movie recommendation: Gia
I’m immune to most tearjerkers because I don’t empathize with heterosexuals. So the lesbian biopic Gia caught me off guard. When Elizabeth Mitchell said to Angelina Jolie, “I thought we’d have more time,” and she was referring to their tea date but didn’t realize Angelina was dying of AIDS, I became very upset.
Movie recommendation: In the Loop. Washington intrigue and bloody teeth.
movie rec
All the major characters misbehave in the same ways over and over, and only two of the four seem to have a shot at redemption. The central idea is simple and cool: the teenager has to learn to see the world through his own eyes instead of his parents’. It’s nervy writing all the way through.
As I watched An Education I thought, hey, this movie might not end predictably! But the ending turned out to be predictable. Since I’d doubted its predictability, does that make it unpredictable?
BTW, because I hated the ending so much, I’m going to spoil it for you now. The heroine tells a boy that she has never been to Paris, even though in fact she has been to Paris. It goes to show that she has reclaimed her hymen.
(For the record, the thing that gave me faith in the movie was its acting. Excellent acting. The writing, now that I think about it, was bad from the beginning.)
don’t watch 500 Days of Summer
At first my friend and I were ambivalent about the main characters’ by-the-book hipsterism (eg the girl’s favorite Beatle was Ringo; the guy sought relationship advice from his pre-teen sister; all conversation revolved around music or books). There should be some other type of characters, one of us said, to give us a clue whether the hipsters were supposed to seem shallow or whether the director just only knew how to portray cliches.
A minute later we watched the hipsters attend the wedding of a middle aged black person. On a scale of 1 to 10, I think you can guess how soulful it was.
Also there was an “Asian family” with cute girls and dorky boys:
I liked He’s Just Not That Into You (film)
it’s no nonsense
