TPL DVD: A little movie medication. I liked the contemporary spin of The Breakfast Club and you gotta love when people actually get to know each other and judge one another for who they are. Does it rarely happen? Haven been without a job for the past few months has felt like being bedridden. Yet, by some miracle, I’ve made more friends in the last few months than I have in the past few years. Maybe getting out of your comfort zone is the best way to meet people.
And how far will you go to get what you want? Do the ends ever justify the means? But lately I find that if you can’t tell a good and honest story of how you got here, it doesn’t often feel real.
“You know, a lot of of people think these questions are difficult. Not me. These questions all have answers.”
I had a little 80’s/John Hughes flashback. I think he really made the 80’s. And I love how his movies were about people on the fringes rubbing up against each other. High school can be a trecherous place. And I kind of wonder, how much of his stories were autobiographic?
Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful are very similar in the sense of star-crossed lovers from the wrong side of the tracks. Breakfast Club too, how the world puts us into little categories and we misunderstand each other. I think Pretty in Pink is the least successful of them all, yet I think it’s probably the most realistic.
And it’s kind of nice to see an actress like Molly Ringwald gain such celebrity status. She looks horrible in pink. I don’t think it’d happen today. There’s too much riding on status, you have to be beautiful, really beautiful and I guess a little talent as well. But the 80’s seemed full of possibility, where authenticity was currency.
I love all the quirks. I find there aren’t enough in this world. I think that’s one of the true talents of Wes Anderson, collecting quirks and quirky people and making them gods. As in, you love them for their quirks. Like any Wes Anderson movie, I didn’t feel that there was any huge meaning, but rather just a snapshot of a day or week in the life/lives of some characters. But I love them all.
And I really love the loyalty and the love that people must feel working with him and his stories. There are repeats in every movie he does: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Jason Schwartzman… I loved how instead of saying “fuck” they said “cuss”. Like, what the cuss is this?
So, I felt like my head was really heavy and full. And for me, the best way to get out of my head, to refresh and reboot, is to go and watch a movie. So, I went to the Carlton, which I was surprised to learn is closing forever on December 6th, and had to choose between Bright Star and Inside Hana’s Suitcase. I wish I had chosen Hana and her suitcase.
For a character driven movie, I didn’t really feel like I understood or felt for them. The only part that I felt connected was when Fanny learns that Keats has died. And obviously, you feel something for someone who has lost their love. But otherwise, I felt like their relationship was shallow. I actually felt more emphasis was put on Fanny and Mr. Brown’s hatred for one another than the love of her and Keats.
The special effects were amazing! I loved them. Overall just visual destruction eye candy.
Let’s hope that it won’t come down to money as to who and what will be saved when the end of the world comes to pass. To think that so many cultures and art wasn’t saved. What makes the David more important than the living culture of a tribe in Africa. Who decides whose words are important, worth saving? And why only let the G8 know? Does the West run everything?
I love Sandra Bullock and I love sports movies and I love movies based on true events. Inside each of us is potential. And I think the part that was the saddest of the whole movie was Michael’s friend, David, who never took the opportunites that fell in his path. He was never able to make a better life for himself. Maybe all you really ever need is someone to believe in you. To nurture you when you need it most.
There are so many opportunities for love to save our lives. Not just the ones that are so dramatic and drastic as Michael’s situation. But they can be found in the everyday events that shape our reality.
by Mark Peter Hughes
More or less a typical teen girl book. I like how the protagonist and narrator, Floey, which is an odd name and makes me think of the blue fish from Finding Nemo, didn’t get everything she wanted. It wasn’t some picture perfect life. But there was a happy ending in there. Could that be how life turns out? Maybe not perfect like you envision, but still good?
I have to admit that I wasn’t a huge fan. One, because they changed directors and tone. Two, because the score was too hyped up. The soundtrack wasn’t bad though. Three, because I felt like they were making fun and cheesing everything up. It wasn’t this heartfelt movie that made Twilight successful.
Other than that though I had a good time. I got all the old gang together and we staked out or seats and enjoyed the night. I’ve always wondered who it was who bought those horribly ugly t-shirts that said Team Edward or Team Jacob on them. Now I know, the theater was packed with girls wearing them.
But the movie did support what I believe. The werewolves have a lot of character, are fun and forgiving. The vampires are dull, old men. And what was the pained look that Rob Pattinson expressed every time he kissed Bella? He’s such a horrible actor!
