What's up buffs (as in movie buffs, duh!) ?! So a few days ago, my friends and I converted our living room into a hipster movie theatre. We got a projector and played Love and Other Drugs on one of the walls in our living room; we brought in blankets and pillows and got comfy on the floor and sank into the world of Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway and her struggle with Parkinson's disease. While at first we thought that this idea was genius, we soon discovered that Love and Other Drugs was probably not the best movie to project onto a large screen where passersby can easily see what's going on in the movie. If you've seen it, then you should know what I'm talking about, but if you haven't, well you haven't and then you won't know what I'm talking about.
I'll explain.
Love and Other Drugs is a love story about a man who is a notorious player and womanizer who falls in love with a woman who has Parkinson's disease. This and that happens, and they have a lot of sex. And when I say a lot, I mean a LOT. About 80 percent of the movie, they are either having sex, about to have sex, or have just finished having sex. About another 75 percent of the movie, there is nudity. Not gonna lie, I'm not really complaining about seeing a little more of Jake Gyllenhaal, but there were a lot of times when the nudity was uneccessary and a little distracting from the plot (or maybe that was the point because the plot wasn't all to write home about).
Overall, the movie was pretty good. It was more interesting and less predictable than other rom-com's (Romantic Comedies if you live under a rock) that I've seen, but they still end up together in the end, what a big suprise. It was really cute how he stayed with her even after he learned how horrible Parkinson's affects are on the patient. It gave a little bit of hope that in this crappy world today, where love is originated and cultivated through social media sites and text messages, something organic can still happen. Alright, I know I just got a little sentimental, but a girl can dream about true love right?
The chemistry between Gyllenhaal and Hathaway was actually believable. They aren't two actors that I would have paired together originally, but what they had really worked with the story and the plotline. I kind of liked that they were mismatched, it made the story more realistic.
All of the friends that I was watching the movie with had some different opinions of the film. Some thought that the excessive sex and nudity was completely distracting and took away from the story way too much for it to have any affect on the audience. Other friends, the more sentimental "I live for love" ones, were sooo into it. They were actually gushing with love and endearment, but that really isn't saying much because they gush with love and endearment watching The Office.
Anyways, it was a good movie. Not one of the best, but definitely good- i don't regret watching it, so that should tell you something. Check it out if you wish, only I wouldn't recommend watching it with a projector on your living room wall where people are going to walk by and see Ann Hathaway obviously and very indiscretely indisposed.
Until next time, go hang out with your friends, they miss you.
So I know I've talked a lot about Summer movies (it is a little hard not to with it being right around the corner), but this past weekend I recently saw Scream 4. I have to say that I was suprised, I'm not sure if it was pleasantly suprised, but I wasn't badly suprised. Scream 4 was actually really funny, it made fun of itself in a not obvious way. It poked fun at all of the previous Scream movies, by not in a "Scary Movie" way; the jokes were actually funny. It was fun to see Courtney Cox Arquette and David Arquette together again on screen in the roles they were playing in which they met (kind of sad now that they are getting divorced).
One of my favorite things about the Scream movies is the fact that the characters talk about the cliches of scary movies; like who is going to die first (obviously the slutty girl with the big boobs, or the stupid kid who is doped up on drugs or the cop who is guarding the house of the next supposed victim); the characters in the Scream movies are always very aware of whose turn to die it is next.
An interesting aspect that was present in Scream 4 that has been different from all of the other movies is the use of technology. This new rendition of the thriller sequence includes webcams, live action video-recording, cell phones and text messaging in it's horror; however I kind of thought that this took something away from the scare factor of the movie. In the old movies it was terrifying when the phone would ring and the character would answer the phone only to hear a deep scary voice asking, "What's your favorite scary movie?" Just like in the preview, "In the beginnning, one call started it all." Scary right? The effect of the same words in a text message is just not as frightening (unless you can't read of course and then you have much bigger problems). There was something so simple in the original phone call that was terrifying for the characters onscreen and therefore was frightening for the audience.
Not only did the text messaging take away from the scary factor, but a few other things did too. I was actually suprised by how not scary many of the moments in Screm 4 were; there were a TON of times when the entire auditorium was histerically laughing, not that I didn't like that because hey, I love to laugh, I just wasn't expecting it. I was expecting to be shocked with horror and scared out of my mind by a madman on the loose with a scary mask and butcher knife. It was a little disappointing not going to lie.
All in all, I'm glad that I paid the thirteen dollars to go see it (isn't it getting ridiculous that it costs thirteen dollars to see a movie in this town nowadays?!) because at the end of the day what it often comes down to is the people you are watching the movie with. The people who were in the theatre the night I saw it were awesome and laughed at everything, which made me laugh at everything.
I would definitely suggest that you guys ALL go see Scream 4. Until next time, eat a cinnamon roll, I just had one and it was delicious.
