Man oh man oh man.
This movie really wasn't good.
The thing is, I rented it based on Owen and Kate being in it. I like both of them. I realized that the movie probably wasn't going to have a very good plot. I had seen a few commercials and was fairly certain that it wasn't going to be awesome but still I thought it would at least be funny! And let me tell you, it wasn't. I struggle to figure out how the movie even made it to theaters. I honestly believe that they just let the cast carry it.
It was just ridiculous. It was about as ridiculous as The Break Up was.
Don't bother people. Just don't bother.

(The only reason it even gets one head is because I like Matthew McConaughey :) And because Owen Wilson kicked ass in the Shanghai movies he did with Jackie Chan and those will pretty much redeem him for movies like this... and Zoolander.)

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Labels: Apocalypto, Movie Review, what you should be watching

I expected more. But it's hard to live up to some of the theatrical awesomeness I've seen the last few weeks. I guess that really isn't fair.. I expected something different. I expected The Holiday again with different actors and a slightly different story line and Music & Lyrics was a very different movie.
Here's what Music & Lyrics had that the other movies either had in short supply or not at all: laugh out loud comedy. Like when you have to rewind something because you were laughing so hard at the joke that you missed what they said afterwards. And I have to say that it was utterly refreshing after the love stories aimed at the lonely girl. I mean, don't get me wrong, I am a sucker for lonely girl movies (I blame it on not having any of The Sex for a really friggen long time) this was just a change of pace from the seemingly similar films I've watched lately.
And an added bonus to this movie was the fact that Hugh Grant plays a "has been 80's pop star" complete with full music video shown at the beginning of the film. The music video alone is worth the rental fee.
In short? I really liked it. It was a good comedy with a twist of a love story. Enough so that you could actually watch this on a first or second date without the date becoming awkward. It has some very funny one liners thrown in excessively so it will keep you laughing enough that you won't realize until the next day when you are blogging about it that the story line was basically nonexistant. And that, my friends, is hard to do :)
It's a renter, not a buyer. And be ready for "POP goes my heart" to be stuck in your head :)
Look! The three Matthew McConaughey heads like it!

Labels: Movie Review, Music and Lyrics, My pathetic excuse for a love life, what you should be watching

Well, since I seem to be watching so many movies these days, it only seems fair that I should tell ya'll about them.
I've just watched Miss Potter which is, by far, the cutest movie I've seen in a tremendously long time. I hadn't even heard of the movie until I saw it's preview on something I rented last week and people if you haven't heard of it either, take my word for it and go rent it.
The movie is about the author Beatrix Potter and just the sweetest little thing you will see this month, if not this year. It is the very definition of heartwarming and I am not ashamed to tell you that I pretty much kept the tissues next to me the entire time and not because it was sad but because it was so refreshingly happy that I found myself laughing and crying at the same time.
The friendship that develops between Beatrix and Millie reminded me so much of the friendships shown in my favorite movie of all time: Anne of Green Gables. And that, I assure you, is a complement as to how well the relationships developed in a short time.

So, I've devised a system for rating movies... a system that you will most likely only see here on LOC.
I am going to give Miss Potter four out of five Matthew McConaughey heads :P I highly recommend this movie. It was just so sweet that I would feel bad for you if you didn't get to see it. And it's totally safe to watch with the kiddos.

Labels: Miss Potter, Movie Review, what you should be watching