So, instead of rain-gearing up to spend an Alexander Hamilton or two to sit through a movie as mediocre as the weather, I'm choosing to spend some time with my best friends Netflix, Redbox, and the movie channels, and the abundance of guilty pleasures they have to offer.
[netflixfix] WHENINROME (Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel - Mark Steven Johnson, 2010)
When I first saw this...[can I call it a movie? a story? a flick? I wouldn't] cliche, it was late at night on my birthday in the middle of my winter break. The godsend that is instantly streaming Netflix through the Wii (read: on the big TV dad bought himself) and the effects of the quiet house brought me to this "chick-flick" that I'd missed in theaters. I decided, being an @Twitter addict, to live tweet (or obsessively update to keep people in the know about a goings-on) it. Basically, this may be the worst movie I've seen in a long time. Entertaining, yes, but original? No. Cliche after cliche after cliche, mixed with mediocre acting and land line phones (I love 'em, but NO ONE living in a New York studio apartment in 2010 has a land line phone) made this an unbelievably bad movie. The thing I question most? How it achieved one of the most B-list studded cast in history.
verdict: hilariously bad, but still a little bit heartwarming, this one's a bomb that I secretly love. ♥♥
[redboxing] RAMONA&BEEZUS (Joey King, Selena Gomez - Elizabeth Allen, 2010)
I've gotten a lot of curious looks from people browsing through my milk crate o' movies who see this little gem sticking out. "Really? Like, really?" is what their eyes are saying. Yes, world. Really. I bought 'Ramona and Beezus' without having seen it, knowing it was going to be a warm and fuzzy trip into my childhood. I don't know how people who read Judy Blume's 'Ramona' books could think any differently, especially with the casting of the adorable Joey King. The movie took me back into my childhood, when my brother and I used to argue, when he started liking girls, when our parents were talking about moving. I won't lie, I spent about the last 45 minutes crying silent tears. It's a heartwarming tale about a goofy gal with the world (read: her family's) problems on her shoulders. And that's me, in a nutshell.
verdict: With great, albeit cheesy and overwhelmingly 'family portrait' style, acting, this one is a home run for a rainy afternoon by yourself (still in pajamas). ♥♥♥
[homeboxoffice] JACK (Robin Williams, Jennifer Lopez - Francis Ford Coppola, 1996)
First thing to do here is read that director. What a repertoire he's got! Anyway, back to 'Jack'. If you've never seen this awesome, awesome movie, don't ever tell anyone and flip right away to TMC's xtra channel all this weekend. It's about a kid (Robin Williams) with some sci-fi disease that makes you age ten years faster than normal. But even though he's a giant, hairy weirdo in the fourth grade that girls think is gross and boys don't want to be friends with, the compelling Jack eventually becomes everyone's favorite friend. Sure, it's partly because he can get them dirty magazines, but really, he's just awesome. Bill Cosby and a bunch of kids (including that one with the glasses and the froggy voice that everyone remembers) are great, especially in the initiation scenes. There is eating of a lot of gross stuff, and then a clubhouse colla-- no, I'm not going to give it away.
verdict: Just the best. Be prepared for some laughs and some drama, and, yes, J. LO. ♥♥♥♥♥
also playing on the showtime package (starz/encore/showtime): Space Buddies (dogs in space), Adventureland (which I'll be watching tonight for my Jessie Eisenberg love fix and my Kristen Stewart eye-rolling fix), 2001: A Space Odyssey (enduringly boring, but kind of worth it to see the most famous scene in perhaps all time), Oscar winner Alice in Wonderland, and the greatest baseball movie of all time: The Sandlot.
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