DVR recorded movie ratings #7

Happy Easter everyone! Seeing as my hubby is still sleeping, I figured I would type away some of my movie reviews that I have seen this past week.

• Volver: Let me start out by saying that I could care less about Penelope Cruz. I don't like her accent when she speaks English and I don't like her demeanor. I'm all for Hispanics or other races and ethnicities making it through to movies made in America, but her and a few other Hispanics I couldn't care less for. BUT, there are always exceptions. This movie is not American and is not in English. It is Spanish...and it was good. Even Penelope Cruz. Her acting and her manners and such are so different from American movies. Anyway, onto the movie. It's about her, her sister, her mom and her daughter. Husband loses job, says he will find another one. Penelope comes home from work one day and sees daughter waiting for her. She then starts to cry and says that dad was sexually attacking her and she killed him. Penelope feels angry and sad about it.Tells the daughter that everything will be okay. A neighbor leaves his key of his restaurant to her because he is leaving. She stores the hubby body in the restaurant refrigerator. Some guy comes up to her, says he has a film crew that is hungry, she passes the restaurant over as hers and makes them some food and money on the side. The neighbor has no idea she is doing this, seeing as he is trying to sell it. A neighbor of her aunt calls saying that the aunt died. Penelope, her sis, and her daughter go over there. Sis gets creeped out cause she feels mom present and mom is deceased. Penelope and her mom got along, but she wasn't raised by her, she was raised by her mom instead. 
• **** I did not get a chance to finish the Volver rating and review but go see it. I give it 4 Daisy- girls.****
• Dopamine: 3 guys are working on a computer program and in order to test it out, they decide to put it in some computers in a kindergarten class. One of the guys had slept with the teacher ( but all the guys did not know that she was a teacher since they had met at a bar the previous night). There's a glitch in the program and one of the guys (not the one that slept with the teacher) goes to the kindergarten class to try and fix it. Since the program involves an artificially-lived computer character named Koy Koy, one of the students feels connected to Koy Koy and makes him his friend. The guy and the teacher sort of hit it off. There is a bit of awkwardness, but you know they are into each other. After innocently flirting, they end up kissing and eventually sleep with each other. One of the times they are out at a bar, they realize that the girl has sleep with two of the three guys and the guy that is into her leaves the bar. The men paying the computer guys to develop the program decide to scrap the program and the three guys get upset saying that they have spent the last three years not having a social life, let alone sleep trying to get this program up and running. The guy who likes the teacher makes a copy of it and takes it to the kindergarten class, where he gives the copy to the little boy and says that he can talk to Koy Koy anytime he wants at home. There is awkwardness with the teacher and the guy, they both go on their separate ways. After some time, the guy realizes he has nothing holding him back since the program flopped and decides to go to the teacher, who no longer works at the school. He goes to her apartment and sees that she is selling all her belongings because she is going to move. It ends with both of them confessing how they feel toward each other and that they really don't have anyone else but each other. It was sort of cutesy, I'm giving this 3 or 4 Daisy- girls.
• Storytelling: It's about two small stories set based on two students who have no relation to one another. The first story stars Selma Blair who is taking a small writing course. There's about ten or so students and they read their stories, but are quick to criticize each other, basically saying how much their writing sucks. Only thing is, the harshest critic happens to be the professor who doesn't hold back and doesn't care how he makes his students feel. Selma sees the professor in a bar and they go back to his place and we all know what happens. But before it did, she goes to his restroom and finds pictures of all her other classmates in sexual poses. Seems to be that they have all slept with the professor at one time or another, even the guys, even the guy Selma had been sleeping with when the movie first started. She then shares her story in class and is criticized by the professor saying that it sounds too fictional. It pretty much ends with her saying that it is not fiction and it's true because it happened to her. The second story has to do with Paul Giamatti calling an old classmate and trying to catch up. The conversation is very one-sided and very uncomfortable to witness. The girl can care less about this guy. He then goes to a high school where he tells them that he wants to make a documentary and that it will be shown in HBO and other big channels. Thing is, it's a lie. He wants to make a documentary just to make one, to feel connected to someone and he finds it in some high school loner. This story was more depressing than the first one. I actually didn't really want to see this after some time. So if you want to see a real downer type of movie, this should be one of them. I give it 3 Daisy- girls.