What We Watch

district 9 is definitely worth seeing.

i almost cried, but i didn’t because

a. i was on a date and

b. i was two beers deep

i actually think it was the best action movie i’ve seen this summer. the climax at the end is just great.

xo.

-claire

last sunday morning i went to go see paper heart. it wasn’t a great film, but it was incredibly cute. it stars charlyne yi and her real-life boyfriend michael cera. it’s half documentary and half scripted movie. maybe it’s a girl thing, but i really liked it. i say this only because after i rated it on netflix, a dude commented that it was completely overrated. not that i totally value his opinion, but i suppose i could see why a man may not find the flick as endearing as i did.

i think it’s hard not to relate to at least one of the stories of love and heartbreak delivered from the average people charlyne interviews on the road. it’s also nice to see a flick where love isn’t driven mostly by sex and physical attraction as it is in most flicks (and my trainwreck of a life). instead the interactions between michael and charlyne seem stripped down and much more innocent.

so while it wasn’t great, i thought it was refreshing. i’d probably even see it again.

-claire

so this is the movie poster for thirst. pretty cool, right? i’m really stoked to see this one at this year’s fantasticfest. they’re showing an advance screening of it later this month that i’ll try to get into… let’s hope i do. i love chan wook park! 

-claire

p.s. i saw HP6:HBP last night, more on that later. 

i’m definitely going to write more about true blood when i get some free time this weekend, but for right now i’ll just say that the opening title sequence is really awesome. i linked you to it, if you haven’t seen it and appreciate things like that. 

-claire

so i’m a sucker for chick flicks. i actually thought the sex and the city movie was fun to watch regardless of how fucking retarded it was. the movie featured above, however, is a complete waste of time. i know what you’re thinking - BIG SURPRISE.

it’s overloaded with celebrities. most of which i never really cared about and after watching the flick, probably never will. i absolutely hate, i mean, HATE the way this movie portrays women. it makes us all seem like crazy bitches that are all dying to get married no matter what the cost.

i’ve recently been through a pretty depressing break-up. when i am in a bad mood; i want to sulk. i just love to wallow in a giant pool of my own disgusting, self-loathing negativity and soak it all up with booze and bad decisions until i can’t take it anymore. my pity parties usually include shit movies like this one that leave me feeling brain dead. this one left me feeling annoyed and slightly pissed off.  i want to watch these crap rom coms to make myself feel worse about myself; this movie made me feel worse about the world.

i’d much rather pop in a copy of the notebook or better yet, watch the entire series of queer as folk again and go to bed believing that justin & brian form the most realistic and loving relationship given the current state of american society and culture… but i could talk about queer as folk forever. kristin definitely knows that.

ANYWAY-

he’s just not that into you: 2 stars. it gets one star for bradley cooper’s ass, but his ass, unfortunately does not have the power to save the movie. it’s on par with the lakehouse (the love story about the time warp in the mailbox- KILL ME). i’ll owe you an ice cream cone if you watch it and disagree.

-claire