This movie did not live up to my expectations. When you watch movies, you really need to watch them with an open mind, and no expectations. I suppose that when I popped this movie into the DVD player, I expected it to be hilarious.

Well, it wasn’t hilarious, per se, it was okay. I think the point of the movie was to push family values’ limits with the title. Not to mention they tried to make it seem like making a porno is something normal people can/would do.

Yes, there are naked people in the movie. The 6 scenes are very cheesy, and I think they do that on purpose–again, because the point of the movie is to try and say “why is porn so bad?” It’s not really to shock people with hot and steamy 6 scenes, but to try and make everyone ok with porn, like it’s a normal thing.

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I was over at my friend’s apartment Saturday night, and finally got to play the new Wii sports. It made me realize now more than ever, I want a Wii!

I can not tell you how much fun I had playing that game! The whole frisbee, archery–canoeing! It was all so fun. Not to mention, I love that you get to play with a little person that looks like you. :)

I’ve been wanting a Wii for weeks now. As soon as my boyfriend came home, I starting playing up the Wii to try and get him to want to buy it. I would chip in some money, of course, but I can’t pay for it all on my own–that’s where he comes in. :D After his well-paying internship this summer, I was hoping that maybe he’d be able to help? :D

He already has an XBox360, which (for me) is really boring. You can play next to nothing on that thing–and certainly no fun multiplayer games. I understand it’s good if you’re a gamer and like Halo or sports games, but those are not my genres (I apologise). I like games like Mario Party that you can play with everyone, fantasy/RPG/adventure–like Final Fantasy or something–, and puzzle games. Oh, and I had a lot of fun with the donkey kong adventure games back in the day.

There have been so many times when people have come over and I really want to play a game with them. Mario party, Wii sports, guitar hero, you name it! I can’t remember all the games I’ve seen in the store, but so many of them look tempting. On the other hand, I pass the XBo360 aisle…and nothing really stands out at me. I don’t like gang games, and football…well, I like watching football and playing catch, but playing it as a video game does not sound very appealing.

In any case. I keep pumping up the Wii, in the hopes that we can get one…it’s such a great console for multiplayer games at get-togethers.

I suppose this movie came out a while ago, right around Christmastime. I almost went to see it with my sisters, but we never got around to seeing it. We saw some other kiddie movie, instead.

I finally saw this movie. There’s not too much to say about it, besides it was a Hollywood feel-good movie. Two couple got this dog, Marley, and the dog was unusually misbehaved (which I personally think is due to lack of training the dog from day 1). Marley chews on everything, destroys everything, and creates general disaster. Yet the couple decides to keep him for years, and their three children grew up with the dog.

The movie generally focuses around Marley. It seems that Owen Wilson’s career also follows the dog, as he writes columns about Marley for the newspaper. Jennifer Aniston has to quit work when her second child is born, because the kids plus the dog is too much work.

As a side note, I find it funny that all the kids had Irish names–Connor, Coleen, Patrick!? Are you kidding me?! Those are such common names. Read more »

Close to Home is an Israeli movie. I believe it is the first I’ve seen, making it quite unique to me.

The movie is about two girls who are positioned together in the military to work as a team. (By the way, military service is compulsory is Israel.) One is a goody two-shoes, and the other is a bit of a rebel. Needless to say, the two do not get along very well in the beginning.

The whole movie is a little dark, with moments of happiness suddenly interrupted with a crisis or something dreary. This is not your typical feel-good movie… at all. But, it is also really good at the same time.

It’s not a completely serious movie, and yet you need to be a little prepared to handle this movie. At one point, the two girls have a tiff and then a bomb goes off in the street. See what I said about sudden?

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This movie was not all that interesting. As the title suggests, the movie focuses around some “smart” people: a professor at Carnegie Mellon and his daughter. (And to tell the truth, he is the type of person I expect from Carnegie Mellon.)

Both him and his daughter are pretty self-centered. They think they are the smartest people in the world, and they brush the opinions of others aside. They are so stuck-up, and unfriendly…to tell the truth, I don’t care about these people in real life and I don’t care about watching their boring, stuck-up lives in a movie.

The movie had about two moments of funniness. Otherwise, the family was obnoxious.

In addition, the whole daughter-liking-the-uncle thing was creepy.

The movie was extremely dry, and I ended up getting really, really bored.

Scale Rating: 1/5 (Not worth watching.)

This movie seemed to me a guilty pleasure. It wasn’t that smart, wasn’t hilarious…but somehow managed not to disgust me.

It’s a total brain-fart movie. I mean, you never have to think during the whole thing. It’s not something worth using up 2 hours of your life on, really–I mean, it’s got no message and it’s quite predictable.

However, even though I hate Matthew McConaughey, you get sucked into the nice scenery and looking around the luxury yacht. Maybe that’s what I liked about it–the settings.

It’s got some adventure, no sex…the  storyline is easy to follow, and it is not a dark movie. It’s always light, bouncy…not always believable, but… eh. What can I do.

Scale Rating: 2.5/5 (I enjoyed it with guilt, because there is nothing much to it)

This movie was pretty good. It’s about two people who get married and end up in China. The guy loves the girl when he proposes, but the girl does not love him back. She marries him because she overheard her mom says that marrying him would mean that she was the only sister to “do well” with a husband.

I promise this is not a spoiler, it’s part of the plot: in China, the woman has an affair with a man she thinks she loves. This prompts the man to volunteer to move to a town in China that was just struck with Cholera. His wife must go along.

This movie was about the couple, who learn more about each other later in their marriage. It was a nice movie, with somewhat old-style speech. At first I thought they were pompous British people, as the British accent almost always annoys me, but the movie makes you forget the accents. Did you know this movie was actually a book written in the 1920’s?

It was actually a nice movie to watch. They both end up helping in the cholera town. The ending is sad. :( But I’m happy I watched this movie, and I would reccommend it to you, too. It is not hollywooded-up, and really shows you a picture of what life was like for foreigners in that period of China’s history. (You get to see the dislike/distrust of foreigners, and Chinese superstitions).

Scale Rating: 4/5 (Love it, strong reccommendation)

I was working yesterday when one of the more crazy ladies I’ve seen came into my path.

I was working in the fitting rooms, and at first all seemed normal. It was a Sunday, and the customers were slowly coming in. At one point, a line formed because we only had 10 fitting rooms open at our huge, two-floor store. When this lady got to the front of the line, she seemed normal, just like everyone else…

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This movie was such a typical chick flick. So much so, that I could not really bear to watch it. It was a typical PG-13 chick flick, to be more precise.

It’s not that I didn’t like the concept, where the husband sends the wifey letters after he has passed away (that is the whole premise of the movie, I promise it’s not a spoiler).  That’s really cute, and I think it would be nice if my bf were as thoughtful as that guy. I also liked that he was Irish, with an Irish accent–just made me think of my bf, even though he doesn’t have the accent (and even though he’s 100% born-in-America).

But this movie takes it to chick flickety ness.  Her whole boo-hoo stage was drawn out, all the memories were what you might expect, you get a little bit of insecure girl in there, lots of kissing, and what romance there is is pretty corny, not deep, and unbearable to watch.

This movie…eh. There’s better out there if you want a movie for girls. Take the Sex in the City movie I just reviewed, for example. Much better, and it wasn’t as predictable as this movie.

Scale Rating: 2/5 (Eh.)

For more info, wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.S._I_Love_You_(film)

This movie was really good. It was a happy ending, but in an unconventional way.

This movie makes me smile. It was both really funny, and….well, it deals with something that would usually be sad, but it all seems pretty light-hearted. It’s a romantic comedy…

I arrived at the theater late–about 8 minutes in–and I thought we were at an earlier showing. I suppose you REALLY have to pay attention at the beginning–because it goes fast! It starts off the same way Romeo and Juliet did, in the sense that it tells you the ending before you hear the story.

You know that Tom broke up with the “most important” girl of his life straight off the bat. Then it jumps around telling how they met, what happened after the breakup, etc.

It was a really enjoyable movie. It skips around a lot telling the story of what happens, so you have to pay attention! Even though this movie is classified as a romantic comedy, it’s not cheesy romance or anything. When the movie ventures into the cheesy, it’s to be funny.

I won’t spoil the ending either, but it’ll make you smile.

For more info, here’s the imdb:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1022603/

Go see the movie, I promise it’s worth it. You can see it at a small/independent theater near you.

Scale Rating: 5/5 (Exceptionally Great)

This review is plain and simple: I could not watch this movie. It is really, quite too bloody.

The movie starts off with two people making out at a train station, eyes wide open. Then another guy in the station jumps in front of a train. You can hear a little splash–but you don’t see anything–so it’s basically ok.

Next, what’s more disturbing, there’s a scene soon after when you see the body of someone else who’s committed suicide. This time, the guy jumped out his window and landed on spikes. His guys came out.

When the main character cuts off his finger in a paper machine, I couldn’t take it anymore. They showed his finger rolling away and his bloody hand. I shut the movie off. I can’t watch that much stupid blood. I don’t care where the movie was going, it was TOO MUCH.

Scale Rating: 0 (Hate it)

Enter Sunshine, a movie that follows three/four generations of a Jewish (basically) family living in Hungary. The movie covers the end of the 1800s until…about the 1950’s. For a full description, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_(1999_film) (I can’t give summaries all the time…)

So, I liked this movie. It was a little unsettling that one guy played three generations… but in any case, he did a pretty good job, and it shows the continuity of family, from father to son to grandson.

I also liked how this movie was about a Jewish family, but it did not focus completely around WWII. A lot of movies do that nowadays. It focuses more on the trouble that they’ve constantly had over many years–up to the point where one decides to convert to Christianity in order to join a gentleman’s club.

This movie seemed a little long, but it was overall good. The men of the movie could be a little annoying at times, but the women were certainly always interesting and the new activities and challenges each generation took on  were really interesting to watch.

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