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relaxedI'm back to watching movies lately, started from watching Star Trek, X-Men: Origins, Angels and Demons then the movies I missed: The Day The Earth Stood Still, He's Just Not Into You, Bride Wars, Marley & Me, Sunshine, The Curse of The Golden Flower, Bedtime Stories and P.S. I Love You.
Yeah, I've been watching more chick flicks than usual. The verdicts:
- He's Just Not Into You makes me think I really don't know anything about men and women because they're absolutely clinically insane.
- Bride Wars is heart-warming, funny and Anne Hathaway always makes me swoon. However the theme and plot was nothing new.
- Marley & Me made me cry, it's a story about building a family and about the things you do for family and I can relate to that.
- I fast-forward most of The Curse of The Golden Flower, the story gives me a headache.
- I liked The Day The Earth Stood Still, I think it's the shiny ball. The whole "US got whumped for treating the unknowns with 'shoot now ask questions later'" makes me feel strangely happy. Keanu's acting in this movie is really worrying me for his role in 'Cowboy Bebop'.
- Sunshine was really better than I thought, it's a bit (really, a smidgeon) trippy, but it feels real. I don't know why a lot of people gave it bad reviews. Oh, someone should really slash Mace and Capa. My brain was running its own 'production' all through the movie.
- Bedtime Stories is a typical Adam Sandler 'diamond in a rough character finally shines' comedy. Loved Russel Brand in this one.
- P.S. I Love You is a lovely love story. Hard to understand at first why Gerry seems to make it hard for Holly to let go, but I can understand how you treat a deep wound by curing it over time for it to heal completely than quickly and leaving a scar. My biggest surprise was seeing Jeffrey Dean Morgan (John Winchester, Supernatural) speaking in sexy Irish accent in this movie, so I finally looked up his filmography in IMDB. Wow, the dude is in Grey's Anatomy these days. Crap >.< I don't want to watch that show!
- Star Trek, love the meaningful looks between Spock and Kirk. Ah, budding love.
- X-Men: Origins suffers from either bad editing or directing. What with the different directors for different locations anyway? The scenes doesn't quite work so the messages they're trying to imply about Wolverine's character (yes, I feel that they were trying to imply Wolverine's character through the scenes they picked. Stop laughing.) feels weak.
- I haven't read the book, so I found Angels and Demon pretty good though I spotted the supposed 'twist' coming, I think they intended to though because Ewan's line, "It's him! Look, he has a gun!" is very revealing. Also, it was worth it to watch Ewan McGregor in priest collar.
2009-06-15 01:15 pm (UTC)
I just couldn't get into it. :/
2009-06-16 10:05 am (UTC)
They are an immature couple though, their age when they met was mentioned many times as the reason their parents disapprove. They were never supposed to be a 'mature' couple, Holly was only starting to mature after Gerry died. Holly is very dependant to Gerry, that was pretty obvious. Through his messages, Gerry slowly showed 'the world outside your apartment' and reminded her of her dreams before her dreams turn into their dreams of home and family that would no longer be realized.
I see a lot of women does that, going out into the world with dreams and met a guy and next thing you know she never reach her dreams and ended up staying at home with three kids. So it's not hard to imagine this was the path Holly was heading with Gerry even though Gerry always says, "Whatever you do, I will support you." but a lot of women, when they're set on a path to build a family, are generally less adventurous and tend to 'settle'.
Wow, that was kind of long.