April 13, 2004
Ella Enchanted!
easter: family was all up in vermont, friends were all busy with family. but i made a great day of it anyway!
was meeting up with the boyfriend later, but i figured around 7 or 8 so i had plenty of time for a 4:50 showing. took myself to the movies... and chose ella enchanted, cause i was pretty sure it was one i'd be hard pressed to find a companion for. hehe.
well, GOOD CHOICE. i hadnt been having the best weekend... and this was the perfect movie for that. Eric Idle as the narrator, Carey Elwes as the delightful bad guy, Minnie Driver and Vivica Fox as fairys... it was just... lovely!
i swear i couldnt stop smiling the whole time... even the painfully cheesy musical numbers didnt suck hardcore, they were SUPPOSED to be painfully cheesy.
if you're looking for a light trip into a bent fairy tale... hit it.
was meeting up with the boyfriend later, but i figured around 7 or 8 so i had plenty of time for a 4:50 showing. took myself to the movies... and chose ella enchanted, cause i was pretty sure it was one i'd be hard pressed to find a companion for. hehe.
well, GOOD CHOICE. i hadnt been having the best weekend... and this was the perfect movie for that. Eric Idle as the narrator, Carey Elwes as the delightful bad guy, Minnie Driver and Vivica Fox as fairys... it was just... lovely!
i swear i couldnt stop smiling the whole time... even the painfully cheesy musical numbers didnt suck hardcore, they were SUPPOSED to be painfully cheesy.
if you're looking for a light trip into a bent fairy tale... hit it.
April 04, 2004
Jersey Girl (late post: saw it wednesday)
my initial review, as written in a little notebook in a wendy's parking lot on wednesday:
"george carlin's best performance to date. still dont like ben, would've liked some lunchbox love, but there was a good minute or two of jason lee and matt damon to tide me over."
now... i'll expand on that. heh.
george carlin plays one of the most compassionate, regular old jersey dad i've ever seen on film. even his harsh words to his son are necessary, and true. he... is really the reason why this picture works so well. him, and the little girl. she rocked out, as well.
liv tyler was also a rather dominating force. as a student writing her thesis on "the habbits of the male porn-consumer" (or something...) and working in a video store on the side, she has quite the character to play. and she does it very well. there's still something about the way she moves her face when she talks, but it doesnt irk me NEARLY as bad as alicia silverstone's contortions, so i can deal with it. she's also not rail-thin, which i REALLY like. sure, she has an amazing body, but it's one with a few CURVES on it, so i'll let it pass. for now :) (if i told you that you had a nice body, would you hold it against me?)
ben affleck... well, i still dont really LIKE him, but he had some great moments in this movie. i'll attribute it to supreme script writing and directing. i even managed to like jennifer lopez, but i think that's mostly cause she wasnt IN the movie long enough for me to get sick of her.
g: but i'm a fat PIG, and all the other girls are gonna be skinny, and beautiful, and i'm UGLY.
o: no no baby, they're only skinny cause they're coked-out whores.
g: i wanna be a coked-out whore...
o: ok ok, alright baby... you can be a coked-out whore. its ok...
(names abreviated cause i forgot. dialogue paraphrased, cause it HAS been several days now.)
overall... most definatly NOT what i was expecting of kevin smith, but it was a plesant surprise. absolutely something i would buy when it comes out on video.
"george carlin's best performance to date. still dont like ben, would've liked some lunchbox love, but there was a good minute or two of jason lee and matt damon to tide me over."
now... i'll expand on that. heh.
george carlin plays one of the most compassionate, regular old jersey dad i've ever seen on film. even his harsh words to his son are necessary, and true. he... is really the reason why this picture works so well. him, and the little girl. she rocked out, as well.
liv tyler was also a rather dominating force. as a student writing her thesis on "the habbits of the male porn-consumer" (or something...) and working in a video store on the side, she has quite the character to play. and she does it very well. there's still something about the way she moves her face when she talks, but it doesnt irk me NEARLY as bad as alicia silverstone's contortions, so i can deal with it. she's also not rail-thin, which i REALLY like. sure, she has an amazing body, but it's one with a few CURVES on it, so i'll let it pass. for now :) (if i told you that you had a nice body, would you hold it against me?)
ben affleck... well, i still dont really LIKE him, but he had some great moments in this movie. i'll attribute it to supreme script writing and directing. i even managed to like jennifer lopez, but i think that's mostly cause she wasnt IN the movie long enough for me to get sick of her.
g: but i'm a fat PIG, and all the other girls are gonna be skinny, and beautiful, and i'm UGLY.
o: no no baby, they're only skinny cause they're coked-out whores.
g: i wanna be a coked-out whore...
o: ok ok, alright baby... you can be a coked-out whore. its ok...
(names abreviated cause i forgot. dialogue paraphrased, cause it HAS been several days now.)
overall... most definatly NOT what i was expecting of kevin smith, but it was a plesant surprise. absolutely something i would buy when it comes out on video.
Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
so, with the other boy bowing out for the evening, i was free to take my TRUE one and only man (the little brother) out to the movies friday night. and as an 11 year old, what did he want to see? thats right :) so, while everyone else was going for hellboy or the passion (pussies) (wait... hell...passion... hmm), *we* went to see the mighty scooby doo work his thang. and work it he did.
i still liked the first one a bit better... the whole crazy-island thing and all that. however, that one got a bit weird with all the spirits, and transformations, and... stuff usually beyond the scope of your average scooby cartoon. the second one stayed more true to the traditional "unmasking" aspect of the show. and there were a few GREAT unmaskings, believe you me.
you can get the plotline from any half-decent movie webpage, so i'll not go there. i WILL, however, tell you some of my favorite parts. so read no further if you dont want
SPOILERS.
seth green... what a LOVELY boy to play a geek. and... we all know how i feel about geeks. heh. "this is preposterous, i happen to have a 12-sided-dice right here!" (inside joke.) peter boyle also has a delightful role as a bitter old villain. (you might know him as the grandfather on "raymond" or as one of the original frankenstein's monsters.)
some excelent lines:
velma: yeah but monsters and ghosts are less scary. you unmask them, and there's just a scared shriveled up man inside.
daphne: but, dating's the same way!
patrick (seth green): WHAT, you dont BELIEVE me? ::twitch::
shaggy: right, like, we're gonna make like your personality and split.
there's also a DELIGHTFUL duel between fred and the black knight (the black knight on his ghost-horse, and fred on an Indian motorcycle) backed by the classic... "wanted: dead or alive". beautiful choice of music for the scene :) it was perfect... heh.
so, overall... a lot of fun. if you have a little sibling, or young-minded friends, or just... have never grown up yourself... you'll have a lot of fun, if nothing else.
edit: also, some AMAZING funk-tastic 70's tunes backing up the rest of the movie. good shizz.
i still liked the first one a bit better... the whole crazy-island thing and all that. however, that one got a bit weird with all the spirits, and transformations, and... stuff usually beyond the scope of your average scooby cartoon. the second one stayed more true to the traditional "unmasking" aspect of the show. and there were a few GREAT unmaskings, believe you me.
you can get the plotline from any half-decent movie webpage, so i'll not go there. i WILL, however, tell you some of my favorite parts. so read no further if you dont want
SPOILERS.
seth green... what a LOVELY boy to play a geek. and... we all know how i feel about geeks. heh. "this is preposterous, i happen to have a 12-sided-dice right here!" (inside joke.) peter boyle also has a delightful role as a bitter old villain. (you might know him as the grandfather on "raymond" or as one of the original frankenstein's monsters.)
some excelent lines:
velma: yeah but monsters and ghosts are less scary. you unmask them, and there's just a scared shriveled up man inside.
daphne: but, dating's the same way!
patrick (seth green): WHAT, you dont BELIEVE me? ::twitch::
shaggy: right, like, we're gonna make like your personality and split.
there's also a DELIGHTFUL duel between fred and the black knight (the black knight on his ghost-horse, and fred on an Indian motorcycle) backed by the classic... "wanted: dead or alive". beautiful choice of music for the scene :) it was perfect... heh.
so, overall... a lot of fun. if you have a little sibling, or young-minded friends, or just... have never grown up yourself... you'll have a lot of fun, if nothing else.
edit: also, some AMAZING funk-tastic 70's tunes backing up the rest of the movie. good shizz.
