Eye Candy

 

 It's been a long time since I saw a good movie this visually beautiful, poetic, and flawlessly acted. I've forgotten about A Single Man until I saw it recently and decided to give it a go. I can't believe Colin Firth did not win his Oscar for this film, his performance was just as amazing (if not better) than the King's Speech. I knew it was directed and produced by THE Tom Ford, but this movie left me feeling more than impressed considering it's his first film and that it isn't even within his usual arena. Some scenes were so beautiful, I felt you could have framed them into pictures.

It does move kind of slowly, but it does make you think. I thought about it long after the TV was turned off. A bit sad that a lot of Hollywood movies today are based on the flashy special effects, the raunchy jokes, and the simplistic storylines. That is what sells and the artsier, introspective films are pushed into art house cinemas and foreign box offices. But it is films like these that remind us the beauty of life's details, and how they all add up to create the mosaic of life that yields the bigger picture. Perhaps people like the escapism of lighter fare, but every now and then, it's nice to have a quieter film to enjoy as well.

It also made me realize how the 60s were a cool decade when all the art forms were at their peak, in music, in art, and in films. Makes me want to draw on lots of eyeliner and wear nude lipstick.

Who is the Suckiest?

 
I can't stand any of those crude parody movies like Scary Movie, Date Movie, etc. but recently I saw Vampires Suck which is a parody of, obviously, the Twilight films. I have a love-hate relationship with the whole Twilight ordeal because I was among the first to get into it and kept telling my friends how awful they were, but still good in a guilty pleasure sort of way - like one might feel after eating a whole sleeve of Oreos. I got as far in as buying the whole set of books, but stopped way in advance of scary looking Team Edward pillowcases. So even though I know this movie is going to, well SUCK, I had to see how bad it would be (like picking a scab).

The surprise was it wasn't THAT bad, and there were some genuinely LOL moments. For example:

Edward: "What do vampires eat?"
Bella: "Vampire cereal?" [holds up box of Count Chocula cereal]...hehe

I think it's because the actual Twilight films are so laughable in the first place with its super lame acting and cliched lines, so really, it can't get worse. I actually preferred this Bella - or in this film, Becca - because she totally perfected the Kristen Stewart lip biting and stomach pain expression and this Jacob also looks cuter than Taylor Lautner. So if you feel like indulging your inner teenage girl and having some purely brainless entertainment for an hour or so, go for it.

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Just saw this movie yesterday

As you might guess from the title, it's pretty predictable being a Shakespeare classic adapted a thousand and one times but it's still quite adorable, especially with the voice talents of the sexy James McAvoy and Emily Blunt and a soundtrack full of Elton John tunes.