Day: March 5, 2010

#1 – Yes, I know I haven’t posted in forever.

#2 – Yes, I saw Dear John.

It was 5:00 on a Friday night, and I was at work feeling depressed because I had no plans later on. Then my friend Victoria texted me begging to see this chick-flick. I asked her who was going, saying I’d only go if those people went. She said that they were going, so I agreed to tag along. I was lied to. I rode with my sister to Fairfield, only to find out that there were only like five of us going. It was fine, but all of the people in our group were movie talkers – people who just don’t know when to shut up when I’m trying to watch a movie. I don’t care what movie it is – just stop talking. So, I decided to sit next to Victoria, the best whisperer of them all.

The movie was, for the most part, pretty predictable: guy comes home from the military on spring break, meets a girl, they fall in love (in just two weeks, by the way), then he has to go back, they write letters, her love fades away, they break up, the end. What I didn’t expect, however, was for her to marry some dude that was like twenty years older than her while soldier boy was away! I literally shouted “Ew!”

This was also just way too melodramatic, giving off no laughs or moments of joy or even just a little happiness.

However, there were definitely some tear-jerking parts that were pretty well-executed. The scenery by the beach is pretty neat as well. Amanda Seyfried is a pretty good actress and played this part perfectly, even writing her own song and performing it in the movie. I think we’ll be seeing some pretty impressive things from her in the future.

Overall I’d give this a 5 / 10 just to give Amanda Seyfried the credit she deserves. Otherwise, not a movie you want to watch in order to get in a good mood.

Samstar

After getting my blanket, a cup of Gatorade and a couple of pillows I laid down on the couch this Wednesday. As most people do when sick, I decided to kill two birds with one stone. This first of which is to complete my biweekly movie review and the other is to amuse myself and take my mind off of being sick. My movie of choice for being sick was There Will Be Blood written by Paul Thomas Anderson. The two main performers were Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano. As I watched, I believe that this movie was not all that it was acclaimed to be, however instead of thrilling and filled with drama I personally viewed it as being filled with satire. Starting with a short overview of the movie, It starts with a small time oil and coal operation. As the team was fixing equipment and digging, oil came to the surface trapping and killing the one man trapped inside the well. This mans son was then taken in by the main character Daniel Plainview. With his new son, he begins to take control of vast stretches of land in the South West, with his ideas of the oil industry. He finds himself at the house of the Sunday’s, he tries to buy their home as it sat on top of a large oil field. Later he takes in the Sunday’s half brother and learns about flaws in the family, with this he gains control of their family farm through flaws and money. After which he begins creating the oil tycoon he is to become. With the construction of modern oil drilling equipment (at the time) he and the town around third operation grew extensively. When the oil area was finally completed, the church asked for him to repent of his sins and donate to the church in return to bless the plant, which Daniel declined. Later, Daniels adopted son who is back from a private school in California was sitting on top of a building near on rig. Of course coincidence decides that there should be a problem, and the rig breaks due to mistakes and failure leading to the deafness of H.W. (Daniels son). Unable to personally deal with his sons problems, as Daniels short fuse gets even shorter with the greed of money creeping in upon him and his son aggravating him with disabilities. He was later sent away. From that a native of near land contacts Daniel, wishing to sell him his land claims. After much dispute, Daniel proves that the oil pooled into his section of land and this man’s land was worth nothing. They fought and although worthless Daniel took the land for self greed. At the end of the movie H.W. confronts his father who denies him never to see each other again, then the movie title comes into the spot light to my enjoyment as Daniel kills the pasture who has annoyed him throughout the movie with a bowling pin in his basement. This movie is definitely not a shining piece of glorious work, however I found it to be quite funny. With constant intrusions by characters which force the plot into new twists, Daniel brings almost everyone who gets in his way through words, violence or other such actions. The ending represented my favorite part of the movie as the pasture constantly bugged and annoyed Daniel. Some slight emotion is brought up through Daniel stealing family land through treachery or his actions towards his son. Personally I felt bad for his son, as even before his deafness, his father was disconnected and used him rather than loving him. AS the movie progresses you see the stages of Daniels decent into insanity through the greed for money and land. Overall I personally enjoyed the movie, and would suggest it to those with a somewhat violent sense of humor.