Showing posts with label 2000. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2000. Show all posts

Monday, January 18, 2010

What Women Want


Surprisingly enough, this is one of Lover's favorite movies. Or so it would appear - he doesn't normally buy DVDs of movies he doesn't like and when we merged our collections we ended up with two.

Here's the thing... I am a fan of the love story, but I hate how EVERYTHING has to turn into a love story. I don't for one second believe that if a man had the ability to read the minds of women, that he would come clean about it OR confess that he was using it to his advantage. Really? If I could read one person's mind I would use it to my advantage. I wouldn't take advantage of the person, but mind reading would certainly take away the bull shitting and getting to know one another stage.

This movie starts off hilarious! It incorporates all the needed aspects, family, sex, and career. We probably could have gone without the whole Prom ordeal. I mean the actually prom event, not the events that lead up to it. Who cares if she slept with her boyfriend of not? I certainly don't! I just liked hearing that she was lying to you about it!

Again, the love story was over done. I didn't see the chemistry AT ALL and it ruined the film for me. This movie has the right idea, but flew with it in the wrong direction.

Experts Says - 3 Stars, not one of my favorites.

Friday, October 9, 2009

The Gift



Giovanni Ribisi is an amazing actor and his performance in this movie proves it. UGH! It was so frustrating, because the entire time, you are left thinking, "What the hell is wrong with this kid?" He could be in love with Blanchett, he's definitely bi-polar, maybe and little schizophrenic, and there are some definite anger issues.

This movie has stories all over the place. Ribisi has a hidden childhood past and is pissed at his father for some reason.

Holmes and Jeter are getting married, but can Holmes stay faithful long enough to make it to the wedding? Or is one of her lovers going to 86 her when she tries to end it? Most likely the latter will happen.

Blanchett, a single mom of 3 boys makes her money through... reading? No, she isn't a librarian, but a fortune teller. Can she what happened to Holmes while fighting off Reeves?

Reeves, a wife beater married to Swank with a temper. Also, he is a possible suspect to Holmes death. Did he do it or was he framed?

Anyway... Like I said, this movie has many angles, that leaves jumping around from thinking one person being a killer to the other person being a killer. If it wasn't for the whole reading peoples fortune/sci-fi aspect to the movie, I would have liked it a little more. It did, however, keep me up late to see the end.

Expert Says: 3 Stars; Sci-Fi; You'll never guess who did it