Spector came to be one of the most influential and famous record producers, songwriters... we will ever see. This movie had to do with his defense team and leading up to the trial. There was great music being played, but that was about it Helen Mirren played his sick lawyer and Al Pacino played Phil Spector. The only thing I got out of it was that Lana was shot in close range (gun inside her mouth) and that Phil had pin-drop blood splatter in only 3 places on his clothes. The jury can't reach a decision and there is a mistrial. He gets retried again and is sentenced for 19 years to life. I wish there were bands, singers, someone who would say otherwise. The few people from his past ( a few ladies, so it seems) complained that he was  a little off, but no one really came to his defense. I wonder why. I guess this is something I need to read into. On the other hand, now I feel like listening to oldies. I give this movie 1 Daisy-girl.
• Ted:  Stars Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Giovanni Ribisi, and the voice of Seth MacFarlane as Ted. As a little kid, Mark gets a teddy bear and he names his Teddy. One night he wishes Teddy could talk and he does. Everyone panics, but is fascinated by it. Teddy goes on talk shows and becomes famous. Years later, Mark is now 35 and in a relationship with Mila. Also, Ted's voice has also matured. Mark and Ted like to smoke pot, watch tv and pretty much bum it. He has a job as a rental car agent, but doesn't work much. Mila on the other hand has a job in downtown (what she does exactly, I don't recall). It comes to the point where she tells Mark that he needs to choose between Ted and her, and he picks her. Ted moves out to his own place and parties like a bachelor. Mark tries to stay away, but since Ted is his best friend since age 8, he feels he can't live without Ted. So, Mila dumps Mark. Giovanni (who I love, love love, but looks creepy as fuck in this movie, except where he dances to Tiffany, and gets all cuuuuute again) has been wanting Ted for a long time, he is obsessed with him, so much that he kidnaps Ted for his own kid. Ted calls Mark (who is trying to reconcile with Mila) and tells him that he is in danger. Mila and Mark go and try to find Ted and they end up in a baseball field, where Giovanni is climbing up  after Ted. He manages to pull Ted's leg and ted rips apart in half. Mila and Mark take Ted home and they try to sew him up to see if Ted comes back. He doesn't, til the next morning. Mila wished Ted would come back to life and when Mark sees this, he instantly purposes to her. They get married. This movie was a bit better than I had thought. I give this 4 Daisy-girls.

DVR recorded movie ratings #20

Once again, it has been quite a while since the last review. I didn't have much time to watch movies and write reviews since starting a new job. But, here I am once again, ready to go for it and see how much can be done.

• People Like Us: When I saw the previews for this movie, I could have cared less to watch it. Even as I saw it constantly being played on cable, then I read the synopsis and it seemed pretty interesting. It even had a 3 star rating, so I decided to give this movie a chance. It was pretty good actually. Stars Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Michael Hall D' Addario. Chris' dad dies and he returns home for a while. When he is told about the will, he learns that he has a sister. Instead of either forgetting about it and keeping the money to himself (cause he needs it), he goes and stalks his sister. He goes to her recovery meetings and befriends his nephew. Soon, all 3 of them become buddies and star hanging out and having a good time. Until the sister tries to make a move and he stops her and tells her he is her brother. She beats the shit out of him and kicks him out of the apartment. He decides to go back to New York until the nephew goes to his uncle's house and meets step-grandma. He writes the guy a note saying they moved and gives him the new address. After the guy talks to mom, she gives him a movie reel and tells him he needs to watch this. As he does, he is surprised at what he sees and goes over to his sister's house. She wants nothing to do with him and drives off, but then comes back. She said that although she didn't want anything to do with the now deceased dad (he abandoned her and her mom), she decided to keep the money and make a better life for her kid (who sure likes to get in trouble and has anger issues). The guy tells her if he can show her something and she finally agrees. In the old footage, there we see a young dad who is sitting in his car and video taping the guy (young boy) at a park. Then dad pans over to a girl and a lady sitting down having a picnic. It turns out the lady is his first wife and the little girl is the sister of the guy. Thing is, dad had the guy and the girl both at the park and at some time, you can see both siblings playing together on the jungle jim. They had met each other once before when they were small, but never realized it because they thought they were just kids at a playground playing together. It's a bit of a sappy story towards the end, but I liked the movie anyway. I give this movie 4 Daisy-girls.
• Compliance: Hmm, this movie. It's a movie that I had been wanting to watch for quite sometime and it's been on my imdb.com list since I first read about it. I can't even really comment if this is a good movie. I didn't hate it, but I did not enjoy watching it, yet I did. I've watched some fucked up shit before and some that would make people, including myself, uncomfortable, but not like this one. This is based on the incidents that occurred throughout America on stupid fucked up people crank calling fast food restaurants and having managers strip search (usually) a female employee due to a supposed complaint of a non-existent customer who claims the employee stole from them. This case happened in a small town (of course) and the employee was accused of stealing money from a customer right at the counter during a very busy shift. The manager calls the employee to her office and the manager is instructed to search the employee and to strip search her. The employee is refusing, but soon enough gives in. During the time she is in the back office only covered by an apron, the manager calls upon other employees to keep an eye on this supposed thief while she manages the restaurant. During these times, the caller (who claims he is a cop) tells these other employees (usually a male) how to handle the supposed thief. The male employees want no part of this and the manager decides it is best if she calls her fiance and keep an eye on her. At this time, he is left in the back office alone with the employee girl and the "cop" tells him that she needs to do certain things to make sure she didn't hide the money she supposedly stole. The employee talks back and the "cop" tells the guy that she has been bad and needs to be punished, so he orders the guy to spank her. It goes on for quite some time (in real life it went on for 10 minutes), she also has to perform oral sex on him and by the time the manager comes back it is all over and the fiance says he needs to leave and doesn't come back. In the car, he calls a friend and asks if he can go over cause he did a really bad thing. At this time, the restaurant custodian comes in and the manager tells him he needs to keep his eye on the employee in the back. When he picks up the phone, the "cop" tells him to perform the same acts he had told the fiance to do and he finds it very disturbing. He tells the manager what the "cop" is telling to do and the manager finally calls her boss and he is not aware of what the fuck had been happening (the caller "cop" had said that he had been talking to the district manager all this time, when in fact the district manager had been sick in bed all day). It ends in the girl being walked out to the police car and the manager looking very distraught. The manager gets interviewed by a TV show and she claims she felt bad at what happened to the poor girl, but then denies incidents that occurred right in front of her even though the tapes showed exactly what was happening. This prank went on for over 10 years and in 30 states. When I read about it, at the time, I had only read about 2 of these incidents. It's hard to rate this movie because I didn't hate it, but it wasn't enjoying to watch. I say it was a good depiction of what happened, although reading about the real incident, this movie was pretty mellowed out and I can see why. 4 Daisy-girls.
• Rabbit- Proof Fence: True Story. Takes place in the 1930's Western Australia. During this time, mostly white men were putting up 3 fences to enclose rabbits and they would often sleep with these Aboriginal women. 3 Aboriginal girls were taken from their mothers after it was found out that they were half-caste. This was a government policy, to "save them from themselves", whatever the fuck that means. They are taken 1,500 miles away from their home to a camp where there are other half-caste girls. Soon enough, Molly, Daisy, and Grace run away and follow the fence to go back home. During this time, the girls run into generous people and not so generous people. They also have to hide from the guys who work at the camp and will take them back there. After some time of constant walking and little food, they run into a man who tells them that they are following the wrong fence. In fact, there are 3 fences, he tells them how instead of walking back, they can cut across. More walking continues and one of the girls decides that the way they've been walking is the wrong way and decides to go on her own. Eventually, the two sisters see the cousin and are motioning her to join them back in their journey, when the men from the camp show up and take her away once again. The two sisters continue on their journey and make it home to their mom. They tell their aunt that the cousin didn't make it and the men took her back to the camp. These two girls, ages 14 and 8 walked 1,500 miles to go back home, most of the journey emancipated and barefoot (I know they aren't used to shoes, but that is a LONG way to travel without having anything on your feet and having to step on a lot of uncomfortable things). The epilogue shows that Gracie (the cousin) died and never returned home. Molly had two daughters and were taken from her, but she managed to escape with one daughter, walking along the fence back to her home. But, the saved daughter was taken away once more when she was 3 and Molly never saw her again. It was a pretty sad movie, I can't imagine reading the book. I give this movie 4 Daisy-girls.

DVR recorded movie ratings #19

Been pretty busy lately. My best friend came to visit us from Houston. Ya, it's only a 3-hour drive, but it was awesome seeing and spending time with her. I love this girl to death and have been doing so for the past 15 years. I've also been on a couple of job interviews, some good and some not so good. I wish people would advertise EXACTLY what they are looking for, not give a general description of a job offer and once you're at the interview a whole bunch of other tasks and job hats that they want you to be responsible for. I got a few job offers and one I had to turn down, the pay was less than what I was getting in Houston, it was past downtown, and I would be wearing too many job titles. So I said forget it to that job even though the director kept insisting that it wasn't going to be too overwhelming. The other job offer sounds great, but then I went to the orientation and ever since then there has been something bothersome ticking at me with that position. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it's starting to really bother me. I'm waiting to hear from another place on Monday, I've gone to two interviews and on the last one she asked what position I would want there at the school (as if I had already gotten the job). We'll see what happens this following week. So, because of all this going on, I haven't really had time to watch as many movies as I was doing in past few weeks.

• Textuality: I caught this movie during the last movie review. I tend to do my reviews in the morning and this movie was on, except when I tried to find it on IMDb, I couldn't. Let me clear this up, when the movie was on, it was under a different title, it's actually called Sexting. So, when I went to look up more information on it, I couldn't. I had to type in the actors names and take it from there, and there it was under the title Textuality. I didn't search to find this movie on cable, it just happened to be on for background noise purposes. And I must say, it wasn't too bad. The new title for this movie sucks, because they don't do that and it sounds as if it would be a Lifetime movie. Note to Lifetime: I'm not mocking you or your movies, in fact, I love them. Ask my hubby. Anyway, a guy hits a girl on a bike with his car, he offers to buy her a new bike and the go drink coffee. Exchange numbers to seal the deal on the new bike and they start texting. He has a girlfriend and she has sex buddies (4 of them, 1 is married). The guy becomes a bit infatuated with bike girl and at first she couldn't give a damn about him. Then things change, girlfriend finds out about bike girl AND another gal. Bike girl sits her sex buddies down to let them know she can't be sleeping with them anymore. Like I mentioned before, it's not so bad of a movie. I give it 3 Daisy- girls.
• The Magdalene Sisters: I had seen this movie playing for some time on Starz, only I never really got around to reading the description of it until last week, so I recorded it. Wow, can I say wow? This movie is a heavy movie. I'm still shaking my head that girls and women went through what they went through. I won't really get into the details of this movie because I feel that it should be a movie that YOU should watch. Just be cautious that it was based on a real place and according to one of the women still alive, this movie was pretty mild compared to what they went through in real life. It's quite a sad movie and it doesn't really let up from there. For a bit I thought everything would be better after one of the girl's brother comes and gets her, but it doesn't. The main girls get happy endings (if you really want to call it that), but overall, this is a movie that is a bit over 2 hours long, but it is well worth it. Usually, if I'm watching a movie, and I need to go to the restroom or go get a snack, I let it play. With this one, I either paused it, or had to rewind it to see what I missed. If I could, I would give this movie a higher rating that 5 Daisy- girls, but that is as high as my ratings go. I may have to make a new category ratings for movies that I hold dear to my heart, and this is one of them.