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.