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Campiness you want, campiness you shall have. Drum roll please, for what I feel to be the most underrated movie of all time...

This next flick was written by Diablo Cody, the same person who wrote the movie Juno. If you have seen Juno then you'll have a vague sense of what your in for. If you haven't you should. Jennifer's Body like Juno is about the experience of being a girl from the middle of nowhere during her adolescent (teen) years. However, there is one grandoise twist--this story is within a larger story one that reads Classic Horror Flick. It's got your heavy dose of contemporary gore as well, but it's one of those scary movies that wont make you afraid to go to desolate places (the Shining is PRETTY scary), or give you a blinding headache from the cereal killer thriller screams (read: Halloween... the second one by Rob Zombie).

Instead you get some noteable jumps and jolts but wont leave permanently scarred or anything. What I love about this film besides the soundtrack, costuming (hello bunny slippers, anyone), casting (yes, I actually think this is a role that even the Beautiful Megan Fox could master)...to repeat what I love most of all is the dialogue. It's fresh, witty, and is seeded with a teen-ness that reminds me I'm kind of still young and hip, well, sort of anyways. My inner geek cries out and says, this is soOoOo ?salty?


















This film is definitely one that is either a total love or a total hate....From the addictive elevator music, to Amanda Seyfried (who really did an excellent job) you might just find something remarkable about this film. Put away your copies of the most overrated film of all time: the Matrix, Titanic, or Avatar and give it a chance, will ya? Also, I even saw Inception but despite the fact that anything with Leo is actor gold and the visual loveliness of that film, I find myself wanting to see this one more. Plus, I love that Megan Fox is reminding the world, one person at a time, that girls with black hair can be hella sexy too.


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I was listening to a song by Portishead, and saw a dubstep remix...and then had been listening to many dubstep remixes. This one made me think of the film City of God. And it's more than just the rhythmic African drums, or signature Latin piano that took me there. It's vibrant and lovely, but the words of the song has this kind of yearning and longing. That is the world that was painted before me in this film. It's about life in Rio de Janero, Brazil. It is a place I have never been but I feel (at least to some degree I understand their pain). The pain that happens when you live in poverty, when you see the people you love make the wrong choices. The lives that people lead when surrounded by those that are wrought with drug addiction and gang life. There is this kind of hopelessness, and feverishness. They choose these things and are fanatic because of them, whether amidst the highs of ecstasy, or the lows of withdraw. I feel this almost goes without saying, but I'm making note anyways.... this is a violent film. But I urge you to look past that, and just fast forward or mute or close your eyes to the couple of really bad scenes.






But somehow in that poverty and violence there are still beautiful moments that shine and glimmer through it all. It's almost as if when your poor you have this understanding that living in the moment is your only choice. And you can either to choose to live it miserably, or live it as amazingly as possible. Of course some people get this confused with living carelessly. Whereas middle class concerns of work life and doing what is considered proper often puts people in this perpetual limbo, this stale mate. And there always dreams of "tomorrow" of the time when those people will finally act on what they wish, or what they're feeling or do something remotely enjoyable.



Although there are flaws to both coins when it comes to how one chooses to live one's life... City of God takes you on a journey of a romanticized yet heavy chaos.

okay, one fashion review, one tech review, and one more to go...I really want to do a movie review.

So far movies take up the biggest part of my knowledge repertoire because I had the biggest "love affair" with movies ever since I was about 13. As a result I've seen many films spanning many different genres. One thing that is slightly problematic is they aren't all incredibly fresh in my mind. I guess I'll start out with this one, as it's been lingering on my mind for some reason. Audrey Tautou stars in it, an actress made famous from the Foreign Film Amelie. If you haven't seen it it's a French flick about a rather eccentric young woman named Amelie. I really love the cinematography in this one. It's light and airy, bubbly and in that same note mysterious. It showcases on what it is like being an outsider and different, yet embodies a kind of innocence and optimism that just draws you in. I'm writing all of this trying to be careful not to give much away. It has given me quite an affinity to four specific things that I can recall: gnomes, photo booths, fresh outdoor food vendors, and masks.




In the film Priceless, Audrey plays a very specific kind of woman, her name is Irene and let's just say she's learned to have money on the mind. This story is a not-so classic romantic comedy so of course she meets a man who she is not particularly fond of at first. Then something develops, but it is hard to say what it will amount to in the end. The material it covers could be considered distasteful to some, but it is done in such a matter that is throughly enjoyable. It really captures some of the human experience with love and greed and all the emotion and drama inherent with all of those things.



Check out these films today if you haven't already seen them! And just an FYI Audrey Tatou has also been in such popular American films as Coco Before Chanel, A Very Long Engagement, The Da Vinci Code, and Dirty Pretty Things.