Okay...sometimes, all of the cold remedies in the world really don't work and a traveling co-worker brings home some infectious monstrosity that whips your immune system day after day. Then, it's all about the Theraflu, baby. Nasty business, but it gets in there and at least takes the pain away long enough to sleep (which is where I'm going now). Good night world!
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Little Dorrit (2008)
This adaptation of Charles Dickens novel was filmed as a mini-series because that's the only possible way to fit all of the richness of characters, plot twists, and surprises in. There are 4 CD's with 4 episodes each...but, don't you worry, this is a time investment worth making!
The cast was incredible, the dialogue quotable, and I was delighted to see some actual ACTING (did you know that some actors actually have some skill in the craft and are not just type casted for the part?) Andy Serkis is just plain terrifying as the murderer Rigaud and Russell Tovey will break your heart wide open as John Chivery even if you've never experienced unrequited love for yourself.
There are some silly over-the-top characatures, but Dickens was a master at using these for their entertainment value and to keep his reader's interest as he weaved an intricate plot together. My hat is off to Andrew Davies for the adaptation. This one is going on my list of books to read!
The cast was incredible, the dialogue quotable, and I was delighted to see some actual ACTING (did you know that some actors actually have some skill in the craft and are not just type casted for the part?) Andy Serkis is just plain terrifying as the murderer Rigaud and Russell Tovey will break your heart wide open as John Chivery even if you've never experienced unrequited love for yourself.
There are some silly over-the-top characatures, but Dickens was a master at using these for their entertainment value and to keep his reader's interest as he weaved an intricate plot together. My hat is off to Andrew Davies for the adaptation. This one is going on my list of books to read!
Horrible Bosses (2011)
So, some movie trailer making magician cut this movie into looking like a modern comedy worth watching...and we tried.
My husband, who has the energy and passion to watch films, finished it. I, however, who have energy and passion for REAL life and REAL laughter, could not. At some point in the movie (I think I made it about 40 minutes, but only because I was eating and watching at the same time -- bad habit from childhood), I shut it off. Literally. I'd had enough and I shut the computer down we were watching it on.
Here's what I have to say about this:
Dear Hollywood Mult-millionaires,
The working people of America are NOT stupid. Stupidity is NOT what keeps us in our jobs every day. We work to earn money to pay for the moments when we are not working. Period. Some of us are lucky enough to have jobs that we loved. All of us deal with office politics. All of us roll our eyes at our bosses once in while. Some of have horrible bosses. Those of us who do, are intelligent enough to use the legal methods and safeguards in place and we don't need Hollywood to tell us that the worker bees of America are the real idiots here. Making a movie that demeans the working class by stating on film that we're too stupid to make phone calls, do research, or be decent to others is NOT okay. This movie didn't even have ONE good laugh in it. The racist bar scene was painful. The live porn at work scene was ludicrous. Do you people even LIVE in the real world? Do you know that there are working class citizens that laugh everyday and don't need to be stupid to do so? Do you realize that America is learning to vote with its paycheck and if you keep making movies like this, we will no longer spend money to OCCUPY your movie theatres?
Who's the stupid one now?
Sincerely,
One of America's Employed
Dear Ms. Aniston,
Please. Please. PLEASE, stop reading the tabloids. You are your own kind of beautiful. And, no matter what a make-up artist/movie director/production con artist says, you will NEVER be Angeline Jolie Brand of sexy. You have to find your own. Darkening, lengthening, and "banging" your hair, tanning your skin, wearing more eyeliner, and busting out with the push up bra/booty padding is NOT going to make you Jolie Brand sexy. It just won't. Hers is in the eyes. And yours just don't sell it.
Your friend,
Another girl born in the year of the Rabbit, just like Angie
Dear Husband,
Darling, I do not have heart beats to waste on cinematic filth like this. In the future, use your "pre-screening" time to just kill it before I get there. Seriously, I would rather have been fighting with you about something important and hoping for makeup sex afterward.
Lovingly,
Your ovulating wife
'Nuff said. If I have time for a movie today, it'll definately be Independent or BBC.
My husband, who has the energy and passion to watch films, finished it. I, however, who have energy and passion for REAL life and REAL laughter, could not. At some point in the movie (I think I made it about 40 minutes, but only because I was eating and watching at the same time -- bad habit from childhood), I shut it off. Literally. I'd had enough and I shut the computer down we were watching it on.
Here's what I have to say about this:
Dear Hollywood Mult-millionaires,
The working people of America are NOT stupid. Stupidity is NOT what keeps us in our jobs every day. We work to earn money to pay for the moments when we are not working. Period. Some of us are lucky enough to have jobs that we loved. All of us deal with office politics. All of us roll our eyes at our bosses once in while. Some of have horrible bosses. Those of us who do, are intelligent enough to use the legal methods and safeguards in place and we don't need Hollywood to tell us that the worker bees of America are the real idiots here. Making a movie that demeans the working class by stating on film that we're too stupid to make phone calls, do research, or be decent to others is NOT okay. This movie didn't even have ONE good laugh in it. The racist bar scene was painful. The live porn at work scene was ludicrous. Do you people even LIVE in the real world? Do you know that there are working class citizens that laugh everyday and don't need to be stupid to do so? Do you realize that America is learning to vote with its paycheck and if you keep making movies like this, we will no longer spend money to OCCUPY your movie theatres?
Who's the stupid one now?
Sincerely,
One of America's Employed
Dear Ms. Aniston,
Please. Please. PLEASE, stop reading the tabloids. You are your own kind of beautiful. And, no matter what a make-up artist/movie director/production con artist says, you will NEVER be Angeline Jolie Brand of sexy. You have to find your own. Darkening, lengthening, and "banging" your hair, tanning your skin, wearing more eyeliner, and busting out with the push up bra/booty padding is NOT going to make you Jolie Brand sexy. It just won't. Hers is in the eyes. And yours just don't sell it.
Your friend,
Another girl born in the year of the Rabbit, just like Angie
Dear Husband,
Darling, I do not have heart beats to waste on cinematic filth like this. In the future, use your "pre-screening" time to just kill it before I get there. Seriously, I would rather have been fighting with you about something important and hoping for makeup sex afterward.
Lovingly,
Your ovulating wife
'Nuff said. If I have time for a movie today, it'll definately be Independent or BBC.
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