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Sunday, June 6, 2010

Weekend with Meryl Streep/Julia Childs


Well another day another dollar spent. I have just came back from a mini vacation and it rained all weekend long. Not the best weather for spending what was supposed to be a relaxing weekend. I spent it inside watching movies (what a surprise). I watched Julie & Julia. It was an okay movie. I watched it because my grandmother used to watch Julia Child's all the time on TV and she owns her cookbooks as well. It defiantly was sad when at the end it showed what happened after the movie. I knew that her and her husband had died but i think seeing her life and experiences made it a little bit harder to see.
I don't know how Meryl Streep got the voice perfect but she did. I always thought that Julia Child's had a bit of a shrilly but unique voice and Meryl Streep got it perfect. My grandmother thought she did an amazing job, down to the clothes, food and expressions, but the voice was no. 1 for her.
All of the food made me want to lick the television thought!
All in all 3.5/5

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Inglorious Bastards Review

In lieu of my post of all of my favorite movies, I have decided to make up a list of all of my favs!!!

I will be making 1 post for each movie and going in to depth (or at least what I call depth) why I like them or what some of their flaws (although this is my favs list so there wont be many!)

Right now, my no. 1 is Inglorious Bastards




Now, I have always been a HUGE fan of Quentin Tarantino, and not to my surprise, Inglorious Bastards was no exception. The plot, the main thing that intrigued me about this movie. never have I seen a movie about a group of Jewish American soldiers going through Nazi occupied France scalping Nazi's. Then to add in a villain like Col. Hans Landa really sealed the deal for me.

Hans Landa is probably one of the most likably villains for me. Through the whole thing I knew he was killing massive amounts of people and STILL i liked him and wanted him to live! That is what made him one of my two favorite characters in this movie. Christoph Waltz made a performance of epic proportions and he really deserved that Oscar. (I think he made everyone like him in the opening scene at the Dreyfus' house in the beginning.
My other favorite character in the movie was Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz. I will admit I was biased at the beginning of the movie in his favor. Eli Roth has been a favorite director of mine for a while and I must admit, he looked very good all hunked up in that white wife beater. The Bear Jew made an eerie and passionate entrance when he was banging his way through the tunnel to beat a German soldier with a baseball bat, geared up with signatures from Jewish Americans from his home town Boston. Although it killed me when he died at the end!

I knew it was going to this but still, when you like a movie you get attached to characters and you don't want them to die but then they end up dying and you want to wish them back to life. That was the way with me (and many others) with The Bear Jew.

There was a great support cast to add to Brad Pitt's leading role. Hugo Stiglitz (played by Til Schweiger) made an imposing force as the murderous Nazi gone rogue. After killing 13 Gestapo officers. He was recruited by the Bastards and then the killing began.

Enough of the characters (although for me they made a lot of the movie) Quentin Tarantino did an excellent job directing, as per usual, and I really do think that this movie deserved the Oscar more than The Hurt Locker.
I don't know if anyone knows this on here, but I am a huge movie person, and throughout the last month or so I have been composing a list of all of the movies that I have watched through my life. Now when I see all of the movies compiled together I think I seem kind of lame, but it is what I love to do socially and on my own!
The list is about 700 movies long, but I cannot remember all of the movies I have watched in my life (obviously) but I have been trying to keep up with what I watch and then I will put into my alphabetized list. Now I want to keep it up to date and I think that posting it on here will be better (and safer) for me to do!
Enough rambling, on with the show....


3:10 To Yuma
8 Mile
9
10 Things I Hate about You
10,000 BC
12 Rounds
13 Ghosts
13 Going on 30
16 Blocks
17 Again
21
21 Grams
27 Dresses
28 Days later
28 Weeks
28 Weeks Later

30 Days of Night
40 Days and 40 Nights
40 Year Old Virgin
42nd Street
50 First Dates
88 Minutes
100 Million BC
101 Dalmations
300
500 Days of Summer
1408
2001 Maniacs
2001 Space Odyssey
2012
2012 Doomsday
A Beautiful Mind
A Cinderella Story
A Clockwork Orange
A Few Good Men
A Haunting in COnnecticut
A Perfect Getaway

A Serious Man
A Time to Kill
AVP
About A Boy
About Schmit
Accepted
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Across the Universe
Adam
Adam & Steve
Adventureland
Adventures of Pluto Nash
Aeon Flux
Agent Cody Banks
Air Bud
Air Force One
Airplane
Alexander
Alfie

Alice In Wonderland
Alien
Alien VS Predator
All About Steve
All Dogs Go To Heaven
All the Kings Men
Almost Famous
Along Came A Spider
Alpha Dog
American Beauty
American Dreams
American Gangster
American Graffiti
American History X
American Phycho
American Pie (dont know how many XP)
American Virgin
Amistad
An American Haunting

An Education
An Inconvenient Truth
Anaconda
Anaconda 2
Analyze That
Anastasia
Anchorman
Angel Eyes
Angles & Demons
Animal Farm
Annapolis
Antz
Apocalypto
Apocolypse Now
Apollo 13
Appaloosa
Apt Pupil
Aquamarine
Are We There Yet?
Armageddon
Armoured
Around the World in 80 Days
Arthur and the Invisibles
Artificial Intelligence: AI
As Good as It Gets
Assassination of A High School President
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Attonment
Audition
Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Australia
Autospsy
Autumn
Avatar
Awake
Babe
Babel
Babylon AD
Back to the Future
Bad Boys I
Bad Boys II
Bad News Bears
Balck Christmas
Ballet Shoes
Balls of Fury
Bambi
Band of Brothers
Basement Jack
Batman
Batman & Robin
Batman Begins
Batman Forever
Batman Returns

Battle Royale I
Battle Royale II
Be Kind Rewind
Bedtime Stories
Bee Movie
Beetlejuice
Before the Rain
Behind Enemy Lines
Bend It Like Becham
Benny & Joon
Beowulf
Beverly Hills Cop
Bewitched
Big Fish
Big Mamas House
Big Mamas House 2
Bill
Black Christmas
Black Hawk Down
Black Snake Moan
Blade Runner
Blades of Glory
Blaire Witch Project
Blakc Swarm
Blindness
Blood: The Last Vampire
Blood and Chocolate
Blow
Blow Dry
Blue Crush
Boat Trip
Body of Lies
Bon Cop, Bad Cop
Boogie Nights
Boogyman

Borat
Borthers
Bottle Shock
Bourne Identity
Bourne Supremicy
Bowling for Columbine
Boy in the Striped Pajama's
Brahm Stokers Dracula
Braveheart
Breakfast Club
Bride Wars
Bride Wars
Brideshed Revisited
Bridget Jones's Diary
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Bright Star
Brokeback Mountain
Brooklyns Finest
Brother Bear
Brothers Bloom
Brothers Grim
Bruno
Bucket List
Bug
Burn After Reading
Butterfly Effect
Cabin Fever
Cabin Fever 2
Candy
Cannibal Hollacaust
Capitalism: A Love Story
Captivity
Carriers
Cars
Casablanca
Casino
Casper the Friendly Ghost
Cassandra's Dream
Castaway
Catch Me If You Can
Catwoman
Cellular
Changeling
Charlie's Angels : Full Throttle
Charlie's Angles
Charlie Wilsons War
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Cheaper by the Dozen
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
Chemical Wedding

Chicago
Chicken Little
Chicken Run
Children of Men
Children of the Corn (old)
Children of the corn (new)
Chocolat
Choke
Chronicles of Narnia: Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe

Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Cinderella Man
Citizin Cane
City of God
Clash of the Titans
Clear and Present Danger
Clerks II
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Cloverfield
Clowdy with A Chance of Meatballs
Collateral
Con Air
Coneheads
Confessions of A Teenage Drama Queen
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Conjurer
Constinine
Cop Out
Coroline
Corpse Bride
Coyote Ugly
Crank
Crank 2
Crash
Crazy Heart's
Crossroads
Croupier

Crowching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Cruel Intentions
Crushed
Crushed
Cry Baby
Cry Wolf
Daredevil
Das Boot
Davinci Code
Dawn of the Dead
Day After Tomorrow
Dazed and confused
Dead Snow
Death Becomes Her
Death Proof
Deception
Deep Impact
Defiance
Delores Clairborne
Descent
Die Hard
Die Hard 2
Die Hard With A Vengance
Dinosaur
Dirty Dancing
Disclosure
District 9
Disturbia
Doctor Dolittle
Dodge Ball: An Underdog Story

Dogma

Donnie Darko
Doubt
Down With Love
Drag Me to Hell
Dread
Dumb & Dumber
E.T.
Eagle Eye
Eastern Promises
Easy Virtue
Ed Wood
Eden Log
Edward Scissorhands
Eight Leggad Freaks
Elektra
Elf
Elizabethtown
Enchanted
Enemy at the Gates
Enemy of the State
Entrapment
Eragon
Erin Brockovich
Eulogy
Ever After
Face/Off
Fahrenheit 9/11
Fantastic 4 - Silver Surfer
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Fast and the Furious
Fast and the Furious; Tokio Drift
Fatal Attraction
Feast
Feast 2
Feast 3
Fight Club
Final Destination 1
Final Destination 2
Final Destination 3
Finding Nemo
Finding Neverland
Firewall
Fish Called Wanda
Flightplan
Flushed Away
Forger Me Not
Forgetting Sarah Marsahll
Forrest Gump
Four Rooms
Four Weddings and a Funeral
FreakDog
Freaky Friday
Freaky Friday
From Dusk Til Dawn
Funny People
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Gabriel
Galaxy Quest
Gamer
Gangs Of New York
Garden State
Generation Kill (HBO)
Get Smart
Ghost Busters
Ghost Rider
Ghost World
Ghostbusters II
Gigantic
Gigantic
Gimmie Skelter
Girl, Interrupted

Girl with the Pearl Earring
Gone in Sixty Seconds
Good Night, Good Luck
Goodfellas
Grindehouse
Halloween I
Halloween II
Hannibel
Happy Feet
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire

Harry Potter and the Half Bolood Pirnce
Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix
Harry Potter and the Phiosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Hatchet
He's Just Not That Into You
Herbie Fully Loaded
High School Musical 1
Hills Have Eyes
Hills Have Eyes 2
History of Violence
Hitch
Hitcher
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Honey
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Hook
Horton Hears a Who!
Hostage

Hostel Part 1
Hostel Part 2
Hot Fuzz
House of 1000 Corpses
How To Lose Friends and Alienate People
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
How to Train Your Dragon
Hudson Hawk
I, Robot
I Am Legend
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
Ichi the Killer
Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
In Good Company
Indecent Proposal
Independence Day
Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Inglorious Bastards
Interview with the Vampire
Into the Blue
Invictus
Iron Man
It's Complicated
JFK
Jackie Brown
Jarhead
Jaws
Jaws II
Jaws III
Jeepers Creepers I
Jeepers Creepers II
Jennifer's Body
Jerry Maguire
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jumanji
Jumper
Juno
Jurassic Park
Kalifornia
Kate & Leopold
Kicking and Screaming

Kill Bill Vol. 1
Kill Bill Vol.2
Kindergarten Cop
King Arthur
Kingdom of Heaven
Knights Tale
Knocked Up
Kung Fu Panda
Land of the Dead
Land of the Lost
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Lars and the Real Girl
Layer Cake
Leap Year
Leathal Weapon
Leathal Weapon 2
Leatherheads
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
Legion
Legion
Leon
Let the Right One In
Liar Liar
Lilo & Stitch
Little Nicky
Live Free Die Hard
Look Who's Talking
Lord of the Rings : Fellowship of the Ring
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Lord of the Rings: Two Towers
Lords of Dogtown
Lost in Translation
Love Actually
Lucky Number Sleven
Mad Max
Mad Max 2
Made of Honor
Maid in Manhatten
Malice In Wonderland
Marley & Me
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Matrix
Matrix Reloaded
Matrix Revolution
Mavrick
Meat Grinder
Meet the Parents
Memento
Men in Black II
Merchant of Venice
Michael Clayton

Milk
Million Dollar Baby
Miss Congeniality
Monster's Ball
Monsters Inc.
Moonlight Mile
Moulin Rouge
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Mulan
Murcury Rising
Music and Lyrics
My Best Friend's Wedding
My Bloody Valentine
Nacho Libre
Nanny McFee
National Treasure

Natural Born Killers
Ned Kelly
Never Been Kissed
New Moon
New York, I Love You
Next
Nightmare on Elm Street (whole buch of 'em)
Nine
Nine Dead
Notting Hill
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Observe nd Report
Oceans 11
Oceans 12
Oceans 13
Office Space
Old School
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Missed Call
Orphan
Over the Hedge
Over the Hedge
P.S. I Love You
Parent Trap
Patriot Games
Penelope
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Perfect Stranger

Perfume
Peter Pan
Philadelphia
Pinapple Express
Pineapple Express
Pirates of the Caribbean 1
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Pirates of the Caribbean 3
Planet 51
Platoon
Pocahontas
Powder Blue
Precious
Predator
Pretty in Pink
Pride and Prejudice
Psycho
Public Enemies

Pulp Fiction
Pulse

Quarintine
Raiders of the Lost Arc
Rear Window
Red Dragon
Red Eye
Remember the Titans
Rendition
Rent
Repo: The Genetic Opera
Repo Men (new)
Repo Men (old)
Resevoir Dogs
Road Trip
Robots
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Rogue
Romeo & Juliet (old)
Romeo and Juliet (newer)
Runaway Bride
Rush Hour
Rush Hour 2
Santch
Saturday Night Fever
Saving Private Ryan

Saw
Saw II
Saw III
Saw IV
Saw V
Saw VI
Scary Movie
Scenes of A Sexual Nature
Schindler's List
Scooby-Doo
Scoop
Scream Part 1
Scream Part 2
Scream Part 3
Se7en
Seabiscuit
Secret Window
Semi-Pro
Seven Pounds
Seventh Moon
Shakespeare in Love
Shark Tale
Shawn of the Dead
Sherlock Holmes
Shoot Em Up
Shrek 2
Shrek the Third
Shutter Island
Sicko
Signs

Silence of the Lambs
Sin City
Sister Act
Skinwalkers
Slaughter
Sleepless in Seattle
Sleepy Hollow
Smokin Aces
Snatch
Sorority Row
Space Jam
Speed
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 3
Spy Game
Spy Kids
Star Wars Episode 1
Star Wars Episode 2
Star Wars Episode 3
Star Wars Episode 4
Star Wars Episode 5
Star Wars Episode 6
Starsky & Hutch
Stay
Step Brothers
Stormbreaker
Stranger Than Fiction
Stuart Little
Superbad
Superman
Surf's Up
Surrogatesect Zero
Suspect

Sweeney Todd
Swordfish
Syriania
Taken
Talladaga Nights
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Texas Chain Saw Massacre (who knows how many)
The Adams Family
The Adventures of Milo and Otis
The Amityville Horror
The Andromeda Strain
The Astronaut Farmer
The Aviator
The Babysitters
The Bank Job
The Benchwarmers
The Black Dahlia
The Blackout

The Blind Side
The Book of Eli
The Bourne Identity
The Box
The Brave One
The Break-Up
The Brothers Bloom
The Butcher
The Cell
The Collector
The Countess
The Craft
The Crazies (new)
The Curious Case of Bengamin Button

The Dark Knight
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Departed
The Devil Wears Prada
The Devils Rejects
The English Patient
The Eye
The Fast and the Furious
The Fifth Element
The Firm
The Forth Kind
The Fountain
The Fugitive
The Ghost Writer
The Girl With the Pearl Earring
The Godfather
The Godfather: Part II
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The Good German
The Green Mile
The Host
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hurt Locker
The Ice Harvest
The Incredible Hulk
The International
The Island
The Jackel
The Killing Gene
The Kingdom

The Last King of Scotland
The Little Mermaid
The Love Guru
The Mask
The Mask of Zorro
The Men Who Stare At Goats
The Messengers
The Nanny Diaries
The Nutty Professor
The Other Boylen Girl
The Others
The Painted Veil
The Patriot
The Perfect Storm
The Pianist
The Polar Express
The Prestige
The Princes and the Frog
The Proposal
The Pursuit of Happyness
The Reader
The Ring
The Seventh Seal
The Shawshank Redemption

The Shining
The Sixth Sense
The Spirit
The Strangers
The Tale of Desperoux
The Terminal
The Ugly Truth
The Unborn
The Usual Suspects
The Village
The Whole Nine Yards
The Whole Ten Yards
Thelma and Louise
Tomorrow Never Dies
Top Gun
Total Recall
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Traffic
Transformers
Transformers : Revenge of the Fallen

Transpotiing
Trick 'r Treat
Tristian and Isolde
Tropic Thunder
Troy
True Love
Twelve Monkeys
Twilight
Two Lovers
Unbreakable
Up in the Air
Valentine's Day
Valkyrie
Van Helsing
Vanilla Sky
Vertigo
Vicky Christina Barcelona
WALL·E
WAZ aka The Killing Gene
Walk the Line
Walk to Remember

Wanted
War Inc.
Watchmen
We Were Soldiers
Wedding Crashers
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
What Happens in Vegas
What Lies Beneath
Whisper
Who Can Kill A Child
Whore
Wild Hogs
Wild Wild West
Witness
Wolverine
Wrong Turn
Wrong Turn 2
Wrong Turn 3

X-Men
X- Men 2
X-Men : The Last Stand
Year of the Dragon
Yes Man
You've Got Mail
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Youth in Revolt
Zack and Miri Make A Porno
Zoolander

And that conclues all of the movies (that I remembered to write down and remember) as of June 1st, 2010.
Most of them were really stupid, and/or redundant but I still watch them!!!!!

I think I have a new favorite song. It's called We Get On by Kate Nash, it might sound kind of stalkerish but this thing happened to me at the beginning of this school year! A lot of the characteristics are the same and I think that's why I like the song so much XP

Simply knowing you exist aint good enough for me
But asking for your telephone number
seems highly inappropriate

Seeing as I can't
even say hi
when you walk by

And that time you shook my hand it felt so nice
I swear I've never felt this way about any other guy
and I never usually notice people's eyes but..

I conducted a plan
To bump into you most accidentally but
I was walking along
and I bumped into you
much more heavily than I'd originally planned.
It was well embarrassing and
I think you thought that I was a bit of a twat

I just think that we'd get on
Oh I wish I could tell you face to face
instead of singing this stupid song
but yeah I just think that we might get on

So I went to that party
everyone they were kind of arty
And I was wearing this dress
'cause I wanted to impress
But I wasn't sure if I look my best
'cause I was so nervous
But I carried on regardless
strutting through each room
trying to find you

And when I saw you kissing that girl
My heart, it shattered
and my eyes, they watered
and when I tried to speak I stu-uttered

And my friends were like "Whatever,
you'll find someone better,
his eyes are way too close together
and we never even liked him from the start.
And now he's with that tart,

and I heard she'd done some really nasty stuff
down in the park with Michael.
He said she's easy
and if your guys with someone that's sleazy
then he ain't worth your time
cause you deserve a real nice guy"

So I proceeded to get drunk and to cry
I locked myself in the toilets for the entire night

Saturday night, I watch Channel 5
I particularly like CSI
I don't ever dream about you and me
I don't ever make up stuff about us
that would be considered insanity

I don't ever drive by your house to see if you're in
I don't even have an opinion on that tramp
that you are still seeing

I don't know your timetable
I don't know your face off by heart
but I must admit that there is a part
that still thinks that we might get on
that we might get on
that we could get on
that we should get on




Those are the lyrics and something I like about Kate Nash is her accent! I know this sounds like a childish reason to like a singer but English accents are so cool, but most singers don't have such a prominent accent like Nash!
I love her whole album, that's called "Made of Bricks", it has kind of a pop/indie kind of thing going on (which I like!)

That is one of my rambles for the day!