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.