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dekolette! My LiveJournal world would be a much sadder place without you.
So today, the highligh of my day was going to the fete at the school where I work at the after-school program. It was lots of fun, which was cut short because I had to go pick my sister up from work.
Ahh! No! Put it back the way it was! Nobody's looking at my userinfo to see how many comments I've made or how many tags I have, including me. Eurgh.
Okay, I had this post made up, but it can basically be summed up by the fact that Bryan Fuller might return to 'Heroes' because 'Pushing Daisies' might be cancelled, 'The Middleman' might be cancelled, 'Dollhouse' has been dumped on the death time slot of Friday nights at 9 pm, and Nathan Fillion's new show 'Castle' has had its order of episodes reduced. So, everything sucks.
In the last two days I've seen three chick flicks. Well, not so much chick flicks as movies about and for women...and at least one full-blown chick flick.
Baby Mama
This movie was very funny, and a nice antidote to the amazingly high number of guy-centric comedies of this nature that are out there. Fey and Poehler make a great comedy team, and while things wrapped up a little too neatly (okay, a lot too neatly), the movie was fun and funny and had a lot of interesting things to say about our modern society, and motherhood in it, without being too preachy. Tina Fey is kickass, man. Also, Steve Martin is funny for the first time in YEARS, which makes the movie worth watching, don't you think?
3.5 out of 5
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
This movie was really, really cute. Really cute. Amy Adams and Lee Pace are in it, how could it be anything BUT cute? It was fun, sweet and enjoyable, and beautifully shot. It's kept moving at a pretty brisk pace, and is a fairly short movie at under 1.5 hours - call me a nerd, but I probably would've gotten more out of it if it had been a bit longer. It didn't leave much of an impression on me beyond cute.
3 out of 5
The Jane Austen Book Club
This is the only REAL chick flick that I saw recently, in that it has every one of the trappings of a chick flick: women of a certain age discovering love and life and crying too much. Usually this is the sort of movie I run a mile from, being about as attached to chick flicks as most straight men usually are, but I sat through this one for my wife as a lesbian. She wasn't given much to do (and, interestingly, she's the only one who hasn't found her One True Love by the final scene) but she was OK. I think the story I ended up liking the most was Maria Bello and Hugh Dancy's, mostly because Hugh Dancy plays an adorable, nerdy guy, and Maria Bello and Kathy Baker were the only main characters (aside from Maggie) that I could stand. I wanted to throttle Amy Brenneman.
2 out of 5
I'm going to reward you with five minutes of uninterruped eye contact
Green Queen
dekolette! My LiveJournal world would be a much sadder place without you.So today, the highligh of my day was going to the fete at the school where I work at the after-school program. It was lots of fun, which was cut short because I had to go pick my sister up from work.
Ahh! No! Put it back the way it was! Nobody's looking at my userinfo to see how many comments I've made or how many tags I have, including me. Eurgh.
Okay, I had this post made up, but it can basically be summed up by the fact that Bryan Fuller might return to 'Heroes' because 'Pushing Daisies' might be cancelled, 'The Middleman' might be cancelled, 'Dollhouse' has been dumped on the death time slot of Friday nights at 9 pm, and Nathan Fillion's new show 'Castle' has had its order of episodes reduced. So, everything sucks.
In the last two days I've seen three chick flicks. Well, not so much chick flicks as movies about and for women...and at least one full-blown chick flick.
Baby Mama
This movie was very funny, and a nice antidote to the amazingly high number of guy-centric comedies of this nature that are out there. Fey and Poehler make a great comedy team, and while things wrapped up a little too neatly (okay, a lot too neatly), the movie was fun and funny and had a lot of interesting things to say about our modern society, and motherhood in it, without being too preachy. Tina Fey is kickass, man. Also, Steve Martin is funny for the first time in YEARS, which makes the movie worth watching, don't you think?
3.5 out of 5
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
This movie was really, really cute. Really cute. Amy Adams and Lee Pace are in it, how could it be anything BUT cute? It was fun, sweet and enjoyable, and beautifully shot. It's kept moving at a pretty brisk pace, and is a fairly short movie at under 1.5 hours - call me a nerd, but I probably would've gotten more out of it if it had been a bit longer. It didn't leave much of an impression on me beyond cute.
3 out of 5
The Jane Austen Book Club
This is the only REAL chick flick that I saw recently, in that it has every one of the trappings of a chick flick: women of a certain age discovering love and life and crying too much. Usually this is the sort of movie I run a mile from, being about as attached to chick flicks as most straight men usually are, but I sat through this one for my wife as a lesbian. She wasn't given much to do (and, interestingly, she's the only one who hasn't found her One True Love by the final scene) but she was OK. I think the story I ended up liking the most was Maria Bello and Hugh Dancy's, mostly because Hugh Dancy plays an adorable, nerdy guy, and Maria Bello and Kathy Baker were the only main characters (aside from Maggie) that I could stand. I wanted to throttle Amy Brenneman.
2 out of 5
I'm going to reward you with five minutes of uninterruped eye contact
Green Queen
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*sigh* I think you summed it up well with "everything sucks."
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Nice to see I'm not the only one who thought so. Sure Baby Mama is predictable, but it's very funny and I thought very entertaining and it has Tina Fey in it :D
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