Sunday, February 17, 2013

DVR Movie Recording reviews #4

I should really start doing these reviews the same day as I watch these movies for two reasons. One, I lose my momentum and emotions when I write about them days later. Two, I forget which movies I have watched when I write about them a week or so later and by then, I have already watched a few other movies and tend to push them a week after. It's a continuous cycle. But, moving on...
  • Charlie Wilson's War- We ended up watching this movie by accident. I would see it on the guide from time to time and I knew it had big names attached to it, but it never really grabbed my attention. It's one of those movies that I wouldn't mind seeing, but not actually record it. And oops, yeah, this was not a movie I had recorded, but one I saw after a show had finished on IFC. Anyway, this movie stars Tom Hanks as Charlie Wilson, who is a (of all things, seeing as where we live) Texan congressman who likes to drink hard liquor and is a womanizer. It also stars Julia Roberts (who I feel does not look good at all as a blonde and big hair). Philip Seymour Hoffman was great in this movie. He put up a fight and was such a smart-ass that I loved it. Anyway, it was a political movie, but with a sense of humor. It had to do with how he  worked with the CIA in administering weapons to Aghans to fight against the Soviets. See this is one of those movies I saw over a week and I cannot recount certain details, but it was a funny and informative movie. I'm quite sure this movie got some type of award seeing as there are three major names in it. Political, but semi-humorously, I give this movie 4 Daisy-girls.
  • Imagine Me & You- Rachel gets married to Heck (uhm, ya... the name?...right?!)  and at her wedding she meets the florist (Luce) who decorated the reception. Rachel and Luce hit it off right from the start and soon Rachel sets up Luce with Heck's friend Cooper. Cooper takes a quick liking to Luce and pretty much wants to fuck her, but at a lunch date, she tells him she is gay. That doesn't seem to stop Cooper throughout the movie, until almost the end of the movie. So Rachel and Luce spend a lot of time together and Heck, who has been so busy at work doesn't seem to mind. If anything he feels bad he can't really spend much time with Rachel. After some time, Heck feels as if he is not being a good hubby to Rachel and goes over to talk to Luce about it. He senses there is something wrong with Rachel and hopes that Luce can help him figure out what's going on since Rachel does not seem happy at home. What Heck does not know is that Rachel is in the bad room, with hair all messed up because she and Luce had just finished making out! OOooooh. Soon Heck and Cooper find out and Cooper basically calls Luce a slut for going after a married woman. the thing that was heart breaking for me was when Luce's mom, who has such a big open heart and only wishes the best for her daughter and for Rachel when Rachel went to go talk to her. I loved this movie and I would recommend this movie by giving it 5 Daisy-girls. I'm not really into romantic movies, but at times, there are exceptions.
  • The Kid With A Bike- This movie, I'm mixed about. Well the kid makes me angry. I understand there are reasons behind it, but he came off as a little fucker to me and not appreciating what has been given to him. Cyril is an 11 year-old boy who was abandoned by his dad (he doesn't quite know it yet) and was put in a "state- run youth farm" (which looks like a foster home to me). At the beginning he keeps asking about his dad until he is harshly told that his dad left him. He then continues to ask about his bike, that if dad really left, dad would have left the bike for Cyril behind. He runs away and goes back to his apartment he had with dad and keeps kicking and screaming that he wants his bike. The landlord finally lets him in and the bike is nowhere to be found. When Cyril was running away from everyone, he went into a local clinic to hide (but was found) and knocked over a lady, Samantha a local hairdresser, who tells him, "you can hold on, just don't squeeze too hard." Next day, the lady arrives at the "youth farm" and takes Cyril his bike, which he had described earlier, and doesn't even thank her until he is told to do so. He then asks her if he can stay with her on the weekends and she ( not knowing this kid and for some fucken reason) agrees. She does whatever she can do, as far as keeping him happy and teaching him some life values, but the kid is still rude. She even sacrificed her relationship with her boyfriend for Cyril and the kid could care less. They end up finding the dad and go see him at his work. Dad is not thrilled at all. More of why are you here? I don't want to see you. Dad confides in Samantha that he cannot afford Cyril to live with him and that Cyril is basically a burden in his life. She tells him that he has to tell Cyril that and stop leading him on in hopes of reconciling with him once dad settles down. Dad (again harshly) says: I don't want you in my life. I don't want to see you again. Do not come back. The kid could somewhat cares less. He and Samantha go back to their town and he befriends some guy who shows him how to rob people. He is pretty much a drug dealer and stuff. In the end, Cyril (kinda) realizes that he has it going good, living with Rachel and having his bike. If the kid wasn't such an egotistical little bastard who only thinks of himself when people are there for him, I would give this movie a higher rating. As of now, this movie gets 3 Daisy-girls.

Saturday, February 2, 2013

DVR movie recording reviews #3

Well, well. I saw these movies about two weeks ago and meant to comment on them, but we were pretty busy last weekend. We ended up going to the Houston Auto Show. Although we aren't big car enthusiasts, it was only 10 bucks and close by. It turned out to be pretty damn cool. There were a few car companies that had test driving, in which you got a gift afterwards. We test drove a Honda Accord and got two  $10 gift cards for Target. We then test drove Volkswagon. I drove the Passat and my hubby drove the Beetle. In the end we got two pairs of sunglasses. The rest of the show was good. Not that we are car hunting but it was nice to get a close-up view of cars that we deemed nice or seemed slightly interested in by watching Top Gear or other sources. We also had high hopes for some cars, but it turned out that they weren't as good or nice as we had thought they were. Still love the BMW X5 (hubby says it's big, I said I can really see myself driving that thing), loved the Volkswagon, loved the Honda. But anywayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, enough about our super-exciting life of non-car enthusiasts, here are three movie reviews:
  • Me and Orson Welles: I have never seen a Zack Efron movie (I tried to watch the one about him seeing his younger dead brother, but I got as far as 15 minutes into it and gave up. High School Musical....forget it), but that's not to say that the guy is not cute. He can look hot in some cases. Anyway, this movie is about him being in high school and him getting an acting job in an Orson Welles production of Julius Caesar in 1937. Love the clothes and make-up of that era. It was pretty good. Claire Danes also comes out in it. I don't recall how old she is supposed to be, but I do know that she will do "whatever it takes" for her to meet the right people so she could move up. Zack tries his best in acting to satisfy Orson, but also wants to be true to himself. I don't know much about Orson Welles, but I do know that he comes out in everything he directed, or was it produced? Either way, he is portrayed here as an egotistical bastard that does whatever he can to get his way. Even if it means not giving credit to people who deserve it, or using people just for a grand opening and then firing them after the production is over. I would suggest watching the movie, it was pretty decent.. not at the theater though. I would give this 2.5 Daisy-girls, but since I love my Daisy TOO much and not dare cut her in half, I suggest 3 Daisy-girls.
  • The Perfect Family: I had been wanting to see this movie when it came out last year in the theater, but never got a chance. I'm glad I waited. It stars Kathleen Turner as a devoted Catholic mom who is being nominated as  "Catholic of the Year" by her church. She is excited about this, but once she is told that her family will be interviewed so they can see how a Catholic's life should be lived, her happiness quickly fades away. She is married and has two adult children, a son and a daughter. Her husband goes on day to day doing his usual routine of going to work and listening to his wife talk about what she did at church. The son, played by Jason Ritter, is married, but leaves his wife to be with a manicurist. And her daughter, played by Emily Deschanel, is a lesbian and engaged, but mom doesn't know that just yet. Mom tries to hide all this from the church and her competition (Sharon Lawrence), who she has known, I think, since high school. It turns out that the more Mom tried to fix, hide, and ignore things, they do not go away. In the end, she ends up writing a letter to her church telling them the truth and they realize that she could in fact by the "Catholic of the Year" based on her being truthful to everyone. It was a good movie...for Lifetime, which is where I saw it on. I would not suggest paying to see this movie. Just like the Auto Show, my expectations seemed a bit high for such a TV-like movie. I give this movie 2 Daisy-girls.
  • The Woods:  I was flipping through the guide and this movie sounded interesting when I read it. I don't know anyone who comes out in it, except for Patricia Clarkson and Bruce Campbell (Burn Notice, which my hubby watches). It turns out that Bruce's daughter Heather burned something down and was taken to a a bad-girl school located in the woods. It turns out that some scary crap happened in the woods years ago and that if you go in there, you will most likely not come back. Has to do with some three girls being called witches and how they had been outcasted by everyone at the school. I think they either ended up killing them, oh yeah, they did with an ax. Well maybe hurting them, but wtf gets hurt with an ax to the head or face? Anyway, back to current time, the bad girl gets called a fire-crotch by the mean girl. Strange stuff happens at night that has to do with fog and tree branches. It's kind of a trippy movie, and they do talk about the axed girls in the woods from the past, so you get the back story to all this that is going on. BUT, it turns out that those girls from the past aren't really dead. No, they are not zombies or anything like that. But it's trippy in a way. Like when Dad and Heather are forced to drink some blood from the headmaster and they both barf and there is either a small branch or a leaf coming out of their mouths. It turns out that the woods really play a BIG part in this movie. If you want to see something different, not scary or gruesome, just mysterious, watch this movie. I give this 3 Daisy-girls.