ForVanAngel

She's a charismatic nice actress, and that's always good. Have to watch Walk The Line Again, got it on dvd, I actually buy pretty many movies on dvd on sale (for like 5 €), since I have already seen them I know that I take no risk. But then it takes me ages to rewatch them, cos I rather watch a new movie than one I've already seen. And I'd rather watch a Raising Helen then stuff where I'd be sure to like it better. It's honestly a too long time ago, so I forget things. But I liked WTL. Another movie with music, now we're onto something.

Finally somebody who gets me. I'd challange you to a game of "which country has the most horrible movie translations", sadly it would be hard for both of us. Some are good, but too many are just crap! Like with chick flicks, those movie titles always sound so boring. Like Raising Helen was called "Love On Detour" (I'm not a pro, so I hope that even makes sense to you, if not I'm really sorry), or the newest Selena Gomez movie isn't called Monte Carlo, it's called "Suddenly (a) star" - I mean, argh. And one more to give you a taste: The Natalie Portman/Ashton Kutcher movie No Strings Attached was called "Friendship Plus". Luckily they keep the movie title often or simply translate them. May I ask why that makes it so hard to find movies? That problem I never had.

I noticed that! I was searching on the french amazon page just some time ago to look what prices they have, I was shocked! I honestly would recommend you to buy from England (since I do that I save so much money) or even Germany maybe (I'm not sure what they charge for shipment) could be cheaper. Now I understand, if I now tell you that I since 2 years buy from England and now I don't buy dvd boxes for more than 20 €! I simply don't do it. Before that I spend a lot of money on those boxes (as I told you, I have 120 tv show seasons and half of them are German versions), but not anymore.

Never really expect to "like" it, but I was hoping it could be a nice evening movie, I didn't even know what it was about, there was just Kate Hudson on the cover and I knew that John Corbett was in it, so I thought it would be a chick flick about a young woman with a slightly older man. It wasn't, it was nice to watch most of the time, but when I found out that it was 110 minutes instead of like 90, the last half hour was not the easiest to watch. I have like an inner hope with movies that they are better than I expect. Maybe that's it, I simply like to watch other movies than the ones I buy, to broaden my horizon, cos I'm usually not into light comedy movies, more drama and serious stuff, so I take what I get or find lying around in the house or what my sisters borrows me.


It's not that I don't like him, he's a nice guy I guess, but apart from those 2 movies (one of his first ones) there was none that I liked or where he convinced me. I've seen like (and now you will be surprised ^^) 9 movies of him (my sis is a fan too), but he was never outstanding, Brokeback and Jarhead were the better ones of him besides the twos I love. So I would recommend you to watch Donnie Darko, it's a wonderful movie, it is a great mixture of so many things and you have to watch it more than twice to think you got it (and then you didn't really). I like his last name a lot, I'd change my name to Matt Gyllenhaal in a second, that sounds AWESOME, like a Norse God!







The Middle: Season 2, Episode 2

Mike thought that young Brick easily could go leaf raking. But he didn’t really do it, he sorted the leaves by colour, each one. It took him 11 days instead of let’s be fair he’s small I think 2 hours. It’s Homecoming, Axl is on the team and the parents had to escort the players onto the field. But Sue’s something was on the same day as homecoming, so the parents had to divide. Frankie is a talker, Mike a doer. Like that! Really!: Since Sue is so stupid (sorry, but she is, I wish she wasn’t), she got lost in the woods when she was running and Frankie missed the Homecoming. I hope her cross country obsession stops, her character was better before that. Yes, she missed Homecoming, thanks to Sue running around in the woods for hours. So there was no happy ending, when Axl got hit on the field, and Frankie ran to him, that was embarrassing for him, but he was glad that his mom was there for him. A beautiful moment when Brick and Mike let the collected leafs free, yes, Brick didn’t want to burn them, so they drove to the forest and let them free. This episode was a bit better then the season premiere.



Raising Helen

To not to forget to write something. I didn't know what this movie was about, usually I know that, but here I didn't care. The German movie title has the word "love" in it, so I thought it was about a young woman falling in love with a sligly older man (John Corbett). But it wasn't. That was my luck. My problem was that this movie was too much of a very light comedy movie, but not really funny, the plot about a young mid-20 woman who had her career suddenly having to take care of the 3 kids of her dead sister was an interesting plot, usually if I read something like that, I put that movie on my list. Sadly there was a lot missing, not much drama, not much depth, only a few really good scenes like the fights of the older sister (Joan Cusack who did a goo djob) being jealous and angry for not getting the custody of the kids, cos she is way more mature than Helen, who was written like a shallow person, who didn't know how to act with children (especially the teenage daughter played by young Hayden Panettiere. She looked so much like a young Emily, that freaked me out a bit in the first 40 minutes of the movie). And she didn't even dare to tell them to stop or say something like "no, you're not allowed", no, she let them do almost anything. And I didn't really like the two lead actors, Kate Hudson and John Corbett are nice people and actors (and I liked him on Parenthood), but here they didn't convince me, their acting was colourless. There were almost no highlights, here a nice fight, most of the time the movie was just moving towards the end without having any positive effect on me. Could've been better, was not. And it was too long, when I thought it would end after 90 minutes, I was a big shocked when I read like 110 minutes.

4/10



Breaking Bad: Season 2, Episode 13 (S2 Season Finale Rewatch)

Usually I don't do that, but since it's been almost exactly one year (-2 days), I rewatched the season 2 finale of Breaking Bad. It was good, not so great as I had it in mind, it was a very quiet episode. Junior collected over 6000 $ for his dead via online donations, got a report on tv, Walter had an operation, Jesse was depressed and drugged after Jane died and he couldn't safe her and thinks it was his fault. No, it wasn't, ask Mr. White. It was a very slow episode, after Walter said one fatal "which one", his wife Skyler found out, that he not only had lied about the phone (I remember that she found out about that before), he didn't take money for his operation but had told her he got it from there and he didn't visit his mom - I think he was cooking in the desert with the van when he told that lie. She left him, Jesse crushed, Walter alone - that's a very interesting situation for season 3. Can't wait. Just didn't so much like the planescrash, Jane's father was the reason 2 planes crashed, I know that we saw more of that during the 2nd season, but the finale just ended with the teddybear falling into Walt's pool - well done, though the explosion looked very cheap, it was a great shot when they showed the plane crash down, this view from the air down to Albuquerque, impressive.