We here at SayHey watch it, so you don't have to. You should know the drill by now. Otherwise, do have at look at my previous Not-so-live-blogging events .
Todays feature is the delightful little nugget All About Steve. Now, I love Sandra Bullock and find Bradley Cooper to be devastatingly handsome, so let's see what the movie's like.
Well, I have my ideas as I heard the movie earned a razzie or two the same year Sandra Bullock won her Oscar for The Blind Side.
So bring out the popcorn and the Champagne, coke floats, soda or whatevs and let's get going shall we.
Radar Pictures? Never heard of them.
Ugh! Thomas Haden Church? I hate him. Hated him since that dreadful movie Sideways where they go on a wine tasting trip for a batchelor party or something and hook up with that Asian woman from Greys Anatomy. I really wanted to like that one, but I SO DIDN'T!
Sandra B walking happily through the streets in her red vinyl boots. Not sure I like her hair.
Sandra B is meeting with her boss. She makes crossword puzzles and she wants to get her stuff in the paper daily instead of weekly.
Evil boss is not having it. BOO! Her boss wants Sandra B to date more.
Sandra B has a blind date this evening. Exciting.
She's about to speak at carrer day at a school. Comedy may ensue. The firefighter next to her is cute.
I'm a sucker for a man in a uniform.
The kids are mean to Sandra B. BOO! I think she's going to reevaluate her life.
Sandra B does physical comedy well and they add that little noise that makes it sound ever the more painful.
She lives with her parents. She's cute.
She's going on a date with Bradley Cooper! How hot is he! Go change Sandra, change!
Sandra B just went to slut it up. Slutty Sandra B!
Wow! What a smile he has.
Oh, oh! Sandra B just jumped Bradley Cooper in a car but now she's very chatty. Shut up Sandra B and enjoy.
Awwww. He's ditching her. So sad.
The crossword puzzle Sandra B made was All About Steve - like the title. CLEVER! Or not...
So they are firing her over one puzzle. Bubye Sandra B. Sad.
The Asian guy from The Hangover is in it too.
New word: Snotsicles
Bradley C is so cute.
Sandra B just tried sliding down a banister in nothing but a towel. Comedy ensued and the repeating of "doesn't hurt, doesn't hurt.." Priceless!
Even Thomas Haden Church's voice is dull. It's like watching Tom Hanks at the Oscars.
Dead horse - alive!
Sandra B is just filled with useless information about EVERYTHING. She's yapping on and on, on a bus. So much so that they dumped her in the middle of nowhere. Bless her.
It's a little funny though.
Sandra B is stalking Bradley C, but she's too late at the place of the dead alive horse.
Comment of the moment: If God didn't want my daughter to have a third leg, he wouldn't have stuck one between the other two.
If that's not a little filthy, I don't know what is.
Bradley C, THC (Thomas Haden Church) and Asian dude from The Hangover are now in a new place reporting of the controversy of a girl with 3 legs. To keep the third leg, or not to. That is the question.
Oh, Sandra B just showed up! Brandley C just noticed her and her boots! Hah!
There's a demonstration with pro and anti leg protesters. We don't know if the leg is fuctional and has full mobility. We are at the edge of our seat.
Oh, there's the creepy geek from Road Trip! He's wearing a baby blue hat.
THC invited Sandra B up to the media tent to meet Bradley C. He's so mean.
Ew! THC just mentioned Bradley C's loins. I don't want that image.
YAY Bradley C just punched THC in da face! Love it.
BREAKING NEWS! Three's the charm! They decided to keep the leg for now.
Hah! This is physical comedy at a very high level.
Creepy nerdy dude from Road Trip is an apple sculpturer - weird.
Hah! Next up, bear in jacuzzi?
TORNADO!
Panic!
Car stalling!
Excitement!
CGI!
Whooops! Kids just fell into an abandoned mine shaft. Hahaha.
The news team Bradley C, Asian dude from The Hangover and THC are on the way.
Quote: If you quit a puzzle, you can't finish it.
I like that.
Whooooooops! Sandra B just fell in the hole. HAH!
Awwww Bradley C loves Sandra B.. that was a romantic speech
I think one of the fire fighters was a demon on the series Charmed.
They aren't sure Sandra B will make it so creepy nerdy dude from Road Trip is making an apple sculpture for her when she gets out.
I just noticed that the word "word" in Danish (Ord) is the same in singular and plural unlike in English. Why haven't I thought of that before?
THC just jumped into the hole.
They made it out of the hole. Pheeew! Had me on the edge of my seat clutching my glass of Champagne with one hand and my heart with the other.
Bradley C is so hot.
The End.
The trailer is here
If you want to see Sandra B accept the Razzie award for her performance in this slightly ditzy but adorable and amusing movie, see this
We here at SayHey watch it, so you don't have to. You should know the drill by now. Otherwise, do have at look at my previous Not-so-live-blogging events .
Todays feature is RED. I'm watching it in HD on my Yousee box. I love this rental feature where I don't have to go anywhere to rent a movie. All I have to do is push a few buttons and BOOM! Movie right on my TV in HD quality. Best part is, I don't have to take it back as it just disappears again after 24 hrs. None of that Lovefilm DVD thing where you must pop them in the postbox on the way to or from work. Besides, I only get a bill every 3 months.
As I said, todays feature is RED. The action movie combining the unlikely of Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren and action movie. Here we go...
DC Comics? Is this based on a comic book? Oh no!
Bruce Willis still looks hot.
Also starring: Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Mary-Louise Parker, Julian McMahon, Ernest Borgnine, James Remar and Richard Dreyfuss. They pulled out the big guns eh?
Bruce Willis lives very neat, with dark furniture and dark blue walls. He looks bald.
Apparently Bruce Willis is lonely because he tore up his pension cheque to call Mary-Louise Parker for a new one. Apparently he does this a lot because they seem to know each other pretty well.
Mary-Louise Parker wants excitement and travel. She reads romance novels. How novel.
It starts a bit slow. He lives in Cleveland and it's around Christmas. I know this because it said Cleveland on his trash bin, and the gaudy holiday decorations are up.
God, if I looked like that at 50 or whatever, I wouldn't be eating dinner alone! Bruce, I still would...
They both read the romance novel.
I don't get why Bruce Willis has to sleep wearing so much clothes.
Oh, oh ACTION about to start!
Intruders in the house, and Brucie is in the kitchen, or so they think
Bruce is so KOOL!
Packing his emergency kit and then he's out of there while the house is getting shot at by machine guns of some kind. It's all a bit over the top and American. I love it!
Oh, he's not out of there yet. He's been hiding and massive shooting. Don't they ever run out of bullits?
Kansas City!
We are now in Kansas City at Mary-Louise Parker appartment. She was not expecting Brucie in her flat. Haha. She's throwing stuff at him.
Oh no, they are very being followed and so he put gaffa tape over her mouth and tied her up in the backseat. She's not happy about it.
Sounds like Fragglerock if you ask me.
Oh, cute man is setting up someone for a crime at a gorgeous modern house. He has someone hanging by the neck now.
New target is Brucie. Cute man is a black op guy.
New Orleans hello!
Mary-Louise Parker tied up to a bed.
Meet Morgan Freeman in a red velvet tracksuit. This isn't a pretty picture.
Brucie and Morgan are talking. Brucie brought fingers with him. I'm not kidding! FINGERS.
Morgan Freeman to Brucie: "somebody has a serious hardon for you" - favourite line so far, and so true. So true.
Mary-Louise Parker escaped. She was very shocked she actually got loose, and now there's trouble. Cute man found out about her.
Brucie saves the girl. She was injected with a sedative or something. She's hjigh apparently.
Cute guy getting shot at. He's not just cute, he's hot.
This is so not a real street. This is a studio lot for sure. A little disappointing to be honest.
First Coca Cola sign.
CIA is behind it all apparently. Morgan figured it out.
Welcome to New York City. Been driving on that very road I think.
Mary-Louise Parker to Brucie: "I was hoping you had hair" - first bald head joke. It was pretty funny.
Oh look! It's Lanes mother from Gilmore Girls. She is the mother of a dead journalist that Brucie and Marylou (Mary-Louise Parker is now known as that).
The plot thickens. Brucie and Marylou were checking things out at the library it seems.
Dramatic facial expressions by Brucie. Apparently the guy who they were looking for is dead.
At the CIA there's a records keeper who has all the records of the black ops agents. Apparently Brucie used to be one of them, and cute guy is now checking it out.
RED is Retired Extremely Dangerous. Now we know that.
Pensacola, Florida
Brucie and Marylou are about to meet someone in alligator land.
It's a little exciting.
Whoooops there he is!
He lives in a car.
We are about 32 minutes into it now. It's actually pretty good. Not at all comic booky, that there's anything wrong with that. I like the old Superman movies, Spiderman and I'd like to watch Green Lantern.
Mobile, Alabama!
A city called Mobile? Weird.
The dude they hooked up with walks around with a teddy bear pig and is very paranoid. It's a little funny.
James Remar! WE LOVE YOU!
James Remar just passed. May he rest in pieces. Again lots of shooting and explosions. BOOM!
Brucie really LIKES Marylou.
Brucie now visiting the Russian Embassy to see someone to get help. They want to get into the CIA.
Love the sort of faux cold war, iron wall aspects. We need more of this.
I also missed the really bad fake Russian accents. The worst I've seen are in K-19 Widow Maker starring Harrison Ford.
Now Brucie and Marylou are going into the CIA building. It's a little exciting and a little bit Covert Affair esque.
Another hair joke. Hah! Somehow I think Brucie would look a little sad with hair.
Cute nay hot guy and Brucie (also hot) are now fighting. it's a little exciting and very EXCITING if you know what I mean.
They got out. Much excitement going on though.
ENTER DAME HELEN MIRREN!
Well, actually Brucie entered Helens house. "I kill people dear", Helen Mirren is so kool. Never thought I'd hear her say that.
We just established that cute, nay hot guy has a family. I'm sure that'll turn up later.
Who knew Helen Mirren could be this gun crazy. It's fun.
They've discovered the reason why and who wants them all dead.
Lots of shooting, commotion and Marylou was just captured.
The only one who does any real acting in this movie is Helen Mirren but she really does upp the class, the lass.
Brucie is now at the cute, nay hot guys house calling. Threatning his family.
Marylou is becoming kool. How about that!
Brucie is going to kill the guy behind it all. so they are going to CHICAGO!
I've been to Chicago, it's not all that.
Helen Mirren is looking classy as ever.
Julian McMahon! He's attractive. I'd let him..
Apparently he's their target. I'm sure after a bit of schmoozing there'll be gunfire and other action business.
Excessive firepower but very entertaining
It's very American but we are loving this!
THEY SHOT DAME HELEN MIRREN!! So.not.kool!
We are almost at the climax of the movie. Exciting stuff.
All we need now is Brucie snogging cute nay hot guy.
The END or in French 'fin'
I do hope they'll get the entire cast back to do another one. Cute nay hot guy is Karl Urban
As the first month of 2011 is rapidly coming to a close, and the only thing worth mentioning (except of course chatting up Roses on facebook and receiving a present from her because we love her here on Sayhey!) was that last week I got a text from the good people at MasterCard telling me to call them.
I did of course do that immediately, and they told me that someone had used it the night before - twice - charging a total of 3505 quid on IT goods. Outragious! The good people at MasterCard told me not to worry about it, and that they had taken care of it, and I wouldn't be charged. They obviously cancelled the card and are sending me a new one.
In case you are reading this, you, yes you - the one who used my card details - F*cker they are coming for you! Oh, and burn in hell.
With that out of the way, we now look forward to a new month and so far February looks like it'll be the most eventful month of the year. Doesn't say much does it, with two events. There are of course other plans in the pipeline for later this year which I of course will let you in on sometime soon.
The first event is on February 19 where I will take part in the opening night of Kylie's new world tour Aphrodite Les Folies 2011 (which takes name and inspiration from Ziegfeld Follies). Of course I'll be right in the middle of things. Fronrow and centre in the Splash Zone.
Apparently there'll be what the press release calls 4D visuals. I assume it'll be something like the Ralph Lauren fashion show
The water features in Kylie's show Aphrodite Les Folies 2011 are designed by the same people who do the Bellagio fountain water works in Las Vegas.
So, my pretties I do hope you'll get a chance to go. Miss K may be coming by a venue near you. For the unlucky US and Canadiennes out there - you'll be able to see a scaled down version of the show. Tour info can be found here. A tour not to be missed.
Australian dates to be announced.
The second event of February is the following where the Oscars - The Academy Awards take place live at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. Again this year, it promises to be a show with glitz and glam. Of hits and misses and another year where Jim Carrey and Russell Crowe don't stand a chance in hell to win an Oscar. Good times!
A Danish movie is yet again nominated for an Oscar Hævnen - In a Better World in the category Best Foreign Language Film. It has already won a Golden Globe which of course Ricky Gervais mentioned (he was right) was the category that nobody cares about. I of course have no desire to watch the movie but everyone's raving about it.
I LOVE the Oscars. They've always meant something to me, and they still do. It used to be exclusively about the outfits and speeches but over the years I've become more and more interested in the movies we celebrate. It would be nice to have watched at least one of the movies before the show. Just to know what all the fuss was about. For instance the movie which was nominated for the most Oscars, The King's Speech. A whopping 12 nominations, and yet it's not coming to our cinemas until April.
To be honest I feel cheated. I watched a couple of the movies. Inception and Harry Potter 7 part 1. That's all, and yes Black Swan and The Social Network have been shown here and I'm now ruining my arguement. Still I find that every year, movies that haven't seen the light of day here due to distributors stalling, are honoured at the Oscars. They should be honoured because they are some of the best movies out there, yet it would be nice to be able to sit there on Oscar night thinking that out of the 10 (seems excessive doesn't it?) movies nominated for Best Picture you really thought X should have won instead of Y. For me, so far, I'll be thinking back to Inception and not being able to compare it to any of the other nominated movies.
On the subject of nominations for Best Picture, yet still going a little off on a rant when I should be wrapping this up. Well, 10 nominations for Best Picture? It seems a bit excessive. Is that a flexible category? If the movies stink next year, will there only be 3 nominations or will they have to nominate something like The Green Hornet 3D?
Bleugh!
If you have 11 minutes to spare, here is a nice little Australian short film in which Kylie goes beserk. I know, speaking of Best Picture and all that..
Another one of my Lovefilm.dk rentals. I already hear you ask why oh why? First of all
Enough said! In case you don't think so, I will list the other (less significant) reasons behind my choice to watch this blockbuster action movie about the all American hero.
(technically this should be no 2) Christopher Eccleston or Ecclescake as some people like to call him. I mean, did you not see him play psychopath in Shallow Grave? He is a great actor and I like his ears. Plus he was my first Doctor.
Jonathan Pryce as he is always ready with a camp performance like his villian part on that dreadful James Bond movie (possibly the worst ever) Tomorrow Never Dies although I blame that solely on Teri Hatchers abysman performance.
Arnold Vosloo as you can't help but love him. He's been in everything from Charmed to Red Shoe Diaries (you know, tee-hee!) through to The Mummy, all the sequels and 24 and Chuck. We, here at Sayhey, simply heart him.
That said, I watched it. While there are definately things about it that weren't very good. Like the CGI and a fair bit of the acting, I still liked it a lot. I may have to buy the DVD when it hits the bargain bins. There really isn't much better than a camp B rated action movie with a lot of totty (with their tops off). Is there? Anyway while I have already watched it, I still think it would be a good idea to give you the run down on what it's like. Step by step. Remember, we do it so you don't (or also) have to. Ladies and gentlemen (and those inbetween) I give you, G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra (like they had to put that in the title)
0.00.20 Paramount Pictures! I actually drove into their lot when I was in LA last summer. Big deal, because we hadn't booked a tour with them. So I was allowed to drive in through the main gates and drive around this flower bed thing and drive back out. It totally made my day, although I was a little disappointed to learn that we had to book in advance.
0.01.10 Oh, a backstory from France 1641.
0.02.13 Oh painful! Very hot metal mask put onto the face of a man. OUCH! He can't have lived long with that on his face.
0.02.48 Yay! Present day and Christopher Eccleston! He's telling the plot right there. Nanomites that eat metal.
0.04.16 Enter Channing Hottie Tatum. Yum! Oh and first joke. Hah-hah! A bit campy.
0.05.37 Channing Tatum is named Duke, and his lips are so sexy
0.06.16 CGI alert!
0.06.38 Uh-oh! Something is wrong.
0.07.00 I know, I know. It's bad CGI!
0.07.33 You are not making it any better dears.
0.08.00 Channing Tatum does all he can to make it all better by yelling.
0.09.23 I usually don't like Sienna Miller, but this is just camp enough for her to fit right in.
0.10.16 Sienna Miller spots Channing Tatum with her fancy shades. She looks troubled. What is this all about, you may think. Or you already know. I think you do.
0.10.28 Channing Tatum goes after Sienna Miller and they talk. Instead of killing him she just slaps him and he calls her Anna.
0.11.18 G. I. JOE to the rescue! Oh, sorry, we aren't supposed to know that yet. Or are we?
0.12.06 Channing Tatum runs after Sienna Miller and more bad CGI before Sienna Miller flies away empty handed.
0.12.57 Channing Tatum meets the G. I. Joes and Dennis Quaid. Heh. Channing Tatum gets bitchy.
0.14.12 Channing Tatum and his friend Marlon Wayans go with the G. I. Joes. There is a a silent man in a solid plastic outfit. The Chan man wants in on it.
0.15.21 Hilariously overdone CGI effects. Bless them for trying too hard.
0.16.24 Introduction to the Joes and they make joke. When everyone fails, we don't. Hah. Clever.
0.17.11 Yay! Eccleston is back. I love his accent.
0.18.06 Eccleston is a hologram thingy and now he's back in where ever he is. Eccleston is the bad guy. Yay!
0.19.45 Sienna Millers glasses are kool. I would wear those.
0.20.09 Yay! Arnold Vosloo! We like him.
0.20.21 More bad CGI and the introduction of the cobra. The snake freaks me out. Get that away now!
0.21.26 The snake may be CGI but that looked fairly real. Ewwww!
0.23.11 The Joe's have no idea who Sienna Miller is, but Channing knows and is about to blackmail himself onto the team.
0.24.16 There we go. Sienna Miller is a baroness now. Nice outfit.
0.25.40 Meet Storm Shadow! He is annoying.
0.26.08 Flashback to four years ago in Washington where the Chan man proposes to Sienna Miller. He looks great in his uniform. Mmmmmm.
0.27.10 Sienna Miller has a brother, and Channing promises to keep him safe while at war.
0.28.00 Back to present time, and they suit up Channing and Marlon Wayans in Robocopesque suits.
0.29.05 They now train to be Joes.
0.29.30 Hey! Was that Brendan Fraser as an instructor? He looked a bit like it.
0.30.01 Marlon Wayans keeps making passes at kool redheaded Joe girl. Stupid jokes ensue.
0.31.25 They are Joes! And now there is the Marlon and Channing half naked in the gym scene. Mmmmmm. Worth every second.
0.31.46 Marlon Wayans tries his pickup lines on kool redhead Joe girl. She's kool. And Channing in the background on the jump ropes half naked. Yum!
0.32.49 Something is wrong. Somethings going to happen.
0.33.30 Oh! They've come for the nanomites! Sienna Miller and Storm Shadow with their team of nanomite soldiers.
0.34.10 And Arnold Vosloo.
0.34.31 Inventive way of killing someone! All the way through one of those electronic thingies that the postservice use for signatures.
0.35.20 Alarma! Lot's of carnage! I love it!
0.36.06 OK, bad CGI for sure, but it's still kool!
0.36.40 Channing is faced with Sienna Miller and Storm Shadow is in the background. He can't shoot her.
0.37.24 Things explode and then flashback to Storm Shadown and black plastic Joe that doesn't speak when they were kids.
0.38.42 Sienna Miller and kool redhead Joe girl fights. I love it!
0.39.49 Bad CGI but it's all good!
0.40.08 The bad guys have the nanomite warheads.
0.40.32 More half naked Channing Tatum. Me likey!
0.41.21 Marlon Wayans makes a reference to something that was said earlier and turns into a bad joke. It's a little funny for all the wrong reasons.
0.42.09 New flashback to Storm Shadow and black plastic silent Joes past. They fight. Storm Shadow doesn't like black plastic silent Joe. Even back then.
0.43.21 Storm Shadows sensei is nice to black plastic silent Joe.
0.44.06 Christopher Eccleston tells his plans to Sienna Miller and Storm Shadow. They are going to Paris to arm a warhead.
0.44.42 Arnold Vosloo! YAY! Ewww nasty needles in head. Yikes! They are turning him into Jonathan Pryce I think.
0.45.45 The Joes find out the plan of Christopher Eccleston, or at least what we can only imagine is the first part of the plan.
0.46.37 Flashback from Channing Tatum to the time where Sienna Millers brother died in the war. He was investigating something in a lab but the airstrike is early and BOOOOOOOM!
0.48.55 Channing Tatum watches the funeral of Sienna Millers brother from afar. Astride his motorcycle looking really hot. BAM! Back to reality!
0.49.49 Sienna Miller makes a joke. It's a little funny, and her and Storm Shadow makes her husband weaponise the warheads.
0.50.49 The Joes are in Paris and looking for the bad guys.
0.51.34 Massive CGI effects on weaponising warheads. They are all weaponised.
0.52.06 Storm Shadow kills Sienna Millers husband and they leave the laboratory.
0.52.40 Massive car chase. We love it! Men in Robocopesque suits running around and jokes.
0.53.45 Bad CGI alert - lot's of it. You can just see it's all done on green screen.
0.55.03 The Joes finally figure out the bad guys are going to detonate a warhead on the Eiffel Tower. I mean D'OH! But I still think it's enjoyable.
0.56.45 I love Paris. I want to go there again someday
0.56.59 "Try this on for size boys". The way Sienna Miller says that, is pretty damn perfect. It's so camp, I love it!
0.57.45 Hah, funny! Marlon Wayans is comic relief.
0.58.32 OOOOOH! Train collision! Me likey. 'Tis fun!
0.59.37 Oh, oh! Bad guys on foot.
1.00.25 "Nice shoes" yeah, Sienna Miller both kicks arse and notices the shoes of the extras.
1.01.54 The Eiffel Tower is hit! The Joes did not do their job alright. The CGI is really over the top.
1.03.18 Channing Tatum saves Paris by hitting the kill switch. Eiffel Tower collapses
1.05.22 The Joes are arrested by Parisian police.
1.06.05 Jonathan Pryce has a great voice
1.07.16 Channing Tatum and Sienna Miller bicker and Storm Shadow has flashback to when he killed his sensei.
1.08.25 Oh, black silent plastic Joe is called Snake Eyes.
1.08.58 Bad CGI
1.10.05 The Joes have figured out where McCullen's base. Bad joke by Frenchie
1.10.39 Channing Tatum is being taken to the base and he steals the case with the warheads and he activates a tracking beacon. Channing Smarty pants.
1.11.40 The bad guys don't notice.
1.12.03 The base is underneath the polar icecap very CGI'ey
1.12.36 Oh oh, Ecclescake! He kisses Sienna Miller who has flashbacks
1.14.02 Dennis Quaid asks the Joes to defy direct orders and go take down McCullen, and they all agree.
1.15.15 Meet the Doctor. Heh, well you may as well know, he's the Cobra. There, I spoiled it for you.
1.15.58 I love polar bears. I hope it wasn't hurt by the massive CGI thingy that just flew in
1.17.03 Doctor is about to inject nanomites into Channing Tatum while he tells him the story of himself. He shows us, that he is Sienna Millers brother.
1.18.05 Flashback to what happened to Sienna Millers brother in the lab in the war. He meets someone who looks like Dennis Miller. I wonder if they are related in real life. Hmmm. It's not Dennis Miller though, I checked. Never heard of the guy.
1.19.40 Christopher Eccleson launches the missiles with the nanomites. What to do?
1.20.10 Marlon Wayans to the rescue! He is to hunt down the missiles in an ultra fancy fighter plane.
1.21.16 Redhead kool girl Joe kisses Marlon Wayans.
1.22.03 Sienna Miller saves Channing Tatum from being injected with nanomites and her brother threatens Channing Tatum with killing her.
1.22.33 Redhead kool girl Joe is called Scarlet. Hmmm, a little late for that kind of info?
1.24.08 Underwater CGI fight. It's not at all engaging but it's OK.
1.25.20 Action baby! Action!
1.27.00 Channing Tatum to Sienna Miller "I'm gonna get you outta here"
1.28.20 Marlon Wayans saves Moscow.
1.28.45 Meet Arnold Vosloo again. He's become Jonathan Pryce. Tee-hee! Very Mission Impossiblesque
1.30.08 Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes (you know, black plastic silent Joe) fight it out.
1.31.39 Channing Tatum is getting away with Sienna Miller. Lots of underwater CGI
1.32.14 Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes battle it out still and an abundance of CGI
1.32.44 Storm Shadow is fit!
1.33.05 Marlon Wayans missed a missile and they are in big trouble.
1.34.28 Rest in peace fit Storm Shadow (at the bottom of the sea)
1.35.04 More CGI and it's a little much.
1.36.09 Marlon Wayans saves the day!
1.37.24 Marlon Wayans was arrested by the White House (these days it's really earning the name with all that snow huh?)
1.37.58 CGI alert! Lot's of it.
1.39.20 It's not even impressive. Well, maybe if I watched it at the cinema?
1.40.16 Sienna Millers brother injects Christoper Eccleston with nanomites and his face is all metal now. Bad line from Eccleson. Not good.
1.41.16 "This is Captain Duke Hauser prepare to be boarded" Now that's something I'd like to hear from Channing Tatum. Mmmmm.
1.41.51 More CGI
1.42.16 Eccleston and Sienna Millers brother are now imprisoned.
1.42.52 Channing Tatum loves Sienna MIller still.
1.43.05 More CGI It's so obvious it's not even funny. Well it is actually.
1.44.04 I hope there'll be a sequel. If they can do the opposite of what happened with the Transformers franchise.
1.44.48 Arnold Vosloo in the body of Jonathan Pryce is now president.
1.45.19 It's all over now. The end credits now. The song boom boom boom song isn't very good.
Now, I really liked it in that campy, action B movie kind of way and I really do hope they'll come back with a sequel.
Ok, so at first I never considered watching Twilight. Mostly because it is ridiculously overexposed, and the vampire thing is kind of old. I figured that once the whole franchise up and died, I would eventually see what the commotion was about. It would be years.
Me thinks they might have used a bit of photoshop on this one. Great hair but girl in brown jacket needs to lay off the drugs. Look at those eyes!
Then one fatal evening I was fiddling about on the DVD rental site Lovefilm.dk and ended up putting the movie on my wishlist. As the lowest priority. You see, there are 3 priorities. Gold, silver and bronze and I figured everyone would be renting it and it would be a long while before it would end up in my mailbox. Then came the fatal email,
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Hej Pete!
Vi har netop afsendt følgende film:
Twilight
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Mange gode filmhilsner
LOVEFiLM
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OH my! So I suppose I had to watch it now. As I'm a little bemused by the situation, I thought I'd share my reactions first hand with you. Look at it like a service I do, so you don't have to watch this teenage vampire sobfest. Then again, as I haven't watched it yet, I don't know if it's really like that. Here we go...
0.00.30: Deer looks a bit dreary. Why do all vampire things start in the forrest? It's the same with the series The Vampire Diaries (although that's pretty good)
0.00.42: Oh somethings happening. Wild camera work!
0.01.22: Wow white trash alert! Bellas mother looks like white trash
0.02.09: Bellas father is a cop. He looks a bit shifty, I think he may be up to something.
0.02.56: they couldn't get a real police car, so they got a regular car. Put lights on top of it and wrote 'police' and 911 down the sides. Apparently it didn't matter if it looked authentic.
0.03.08: This'll be a long post, sorry! But I have to say, Bella just moved in with her father and now she's whining about there only being one bathroom. This is exciting stuff!
0.04.11: Wow they have native Indians or something. At least they have long hair. One is the guy who becomes a wolf I think! Charming smile.
0.05.45: Bella starts school and people laugh about her orange truck. Oh, and gay Japanese guy just walked in. Hideous hair.
0.07.06: Bella meets boy. Looks like a teenage version of Edward Norton. She hit him in the head with a volleyball and now cheery smiley girl comes over. Wonder if she's his girlfriend or something.
0.07.33: Cheery smiley girl is annoying.
0.08.48: Girls talking about Kirks olympic sized wiener and speedo padding. I might like this movie after all.
0.09.05: Meet the Cullens. The dark haired Cullen boy is cute.
0.09.59: Enter Edward - you know, THE Edward who does at least have great hair.
0.10.38: Wind machine moment, Bellas hair flying everywhere as she sees Edward sitting alone in science (or whatever class they are taking). This is ridiculous.
0.11.09: Yes, she's told to sit next to him. This is such bad acting. I'm laughing my arse off.
0.12.38: Bella meets the local characters and dad isn't talking at all.
0.14.11: Bella is annoyed that Edward Cullen ditched her in Biology (it was biology) class and he had wanted to get out of biology and she is annoyed. Everything is getting strange - whoa!
0.15.35: The first person was killed. We saw it from afar, and Bella fell on her arse. Kind of funny.
0.16.38: The dialogue really stinks.
0.17.15: Gay Japanese guy asks Bella to go to some kind of dance with him
0.17.53: It speaks! Edward Cullen speaks!
0.19.58: I wonder how much hairspray was needed to keep his hair in place like that. He has great hair.
0.20.45: Bella looks dumb
0.22.21: EXCITEMENT OVERLOAD! Car got out of control and Edward saved Bella with supernatural strength and leaves.
0.23.28: Another ghostly white Cullen. A doctor. He looks like something out of a Doctor Who episode.
0.26.13: Bella annoys me. She's so whiney and dull.
0.27.06: Edward is wearing a nice jacket.
0.28.10: How can Edward be out in the sunlight? Is it a good spf 1000 sunblock
0.32.08: Bella: "Your moodswings are giving me whiplash" - are you kidding me?!?
0.35.13: Jacob the native Indian guy with the pearly white teeth tells the dramatic story of his tribe. You know, about the whole wolf thing and the Cullens and all. It's all very mysterious now. Heh.
0.37.22: Vampire attack numero dos and Bella plays Nancy Drew.
0.41.11: Drama! Edward Cullen saves the day. Bella was almost attacked by a mob of guys with beer cans.
0.43.09: This is not a movie for me. I'm taking a break to make myself a sandwich.
0.47.25: After spending time with Edward, Bella is off reading in her new Nancy Drew book about legends of the Indian tribe
0.48.30: Bella finally figures out that Edward and the Cullens are vampires. D'OH!
0.49.36: Bella confronts Edward, and he fesses up. Camera spinning around them. This is hilarious.
0.51.43: Edward shows what he looks like in the sunlight. He shimmers like diamonds and tells her that he is the worlds most dangerous predator. Ooooooooh!
0.53.15: The dialogue is hilarious. We do, however learn that the Cullens only hunt and eat animals. No humans.
0.54.27: There is an hour left of this tripe. Kill me, kill me now!
0.55.30: It looks like they are in love and the camera is spinning around them. This is so funny.
0.57.38: Edward and Bella arrive at school, as a couple.
1.00.43: It's going to be all Meet The Parents soon. Bella is going to meet Edwards parents.
1.02.04: Jacob should really get a haircut.
1.03.02: Nice house! Very modern house Edward lives in.
1.05.15: Rosalie (Edwards sister) is pissed at Bella because she thinks that things will go wrong.
1.09.50: Edward takes Bella on a little ride up the ol'e trees in the woods. It's a little ridiculous and the camera is spinning around them again. They like doing that.
1.01.19: Apparently it's not a problem for Edward to enter a house without being asked to come in. I thought that was a whole vampire thing.
1.15.24: Passionate kissing scene Bella and Edward. Oh oh and Edward gets all whiney again and can't lose control with her. So they just talk. Oh and the camera moves around them.
1.17.45: Bellas father hates Edward, or at least that's what it looks like.
1.19.22: You know, in Harry Potter there are those Quiddich matches in bad weather? Well the Cullens play baseball.
1.20.45: Here comes the killer vampires! Maybe it'll be interesting.
1.21.42: Black dreadlock bad vampire looks fit. His name is Laurent.
1.23.36: Excitement fizzled out fairly quickly. Like the rest of the movie.
1.25.27: Bella is packing and leaving while bad vampire blond longhaired fella James is outside watching.
1.25.45: The beginning of the end of the beginning is starting now.
1.32.12: Bella has a skanky Nokia mobile but now it's supposed to become exciting.
1.34.00: The bad blonde longhaired vampire tricked Bella into a ballet studio and he is so ridiculous. The whole thing is so excrusiatingly bad.
1.35.41: At least there is a fight scene. Even if the dialogue and the story behind it sucks.
1.36.14: Somehow I got Kylies track Fever in my head "I was bitten by the bug and now I'm coming down with oh, something that can't be cured"
1.37.37: Oh, the drama!
1.42.22: Bella and Edward are going to prom together. He looks nice in his suit.
1.43.22: Jacob seriously has hair issues.
1.45.29: The romantic dancing scene. *waits for the camera to spin arou....* Oh there it is!
1.46.25: I wish Bella becomes a psychotic vampire killing machine
1.47.34: It's got to end now. Please!
1.48.34: Finally!! End credits.
So this wasn't my kind of thing. It was fairly ridiculous and unless they take the speed up a notch or fifty and force the actors to take lessons, the sequel promises to be no better.
I read our dear Princess at Palais de Steff blog. It so happens that the Princess herself has been tagged to do a meme by our lovely Miss Scarlet. Name dropping much? Absolutely! Well, they both did lovely memes in which they were to share 3 classic movie moments that in some shape or form have made them buy things/do things/think things that perhaps they shouldn't have.
After reading the two, I felt compelled to share as well, however there is a backstory to this movie business that needs to be shared first. So feel free to put on a face mask or grab a bottle of Champagne and get yourself settled.
In the home I grew up there wasn't a lot of movies. We had one TV in the living room but no VCR, and I wasn't allowed to watch foreign movies. Actually, as far as I remember I was only to allowed to watch the kids programming from 6-6.30pm and that was it. Going to the movies was something that only happened on special occasions. Like when they would show certain Danish folk comedies that were about a group of thieves where only the leader always ended up getting caught. They were called Olsen Banden and they weren't very good. My mother enjoyed them and would take me with her for an afternoon screening of these whenever they showed the old 'classics'. My mother also took me along to watch the Disney Classics. Only on one occasion was my father tagging along. It was back when The Fox and the Hound (in Danish it's called Mads & Mikkel (two boys names)) had premiered. Apparently it was a late screening for my bedtime so I was put into my pyjamas and taken to the cinema.
The movie makes me cry like a baby, and this song does the same. For all you non-Danes out there, you'll probably get a kick out of it, but the lyrics are great. I think The Fox and the Hound was the first movie I watched at the movies.
It would be many years after that, I actually got to go to the movies without my parents. There was a group of people from school that went to see Jurassic Park together. The only reason I was invited along was because my father would pick some of us up after the movie and drive us home. I was 15 years old. Subsequently this was also the first VHS movie I bought and the beginning of a collection that grew, and grew, and grew. Much to my mothers dismay.
Oh, I should mention here, that I had nightmares for a week after watching Jurassic Park.
Then in 1998 Titanic hit that friggin iceberg, Leonardo DiCaprio died and Celine Dingdong made sure we were all traumatised for good. I refused to go watch it. My mother wanted to see it and my father finally put his foot down. For the first time in history, my father took his youngest son and wife out to dinner and then off to the movies. It was a major step for mankind. You could land a million space shuttles and send a herd of cattle to Uranus and still, it would seem like less of a deal than our night at the movies.
I went because it was free, and because my father kept saying that 'since you like movies, and movie history so much, it would be foolish not to watch it at the movies'. He had a point, and just because it was so over exposed and was rammed down our throats everywhere we went didn't mean it had to be bad. Right? We ended up on second row, having to turn our heads from one direction to the other to see the entire screen. I got horribly sea sick, but kept my dinner down. Thank god. My mother loved it and my father scored some points with her. I just don't want to know what he traded them in for.
Growing up, I wasn't influenced by movies. Unlike my classmates I never got to watch Dirty Dancing at the movies, and such. Another first though, was when we got a VCR and recorded our first movie. It was Coming To America and still, to this day it holds a special place in my heart. Even if it's far from my favorite movie.
When I was 17 I met a guy. We were starting at the same school and were taking the same classes. He also liked movies and we ended up getting along really well. Of course, he was not really into the old classic movies like the fabulous Houseboat from 1958 and he wasn't interested in getting to know the likes of 2001: A Space Odyssey and such. It didn't matter because although he wasn't as starved when it came to movie culture as I was, he was bitten by the bug.
I think my mother secretly resents him for introducing me to life as well as movies, because I was a lot easier to be around before then. Anyway, my collection grew and now that it's all gone digital I have found myself having quite a few DVDs.
The all too fabulous Dinah did a great live blogging post on the Golden Globes this year. So, you might say it's already been covered - and fabulously so - and why bother. The reason why I've decided to do it as well, is that I'm thinking I might have a different take on the show. Plus I love, love, love award shows. If all the award shows were transmitted live on Danish tv, I'd be up at all hours of the night watching them all. Champagne in hand of course, and the devil may care attitude towards perhaps being positively knackered at work the next morning. Of course they are not, so it's just one day off I must plan in advance. For the Oscars.
This, however is about the Golden Globes. Let the games begin.
Show opens, and Ricky Gervais comes out all sweaty looking. They should have put ventilation in that suit of his. Is he nervous or constipated?
The stage is all salmon coloured with a bit of silver glitter. It looks like something the Golden Girls would have picked out.
Cosmetic surgery jokes, that's very original isn't it? No?
Morgan Freeman looks bored at penis jokes. Either they really weren't funny, or he's forgotten his hearing aid. He's gotten really old though, hasn't he. Wow.
The camera work is awful, oh there was Sandra Bullock! She is pretty.
Oh, Ricky Gervais drinks beer? On screen? Is that allowed in the US?
Nicole Kidman is missing a nipple, and George Clooney looks so good. Love him.
Massive emerald ear rings on Julianne Moore. Love her, she's so pretty.
Note to all heavy women out there: If you are heavy, you shouldn't wear a coursage dress. You'll look whale'ish
Awww. Mo'Nique makes me cry.
Matthew Fox has gotten a lot less foxy. Such a bad wig on him.
Toni Collette won wearing a very sparkly dress. She's come a long way since Muriel's Wedding
Uh, Lauren Graham in pink. We love her!
Is Lost still on? Wow.
Neil Patrick Harris looks cute.
Fergie looks more alien that ever, and Josh Duhamel not as sexy as he used to. She must have sucked all the life force and beauty out of him. Greedy bitch.
The man accepting the Golden Globe for UP was so happy. Loved that.
Kate Hudson annoys me. She's presenting the movie Nine. Her dress is nice, but shouldn't have been white. It IS a wedding dress. She's off to Vegas after the show.
Ricky Gervais is back. Go away.
Willian H. Macy looks so old. His wife Felicity Huffman looks like she could be his daughter. She looks pretty.
Tom Hanks looks fat and ugly. What happened there? I think it might have been The Polar Express?
Unless Michael C. Hall is sick, he should take off that hat. It's not appropriate.
January Jones...What kind of name is that?
We like The Good Wife. She's pretty. Not sure I like the dress though.
Calista Flockhart still weighs 10 pounds. Someone should force feed her lard.
Harrison Ford sounds so bored. Either that, or he's on whatever Anna Nicole was on.
Cher looks fairly well for her age. Cosmetic surgery much?
It's been a while since we've seen Jake Gyllenhall hasn't it?
I don't like Sir Paul McCartney. I really don't.
I think it's confirmed. Amy Adams is preggo.
Glittery loofa alarm! Drew Barrymore, Liberace called. He want's his loofas back.
Tom Hanks joke tanked. That was funny, not his joke, the joke tanking.
Colin Farrell still looks cute.
Julia Robers and her massive lips - hey Joools, Agelina called she wants her lips back! looks fairly bland with her blonde hair.
Meryl Streep won for Julie & Julia. I want to watch that. I actually planned to watch it in LA but I couldn't make it because I had planned to meet with Dullface at a specific time.
Meryl is one classy lady, but shut up about the politics and charity thing.
Sandra Bullock looked like she was crying during that speech. I don't think it was because she lost though.
Another classy lady is Helen Mirren. She's so pretty.
When introducing Precious they didn't mention Mariah Carey. That was nice.
What was The Edge from U2 doing at the Golden Globes?
Morgan Freeman doesn't care about any of it. He's just sitting there looking bored. Drinking.
I've already commented on Drew Barrymores dress but what was she thinking. I like her hair though.
Cameron Diaz is so overrated.
Just go away Ricky Gervais
Rachel from Friends and that bloke from 300 are beautiful. Gerald Butler is so hot.
What happened to Thomas Jane? He used to be so hot!
Maggie Gyllenhall sounds absurd. Like a moron really. Her message about saving Haiti was more relevant.
I heard that Brad Pitt and Agelina Jolie weren't attending because they weren't nominated.
Oh, oh Miss Sophia Loren. All bow down and kiss her shoes. She's the movie star goddess. I love that they all look so excited about her being there. That's the way it should be bitches!
There's still 50 minutes left and I'm slowly losing interest now. The show Mad Men just won. Hoooray for them!
Taylor Lautnier or something is so handsome, but I couldn't possibly say that because he's not old enough. So ew ew ew.
Thomas Jane really didn't age well. Such a shame.
Chloe Serviette, more like. Lovely collection of napkins you are wearing. She's annoying.
Ricky Gervais has another sip of his beer.
Halle Berry is coming out of her dress. It's fairly vulgar. Woody Harrelson looks cute. Who would have thought.
Why do people find Leonardo DiCaprio attractive? His hair style is ugly.
Marty Scorsese is very charismastic. Was he in the movie UP?
Robert Downey Jr. is chewing gum during Martys speech. Looked funny.
Jodie Foster looks quite good. I wonder how much work she's had done.
Mel Gibson looks quite good. I can almost pretend to forget about his scandalous year last year.
Funny thing, James Cameron won for Avatar. I've heard that it doesn't have a lot of story in it. He has to pee.
Why are the tables so close together. It's very unpractical.
I suppose I have to watch Glee at some point. There is a Danish version, I think. It looked like the same kind of thing, but the Danish one sucked.
Bradley Cooper is HOT! I would marry him.
I still can't believe The Hangover won. It was a great movie, but it wasn't THAT good. I'd have thought it would have been one of the Meryl Streep movies. I heard that Nine wasn't that good. I want to watch Nine though.
Mickey Rourke is butt ugly! I can't believe it, he looks almost worse than at the Oscars last year. I will always remember 9½ weeks.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, botox much?
Emily Blunt is so pretty.
Yay! Sandra Bullock! I love her speech, it was so lovely.
I watched Sherlock Holmes last night. I thought I'd be crushing on Robert Downey Jr. but I was much surprised to be in love with Jude Law.
I wonder if Guy Richie was there, but I'm thanking the lord that Madge isn't there.
Kate Winslet looks great.
I love that we just saw Sophia Loren eating. It sends such a strong message to all the girls out there, and Calista Flockhart.
Julia Roberts is giving away the final award of the evening. She's really annoying, and the dress is not pretty. She's also doing the botox thing.
Avatar won. It surprises me a little. Well, it didn't because I knew it already but in general it's a surprise to me. Mostly because although I've heard it's a great movie, I've also heard that the story is weak. Personally I hope it's not the case, because if they give a movie the best movie award because of special effects, that's when it's really going down the drain.
Did James Cameron get to pee? I can't help but wonder.
Oh he did get to pee.
His hair is awful.
Ricky Gervais says goodnight
Now I feel a little abandoned. I'm no longer surrounded by big Hollywood stars.
Wow, is it really 2010? It doesn't feel space agey yet though. No flying cars outside my windows there doesn't seem to be any of those dreadful video intercom systems in my flat yet. Just me, slightly hung over, mascara running down my cheeks and the blue nail varnish is flakey. Wait, heavy eye makeup and blue nail varnish? That's a bit spacey isn't it. Anyway, we are about to jump into the time capsule and go back to a much more familiar, and pretty damn fabulous time for me. 2009 here we come!
Whooooooosh! (yes, it's still not space agey so I have to do my own sound effects)
Let's start with the failed book challenge.
I had challenged myself to read 12 books in 2009 and to be honest I thought it would have been a disaster because frankly I don't think I've read that many books. In the end I was 3 books short of meeting the challenge which is amazing all things considered. These were the books I read this year.
I bought this book in Chicago at Borders, a bookshop near this very famous department store that Oprah always mentions on her show. I could get lost in a phone booth so I wouldn't know where exactly it was. There was another Borders bookshop on Michigan Ave. I went there too, but didn't buy anything for myself in there.
To be honest I bought the book because of the title. How could you not? Also it was on the bestseller rack and I'd heard the name Chelsea Handler on TV a couple of times. Still, I had no expectations at all going into this. I read it in one sitting and had fabulous roomservice delivered in order to finish it in time to go shopping again the next day. It was, in my opinion, funny and maybe slightly over the top but it also had heart. Even if some of the stories did portray her family and ex boyfriends as a fairly unpleasant crowd. Still, anyone who went to jail because of their own sister and lived to tell about it in a funny way is kool in my book.
A story that was fairly brutal but also a little out there, with UFOs and sticking hands inside dead cows. However it was a good book, a little exhausting to get through because it was a bit heart wrenching.
I've read all her other books, and that was because Dinah mentioned one or two of her books in one of her 50+ book updates. The titles were just too clever to pass up, I suppose. This was her third book and it's still entertaining to read about her, now, fairly disheveled life with her dogs, cats and once upon a time (at least in my mind) hot boyfriend (now husband). The everyday struggles of someone who thinks she's somebody kool and happening but really is neither kool nor happening. She is fabulous though. Tongue like a viper and well, a determination one can only admire. Train Jen just keeps on going.
On a side note, I bought this book in the city where she lives, Chicago. Which, to me, is a fun fact. Love Borders!
There is not much to add to the title. It's a game guide for Sims 3, which I'm fairly addicted to. I love playing with other peoples lives and this is the healthiest outlet. The guide is pretty good and there are delightful brownie (teee-hee geddit? Cathrine Browne - brownie. hah!) bites.
What's my favorite book of 2009? It's between Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, Such a Pretty Fat and The Tin Star (the gay erotica book, niiiiice!)
Yay for Jen Lancaster (who has a new book out now)!
So I didn't make the 12 books in my challenge, but I tell you, in space age 2010 I will read 12 books. And I may start today, that is, if I will ever finish this review thing.
Pheeeeew, can we go on? We must, right. We must, since we did all that whoooshing earlier.
Now on to the movies
I can't remember which movies I watched in 2009. I found a few old movie stubs but in order to find out what movies that came out in 2009, that I watched I had to go through my book cases. I found 9 DVDs that were released in 2009. Here they are
Starring Zac Efron, Matthew Perry and Michelle Trachtenberg.
I must bow my head in shame and admit I liked it enough to buy it. I bought it in Chicago. Maybe it was because I was on holiday or it could be because I kept missing the beginning on the plane to Las Vegas. It could also be because I adore Matthew Perry and hoped he'd join in on a song and dance number with Zac Efron. Alas, it didn't happen. Still a fairly alright teenage comedy. PS I don't like Michelle Trachtenberg.
Starring Bradley Cooper (HOT!), Heather Graham, Mike Tyson and Bryan Callen
Hilarious movie about a bachelor party gone completely haywire in Las Vegas. I can't say it's an intelligent movie, but it sure was entertaining. Of course it added to it, that I've been there and (if not experienced all the stuff, then at least some of it).
Starring a lot of Danish actors who are quite the A-listers in Denmark.
It's about a lot of different people who live not very far from each other, and their lives entertwine and good and bad stuff happens. It's very realistic, a bit crude in places. Social realism if you like. A real commentary on the way we live our lives these days. I don't really like Danish movies, but it wasn't a bad movie. Just not really to my taste.
Starring Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor (Nice!), Stellan Skarsgård, Nikolaj Lie Kaas (Danish, Thure Lindhardt (Danish, and gay I believe)
Such an average, overrated movie. Based on a book by Dan Brown (I didn't like the book), so the movie alright. Still, any movie that showcases Tom Hanks in nothing but a blue speedo in the first part of the movie gets my thumbs down. I don't like Tom Hanks in general, so this may be unfair judgement.
Starring Hugh Jackman (HOT!), Nicole Kidman, Ben Mendelsohn (starred in Sample People alongside Kylie Minogue)
A gorgeous, well I would call it an epic, movie about a shameful part of the history of Australia. The story was great, the acting fabulous and I LOVED it. I cried, I smiled and well...
It was not just that one time. The camera did that twice.
Starring Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway (we ADORE her), Bryan Greenberg, Steve Howey and Miss Candice Bergen
Another very disappointing chick flick. I adore Anne Hathaway and Miss Candice Bergen, so I just knew it was going to be a good movie. It was however, a real stinker. Mostly because they just never took that whole bridezilla thing to heart. They didn't really bring it. It was dainty and nice. AND BRIDES ARE N*E*V*E*R NICE! Weak. Really weak.
We know who's in it, after watching the previous 5 movies. We love it, we can't wait for the next one. Still, you also get this "is it over soon" feeling. There's just a limit to how much more we can take. Then again, I'll never get enough of Dame Maggie Smith and Julie Walters. Emma Watson is becoming too Hollywood pretty to be Hermoine.
Starring Sandra Bullock (LOVE her!), Ryan Reynolds (HOT!), Mary Steenburgen (FAB!), Craig T. Nelson, Miss Betty White (ADORE her!)
This is a beautifully made comedy, that references the physical comedy and has the heart of the Doris Day comedies. With the contemporary touch. Fantastic cast, and the comedic timing and foul mouth of Miss Betty White is spectacular. It may have been over exposed but it deserved every bit of attention it got. Love it.
Check these two specials from the movie
Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock naked in The Proposal
Starring Isla Fisher, Joan Cusack, John Goodman, John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lynn Redgrave and Julie Hagerty
Light fluffy chick flick. Mildly amusing movie about a girl who shops too much and gets a job at a financial magazine. A paradox as she is heaviely in debt. I liked it because I love fashion and can identify with the lust for designer stuff.
Starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Winona Ryder
I would say anything that gives Winona Ryder yet another chance to prove herself is good in my book, or anything with a Chris Pine in his underoos. Still, the movie really IS good. Even for a guy such as myself who wasn't really a Trekkie. I mean, I used to watch TNG every week but I had never watched a Star Trek movie before. So for a first, this is damn spectacular. I liked it. A lot.
Starring Amy Adams (LOVE her!), Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin, Steve Zahn
Now what a delightful movie this was. A movie about biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up. Never thought I'd actually watch a movie about that, even though the TV series are packed with it these days. This has heart though, and a wonderful story. Amy Adams is always a star, and she is fantastic in this, as is Emily Blunt (who was also brilliant in The Devil Wears Prada). There is comedy, tragedy, real life and love (as far as I remember). Who knew, Steve Zahn would fit into a movie like this. Strange.
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel (HOT!), Tyrese Gibson (HOT!), John Turturro, Kevin Dunn
This was unintentionally funny. I watched it with friends and we were laughing through most of it. Most of the time we had no clue what was going on, and there seemed to not be a script this time 'round. I liked it as an action movie where you didn't have to think about what was going on, and just watch and relax your brain after a tough day at work. Which is why I bought it. That and Josh Duhamel.
OK, so maybe Josh Duhamel didn't get his kit off in the movie, but he did do this pictorial before he got famous.
On that note, we have to find a winner for best movie of 2009. It's between Sunshine Cleaning, Australia and The Proposal. Tough choice.
Starring Ll Cool J, Chris O'Donnell and Miss Linda Hunt
I like Ll Cool J, Miss Linda Hunt and Chris O'Donnell has grown into a total hottie. That combined with an action series placed in a fabulous city with gorgeous sun and sand, what's not to like? Well, it just doesn't work. I don't know why. I really, really want to love it. I do. I've given it every opportunity, but it's just not catching on. Why, oh why. I want it to, I really do. The teaser is fantastic and the show just isn't.
Starring Milo Venticafalatte (HOT!), Jack Coleman, Hayden Panettiere, Adrian Pasdar, Zachary Quinto, Cristine Rose (LOVE her)
I sort of lost interest after an abysmal season 2, but I thought season 3 really shaped up to be pretty good. Granted, I can't remember much of it, and I haven't bothered getting the DVD yet. I hope they won't fuck it up, because season 1 was AWESOME and season 3 was pretty good.
I'm so behind on Gossip Girl. I love it though. It's the kind of show that will eventually die out like the original Beverly Hills 90210 did when the kids (I use the term loosely) went to college. The story is good, and at times a bit saucy. I like that. Daring to push the boundaries of mainstream TV. It doesn't all have to be so prim and proper.
Starring Teri Hatcher (HATE her), Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross (LOVE her!), Eva Longoria Parker (FAB!), James Denton (HOT!), Doug Savant (cute - he buffed up this season), Nicollette Sheridan, Dana Delany and Kathryn Joosten (comedic genius)
This was the season where Edie died. I was shocked, and I did have to take a moment before I could go on because that was huge. It was a great season though with many entanglements and it's still a bang up show. The gals are still game, and you can all look forward to season 6 if you haven't started that yet.
Starring Zachary Levi, Adam Baldwin (wow two Baldwin brothers on TV at the same time), Sarah Lancaster, Yvonne Strahovski, Ryan McPartlin (HOT!)
I must admit I didn't watch a lot of this show. Only a few full episodes but it seems great, and I have high hopes for it and plan to watch it a lot in 2010.
Starring Tom Sellec, Josh Duhamel (HOT!), Molly Sims (the guys seem to love her), Vanessa Marcil, James Lesure, Mitch Longley
Season 4 of this show was terrible, at that point I just wanted it to end. Then as season 5 picked up again it was axed. It was a shame because I really liked it. The show was amusing, sexy and action'ish and the stories (personal and otherwise) happened in a casino in Las Vegas (love that) so it was astonishing it kept going for 5 seasons. I had given it 2 seasons, but it came back and season 5 was worth watching. Tom Selleck took over after James Caan and he did a good job, you just had to get used to his style though.
Starring Tracy Scoggins, William Gregory Lee, Gregory Michael, Charlie David and Thea Gill (Queer As Folk - US edition)
Any show that gives Tracy Scoggins (Dynasty and The Colbys) another chance, eh? It doesn't actually have any business of being in this, because the latest season is from 2007. I discovered it earlier this year. The fact that it's a supernatural show with witchcraft and half naked men and women, does cement the fact that the acting on a TV show doesn't have to be brilliant. As long as they have cute butts. And they do. I quite like it, and although it's not eligible for winning, it's still worth mentioning.
