Category Archives: movies

in good company

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Why did no one tell me before that magazine subscriptions are so cheap on eBay? Holy cow. It’s like heaven.

In other news, I just finished watching In Good Company. And I really liked it. The movie is totally predictable (I mean, if you saw the trailer, it basically gives the story away) but Topher Grace, Scarlett Johansson and Dennis Quaid are all amazing. The ending left me a little dissatisfied but now that I’ve had a little time to think about it, I’ve changed my mind. I’m happy with the way it ended. Very true to real life. Anyway, highly recommended. :)

Doing another Top 5 request…

Top 5 Real Life Couples
I don’t really ‘ship real life couples (it’s a little strange since they’re actually real people and not characters) so here are the 5 couples that I think are/were really cute together…
1. Rachel Bilson and Adam Brody
2. Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson
3. Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe (they never dated — but the pictures of them at the various premieres of HP3 were *so* cute)
4. Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake
5. Kirsten Dunst and Jake Gyllenhaal

One more to do…

Have a great weekend everyone!

summer movies

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Squee! New pictures from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire are here and here. I especially adore all the pics of Harry (my Dan love is resurfacing). Aww. And I finally got my first look at an official WB photo of Cho Chang. Katie Leung (I think that’s the actress’s name) is totally cute but she’s just not what I envisioned Cho to look like. Maybe it’s just me…

In other movie news, I’ve seen a few in recent weeks (all of which are probably old news to everyone else, lol)…

Batman Begins
The best movie I’ve seen all year. Actually, the best movie I’ve seen in a LONG time. It was amazing. The talented cast (especially Christian Bale and Morgan Freeman — and yes, including Katie Holmes), the darker storyline, the gritty sets — everything just fell into place for this movie. A definite improvement from the cheesefest that was Batman and Robin (please no one let Arnold Schwarzenegger appear in another Batman movie). Can’t wait for the sequel!

Fantastic Four
Entertaining but not much else. The Fantastic Four aren’t developed at all as characters which made it hard for me to care. I definitely had trouble with Johnny Storm (Chris Evans’s character) — he was such a hothead and I never understood why. There was also some cringe-worthy acting (*cough*JessicaAlba*cough*) but I’ll overlook that because I adored Julian McMahon. Heh.

Wedding Crashers
Everyone needs to go see this movie! Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are freaking hilarious. Rachel McAdams is rocking (as usual) plus, you get to see Bradley Cooper (yum!) play a decidedly non-Will character. Good times.

I also saw a trailer for Dukes of Hazzard. WOW. Jessica Simpson absolutely cannot act. I was so embarrassed for her. EEK.

And last but not least, HAPPY BIRTHDAY Emma! Hope you have a great day! :)

mtv movie awards

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I’m watching the MTV Movie Awards and Katie Holmes is presenting the MTV Generation award to Tom Cruise. Now. I normally love her (leftover from my Dawson’s Creek obsession) but OMG, what happened to her?!? First of all, she’s waaaay too skinny now and then she was too smiley and weird during her introduction (has she been taking crazy lessons from Tom?). I didn’t know who was FREAKING me out more — Tom (and I’m a huge fan of his work) or Katie.

LOVED loved loved the reenactment that Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling did of their kissing scene in The Notebook. Haven’t seen the movie but damn, that was HOT. Gotta rent the movie…

The rest of the awards were pretty forgettable.

Anyway, I’m heading to Southern CA for a friend’s wedding on Saturday — hope everyone has a great weekend!

rent trailer!

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Thanks to Sarah’s head’s up, I found and downloaded the Rent trailer. All I have to say is…

SQUEE. It is seriously AMAZING. There’s no dialogue (just clips pieced together with Seasons of Love playing over it) but it’s one powerful trailer… *sigh* I cannot wait til November. But for now, watching the trailer over and over and over will suffice. :P

Quick meme…
1. Current fandoms: Everwood and Dawson’s Creek (yes, still). I consider myself a part of many other fandoms but I find it hard to really get involved. Fandoms can be SCARY.
2. My first fandom ever: Dawson’s Creek
3. My most recent fandoms: Grey’s Anatomy, Lost
4. 5 Fandoms that mean a lot to me: Dawson’s Creek, Everwood, Felicity, Roswell, and BtVS

I may get a chance to add Veronica Mars to the list of my many fandoms — apparently UPN really is rerunning season 1 starting June 14. I’m gonna see if the show actually lives up to the hype. Then I won’t feel so out of the loop anymore, lol.

Lastly, just wanted to share that Jennifer put up a new layout at High Anxiety and I’ve finally installed a new gallery… hope you all like the new look!

star wars episode III

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Loved Star Wars. I’m sure I’ll watch it again when I can focus on the movie and not on staying awake. (I still can’t believe I went to the midnight showing knowing I had work the next day).

Comments on the movie later… after I catch up on sleep. :P

hp and the goblet of fire trailer

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The Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire trailer is online. So. Much. SQUEE. The shots of the trio from the past movies are so cute. Plus, the Harry/Hermione shipper in me loved seeing Hermione yell for Harry when he was fighting the dragon (or at least, I think — it was a very brief shot). Aww. I can’t wait for November.

On a sad note, it looks like American Dreams has been cancelled (this is Chad Darnell’s blog — a guy who used to work on casting for the show — he also works on Lost and Alias so his entries are always fun to read). :( I’m so disappointed in NBC. But even more than that, I’m really sad that the season finale ended up being the series finale. It just doesn’t feel right to have the show end with Meg leaving the way she did. *sigh* There’s no other way to say it so… this sucks.

I started making caps of my Dawson’s Creek season 5 DVDs for High Anxiety and wow, it’s kinda painful, lol. This is my least favorite season — horrible storylines and annoying new characters (Karen, Professor Wilder) — make these episodes tough for me to watch again. However, I’m actually warming up to Audrey again (her downward spiral in season 6 really killed the character for me) and also enjoying Charlie, played by none other than Chad Michael Murray. Hee. But maybe that’s because I keep thinking he’s Lucas from One Tree Hill, except with hair. But I’ve only watched the first 2 episodes so we’ll see how the rest of it goes…
Hope everyone’s having a great weekend!

iTunes and spoilers

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I received 3 iTunes gift cards today so I’m looking through the music store trying to figure out what I can download and I seriously can’t find a single song that I want. Anyone have any recs? Songs that are on constant repeat on your playlist?

Been watching lots of movies lately…

Day After Tomorrow
The movie has really clunky dialogue and some seriously unbelievable storylines (the wolves? Dennis Quaid’s trek through the storm?) but I thought it was really entertaining. Or maybe I just enjoyed it because of one Mr. Jake Gyllenhaal. All the special effects and digital imaging were amazing as well. Really gorgeous.

Collateral
Loved Tom Cruise (he was my first celebrity crush and I pretty much love him in everything he’s in) and Jamie Foxx. The movie, however, is a whole different story. I liked it and thought it had potential (especially the tension between Vincent and Max) but I didn’t think it really went anywhere. I was very unsatisfied as the end credits rolled.

Saved!
A much, much better movie that I thought it was going to be. And surprisingly very funny. Mandy Moore, in particular, did a good job. She has great comedic timing — something I would never have guessed from her previous movies. I highly recommend it (unless you’re very sensitive about religious topics).

Garden State
I bought a copy of this DVD before ever watching the movie… thank goodness I adored it (and now have a girl crush on Natalie Portman! Aww!). I loved that it was a very real movie — the emotions, the relationships, and the ending. Plus, it had a SUPERB soundtrack.

Is it sad that I totally want to get a copy of Troy tomorrow because I want to ogle Brad Pitt and Eric Bana? Mmm.

lotr: rotk

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Marianne! Mandy! Alie! I’ve received the holiday cards you guys sent me and I love them all. Thanks so, so much.

:D

You know, if I don’t stop buying “presents” for myself every time I go Christmas shopping, I’d probably be done by now. Guh.

Rob and I picked up The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King tonight. $22.99 at Best Buy. Squee! The first thing we watched was the Easter egg on the first disc. OMG, it is *so* funny. It’s basically Dominic Monaghan interviewing Elijah Wood via satellite (Elijah can’t see Dominic but Dominic can see him). The twist is that Dominic is pretending to be a German reporter and Elijah totally buys it. As you can imagine, it’s completely hilarious with Dom commenting numerous times about Elijah’s big beautiful blue eyes and asking whether or not Elijah likes to kick balls. Heh. You just have to watch it. (It’s on the first disc — go to the “select a scene” menu, scroll to the bottom until the ring shows up, then hit enter).

We’ve watched about three-fourths of the extended movie and so far, I have loved all the extra scenes that were edited back in, especially the Houses of Healing and anything having to do with Faramir and Eowyn’s story. This was a big part of the book that I was most disappointed not to see in the theatrical release. The additional scenes aren’t very long at all but at least it’s something!

And some clarification on my O12 comments for Robyn…

I thought Benedict was a much more capable adversary for Ocean’s Eleven so that’s why I thought Toulour’s rivalry with Ocean was unnecessary. I understood the rivalry and the way it propelled the story forward, I just didn’t see the need to bring in another character for the movie — but that’s probably because I wasn’t crazy about Toulour in general.

:P

ocean’s twelve

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So I went to see Ocean’s Twelve on Friday (mild spoilers may be ahead!)… and at first, I was a little disappointed with the movie but after a few days, I think I’ve changed my mind. It’s definitely not as good as the first but it’s still a fun, fun movie. I guess I just had extraordinarily high hopes because Ocean’s Eleven is one of my favorite movies ever. O12 lacked two important things that made the first movie work — real group interaction as well as a tight, cohesive script (there were a few unnecessary storylines — the rivalry between Ocean and Toulour, Isabel and the end to her story).

But whatever, it was still a highly entertaining movie with exceptional actors and The George, The Matt and especially The Brad were looking mighty nice. That should be reason enough to see it! Heh. I know, I’m shallow.

Fannish Five…

What 5 characters perform their actual jobs well? (Characters from Clerks need not apply).
1. Leo McGarry, The West Wing
2. Karen Rowe, One Tree Hill
3. Gil Grissom, CSI
4. Kirsten Cohen, The OC
5. Jack Bauer, 24