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American Pastoral

2017-02-07T11:50:00.003-08:00

Directed by: Ewan McGregor

Best Quotes:

- Nathan Zuckerman: Let's remember the energy. America had won the war. The depression was over.Sacrifice was over.The upsurge of life was contagious.We celebrated a moment of collective inebriation that we would never know again.

- Nathan: At 62, I found myself drawn to it as if in the crowd of half-remembered faces I'd be closer to the mystery at the heart of things, a magic trick that turned time past into time present.

- Lou: What do you people say about Jews?
- Dawn: My family doesn't talk much about Jews. I don't mean that as an excuse. We don't talk much
about anything.

- Lou Levov: I have the highest respect, but my grandchild is not going to eat Jesus.

- Lou: She wants the child to decide? A child cannot decide.

- Dawn: I'm not leaving. I'm not going to go. And I'm not a picture, Mr. Levov, I'm myself. I'm Mary Dawn Dwyer and I love your son. I love him. That's why I'm here. So, please... Let's go on.

- Nathan: Something was smiling down on him. This is the way I thought it would always be. Life would open its arms and he would carry all before him. He was the Swede, after all.

- Jerry Levov: My brother, the best you're going to get in this country, got caught in a war he didn't start.

- Jerry: Oh, I guess you're the last person to hear, huh? The famous writer, the last one to hear the big story.

- Nathan: Jerry was correct. Here I was, the famous writer, the last one to know the story. But now I wanted all of it. I wanted to hear what had become of the young man from whom we had expected everything. Our hero. Our Kennedy.

-Lou: "Mounted"? ls that a way for a young girl to talk?
- Swede Levov: That's what it's called, Dad.
- Jerry; Yeah, what's she supposed to say? "Make love"? It's a cow.

- Sheila Smith: Maybe the reason Merry stutters is to stop people from asking her: "Do you want to be Miss New Jersey just like your Mommy?"

- Merry Levov: Do I look... look like Audrey Hepburn?
- Swede: Better. You look like Meredith Levov.

- Merry: Kiss me the way you kiss mother.

- Lou: There's nothing wrong with that little girl. Her mind goes too fast for her tongue

- Lou: Just give her a little bit of time. Let her tongue catch up to that brain. The rest will follow from that.

- Vicky: But, Lou, you built this place.You made a home for all of us. Where else do you belong?
- Lou: Exactly my point.

- Dawn: And then last week, the teacher asked them, "What is life?"
- Swede; This is what they ask in school? "What is life?" What did you answer?
- Merry (while stuttering): I don't...remember.
-Swede: Yes, you do.
- Merry "Life is just a short space of time in which you were alive."

- Merry: Doesn't anybody...doesn't anybody have a conscience?
- Dawn: Yes, you have a conscience.

- Swede: This makes you the first Levov in history who can prepare edible food.

- Merry: Talk about an American classic. There's an American classic asshole.

- Merry: What do you care about the war? You're just contented, middle-class people.
- Dawn; Some people would be very happy to have contented, middle-class people for parents.
- Merry: Well, I'm not brainwashed enough to be one of them.

- Merry: Don't tell me what to do.
- Dawn: I'm your mother. I can and I will tell you what to do.

- Dawn: I can't stand this.You're not anti-war, you're anti-everything.
- Merry: And you're pro...(stuttering) COW.

- Dawn: I don't know why she's turned against me. Is it her stuttering? Is she angry because she can't make friends?
- Swede: She's made friends, alright? The ones she's made in New York.
- Dawn: Who is she? I thought she was smart. She's becoming stupid, Seymour.
- Swede: No. She's just a kid with a strong will, a strong idea.

- Dawn: If I ever spoke to my mother like that, do you know what my father would have done?
- Swede: He would have turned you over his knee.
- Dawn: You think it's funny?

- Merry: That's why I have to go to New York, because people there do feel responsible, responsible for blowing up Vietnamese villages, blowing up little babies. But you don't care. And neither does Mother. No one in our family or in our fucking little town does.

Police Officer, talking to Swede: Sir, could you go to your vehicle? You need to get off the street. There's a curfew in effect.
- Merry: "Curfew"? What kind of fascist bullshit is that?

- Merry: It's not a riot. It's a revolution. People standing up for their rights.

- Swede: We have 80% negroes working at the plant. We're proud of that.
- Merry: Oh, I forgot. You're a hero.

- Vicky: People are shooting. Police are shooting, and soldiers. People have lost their minds.

- Swede: All dressed up for your stupid...award that they gave you? You expect me to... congratulate you, too?

- Merry: I never thought my own father would keep me prisoner.

- Swede: We're not talking about revolution.
- Merry: You're not talking about revolution.

- Penny: The two of you are as much victims of this tragedy as we are. I lost a husband. My kids lost a father. But the difference is that, for us we will survive as a family,a loving family. We will survive with our memories intact and our memories to sustain us. We are the same family we were when Russ was here. And we will survive. That's the difference.

- Swede: Slowly. Always slowly the first time. Feel how it expands when you make a fist.

- Rita: Well, she wouldn't like to speak with you. She hates you. Does she? Thinks you ought to be shot.

- Rita: The daughter of the beauty queen and the captain of the football team? What kind of nightmare is that for a girl with a soul?

- Swede: You give her back to me!
- Rita: She's not a possession. You don't own her anymore, the way you own your factory and your Buick fucking Electra.

- Jerry: Just go jump in a lake, nurse, please.

- Rita: Say it. Just say it, Swede. "I came here to fuck you."
- Swede: Will you stop all this?
- Rita: I'm 22. I do everything. I do it all. You're not scared, are you?

- FBI agent: You should have called us in on this, Mr. Levov. You've done everything wrong you possibly could've.
- Swede: Since when?
- FBI agent: Excuse me?
- Swede: I've done everything wrong
since when?
- FBI agent: That's a question you're gonna have to answer for yourself, Mr. Levov.

- Dawn: I wanted a scholarship. I wanted a degree... a job. But then you arrived. You. Those hands. You wouldn't let me breathe! Every time I looked up, there's my boyfriend, gaga because I was some ridiculous beauty queen. You were like a child. And you made me a princess. Look where I wound up. In a madhouse. Your princess.

- Swede: I don't want to put the past behind. The past is Merry. There's no way I want to put that behind.

- Lou: The girl's herself again. Getting rid of those cows was the smartest thing she ever did.

- Rita: But don't go in. Wait for her. If you go in, you'll make a scene. She'll be discovered. She couldn't handle that. She'd never survive the FBI. Take care of her, Mr. Levov.

- Merry: I wear the veil to do no harm to the organisms that dwell in the air.
- Swede: Merry, this is awful. Do you walk this way every night?
- Merry: Nor do we bathe, to do no harm to the water. We step carefully for fear of crushing some living object. There are souls imprisoned in even the lowest form of life.

- Swede: I think you're terrified of what you've done.

- Swede: You could die if you keep this up.
- Merry: But only to be reborn.

- Merry: My stutter was only my way of doing no violence to the air.
- Swede: Well, maybe you would have been better off with your stutter if you had to go this far.

- Swede: My daughter! She's sick in her body. Sick in her mind!

- Dawn: When are you going to give up on her?
- Swede: I can't. I tried so hard, but I can't.
- Dawn: Our old life is gone, Swede. It's dead. This. This is our only future.

-Merry: How strongly you still crave the idea of your innocent child.

-Seymour: Was this just some kind of game you were playing with me, the two of you?
- Merry: I relinquish all cruelty, I relinquish all control, all influence over the world.

- Seymour: I made you and I found you. And there's no way I can ever lose you or you can ever lose me again.

- Merry:You've seen me. Please go now. If you love me, you'll let me be.

- Nathan: What Merry blew up with that bomb of hers was nothing less than his life.

- Nathan: He never got past the Rimrock Bomber,a girl who perhaps didn't deserve anything from him, who wasn't on the same playing field as him or anybody else.

Trailer:

Plot: From the outside it looks like Seymour has the perfect life. He is your successful American athlete turned businessman who married a former beauty queen. The only trouble in paradise is their daughter, Merry, who for reasons unknown stutters. As Merry grows up, she rebels against this seemingly perfect life and soon joins anti-Vietnam war protests. When the local post office is blown up, Merry becomes the prime suspect and vanishes completely...

Review:

Haven't read American Pastoral by Philip Roth, I knew I wouldn't be able to compare it to Ewan McGregor's film adapation and assumed there would be less risk of being let down by the movie. And yet, I was wrong. I was completely absorbed by the movie for the first 20 minutes or so but soon enough I found myself starting to lose interest. The plot is fascinating however and I had been very keen to watch American Pastoral, if only for its wonderful actors but something was...missing. I'm not sure I can explain it but it felt like it could have been a great movie, but it just missed something and completely missed the mark. I wish there had been more depth to it and I certainly would have loved to get a greater appreciation of the characters. The whole thing seemed brushed off, as it often happens when you tackle a pretty large book in all fairness. The Jewish assimilation aspect is for instance reduced to a dialogue of maybe 1 minute and the main character's relationship with his wife is blatantly underdeveloped. And While Jennifer Connelly and Dakota Fanning are amazing, Ewan McGregor is simply not believable as someone as charismatic as the Swede. A shame.

Favorite song from the end credits:

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The Huntsman: Winter's War

2016-06-14T14:54:00.002-07:00

Directed by: Cedric Nicolas - Troyan

Memorable quotes:

- Narrator: "What does the mirror show you? What do you see?"

- Narrator: "There is another story. One you have not yet seen. One that comes long before happily ever after."

- Narrator: "With the mirror at her command, Ravenna was invincible."

- Ravenna: "Is it love, truly?
- Freya: It is love, truly. [playing chess] Your move.
- Ravenna: Why should I bother? You always win.
- Freya: You always let me win.
- Ravenna: I suppose you are my weakness."

- Ravenna: "All the women of our blood are gifted Freya. And in time you will find the source of your power as I found mine. You'll see."

- Ravenna: "Freya, I'm not being cruel. I simply wish to protect you.
- Freya: You may be surprised how things turn out. You know much, Ravenna, but you do not know all.
- Ravenna (to herself): I'm afraid I do."

- Narrator: "Consumed by grief and anger, Freya left her sister to seek a kingdom of her own in a land far to the north. There the people would come to fear her very name. For if she could not raise a child, then in its place she would raise an army."

- Narrator: "Freya turned the once green farmlands of the north into a frozen wasteland. There she built her fortress and ruled as the Ice Queen."

- Freya: "How lucky you are! You're with me now and you will never know this suffering again."

- Freya: "Love is a lie. It is a trick played by the cruel on the foolish and the weak."

- Freya: "In my kingdom there is but one law: do not love! It's a sin and I'd not forgive it. Let's hear no more family and love. These illusions are beneath us. I freed you from them. And in exchange from this precious gift I ask only one thing: your loyalty."

- Freya: "You've done well my children. Very well."

- Freya: "I gave you both everything! And in return you betray me for love."

- Freya: "Do not beg me! It is weak. You are weak."

- Freya: "Love conquers all. So I've heard."

- Narrator: "Once upon a time, a man and a woman fell in love. But such things cannot last. For the heart is a treacherous thing and love... love is nothing more than a fairy tale."

- William: "Eric, Snowhite is unwell. The mirror. She said she couldn't stop looking at it. She could hear its voice calling for her. That's why she sent it away."

- Tull: "The entire white lands are ours You've won.
- Freya: Have I?"

- Eric: "Perhaps you'll have better luck with your own kind.
- Nion Have you ever seen a female dwarf?
- Eric: No, I can't say I have.
- Nion: Horrifying."

- Random Huntsman: "Freya doesn't care how you die. No one cares. You're already forgotten."

- Sara: "You have aged."

- Sara: "Dead, is that what you told everyone? You poor heart broken widower. That story must have wet the eyes of many young lasses. Maybe more than their eyes."

- Sara: "There is no hope for love. Love ends in betrayal."

- Sara: "You're not the tracker you think you are.
- Eric: I've been a little distracted."

- Gryff: "You expect us to believe that?
- Mrs. Bromwy: I expect you to stand there and look ugly and stupid and say nothing else."

- Nion: "I get thirsty sometimes if it's hot or I'm running.
- Doreena: Me too! Or sometimes if I eat something very salty like roast chicken."

- Nion: "Don't you miss.
- Sara: I never miss."

- Gryff: "There is nothing out there that can take us.
- Eric: That's right.
- Sara: I took you in the cavern.
- Mrs. Bromwy: I took you as well."

- Nion: "What's this on called?
- Doreena: That's just a flower.
- Nion: I think it's beautiful.
- Doreena: I think you're beautiful.
- Nion: Me?"

- Freya: "Oh, what are these? Dwarfs! They're just like children.
- Mrs. Bromwy: We're far from children, bitch queen.
- Freya: Adorable."

- Gryff: "Eric, she is not cupid. I doubt that an arrow to the chest is an expression of love."

- Mrs. Bromwy: "So what you gonna do? Track all the way to the frozen north, face an evil sorceress and her entire army?
- Eric: Aye.
- Mrs. Bromwy: Alright. I'm in!"

- Ravenna: "Do not back away from me. You asked a question. The mirror has answered.
- Freya: Ravenna, how? Are you not dead?
- Ravenna: Yes...No. Something in between."

- Ravenna: "Do not forget what you owe me. I made what you are."

- Gryff: "It's not my sister's fault. She was hit in the face with a rock as a baby."

- Freya: "Why?
- Ravenna: Why? They're in love. They reek of it."

- Ravenna: "You see, huntsman, love doesn't save your life. I should know. I've been there before."

- Sara: "Stand or fall, together."

- Mirror: "I ask nothing. I am but a reflection. And you, you have already decided."

- Freya: "I loved her. I loved you.
- Ravenna: That's why I'm stronger than you."

- Freya: "Leave my children alone!"

- Freya: "How lucky you are."

- Narrator: "Once upon a time lived a beautiful queen whose heart was broken in two. But even buried under ice and snow, love survives."

- Mrs. Bromwy: "Are you gonna give up that easily? God you're stupid."

Plot: Warriors Sara and Eric must fight for their love in a kingdom where love has been forbidden by the evil Ice queen Freya...

Trailer:

Review:

Considering both how much I had loved the trailer of The Huntsman: Winter's War and the talented actors and actresses starring in that movie, it is with excitement that I was awaiting the theatrical release of the film. I sooo badly wanted to love it, and yet in the end I was rather disappointed for the movie is rather dull. I didn’t think there was anything original at all and the fake accents were really cringy. There was a few funny moments here and there thanks to the “dwarfs” but that’s about it. I found myself quite bored throughout the movie but maybe I’m just too old for it as I’ve met children who actually really enjoyed the film. To me however the only good aspect was Emily Blunt who once again proves she is an amazing actress, no matter how poor the script she has been given.

Jane wants a boyfriend

2016-06-05T15:01:00.003-07:00

Directed by: William Sullivan

Memorable quotes:

- Jane: "You're coming to my breakfast birthday tomorrow, right?
- Bianca: Have I ever missed it?
- Jane: Twice"

- Bianca: "Is your new friend Lucy coming? The one from your class.
- Jane: I don't like hanging out with her anymore. She has three cats and there are always hair all over her shirts."

- Bianca: "What's with all the questions Nancy Drew?"

- Jane and Bianca's father: "We are moving to Jersey.
- Bianca: I think I'm gonna puke.
- Jane and Bianca's mother: You're so dramatic Bianca.
- Jane: I'm dramatic too!
- Jane and Bianca's father: Of course you are."

- Jane: "Why can't you put lipstick on a pig?"

- Jane: "Just be quiet please. I can't listen to you and have my eyes work at the same time!"

- Jack: "You look like you've been sucking on a lemon."

- Jack: "What do you have? Cookies? Excellent, you can leave them with me."

- Jane: "You really shouldn't do that? It's bad for you. and it's illegal to smoke indoors in the state of New York.
- Jack: I've heard that. I've also heard that cookies make your butt big.
- Jane: Well, I'd rather have a big cookies butt than be dead.
- Jack: Yeah, cause then you can eat your own big cookie butt."

- Bianca: "She is my sis and you take care of family but what they're asking it's like they are forcing me to say it.
- Cynthia: Say what?
- Bianca: There is no nice way of telling someone you love that you don't want them around."

- Bianca: "She is a lot."

- Jack: "Do I know any of these people?
- Rob: Well, if you don't this is typically where you'd meet them."

- Rob: "Tell me all about this chick who is drinking all of my good wine. It's a 100 dollar bottle."

- Cynthia: "Jane, you are looking fabulous tonight. I am loving that sexy man shirt on you.
- Bianca: Oh, easy!
- Cynthia: What? She looks beautiful. All the guys are gonna want a piece of you.
- Bianca; Cynthia, zip it.
- Jane: Why don't you zip it? Maybe I want to turn some heads. It's none of your business."

- Jane: "You don't have to be babysitting me all night so how about you butt out of it?"

- Bianca: "I noticed you brought a plus one; Kim from the bar.
- Jack: She is not Kim from the bar. She is Kimberley from Kim. She likes 'Kim'.
- Bianca: Got it.
- Jack: By the way, don't let it sour on her forever but she is currently in your bathroom vomiting.
- Bianca: 'Forever'... that's a big word for you Jack. 3 whole syllables.
- Jack: I didn't mean 'forever'."

- Jack: "You don't know what the fuck I am doing here."

- Jack: "Maybe I feel a little left out. Does that sound gay?"

- Jack: "It's like everybody win and goes to the grown up club and it just dawned on me that I forgot to."

-Jack: "Everybody I know is multiplying."

- Jane: "I don't do that all the time, stare at people, just so you know. It's just that sometimes I don't know what to say to people so I watch them.
- Jack: I hear that."

- Jack: "You thought that was cool? I think you're pretty cool."

- Jack: "Come on, what should I call you?
- Jane: It's silly once I say it.
- Jack: What? Come on.
- Jane: Jane.
- Jack: Jack and Jane? I love it.
- Jane: See? I told you it was silly.
- Jack: Forget the Empire State building and black holes. That just blew my mind."

- Bianca: "I swear to fucking God man, you let a fart loose, I'll know about it."

- Jane: "Go away, stop hovering around me all the time."

- Jane: "Stop treating me like a baby.
- Bianca: Then why don't you start acting like a grown up?"

- Cynthia: "I wouldn't go so far as to say he is mentally handicapped, but he's got something. We only give him the easy stuff. I think he could be perfect."

- Film director: "Never apologize. You sound like an amateur brown nosing idiot. No more fuck ups! We're too close to opening for fuck ups."

- Rob: "Hey hey, Jack the Reaper. What is up?"

- Jane: "I bet he is handsome. Bankers are always handsome."

- Rob: "Did you notice there is something a bit different about her?
- Jack: Yeah. Like I said she is shy. She is awkward. In a fucking cute way.
- Rob: Does Bianca know about this?
- Jack: That we met? Yeah, she told me to stay away."

- Rob: "She has Asperger; Like Rain Man."

- Jack: "Why did you never talk to me about this man? I didn't even know that Bianca had a sister.
- Rob: Why would I talk to you about my girlfriend's retarded sister?
- Jack: Jesus man. Don't talk about her like that.
- Rob: Come on, Jesus Christ, you sound just like Bianca. I am cutting to the chase man. I like Jane a lot. She plays chess, she reads my articles, all of them. But sometimes man, she is like a robot. And I mean that as lovingly as possible."

- Bianca: "Oh, do you want me to do your makeup or?
- Jane: No, makeup is false advertising.
- Bianca: What about a little mascara?
- Jane: Okay, maybe just a touch."

- Jane: "Were you spying on me?
- Bianca: No I wasn't spying on you. I was trying to make sure everything went well.
- Jane: What's wrong with you? I told you not to come. I told you I could handle it and you spied on me.
- Bianca: Alright I spied on you and you asked me not to and I'm sorry but Jane come on! That wasn't exactly handling it.
- Jane: I just wanted to go and everybody kept trying to put their hands on me.
- Bianca: They were trying to calm you down! Jesus, I knew this would happen.
- Jane: It's not my fault!"

- Jane: "You only set me up with Stephen because he is lonely and a little slow and he would accept anyone. That's what you thought we would have in common, isn't it?"

- Bianca: "Life isn't always like in the movies you watch.
- Jane: No, it has to be!"

- Movie director: "Screw your objectives! It's opening night. That's a fucking security blanket Tatiana. Right now, you're working too hard on trying to control everything around you."

- Jack: "There is nothing wrong with you. I like you the way you are. I really, really do.
- Jane: Really?
- Jack: I swear."

- Jack: "I wanted to understand how you might feel, how you might think. I just didn't want to do anything to mess this up."

- Jane: "Nobody else wanted it but look at it now!"

- Movie director: "Alright people, let's get fucked up!"

- Bianca: "I've been so focused on the person that you were that I wasn't seeing the person you became."

Plot: A young woman with Asperger syndrome sets her mind on finding herself a boyfriend and must prove her overprotective sister that she can do this.

Trailer:

Review:

Jane wants a boyfriend is a nice and feel-good character movie focusing on Jane, a young woman who lives with Asperger's and who must prove her family that she is still a capable adult who doesn't need to be treated like a child. While the film is pleasant to watch, the acting was at times too much and a bit fake. The character of Jane is the only one who I felt was genuine and the actress did a fantastic job portraying somebody with Asperger syndrome. Most of the dialogue was a bit cliché and the rest of the cast just seemed to be overacting. Saying this, I still found the concept endearing, especially at an age where the most popular films are action movies and superficial crap. It was pleasantly refreshing to watch a movie that was different and led you to think about how life can be for an adult living with a mental disability. The movie, however, does not delve into Jane's disability and does not study the in depth aspect of her syndrome. As a viewer you are simply given the opportunity to watch a few days of Jane's life as she starts looking not only for a boyfriend, but also from her independence while proving herself a capable adult to her family. Staring Eliza Dushku and the talented Louisa Krause, I would definitely recommend Jane wants a boyfriend, even if it's only for a one time watch.

How to be single

2016-05-22T15:12:00.001-07:00

Directed by: Christian Ditter

Memorable quotes:

- Alice: "There is a right way to be single, and there is the wrong way to be single"
- Alice: "We're embarrassed to admit we're single and try to pretend that we're not. We're supposed to act cheerful and happy about it. But why should we be embarrassed? We are living longer, marrying later and refusing to leave the party before we're really really done. So why do we always tell our stories through relationships?"

- Alice: "This story isn't about relationships. It's about all these times in between when maybe...just maybe... our real life's happening."

- Alice: " This isn't a breakup, okay? We are just taking some time apart. It's temporary like it's you know, it's like a break.
- Josh: Bullshit.
- Alice: Josh, I've never been on my own. I went from living with my parents to living in a dorm to living with you.
- Josh: But we're happy, Alice.
- Alice: Are we? Or are we just boring?
- Josh: I'm not boring. I'm fucking fun."

- Alice: "I need to know who I am alone and I don't want to spend all my life wondering 'what if?' "

- Robin: " You were great last night.
- One night stand: Was I?
- Robin: I can't remember."

- Meg: " Okay, let's go to your happy place.
- Pregnant woman: What if I poop?
- Meg: I won't even notice. It's totally natural. Women have been doing this for thousands of years.
- Pregnant woman: Oh yeah? How many babies have you had?
- Meg: I've delivered about 3000 of them.
- Pregnant woman: Didn't you want one?
- Meg: You know, I just felt like society doesn't let you pursue your dreams once you have children and I didn't feel like I wanted to give up my identity to be a slave to some tiny little love terrorist, you know. Plus your body does to shit, you have no time to exercise and forget about sleep for the rest of your life, right? [the patient starts crying] Oh no, you can do this!
- Pregnant woman: No, my body went to shit. My body went to shit. It did. And my is so lose already."

-Pregnant woman: "Is that poop or a baby?
- Meg: It's not a baby."

- Robin: "Welcome to the law firm of some guy, some other guy, and some Jewish guy. Just kidding, they are all Jewish. "

- Robin: " There is no such thing as a break - Season 3, Ross."

- Robin: " You don't buy the drinks. Boys buy the drinks. It's like a sexual currency that they use so they don't actually pay you to hook up.

- Robin: " It was winter. Maybe I just used his dick as a scarf."

- Robin: "If you use an emoji, I will tit punch you."

- Robin: " I might have pissed in your sister's litter box.
- Alice: That's a Zen garden.
- Robin: The cat has a Zen garden?"

- Meg: " Why are you watching Bridget Jones? What did I tell you?
- Alice: It feels good in the moment.
- Meg: I know, but it's a bad idea. You get yourself all hooked up on Sex and the City and Bridget Jones and thinking that you need some big single experience which by the way is total bullshit. All those girls ever did was look for boyfriends. And this is a great thing. Now you can focus on your career. "

- Robin: " You have LTRP.
- Alice: Oh my God, I do? Tom gave it to me, for sure. Wait, what's LTRP?
- Meg: Long term relationship pussy."

- Robin: "It's like Gandalf is staring right at me. ' No penis shall pass!' "

- Meg: " I'm pregnant.
- Robin: It's alright don't worry, we'll take care of it. I mean, Yes!!
- Alice: You're pregnant..."

- Alice: "Please blink so I know you're in there."

- Meg: " What's going on here? Is this one of those fetish things where you're like a foot fetish. Am I the foot?"
- Ken: Do you want to be the foot?"

- George: " That was terrible. You scared all the kids. Terrified a lot of parents. But it was also kind of awesome. I'm George."

- Ken: " Oh shit, Christmas trees! Come on, we'll get one!
- Meg: Okay. I mean I don't get Christmas trees but...
- Ken: Oh, are you Jewish?
- Meg: No, I just don't get Christmas trees.
- Ken: Oh, so you're a monster?
- Meg: " No, I'm just never home and I'd definitely kill it."

- Robin: "Their dicks probably look like cannolis."

- Alice: " You're wearing a scarf. On the outside of your jacket, which serves zero purpose."

- Alice: " I know I'm not supposed to need you anymore. But I really do."

- Alice: " I feel like I don't even know who I am anymore."

- Meg: " I have to warn you I have this weird farting thing happening. I don't know if it's me or the baby farting through me or what."

- Lucy: "Hey, happy alcoholics day! "

- Ken: " Are you pregnant?
- Meg: What? I've been trying to have a baby, yes. It's probably not even gonna stick.
- Ken: Yeah, I think it's stuck."

- Ken: " I think I deserve to know when there is someone living inside the person I'm having sex with."

- Meg: "What are you gonna do? Stay home and take care of the baby?
- Ken: Did I just win the lottery? Yes I wanna stay home and take care of a baby. When I was 8 years old mu Halloween costume was a stay at home dad. "

- Ken: "Well for the record this is not me leaving. This is you pushing me away."

- George: "Just to recap: Stay the fuck away from my girl, I don't want you to be my best man. We still love you. You're family. You'll definitely be invited to the wedding, but probably not, so don't be offended. I'm glad we had this talk man."

- Alice: "Robin, this isn't a joke. This is my life! But you know what: I guess you wouldn't actually understand that because you've never actually cared about anybody enough to actually get hurt so this type of things don't affect you.
- Robin: Okay. I'm sorry I invited them but who gives a shit about me?
- Alice: I do! Because you're my friend.
- Robin: Am I? Because as far as I can tell you only wanna hung out with me when you get dumped and you need someone to cheer you up.
- Alice: Well, you only ever hand out with me when you need me to be your little sidekick.
- Robin: The reason why I don't hang around with you when you are in a relationship is because you just turn into this lame shell of a human being. "

- Robin: "You're not gonna find the right guy by bumming free drinks and slutting it up!"

- Robin: "You're just meeting guys and falling into their dick sand.
- Alice: Falling in what?
- Robin: Their dick sand. It's like everytime a guy just looks at you, you just forget who you are. You get sucked into their world. "

- Robin: "At least when I do decide I want a boyfriend I'm gonna find someone who likes me for who I really am because I know who the fuck that is."

- Alice: "Josh, I wanna be alone. I know that I've said that a lot but for the first time in my life I really truly mean it."

- Taxi driver: "Where to?
- Alice: Home. I'm going home.
- Taxi driver: Woman! I don't know where the fuck you live!"

- Ken: "And you're crazy. That's a fact? Honestly I think you're probably just as crazy when you're not pregnant. But I'm allowed to say that because I love you."

- Alice: " The thing about being single is you should cherish it. Because in a week or in a lifetime of being alone, you may only get one moment, one moment when you're not tied up to a relationship to anyone: a parent, a pet, a sibling, a friend. One moment you stand on your own. Really truly single. And then it's gone."

- Alice: " I can unzip my own dress but I want you to do it for me. That sounded really weird. Erm, I want you to watch me unzip my dress. No, sorry, it sounded really sexual, it's not what I meant. What I meant is: I want to unzip my own dress and I just want you to be around cause you're my friend and I love you. "

Plot: A young woman named Alice decides to experience life as a single woman in a bid to find out who she really is. But does she actually know how to be single?

Trailer:

In a nutshell:

How to be single is a non-original chick flick that amazingly enough still manages to deliver a good time to its audience. Rarely in my life have I seen so many women attend one screening and everyone seemed to laugh throughout the film, which is the point in the end. The script in itself is nothing original nor smart. It's a typical modern Hollywood chick flick that relies mostly on its all star casts, but it does work and does the job for a one time watch. Dakota Johnson was a lot more enjoyable than she was in Fifty Shades and while Leslie Mann did not take any chances with this role, she still played her part well. As for Rebel Wilson, everytime I see her in a movie it's like she is more or less playing the same role all over again, so no risk taken there as well but I suppose that directors won't change something that obviously works well. As for the men they are mostly eye candy who are there to please a dominant female audience. My advice is not to expect too much from this film and you won't be disappointed! Just watch, relax, have a good laugh with your girlfriends, and move on to a better movie!

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Sisters

2016-01-17T08:48:00.001-08:00

Directed by: Jason Moore

Memorable quotes:

-Maura Ellis: "You scored yourself a nice corner. Good job! Hi, I'm Maura Ellis. I'm not part of a religious group or anything. I'm just a nurse who likes to give back on er days off. You know when you are living outdoors skin cancer is a real concern. So I got you some sunscreen and you my friend have some irregular moles.
-Guy on the street: You're a very friendly person.
- Maura: Wanna come to my house and take a shower? Maybe make a list of goals?
- Guy on the street: Oh, I have a girlfriend.
- Maura: Great, it's important to have a lady out there in the street. What do you call her? Road bitch or something?
- Guy on the street: Her name's Karen.
- Maura: Your little Mama. Your street wife. Anyway, I'm pretty good with sayings so I made these cards for my sister but I think maybe you could use one: 'without the dark night you could never see the bright stars'.
- Guy on the street: Is this from Twilight?
- Maura: No, I made it up.
- Guy on the street: Hmm, no, you didn't.
- Maura: Yeah I did.
- Guy on the street: See you later.
- Maura: Wait, wait a minute. Hey! You're not homeless?
- Guy on the street: You were on a row.
- Maura: Give me back the sunscreen so I can give it to an actual homeless person, like this lady.
- Lady: Fuck off! I'm the manager here."

- Deana Ellis: "Maura, we got some news.
- Maura: Oh my God, who is sick?
- Deana: Oh for crying out loud Maura, relax!
- Deana: We decided... to sell this house."

- Bucky Ellis: "We don't get this Skype crap.
- Maura: There is nothing to get. You're doing it."

- Maura: "Yeah okay, funny joke, what's the news?
- Bucky; We are. We are selling.
- Maura: The one where we grew up in? Are you selling it to each other?"

- Deana: "All we need you to do is to come and clean out your bedroom because it's a bottomless pit."

- Deana: "We wondered if maybe you could tell her. Because we don't want to."

- Maura: "You're blinking. You're fake freezing. Unbelievable. Just call her, you're her parents. Dad, let it go."

- Kate Ellis: "So, why are we covering this grey today, Phil?
- Phil: Well, I have a date with an engaging new gal, someone younger than me.
- Kate: Good for you cause ladies your age are gross, right?"

- Kate: "It's super gentle. They use it on pageant's babies."

- Haley: "I want you to be responsible so I don't have to be. It is too stressful sleeping with you on a pilate couch on your friend's dining room.
- Kate; She is not my friend. She was our bug man.
- Haley: I need you to learn to be more irresponsible otherwise I'm going to be hazed so bad in college."

- Haley: "I love you mom but your life is just too chaotic right now."

- Dana: "You know how many times a day I kiss that dog's in the mouth?
- Kate: An unsettling amount.
- Dana: I wanna kiss him. I'm gonna picture that he ate some stranger's pubes and it's gonna affect my relationship with him."

- Kate: "Hey, can I get a small glass of tequila?
- Waiter; Like a shot of tequila?
- Kate: Yeah, a shot. Just keeping it classy."

- Maura: "Your hair is long. So mermaidy!"

- Maura: "Okay, you have to be careful when you get fake hair cause in some countries they give their young girl's chicken's hormones and make them grow it in their basement.
- Kate: Do they get paid cause I would do that."

- Kate: "What's your deal? Are you doing anything for fun?
- Maura; Yeah. Rescue dogs have so many hidden skills. I have been training Polenta how to smell diabetes."

- Dave: "Holy Moses with his balls out. Is that Kate Ellis I am looking at?"

- Kate: "Somebody told me you died.
- Dave: That's crazy. You're the second person that said that to me.
- Kate; You should check it out."

- Kate: "Burying your wife?"

- Maura: "I bet working on other's people bushes really makes you wack your weeds."

- Maura: "You will be the butt of our joke because your butt is no joke."

- Maura: "I'm not laughing at that butt. I laugh with that butt. I'm gonna laugh in that butt."

- Kate: "The fucking sold our fucking childhood fucking home."

- Maura: "You threw away our baby pictures?
- Deana: No! We sold them to the gay men at the flee market who turns them into funny cards."

- Kate: "You chose the party mom role to protect yourself from fun".

- Maura: "I know I am so fun! I shouldn't keep that to myself."

- Maura: "Yeah but he is younger than me.
- Kate: Yeah but he is taller than you. That's all that matters."

- Kate: "You know your cousin's gay right?
- Mrs. Geernt: That's not my cousin. That's my husband.
- Kate: That's your husband? You're gonna have some surprising shit go down in about 10 years."

- Kate: "We sleep with our eyes open. Like sharks."

- Kate: "Ugh. Brinda always looks like she has a fart coming out sideways."

- Maura: "That's a snazzy belt.
- Brinda: Oh, thank you.
- Kate: Yeah, congrats on your wrestling championship.
- Brinda: It's Ralph Lauren.
- Maura: Is that how you say it?
- Brinda: Yeah.
- Kate: You get good wifi with that?"

- Maura: "Do you get lunch breaks?
- Hae-Wan: What is lunch?"

- Kate: "I wish being gay was a choice. Cause I've always liked that shorts and boots look.
- Maura: Yeah, I know. For me the deal breaker would be the eating of the pussies.
- Kate: Oh really? Cause for me it would be the fucking unbearable amount of talking."

- Kate: "I never met a Brayla before.
- Brayla: I know like 3.
- Kate: Oh, so you're trending. God bless."

- Maura: "I hate keeping secrets. Especially from my sister. It gives me guilt diarrhea."

- Maura: "We need a little less forever 21 and a little more suddenly 42."

- Maura: "So, I've been thinking.
- Kate: Why?"

- Kate: "When you say 'loan', do you mean the kind you pay back or like a wink wink loan?
- Maura: All loans are supposed to be paid back.
- Kate: Not in my experience."

- Maura: "Will you be the party mom tonight so I can let my freak flag fly?"

- Kate: "I say tonight we party like Vikings. Cause we could die tomorrow!
- Maura: Let's light a boat on fire."

- Maura: "Wow, you look so happy. You look so free and not oppressed at all. We were worried about you.
- Hae-Wan: Really? We were worried about you. Both your feet look like dried beef.
- Kate: Ah! I knew you were talking shit about us!"

- Kate: "Good things are hidden in the quiet.
- Maura: Who said that?
- Kate: I did. I'm smart."

- Brinda: "God, I could watch Tyrion slap the smug off that little fucker's face 100 times and never get sick of it."

- Kate: "You're so full of shit that I'm gonna buy you pull-ups."

- Kate: "Oh, hell no! Are you serious cause I am straight up baffled."

- Kate: "Nice try. On your bike bitch. Get your peanut butter out of my sister's chocolate. I respect your jumpsuit, but not its content. Hit it."

- Brinda: "Winter is coming, bitches!"

- Maura: "Pazuzu, thank you so much for bringing your arms here...your drugs here."

- Kate: "Danger, walk away. That's a black diamond slope."

- Kate: "Do you have kids?
- Pazuzu: I'm sure I do."

- James:" I think I lost the weight so I could gain a better view of my perfect penis. I missed the little guy. Not little, medium. I missed the medium guy."

- James: "A house is just a building. Home is a feeling."

- Maura: "What are you writing down?
- Policeman: Nothing, it's my pad.
- Maura: Here is something you should write down: E.A.T. S.H.I.T."

- Dave: "I am writing erection. By Calvin Klein."

- Brinda: "You know what the saddest part is?
- Kate: Your vagina?"

- Kate: "Hey Pazuzu. I'm partying now. Are you ready for me?
- Pazuzu: I have been ready. My safe word is keep going."

- Hae-Wan: "You wanna hug? Give this messy bitch a hug!"

- Kate: "Why don't you go breast feed a squirrel?"

- Bucky: "Our whole house looks like Pompeii and you two are wrestling?"

- Deana: "We keep trying to pass you the button. You won't take it. Take it!
- Bucky: Yes, take the fucking button!"

- Bucky: "Now, everybody get the hell out before I call your children!"

Plot: When their parents decide to sell their childhood home, the Ellis sisters are reunited and decide to throw a once in a lifetime party.

Trailer:

Review:

Sisters is a movie that had me slightly conflicted, which is ironic for such a basic and fun movie.

Realistically, the script is rather poor. The jokes are very basic and of poor taste. I’m not ever sure I would have given this movie a shot if I wasn’t such a fan of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Both are comedic geniuses and I loved the previous movies they made together like Mean Girls and Baby Mama. They are also brilliant on SNL and as a woman I particularly like what they embody, which does make me want to support their work.

With Sisters, I think we kind of hit a wall though and we can rightly wonder whether their success make them a bit lazy. Did Tina Fey and Amy Poehler rely a bit too much on an already acquired base fan to make the success of this movie without having to put too much work into the script? Or did they only want to make this movie for fun, between friends? By any means if this is the case then good for them!

You will for instance recognize many familiar faces such as Maya Rudolph, Ike Barinholtz, James Brolin, Dianne Wiest, Rachel Dratch, Kate McKinnon, etc.

While the movie is rather poor in terms of quality, it did make a few social commentaries that would have been worth exploiting but then again, it might have changed the tone of the movie.

Regardless, I still had a great time at the movies and I did have a few good laughs. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have a great dynamic and they are definitely the heart of Sisters.

The Good Dinosaur

2016-01-07T16:23:00.001-08:00

Directed by: Peter Sohn

Memorable quotes:

-Momma: "You're a Poppa.
-Poppa: You're a Momma."

-Poppa: "The river is not something to mess around with Arlo. Be careful."

-Poppa: "Yesterday you said that footless friend was the worse.
-Arlo: He's only got ONE foot.
-Poppa: You dont have to like them Arlo. You just have to feed them."

-Momma: "Did you just put your mark higher than mine?
-Poppa: What? No! It's just the angle you're looking at.
-Momma: The angle, huh?"

-Poppa: "You gotta earn your mark by doing something big for something bigger than yourself. Someday you'll have make your own mark and I can't wait to see it."

-Poppa: "Sometimes you gotta go over your fear or you won't survive out there."

- Arlo: "Don't worry Momma, I won't let us starve.
- Momma; You're a good son."

- Arlo: "Get over here! Get over here! (Spot approaches) Get away! Get away!"

- Arlo: " I am still gonna steal the life out of you. But before I do, can you find me some more? Will you take me to the berries?"

- Forrest Woodbush: "Hello.
- Arlo: Hello?
- Forrest Woodbush: We've been watching you. We thought you were going to die. But then you didn't. That creature protected you. Why?
- Arlo: I don't know."

-Forest Woodbush: "This is Fiery. He protects me from the creatures that crawl over night. This is Destructor. She protects me from mosquitoes. This is Dream crusher. He protects me from having unrealistic goals. And this is Debby."

- Forest Woodbush: " What is his name?
- Arlo: A name? I don't know.
- Forest Woodbush: Hmm then I will meditate on this. Hmm I name him I keep him! Hmm Killer! Hmmm Beast! Hmm Murderer!
- Arlo: Robby!
- Forest Woodbush: Funeral planner!
- Arlo: Cody!
- Forest Woodbush: Hemorrhoid!
- Arlo: Score!
- Forest Woodbush; Frank!
- Arlo: Stinky!
- Forest Woodbush: The maniac!
- Arlo: Funky!
- Forest Woodbush: Violet.
- Arlo: Spike!
- Forest Woodbush: Lunatic.
- Arlo: Spot! (At this point the human child turns around). Come here Spot, come here.
- Forest Woodbush: He is named. You clearly are connected. Good for you. On your path to clawtooth-mountain that creature will keep you safe. Don't ever lose him."

-Thunderclap: "Arlo. I used to have a name like that once. That was before I started following the storm.
-Arlo: The storm?
- Thunderclap: The storm swept me off. I was afraid for my life but that storm gave me a relevation.
- Arlo: You mean a revelation?
- Thunderclap: No. A relevation, okay? I was at a real low point you know, and the storm swept me up to a real high point and then left me in a pile of relevation.
- Arlo: Wow.
- Thunderclap: Yeah wow. That's when the storm gave me my new name. Because, as we say...
- Downpour: The storm provides!
- Thunderclap: The storm provides. You can call me Thunderclap."

-Thunderclap: "Don't think you can mess with me. I've seen the eye of the storm and I forgot what fear is! I'm not afraid of anything."

-Butch: "Nash, get out of you sister's bubble!"

-Butch: "Hey kid, if you pull my leg, I'm gonna eat yours."

-Arlo: "Don't move? What if they have claws and big teeth?
-Butch: Don't overthink it."

- Creeper: "I'm gonna love ending you."

- Butch: "It was 100 degrees in the shade and I walked for five days with no water. Then I saw it: the pretty pond. I bent down to take a drink when these crocs launched out of the water. One croc bit me on the face. Ain't no way I wasn't their supper, expect for one thing: I wasn't ready for dying that day. I bit one croc in half, tail whipped the other, and the last one, I drowned that croc in my own blood.
- Arlo: Whoa!
- Ramsey & Nash: Dang!
- Nash: Look, look, it gives me little gooses every time!
- Ramsey: I love that story."

- Arlo: You guys would have liked my Poppa. He wasn't scared of anything. I'm done being scared.
- Butch: Who said I'm not scared?
- Arlo: But you took on a croc.
- Butch: And I was scared doing that. If you don't get scared of a croc biting you on the face, you ain't alive."

-Butch: " Listen kid. You can't get rid rid of fear. It's like mother nature. You can't beat her or outrun her. But you can get through it. You can find out what you are made off.

- Ramsey: " You hurry on back to your Momma. And don't stop for nothing!
- Arlo: Thanks, I sure appreciate it you looking out for me.
- Butch: You'll be alright. You're one tough kid."

- Arlo: " Spot needs me. I blamed him for what happened to you but it wasn't his fault. That's why I have to do help him. Because I love him.
- Poppa; I knew you had it in you. You are me. And more. No go take care of that critter."

- Thunderclap: " The storm provides."

- Arlo: "We're home Spot."

Plot: The Good Dinosaur follows the incredible journey of a young Apatosaurus named Arlo and his human friend, in a world where dinosaurs never became extinct.

Trailer:

Review:

The Good Dinosaur is a beautiful journey of self-discovery that may not be very original or Pixar’s very best animation film but as our favorite dinosaur Ramsey and Nash would say: Dang, they still got it!

As usual, what I love best is not only how visually beautiful this movie is, but also how the story and script can be appreciated by both adults and children. This truly is a family movie.

Despite having its funny moments, I did shed a few tears as The Good Dinosaur deals with loss, grief, guilt, fear, but also love, friendship, acceptance and well…life. The Good Dinosaur takes you through the story of a young dinosaur named Arlo who has issues finding his place in a frightening world but also within his own family circle, which I think makes it very easy to get drawn to the story and emphasis with Arlo since this is something most of us have or will experience throughout their life.

While Arlo's family is pretty awesome, what is probably the most touching element of the movie is the story between Arlo and his human friend, Spot. Despite their difference, the two manage to survive incredible ordeals by looking out for one another and showing that love transgressed species.

As the T-Rex family showed us, we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover for you can find love and beauty in the most unexpected places.

The only thing that did bother me –apart from a few unanswered questions- is how little the relationship between humans and dinosaurs was explored. We may follow the journey of a dinosaur and his human but humans and dinosaurs don’t seem to mix at all. Even when Arlo and Spot meet the caveman’s family, the humans don’t interact at all with Arlo, to a point where Arlo is nearly ignored. Spot seemed to be the link between two different worlds that through Spot collapsed, only to part ways again. I had the same issue with The Ice Age and I wished the ending was slightly different.

Do not let this deter you from watching this movie though, for this truly is a beautiful film.

Pitch Perfect 2

2015-06-11T13:49:00.001-07:00

Directed by: Elizabeth Banks

Memorable quotes:

John: What an inspiration to girls all over the country who are too ugly to be cheerleaders.

John: She may have to do that backflip right back over the fence into Mexico.
Gail: I think she is Guatemalan.
John: Oh, none of that matters.

Gail: There's so much going on on stage I don't even know where to look.

John: An overweight girl dangling from the ceiling, who hasn't had that dream?
Gail: Lots of us!

John: She has no underwear on. We have a commando situation. There is a commando situation on stage!

John: She is turning. She is turning. Brace yourselves!

Barden University Secretary: The Dean is ready for you tramps.

Barden University Dean: Ladies, you have dragged the good name of Barden university into the gutter. And you have really upset these people whose name I have already forgotten.

John: Your little southern exposure in front of our commander in chief has irreparably damaged the entire institution of a cappella.

John: The truth is... you are all women and you're all gonna get pregnant soon.

Katherine: I'm gonna be your mother and your sister!
Emily: Gross!

John: How do you fit such big dreams into such a small body?

Gail: No American team has ever won.
John: That's because they hate us!
Gail: The whole world!
John! The whole world hates us!

Fat Amy: Chloe don't blame yourself. You're a ginger that's punishment enough.

Chloe: If we don't win the Bellas are over. This is the biggest challenge any of us have ever faced.
Flo: When I was nine years old my brother tried to sell me for a chicken, so...

Stacie: I will do whoever it takes to get back to the top.
Fat Amy: You mean whatever it takes..
Stacie: Yeah I'll do that too.

Benji: I just have to say you're so spirited. I...I just wanna put you in a box and saw you in half.

Fat Amy: How good can they be? Germany hasn't produced a good singer since David Hasselhoff. We're gonna crush them.

Emily: I'm Emily...Junk! I know it's weird. My dad's last name is hard on, so...

Chloe: Show us what you got.
Emily: Right now? Right here? Right here right now. Yeah, okay. I'd like to perform an original song that I've been working on. I'm not quite finished with it though so let's not be dicks about it.

Emily: Amy you have a lovely vagina.
Fat Amy: Thank you. Proceed.

Chloe: She's really good. Can't we take her?
Fat Amy: What do you expect us to say? She is right there.

Stacie: Let's get into some treble!

Fat Amy: Fat Amy is back! Cause I never left, cause I'm still here!

Emily: Hi!
Beca: Hi.
Emily: I am so excited to meet the woman who single handedly created the Bella's sound. We're sisters! I can't believe we're sisters!

Kommissar: Barden Bella. You came here to see us. Is that because you are... what do the American kids say... jelly?
Chloe: We are so not jelly.
Kommissar: We should really thank you for making this tour a reality.

Kommissar: You... You are the kicker of ass?
Beca: Yeah.
Kommissar: You are so tiny. Like an elf. Or is it a fairy?

Kommissar: You are like a troll.
Beca: You are physically flawless.
Kommissar: Thank you.
Beca: But it doesn't mean I like you.

Pieter: Your team is like a heated mess. A mess where heat is applied to it so what once was a little mess is even messier.

Kommissar: Darlings, please take my advice. Don't try to beat us. You can't. We are the best. And now I really must rest my neck. It is sore from looking down on you.
Beca: Okay, just because you are making me sexually confuse does not mean that you are intimidating. We have nothing to lose! We have literally nothing to lose! Auf Wiedersehen bitches!

Chloe: Ladies, focus up. We need to beat those German dummkopf.

Fat Amy: Legacy, don't take this the wrong way, but you are the dumbest person alive.

Snoop Dogg: It better be a tech thing. The way I sound on my eardrums, this is immaculate man.

Beca's boss: You can sing.
Beca: Yeah, I'm like a three time collegial a cappella champion so both huge successes in our fields.
Beca's boss: Yeah, let's say that.

Chloe: There is only an address and a password.
Fat Amy: How sexy and mysterious.

Barden Bella: Anyone else scared?
Flo: Not really. I already lived longer than I expected.

Riff-Off Host: That was rude! You do not come to a gentleman's house and touch his goose.

Fat Amy: If you do wanna share something with me, your best friend, I'm a great keeper of secrets. I'm like a safe that locks with a key. And the key is stashed up my bum.

Fat Amy: Come on Beca, you know how we do that thing every month where I take 20 dollars of your purse and you pretend not to notice. I saw your ID badge in your bag. Don't be mad.
Beca: I'm not mad. I'm not mad actually about the badge. The money though I wanna come back to.

Fat Amy: You're the most talented person I know and I've met three of the Wiggles...intimately. Beca, don't you know how awesome you are? You're Beca effing Mitchell. You're the big BM. That's you. You're awesome. Do you need some of my confidence cause I could turn mine down a notch.

Flo: Sure. Blame the minority!
Cynthia Rose: I'm black, gay and a woman.

Chloe: At times like this, there is only one thing to do.
Flo: Fake your own death and leave the country?
Chloe: Close. We are going on a retreat.

Aubrey: When I realized I had a knack for barking orders and binding people's will I made a career out of it.

Flo: I don't understand camping. We're voluntarily living like dogs.

Fat Amy: She says she is Asian Jesus.

Aubrey: Okay, that was two steps away from being almost fine.

Fat Amy: Listen, I don't want you guys to fight. You're Beca and Blowey. Together you're Blowey. And everyone loves a good blowey.

Lilly: I sleep upside down, like a bat.

Fat Amy: You are one of us. You paid the registration fees.

Aubrey: Like my dad always said, "In the mind field of life, you must be prepared to lose both feet." And I think you all know what I mean.
Fat Amy: I don't.

Chloe: Then it's decided. This year I will graduate. The world will be my swan song. I mean it. I'll pursue my passion. I'll teach underprivileged children how to sing or I'll dance exotically, whatever offers the most money.

Flo: So after I graduate there is a chance I will be deported. I will try to re enter this country but I will probably die at sea so... let's live for tonight!

John: You know, I spent some time with some lady boys in the Philippines myself.
Gail: I'm not surprised.
John: Very interesting young men.
Gail: Doing amazing thing with their mouth I presume.
John: When we go back to the stage I'll do a few for you here.
Gail: You know we can get to it later. Maybe when the Koreans are out there because no one cares about the Korean group.
John: Love that barbecue.

Fat Amy: Guys, there's gonna be some haters out there. They're gonna look at us, team USA, and be like "Why is the most talented one Australian?" But guess what, I am fat so that is close enough.

Gail: Oh, they have touched every person here. They have touched me.
John: Well, every one has touched you Gail but this is something else.

Beca: Don't go in the basement it's haunted.

Plot: After a commando situation arises at the Lincoln Center and ruins the Barden Bella’s reputation, they must fight to save their team and the right to perform at the World Championship where they must defeat their German competitors.

Review:

I had hoped for Pitch Perfect 2 ever since I watched the first movie. When I heard a sequel was in the making, needless to say I was beyond ecstatic!

Yet Pitch Perfect 2 didn’t turn out to be all that I had hoped for. In fact, if it was not for the songs it would be very average, at best.

Pitch Perfect was fun, despite the songs. The characters were all awesome and witty and it was great to see them develop a strong bond that united them.

Pitch Perfect 2 has a long list of characters who had barely any lines and did not matter at all, while other characters have been forgotten or seem to have been brainwashed. I was particularly disappointed to see what they had done with Chloe’s character. They dumbed her down and it did not match at all with the girl she was in the first movie. I also wish that Stacy, Jesse and Lilly had a much bigger part in this, I really missed them while I wish we had less of Fat Amy.

As to the new girl Emily played by Hailee Steinfeld, I wasn’t too impressed but she was okay. The actress is really good and she sure is a great singer. Her character though could have been better written, but this could be applied to most characters of the sequel. Pitch Perfect 2 had a chance to explore the bond and relationships they all created in the first movie but they just threw this opportunity out the window in favor of … Fat Amy jokes.

The German team was quite enjoyable though. They were quite ridiculous and beyond cliché, but I must say that every song they sang in the movie were incredibly cool.

In fact, the songs definitely are what is best in Pitch Perfect 2 as they didn’t fail to disappoint and I have been listing to the soundtrack non- stop!

Coyote Ugly

2015-05-21T06:27:00.001-07:00

Directed by: David McNally

Memorable quotes:

Bar Patron: It's 20 years of girls leaving town.
Customer n°1: That wall is jinxed. I won't sit near that wall.
Customer n°2: Let's hope you have better luck than they did.

Bill: Look at this, 4 people killed last night in New York. No reason at all. Police have no leads. Tragic.
Violet Sanford: Dad, what are you doing?

Bill: Excuse me, am I missing something here? I'm the parent. You're the child running away to live by yourself. I should be telling you how to live.
Violet: Fine, how should I live?
Bill: Simple, don't go.

Violet: Love you.
Bill: Put some pepper spray in your purse. Even if you're not sure, just start spraying.

Gloria: You know, you're not alone mister Stanford. Hey you know, me and you should have dinner sometimes.
Bill: I'm locking the doors.

Gloria (putting cash in the freeze): I am freezing your assets.

Gloria: All our lives, you know, we've always had one thing in common you and me.
Violet: What are you talking about?
Gloria: It's like, you know, we said we wouldn't lose our virginity until we got married. That didn't happen. And then we said we'd go to college or junior college or dental hygienist school you know and that didn't happen. We've never followed through a single thing you know and I think that's what make us so special.
Violet: And this is why you're cyring?
Gloria: Well, a long time ago you told me that you were gonna move to New York but everyone thought you would stay in Jersey and get married like me and Danny. You know, I look at you. No matter what you really did it Vi, and I'm so proud of you.

Receptionist: I've been raising my daughter all by myself and then two weeks ago she tells me that she is bissexual and that she hates me more than anything. Now, tell me how I can help you please, because I am dying to make your dream come true.

Violet: All I want is someone to sing my songs.
Receptionist: Welcome to the music business.

Lou: You think this is Australia? There is no raise. I'll fire you.

Violet: I cannot believe how easy this was.
Kevin O'Donnell: Neither can I.

Violet: I didn't threw myself at you. I was pretending to be sweet and innocent so you'd give me a break.

Kevin: Can I ask you a question?
Violet: What?
Kevin: Is there a reason we're just walking in a circle? Are you lost?
Violet: I'm not lost, they moved my street.

Violet: Okay, I've never had anyone stare at my ass for half an hour so I'm gonna say goodnight and I'm hoping you're gonna say it back.
Kevin: Okay, I can take a hint.

Kevin: Just for the record I was only starring at your ass for the first 15 minutes.

Romeo: You gotta cheer up. You look like somebody ran over your dog.

Cammie: Hello?! A naked girl in army boots. Easy play to call.

Violet: Are they hookers?
Romeo: No. Coyotes.

Zoe: You let him brand you? She left a man brand her!

Rachel: To Zoe, last week as a coyote.

Lil: You do any drugs?
Violet: Just coffee. That's all I can afford right now.
Lil: Let me see your arms.
Violet: Are you kidding?
Lil: Do I look like I'm kidding?

Violet: What's next? Do you want a urine sample?
Lil: I prefer blood.

Violet: Look, are you really the owner? Cause I've had a rough couple of days and the last thing I need is some waitress on a power trip wasting my time.

Violet: You're giving me a job?
Lil: I'm giving you an audition. Don't be late Jersey girl.

Violet: I don't mean to press my luck but do you mind telling me why you're hiring me?
Lil: Because the average male is walking around with a toddler inside his pant. A two year old right there inside of its dockers.

Violet: Men have two years old children inside their pant? That's why you're hiring me?
Lil: You look like a kindergarten teacher. Their kids will love it.
Violet: Sorry I asked.

Lil: As of this moment, you have to appear available but never be available. Break my rules I fire you on the spot.

Lil: Hey! Hey everybody, shut up! I'd like you to meet my new girl, whose name is...
Violet: Violet...
Lil: ...Jersey! Jersey is an ex kindergarten teacher and a former nun who just escaped from the convent and is tired of being the only virgin in New York city.

Cammie: I'm Cammie. The Russian tease!
Violet: Violet, the Jersey nun!
Cammie: That was Rachel, the New York. We all play our little parts. Only Rachel really is a bitch and I really am a tease.

Kevin: Wait. I wanna see you again. Where are you working?
Violet: I'm a coyote!
Kevin: Good. And what the hell is that?
Violet: If you want to see me again, you'll figure it out.

Violet: It has a zipper in the crotch.
Cammie: Yeah.
Violet: Who would wear that in public?
Cammie: Actually, I have it in blue.

Violet: Forgive me father, for I have sinned.

Violet: Cammie, I think I just fell in love with you.
Cammie: Oh Violet, I'm not a lesbian.

Girl at bar: What does Coyote Ugly mean?
Lil: Did you ever wake up sober after one night stand and the person you're next to is lying on your arm is so ugly you'd rather chew up your arm than risk waking him up? That's Coyote Ugly.

Kevin: I want what every man wants. Breakfast.

Kevin: Well, is there any place you fell comfortable singing?
Violet: The shower.
Kevin: Well, we'll start there. I mean, I don't care how long it takes, how many hours we have to spend in that shower. Let's get to it.

Violet: Have a nice day?
Kevin: Yeah, I panicked. I didn't know what else to say.

Cammie: Did you see their faces? I mean, wow. They all wanted you honey, even the girls.

Violet: You guys, that was like a one time performance, that I have to repeat like everynight.

Bill: Hey, do I came to your office and honk? Come one!

Bill:If you needed money, you should have come to me. I would have found a way to take care of you.
Violet: Dad, you can't even take care of yourself.
Bill: Hey, I am doing just fine on my own, thank you very much.

Violet: Oh really? So how come you're not wearing any socks?
Bill: I had a minor disagreement with a clothe dryer.

Bill: What bothers me is for the first time in my life I was ashamed of you. I never thought this would have been possible.

Violet: I told you don't come down here, it's your wedding night!
Gloria: Oh, are you kidding? Danny's been in my family for five minutes. You've been in my family my whole life.

Lil: Is that okay if I eat here at the bar?
Violet: Do you have a reservation?
Lil: Uh yeah, it's under "cast iron heartless bitch".
Violet: Could it be "under stubborn and pick headed"?
Lil: Yeah, that's the one.

New tenant: So, why are you moving to Chicago?
Kevin: I'll figure it out when I get there.

Bill: Violet, listen to me. Are you listening?
Violet: Yes.
Bill: You have nothing to be afraid of. You're already a star.

Plot: Shy country girl Violet Sanford moves to Chicago hoping to have her big break as a songwriter. Things don't go exactly as planned and Violet ends up working as a Coyote in an exclusively female run bar...

Review:

Coyote Ugly is a pretty hard movie to describe.

Part of me feels like this is a pretty terrible movie. I mean, the acting is average at best from most of the cast apart from the main actors who are actually fantastic, the storyline is predictable and the-innocent-small-town-girl-goes-to-big city-to-live- her-dreams-but-get-into-trouble is getting kind of old and veryyyy cliché.

Yes, this sums up Coyote Ugly… or at least part of it.

Coyote Ugly is what would be described best as a guilty pleasure. It fun, enjoyable, and need I talk about the songs (thank you LeAnn Rimes!) and dance numbers??? So freaking catchy!! As for the relationship between Violet and Kevin, it is beyond dreamy and adorable.Talking of which, Piper Perabo and Adam Garcia are absolutely amazing. It is no wonder that Piper Perabo’s career has taken off after this movie, although I feel like she’s still underrated., which truly is a shame.

Maria Bello and John Goodman are both equally brilliant, and truly contribute to make this movie as enjoyable as it is.The remaining of the actors are pretty unknown, for the exception of the model Tyra Banks that has a small part which conveniently doesn’t require much acting.

So here is the thing: if you’ve liked Flashdance, Footloose and other equally cheesy yet fun movies, chances are you’ll love Coyote Ugly. I cannot even say how many times I have watched it. But if you’re looking for an award winning type of movie, this will simply not do and you will waste your time.

Paddington

2015-03-27T17:05:00.002-07:00

Directed by: Paul King

Memorable quotes:

Explorer: I have learnt so much from these persons but I wonder what, if anything, they have learnt from me.

Paddington: Good morning aunt Lucy!

Aunt Lucy: Good morning my little hurricane.

Uncle Pastuzo: Why do you have to come crushing in here like a natural disaster?

Paddington: Why would you want to go anywhere when we live in the best place in the world?

Uncle Pastuzo: Embarrassing but tasty.

Uncle Pastuzo: A wise bear always keeps a marmalade sandwich in his hat, in case of emergency.

Aunt Lucy: Stay out of sight until London.

Paddington: But aren't you coming?

Aunt Lucy: I am too old, too tired to go any further.

Paddington: Then what will you do?

Aunt Lucy: Oh, don't worry about me. I will be safe in the home for retired bears. It is not yet the time for you to retire. You must find a new home. In London.

Paddington: But I don't know anyone there. What of they don't even like bears?

Aunt Lucy: You know, there was once a war in the explorer's country. Thousands of children were sent away for safety, left at railway stations with labels around their necks and unknown families took them in and loved them like their own. They will not have forgotten about how to treat a stranger. Now, take care my darling. Remember your manners and keep safe.

Paddington: Good morning. Really tipping it down, isn't it?

Paddington: How do you do? I'm just looking for a home.

Paddington (talking to the pigeons): Go away please, I need to look presentable.

Judy Brown: It was fine until you jumped in the lake.

Mary Brown: It's a Victorian bathing pond darling, it's what your supposed yo do.

Judy Brown: Not naked.

Mary Brown: Forgot my costume!

Henry Brown: Jonathan don't jump like that. 7% of childhood incident starts with jumping.

Jonathan Brown: But if I'm gonna be an astronaut...

Henry Brown: Well you're not gonna be an astronaut.

Mary Brown: Be whatever you want peanut.

Henry Brown: Stranger danger.

Mary Brown: What?

Henry Brown: Keep your eyes down. There is some sort of bear over there, probably selling something.

Paddington: Good evening!

Henry Brown: No thank you.

Mary Brown: I hope you don't mind me asking but...shouldn't you be at home?

Paddington: Oh yes I should. But I haven't quite worked out how to find one.

Mary Brown: Where are your parents?

Paddington: They died when I was small.

Henry Brown: Here we go.

Paddington: All I have is my aunt.

Mary Brown: And where is she?

Paddington: Darkest Peru, in the home for retired bear.

Henry Brown: Yeah, course she is.

Paddington: Did you know bears like marmalade?

Jonathan: I didn't even know bears could talk.

Paddington: Well, I'm a very rare bear. They aren't many of us left.

Mary Brown: What are you going to do now?

Paddington: Well I thought I would probably just sleep over there in that bin.

Henry Brown: That's the spirit.

Henry Brown: What's your name? Do bears have name?

Paddington: Course they do. My name is (Paddington starts to growl.)

Henry Brown: Beg your pardon?

Paddington: (Paddington growls again)

Henry Brown: Right.

Paddington: Go on. Try it.

Henry Brown: (He tries to growl)

Paddington: Mister Brown, that is extremely rude.

Mary Brown: Excuse me, I'm awfully sorry, I don't actually know your name.

Paddington: Well, I got a bear name but it seems to be rather hard to pronounce.

Mary Brown: Perhaps you would like an English name?

Paddington: An English name? Like what?

Mary Brown: Oh look Henry, it's perfect.

Henry Brown: You want to call him ketchup?

Mary Brown: No...

Henry Brown: Ketchup the bear?

Mary Brown: Paddington!

Henry Brown: You need a proper guardian.

Paddington: What's that?

Mary Brown: It's a grown up who takes you into their home and looks after you.

Paddington: Like you?

Mary Brown; Yes, I suppose so.

Paddington: But not you?

Henry: We don't do that.

Henry Brown. No, not an orphanage. It would be more like an institution for young souls whose parents have sadly passed on.

Paddington: "Dear aunt Lucy, I have arrived in London and so far it has rained, poured, drizzled and chucked it down. And I miss you. London is not how we imagined it. Hardly anyone says hello or wears hats. And you can no longer simply turn up at the station and get a home. I's hard to see where a bear could ever belong in such a strange, cold city. Luckily, I met the Browns, who are letting me sleep in their attic. They have a lovely house but I'm not going to be allowed to stay.

Paddington: Mister Brown is something called a risk analyst. He says that having a bear in the house increases the chances of disaster by 4000%

Paddington: Judy suffers a serious condition called "embarrassment".

Paddington: She is learning Chinese so she can run away and start a small business.

Paddington: Tomorrow they're taking me to the authorities, who will house me in something that is not an orphanage but it still doesn't sound like the sort of home I'm really hoping for.

Millicent: This creature means a great deal to me.

Tony: Why? Is he in danger?

Millicent: He is now.

Judy: Don't tell anyone at school about Paddington.

Jonathan: Why not?

Judy: Cause everyone thinks we're weird enough without the bear.

Thief: It's some kind of teddy police bear!

Mary Brown: What are you doing?

Henry Brown: I'm doing my looking away face.

Mary Brown: You're doing the breathing.

Henry Brown: I'm doing the breathing.

Henry Brown: They're screaming!

Mary Brown: No darling, that's the sound of laughter.

Taxi driver: I'm afraid I can't tell you that love.

Millicent: Why not?

Taxi driver: Well it's against the cabbie code.

Millicent: The what?

Taxi driver: The cabbie's code. An oath of confidentiality we take. You know, like your doctors, your priests, your medieval knights. You do understand, don't you love?

Henry Brown: This is never going to work.

Mary Brown: Course it will. You look very pretty.

Henry Brown: That's what they'll say in jail.

Geographer Guild's receptionist: Something's stopping the system.

Geographer n°1: I think it's a baguette.

Geographer n°2: Is that peanut butter?

Geographer n°3: Too orange. I think it's...

Geographer n°4: Marmalade!

Millicent: Being such a pillar of the community, I can see why having that beast next door would upset you so.

Mr. Curry: I suppose I should be grateful that it's only one bear.

Millicent: Oh but it always starts with just one Mr. Curry. Soon the street will be crawling with them, drains clogged with fur.

Paddington: It wasn't my fault.

Henry Brown: Who else was in the house? The front door was still locked.

Paddington: It was an elephant.

Jonathan: An elephant?

Paddington: It had the head of an elephant and the body of a snake. But it tried to shoot me.

Mrs. Bird: Have you been drinking soap water?

Mrs. Bird: You just don't get it, do you?

Mr. Brown: What?

Mrs. Bird: This family needed that wee bear every bit as much as he needed you.

Mary Brown: He's about 3ft6. He's got a bright red hat on and a blue duffle coat. And he is a bear.

Policeman: It's not much to go on.

Mary Brown: Really?

Millicent: That's right. I'm going to stuff you bear.

Henry Brown: Paddington, Paddington, up here!

Paddington: Is that you, God?

Henry Brown: What?

Paddington: It's just, you sounds a lot more like Mr. Brown that I imagined.

Henry Brown: It is Mister Brown!

Millicent: Come on, hand over the bear.

Mary Brown: No, we won't do that. He is family.

Millicent: Family? He is not even the same species.

Paddington: It's true.

Henry Brown: It is true. And when I first met Paddington I wanted nothing to do with him. But my wonderful wife, she opened her heart to him and so did my incredible children and now I have too. It doesn't matter that he comes from the other side of the world or that he is a different species, or that he has a worrying marmalade habit. We love Paddington and that means he is family. And family stick together. So if you want him, you'll have to take us too.

Millicent: Okay then.

Paddington: Hmm, could I have one last request?

Millicent: What is it?

Paddington: I'd like a sandwich. There is one in my hat.

Millicent: Go on then.

Mary Brown: I think every house should have a marmalade day.

Judy: And a bear.

Henry Brown: Especially a bear.

Judy: I'm sorry she's weird. But we all are.

Paddington: Mrs. Brown says that in London everyone is different. But that means anyone can fit in. She must be right because even though I don't look like anyone else, I really do feel at home. I will never be like other people, but that's alright because I'm a bear. A bear called Paddington.

Plot: When a young Peruvian bear must leave his home due to an earthquake, his aunt sends him to London, hoping he will find a home there.

Trailer:

Review:

I have never read any of the Paddington books as a child nor did I ever watched the T.V. series, so I had no clear expectations when I went to see Paddington at the movie theater. I just knew it featured the Paddington bear and that he looked so damn cute. And I can officially say that yes, Paddington is freaking adorable and I just wanted to cuddle him throughout the film. As an adult I was a bit bothered by the amount of children that were present in the cinema, but it only confirmed that Paddington is a film that adults and children can both genuinely enjoy so no matter how old you are, go watch it!

What was interesting to me though was that the children didn’t seem to react at the same time I did, and we wouldn’t not necessarily laugh at the same time either, which is good because it shows there is really something for everyone in this movie.

There isn’t one thing I did not like. The cast was brilliant, although Nicole Kidman was really weird but hey, maybe she was just playing her part really well. Mister and Mrs. Brown, played respectively by Hugh Bonneville and Sally Hawkins as well as their children played by Madeleine Harris and Samuel Joslin were just amazingly odd, British, funny and cute and I could go on for a while. As for July Walters she brilliant as usual.

I also loved the cinematography and it really made me miss London!

As expected, Paddington is created with CGI and while I am not always a huge fan of CGI at times as they tend to overdo it, it was actually really well done for this film and the bear was just too cute for words.

Big Hero 6

2015-03-22T12:18:00.002-07:00

Directed by: Don Hall & Chris Williams

Memorable quotes:

Tadashi: Are you okay?
Hiro: Yeah.
Tadashi: Are you hurt?
Hiro: No.
Tadashi: Then what were you thinking, knucklehead!

Aunt Cass: For ten years I have done the best I could to raise you. Have I been perfect? No. Do I know anything about children? No. Should I have picked up a book on inheriting? Probably! Where was I going with this? I had a point.
Tadashi: Sorry.
Hiro: We love you aunt Cass.
Aunt Cass: I love you too. I had to close early because of you too felons. Unbeat poetry night.

Aunt Cass: Stress eating. Because of you!

Tadashi: You better make this up to aunt Cass before she eats everything in the café.

Tadashi: When are you gonna start doing something with that big brain of yours?
Hiro: What? Got to college like you so people can tell me stuff I already know?
Tadashi: Unbelievable. What would mom and dad say?
Hiro: I don't know. They're gone. They died when I was three, remember?

Tadashi: Hey, I'll take you.
Hiro: Really?
Tadashi: I can't stop you from going but I'm not gonna let you go on your own.
Hiro: Sweet.

Go Go: Welcome to the nerd lab.

Hiro: Honey Lemon? Go Go? Wasabi?
Wasabi: I spilled wasabi on my shirt one time, people, ONE TIME!

Fred: School mascot by day...by night... I'm also a school mascot.

Hiro: Looks like a walking marshmallow. No offence.
Baymax: I am a robot. I cannot be offended.

Robert Callaghan: You must be Hiro. Bot fighter, right? When my daughter was young, it's all she wanted to do.

Hiro: I have to go here. If I don't go to this nerd school I'm gonna lose my mind. How do I get in?

Tadashi: Wow, washed up at fourteen. So sad.

Fred: I haven't done laundry in six months. One pair lasts me four days. I go front, I go back. I go inside out and I go front back.
Tadashi: Wow, that is both disgusting and awesome.
Go Go: Don't encourage him.
Fred: It's called recycling.

Hiro: If you can think it, the micro bot can do it. The only limit is your imagination.

Tadashi: Welcome to the nerd school, nerd.

Baymax: You are experience mood swings. Diagnosis: puberty.

Baymax: Woud that stabilized your pubescent mood-swing?

Baymax: Excuse me while I let out some air.

Baymax (while petting the cat Mochi): Hairy baby! Hairy baaaby!

Baymax: Hiro.
Hiro: Ahhh you gave me a heart attack.
Baymax: My hands are equipped with defibrillators. Clear!
Hiro: Stop stop stop stop. It's just an expression.

Baymax: Tadashi was in excellent health. With a proper diet and exercise, he should have lived a long life.
Hiro: Yeah, he should have. There was a fire. Now he is gone.

Hiro: People keep saying he's not really gone, as long as we remember him. But it still hurts.

Baymax: You are my patient. I would like to help.
Hiro: You can't fix this one buddy. Erm, what are you doing?
Baymax: I am downloading a database on personal loss. Database downloaded. Treatments include contact with friends and loved ones. I am contacting them now.
Hiro: No, no, no, don't do that.
Baymax: Your friends have been contacted.
Hiro: Unbelievable. Now what are you doing?
Baymax: Other treatments include compassion and physical reassurance.
Hiro: I'm okay really.
Baymax: You will be alright. There, there.

Baymax: Will apprehending the man in the mask improve your emotional state?
Hiro: Absolutely.

Baymax: I have some concerns. This armor may undermine my non-threatening huggable design.
Hiro: That's kind of the idea buddy. You look sick!
Baymax: I cannot be sick. I am a robbot.

Fred: Am I the only one seeing this?

Go Go: Why are we stopped?
Wasabi: There is a red light.
Go go: There are no red lights in a car chase!

Wasabi: Why is he trying to kill us? ( popping his head out the window)Um, why are you trying to kill us?
Fred: It's classic villain. We've seen too much.

Fred: Oh, welcome to mi casa. It's French for front door.
Honey Lemon: It's really not.

Wasabi: If I wasn't just attacked by a guy in a kabuki mask, I think this would be the weirdest thing I've seen all day.

Fred: It's like spooning a warm marshmallow.

Hiro: Does this symbol mean anything to you?
Fred: Yes, it's a bird!

Fred: Don't you guys get it? The man in the mask who attacked us is none other than voilà! Alistair Krei.
Hiro: What?
Fred: Think about it. Krei wanted your microbots and you said no. The rules don't apply to a man like Krei.
Hiro: There is no way. The guy is too high profile.

Hiro: Yes! I can use the data from your scan to find him!
Go Go: Uh, you'd have to scan everyone in San Fransokyo. And that might take, I don't know, forever!

Hiro: Actually, if we're gonna catch this guy, I need to upgrade all of you.
Wasabi: Upgrade who now?
Baymax: Those who suffer a loss require support from friends and loved ones.
Fred: Okay, I like where this is heading!
Wasabi: We can't go against that guy. We're nerds!
Honey Lemon: Hiro, we want to to help but we're just us.
Hiro: No, you can be way more.
Go Go: Tadashi Hamada was our best friend. We're in.

Hiro: I'd like to introduce Baymax 2.0.
Fred: He is glorious.

Fred: Broken fence makes Freddy so happy.

Baymax: I fail to see how flying makes me a better healthcare companion.
Hiro: I fail to see how you fail to see that it's awesome!

Hiro: That was sick!
Baymax: It is just an expression.
Hiro: That's right buddy.

Hiro: I am never taking the bus again.

Go Go: Killer view.
Wasabi: If I wasn't terrified of heights I'd probably love this. But I'm terrified of heights so I don't love it.

Fred: Awesome! Our first landing together as a team.

Wasabi: Quarantine. Do you people know what quarantine means?
Baymax: Quarantine: enforced isolation to prevent a contamination that could lead to disease or in some cases, death.
Wasabi: Oh, there is a skull face on this one... A SKULL FACE!

Wasabi: Fred, I will laser hand you in the face.

Wasabi: For real, what is the plan?

Baymax: Hiro, my programming prevents me from injuring a human being.
Hiro: Not anymore.

Baymax: My healthcare protocol has been violated. I regret any distress I may have caused.

Fred: This is a revenge story.
Hiro: So, what are we waiting for?

Robert Callaghan: No. You knew it was unsafe. My daughter is gone because of your arrogance.

Robert Callaghan: You're going to watch every thing you built disappear. Then it's your turn.
Hiro: Professor Callaghan! Let him go. Is this what Abigail would have wanted?
Robert Callaghan: Abigail is gone.
Hiro: This won't change anything. Trust me, I know.
Krei: Listen to the kid Callaghan. Please, let me go. I'll give you anything you want.
Robert Callaghan: I want my daughter back.

Hiro: Our programming prevents us from injuring a human being. But we'll take that.

Hiro: What do you say buddy?
Baymax: Flying makes me a better healthcare companion.

Hiro: I can't lose you too.
Baymax: Hiro, I'll always be with you.

Hiro: We didn't set out to be superheroes. But sometimes life doesn't get the way you planned. The good thing is my brother wanted to help a lot of people. That's what we gonna do.

Plot: All 14 years old Hiro wants is to become a bot fighter, to the despair of his aunt Cass and of his big brother Tadashi. After Tadashi shows Hiro where he works, Hiro soon forgets all about bot fighting and is desperate to work with his brother. When a fire erupts, Hiro turns to Tadashi's last creation for help: a huggable marshmallow looking robot named Baymax.

Trailer:

Review:

After a friend of mine once FORCED me to watch Transformers, I have to say that I am now deeply apprehensive to watch any movie that features robots. Still, I decided to give Big Hero 6 a shot, not really knowing what it was about. In fact, I hadn’t even bothered to watch the trailer.

The first ten minutes were very long for me as I didn’t really like where the story was going –or so I thought. The bot fighting thing was boring to me and I was not ready to watch an hour and forty minutes of this.

Turns out I was wrong about this film and I am very surprised by all the critics and bad reviews. I’m thinking that maybe the advertisement might be a bit off.

Big Hero 6 won’t win the title of best movie of the year, but I loved it. The animation was really good, I loved the strong themed and sub themed (mind you, this movie largely deals with losing a loved one and grief so be prepared if you decide to take a small kid with you). But most of all, I loved the interaction between Hiro and his brother’s robot Baymax. When the movie starts, Hiro does not seem to have friends and is struggling to find his place as an individual. Baymax is quite the opposite. He knows exactly what he has been made for, and has no desire to be anything else than what he was programmed for, even though there is so much more in store for this marshmallow looking robot. I like how Baymax finds his place within the group formed by Hiro, Wasabi, Honey Lemon, Fred and Go Go and I liked seeing how he helps Hiro reach his full potential both as a little genius but more importantly as a human being. I also adored seeing Baymax and Hiro’s friendship grow and blossom.

As a woman it was also refreshing to see female characters that were all smart and funny with a career in their own and whose life didn’t seem to revolve around finding a man, whether it be Cass, Honey Lemon, Go Go or Abigail. So thumps up for this!

In sum, I’d say go watch Big Hero 6 if you just want to be entertained for a while and watch a nice movie about friendship and how it can helps you overcome the most difficult moments in life.

Fifty Shades of Grey

2015-03-10T12:32:00.001-07:00

Directed by: Sam Taylor-Johnson

Memorable quotes:

Kate: You're wearing that?
Anastasia Steele: Okay, maybe a little less talking, more feeding.

Christian Grey: Business is about people, and I've always been good at people.What motivates them, what synthesizes them, what inspires them.
Anastasia Steele: Maybe you're just lucky.
Christian Grey: I've always find that the harder I work, the more work I seem to have. The key to my success has been in identifying talented individuals and harnessing their efforts.
Anastasia Steele: So you're a control freak?
Christian Grey: Oh I exercise control in all things but still.

Anastasia Steele: You're also investing numerous agricultural projects, including several in Africa. Is that something that you feel passionate about? Feeding the world's poor?
Christian Grey: It's a smart business.

Anastasia Steele: I just wonder if perhaps your heart might be a bit bigger than you want to let on.
Christian Grey: There are some people who say that I don't have a heart. At all.
Anastasia Steele: Why'd they say that?
Christian Grey: Because they know me well.

Anastasia Steele: Do you have any interests outside of work?
Christian Grey: I enjoy various physical pursuits.

Christian Grey: Do you have an actual question, miss Steele?
Anastasia Steele: Yeah, sorry. Are you gay? It's written here, I'm just...
Christian Grey: No, Anastasia. I'm not gay.

Anastasia Steele: I don't think I'd fit in here. Look at me.
Christian Grey: I am.

Christian Grey: I hope you got everything you need.
Anastasia Steele: I think you've only answered four questions.

Kate: So, what was he like?
Anastasia Steele: Erm, he was fine.
Kate: Fine? Just fine?
Anastasia Steele: Erm, he was really polite and courteous and very formal. And clean.
Kate: Clean?
Anastasia Steele: I mean, he was very, you know, smart and intense. He was kind of intimidating. I can understand the fascination.
Kate: Ah ha.
Anastasia Steele: Why are you looking at me like that?

Kate: You have to admit he is ridiculously hot.
Anastasia Steele: I'm sure if you are attracted to that sort of human then...
Kate: The hot type of human?

Anastasia Steele: I am terminating this conversation.

Anastasia Steele: Rope, tape, cable tires. You're the complete serial killer.
Christian Grey: Not today.

Christian Grey: You seem nervous.
Anastasia Steele: I find you intimidating.
Christian Grey: You should.

Anastasia Steele: My husband is on husband number four. She is an incurable romantic.
Christian Grey: And you?
Anastasia Steele: Am I romantic? I study English lit so I kind of have to be.

Christian Grey: I'm not the man for you. You should stay clear of me. I have to let you go.

Christian Grey: Anastasia, have you been drinking?
Anastasia Steele: Yes I have, mister fancy pants.

Anastasia Steele: You're so bossy. "Ana let's go for a coffee. Ana let's go for coffee. No stay away from me Ana. I don't want you. Get away. Come here, come here. Go away".

José: Ana.
Anastasia Steele: No...
José: I like you.
Anastasia Steele: You do?
José: Very much.
Anastasia Steele: Oh my God.
José: Please, one kiss.
Anastasia Steele: No, no, no, no José. I'm sorry.

Anastasia Steele: That's your brother?
Christian Grey: Not by choice.

Christian Grey: How are you feeling?
Anastasia Steele: Better than I deserve.

Christian Grey: If you were mine you wouldn't be able to sit down for a week.
Anastasia Steele: What?

Anastasia Steele: Why am I here Christian?
Christian Grey: You're here because I'm incapable of leaving you alone.
Anastasia Steele: Then don't.

Christian Grey: Listen to me, I don't do romance. My tastes are very singular. You wouldn't understand.
Anastasia Steele: Enlighten me then.

Christian Grey: I would like to bit that lip.
Anastasia Steele: I think I'd like that too.
Christian Grey: I'm not gonna touch you. Not until I have a written consent

Anastasia Steele: We just kissed. Once.
Kate: Only once? That's odd.
Anastasia Steele: Odd doesn't even cover it.

Anastasia Steele: Are you gonna make love to me now?
Christian Grey: Two things. First, I don't make love. I fuck hard.
Anastasia Steele: And the second thing?
Christian Grey: Come.

Christian Grey: This is beyond this door.
Anastasia Steele: What is?
Christian Grey: My playroom.
Anastasia Steele: Like your Xbox and stuff?

Anastasia Steele: You're a sadist?
Christian Grey: I am a dominant.
Anastasia Steele: What does that mean?
Christian Grey: It means I want you to willingly surrender yourself to me.
Anastasia Steele: Why? Why would I do it?
Christian Grey: To please me.
Anastasia Steele: To please you? How?
Christian Grey: I have rules. If you follow them I reward you. If you don't, I punish you.

Anastasia Steele: What would I get out of this?
Christian Grey: Me.

Christian Grey: Where have you been?
Anastasia Steele: Waiting.

Christian Grey: If you agree to be my submissive, I'll be devoted to you. This is what I want. This is what I want. I want it with you.

Christian Grey: By giving up control I felt free. From responsibilities, from making decisions. I felt safe, you will too. You'll see.

Anastasia Steele: It was really nice.
Christian Grey: What are you doing to me?

Christian Grey: That's a hell of a sap miss Steele.

Christian Grey: I'd like to fuck you in the middle of next week.
Anastasia Steele: You're not fighting fair.
Christian Grey: I never have.

Christian Grey: Why do I think you're telling me goodbye?
Anastasia Steele: Because I'm leaving.

Christian Grey: The woman that gave birth to me was a crack addict. And a prostitute. She died when I was four. I remember certain things...terrible things. I don't remember her. Sometimes, I think I see her in my dreams.

Anastasia Steele: Where are we going?
Christian Grey: Its' a surprise.
Anastasia Steele: I think I've reached my quota of surprises.

Anastasia Steele: Why won't you let me in.
Christian Grey: Like normal people?
Anastasia Steele: Yeah. Is that so wrong?

Anastasia Steele: Why do you want to punish me?

Christian Grey: Fifty Shades of fucked up.

Anastasia Steele: I'm not what you want.
Christian Grey: No, you're everything that I want.

Anastasia Steele: I have fallen in love with you.
Christian Grey: No, no Ana. You can't love me.

Plot: Anastasia Steele is a naive and overly romantic English literature student whose life is completely turned upside down when she meets the powerful and charismatic Christian Grey...

Trailer:

Review:

Fifty Shades of Twilight

A while ago, my best friend told me how Fifty Shades of Grey was originally a fanfiction based on Twilight and I completely dismissed that fact until I started watching the movie and it hit me in the face. In fact, both movies share a lot of the exact same flaws: While Anastasia cannot seem to pronounce two sentences in a row like Bella did when she first met Edward as though mesmerized by his creepiness or whatever, Christian Grey immediately adopts a patronizing, controlling, manipulating and very stalker-ish attitude towards Bella. No wait, I mean Anastasia. Yuk!

I feel like the advertisement for the movie (and maybe the book too, I couldn’t say) is just all wrong. This is NOT a movie about sadistic/masochistic relationship AT ALL. This isn’t even an erotic movie. If you wish to watch such a film, please leave this page immediately and go watch the brilliant and weirdly mesmerizing Secretary, directed by Steven Shainberg and starring Maggie Gyllenhaal & James Spader , whose character is actually named E. Edward Grey. Wait what?

Fifty Shades of Grey is just a film about an abusive relationship between a very naïve and self-doubting young woman who falls into the grip of an older man who finds pleasure in controlling, hurting, and manipulating every aspect of her life. I guess that’s the only way he can get a boner while poor Anastasia does not actually take much pleasure out of the situation and keeps on hoping they’ll have a “normal relationship”.

As for the characters, Christian Grey may have a pretty face but his character has about zero charisma, which made it even harder for me not to want to slap Anastasia so as to wake her up. But then again, I wonder if she would have stuck by Christian as long as she did had he been poor. (Probably not!) Meanwhile, I was really looking to seeing the beautiful Rachel Skarsten only to find out her part is near nonexistent (well to be fair she does open a door and bring out some food!)

So heads up to Dakota Johnson (Anastasia Steele) and Jamie Dornan (Christian Dornan) who will cash up a huge paycheck just for starring in what probably is the worse movie of the year!

Fifty Shades of Grey's BO (the best bits):

Photos:

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

2015-03-03T11:34:00.001-08:00

Directed by: Francis Lawrence

Hunger Games' memorable quotes:

Katniss: Everdeen: Finnick...
Finnick: I wanted to go back for Peeta and Johanna. But I couldn't move. They have Annie too. They took her. She's...She's in the capitol. I wish she was dead. I wish they were all dead and we were too.

Katniss: I was always told there was nothing left of Thirteen.

Boggs: The war never stopped for us.

Plutarch Heavensbee: There she is. Our girl on fire. Madam President may I present you with the Mockingjay.
Alma Coin: What an honor it is to meet you. You're a courageous young woman. I know how disoriented this must be and I can't imagine what it's like to live through the atrocities of these games.

Alma Coin: Are you aware of what's happened? When you fired your arrow in the force field, you electrified the nation. There have been riots and uprising and strikes in seven districts. We believe that if we keep this energy going we can unify the districts against the capitol. But if we don't, if we let it dissipate, we could be waiting another seventy five years for this opportunity. Everyone in 13 is ready for this.
Katniss: What about Peeta? Is he alive?
Plutarch: I don't know. And I wish I did.

Katniss: You left him there. You left Peeta in that arena to die.
Plutarch: Katniss...there is so many...
Katniss: Peeta was the one who was supposed to live!
Alma Coin: Miss Everdeen, this revolution is about everyone. It's about all of us and we need a voice.
Katniss: Then you should have saved Peeta.

Alma Coin: Maybe you should have rescued the boy instead.
Plutarch Heavensbee: Oh no. Listen to me: No one else can do this but her.
Alma Coin: This is not the girl you described.

Plutarch Heavensbee: Let her see what the capitol did to 12.
Alma Coin: She can't handle it. The games destroyed her.
Plutarch: This is the only choice she has. People don't always show up the way you want them Madam President. But that anger, that anger during defiance, that's what we want and we can redirect it. We need to unite these people out there that were doing nothing but killing each other in the arena for years. We have to have a lightning rod. They'll follow her. She is the face if the revolution. Let her see it. Let her go home.
Alma Coin: Send her.

President Snow: Each district supplies the capitol like blood to a heart. In return, the capitol provides order and security. To refuse work is to put the entire system in danger. The capitol is the beating heart of Panem. Nothing can survive without a heart.

President Snow: All images of the Mockingjay are now forbidden. Possessing them will be considred treason. Punishable by death. Justice shall be served. Order shall be restored. Those who ignore the warnings of history...prepare to pay the ultimate price.

Peeta Mellark: First off, you have to understand that when you're in the game, you only get one wish. It's very costly.
Caesar Flickerman: It costs your life.
Peeta: I think it costs more than life.
Caesar: How do you mean, more than your life?
Peeta: I mean, to murder innocent people. That costs everything that you are.
Caesar: Yes.
So you, you hold onto that wish and that night my wish was to save Katniss. I should have run off with her earlier in the day like she wanted to/
Caesar: You didn't.
Peeta: No.
Caesar: Why? Were you caught up in Beetee's plan?
Peeta: No. I was caught up trying to play allies. And they separated us. That's why I lost her. And then lightning hit and the whole forcefield around the arena blew out.
Caesar: Yes but Peeta, Katniss is the one who blew it, no? You saw the footage.
Peeta: She didn't know what she was doing. Neither of us knew there was a bigger plan going on. We had no idea.
Caesar: You had no idea?
Peeta: No.
Caesar: Well Peeta, there are many who find this suspicious to say the least. It seems as though she was part of a rebel plan.
Peeta: What, do you think it was part of her rebel plan to be almost killed by Johanna? Or part of the plan to be paralysed by lightning? No, we were not part of any rebel plan. We had no idea what was going on.
Caesar: Alright, I believe you Peeta Mellark. Thank you.
Peeta: Yeah.
Caesar: I was going to ask you to speak about the unrest but I think you might be too upset.
Peeta: No, no, I can...
Caesar: Are you sure?
Peeta: Yes, absolutely.
Caesar: Thank you.
Peeta: I want everyone who is watching this to stop and to think about what a civil war could mean. We almost went extinct once before and now our numbers are even fewer. Is that really what we want to do? Kill ourselves off? Killing is not the answer.

Caesar Flickerman: Are you calling for a ceasefire?
Peeta Mellark: Yes, I am.

Katniss: No one hates the capitol more than me. And I wanna help. I just keep thinking... even if we win this war, what happens to Peeta? I mean, I know he is not safe there but he is definitely not safe here.
Primrose Everdeen: I don't think you realize how important you are to them. If you want something, you just have to ask. You could demand almost anything, they'd have to agree.
Katniss: I should wake you up more often little duck.

Katniss: Thank you for agreeing to meet with me. I have decided I'll be Mockingjay, But I have some conditions. Peeta and the other tributes Johanna Mason and Annie Cresta will be rescued at the earliest opportunity. If and when Peeta is liberated he will receive a full and unconditional pardon. No punishment will be inflected and the same goes for the other tributes.
Alma Coin: No.
Katniss: It's not their fault you abandoned them in the arena. They're doing and saying what they can to survive.
Alma Coin: Individuals don't make demands in 13. There will be a tribunal and a fair judgement. Thank you.
Katniss: The victors will be granted immunity and you will announce that in front of the entire population of 13. You will hold yourself and your government responsible or you'll find another Mockingjay.
Plutarch Heavensbee: That's it. That's her. Right there. Isn't that what I promised you? When she wears the costume, gun fires in the background, smoke...our mockingjay. Madam President we're losing ground because people are losing heart. This is worth the risk. She is worth the risk.

Alma Coin: Do you have any other conditions?
Katniss: My sister gets to keep her cat.

Plutarch: Anyone can be replaced.

Plutarch: May I speak freely?
Alma Coin: You don't appear to do anything else.

Katniss: Effie, what are you doing here?
Effie Trinket: Political refugee.
Katniss: Plutarch rescued you?
Effie: Rescued, is that how he calls it?

Effie Trinket: You know everything else can be made new again, like democracy.

Effie: Everyone's either gonna want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.

Haymitch Abernathy: That my friends is how a revolution dies. Hello Katniss, is that how you greet an old friend?
Katniss: Maybe I don't recognize you sober.
Haymitch: I guess it looks as bad as it feels.

Haymitch: You know I like you better Effie without all that make up.
Effie: I like you better sober.

Haymitch: What do all these have in common?
Gale Hawthorne: No one told her what do do.
Beetee: Unscripted yes. So maybe you should all leave her alone.

Haymitch: You want a symbol for the revolution? She cannot be coached into it. Trust me, I know.

Katniss: I wanna go.
Alma Coin: And if you're killed?
Katniss: Make sure you get it on camera.

Cressida: We all fled on our own. For this. For you.

Katniss: Don't film me in there. I can't help them.
Cressida: Just let them see your face.

District 8 patient #1: Katniss Everdeen?! What are you doing here?
Katniss: I came to see you.
District 8 patient #2: What about the baby?
Katniss: I lost it.
District 8 patient #3: You fight Katniss? You're here to fight with us?
Katniss: I am. I will.

Cressida: Katniss...Katniss... can you tell everyone what you're seeing right now? Katniss, what do you want to say?
Katniss: I want the rebels to know that I'm alive, that I'm in district 8 where the capital just bombed an hospital filled with unarmed men, women, and children and there will be no survivors. If you think for a second that the capital will ever treat us fairly, you are lying to yourselves because we know who they are and what they do. (Katniss points at the hospital in flames) This is what they do and we must fight back. I have a message for president snow. You can torture us and bomb us and burn our districts to the ground but do you see that? Fire is catching. And if we burn, you burn with us.

Alma Coin: Plutarch's faith in you wasn't misplaced.
Katniss: Thank you.

Alma Coin: There is no progress without compromise. No victory without sacrifice. But I stand here with the mockingjay to announce that our moment has arrived.

Alma Coin: Together we will become an alliance to be reckon with.

Finnick Odair: The more people on our side the closer we are to Peeta and Annie.
Caesar Flickerman: You must love her very much to be able to forgive her. I don't think that I could. Unless of course Peeta you think that perhaps she is being forced into saying things that she doesn't understand?

Peeta: Don't be a fool Katniss. I know you never wanted the rebellion. The things you did in the games were never intended to start all of this. The rebels have made you into something that you're not. Something that could destroy all of us. So if you have any power or any say on what they do or how they use you, please, please urge them to stop this war before it's too late. And ask yourself: Can you trust the people you're working with? Do you know what you really want?

Katniss: That is the same Peeta that defended you at the whipping pole.
Gale: No, it's not. Now he's defending himself.

Katniss: When did "we" become you and Coin?

Cressida: You have saved so many people Gale. Without you they'd be no district 12, not even the memory of it.

Gale: This is where you kissed me.
Katniss: I didn't think you remembered that.
Gale: I'd have to be dead to forget that.

Katniss: You went back for the cat? What where you thinking?
Prim: I wasn't gonna leave him behind, I couldn't leave with myself.

Katniss: Snow is using Annie to punish you. He's taunting us with them. I didn't understand until now watching that stupid cat.

Finnick: After your first game I thought the whole romance was an act. We all expected you to continue that strategy but it wasn't until Peeta's heart stopped and he nearly died that I knew I misjudged you. You love him. I'm not saying in what way, maybe you don't even know yourself. Anyone paying attention can see it.

Katniss: I can't be the mockingjay.
Haymitch Abernathy: You're not the mocking, just Katniss.

Katniss: I never asked for this. I never asked to be in the games. I never asked to be the mockingjay. I just wanted to save my sister. And then keep Peeta alive.

President Snow: Miss Everdeen, you couldn't run from this any more than you could have run from the games.

President Snow: Miss Everdeen, it's the things we love most that destroy us.

Haymitch: They turned him into a weapon Katniss. To kill you.

President Alma Coin: Today we freed the victors. Tomorrow: Panem!

Plot: Time has passed since Katniss threw her arrow into the forcefield, causing everything to explode and causing an uproar throughout the district. Now in district 13, Katniss must decide whether or not to embrace being the mockingjay, even if this means putting Peeta's life at risk.

The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1 Official trailer:

Review:

Out of all The Hunger Games series, the final book of The Hunger Games novels is probably the darkest one. While Mockingjay doesn’t take place in an arena like the others did, it is an action packed, character driven novel that ends the series after much tribulation. So I was a little bit surprised when I first heard that the movie adaptation would be divided in two parts. While I of course understand that means more money for the studio, I do believe it was still a risky endeavour and I’m afraid my fear has been confirmed. I found myself bored at times and I was ended up feeling very disappointed. Nothing really happens throughout the movie and this is obvious that this was a filler movie warming up for the very last part that is coming up. While The Hunger Games cast is as usual very good, this time I was kind of tired of their acting in a sense where nothing surprised me at all. Now, I did read the books before so of course I know what is to happen in the movies, but still I found the acting to be overdone at times and not as convincing as in the other sequels.

I will still admit that the physical transformation of Johanna Mason, Peeta Mellark and of Natalie Dormer who we know best as a very feminine character in Game of Thrones was very impressive. Yet I simply failed to be convinced by the acting or maybe I got used to it, who knows.

On another note while Julianne Moore is one of my favorite actresses, I am highly sceptical of the casting decision to have her play President Alma Coin. I deeply disliked that character in the book, yet Julianne Moore made her very likeable at this point, which might have been a strategy to surprise the viewers in Part 2 but I think it will still be hard for me to completely hate her like I did in Suzanne Collins’ last book.

In sum, The Hunger Games Mockingjay: Part 1 was a let down (apart from the soundtrack that is) so let’s hope Part 2 will be much better as it would be a shame to end the movies on such a bad note.

Check out a few songs from the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 BO!

The Interview

2015-01-11T15:52:00.000-08:00

Directed by: Evan Goldberg & Seth Rogen

Memorable quotes:

News Anchor: We are living in the midst of a modern day Hitler.

Dave Skylark: (reading lyrics from Eminem's song) "Yesterday, I yelled a degrading insult at an elderly lady. Then I asker her how it would feel to be eighty, F word senior citizen. Suck a wiener, sit and spin. And why you drive so slow? Don't you want to get where you're going faster since you'll probably die tomorrow, you old whore? Die, old bitch, die, before I murder you." What do you mean by this Em?
Eminem: Well, first of all, I feel like when I rap, like, people twist my words.
Dave Skylark: Okay, but can you see how an old person might say:" I think what this guy is telling me, this Eminem, is that I should go kill myself and I know I don't like that."
Eminem: I mean, I don't necessarily rap about the things that I hate, it's more about the things that I fear.
Dave: I get you.
Eminem: You know, it's like if I say something about women or whatever, I think a lot of that is more or less me dealing with issues with, you know, old issues with my mom or whatever.
Dave: With your mother.
Eminem: Yeah, or you know, when I say things about gay people and people thinks my lyrics are homophobic you know, it's because I'm gay.

Dave Skylark: Em, let's just back it up for a moment. You just said that you were gay? And I'm just curious what you meant by that exactly...
Eminem: I mean I'm gay.
Dave: I'm just a little confused here because gay can mean a lot of things.
Eminem: I am an homosexual.
Dave: Meaning...
Eminem: I like men.

Malcolm: What the fuck just happened?
Aaron Rapaport: Eminem said he was gay... Four times! That's what the fuck just happened!
Malcolm: Holy shit.
Aaron Rapaport: Holy shit, Eminem's gay on our show!

Dave Skylark: It's like Spike Lee just said "I'm white"!

Dave Skylark: You are the Gandalf to my Bilbo Baggins!

Aaron Rapaport: She said we couldn't ask any of our own questions, they were gonna write all the questions. We can't do it. We're essentially letting him interview himself with your mouth!
Dave Skylark: Look, Look at this butt fuck. He's got a whole parade of nukes, he is ready to use them. When you score a Ben Laden, or a Hitler, or a Un, you take it by the balls. It's the first rule of journalism. You give the people what they want.
Aaron Rapaport: That's not the first rule of journalism. I think that's the first rule if circuses and demolition derbies.

Dave Skylark: This is like eating your vegetables. Once you eat those, you get to eat the steak.

Dave Skylark: They hate us cause they ain us.
Aaron Rapaport: They hate us cause they anus? The fuck does an anus have to do with this?
Dave Skylark: They hate us cause they ain'T us.
Aaron Rapaport: That's not what it is.
Dave Skylark: Yes it is!
Aaron Rapaport: No, it's not. They hate us cause we is us and what we is doing is fucking terrible.
Dave Skylark: They fucking hate us cause they ain us.
Aaron Rapaport: Stop saying that.

Dave Skylark: Haters gonna hate.

Agent Lacey: The CIA would love it if you could take him out.
Dave Skylark: Huh?
Agent Lacey: Take him out...
Dave Skylark: Take him out?
Aaron Rapaport: What for drinks?
Agent Lacey: No, no, no. Take him out.
Dave Skylark: Tale out like to dinner?
Aaron Rapaport: Take out for a meal?
Agent Lacey: Take him out!
Aaron Rapaport: To the town?
Dave Skylark: Party?
Agent Lacey: Take him out.
Aaron Rapaport: You want us to assassinate the leader of North Korea?
Agent Lacey: Yes.
Dave Skylark: Whaaaaaat?
Aaron Rapaport: If we kill him, won't there be another chubby dude with a goofy hairdo to come in and replace him?

Dave Skylark: I think we need to do this. She is so cool!
Aaron Rapaport: You don't see what's happening and it's obvious it's crazy.

Aaron Rapaport: It's an attractive spy woman who lures men into doing shit they're not supposed to do.

Agent Lacey: It's very offensive cause basically if you think about what you're saying to me, you're saying because I'm a girl and because I'm attractive my only use for this agency would be to manipulate men?
Dave Skylark: I think it's offensive too, and that's exactly what I said to Aaron. I said "that bitch is blind as a bat".
Agent Lacey: Can we please move on? We have a dictator to kill.

Agent Lacey: Kim Jong-un is a master manipulator. His people revere him as a God. Anything he tells them, including that he can speak to dolphins or doesn't urinate and defecate.
Dave Skylark: Wow wow wow, you're telling me my man doesn't pee and poop?
Agent Lacey: I'm telling you he does and he lies to his people and they believe him!

Dave Skylark: But he does talk to dolphins?

Aaron Rapaport: What the fuck is this?
Dave Skylark: It's my bag!
Aaron Rapaport: Wonderful, it's just not the bag the CIA gave you!
Dave Skylark: That bag?
Aaron Rapaport: Yes, that bag!
Dave Skylark: That bag was Fugly with a capital FUG!
Aaron Rapaport: It was also designed to conceal fucking poison that we're gonna smuggle into a foreign country.
Dave Skylark: Kim is a super fan! He knows I take fashion risks.

Dave Skylark: Kim is gonna be like: "Oh no, you got ugly bag. You no Skylark, you secret agent. Terminated."

Dave Skylark: We are different people. We speak different languages, huh? We have different faces. But inside, we are same same. Same same, but different.

Dave Skylark: You know, I'm very very interested in the history of your young nation. I hear that absolutely everyone is starving to death.

Sook: We have many fat children in North Korea. The supreme leader believes that it is a mark of prosperity and self-sufficiency.

Dave Skylark: I heard that he doesn't pee or poop.
Sook: He works so hard he burns the energy from inside.
Dave Skylark: You're telling me my man doesn't have to take a poop. Does he have a butthole?
Sook: He does not have a butthole. He has no need for one.

Guard: This gum has no flavor.
Dave Skylark: If you don't like it just spit it out.
Aaron Rapaport: Spit it out, we wouldn't be insulted if you just split it out!
Guard: Your gums taste like shit.

Dave Skylark: I will love your mother like she was my mother.
Aaron Rapaport: Shut up!

Dave Skylark: It's really scary out there.
Aaron Rapaport: Yeah, super duper scary.

Aaron Rapaport: Guys, I'm very unhappy right now.
Dave Skylark: Look, it's really dark out there, he probably doesn't see you.
Aaron Rapaport: Oh it fucking sees me.
Agent Lacey: It has night vision.
Aaron Rapaport: They have night vision?
Dave Skylark: The tiger has night vision goggles?
Agent Lacey: It doesn't have night vision goggles, it just naturally has night...Listen, just keep the line clear.

Dave Skylark: I didn't want it to come to this but you're gonna have to fight that tiger.
Agent Lacey: Do not, do not fight the tiger!
Dave Skylark: Do not be a gentleman. You go right to the fucking balls!
Aaron Rapaport: I don't see his balls!

Dave Skylark: Are you in the tiger? Advert, are you inside the tiger?

Agent Lacey: We don't have a better plan. You're going to have to stick it in your ass.
Aaron Rapaport: No, no, no. I've never done that.
Dave Skylark: I've been there before. It looks huge. That tiger blood will lubricate it.
Aaron Rapaport: This will mess up my asshole.

Dvae Skylark: You got fucked by Robocop dude!

Kim Jong-Un: I might not show it but I'm freaking out.

Kim Jong-Un: It was my gift to my grandfather from Staline.
David Skylark: In my country it's pronounced Stalone.
Kim Jong-Un: You're so funny Dave.

Kim Jong-Un: You know Dave, sometimes I feel like a plastic bag.
David Skylark: Drifting to the wind.
Kim Jong-Un: Wanting to start again.

Dave Skylark: Liking Katy Perry and drinking margaritas is gay? Who wants to be straight?!
Kim Jong-Un: Not me!
Dave Skylark: Boring!

Dave Skylark: Oh man, this is great. Can we fire the gun?
Kim Jong-Un: Do you think I tease you and not take you all the way?
Dave Skylark: Really?
Kim Jong-Un: Close this shit.

Sook: I have watched every episode in preparation for this interview.
Aaron Rapaport: Wow.
Sook: I particularly enjoyed the Miley Cyrus camel toe episode.
Aaron Rapaport: Oh the camel toe episode. That was good.
Sook: I never heard this expression before. But after seeing it, it is a perfect representation of her vagina.
Aaron Rapaport: It is. It looks exactly like that, yeah.
Sook: Very deep.
Aaron Rapaport: Very deep, yes. She has quite the moose knuckles.
Sook: You Americans are so creative with you sexual innuendos.
Aaron Rapaport: We're doing very well.

Kim Jong-Un: I've got a butthole and it's working overtime.

Dave Skylark: You are so awesome! You know, this is so weird. You are like the coolest guy. But a lot of people say that you're bad shit crazy.
Kim Jong-Un: They're not wrong. I'm 31 years old. The fact that I'm running a country is bad shit crazy.

Kim Jong-Un: What am I to do when 24 million people look to me as their leader, their God? What am I to do when my father's dying wish was for me to carry his torch?

Dave Skylark: Wow. You wanna know what my father said to me on his deathbed?
Kim Jong-Un: What did he say?
Dave Skylark: "I'm disappointed because you haven't done enough with your life."
Kim Jong-Un: That is fuck up!
Dave Skylark: Tell me about it!

Aaron Rapaport: Dude, you just spent the fucking day with Kim Jong-Un, what happened?
Dave Skylark: Wow. It was amazing.
Aaron Rapaport: It was amazing?
Dave Skylark: Yeah, I think it was one of the best days of my life.
Aaron Rapaport:We smoked joints, played basketball, fucked chicks. We had the best margaritas.

Dave Skylark: OMG, Kim Jong is an animal!
Aaron Rapaport: You know you have to kill this fucking guy tomorrow, right?
Dave Skylark: I've been thinking a little bit, about the mission...
Aaron Rapaport: Okay...
Dave Skylark: America, you know... always putting their nose in things. Screwing things up.
Aaron Rapaport: The truth is, Kim is a mater at manipulating the media...
Dave Skylark: Yeah?
Aaron Rapaport: You're the media. You get what's happening here?
Dave Skylark: Maybe the media is manipulating you.
Aaron Rapaport: The media is manipulating... What the fuck does that even mean?

Dave Skylark: I'm the only one who've spent real time with him, alright? I've spend face to face time; Dick to dick.

Dave Skylark: Kim is not evil. He was just born into a hard situation.
Aaron Rapaport: You are fucking stupid and you are fucking ignorant Dave.

Aaron Rapaport: Everything he showed you is fake. He show you what you want to see. He's fooled you, you fucking ignorant!

Dave Skylark: Don't shake that hand!
Kim Jong-Un: Why not?
Aaron Rapaport: Yeah, why not?
Dave Skylark: Because Aaron is a jew!

Dave Skylark: Friends don't kill friends' friends.

Sook: You're hairy. You're so hairy like a bear!
Aaron Rapaport: You're fucking sexy.
Sook: Your nipples are so pink.
Aaron Rapaport: Yes, they are.

Aaron Rapaport: Use your big fat American teeth!

Sook: I am a terrible person.
Aaron Rapaport: No you're not. You're the best person. You were about to have sex with me, that's the best thing someone could do.
Sook: I'm the propaganda of a totalitarian dictatorship.

Sook: He is as cruel as his father and grandfather before him.

Sook: Too many people see him as a God. How do you prove to 24 million people that their God is a murderer and a liar?

Dave Skylark: He fucking honey dipped me! He honey dipped the shit out of me!
Aaron Rapaport: Sucks.

Dave Skylark: Kim must die! That's the American way.

Sook: The people need to be shown that he is not a God. That he is a man. Then they will be ready for change!

Sook: How many times can the US make the same mistake?
Dave Skylark: As many times as it takes.

Dave Skylark: Maybe we won't get out of here.
Aaron Rapaport: No, we might die.
Dave Skylark: I've had a great life. I've had the best best friend; Fucked more women than Ellen Degeneres.

Dave Skylark: The dog is killing me with cuteness.

Dave Skylark: Can I keep it?
Kim Jong-Un: Take it home forever and ever.
Dave Skylark: Why?
Kim Jong-Un: I live a lonely life Dave. And it warms my heart to know that there is someone in this world with whom I can truly be myself.
Dave Skylark: Whatever they say about you... they're wrong.
Kim Jong-Un: I'm just me and I do my best.
Dave Skylark: You're my brother.

Dave Skylark: In these times of great stress, do you do karaoke?

Dave Skylark: So, when you think of all your country' been through, the wars, the floods, do you think that your people should be rewarded for their resilience?
Kim Jong-Un: Of course Dave.
Dave Skylark: Then why don't you feed them?

Dave Skylark: Your father deprived you of life simplest pleasure. He told you that margaritas were gay.
Kim Jong-Un: I have no comment on margaritas?
Dave Skylark: Then why don't you drink them?

Kim Jong-Un: I don't like brain freeze. Fuck you Dave, you fucking asshole.

Sook: Let's get the fuck out of here!

Dave Skylark: No friend would blow up another friend's country. You're just a flawed man with a big old butthole and you pee and poop like the rest of us.

Dave Skylark: Protect that puppy with your life.

Dave Skylark: Bye Sook, have fun with the war.

Dave Skylark: Guess you're going to America where they don't eat doggies.

Aaron Rapaport: Guess what we named him? Kim Jong-Un.
Sook: It's a little fucked up, no?
Aaron Rapaport: Super fucked up but he is cute though!

Plot: Upon learning that North Korea leader is an avid of their show "Skylark Tonight", producer Aaron Rapaport and his sidekick Dave Skylark land an interview with the infamous dictator. This doesn't go unnoticed by the CIA and they are soon recruited to kill Kim Jong-un...

Trailer:

Review:

When I first heard of all the controversy and chaos surrounding The Interview, my first thought was that the film must be really bad if it needed that big of a publicity stunt! This is also what made me hesitate a lot before finally watching this.
Turns out, The Interview is one big mess, but an enjoyable one.

It probably took me about 30 minutes to get past James Franco acting, which I struggle a lot with. He is far from being an actor that I like, notably because his acting is so over the top it seems fake. Yet considering the absurd tone of the movie, it does fit in this specific case.

And while most of the jokes are really stupid, some of them make me really crack up and I do enjoy how this movie is making fun of absolutely everyone and everything. It is actually far from being as one sided as I thought it would be.

Despite all the madness that is this film, they actually do tackle some real political issues with a character asking when America will learn and stop repeating the same mistakes when it comes to launching a war and killing a leader that will only be replaced by someone very similar. Another character also confronts the Supreme leader of North Korea and bluntly ask why he is starving his population.

Finally, I’d say that the chemistry between James Franco and Seth Rogen contributes to make this film watchable, and I also loved seeing Lizzy Capplan. Diana Bang is a revelation and was just super funny and enjoyable to watch.

In sum I’d say that yes, this film is one big mess and it won’t make it in history as one of the best movies of our time…or of any time for that matter. Yet it remains strangely enjoyable and it did manage to make me laugh.

Men, Women & Children

2015-01-02T11:46:00.000-08:00

Directed by: Jason Reitman

Memorable quotes:

Narrator: Don gave a brief thought to masturbating only using his imagination but the sheer quality and variety of the internet had left his brain an inferior substitute.

Hannah Clint: You are seriously skinny this year.
Allison Doss: Thanks. I went on this super diet all summer.

Hannah: I tried not eating one summer but my bobbies dropped one size so I quit. I can't be having that.

Hannah: It's a new era for women, okay? Just because I am comfortable with my body and enjoy hooking up doesn't make me a slut.

Allison: Oh my God, was it gross?
Hannah: No. It wasn't that bad. It was kinda salty I guess.
Allison: You let him like, you know, finish in your mouth?
Brunette friend: Allison!
Hannah: Uh, yeah. How else would I know it was salty?
Brunette friend: Why would you even have to take a photo?
Hannah: I need to know what my audience is seeing. Anyway, I'm just saying, it's like a natural progression. And if you don't sleep with somebody soon you're gonna be completely retarded in bed when you're a junior and it counts.

Brandy Beltmeyer: Yeah, I'd really hate to get any more compliments, mom, it could really do a lot of damage.

Helen Truby: What kind of mother abandons her family... for California?

Narrator: Football served as a common language for which they had no substitute.

Narrator: Hannah knew that her future would include a larger house with a swimming pool in Los Angeles, an expensive car with tinted windows to prevent paparazzi from taking photographs as she went shopping. And an attractive boyfriend who would be famous but perhaps not quite as famous as her. She mentioned all if this in her essay.

Brandy: Why...why did you quit?
Tim Mooney: I just realized it didn't matter.
Brandy: Just like that?
Tim: Do you know "Pale Blue Dot" by Carl Sagan?
Brandy: Er, I've heard of Carl Sagan.
Tim: It's about how we're just made up of billions of molecules, like the same molecules that have been around since the big bang and they'll be around til eventually the universe crunches into nothing. I find that comforting.
Brandy: Okay.
Tim: The actions of like Hitler, Gandhi, Jesus Christ mean absolutely nothing and it's no big deal if I don't play football.

Narrator: There were many other things that Tim wished to share with Brandy, most notably that his mother had left him and his father for California at the beginning of summer and had kept in touch mainly through facebook. But he resisted. While he knew cosmically that nothing mattered, he also realized that something about talking to Brandy did matter, at least to him and this was enough.

Narrator: Allison Doss had developed a crush on Brandon Lender in 7th grade. It had been her greatest hope that he would be her first kiss. Brandon remained the object of Allison affection despite having once said within earshot "I'd fuck her if I could find the hole".

Patricia Beltmeyer: A couple in China played Guild Wars so much they neglected their baby and it died of dehydration.
Kent Mooney: I'm sure that's an extreme example, no?
Patricia: I can show you how to uninstall the game.
Kent: No, I was really just looking to see if you knew what the game was like.
Patricia: I do know what's it like Kent. It's a virtual world. Your son had created an avatar of himself. An avatar is an icon or a representation.
Kent: I know what it is.
Patricia: Then you know that an avatar is often demoniac or evil looking? When he is plugged in, your son thinks that the world, the world of Guild War, is the real world. Our world doesn't matter anymore. His friends don't matter. School don't matter. You don't matter.

Donna Clint: All I know is you don't matter.
Kent: I don't matter?
Donna: You don't matter. Your truck doesn't matter. Your son doesn't matter. And that is why I have installed a camera in my daughter's brain and a seven digit pin code on her vagina. If you'd like, I can show you how to do it.

Tim: Is she watching us right now?
Brandy: No, she just tracks me online.
Tim: Seems like a psycho.

Male friend: He is a bog old bitch if you ask me.
Allison: Your brother or Brandon?
Male friend: They're both bitches.

Allison: Wait, erm...should we... like...
Brandon: Oh yeah so, the first time, it's gonna hurt a little bit but it's just something you're gonna have to do to get it over with, you know what I'm saying?

Brandon: Okay, look, we can stop if you want. But eventually you're gonna have to do it. I'm not like a rapist.

Patricia: But take your phone honey, so I can track you.

Donna: I slept with guys for less.

Escort: Oh wow, you have such a huge dick.

Narrator: Don presumed his penis to be of an average size. If his dick had in fact been huge, he would probably have heard about it at this point.

Helen Truby: I want you to destroy me with your fucking cock.

Don: Do you think maybe we could just lie in the bed together and maybe put your head on my chest?

Shrink: Do you have friends IRL?
Tim: Erm, no. I used to have a lot but once I stopped playing football I sort of lost most of them. There is a girl though...
Shrink: Nice. Is she IRL?
Tim: Erm yeah. She is pretty cool.

Hannah: I am pretty sure you're like a weird guy who has some serious sexual issues and I'm just not into dealing with it.

Hannah: You have to put it back up.
Donna: I can't.
Hannah: Yes, you can. Push the fucking button.

Donna: I've allowed you a certain flexibility but right now, I have to be your mom.
Hannah: You're being a selfish bitch.
Donna: It's gone. I deleted it.

Patricia: I wouldn't bother, I changed your passwords.
Brandy: What? What is wrong with you?
Patricia: You don't seem to understand how dangerous it is out here.
Brandy: The only thing that's dangerous in this house mom is you!
Patricia: I'm protecting you.
Brandy: From what? Having a normal life?

Brandy: You're really beautiful, you know that?

Narrator: Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan: "That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, every one you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. Every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child. Every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived here on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
How frequent their misunderstandings, how fervent their hatreds. Our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

Plot: In a society where everybody is connected to the internet, Men, Women & Children explores how internet has deeply affected our daily lives and especially our interactions with one another.

Trailer:

Review:

Men, Women & Children is an interesting movie that uses its protagonists to explore how today omnipresent technology is meddling in people’s life.
I’m not sure whether or not I’d watch this movie again, but I’d definitely recommend to watch this at least once.

Technically, none of what the characters are going through is new, and none of their issues is directly caused by technology and more specifically internet. Internet simply changes/modifies how people deal with those issues and this is what the movie is about.

We therefore have Don Truby and Helen Truby played respectively by Adam Sandler and Rosemarie DeWitt, a married couple whose marriage is not what it used to be. The couple is simply bored with one another, stuck in a routine that they cannot seem to escape…until they both use internet to spice up their life through hiring an escort and finding people looking for sex. What I particularly enjoyed with their story was how it was revealed that Don Truby wasn’t missing sex as much as the intimacy and complicity of a partner, which is not something that he was going to find online. Their son Chris, on the other hand, is the victim of false sexual representations largely spread through internet and finds himself unable to adjust to what sex really is.

Jennifer Garner’s character was probably the most despicable one. Her character embodies the fear of the unknown that is the World Wide Web and she spends most of her time trying to control and stop something that is bigger than herself. She therefore becomes controlling and paranoid, destroying lives at the same time.

Her daughter Brandy and her new love interest Tim Mooney played by Ansel Elgort are like modern times Romeo and Juliette and are extremely touching in their portrayal of two teenagers seeking comfort and understanding in each other.

Tim Mooney was probably my favorite character and I feel like many teenagers and adults will easily empathize with his character. Tim is trying to cope with a feeling of abandonment and develops an addiction in trying to escape the real world. This is nothing new and internet only provides yet another type of addiction through an online virtual game, which only wider the gap between his father and him.

Then there is Donna (Judy Greer) and Hannah Clint (Olivia Crocicchia), a mother who spends her time wishing her daughter was famous, going as far as posting indecent pictures of her youngster on the internet. She uses internet as a mean to reach her goal, only to realize that this is also what fails her as internet is accessible to everyone and anyone.

Finally, the story also follows the teenager Allison Doss who suffers from anorexia and self-esteem issues who misuses internet to comfort her in her anorexia.

Men, Women & Children therefore presents a wide variety of ordinary yet fascinating human beings, with their story partly told through an ominous narrator voiced by the fantastic Emma Thompson that I personally thoroughly enjoyed.

Penguins of Madagascar

2014-12-29T15:38:00.002-08:00

Directed by: Eric Darnell & Simon J. Smith

Memorable quotes:

Narrator: Antarctica; An inhospitable wasteland but even here, on the earth frozen bottom, you find life. And not just any life: penguins. Joyous, frolicking, wiggling, cute and cuddly life.

Skipper: Seriously, does anyone even know where we're marching to?
Penguin n°1: Who cares?
Penguin n°2: I question nothing!
Penguin n°3: Me too!
Penguin n°4: Me too!

Skipper: I like it! Hey, this could be our thing! Let's call it 'the high one'.

Skipper: Hey, everybody seen that? That's an egg! Someone gonna go get it?
Random penguin: We can't do that.
Skipper: Why not?
Second random penguin: Well, it's a dangerous world out there and we're just penguins! You know, nothing but cute and cuddly.
Third random penguin: Yeah, why do you think there are all these documentary crews filming us?
Fourth random penguin: Well sorry kids. You know, we lose a few eggs every year. It's just nature.

Skipper: Oh right, nature. I guess it makes sense but something, something deep down in my gut tells me that it makes no sense at all. You know what? I reject nature!

Kowalski: The old ship! No one has ever returned from there alive.

Skipper: Oh, leopard seals.Nature's snakes.
Kowalski: Aren't snakes nature's snakes?
Skipper: How should I know? I live in the flipping frozen tundra!

Kowalski: I'd recommend firing it now!
Skipper: Hold on!
Kowalski: We really should fire it.
Skipper: Not til we see the white of its eyes.
Kowalski: They're mostly pupils, very little white, almost none.
Skipper: They gotta have a little bit of white, right?
Kowalski: None whatsoever.
Skipper: What if they look very far to the left?

Skipper: Kowalski, analysis?
Kowalski: We are really good at this.

Private: Hello, are you my family?
Kowalski: You don't have a family and we're all going to die, sorry.

Skipper: Where did Private go?
Kowalski: Oh there he is. D3.
Skipper: Oh, Private! How much is he?
Kowalski: He is 3 dollars and 50 cents, sir.
Skipper: That's outrageous!

Kowalski: Sir, the machine is alive!

Skipper: I don't like you attitude, vending machine. Or your prices! Release them!

Skipper: Kowalski, analysis!
Kowalski: All evidence indicates... I ate too many cheezy dibbles!

Skipper: Rico, bust us out of this delicious prison!

Private: It sounds awful.
Dave: Oh, it was. I came to realize some creatures are born to get all the love. The rest of us get nothing! The only thing that has kept me going all these years is my burning fearful revenge and my precious souvenirs snow globes collection.

Skipper: You can't blame us for what happened to you.
Dave: Uh, can! That's how this whole revenge thing works. And with this, I finally have the power to destroy you.

Dave: Nicolas, cage them!

Skipper: Kowalski, remember our little talk about true but unhelpful comments?
Kowalski: Yes, sir.
Skipper: Sometimes, we just have to wing it.

Skipper: Private, dibble me.

Classified: My name is classified.
Skipper: Classified, eh? What is that, Dutch? Can't really hear the accent.
Classified: Excuse me?
Skipper: There is the accent!
Classified: My name isn't classified. My name is classified because I am the leader of this great team.

Skipper: Rico, he is our demolishing expert. He destroyed that chair, for the sheer fun of it. No reason at all. And then there is Private. He is erm...he is sort of our secretary/mascot. Cute.
Corporal: And cuddly!

Skipper: We were never mates. There was no mating.

Classified: We are going to save those helpless penguins because we are the North Wind and no one, no one, breaks the wind!

Skipper: Right now, I need a tail on that tooch and the cutest smile you've got.

Skipper: You just mermaid my day.

Skipper: But can you fly it man?
Kowalski: There is only one way to find out.

Kowalski: No, I still can't read.

Eva: Gentlemen, there is only one way to resolve this.
Kowalski: We should kiss.
Eva: Plan off.
Kowalski: Yeah, plan off. That's what I was gonna say.

Skipper: With Private freshly liberated we celebrate with a well earned high one!

Classified: David the octopus, show me your tentacles! All of them.

Classified: Does anybody speak octopus?

Classified: You free us, we give you fishes.

Dave: I'm happy and yet now that I have my revenge I feel empty as if what I needed all along was more revenge! In fact, Robin writes this down, tomorrow we move on to kittens, then puppies, pandas...

Skipper: I hope you find happiness Dave.

Plot: When penguins start to disappear all the zoos of the world, Skipper, Rico, Kowalski and Private discover that the infamous Dave the octopus is behind it all and they must do everything in their power to stop him.

Trailer:

Review:

Upon watching the trailer, I truly thought Penguins of Madagascar would be extremely funny. I loved them in the Madagascar movies, so I thought there was no way this film could go wrong... My mistake!
Yes, the penguins are cute and cuddly and there are a few jokes that I did really like, and I also enjoyed hearing a few familiars voices such as John Malkovich and Benedicte Cumberbatch's.
Apart from that, I found myself looking at my watch, hoping the movie would end soon. When I started losing interest I believe I wasn't even halfway through...
The plot/dialogues/script was pretty weak and as an adult it was really hard for me to just remain seated throughout the film.
Now, I do believe that young children should enjoy that film, if only for the cute animals on screen. As an adult however, that's a whole different story...

Still Alice

2014-12-21T11:38:00.000-08:00

Directed by: Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland

Memorable quotes:

Alice: Lydia, don't you think it's time to reconsider things? You're so smart. There is so much more you could be doing with your life.

Lydia: Like going to college?

Alice: Yes, yes, like college.

Lydia: Yeah, like we never talked about that before. Every single day of my life. I figured what I wanted to do with my life and I'm doing it. It's a good thing.

Alice: Your sister and I have developed some obsession with words with friends.

Lydia: It's cute.

Alice: You don't want to play with her. She is a demon.

Lydia: I'm not surprised.

John Howland: Well, then I think it's ridiculous. It's complete bullshit. You don't have alzeihmer.

Alice: God damn, it, why won't you take me seriously? I know what I'm feeling and it feels like my brain is fucking dying and everything I worked for in my entire life is going.

John Howland: Whatever happens, I'm here.

Alice: Can anyone tell me what it says on the syllabus for today?

Student: Phonology.

Alice: Can anyone tell me what phonology is?

Eric Wellman: Is everything alright between you and John?

Alice: Yes, everything is fine with John.

Eric: Is it something we can help with? Stress, depression...

Alice: No, no, no...

Eric: Substance abuse?

Alice: Oh no God. Eric, it's nothing like that. It's medical. It's a medical condition and I admit I had a hard time teaching last semester and I wasn't aware how much it showed.

Eric: Alice, I'm not following.

Alice: I have mild cognitive impairment.

Eric: Can you explain that for me?

Alice: In February I was diagnosed with early onset Alzeihmer disease.

John: You completely blew up dinner plans. Susan Curby and her husband?
Alice: I'm sorry I forgot, I have Alzeihmer's.

John: Why don't you wear a fanny pack? Is it really that inhibiting?
Alice: Yes.

John: We have to keep the important things in our lives going. We have to try or we're going to go crazy.

Alice: I wish I had cancer.
John: Don't say that.
Alice: I do. I mean it. I mean, I wouldn't feel so ashamed. When people have cancer, they wear pink ribbons for you, go on walk, raise money. You don't have to feel so... I can't remember the word.

Alice (recording a video): Hi Alice, I am you and I have something very important to say to you. So I guess you've reached that point, the point where you can no longer answer any of the questions. So this is the next logical step. I'm sure of it. In your bedroom there is a dresser with a blue lamp. Open the top drawer. In the back of the drawer, there is a bottle with pills in it. It says 'take all pills with water'. Now, there are a lot of pills in that bottle but it's important you swallow them all, okay? And then, lie down and go to sleep. And don't tell anyone what we're doing.

Alice: Don't you wish we had more of that?
John: If you mean blow jobs on the beach, yes I do wish we had more of that.

John: You were relentless. You wanted everything and all at once.
Alice: So I am, and so I like it.

John: I liked you the way your were. I liked everything about you.

Lydia: You can't use your situation to get me to do everything you want.
Alice: Why not?
Lydia: Because it's not fair.
Alice: It doesn't have to be fair. I'm your mother...right?
Lydia: Yeah.

Lydia: Mom, did you read my journal? Why? Why would you do that?
Alice: Gosh, I'm so sorry. Lydia, I honestly didn't understand what I was reading.
Lydia: You didn't understand 'Lydia Howland' written across the front of the book? I don't believe you!
Alice: I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to. I really didn't know.
Lydia: Stop!
Alice: I wouldn't do that to you.

Anna' s husband: Just trying to protect my investment.

Anna: What makes you such an expert?
Lydia: Shut up!
Anna: Grow up, Lydia!
Lydia: Suck it!
Anna: Oh, that's very articulate, well said.
Lydia: Do you want me to show you?
Alice: Girls!

Alice: Lydia, baby, erm... I know we argued about something yesterday, but I can't remember what it was about.
Lydia: It was nothing honestly.
Alice: No, I upset you and I should apologize.
Lydia: No, no. I should apologize. I feel really bad. I was so insensitive yesterday.
Alice: But for what?
Lydia: It was about you respecting my privacy and I don't want that and I take it back completely. And I'm sorry, okay? I'm sorry...
Alice: It's not as if I can remember it.

Lydia: What's it like? I mean, what does it actually feel like?
Alice: Well, it's not always the same. I have good days and bad days. On my good days I can, you know, almost pass for a normal person. And on my bad days I feel like I can't find myself. I've always been so defined by my intellect, my language, my articulation and now sometimes I can see the words hanging in front of me and I can't reach them and I don't know who I am and I don't know what I'm gonna lose next.
Lydia: Sounds horrible.
Alice: Thanks for asking.

Neurologist: I know you're discouraged. But sometimes, patients plant hope, even at this point. Don't lose hope.

Lydia: Good mom, good. It's very scientific.
Alice: Yes, well, you know...
Lydia: I'm sure it's valid. But erm...
Alice: But what?
Lydia: I mean, isn't it any value at making it more personal?
Alice: I don't understand what you mean by personal.
Lydia: You know, you're not speaking to a room of scientists. What I wanna know really is like how do you feel, what does it feel like? What does your disease mean to you?
Alice: You weren't listening because that's all there. That's in the speech.
Lydia: Okay, don't ask me then.
Alice: Then I won't ask you.

Alice: The poet Elizabeth Bishop once wrote: " The art of losing isn't hard to master. So many things seem filled with the intend to be lost, that their loss is no disaster." I am not a poet. I am a person living with early onset Alzeihmer's and as that person, I find myself learning the art of losing everyday. Losing my bearings, losing objects. Losing sleep. But mostly, losing memories.

Alice: I think I'll try to forget that just happened.

Alice: All my life, I've accumulated memories. They become in a way my most precious possessions. The night I met my husband, first time I held my textbook in my hands. Having children, making friends. Travelling the world. Everything I accumulated in life, everything I worked so hard for, now all that is being ripped away.
As you can imagine, or as you know, this is hell. But it gets worse. Who can take us seriously when we are so far from who we once were? Our strange behavior and fumbled sentences changed others' perceptions of us. And our perception of ourselves. We become ridiculous, incapable, comic. But this is not who we are. This is our disease and like any disease it has a cause, it has a progression and it could have a cure. My greatest wish is that my children, our children, the next generation, do not have to face what I am facing. But for the time being I'm still alive. I know I'm alive. I have people I love dearly. I have things I want to do with my life. I rail against myself for not being able to remember things but I still have moments in the day of pure happiness and joy.
And please do not think I am suffering. I am not suffering. I am struggling. Struggling to be part of things. To stay connected to who I once was. So live in the moment I tell myself. It's really all I can do, live in the moment and not beat myself up too much for mastering the art of losing. One thing I will try to hold on to though, is the memory of speaking here today. It will go I know it will. It may be gone by tomorrow. But it means so much to be talking here today, like my old ambitious self who was so fascinated by communication. Thank you for this opportunity. It means the world to me. Thank you.

Alice: Oh no... I was looking for that last night.
John (whispering to Anna): That was a month ago.

John: Ali, do you still wanna be here?
Alice: I'm not done yet. Do we have to go?
John: No, don't worry. Take your time.

John: You're a better man than I am.
Lydia: I've got her, okay.

Lydia: Nothing is lost forever. In this world there is a kind of painful progress, longing for what we've left behind and dreaming ahead.

Lydia: What was it about?
Alice: Love...love.
Lydia: Yeah. It was about love.

Plot: Alice Howland is a renowned linguistic professor who seemingly got a perfect life. She is a great university professor, she is smart beyond words, has three children she is close to, is about to become a grandmother and has a husband that loves her. Yet when Alice starts to forget her words and whereabouts, she fears something is very wrong with her...

Trailer:

Review:

Still Alice is one of the best movies of the year, hands down.
While very little movies deal with the Alzheimer disease, most of them focus on what it means for the relatives and loved one of the person diagnosed. Still Alice is particularly original and smart as it focuses on the individual affected by the disease. The film starts by portraying Alice, an intelligent, articulate, ambitious professor, wife, and mother of three grown up children who appears to have completely succeeded in life. Yet, she slowly realizes that something may be wrong when she starts to forget things, mix up information and get lost in familiar surroundings. Soon enough Alice is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s and her world crumbles apart.

As a viewer, we get to see Alice being deprived of her own being, pieces by pieces. As her memory fades away, so does the Alice that her loved ones and everybody else that met her knew. She is but an empty shell, a shadow of the person she used to be.

Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin and Kristen Stewart are absolutely fabulous and their performance is outstanding and just incredibly touching.

Alec Baldwin’s character especially is amazing to watch. First struggling to accept his wife’s disease, he never ever abandons her and always cares about what is best of her.

I also loved seeing the interaction between Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart who portrays her youngest daughter. The two actresses a good chemistry and in many ways I found it very easy to relate to her character.

In sum, I’d recommend this movie to everyone. Even though it can be really sad to watch, there is still no cure for Alzheimer, which makes Still Alice even more real and hard to watch as it makes you realize that this could happen to absolutely anyone.

Life Partners

2014-12-10T09:00:00.004-08:00

Directed by: Susanna Fogel

Memorable quotes:

Sasha: Watch where you're going, bitch!
Paige: What?
Sasha: Thanks for cutting me off!
Paige: You almost snapped my side view mirror, slut!
Sasha: You're lucky I have to be somewhere or I'd fuck your ass up right now!
Paige: Fuck you!
Sasha: Fuck you!

Sasha: No, still cock blocking.
Paige: It doesn't make sense, there are two vaginas.
Sasha: I don't know, nobody ever changed it.

Paige: God, this is why I don't have a boyfriend, cause I spend all my time having sleepovers and starring at my lesbian best friend's boobs.
Sasha: You don't have a boyfriend because you're way too picky.
Paige: I just want to meet a guy that I like as much as you, is that too much to ask for?
Sasha: Yes, yes it is. I hate everyone but you. We're screwed.

Sasha: Is that a thing? Like a reverse tumor?

Sasha: Oh my God, why is every lesbian named Jane?
Jenn: I know, it's annoying. That's why I spell mine with two "n"s.
Jen: I'm Jen 1.0
Jenn: Why do you say that like it's a good thing? 2.0 is better than 1.0
Jen: Maybe to you.

Sasha: Paige and I both have dates tomorrow night, thank you.
Jenn: Really? Oh that's...that's...that's great. That's awesome.
Sasha: Yeah, we got drunk and agreed to go on internet dates on the same night. And she's going out with a doctor.
Paige: Yeah...
Sasha: What? What? What is wrong with this one?
Paige: He just says douchey things in his emails, quotes a lot of movies and say things like "you betcha" and "you gotcha" and in a couple of his photos he is wearing t-shirts with messages on them and slogans. I think it's like his style.

Sasha: Have you ever seen the show "To Catch a Predator"?
Jen: Love that show.
Sasha: She was on it. My date was on "To Catch a Predator". She works for the agency that catches the predator. She... she goes online and flirts with old dudes pretending to be a 14 years old.
Jen: Please marry her.

Tim: What? Are you saying you watched the 1st half of The Big Lebowski then shut it off?
Paige: I feel like you're treating me as though I had just told you I'm a sex offender?
Tim: Oh wow, I mean this is so much worse.

Tim: Are you married?
Paige: What?
Tim: "Husband" is calling you.
Paige: Oh, no. That's my best friend Sasha. We just have this stupid joke.

Sasha: I think my favorite part of the date was when she put up two fingers and said "sit on it".
Paige: Ew. What? Why?
Sasha: I don't know. I think she thought she was flirting.

Sasha: Well, I guess we're gonna end up dying alone, like planed.

Sasha: When are you guys going out again?
Paige: Tomorrow.
Sasha: Which one of us is the lesbian?

Guy: Oh hey, I didn't see you in there.
Paige: You didn't see me care either, huh?

Sasha: Hey! Open up! I gotta poop in your toilet!

Tim: Sorry, how creepy was that that I sent a car for you?

Paige: What are you gonna do this weekend without me?
Tim: I'm gonna cry.
Paige: Duh!

Paige: Do I look like I've just had sex?

Sasha: Don't you wish you were 21?
Paige: God no, I was so insecure.
Sasha: But when you're 21, it's just easier, right? It's okay to be a receptionist and eat like shit and just date people for fun and sit on the floor...and remember you and I used to hang out all the time.

Paige: We're still the one who thinks we're funny.

Paige: Hey! I was about to take that spot!
Sasha: I didn't see the name "bitch" written on it.

Sasha: Oh, I'm sorry. Too mature for this now that you have a boyfriend and you spend the whole weekend resting a chicken together?
Paige: How do you know that?
Sasha: You posted it on instagram.

Sasha: I'm gonna be your best man.

Paige: The fuck is wrong with that girl?

Sasha: But you know you guys might be like too different to relate...get each other.
Paige: What does that mean?
Sasha: I don't know. Sometimes just super creative type don't really mesh that well with people who are more...you know...traditional.
Paige: I'm traditional?
Sasha: No, no, no. You are more like organized. Vanessa is like a total free spirit. You know, sometimes I'll wake up in the middle of the night and she's up writing down a dream she just had. And I've read a few of them. Oh my God. it's incredible. They're complete stories. Like that's just how her brain works. She dreams in stories.

Paige: Just go, you're gonna be late for golf.
Tim: You can't really be late for golf.
Paige: Just whatever, just go!

Sasha: But...you're gay!
Vanessa: I mean...I don't know. I feel like I've been saying I'm gay for so long that maybe I just stopped getting in touch with where I actually am on the spectrum. All I know is I owe it to myself to find out.

Sasha: Do I look too much like a lesbian?
Paige: You are a lesbian.
Sasha: Yeah, but I don't want to look gay.
Paige: You're like offensive to yourself.
Sasha: I mean, I'm not offended.

Sasha: So you just came from work?
Angelica: Oh yeah, I had to go in and finish up some stuff in the morning.
Sasha: Blows.
Angelica: Actually, I didn't mind it. I know this is nerdy but I love my work.
Sasha: Oh.

Sasha: Nothing changed for you. It just changed for me. Can you acknowledge that, please?

Tim: I can't talk to you sometimes, you never see anyone else's side. Ever. You always get your way. It's like everytime we fight, I have to be the one to apologize. I'm not gonna do it this time.
Paige: Oh really? I always get my way?
Tim: Paige, I let you fucking dress me.
Paige: I do not dress you.
Tim: You can't even admit that?
Paige: This is just who I am!
Tim: Well then you suck.
Paige: Great, now you're just gonna be a dick?
Tim: Maybe I just found my dick!

Tim: What's new?
Sasha: Erm, not much. I got fired.
Tim: Oh shit. Shit, sorry.

Sasha: I think I just need to find a job I don't hate.

Sasha: First I have a very serious question: Do you think Tim will be jealous of my tux?

Plot: Two best friends' bond is tested one one of them starts dating...

Trailer:

Review:

Life Partners is a sweet movie about friendship and the struggles that being an adult entails such as navigating through jobs, partners, friends and…life. It was obvious the movie didn’t have a huge budget, and some of the secondary roles were played in a rather mediocre manner, but the main actors were great, especially Leighton Meester and Adam Brody. While this isn’t the film of the year, I still highly enjoyed it. Some parts could have been developed more, especially the friendship between Sasha and Paige which goes from a very strong and almost exclusive type of a friendship to a very distant and uncomfortable one. I wish this could have been more subtle and more developed, but at the same time maybe the abrupt change was the effect that the director was looking for. The rest of the film seems very real, as I believe that the majority of us will be able to identify with what the characters are going through. I personally found it easy to identify with Sasha, who took a crappy job because as an adult you have to, and who finds herself stuck with a life she doesn’t want anymore. I like how she realizes that the things that she wanted ten years ago had changed and that she needed to find what would make her happy now.

Life Partners never makes a big deal out of the fact that Sasha is gay and this was great.

Sasha and Paige’s bond being shattered when Paige falls in love is also very realistic and I love how they had to clear a few things up and kind of adjust their friendship to save it.

Overall Life Partners is a character driven story with a very realistic feel and decent acting that was highly enjoyable, even if it’s just for a one time watch.

St. Vincent

2014-12-03T11:53:00.001-08:00

Directed & written by: Theodore Melfi

Memorable quotes:

Daka: Only a few freaks like the belly

Vincent: It is what it is? Everyone says that now. You know what it means? 'You're screwed and you shall remain screwed'.

Vincent: I do not want to tell you to go fuck yourself. I'm closing it, let's just leave it at that, please.

Maggie: Oh boy.
Vincent: Oh boy no. Oh shit is more like it.

Oliver: Is that our new neighbour?
Maggie: Yes.
Oliver: It's gonna be a long life.

Brother Geraghty: We must concentrate in our studies or we will what? We will die dumb, yes we will and dumb do not play well in heaven.

Brother Geraghty: We celebrate all the religions of the world in this room, Oliver. I'm a catholic, which is the best of all the religions really because we have the most rules.

Oliver: Sir?
Vincent: Take me God. Don't play with me.
Oliver: It's me Sir.
Vincent: Yeah, what?
Oliver: I was wondering if I could use your phone?
Vincent: My phone?
Oliver: Yes.
Vincent: In my house?

Oliver: Are they old?
Vincent: No. They're dead. That's the oldest you can be.
Oliver: Or the youngest. Time freezes when you're dead.

Vincent: He don't like many people.
Oliver: I'm good with animals, Sir.
Vincent: Yeah, he don't usually like people who say they're good with animals.

Daka: Stupid bump is costing me much money.
Vincent: He's gonna cost you a lot more pretty soon.
Daka: It's not "he".
Vincent: It's a "she"?
Daka: How I know this? I look like psychic to you?
Vincent: No, you don't. But they have technology .

Vincent: You better buckle up.
Oliver: You're not buckled.
Vincent: My life is my problem.

Vincent: I'm not happy when I'm annoyed.
Oliver: Are you annoyed right now?
Vincent: Not particularly.
Oliver: Really?

Oliver: Cost more than a dime.
Vincent: Since when?
Oliver: Since before I was born.
Vincent: What's this country coming to.

Vincent: Who taught you to slap?
Oliver: I don't know, Sir, just the instinct I guess.
Vincent: Well you need to unlearn that.

Vincent: Your father never taught you to defend yourself?
Oliver: No, Sir. He is a pacifist.
Vincent: Well, this country wasn't founded by tree huggers, that's for sure.

Oliver: I'm small, if you haven't noticed.
Vincent: Yeah, so was Hitler.
Oliver: That's a horrible comparison.
Vincent: Indeed. Making a point though. Small means nothing. It's what's in here. (Vincent point at his head).
Oliver: Or here, Sir. (Oliver points at his heart)

Nurse Anna: Who's your helper?
Vincent: It's eleven bucks an hour.
Oliver: That's Oliver, actually.

Vincent: So, what have you been crying about?
Maggie: It's a long story.
Vincent: Okay. What's the punchline?
Maggie: My ex wants custody.
Vincent: There goes my job security.
Maggie: Thanks, you asshole.
Vincent: That could have gone either way.

Maggie: Are you drinking alcohol?
Vincent: I honestly don't remember.

Oliver: Who is she?
Vincent: A lady of the night.
Oliver: What's that?
Vincent: It's one of the most honest ways to make a living.

Vincent: What do you know about me? Really, tell me, I'd love it.
Maggie: Nothing. I don't know a thing about you. Just the way you want it. Then you can act like a prick and keep everybody away.

Brother Geraghty: I do happen to believe that there are saints all around us today. They may never be considered as such by religion. They're just as important as important as the one in our textbooks.

Oliver: He sounds...
Daka: Like a retard. Well, he's stupid man anyway so retard is not far from.

Vincent: Where is all my dirt?

Oliver: She is a lady of the night.
Maggie: What? Do you know what that mean?
Oliver: She works at night?

Vincent: My wife, where is she?
Sunnyside administrator: She died, Vince.
Vincent: I know that. Where is she?
Sunnyside administrator: She's in there.
Vincent: Where?
Sunnyside administrator: In the box. Her remains, Vince.

Oliver: What's in the box?
Vincent: My wife.
Oliver: She died?
Vincent: No. She shrunk herself. She's living in here now. Rent free.
Oliver: Sorry for your loss.
Vincent: I never understood why people say that.
Oliver: They don't know what else to say?
Vincent: How about 'What was she like?', 'Do you miss her?', Or 'What are you gonna do now?' Do yourself a favor: get a life. Stop living mine.

Daka: My water is broken.
Vincent: Call a plumber.
Daka: Let's go!

Oliver: Saints never give up.

Oliver: He taught me how to fight, how to stand my ground and be brave. How to speak up and be bold because saints fight for themselves and others so that they might be heard.

Oliver: Yes, mister Vincent McKinnon is flawed, seriously flawed. But just like all the other saints we studied cause after all, saints are human beings; very human beings. Courage, sacrifice, compassion, humanity: these are the markings if a saint and what makes mister Vincent McKinnon not so far removed from St William of Rochester.

Vincent: So what is it? Black? White? Ugly?

Daka: You like the baby?
Vincent: Yeah, so far.

Plot: Following a bitter divorce, Maggie and her son Oliver move in a new neighbourhood and it doesn't take long for them to meet their old, grumpy next door neighbour, Vincent. Short on cash, Vincent offers to babysit Oliver, who soon discovers that there is a lot more to Vincent than meets the eye.

Trailer:

Review:

St Vincent is a sweet story about appearance and how there is more to a person than meets the eye. Vincent is a veteran, a man who takes care of his Alzeihmer's stricken wife and watches over a pregnant prostitute. Meanwhile he is also a drunk, a gambler, and one grumpy old man. Vincent is at times hard to like, and at others you wish you could just give him a hug and hand him a medal. This is to me what makes St Vincent the great movie that it is. I usually dislike overly manichean films that portray characters who are either good or bad while in reality it is usually far more complex. Vincent embodies this complexity and never changes throughout the film. He simply comes to terms with letting people get close to him again but he starts the film grumpy and when it ends, he is exactly the same. The remaining of the characters also display this complexity. Melissa McCarthy plays a struggling mom who forgets that although her husband left her, he did not leave their child. Likewise, her ex husband clearly was a bad husband but seems to be a really good father. Daka, who is played by Naomi Watts, is also far much nicer that she likes to pretend. There is no black and white in St Vincent, there is only grey.

Bill Murray is absolutely fantastic, as usual. As for Jaeden Lieberher who plays Oliver, he is a true revelation and I sure hope that he will go far in the movie industry.

If I stay

2014-11-17T11:48:00.000-08:00

Directed by: R.J. Cutler

Memorable quotes:

Mia Hall: At the age of 26, Ludwig von Beethoven went deaf, ending his career as a successful concert pianist. But determined not to let a little thing like his hearing end his music career, my pal Ludwig became a composer.

Mia Hall: It's like that old saying "life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

Mia: I thought I knew where I was going. I thought I had it all mapped out. Turns out I had no idea.

Teddy: I want some!
Denny: No way dude! You don't give crack to somebody whose already on speed.

Mia: You know when you meet someone and they're already the person they were meant to be? That was Adam. Nobody outside Portland had ever heard of his band but he already was somebody. Everybody knew who he was. Me? Not so much.

Adam: You're Mia?
Mia: Yeah.
Adam: Good. I just wanted to clean that up. There are rumors. I'm Adam.
Mia: I know! Erm, hi.

Kim: There are two types of girl in this world Mia. Girls who have boyfriends in highschool...
Mia: And girls like us who wait til college.

Kim: He better be nice to you or I'll crush him like the bug he is.

Mia: I've always wondered if mum and dad were disappointed I didn't turn out to be like them. I tried to.

Mia: Dad's band was called Nasty Bruises. Embarrassing, I know.

Kat: I love her. But I'm about ready to stab my eyesball out.
Willow: This is exactly why I could never procreate.
Willow's boyfriend: Amen sister.

Mia: I loved the order; the structure. But what really hooked me was that feeling I got in my chest. It's like my heart was breaking with the cello.

Denny: Guys play music for two reasons: to get laid our because they got rage. But mostly to get laid.
Kat: That's probably not her motivation.
Denny: No, exactly. She's not doing it to get anything. She's just doing it out of pure...
Kat: We made that.

Mia: Isn't it amazing how life is one thing and then in an instant it becomes something else? Here I am, Mia, the girl who thinks about the cello and Adam and whether a letter is waiting for me at home. And just like that...

Kat: You guys be careful out there. I hear it gets pretty wild at the symphony.

Adam: Your parents seem pretty cool.
Mia: So they tell me.

Adam: How does parents like yours end up with a kid like you.
Mia: Well I was certainly bread to be a rocker. But I have this theory that I was switched at birth.
Adam: Okay, that explains it.
Mia: No, but seriously. I don't know. I've always kinda felt like this martian in my family.

Mia: Why do I have this feeling you're about to mess up my entire life.

Adam: You finally got to meet Liz.
Mia: Yeah, you two have a lot in common. You're like hooked up or...
Adam: Actually, I'm glad you brought that up. We do have a lot in common. For instance, we're both into girls. She's with Astrid.
Mia: Oh wow, go Astrid.

Doctor: If she wants to live, she better start fighting.

Nurse Ramirez: Here is a secret baby: you control this whole thing. If you live, if you die, it's whole up to you.

Mia: I'm glad you came because you're hungry and we have food for you to eat.

Adam: Today was awesome. You guys are like a real family here. I don't think I've ever seen one of those up close. That's impressive.

Mia: Yeah well, it kinda smells like Christmas threw up in your mug.
Kim: Fine by me.

Mia: If this doesn't work out, you're gonna be there to pick up the pieces?
Kim: Every last one of them.

Kim: You better not turn into one of those girlfriends who only speak in the first person plural.

Kim: If you ever turn into one of those girls, I'm gonna shoot you.
Mia: If I ever turn into one of those girls, I'm gonna give you the gun.

Mia: Listen, you can't let Teddy grow up without a family. You gotta fight. You can do this? You have to do this.

Denny: Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you. Does that make any sense?

Mia: Well, you get to follow your dream but I can't follow mine unless I have your permission?

Adam: Why didn't you tell me?
Mia: Maybe because I'm terrified of losing you.

Mia: When I play, I picture myself inside the cello. It's like my little house.

Mia: How am I supposed to find the strength to stay? How would it feel like to wake up an orphan?

Adam: I can't lose her again.

Nurse: I tried to do it the nice way.
Kim: Come on, you wouldn't know nice if it bit you in the ass lady.

Nurse Ramirez: Alright sweetheart, we can only carry you so far. After that, it's all you.

Mia: You're supposed to break up with someone because you're not in love with them, not because you're completely in love with them.

Kat: Either way you win. And also either way there is something that you lose.

Adam: Just please, stay. You're my home Mia. I don't care where we are, I just care we're together. I know that now. I'll do anything if you stay.

Plot: Mia is a talented musician and teenager who spends her time between her family, her best friend Kim, her boyfriend Adam, and her love for playing the cello until one event changes her life completely and she must decide whether to fight for her life or leave for good.

Review:

" Isn't it amazing how life is one thing and then in an instant it becomes something else?"

If I stay, is an okay movie: nothing very spectacular but bearable to watch. There are some nice and touching moments, but overall I was quite bored and didn’t really manage to connect with any of the characters.

First of all, the two main actors, namely Chloe Grace Moretz and Jamie Blackley didn’t really have much of a chemistry, at least that’s what I thought. It made it very difficult for me to root for their couple or even feel for them at all.

Second of all, I don’t know why but somehow I was led to believe that this movie would be much more about the out-of -body experience of a young girl. Instead it was more about the self-told life of a teenage girl conveyed through countless flashbacks.

The acting is okay and I’m sure that if you’re really into romantic and sentimental movies you might actually enjoy this. The ending was also very predictable and it is quite a shame for I usually like movies that stress how one single event can change somebody's entire life.

For me it was just too long and not quite what I had vouched for, even though I did enjoy some parts of the film. I'm not sure if the book it was based on written by Gayle Forman is any better or if it's just not my type of stories though.

Tammy

2014-11-10T12:15:00.002-08:00

Directed by: Ben Falcone

Directed and written by: Ben Falcone & Melissa McCarthy

Memorable quotes:

Keith Morgan: Tammy, do you know how I got to where I am?
Tammy: Sucking dick and kissing ass?

Javier: Excuse me, we need more ketchup.
Keith: Okay, English though Javier, this is America.
Tammy: It was English.
Keith: No, it wasn't English.

Keith: I am terminating your employment. I need your badge.
Tammy: What badge? You mean my name tag?
Keith: Yes, exactly, I need your badge, I need your badge back.
Tammy: It's not a badge, it's a shitty name tag and you made me buy it with my own money.
Keith: That's company policy. I need it back.
Tammy: Well, I need you to stop sweating through your shirt and grossing everybody out.
Keith: It is hot and when it's hot people sweat.

Keith: Hey, don't let a deer hit you on your way out!

Tammy: That's not chicken. I don't know what it is but it's not bird.
Keith: It's 110% chicken.
Tammy: Birds don't come out of squeezy tubes!

Missi: I'm sorry you got fired.
Tammy: Shut up Missi. Why are you in my house making my husband dinner.
Greg: Actually, I made her dinner.
Tammy: You're gonna get your ass kicked.

Tammy: You're hungry? You're wanna eat my fist for dinner?

Tammy: I'm suing you bitch.
Missi: For what?
Tammy: For being an asshole.

Tammy: Don't let her touch my underwear!

Tammy: You know you never made me dinner, not even once. And it smells really good too.

Tammy: See you in court. I hope you both choke on your silly dinner, assholes. Missi is a whore! And I kicked her ass! Kicked her stupid ass! Don't call me Greg when she dump you cause I won't call you back. No fucking way. I'm gonna be too busy fucking models and shit.

Deb: I'm sorry. That's terrible.
Tammy: I'm not exactly thrilled about it myself.

Deb: Are we really gonna do this again, Tammy?
Tammy: What?
Deb: Everytime something bad happens you throw a fir, you say you're leaving. You never get anymore than ten miles outside of town, you start feeling sorry for yourself and you come right back here and throw another fit.
Tammy: It's not true!
Deb: It's a pattern.
Tammy: It's not a pattern.
Deb: It is.
Tammy: That's not even what a pattern is. A pattern is a thing that comes in pairs of two.
Deb: A pattern is a series of things or events that repeat themselves on and on, sometimes into infenity.
Tammy: That's what a galaxy is. That's not a pattern.

Tammy: Fine. Then I'm gonna take grandma's car.
Deb: No, you're not. She is old and not well.
Tammy: Then I guess she doesn't need a car, right?

Deb: No one is going anywhere.
Tammy: I am! I'm just not taking this asshole with me!
Pearl: Hey, you're not exactly my first choice for a travelling companion either but at this exact moment you're the best bet I have to get out of this stupid house.
Deb: Mom!
Pearl: I'm sorry Debra but this is a stupid house and I hate it. I love you but I'm not gonna die in this house alone.
Deb: Mom, you're not gonna die here alone. You're gonna die here with me and dad.
Tammy: That's a shitty thing to say.
Pearl: That's a very shitty thing to say!
Deb: I meant it in a good way!

Tammy: What's Brookfield?
Pearl: It's an old folks home like a prison for old people. Horrible place.

Pearl: Do you think we could just try to be pleasant? What do you say? How about a beer?
Tammy: No!
Pearl: Erm whisky?
Tammy: Jesus, no!
Pearl: Oh my God, you're pregnant!
Tammy: I'm driving a car Grandma!

Tammy: I'm sorry you're so tasty cows!

Tammy: You wanna go ride a cow?

Tammy: Oh my God, I think this is some X-Files shit. For sure.

Tammy: You know what? If we die out there, we're just raccoon food.

Pearl: You do know who Mark Twain is?
Tammy: I know who he is. Good guy, good guy.

Guy: There is no alcohol on the deck.
Pearl: This is my juice.

Tammy: Are you sitting on a couch or on a toilet cause this is like a therapy session.

Tammy: What have you ever done that's cool?
Pearl: I watched Neil Amstrong walk on the moon.
Tammy: On his bike?
Pearl: That's Lance.
Tammy: I don't care which brother it is. That's still lame compared to this.

Bobby: Okay, hang on. I do not want your tongue in my mouth.
Tammy: Where do you want it man?

Tammy: Do you know she fucked Duane Allman? Yeah, she fucked the wrong Allman brother. Enjoy that!

Tammy: Come on you tasty motherfucker.

Tammy: You did it huh?
Pearl: What?
Tammy: Drunk by eleven.

Tammy: It's not like you're the worse person in the world. You're close but...

Pearl: I tried to sleep with your father.
Tammy: What?
Pearl: I tried to sleep with your father.
Tammy: Ew!

Tammy: Thanks a lot!
Cop: You're welcome.
Tammy: Yeah, I didn't mean "thank you".
Cop: And I didn't mean "you're welcome". You're done here, you better leave while you can.

Tammy: Shut up. For you own good don't get sassy.

Tammy: Larry, she's telling me to take you out.
Becky: You're so much older.
Larry: I'm a veteran.
Tammy: That's amazing.

Pearl: He's organized.
Tammy: Yeah, so was Hitler.

Pearl: You're more badass than I ever thought. I think you take after your grandma after all.

Tammy: When I think of what a lesbian looks like, I think of somebody who looks like...
Lenore: Like me?

Pearl: Do you wanna dance?
Tammy: No, people will think we're a couple.
Pearl: Too late for that.

Bobby: I put on some cologne.
Tammy: You put on man perfume to come and see me?

Bobby: You tricked me Tammy.
Tammy: Cause I'm tricky.

Tammy: You know, I get it. You got a little taste of Tammy and you come clambering back for more.
Bobby: Really?
Tammy: Kind of like cheetos. You can't eat just one.

Lenore: You can't just bitch and moan and expect shit to change.

Lenore: You think this house just fell on my head someday? I had to work hard. You know, gay hasn't always been in fashion my friend.

Lenore: You need to grow up honey.
Tammy: You don't know anything about me.
Lenore: You're not that mysterious. Dogs are mysterious. Cats. Birds. Fish. Fish are the most mysterious. But we're not mysterious.

Lenore: You need to focus on getting your shit together. Once you figure out what it is that you really want just go after it. Then maybe you can help her out.

Bobby: You know, my life is boring and you're a very unboring person.
Tammy: Wow, you're kind of super bad at compliments. It's kind of amazing really.

Tammy: What were you thinking?
Pearl: What?
Tammy: You weren't breathing. We all thought you were dead. You are gonna clean your shit up and stop all this drinking. Do you hear me?

Lenore: Goddamn it Pearly, nobody should die in a long chair.

Prison guard: Later.
Tammy: I hope not.

Tammy: Hey dad!
Don: Tammy! You rehabilitated?
Tammy: I guess.
Don: Then let's go home.

Don: Look, do you want le to take care of that wiggly motherfucker for you?
Tammy: What?
Don: I'll go over there and kill him for you, right now. I'm old, I don't care if I go to jail. They got magazines in there, don't they?

Tammy: Why didn't you tell me you where in here?
Pearl: I didn't want to make you jealous. I mean, you were in jail and I'm at this cool place. My AA meetings are here, I made friends and I'm seeing this 84 year old from Philly. I mean, he was a hockey player so he seem younger but we're going kinda slow and... this might be the weekend.

Tammy: You look good.
Pearl: Thanks. You look great.
Tammy: Yeah?
Pearl: Yeah.
Tammy: I was afraid to eat the meat in jail so...
Pearl: It's a good call.

Pearl: I love you so much. I really do.
Tammy: Well, I'm great.
Pearl: You are pretty great.
Tammy: I love you too.

Tammy: Thanks for fixing up my car, dad.
Don: No problem. Just don't rob anybody in it.

Pearl: My daddy always said that Niagara falls was the closest thing to heaven on earth.

Pearl: I think if anyone could do it, it would be you.

Plot: After getting fired and discovering her husband's infidelity, a woman decides to leave home and her worries behind. Things don't go as planned as her alcoholic grandmother decides to tag along.

Review:

I must say that after reading mixed reviews I really didn't know whether or not I should be watching this movie. Considering it stars some excellent actresses such as Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates, Sandra Oh, Toni Colette and the hilarious Allison Janney, I still deciding to give it a watch.
After about 10 minutes of lousy jokes, I really thought I was going to hate it and that I might not even cope with watching the film in its entirety. After 20 to 30 minutes though, the movie started to shift a bit and that's when it started to grow on me. Contrary to what the trailer leads to believe, this is not just a slapstick type comedy film. It is actually much more than that. The beginning is just terrible, but the rest is about the relationship between too utterly dissatisfied individuals and their relationship with one another and the world they live in. This is what I personally love most about Tammy. I loved learning about her background and see her relationship with her grandmother grow and evolve. I love seeing Tammy grow up and decide to stop complaining about her shitty and actually do something to change it.
To me, this is the gist of this movie.
Don't get me wrong though, there are some funny jokes and moments, just not as much as was intended. Melissa McCarthy's humour sometimes fell flat, but her character grows to be so loveable it doesn't really matter. Plus if you enjoy her T.V. show Mike & Molly then you might be more receptive to her humour than I am.
All the actors and actresses also do a great job so it is definitely nice to see this all-start cast act together within the same film.

The Giver

2014-09-18T09:50:00.003-07:00

Directed by: Phillip Noyce

Memorable quotes:

Jonas: After the ruin, we started over, creating a new society. One of true equality. Rules were the building blocks of that equality. We learned them as new children. Rules like precise language; Wear your assigned clothing; Take your morning medication; Obey the curfew; Never lie.

Jonas: My name is Jonas. I don't have a last name. None of us did. That day, the day before graduation, I admit it: I was scared. Tomorrow we'll be assigned our jobs. Our purpose. It seemed everyone knew theirs already. Not me. I was lost. I always felt like I saw things differently. I saw things other people didn't. I never said anything. I didn't want to be different. Who would?

Jonas: Asher and Fiona. We've been best friends our whole lives. Asher was the boy who made everyone laugh. Fiona, well, she was the girl who made everyone smile.

Jonas: We lived in a world were differences weren't allowed. There was no popular. No fame. No losers and no winners. Our eldest had eliminated all of that so there will be no conflict between us. Fear, pain, envy, hate. They weren't words so much as sounds. Their echoes were gone to the other side of history. I'm asked if I should apologize for what I did. I'll let you decide.

Father: Be strong, Gabriel.
Jonas: You looked at his name? Isn't that against the rules?
Father: Yeah, it is. I just thought having a name would help him grow.

Asher: So the old man turn to the elder and says:" Do you know who I am?" And the elder says: "Sir, I know you're old but that is no excuse for being prideful. And then the old man says: "No really I'm asking, who am I?"

Asher: So I guess this is it. The last night of our childhood.
Fiona: I guess everything is gonna be different.
Jonas: No, tomorrow the only thing that changes is what we do. It doesn't change who we are.
Asher: Good question, who are we?
Fiona: Friends.
Asher: Friends forever. Even when you're both assigned to be birth mothers.

Jonas: Well, I guess I'm sort of terrified.
Mother: Precision of language.
Jonas: I mean, anxious. When you were about to graduate, did you ever feel like there was no position made for you?
Father: They've been watching since you were a new child.
Mother: They, elders, are never wrong.
Father: You'll find your place.

Chief Elder: Here's a secret: You are my favorite community. However, because we do not lie, I readily admit I say that to every community.

Chief Elder: From disorder and chaos. From great sufferings, great pain. From confusion and envy and hatred came a solution: communities. Serene, beautiful places where disorder became harmony.

Chief Elder: All of your training has been to help you fit in, to curb any impulse that may set you apart from others. But today, we honor your differences for they have determined your future. Here are the leaders and the teachers and the workers and birth mothers of tomorrow. I think we're in very good hands.

Chief Elder: Jonas has not been assigned a position. Jonas has been selected. We were not hasty this time, we could not afford another failure. Jonas possesses all four attributes: intelligence, integrity, courage, and what I can name but I cannot describe, the capacity to see beyond. But I must warn you: your training involves pain. Pain for beyond anything we know. Are you strong enough? Do we think Jonas is brave enough? Jonas, you have been selected as our next receiver of memory. Thank your for your childhood.

The Giver: Don't apologize to me ever again. Not here.

The Giver: That is now your role to provide guidance in the present using memories of the past.

The Giver: Everything is connected. Everything is a balance. Where there is good there is always bad.

Jonas: Your instructions say I can lie. Do you lie?
The Giver: All the time. Mostly for personal amusement. But I won't lie to you.
Jonas: How do I know that's not a lie?

Jonas: One more question: If I'm now the Receiver, what does that make you?
The Giver: Well that must make me the Giver.

Father: Look at this, this is a mythical creature called a hippo.

Jonas: We had the same mark. I almost didn't need to see his to know. I felt it. I felt it: one day, Gabriel would be chosen too.

Jonas: They always said elsewhere was so far away. But it wasn't. It was right there. Close enough to touch.

Fiona: Jonas? Have you fallen? Do you need immediate help?

Jonas: Nothing is going on with me.
Fiona: No, you're right. It's totally normal to lie in the grass and stare at the sky.
Jonas: No, I was just...
Fiona: You're seeing something, aren't you? Can't you tell me?
Jonas: Give me your hands. What do you see?
Fiona: Oh my goodness.
Jonas: You see it?
Fiona: Yes, it's water.
Jonas: Come on, concentrate.

Fiona: Wow, do you know how to fly those?
Asher: Absolutely. Sort of. I'm learning. When I'm flying, looking down at everything, it's like I'm seeing thing for the very first time.

Fiona: Since when do you care about the rules?
Asher: Actually, I've had accelerated training. I'll see you guys.
Fiona: Look who grew up. Lucky for you, I haven't.

Jonas: You want me to read all this?
The Giver: What's this? (seemingly reading from a book) One day, you shall meet a boy who answers by the name of Jonas. He should be the most powerful of all the Receiver.
Jonas: Wait, that says...
The Giver: Don't be gullible.

The Giver: Just like music, there is something else you can't see with your eyes. Something loose inside you. Something those morning injections take away.
Jonas: I thought the injections are for our health?
The Giver: No, they remove something.
The Giver: What?
Jonas: Emotions.

The Giver: Emotions are very deep, primal, they linger.

The Giver: Listen to what's calling from inside.

Mother: What are you doing with her?
Lilly: Jonas says it's called dancing.

Jonas: I have learned that knowing what something is is not the same as knowing how something feels.

Jonas: I got lost. The good kind of lost. I saw sights and sounds I had no words to describe. Fleshes and faces of all different colours. I felt so alive. This was forbidden. I didn't know what to think, what to believe. Have faith, the Giver told me. He said faith ought to see beyond. He compared it to the wind. Something felt but not seen.

The Giver: Don't accept what is the truth just because it comes from someone you respect.

The Giver: Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future. You can change things. You can make things better.

Jonas: It was life. It just seemed more complete. The more I experienced, the more I wanted.

Jonas: This is not a hippo. This is an elephant. And once, it was real. And it was beautiful.

Jonas: It was like a memory. Fiona was there.
The Giver: You had a dream.
Jonas: A what?
The Giver: A dream. A combination of reality, fantasy, emotions and what you had for dinner.

The Giver: We don't have that anymore.
Jonas: What do you mean by that?
The Giver: I'm talking about what you feel for someone else. And the mind can't explain it and you can't make it go away.
Jonas: What is it?
The Giver: Love. It's called love.

Jonas: What's new with you?
Fiona: What's ever new?

Jonas: Father, do you love me?
Mother: Jonas, precision of language, please.
Lilly: What does love mean?
Mother: Jonas use the word so inadequate that it no longer has any application.
Father: If you ask "do you enjoy me?" The answer certainly is yes. Or "do Mother and I take pride in your accomplishments?", of course we do.

Rosemary: When you see something like that, there is no explanation.

Jonas: I didn't even want to go back. I didn't want the wisdom. I didn't want the pain. I wanted my childhood again.

Jonas: I wanted to share it with her. Not all of it. The good things. Was I wrong to want that? I thought about her now, all the time.

Jonas: That's death.
The Giver: He doesn't know what he is doing.
Jonas: Doesn't know what he is doing? He killed him.
The Giver: But he doesn't know what it means. Just like you did. Neither did Rosemary.
Jonas: How can he not see the baby isn't moving? Doesn't that tell him something is wrong?

Jonas: Because if you can't feel, what's the point?

Fiona: What was that?
Jonas: Fiona there is more. So much more.

Jonas: I hadn't been wrong. This was wrong. They hadn't eliminated murder. They brought it home. They just called it by a different name. Father, he didn't know any better. I did.

Asher: If it is the right thing to do, how can it be against the rule?

Jonas: Something can be done!
The Giver: What do you propose?
Jonas: The memories back and back and back can be returned. I need to leave the community. I need to find the boundary of memory.
The Giver: And then?
Jonas: And then cross it. No more discussions. Gabe is in danger. Something must be done!

Jonas: If you had that map then why didn't you try to leave?
The Giver: I was waiting for someone like you. You are the reason we have a chance. So the plan will be for you to go and for me to stay.

The Giver: If you did cross this boundary and the memories were set free, all the pain that you felt, all the confusion, the chaos, it would all return.
Jonas: So you'd stay to help them.
The Giver: Yes. That's for my daughter. That's what she would have wanted.
Jonas: Your daughter?
The Giver: Rosemary.

Jonas: When they decided to kill Gabe they decided I was ready.

The Giver: I love you Jonas. Yeah, there it is. You have the courage. Let me give you the strength.

Fiona: I can't go.
Jonas: When I get there you'll understand. I'll come back for you.
Fiona: Jonas (kissing him) come back.

Mother: I can tell why you've been acting this way. Your injections level are extremely low. I can correct this.
Fiona (to Asher): Friends forever, right?
Mother: And then we will address what's happened.

Jonas: When I went over the edge, we shouldn't have made it. This was a miracle. The Giver had talked about them. He told me I could draw strength from the memories. I knew by giving them to Gabe, I could protect him.

The Giver: I apologize for failing again.
Chief Elder: I don't think you failed. I think you succeeded with your plan. Ever since the girl was released you haven't been the same.

Asher: What do you want me to do?
Chief Elder: You know Jonas. I want you to find him. And then, I want you to lose him.

Chief Elder: You found him.
Asher: I did.
Chief Elder: For the good of all of us, I beg you, finish this.
Asher: It's finished.

Jonas: It was the memory if Fiona that kept me going.

Fiona: I felt things.
Mother: What?
Fiona: I know that there is something more.
Mother: Fiona...
Fiona: Something missing from our lives. No, not missing. Something has been stolen from me and from you. I don't know what it is exactly, but Jonas does. I have felt things and they were warm, and they were nice, and they were beautiful. I have felt things. I have felt things. I have felt things.

The Giver: Her name was Rosemary. She was my daughter. I loved her.
Chief Elder: Precision of language.
The Giver: Couldn't be more precise. Do you know what that's like? To love someone? I do.

Chief Elder: When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong. Every single time.

The Giver: We are living a life of shadows, of echoes, of faint distant whispers of what what's made is real.

Jonas: I wish I had been there when the memories returned. They were the truth. The elders and their rules were the lie. So I do not apologize. I know Fiona was safe, that I'd see her again and that I held the future there in my arms. The Giver had led us here, to this house. It was real. From far behind, from the place I'd left, I thought I heard music too. Perhaps it was only an echo. But it was enough. It would lead us all home.

Plot: From the ashes of the ruins, the communities were built. Protected by the boundary, all memories of the past were erased.

Trailer:

Review:

I was given The Giver to read at school when I was about 14 years old and I instantly loved it. Needless to say when I heard a movie was in the making I was both excited about the prospect and anxious that it wouldn’t live up to the books’ expectations.

I hadn’t looked for any information regarding the actors that had been cast and I hadn’t even looked at the trailer because I didn’t want to have any prejudice beforehand and truth be told, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. I know now that the critics haven’t all been very positive when it comes to reviewing The Giver, and I believe when it comes to a book adaptation it is mostly what always happens for people seem to have trouble considering the book and the film as two separate pieces of work, which is what I would advise to do every case a book is turned into a movie. They simply cannot be the same, simple as that. While a book can be as long as the author’s imagination allows it, it simply cannot be the same with a movie which has a lot more limitations and constraints.

This means that The Giver wasn’t as deep and as detailed as the book and of course it had to be rushed and changed a bit. Nonetheless, all in all it kept the core and the spirit of the book and for this I was pleasantly surprised and more than satisfied by the movie.

The actors overall did a good job, and as you do in the movie industry, they made sure to have some A listed amongst the actors such as Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes, Jeff Bridges, Taylor Swift and Alexander Skarsgard who hit fame with the now former hit TV show True Blood.

I personally had never heard of most of actors portraying the main characters though such as Brendan Thwartes (Jonas) who I latter realized I had seen in Maleficent but nothing else. Odega Rush is also unknown to me but she makes a beautiful and fantastic Fiona. Cameron Managhan as Asher has been in numerous TV shows and movies but quite frankly none that I must have watched.

Apart from the story that is will make you ponder upon many aspects of life and of society, I’d definitely advise watching the movie for the amazing cinematography and the beautiful visuals. I especially loved the mixture of black and white with colors. At times it was so subtle that I didn’t even realize straight away when there started to be some colors on screen. The use of color to portray memories of the real world as well as Jonas’ perceptions versus the black and white used for the remaining of the communities that were kept from any emotions or realness was indeed a very smart move.

Maleficent

2014-09-09T16:16:00.001-07:00

Directed by: Robert Stromberg

Memorable quotes:

Narrator: Once upon a time there were two kingdoms that were the worse of neighbours. So vast was the discord between them that it was said only a great hero or a terrible villain might bring them together. In one kingdom they've fought like you and me, with a vain and greedy king to rule over them. They were forever discontent and envious of the world of beauty of their neighbours.

Narrator: In a great tree on a great cliff into the Moors lived once such spirit you might take her for a girl but she was not any girl. She was a fairy and her name was Maleficent.

Young Maleficent: Come out!
Young Stefan: No. They mean to kill me. And besides, they're hideous to look at.
Young Maleficent: That's extremely rude. (Talking to Baltazar) Don't listen to him Batazar, you're classically handsome.

Young Maleficent: It's not right to steal, but we don't kill people for it. Come out, Come out this instant.

Young Maleficent: Are you fully grown?
Young Stefan: No.
Young Maleficent: I believe he's just a boy.
Young Stefan: And you're just a girl. I think.

Young Stefan: If I made that choice, if I come back, would you be here?
Young Maleficent: Perhaps.

Young Stefan: What's wrong?
Young Maleficent: Your ring. Iron burns fairies.
Young Stefan: I'm sorry. (Stefan throws his ring away) I like your wings.

Narrator: Maleficent thought of how Stefan cast away his ring, he who had so little in this world, so that their hands might touch again. Her heart was moved. Thus did the young thief who had hoped to steal a jewel steal something far more precious.

Narrator: Stefan and Maleficent became the most unlikely of friends. And for a time, it seemed as if the old hatred between men and fairies had been forgotten. As it will, friendship slowly turned to something else. And on her 16th birthday, Stefan gave Maleficent a gift. He fold her it was true love's kiss. But it was not to be.

Maleficent: You will not have the Moors. Not now! Not ever!

King Henry: Who among you is worthy? Kill the winged creature, avenge me! And upon my death, you will take the crown.

Stefan: Maleficent! Maleficent!
Maleficent: So, how was life with the humans?
Stefan: Maleficent, I've come to warn you. They mean to kill you. King Henry will stop at nothing. Please, you have to trust me.

Narrator: They spoke of many things, and the years faded away.

King Henry: What is this?
Stefan: I have avenged you Sir.

Stefan: I shall do my best to be a worthy successor, your majesty.

Diaval: What have you done to my beautiful self?
Maleficent: Would you rather I let them beat you to death?
Diaval: I'm not certain.
Maleficent: Stop complaining. I saved your life.
Diaval: Forgive me.
Maleficent: What do I call you?
Diaval: Diaval. And in return for saving my life, I am your servant, whatever you need.
Maleficent: Wings. I need you to be my wings.

Maleficent: He did this to me so he would be king?

Flittle: My wish is that you'll never be blue, only happy, all the days in your life.

Maleficent: Royalty. Nobility. Gentry. How quaint. Even the rabble.

Maleficent: I really felt quite distressed to not receiving an invitation.
King Stefan: You're not welcome here.
Maleficent: Oh dear, what an awkward situation.
Queen: You're not offended?
Maleficent: Why, no. And to show I bear no ill will, I and I shall bestow a gift on the child.
King Stefan: No, we don't want your gift.
Knotgrass: Stay away from the princess!
Thistletwit: Yes, stay away!
Maleficent: Listen well all of you: the princess shall indeed grow in grace and beauty and loved by all who meet her.
Queen: It's a lovely gift.
Stefan: Don't do this.
Maleficent: But before the sunset on her 16th birthday she will prick her finger on a spindle wheel and fall into a sleep like death. A sleep from which she will never awaken.
Stefan: Maleficent please, I'm begging you.
Maleficent: I like you begging. Do it again.
Stefan: I beg you.
Maleficent: Alright. The princess can be woken from her death sleep. But only by true love's kiss. This curse will last until the end of time. No power on earth can change it.

Knotgrass: Now there'll be no questions asked. We are no longer fairies, we are peasants women raising our orphan child in the woods.

Thistletwit: There you are: Why are you always hidding?

Maleficent: It's so ugly I could almost feel sorry for it. I hate you beastie.

Maleficent: It's going to starve with these three looking after it.

King Stefan: You failed me.
Soldier: The wall cannot be burnt. It is indestructible.
King Stefan: Nothing is indestructible. Not the wall, not Maleficent!

Maleficent: Oh look, the little beast is about to fall off the cliff.

Young Aurora: Hello.
Maleficent: Go away. Go. Go away. I don't like children.

Narrator: As Maleficent had said, Aurora did grow in grace and beauty. Far away from the lofty palace she remembered not. And as the seasons changed and the flower grew, so did she.

Narrator: She wandered at the world about her and what lay beyond the forceful wall of thorns.

Diaval: How can you do that to me?
Maleficent: You said anything I need.
Diaval: Yeah, but not a dog!
Maleficent: It was a wolf, not a dog.
Diaval: It's the same thing. They're dirty, vicious, and they hunt birds.
Maleficent: Next time I'll turn you into a mealworm.
Diaval: Well I'll be a mealworm. Anything but a filthy stinker.

Aurora: I know you're there. Don't be afraid.
Maleficent: I'm not afraid.
Aurora: Then come out.
Maleficent: Then you'll be afraid.
Aurora: No I won't. I know who you are.
Maleficent: Do you?
Aurora: You're my fairy Godmother!
Maleficent: What?

Aurora: It's everything I imagined it would be. Oh it's just so beautiful. I've always wanted to come.

Maleficent: Goodnight beastie.

Maleficent: I revoke the curse. Let it be no more!

Aurora: Do all the fairy people have wing?
Maleficent: Most do.
Aurora: Then why don't why? The other fairies fly.
Maleficent: I had wings once, they were stolen from me. That's all I wish to say about it.
Aurora: What colour were they? Were they big?
Maleficent: So big they'd drag behind me when I walked. And they were strong. They would carry me above the clouds and into the headwinds. They never faulted, not even once. I trusted them.

Maleficent: There is an evil in this world. And I cannot keep you from it.
Aurora: I am almost 16 Godmother. I can take care of myself.
Maleficent: I understand. That's not what I have to say.
Aurora: I have a plan. When I'm older I'm going to live here in the Moors with you. Then we'll look after each other.
Maleficent: You don't have to wait until you're older. You could live here now.
Aurora: Then I will.

Aurora: You were very good to me. Except the time you accidentally fed me spiders.

Aurora: Will you be back this way?
Philip: Nothing could stop me.
Aurora: Then I'll see you soon.
Philip: Very soon.
Aurora: Goodbye Philip.
Philip: Goodbye. For now.

Maleficent: True love's kiss? Have you not worked it out yet? I cursed her that way because there no such thing.

Diaval: Go ahead. Turn me into whatever you want. A bird, a worm. I don't care anymore.

Aurora: No, don't touch me. You're the evillest in the world.

King Stefan: You look just like your mother. They brought you back a day too soon. I told these thre idiots. Lock her up in her room. Go!

Prince Philip: I'm looking for a girl.
Maleficent: Of course you are.

Diaval: If we go inside those walls we're never coming out alive.
Maleficent: Then don't come. It's not your fight.
Diaval: Ah, thank you very much. I need you Diaval. I can't do this without you Diaval...
Maleficent: I can hear you.

King Stefan: Look at that! Look at what you've done!
Knotgrass: She's only sleeping.

King Stefan: She's only sleeping forever!

Thistletwit: True love just doesn't fall from trees you know.

Maleficent: I will not ask for forgiveness, because what I've done to you is unforgivable. But I was so lost in hatred and revenge. Sweet Aurora, you stole what was left of my heart and now I've lost you forever. I swear no harm will come to you as long as I live and not a day shall pass that I don't miss your smile.

Aurora: Hello Godmother.
Maleficent: Hello Beastie.

Aurora: Are we going back to the Moors now?
Maleficent: If that is what you wish.

Narrator: She invited Aurora to see how the Moors had been once, long ago, when Maleficent was but a child and her heart was bright.

Knotgrass: We present this crown to our little Aurora, for whom we have sacrificed the best years of our...nevermind.

Narrator: In the end, my kingdom was united not by a hero or a villain as legend had predicted but by one who was both hero and villain. And her name was Maleficent.

Plot: Once the protector of an enchanted forest, Maleficent has now gone on a path of vengeance that eventually leads her to cast a curse on an innocent infant...

Trailer:

Review:
As an adult who grew up loving Disney movies, I was thoroughly looking forward to seeing Maleficent, and I was really hoping that I wouldn’t be disappointed. Truth be told, it had been a while since I last watched a movie that was as good as the ones I used to watch as a child.

Maleficent is a splendid movie though and I loved every minute of it. What I love most about this movie is that it feels a lot more “real” than a lot of similar hero type movies. Yes the movie still takes place in an enchanted forest and there are many mystical creatures, but it isn’t manichean and this to me is a lot closer to reality than a lot of Disney or action type movies that promote the traditional bad guys vs good guys stereotype.

Maleficent could be the focus of a character study for her character truly is fascinating. Apart from her physical appearance that is very compelling in itself, Maleficent can be defined neither as a hero nor as a villain. She doesn’t fit in either category, which I think is the case for most of us common mortals.

She is the product of a traumatic experience that turned a kind-hearted young fairy and a magnificent protector into a sadistic vengeful individual who will go as far as turning her hate toward an innocent child in a bid to get revenge against the child's father.

This character isn’t evil in any means, yet her evil actions cannot be excused and this is what makes Maleficent so absolutely fascinating.

Angelina Jolie’s portrayal of this character is flawless, and she is simply gorgeous and mesmerizing throughout the movie. There is one particular scene that illustrates perfectly how great of an actress Angelia is, which is when Maleficent discovers her wings have been cut. That scene has a strong rape subtext and seeing Maleficent crying in such a harrowing way was heartbreaking to watch.

Elle Fanning is also amazing and really pleasant to watch. She is the perfect Aurora and I think that this is an actress that we will just keep on seeing more and more for she is so young yet so talented already.

I guess Maleficent also follows the more recent trend of Brave and Frozen where a powerful woman saves the day, versus having a woman helplessly wait for a prince to save her. I personally really like this change and I sure hope this will empower the little girls that will see those movies and realize that they can be strong-willed, independent and courageous and that they do not need to be a man’s shadow.

With this being said, I highly appreciated the character of Diaval. He was a great sidekick and enabled comic relief at times when needed.

The only thing that is a minor flaw to me is the excessive use of special effects that sometimes were a tiny bit overdone, especially during the fight scenes. It really looked a bit off at times, like I had suddenly stepped into an action movie.

X-Men: Days of Future Past

2014-08-01T15:45:00.002-07:00

Directed by: Bryan Singer

Memorable quotes:

Professor X: The future: a dark, desolate world. A world of war, suffering, loss...on both sides. Mutants and humans who dared to help them fighting an enemy we cannot defeat.

Professor X: Are we destined down this path? Destined to destroy ourselves like so many species before us? Or can we evolve fast enough to change ourselves. Change our fate. Is the future truly set?

Kitty Pryde: You're too late assholes.

Professor X: So few of us left.

Professor X: I knew her as Raven. We met when we were children. We grew up together. She was like a sister to me. I tried to help her but only succeeded in driving her away.

Professor X: They captured her that day. Tortured her. Experimented on her. In her DNA they discovered the sequence to her power of transformation. It gave them the key they needed to create weapons that could adapt to any mutant power and in less than 50 years the machines that have destroyed so many of our kind were created. But it all started that day in 1973. The day she first killed. The day she truly became Mystique.
Kitty: You wanna go back there?
Professor X: If I can get to her, stop the assassination, keep her out of their hands, then we can stop the sentinels from ever being born.
Magneto: And end this war, before it even begins.

Kitty: I can send someone back a couple of weeks, maybe a month, but you're talking about going back decades. You're one of the most powerful brain in the world professor, but the mind can only stretch so far before it snaps. It would rip you apart. I'm sorry. No one could survive that trip.
Logan: What if someone's mind has a way of snapping back? What if someone can heal as fast as they rip apart.

Professor X: You're going to have to do for me what I once did for you: lead me, guide me. I was a very different man then. You'll have to be patient with me.
Logan: Patience is my strongest suit.
Magneto: You'll need me as well.
Logan: What?
Magneto: After Mystique left Charles she came with me and I set her on a dangerous path.

Kitty: Basically your body will go to sleep while your mind travels back in time. As long as you're back there past and present will continue to co-exist. But once you wake up, whatever you've done will take hold and become history. And for the rest of us that'll be the only history that we know. That will be like the last 50 years never happened...and this world, this war. The only person who will remember it is you. Alright Logan, I need you to clear your head and to stay as calm as possible.
Logan: What? What do you mean?
Kitty: If your mind gets rocky it'll be harder for me to hold you. You could start to skip between past and future.
Logan: What if I need to get a little rocky?
Kitty: Think peaceful thoughts.
Logan: Peaceful thoughts? Do you have any good news?
Kitty: Well, you don't really age so you'll pretty much look the same.

Bobby: You won't have much time in the past. The sentinels will find us. They always do.
Kitty: And this time we wont be able to run. We'll have no escape. This is our last chance.

Magneto: Do you really think this will work?
Professor X: I have faith in him.
Magneto: It's not him I am worried about, it's us. We were young, we didn't know any better.
Professor X: We will know.

Logan: Would you believe me if I told you I was sent here from the future?

Dr. Trask: By the time you see the need for my program, it will be too late and you'll have lost two wars in one lifetime.

Havok: Raven!
Raven: That's not my name.

Havok: Where's Erik?
Raven: I'm on my own now.

Havok: You're not coming with us are you?
Raven: My war is not over. The enemy is still out there.

Logan: You're Beast? Look at you! I guess you're a late bloomer.

Logan: Look kid, you and I are gonna be good friends. You just don't know it yet.

Charles Xavier: I sent you from the future?
Logan: Yeah.
Charles Xavier: Piss off.

Charles Xavier: You know, I think I do remember you now. Yeah, we came to you a long time ago seeking your help. And I'm gonna say to you what you said to us then: Fuck off.

Hank: JFK...
Logan: He killed?
Charles Xavier: How else do you explain the bullet miraculously curving through the air. Erik always had a way with guns.

Erik: The only thing I'm guilty of is fighting for people like us.
Peter: Do you take karate? Do you know karate man?
Erik: I don't know karate. I know crazy.

Charles Xavier: Peter, take it slow.

Erik: How did you lose them?
Charles Xavier: The treatment for my spine affects my DNA.
Erik: You sacrificed your power so you could walk?
Charles Xavier: I sacrificed my power so I could sleep.

Charles Xavier: I know you took the things that mean the most to me.
Erik: Maybe you should have fought harder for them.

Charles Xavier: You abandoned me! You took her away and you abandoned me!

Erik: We were supposed to protect them! Where were you when your own people needed you? Hiding, you and Hank, pretending to be something you're not. You abandoned us all.

Logan: So you were always an asshole.
Erik: I take it we're not best buddies in the futures.

Erik: I didn't kill the president. I was trying to save him. They took me out before I could.
Charles Xavier: Why would you try and save him?
Erik: Because he was one of us.

Charles Xavier: You must think me so foolish. You've always said they'd go after us.
Erik: I never imagined they'd us mutant DNA to do it.

Charles Xavier: How was she?
Erik: Stong, driven, wild.
Charles Xavier: How...How was she?

Erik: I could see why she meant so much to you.

Erik: You should be proud of her Charles. She is out there fighting for our cause.
Charles Xavier: Your cause. The girl I raised was not capable of killing.
Erik: You didn't raise her. You grew up with her. She couldn't stay a little girl forever. That's why she left.
Charles Xavier: She left because you got inside her head.
Erik: That's not my power. She made a choice.
Charles Xavier: But now we know where that choice leads, don't we? She is going to murder Trask, they're going to capture her and then they're going to wipe us out.
Erik: Not if we get to her first. Not if we change history tomorrow. I'm sorry Charles. For what happened. I truly am.

Charles Xavier: Erik, what are you doing?
Erik: Saving our future. Forgive me Mystique. As long as you're out there we'll never be safe.

Charles Xavier: You're on acid. Somebody gave you really bad acid, yeah?

French nurse: Pouvez-vous imaginer faire face à un miroir? Un miroir en train de vous fixer?
Raven: Oui, je peux.

French nurse: A votre avis, d'où vient-elle? Vous pensez qu'elle a une famille?
Raven: Yes, she does.

Erik: How did you find me?
Raven: You taught me well.
Erik: It's been a long time since we were this close. I missed you.
Raven: You tried to kill me.
Erik: So the rest of us could live.
Raven: What do you mean?
Erik: We received a message from the future.
Raven: Don't lie to me.
Erik: I never have and I never will. Humans used you blood, your genes, to create a weapon that wipe us all out. I was only doing was I thought necessary to secure my future.
Raven: So what's to stop me from killing you right now? Saving my future?
Erik: Nothing. It doesn't matter anymore. They have your DNA.

Raven: I've seen too many friends die Erik, I don't want a war.

Erik: This is war. What happened to you? Did you lose your will while I was gone? Are you still Charle's Raven, or are you Mystique?

Raven: Trask is the enemy.
Erik: Killing one men isn't enough.
Raven: It never was for you. Goodbye Erik.

Hank: Are you sure about this?
Charles Xavier: Absolutely not.

Trask: Never before in all of human history has there been a cause that could unite us as a species, until now.

Trask: I see mutants as our salvation.
Bill Stryker: A common enemy?
Charles Xavier: Common struggle, against the ultimate enemy: extinction.

Logan: When was the last time you were down here.
Hank: The last time we were looking for students.
Charles Xavier: A lifetime.

Professor X: Just because someone stumbles, loses their way, it doesn't mean they're lost forever. Sometimes we all need a little help.

Charles Xavier: I know what Trask has done. But killing him will not bring them back. It will set you on a path from which there is no return. An endless cycle of killing...us and them, until there is nothing left. But we can stop it right now, you and I. You just have to come home.

Hank: There is a theory in quantum physics that time is immutable. It's like a river. You can throw a pebble and it creates a ripple but the current always corrects itself. No matter what you do, the river just keeps flowing in the same direction.
Logan: What are you trying to say?
Hank: What I'm saying is, what if the war is inevitable? What if she is meant to kill Trask? What if this is simply who she is?
Charles Xavier: Just because someone stumbles, loses their way, doesn't mean they're lost forever.

Logan: The X-Men... promise me you'll find us. Use your power, bring us together. Guide us. Lead us. Storm, Scott, Jean. Remember those names, there is so many of us. We will need you, professor.
Charles Xavier: I will do my best.
Logan: Your best is enough. Trust me.

Charles Xavier: Please listen to me. We've been given a second chance to define who we are. Don't do this.

Hank: Probably not supposed to ask this kind of things but...in the future, do I make it?
Logan: No. But we can change that, right?

Erik: So much for being a survivor.

Erik: You built these weapons to destroy us. Why? Because you're afraid of our gifts. Because we are different. But I'm here to tell you, to tell the world: you are right to fear us. We are the future. We are the one who'll inherit this earth. And anyone who stands in our way will suffer the same fate as these men you see before you.

Erik: Let this be a warning to the world. And to my mutant brothers and sisters out there I say this: no more hiding. No more suffering. You have lived in the shadows of shame and fear far too long. Come out. Join me. Fight together in a brotherhood of our kind. A new tomorrow that starts today.

Erik: The future of our species begin now.

Charles Xavier: Raven please, do not make us the enemy today.
Raven: Look around you, we already are.
Charles Xavier: Not all of us. All you've done so far is save the lives of these men. You can show them a better path.

Charles Xavier: I've been trying to control you ever since the day we met and look where that's gotten us. Everything that happens now is in your hands. I have faith in you Raven.

Erik: If you let them have me I'm as good as dead. You know that?
Charles Xavier: I know.
Erik: Goodbye old friend.
Charles Xavier: Goodbye Erik.

Charles Xavier: There is going to be a time Hank, when we are all together.

Logan: I could use some help with that.
Professor X: Help with what?
Logan: Pretty much everything after 1973. I think the history I know is a little different.
Professor X: Welcome back.

Professor X: What's the last thing you remember?
Logan: Drowning.

Charles Xavier: The past... a new and uncertain world. A world of endless possibilities and infinite outcomes. Countless choices define our faith. Each choice, each moment, a ripple in the river of time. Enough ripples and you change the tide, for the future is never truly set.

Plot: The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate bid to save Mystique and their entire species from a gruesome war that is decimating them.

Trailer:

Review:

X-Men : Day of Future Past is a great new addition of the series. I’ve been watching the X-Men movies from the start and my relationship with the movies have had its ups and down. The very first X-Men to be released fascinated me and I absolutely loved it. The second movie was okay, average at best but still entertaining. Now, X-Men: The Last Stand was a big disappointment for me and I didn’t enjoy it at all. The next one yet chronologically first movie X-Men: First Class I did thoroughly enjoy though and it got me hooked on the X-Men franchise all over again. I was therefore very excited and very curious to see this new instalment. I have to say that I was a tiny bit confused and sceptical when I heard the plot, and I was afraid that it would be all over the place. I am also not a huge fan of the big blockbuster movies where it’s just all about action and fights for more than three quarters of a film. It is therefore with relief that I can officially announce that X-Men: Days of Future Past is AWESOME! The movie uses just the right dosage of action while focusing on the characters and on their relationship with one another. Mystique being one of my favorite characters from the start, I was especially glad to see more of her character and of the bond she shares with Charles Xavier. A lot of other mutants are also introduced but I have to say that I saw them too little to really care for any of them. The one I really loved was Quicksilver. It was such a fun and cool character and all his scenes were just hilarious and light.

The relationship between Erik and Charles Xavier is as complex as ever and Erik is such an ambivalent character. One minute you love him and the next you hate him! As for Magneto, he was surprisingly pleasant! Seeing a young Professor X in doubts was also very interesting. Professor X is such a confident and wise character and so it was quite weird to see him as a young prick!

As for Wolverine, well I have to say I really liked how well he blended in this film and I thought his character was just really enjoyable.

I was also very happy to see a few familiar faces such as Storm (Halle Berry), Jean (Famke Janssen ), Scott (James Marsden) and even Rogue (Anna Paquin) even if it was for a few seconds.

On another note, I was glad to hate the evil professor Task who is played by no less than Peter Dinklage, also known as Tyron on Game of Thrones!

Finally, what I like best about X-Men: Days of the Future Past is how it rewrites history and leaves so many pending questions. I mean, anything could happen now and I just cannot wait to watch the next movie(s)!

EuroTrip

2014-07-25T07:21:00.001-07:00

Directed by: Jeff Schaffer

Memorable quotes:

Fiona: Congratulations graduate!
Scott: Thanks babe!
Fiona: And congratulations to you Cooper!
Cooper: Aw, thanks babe! (he leans forward to kiss Fiona.)
Fiona: (Pushing Copper back) Nice try.

Fiona: Scott we need to talk.
Scott: About what?
Fiona: About me dumping you.
Scott: Huh?

Scott: What do you mean you're dumping me?
Fiona: Scott, I just can't tale all the lying and cheating on each other anymore.
Scott: What are you talking about sweety? I never cheated on you.
Fiona: I know, that's what makes it so hard.

Fiona: Scotty, it's not you, it's me. There it goes, lying again. No, it was you. You're just so...predictable.

Scott: So that's it?
Fiona: Here is your leather jacket back. Bye!
Scott: This isn't mine!

Cooper: This is just so brutal and yet I can't look away.

Copper: Stay black Bert.

Jenny: Sorry to hear about Fiona, she's a whore.

Cooper: Enough Fiona talk. Look around, there's got to be a hundred drunk girls here. We should try to have sex with every one of them.
Jenny: Hello! Mixed company!
Cooper: What?
Jenny: I'm a girl!
Scott: No you're not.
Cooper: You're a cool guy with long hair.
Scott: So where's your evil twin brother at?

Jenny: Why did you get me gin and tonic? I hate gin.
Jamie: You do?
Cooper: You guys are the worse twins ever.

Jamie: Do you guys want to see my itinerary?
Cooper: Do you want to see my balls?

Cooper: Stuck on a boat with a weird French guy? It sounds a little gay.
Jenny: It's not gay, I'm a girl.

Scott: Why are you wearing my bathrobe?
Bert: Oh I'm sorry, but someone pissed all over mine last night.

Cooper: That's Mike? That's who you've been writing to all this time?
Scott: Yeah, you know until last night when I took your advice and told her to keep her hands off my genitals.

Scott: I told her things I couldn't even tell you.
Cooper; Like what?
Scott: Nothing, it's a figure of speech.
Cooper: No seriously what?
Scott: Nothing. The point is...
Cooper:... You like me better, right?

Cooper: Oh Jesus Scotty, Fiona was right. You're so predictable.

Employee at the delivery company: I can get you both to London today for 118 dollars.
Scott: Anything else?
Cooper: Europe is like the size of the Eastwood mall. We can walk to Berlin from there.
Scott: Cooper, England is an island.
Cooper: Okay swim, whatever.

Cooper: This trip is like a once in a lifetime opportunity for me to broad my sexual horizons.
Scott: What are you talking about?
Cooper: I'm talking about crazy European sex. You know America was founded by prudes, prudes who left Europe because they hated all the kinky, steamy European sex that was going on. And now I, Cooper Harris, will return to the land of my forefathers and claim my birthright, which is a series of erotic and sexually challenging adventures.
Scott: You really thought a lot about this, haven't you?
Cooper: It's my passion.

Scott's mom: Honey, where is Scotty?
Scott's dad: Cooper said they were going camping.
Scott's mom: Oh, that's nice. And where is Bert?
Scott's dad: The fuck do I know?

Cooper: Relax, Paris is practically a suburb of Berlin. It's nothing commute. This is why France and Germany have always been allies.

Jamie: Nobody touches my camera but me.
Cooper: Like your wiener.

Cooper: She makes every girl from our highschool look like a walrus.
Jenny: I'm a girl from your highschool.
Cooper: No, I mean girl girls.

Scott: So, you guys wanna stay here or should we go check out the huge line at the Eiffel Tower?
Jamie: Here's a fun fact: Voltaire contracted syphilis just two blocks from here. Shall we go?

Cooper: What the hell is that?
Jamie: It's a traveller money belt. Frommer says as long as you have one of these no one can rob you of anything.
Scott: Except your dignity.
Jamie: No, you just put that in your... Wait, what?
Scott: Come on guidebook.

Cooper: Check it out: European ass!
Jenny: What's up?
Cooper: Oh Jesus Jenny, I thought you were some girl.
Jenny: Thanks.

Cooper: Do you think you can go an hour without your currency colostomy bag?

Scott: There are so many penises.

Cooper: This is the biggest sausage fest on earth.
Scott: It's the international house of sausage.

Jenny: Hey! Thanks for waiting.
Cooper: Well, it's not like you're missing anything. It's all guys.

Jamie: I'm not gonna make it. Go on without me!
Cooper: Alright, see ya!

Mika: I'm so sad and lonely. I just wish someone would show up and sweep me off my German feet.

Mika: Let us make love, for one whole month.

Cooper: We're in Amsterdam. This is the drug and sex capital of Europe.

Cooper: Who's with me?
Jamie: I'll go.
Cooper: Fine. Since no one else is willing to go, I'll just go myself.

Cooper: This is definitely where I parked my car.

Madame Vandersex: He's American. How sad for you to grow up in a country that was found by prudes.

Madame Vandersex: A country where a man is forced to make sex to only one woman at a time and one must learn the woman's name beforehand.

Madame Vandersex: Let's the Vandersex begin!

Scott: I saw a gay porno once. I didn't know until halfway in. The girls never came. THE GIRLS NEVER CAME!

Scott: What did you do last night?
Cooper: I don't want to talk about it. What did you guys do?
Scott & Jenny: Don't want to talk about it.

Slovak guy: Miami Vice is the number show!

Jamie: They call it the green fairy.

Jenny: You just go around Europe sleeping with every woman you meet?
Christophe: No, please, Jenny, for it is not like that. I also sleep with men.

Scott: They really are the worse twins ever.

Cooper: Oh here's a fun fact: you made out with your sister man!

Jamie: The châteaux have been there for three hundred years. Mika's gone in twelve hours.

Jamie: We could be seeing history in the making.
Jenny: We could be seeing an arrest in the making.

Scott: I came here to be with you. Listen, I just travelled all the way across Europe. I got chased by naked men. I ate brownies with absolutely no drugs in them. I watched a brother and a sister make out. I kicked a robot in the balls but I did it all so I could tell you one thing. I love you Mieke. We're perfect for each other.

Mieke: I still can't believe you came all the way here. Just for me.
Scott: What can I say? I'm very unpredictable.

Cooper: This still counts as Europe, right?

Scott: How is this possible?
Mieke: I guess they thought I was a guy.
Scott: Now, who would be dumb enough to make a mistake like this?

Plot: Overly predictable Scott graduates highschool with his whole summer planned, namely working for his dad and spending time with his seemingly perfect girlfriend Fiona...until Fiona breaks up with him on graduation day. Trying to change his predictable ways, Scott goes touring in Europe with his best friends in a bid to find his German penpal who he just realized is a girl he might just be in love with...

Trailer:

Review:

EuroTrip is everything you can typically expect from a teen movie. It is goofy, sexy, funny, light, and most of the jokes revolve around sex. As a huge fan of teen movie (apart maybe for American Pie, this one never did the trick for me) I knew that I just had to watch EuroTrip as it was considered a pure example of the genre. As such, I would hope that no one decides to watch this movie in the hope of watching a smart, documentary-type film about a group of friends travelling around Europe. This movie is just plain stupid and conveys many horrible and inaccurate stereotypes about Europe and Europeans. Yet EuroTrip was made to be this way. The whole movie revolves around stereotype and one should not expect anything more from it than just fun! The acting is fairly good and I really enjoyed the cast. As a Buffy the Vampire Slayer's fan, I was of course looking forward to seeing Michelle Trachtenberg, aka Buffy's little sister Dawn. I wasn't as familiar with Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts and Travis Wester but they did a fair job in portraying a group of dumb, fun-loving americans. Xena fans will also appreciate the cameo of Lucy Lawless as the dutch Madame Vandersex! Personally, my favorite scene is hands up seeing Canadian actress Kristin Keurk dancing and "singing*" alongside Matt Damon. I loved seeing him with earrings and a shaved head as we are not exactly used to seeing him that way.

Below is the video of a crazy looking Matt Damon performing in the movie EuroTrip.

Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*Note: Matt Damon was in fact lip synching to a Lustra song

Juno

2014-04-18T11:04:00.002-07:00

Directed by: Jason Reitman

Written by: Diablo Cody

Memorable quotes:

Juno: It started with a chair.

Juno: Jeez, Banana. Shut your frigging gob, okay?

Juno: This is the most magnificent discarded living room set I've ever seen.

Rollo: Well, well. If it isn't MacGuff the crime dog. Back for another test?
Juno: I think the first one was defective. The plus sign looks more like a division symbol so I remain unconvinced.
Rollo: Third test today, Mama Bear. Your eggo is preggo, no doubt about it.
Teen: It's really easy to tell. Is your nipples real brown?
Rollo: Yeah. Maybe your little boyfriend's got mutant sperms. Knocked you up twice.
Juno: Silencio, old man. Look, I just drank my weight in SunnyD and I gotta go pronto.

Rollo: Pay for that pee stick when you're done. Don't think it's yours because you marked it with your urine.

Rollo: What's the prognosis, fertile myrtle? Minus or plus?
Juno: I don't know. It's not seasoned yet.

Juno: That little pink plus sign is so unholy.

Rollo: That ain't no Etch A Sketch.

Rollo: This is one doodle that can't be undid, home skillet.

Juno: I'm a suicide risk.
Leah: Juno?
Juno: No, it's Morgan Freeman. Do you have bones that need collecting?
Leah: Only the one in my pants.
Juno: I'm pregnant.
Leah: What? Honest to blog?
Juno: Yeah, Yeah, it's Bleekers.
Leah: It's probably just a food baby, alright? Did you have a big lunch?
Juno: No, this is not a food baby, alright? I've taken like three pregnancy tests and I am for shiz up the spout.
Leah: How did you generate enough pee for three pregnancy tests? That's amazing.
Juno: I don't know, I drank like ten tons of SunnyD. Anyway, dude, I'm telling you I'm pregnant and you're acting shockingly cavalier.
Leah: Is this for real? Like for real, for real?
Juno: Unfortunately, yes.
Leah: Oh my God! Oh shit! Phuket, Thailand!
Juno: There we go. That was kind of the emotion I was searching for on the first take.

Juno: I'm gonna go to Women Now, just because they help out women now.

Leah: You love him!
Juno: It's...no...it's actually...it's really complicated, okay? And I don't feel like talking about it in my fragile state.

Leah: So, how was it like humping Bleek's bony bod?
Juno: Magnificent.

Paulie Bleeker: Wicked tiger. He looks proud.

Juno: When I see them all running like that, with their things bouncing around in their shorts I always picture them naked, even if I don't want to. All I see is pork swords.

Juno: So, guess what?
Bleeker: What? I don't know.
Juno: I'm pregnant.

Juno: I was thinking I'd just nip it in the bud. Before it gets worse. Cause they were talking about, in health class, how pregnancy, it can often lead to an infant.
Bleeker: Typically, yeah, yeah.

Juno: Well, I'm sorry I had sex with you. I know it wasn't like, your idea.
Bleeker: What? Whose idea was it?

Juno: Oh, I couldn't copy your work.
Bleeker: You copy my work every week.
Juno: True. I'm kind of a deadbeat lab partner.
Bleeker: No, I don't mind. I think you definitely bring something to the table.
Juno: Charisma.

Juno: So, who's ready for some chronomagnificience?
Amanda: Yeah, I have a menstrual migraine so I can't really look at bright lights today.

Juno: Hey, yeah, I'm just calling to procure a hasty abortion.

Juno: Can you just hold on for a second? I'm on my hamburger phone.

Bren MacGuff: Juno, did you by any chance barf in my urn?

Su-Chin: Your baby probably has a beating heart you know. It can feel pain. And it has fingernails!
Juno: Fingernails? Really?

Receptionist: Welcome to Women Now, where women are trusted friends. Please put your hands where I can see them and surrender any bombs.
Juno: Hey, I'm here for the big show.

Receptionist: Your name please?
Juno: Juno McGuff. (to herself) She thinks I'm using a fake name, like Gene Simmons or Mother Teresa.

Receptionist: Would you like a free condom? They're boysenberry.
Juno: No, I'm off sex right now.

Receptionist: They make his junk smell like pie.

Mac MacGuff: Liberty Bell, if you put one more Bac-O on that potato I'm gonna kick your little monkey butt.

Leah: Do you think the baby can scratch your vag on the way out?

Leah: My mom is inside. She doesn't know that we're sexually active.
Juno: What does that even mean?

Juno: I'm staying pregnant.

Juno: Maybe they'll canonize me for being so selfless.

Juno: They have ads for parents?
Leah: Yeah. "Desperately Seeking Spawn". Right next to like, terriers and iguanas and used fitness equipment and stuff. It's like totally legit.

Juno: I'm not asking for anything. Except for maybe mercy. Like it would be frigging sweet if no one hit me.

Mac: Who's the kid?
Juno: The baby? I don't really know much about it other than it has fingernails. Allegedly.
Bren MacGuff: Nails? Really?
Juno: Yeah!
Mac: No, I mean, who is the father, Juno/

Leah: We found them in the PennySaver next to exotic Birds.

Bren: Well, you're a little Viking.

Bren: You need prenatal vitamins. Incidentally, they do incredible things for your nails, so that's a plus.

Mac: I don't want you to get tripped off by a couple of baby-starved wing nuts.

Mac: Boy, I thought you were the kind of girl who know when to say when.
Juno: I don't really know what kind of girl I am.

Bren: I think kids get bored and they have intercourse. And I think Junebug was a dummy about it, Mac.
Mac: I am not ready to be a pop-pop.
Bren: You're not gonna be a pop-pop. Some body else is gonna find a precious blessing from Jesus in this garbage dump of a situation.

Bren: I was hoping she was expelled or into drugs.
Dad: That was my first instinct too. Or a DWI. Anything but this.

Mac: And I'm gonna punch that Bleeker kid in the weiner next time I see him.

Bren: Mac, come on. You know it wasn't his idea.

Mac: Thanks for having me and my irresponsible child over to your house.

Mac: And this of course is Juno.
Mark Loring: Like the city in Alaska.
Juno: No.
Mark: No? Okay...

Mac: She's kidding. Junebug gas a wonderful sense of humor. Just one of her many genetic gifts.

Gerta Rauss: So, Junon first off, how far along are you?
Juno: I'm a junior.

Vanessa: I think pregnancy is beautiful.
Juno: You're lucky it's not you.

Juno: Can't we just kick this old school? You know, like I stick the baby in a basket, send it your way, like Moses in the reeds?
Mark: Technically, that would be kicking it Old Testament.

Juno: I'm still in highschool. Dude, I'm ill-equipped.

Mark: Do we come off as paranoid yuppies or something?

Juno: I'm giving you and Vanessa the gift of life. Sweet, screaming, pooping life. And you don't even have to be there when it comes out all covered in...
Mark: Viscera.
Juno: Blood and guts.

Juno: Dude, you weren't there. You wouldn't understand the magic.
Mark: You weren't even alive.

Juno: You want to know how your kid's a-cooking. I get it.

Bren: What is your job title exactly?
Technician: I'm an ultrasound technician, ma'am.
Bren: Well, I'm a nail technician, and I think we both ought to stick to what we know.
Technician: Excuse me?
Bren: You think you're so special because you get to play Picture Pages up there? My 5 year old could do that, and she's not the brightest bulb in the tanning bed. Why don't you go back to night school in Manteno and learn a new trade?

Juno: Bren, you're a dick. I love it!

Juno: I think it looks like my friend Paulie.
Mark: Is he also bald and amorphous?
Juno: No, he's the dad.

Juno: Have you guys thought of names for the baby yet?
Mark: Sort of, yes. Vanessa likes Madison for a girl.
Juno: Madison? Wait, hold on. Isn't that, like, a little gay?

Juno: Zeus like he has tons of lays but I'm pretty sure Juno was his only wife. And she was supposed to be like, really beautiful but really mean. Like Diana Ross.
Mark: That suits you.
Juno: Thanks?

Bren: I have sacrificed a lot for you Juno, and in a couple of years when you move out, I'm gonna get Weimaraners.
Juno: Whoa, dream big!
Bren: Oh, go fly a kite.

Bleeker: You seem to be getting pregnanter these days.

Juno: At school everyone is just grabbing my belly like all the time. It's crazy. But I'm a legend, you know. They call me the cautionary whale.

Bleeker: I still have your underwear.
Juno: I still have your virginity.

Juno: I'm a planet.

Juno: I just like being a piece of furniture in your weird life.

Vanessa: Why are you crying?
Juno: I'm not crying. I'm just allergic to fine home furnishings.

Vanessa: If I have to wait for you to become Kurt Cobain, I'm never gonna be a mother.

Juno: Hey dad!
Mac: Hey, big puffy version of Junebug. Where you been?
Juno: Oh, just out dealing with things way beyond my maturity level.

Juno: I never realize how much I like being home unless I've been somewhere really different for a while.

Mac: What's eating you?
Juno: Just like, losing my faith in humanity.
Mac: Wow, can you narrow that down for me?

Mac: I mean, that's pretty skanky. Isn't that what you girls call it? Skanky? Skeevy?
Juno: Please stop.
Mac: Tore up from the floor up?

Mac: Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are? Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you. The right person's still gonna think the sun shines out of your ass.

Juno: I just need to know that it's possible that two people can step happy together forever.

Juno: I think I'm in love with you.
Bleeker: You mean as friends?
Juno: No, I mean, for real. Cause you're like, the coolest person I've ever met... and you don't even have to try, you know.
Bleeker: I try really hard, actually.
Juno: You're like, naturally smart. And you're not like everyone else. You don't stare at my stomach, you look at my face. And everytime I see you the baby starts kicking super hard.
Bleeker: It does? Wizard.
Juno: I think it's because my heart starts pounding every time I see you.
Bleeker: Mine too.
Juno: Well, that's all I could ask for. You're golden man.
Bleeker: Can we make out now?
Juno: Yeah.

Leah: Hey, you know you could go into early labor sucking face like that.

Juno: Dad?
Mac: What?
Juno: Dad, either I just peed my pants or, um...
Mac: Or?
Juno: Thundercats are go!

Bren: Honey, doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream.

Juno: And then, out of nowhere, there it was. There he was.

Mac: Someday you'll be back here honey. On your terms.

Vanessa: How do I look?
Bren: Like a new mom. Scared shitless.

Juno: It ended with a chair.

Juno: As boyfriends go, Paulie Bleeker is totally boss. He is the cheese to my macaroni. And I know people are supposed to fall in love before they reproduce but I guess normalcy isn't really our style.

Plot: A quirky teenager becomes pregnant and is faced with a difficult decision regarding her unborn child...

Review:

Juno is a true gem. There is no other word for it. Despite dealing with a serious thematic, which is very often misrepresented in movies and on T.V., Juno manages something that has rarely if never been achieved before. Juno actually depicts a teenage girl who becomes pregnant in a bright light and the movie withholds any judgments. Juno is actually smarter than most kids her own age, and she immediately takes responsibility for her pregnancy. There are no tantrum, no tears, no asking God why this happened. Juno simply depicts an individual that made a mistake and yet refuses to let it define her for the rest of her life. She simply deals with her pregnancy the best she can. Now, I know things might not be as easy in real life as Juno does have an extremely strong family support, but it is still more realistic than a lot of Lifetime T.V. movies or reality T.V. pregnant teenagers are depicted on.

Juno has become such a classic now, a true example of what a near perfect movie looks like. The actors are amazing, the dialogues are brilliant and the soundtrack is just perfect. Rarely have I seen a soundtrack that fitted a movie so well. I do believe this was the first time I heard of Ellen Paige, but I am glad that she is still acting and that she is such a good role model.

This was also the first time I heard of Diablo Cody and I am quite surprised that we don’t get to hear more from her. I mean, that girl got so much talent it almost looks like a waste (although she could have abstain from coming up with Jennifer’s Body really…)

Michael Cera, who plays Juno’s more or less boyfriend and baby’s father is no different in Juno than in most movies he’s in. He is the passive, kind of goofy, nice nerd.

I found Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman both kind of cringeworthy for most of the movie, and I didn’t find any of them likeable until towards the end, when they both take off their masks and reveal what they really feel and think behind their shiny smiles.

J.K. Simmons and Allison Janney are both amazing actors and their characters are my favorite in the movie. They are both tough, but fair with a gentle heart.

In sum, there is nothing wrong I could say about Juno. This movie is splendid and was such a novelty when it came out. Years later, it is still an absolute delight to watch.