I'm back, sorry for my december hiatus, but as the shows go, so do I!! LOL, no, I have just been spending all of my time looking for a job, and it sucks right now to not have one, so I am spending all of time looking for something!! So lets see, a movie update, because unfortunately I am not making any of my own films right now, although I have started to write a couple, I am gonna talk about the Hollywood movies I have seen recently that I think need to be talked about, ok, well "Avatar", was ridiculous, completely predictable but hey the technology was cool, so I guess if you wanted some visual stimulation, then have at it, but looking for a story line, seriously left me wanting.
"Sherlock Holmes," was fun, fast paced and full of action, many people have told me that there were many bits where Robert Downey Jr. was hard to understand, and yeah I could see that, the film required a unique amount of concentration, so those people who were going to a movie where they didn't want to think were probably disappointed.
Umm, what else, oh yeah "Princess and the Frog," was definitely my favorite film of the holidays, if not 2009 in general, I LOVED this movie, its message and the music, Disney did it again, and I am seriously loving every minute of it!! It had great memorable characters, and a disney couple which made my heart flutter.
"Invictus" was another great one, I really enjoyed this, what I guess I will call a Sports-biopic, about Nelson Mandela, and his involvement in the 1995 Rugby World Cup, as well as South Africa's eventual win!! With great actors, a very intriguing storyline, and background during a release where people really just want to feel better, it makes you feel like even when you want to sit down and give up, "you are the master of your fate, you are the captain of your soul."
"The Road" very dark, very depressing in some senses but the struggle that a father and son went through, just to stay alive, showed a fantastic side of the human spirit, of the need for survival, and the desire to try to make things better for the next generation, even when there may not be any hope left.
"It's Complicated" a funny romantic comedy with Meryl Streep, who's autograph I got, when I was a the premier for "Julie and Julia." Its a really cute little movie about 40-50 somethings who aren't the old frazzled people we sometimes see our parents as. These are people who are looking for love, and still have sex, and like having a good time doing things they love. It's a great movie to see with the parentals!!
"Leap Year," probably the most recent thing I have seen, and because I saw it for free, I don't really have buyers remorse, but if I had spent money on it, I would have been a little mad because its a really cute fun romcom, but the sweetness of it doesn't really stay with you after its over. You may walk out of the theater feeling a little bit better, but about an hour later, you probably will forget you saw it!
"Up in the Air," was not what I was expecting at all, which made it uniquely enjoyable, atleast until the last 15 minutes. I thought it was a great story for the times, and really showed the state of the world as it is now. I mean people who are brought in to downsize a company, because the head honcho is too weak to do it himself, can be characters who are aren't exactly rooting for, but George Clooney and Ana Kendricks, make their characters inherently flawed and believable to a point that while you may not like what they are doing, you are rooting for them anyways. And in the end when George Clooney's character arc doesn't end the way you want it to, you feel this sense of foreboding. Like "not all is well that doesn't end well." So the ending was sad and turned me off a little bit, the acting was impeccable, and it was an interesting story!
That is really all for now, and I have seen some others but I guess they weren't that memorable, since I am not adding them, but if I think of anything else, I will post something else.
I hope you are having a good friday,
Lindsay
