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.