Blonde Ambition

Just seeing Jessica Simpson on the cover already tells me a lot about this movie. I mean, she is a sweet girl and I think she can sing (compared to Britney, that is, and when she's not shrieking), but really, I don't get why singers go into acting. I mean, isn't a success in one aspect of showbiz enough?

Only a handful of singers can pull off the singing-to-acting crossover (and this applies too to actors who suddenly shoves out an album), and oftentimes they're a one movie hit wonder.

Take mandy Moore for example. She is a good singer, and I loved A Walk to Remember, no matter what anybody else says. She can really pull off the sickly girl part. And it did help that the story was amazing. But all her other movies are...bleugh. Chasing Liberty was okay though, but that's about it.

Jennifer Lopez is a different thing. She's not at par with the kinds of Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, but she fits her genre. She does mostly romantic comedies (which I love!) and I actually find her funny. She has this natural-ness to her when she acts and it's nice. Of course, she's a chart-topping music goddess too, not that I'm into her genre in music but I appreciate a few songs.

Don't get me started on Britney's Crossroads. I think I watched that as penance for all the chocolate ice cream and cheesecake I ate. Britney has a unique voice (albeit irritating at times) and I liked her up until her second album, and maybe a bit of the third. Then she goes and drinks bong water that went up to her brain and never left. I just wish she gets fixed already because I don't hate her; I just hate what's happening to her.

Anyway, about the movie! It's a disaster. It's about this small town country girl who's living with her grandfather who owns a shop and has gone in debt so she goes to the city to get a job to buy the mortgage of the shop. She's also engaged to this small town "model" dude that's actually a sham and a loser who dumped her. Then she gets manipulated into having a job in a top construction or real estate company, I'm not sure, I just know they're dealing with selling and building places. So it turns out that she was just being used and she goes right back up and kicks ass!

It's a happy ending. Share my pain and go see this for yourself to know how it happened.

Jessica's acting was so fake it hurt watching her smile sweetly and innocently. She's a lovely girl, but if Luke Wilson weren't in that movie I wouldn't have watched it. I mean, Jessica was like being Jessica in the movie and not her character. Or maybe her character was so much like her that I can't tell the difference. I hope they stop making her play dumb clueless country blondes and make her do a high-end bitchy kind of role, you know, for a bit of a challenge. Maybe she can pull it off, and then maybe I can finally tell if she's playing herself or a character.

I'll have to watch more DVDs now!

Unrest

I think I picked this DVD Christmas night as a result of me watching too much Grey's Anatomy.

This movie is about a med student who "feels" the murderous spirit of the corpse they're slicing up. She says she doesn't believe in those stuff, but she feels them. She knows. It's a pretty weird movie with a lot of top-removing and involves Aztec gods. The story is a mess, really. The acting has A LOT of room for improvement and about every other scene; the female protagonist takes her top off and lets the audience bask in her twins' titanic glory.

The goriness level is about a 6 or 7 out of 10. Or maybe just a solid 6.5. Haha. The dead bodies floating in a tank were just really disgusting. And yeah, someone had to dive in that tank to get something, and for me, you should see the movie just for that scene. And of course it (kind of) helped that the girl looked like Britney Spears.

My brother and I were actually eating (chicken, I think) when we were watching this, and we had to pause it and finish the food before continuing. Lol.

Well, the cover said that they used real dead bodies in that movie so that kinda stuck to me and that pretty much is why this earned a 6.5 goriness reading.

All in all, if you wanna waste about an hour and a half of your life, go see this movie. The girl's chest had more footage than all the bloody scenes combined. If you're into that stuff, and if you're just really really seriously bored, then there.

No Reservations

I love watching romantic comedies, even though most of them are all kind of the same. I'd just like to know how the guy meets the girl and how they end up together. Haha. I guess I believe that it's the details that make the movie special.

I wanted to see this in the theaters, but tickets cost so much nowadays that we reserve the whole big screen experience for "big movies" like Superman or Harry Potter. So most of these romantic comedies, we end up waiting for the DVD.

Anyway, I love feel good movies. This one is okay. I love Catherine Zeta-Jones, that's why I wanted to see this film. Her whole neurotic chef character is a bit funny (but there were some scenes that just make it look sad). I'd love to know how to cook like that though.

Aaron Eckhart is really the life of the film actually. Before he showed up singing opera inside of the kitchen, the movie was a bit dragging and kind of frustrating. Maybe the movie was supposed to be like that? To show that Aaron is like "the sunshine" that ends their cloudy days or something. He was really wonderful and funny.

Abigail Breslin is a very talented young lady. I just don't think this movie really stretched her acting skills, but she did great. She's just really adorable.

Basically, sad as I may be to say this, but this movie was not one of the best romantic comedies. It was generally fine, but the ending was kind of a let down. I didn't feel like there was a climactic event. There were scenes that rise and then plateaus and then fall again, but all the plateaus are of the same height, you know? Like there wasn't one big turning point. Everything was so mellow and gentle...

It's still a nice film to watch though especially if you want a nice relaxing, soothing film that's easy to watch.

Christmas Cleaning

Because I've been hibernating since Christmas, I thought that I should move around a bit and get my blood flowing again, so I decided to finally fulfill a promise I made to my brother a year ago: organize his DVD collection.

So about five days ago, I gathered all of his DVDs strewn around the house and dumped it in his cramped and dusty bedroom. That actually added more dust and I almost lost my nose for sneezing so often. I was just planning on alphabetizing them, but man, the dust. Seriously. It's as if I was excavating in an archaeological site or something. So I decided to wipe each one clean. (I'm only rarely able to throw off my laziness and actually do something semi-useful so this is kind of a big thing. My mom looked so proud when she saw me actually moving.)

It looked like heaven rained DVDs in my brother's room for a couple of days when I was listing everything down and alphabetizing them. I thought of arranging them by genres, but because of lack of space (and I didn't know how to classify the others and was too lazy to research each and every one of those), it seemed better just to alphabetize them.

So there. After two days of inhaling dust, I finally finished my task.

What does this have to do with anything?

Well, my brother and I have been having nightly DVD marathons lately (which will end in about four days because I have to get back to school...sucks) and we've seen some good, some okay, and some movies that made us regret throwing an hour and a half of our lives away. I kind of want to record the ones I have seen (because he buys these things in bulk, like five to ten at a time, and I used to watch every new one, because he doesn't) so that I can cancel them off my to-watch list, and also so that I won't watch the crappy ones again. Haha. And my brother sometimes asks me which ones are good.

Well, that's the whole point of this thing. I'm no professional critic or anything. There are some movies I really love that critics bash to death (most of these are brain-dead movies but they're so much fun to watch, especially when I don't want to be analyzing stuff). So don't expect constructive criticisms or stuff like that. I'm just gonna say what I think of the movie.

Well, enough of this. On to the flicks!