At its core, LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS is, as the title implies, a love story and a perfect example of one at that. More than that, it’s the story of two adults falling in love. Yes, there are complications in the relationship, but they aren’t the kind of manufactured, childish bullshit that 95 percent of the world’s romantic comedies seem to thrive upon. These are real-world issues between two flawed individuals who are struggling to find a way to be together against adversities that could easily tear them apart. As upsetting as it might be to see them clumsily maneuver their way around the early stages of this serious relationship, because these two actors are as strong as they’ve ever been, it’s also highly entertaining. LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS is the film adults should make a point to see over this long weekend. As a bonus, for the first half of the movie, you couldn’t pay Hathaway to keep her clothes on. So, there’s that. Enjoy the hell out of this one, people.
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Musings 2010 11 03 and Wasted Life Vol 03
- Need to jot this down before I forget. Instant favorite Scott Pilgrim vs The World!!!!
- For me it defined a visual style much like Natural Born Killer defined the MTV/Howard Stern 24/7 news cycle was for the early 90’s.
- I liked it more than 500 days of summer, although this may be because of a more conventional ending.
- I’m hating on myself right now If as I suspect I wasn’t able to catch this at a movie theater, although It benefits the other people at the movie house that I would probably have less of a physical and auditory reaction than if I would be seeing it for the first time.
- Edgar Wright was able to make an adaptation to a graphic novel that was not only faithful but actually in my opinion more true to what the original artist envisioned.
- AWESOME. MUST NOT BE MISSED.
PS: I am silently scared of the day when I will no longer be able to get it. I describe not getting it as what you do not have when you watch the graduate and you weren’t alive or at least was part of that era that was being depicted.
Watch and Reading list for last week.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion 1st half and Movies
- The West Wing Season 1
- How I Met Your Mother
- Big Bang Theory
- Community
- GLEE
- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
- The Colbert Report
- Cloverfield
- I was able to catch 2 episode of How To Make It In America. would probably try watching this.
- Was finally able to finish The Man In The High Castle and it was a great book from one of the masters of fiction.
- Was able to watch the rally to restore sanity and or fear live through web feed. Loved it.
Wasted Life Vol 2 2010
Garden slugs got more out of life than you did. +The ghost of christmas past (Scrooged).
Spent at least 2 days on sick leave, sleeping because of fever and coughing.
Cleaned out my feed reader! YEHEY !!!
Really need to learn conversational Japanese if I want to multitask while watching anime.
let me sum this up for you: you don’t know who you are, you don’t know what you want, and you don’t know what the hell is going on! +The ghost of christmas past (Scrooged).
Finished
The Prince of Tennis : National Tournament
The Prince of Tennis : National Tournament Semi Finals
The Prince of Tennis : National Tournament Finals
Nodame Cantabile Live Action Movie
Nodame Cantabile Live Action TV Series
Nodame Cantabile Finale
America’s Best Dance Crew Season 1 (1st Half)
Big Bang Theory
Community
How I Met Your Mother!
GLEE (Wala this week)
Scrooged(I know it’s too early for christmas movies but its Bill Fucking Murray!!!)
The Karate Kid (remake)
Now worrying because I have nothing to watch. Hope the charlie brown christmas specials get finished fast.
When I want a wife, I’m gonna BUY one! She’s gonna be devoted to me, to my wants and my needs. + Frank (Scrooged)
I really need to file all the great quotes I’ve compiled through watching an insane amount of film and television. Quotations from books are straight forward you just highlight the book and flip through your copy of the book.
UPDATE :
Was able to watch this saturday
- 28 Weeks Later – When the individual trumps the group its society that fails
- You, Me and Dupree – Owen wilson is targeting one type of character and it’s becoming tedious
- Battle Royale 2 – Whereas the first film is more a commentary on Japanese society the next films .
- Battle Royale 1 – Social commentary at its best. When you have a median age of 47 and rising every year. Many things have been written about this societal time bomb but it really cant be helped. What Japan is experiencing is what other developed nations will eventually experience.
PS 2: I really must learn to write proper reviews for films.
Groundhog Day ramblings
Whatever happens tomorrow, or for the rest of my life, I’m happy now… because I love you. -Phil Connors
I don’t know what to make of this film. I’ve caught parts of it in HBO but was only able to really watch it now.
I don’t know what to say, the last time I felt like this was when I watched Up, but this was a far more uplifting experience probably because the film is so thought provoking in the what would I do if it was me type of fantasy.
Have to write this down before it escapes me.
-Andie Mcdowell is perfect for this role, not too hot for us to get distracted but not to homely for us to not care whether Bill Murray and her get together.
-How about that a multitude of ways to interpret, and the different iterations where masterfully executed.
-The bit about him mastering everything that goes down, even to the level of detail of when a gust goes by.
-The bit about the first thing that happens after he is trapped in this daily replay loop is to mope around think there is something wrong with him.
“PHIL: It’s the same thing your whole life.Clean up your room! Stand up straight! Pick up your feet!Take it like a man! Be nice to your sister! Don’t mix beer and wine, ever! Don’t drive on the railroad tracks!”
GUS: That’s one I agree with.
later on
PHIL: I’m not going to live by their rules anymore!
GUS: I noticed that.
PHIL: You make choices and you live with them.
-The bit about the second thing that thinks to do is to act like a person who does not care for rules and other restrictions, even going into a monologue about
-The bit about dying and the which started with the car chase and eventually turned into a series of suicide tries where exquisite and thoughtful.
-The bit about the old man dying and resulting to him trying to save the old man and everybody else.
-The bit about him learning stuff and improving himself, finally learning to love (I was trying to type live but love would also do here).
This film is definitely on the will forever stay with me category.
Phil : What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?
Ralph:That about sums it up for me.
15 Films
- Casablanca
- Synecdoche NY
- Karate Kid ( the original and the remake)
- Notting Hill
- Love Story
- Fight Club
- Start Wars
- Nausicaa
- Ikiri (To Live)
- Lucia Y’ El Sexo (Lucia and Sex)
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Before Sunset
- The Hours
- Its A Wonderful Life
- The Matrix
Musings on Tootsie
Look, you don`t know me from Adam.
But l was a better man with you,
as a woman…
…than l ever was with a woman,
as a man.
- You know you are seeing a great movie when you’ve seen it 4 times and you are still laughing and enjoying it.
- Blame tootsie if I’m humming It Might Be You all week long.
- Tootsie is a comedy, second in the AFI’s 100 laughs list yet it succeeds as a romantic comedy in a way that most romantic comedy these days. In some ways it follows the modern day formula, The music video like shots where the characters get to know each other. The gimmick that is the focal point where most plot points spring from. The feel good ending etc.
- The camera work in Tootsie was superb in the classic Hollywood sense of getting the angles where Jessica Lange is most beautiful, nothing fancy just solid work with an eye for the right angles.
- I think I have to research what the hell happened with dustin hoffman as a leading man. DId he just not want it or did he want to be a serious actor??
- I’m a little biased against rom-coms because what preceeded watching tootsie was the ugly truth.
PS: when Julie didn’t catch a cab the moment she saw Michael you know what happens.
Musings 2010 09 02
A day late but the day is still the day for me.
I had fever yesterday and after church I decided to skip work and sleep till I felt okay. Woke up 11 PM . Been listening to The Smiths Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now care of Jayson, then listened about 2 times back to back to the 500 Days of Summer OST, fortunately I have a copy of The Graduate. Went to Something Fishy with peire, and was pleasantly surprised with the addition of a Glazed ham on the midnight to breakfast buffet, competition rules. Watched The Graduate after getting home. This is the second time I’ve watched the Graduate. It seems that the reason I didn’t get it the first time was because the first time I saw it I was just a college freshman watching too many movies, not really knowing the pointless grind life can be at the end of college. Saturdays is our high school batch’s 10 year. Maybe this is why I’m being more reflective than usual, that and a few hard core things.
Latauro Reviews IRON MAN 2 — Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
I get the feeling that the initial reaction to IRON MAN 2 will be that it isn’t quite as good as the first film, but I think that will largely be because the first film came out of nowhere. Robert Downey Jnr’s Tony Stark was such an unlikely hero, such an unusually charismatic figure, that everybody seemed jolted out of their seats. Everything that was good about the first film is here in the second, only now we’re expecting it. In time, when the dust has settled and both films are equally canonised, I suspect the general consensus will be that they are of equal quality. And though the phrasing may be limp, the conclusion is not: IRON MAN 2 is up there with the best.
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rePost :: “The Last 3 Minutes” Showcases New Canon 5D Mark II 24p Capabilities
http://vimeo.com/10570139
The Last 3 Minutes is a beautiful short film by cinematographer Shane Hurlbut, the cinematographer of Terminator Salvation. It was shot using the Canon 5D Mark II, and was sponsored by Canon to show off the latest firmware that enables 24p (frames per second) recording, giving it a “movie quality”. Filming spanned 17 locations across 4 1/2 days, and a wide assortment of Canon prime L lenses were used.
The present day portion of the film in the beginning was shot at 24p, while the flashbacks were filmed at 30p and converted to 24p in order to produce a dreamlike quality. You can read more about how the film was made on Hurlbut’s blog.
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rePost :: antala at kaligta: The Great Fudgee Complex: Almost Famous
Jayson pa nakaw.
Lester Bangs: That’s because we’re uncool. And while women will always be a problem for us, most of the great art in the world is about that very same problem. Good-looking people don’t have any spine. Their art never lasts. They get the girls, but we’re smarter.
William Miller: I can really see that now.
Lester Bangs: Yeah, great art is about conflict and pain and guilt and longing and love disguised as sex, and sex disguised as love… and let’s face it, you got a big head start.
William Miller: I’m glad you were home.
Lester Bangs: I’m always home. I’m uncool.
William Miller: Me too!
Lester Bangs: The only true currency in this bankrupt world if what we share with someone else when we’re uncool.
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