Underworld

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
This movie should have been called Underworld 0.5
it's a prequel to the two Underworld movies that were previous released

Now I'm actually a big fan of this series, b/c believe it or not I'm into Vampires and Werewolves. But to be honest I could have waited for this one to come out at Blockbuster, it was enjoyable, but from watching the two previous Underworld movies I knew from the Flashback scenes from those what was going to happen. At least it was better than god awful Twilight.

Couple of things about the film:

The parallels are obvious: Aristocratic Vampires (they are the Bourgeois) and the their Slaves the Lycans/Werewolves (they are the Proletariats).

The daughter of a Vampire Elder falls in love with a Lycan causing a forbidden "interracial" relationship.

Burn After Reading

So I read about this in my homie's blog so when my compadre and I went to get our Sunday ritual movie I had this in mind, and just so happens to be a big ass poster in the front window...It was a sign lol literally

I enjoyed it, Brad Pitt played a character you typically wouldn't expect him to play and it really stood out to me.

If you like Coen Bros. movies definitely check this out!

Some of you, and I will put money on this...will probably hate this film.

::spoiler warning::

If you read the back of the DVD or any synopsis its going to tell you something about CIA and spy stuff and wacky/interesting characters getting into some crazy things and it does its really more of a Parody of spy movies. But to strip this movie down to its bare bones it's about a lady who saw herself as "disabled" and "grotesque"(See Garland Thompson). She doesn't see herself as the acceptable norm of society. She goes in desperation mode and seeks out money in order to get the alterations needed for her to become "normal."

Slumdog Millionaire

Catching this movie tonight with my partner in crime I will update later after I get home

AdiOs for now

::UPDATE::
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Anyways we went up all the way to Cheshire Bridge Road to catch it at the theater there

WOW pretty good movie, I definitely enjoyed it. Its a typical love story under all the action and back story within the movie, though it was a bit predictable. The thing that sticks out on my mind is how the movie was shot and framed. Lots of angles and the lines and colors in the shots really stood out for me. Also establishing shots were pretty, If ya check out the movie, you'll see what I'm talking about.


Also M.I.A. has a couple of tracks in the movie, but the one that sticks out is "O Saya" ft. AR Rahman...

I think its pretty dope download it HERE

::OFF TOPIC::
The SWAT sammich and Texas Melt at The 5 Spot is the fawkin' Truth!
Try it if you have the chance to

Emmanuelle Chriqui

Pronounce it like this (SHReeKeY)
She first caught my eye in the movie Waiting, but she also played Mrs. Chess in Cadillac Records. None of her other movies really stick out to me, besides those two, but she has been in quite a few films like the god awful In the Mix (w/ Usher enough said), 100 girls (not bad), Snow day, and the even more god awful Zohan. She was also on Entourage, but I never really got into that show.

Shes Canadian, but of Morroccan descent, as young as she looks, shes getting up there in age (born 1977).
For More info on Emmanuelle go HERE

Another Movie filled weekend

Now I am no film expert or film buff, but I have taken a few film classes and I love using what I learned in those classes and picking apart films and then discussing them on the drive the home. Its like our own little weekend ritual.

Friday Night/Saturday Morning
Okay after a friend's grad party we were desperate for a movie, but everything was closed at 1 am so our resort was Wal-Mart's $1 rental machine...We picked up 2 flicks, I got "Re-Cycle" and She got "An American Crime."

We didn't even bother watching "Re-Cycle" mainly b/c it was in japanese and subtitled and We didnt want to bother. Basically threw away a dollar here.



But "An American Crime" was good. It wasn't like a masterpiece or anything like that film wise, but it was a very heart felt story, I wanted to punch Denys' laptop screen as we were watching it and I LOVED IT!

It's based on a true story about a trial on this evil bitch who abused a child. It has Ellen Page starring as Sylvia Likens, and you can google/youtube her story and you'll get a good idea of what this film is about. Now if you know me, then you know I love sick sad movies and this is definitely one of them.

NOW on Sunday

After having Lunch at one of our usual Sunday spots we had to catch another flick, we ended up seeing "Cadillac Records"



This movie was really enjoyable, I thought the casting director did a superb job picking the actors and actresses in their roles. Also the whole cast did great portraying their characters...EVEN Beyonce, yes that's right Beyonce did a pretty good job, even though she had her moments where I could see she kinda lost Character and we saw a little Sasha Fierce coming through. But her scene in the restaurant I think was powerful. Mos Def as Chuck Berry and Eamonn Walker as Howlin' Wolf were perfect...also the guy that played Little Walter was also good, we later found out the actor was from "thats so Raven" he's gonna look familiar when you see this movie LOL.

This movie was a little short, I wish they could have made it longer and went a little deeper, but nonetheless this movie was really enjoyable and entertaining. I loved the older people in the theater with us, they were all laughing and giggling as we were watching the movie. It was like they had a piece of their childhood/teenaged years back and they were re-living it. I wish when we get older and we somehow are still doing this little Sunday ritual we'd be like these nostalgic movie goers, except instead of a movie about Cadillac Records, we'll catch a movie about Ruthless Records (inside joke) It's All Good!

Really It is

VoMIT

This is what happened after the pumpkin saw this movie



And the oscar for comedy of the year goes to...

TWILIGHT!

Yes it was that bad. I could of seen this movie at home on Lifetime minus the teenie boppers seated behind us. Viewing this film made me appreciate the movie I saw the previous night, which isn't so bad after watching this POS. There were so many awkward moments in the film and it was obvious. The lines were forced at times and there were many instances where the cast had this WTF look on their faces. This resulted in a very unintentionally funny film.

Here's an example of the movie:

**insert awkward moment here** cue glitters on the skin **insert tired cliche' here**
cue 360 degree swooping crane shot **repeat**

over and over....and over for 2 hours

Four Christmases

So I went to see this movie last night. It wasn't our first choice, but we arrived late and the movie we wanted to view already passed. Well anyways, this movie wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, but then again I didn't really expect much from it. It was surprisingly funny (not hilarious), and the main characters had a little more depth to them than what I expected.

Vince Vaughn- Plays the same role he does in every movie. Blehhh

Reese Witherspoon- Was her usual self, plays typical blond with family problems, discovers something about herself and then tries to make changes. Whoopty Doo...I find myself attracted to her though.

Robert Duvall- My favorite character from the movie (Vince Vaughn's father), though it was a secondary character, I found it to be very well done.

Though I usually hate watching Romantic Comedies, let alone Romantic Holiday Comedies, I 've come to the conclusion that I despise these things not because they are typically horribly made, but because I envy the characters in the film. It's not even the fact that these usually end happily, it's that in reality these ideal endings are exactly what they are....IDEAL

"IDEAL" exist but is never attainable. It is the concept of perfection or what is thought to be perfect or flawless. We all have our own vision of what ideal is to us, but no one ever attains it, we will always settle for the next best thing, if not we settle for the next best thing after than and so on...the cycle continues until we find ourselves satisfied with mediocrity.

I will never be satisfied.

Freida Pinto

She's Hot, a Full time model turned actress

She's in this new indie movie (Slumdog Millionaire) It's her acting debut so I'm kinda iffy on her performance, but we will see. Check out the trailer below


It looks promising, plus it can't be any worse than some of the god awful movies I watched over the weekend. I gotta see this one to make up for all those bad ones.

for more info on the movie go HERE
for more info on Freida Pinto go HERE (theres not much on her on IMDB so its linked to a yahoo article i found)