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27May/092

Marriage Manual: Let em sleep

If you're awake, whether it be because you're working from home, or because you just can't sleep anymore, let your honey sleep.  AND KEEP THEM QUIET!!!  Make them breakfast and pack their lunches if they're going to school.  And make sure you're away so you put the peanut butter on the bread and not the fritos.  Tho that's not always a bad thing.

27May/090

Review: Milk

Netflix blurb: Sean Penn (in an Oscar-winning role) stars in this fact-based drama about Harvey Milk, the openly gay activist and San Francisco politician who was murdered along with mayor George Moscone (Victor Garber) by disgruntled city employee Dan White (Josh Brolin, in an Oscar-nominated role) in 1978. Director Gus Van Sant's compelling biopic (nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award) co-stars Emile HirschJames Franco and Diego Luna.

First and foremost - wonderful performance by Sean Penn portraying a groundbreaking spirit in Harvey Milk.  Just watching this movie will make you want to get out and do something about closeminded, scared people.  James Franco, who has been pretty flat in most of the movies I've seen him in, was surprisingly good as Scott, Harvey's lover in the beginning of the movie.  Diego Luna plays Jack, a guy you want to go away about 2 min after you meet him, so obviously he did a great job with his part.

I loved the movie because he took risks, and questioned the establishment, and bucked the system and did it until he won.  He was inspired by the people he inspired and won a great victory.  Killed untimely, but I'm not giving anything away, they say it pretty much in the first scene :)

27May/090

Review: Stay

Netflix blurb: This racy thriller bends reality about five different ways when a psychologist's (Ewan McGregor) suicidal client starts making bizarre predictions that, to everyone's mounting consternation, begin to come true. Now, the shrink must race against the clock to save everything he loves before it disappears forever. Naomi WattsRyan GoslingBob Hoskins and Janeane Garofalo co-star in this suspenseful yarn directed by Marc Forster.

So what did I like?  Well, Ewan McGregor and Ryan Gosling are two of my favorite actors and having them in the same movie was a big bonus.  Naomi Watts is fairly good playing Naomi Watts - it might be that I haven't seen her enough, but tho she is a good actress, she's never thrilled me in anything I've seen.  The supporting cast was great, especially Bob Hoskins.  Nice little mind fucker at the end too.  The thing that I liked the most, however, was the cinematography.  Just Wow.  The way they bleed into and out of scenes (no, that's not a hint) is spectacular.  It all seemed to flow so easily and draw you in from the word go.

What didn't I like?  I'm hard pressed to think of anything really.  I didn't like that I knew there was going to be that twist at the end, but I was surprised I was wrong at what would happen.  Pleasantly surprised because I can usually foil a plot line by the first 15 min or so, so this was cool.  Not mindblowing Matrix revealing cool, but a nice solid, believable twist.