The Critical Eye VS Eye Candy

How Do You Rate A Film Like This Means War? (sung to the tune of "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?")

               Ever since I had heard about this film on my regular IMDb rounds, I was really pumped to see a film in which Chris Pine and Tom Hardy fight over Reese Witherspoon. Partly because it sounded fun and the fact that these are good actors that I usually like, but mostly because I am one of those neanderthal women who gets a real kick out of watching two hot guys fight. Especially over a girl. Seriously. I mean I am uncontrollable during the goofy fight scene between Colin Firth and Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones's Diary. I hoot and cheer and well, act crazy, so you can imagine me during the trailer when Pine and Hardy, who are definitely the more badass opponents in every way, fighting with guns and tables and what not.


                And today, I watched the movie. Let me tell you that my cheeks are paining right now due to all the smiling I did throughout the movie. And I smiled a lot, and really big smiles too. I enjoyed every stupid element in it, just because they were being done by two unbelievably gorgeous men. And they were gorgeous! Especially Chris Pine with his sparkly blue eyes... okay I'm digressing. Anyways, all that was fine until I sat down to rate it. This is the thing- I don't know how. How can I think about a film like this in the same way I think about other films, since my brain was pretty much the last organ I was using while watching it. I was using even my facial muscles more, you know.


                So here's my question- should one always watch a film with a critical eye, or can we occasionally sit back and let the raging hormones and all that do the work and just enjoy all the eye candy? 

Look at that swag (can't believe I just wrote that).

Thoughts

I forgot to be all It's December, YAAAYYY!! last week, so here it goes- It's December. YAAAYYY!!! :D
An extra exclamation mark and a smiley face for y'all. Anyways, my thoughts are as follows:


1) Daniel Radcliffe, who has been voted Entertainment Weekly's Entertainer of the Year, is in talks to play the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in the thriller Kill Your Darlings. It's apparently about poetry, gay stalkers and murder in 1940s New York and is around the time when young and impressionable (??) Mr. Ginsberg got into the beat scene. The whole story about Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lucien Carr and David Kammerer is damn exciting. Captain America Chris Evans might play Kerouac and the fantastic Ben Whishaw is being considered for the role of Carr. Pretty good cast I must say. It seems Ginsberg was rather tall, and DanRad is a fellow hobbit like me. Also their voices are nothing alike, though distinctive in their own way. I find it funny that in counting down all the actors that have played the famous poet, no one is even thinking about Tom Sturridge who plays his literary counterpart Carlo Marx in the "upcoming" On The Road movie. I mean, well duh. I was just telling a friend of mine about how he has been cast opposite Dakota Fanning in the Effie Gray biopic as her second husband and the painter John Everett Millais, and her reply was "It will never get released." But thank the lord DanRad is a reliable star, who I hope can carry off this Ginsberg picture well. 


2) Do any of you follow Boardwalk Empire, because last week's episode was nuts! Jimmy Darmody has the MOST FUCKED UP FAMILY OF ALL TIME. This whole season, as compared to the first one, has been rather slow and annoying. I had thought that things had picked up, but no they just went super-weird. Nucky and Margaret were my favourite people in the first season, but they are just so needy in this one. Michael Shannon as Van Alden is still pretty good, and I love Jack Huston as Richard Harrow. There is barely any Chalky White and Arnold Rothstein, otherwise I like them too. Can't say the same for everyone else... Next week is finale, hopefully it's good.


3) My thought process has suddenly gone off-rail due to the presence of a rather large spider near my foot. I am not exactly scared, but you know, I can't help wonder what would happen if it bites me. I mean, haven't you always wondered whether you'll get superpowers when a spider bites you? Also how that's probably the most plausible way of getting superpowers among all the superheroes? 


4) Anyways, back on track, you know how I am always casting Guillermo Del Toro's Beauty and the Beast, in which Emma Watson is going to play Belle (I don't know if they'll keep that name but I am just going with it for now), in my head until the proper people do so? I just had another brilliant idea for who should play Beast- True Blood's Alexander Skarsgard!! I mean he already has such a commanding presence and he is a gorgeous man... it's perfect! If only someone would listen to me!


5) As I said it's December, and the 'top 10 films of 2011' have already started. Peter Travers of Rolling Stones and David Edlestein of NYMag have released theirs. What's really pissing me off is that there are 10+ films that have the chance of being in my top 10 that I haven't even seen yet! Grumblegrumblegrumble!! Moneyball, Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy, Hugo, The Artist, Carnage, A Dangerous Method, Shame, A Separation, The Descendants, War Horse, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Coriolanus, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Young Adult- gaaaaaahhhhhh!! I hate this world -.-


6) My weekly "Oscar buzz" talk- I saw The Ides of March and We Need to Talk About Kevin this week, and rewatched The Tree of Life. I will hopefully review all of them. Anyways I don't think The Ides of March has any chances for anything except Best Actor for Ryan Gosling. He is easily the best part of the film, and I think the voters will go for the clear-cut idealistic-turned-disillusioned-with-politics campaign manager over his clearly superior, but less showy performance in Drive. I thought We Need to Talk About Kevin was all kinds of brilliance. It can get nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress for Tilda Swinton and maybe even Best Supporting Actor for Ezra Miller. The film in itself was very good, but I don't know how the AMPAS will roll this year. Swinton was fantastic though, as always, and after her snub last year for I Am Love, it must. This is an even better performance, so yes, I am team Tilda forever and always. Both her and Gosling were probably the biggest snubs of last year... Miller was very good too, and he's my number 2 choice for Best Supporting Actor right now along with Christopher Plummer for Beginners and Brad Pitt for The Tree of Life. Albert Brooks is still the best that I have seen. Speaking of Tree of Life, it really should get a Best picture nomination, and if Emmanuel Lubezki doesn't win the Oscar for cinematography, we should just fire the whole of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and put them on trial. There is no point in wanting the much-deserving Hunter McCracken to get some recognition, because he won't. Jessica Chastain is lovely, but her time will come. She's here to stay.


7) Trailers- um not much this week. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close has another trailer. I have put it in my above anticipated list because of Stephen Daldry and Tom Hanks and Jonathan Safran Foer, otherwise this is one terrible trailer and Thomas Horn looks like a super-irritating kid. If he gets any recognition over people like Asa Butterfield and Hunter McCracken, I shall kill someone. This Means War also got another trailer this week. I do not understand the hate towards Chris Pine. I mean okay Tom Hardy is a big man who is playing Bane, but Pine is Captain Kirk and there will be a Star Trek 2 (Yessssss) soon, and he's not exactly dainty. What he is, is insanely hot. I am so seeing it, I do not care. The Five-Year Engagement is the next offering by Judd Apatow and crew. It has Jason Segel and Emily Blunt and looks rather sweet. I will watch this.


8) Finally (for a very long Weekly Thoughts post) I went through 30 pages of my Tumblr and found nothing except this. By the way, I only recently realised that Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch will be enemies for all practical purposes in The Hobbit... Sherlock just becomes more awesome day by day.

Please.

The spider is gone. Now I shall never know... Bye

"I Am Your Father"~ P.K.

        So it's my bestfriend P's birthday today, and since I haven't gotten any time to buy her a gift yet, for now I want to dedicate a blogpost to her..
        So I thought and I thought. I know of certain types of films she likes, but I'm not going to write a review on them as again no time. I have decided to make a list of her favourite male characters ever. Why? Because she is a girl, and they're awesome.

1) Oliver Wood-  I confess I never noticed him since P pointed him out and his accent. Scots FTW!

2) Legolas- I love it how we both find Orlando Bloom completely useless except as the gorgeous blond-haired elf.

3) Nicholas Devereaux- The best man P has ever liked. Nicholas will always be the prince charming.

4) Disney Princes- You know you love them P.

 

  

5) Merry and Pippin- They're the best bestfriends ever (also all the other male LOTR characters).

  6) Kevin Doyle- I remember the telephone claims that he is the most perfect man in the world.

7) Murtagh- In all fairness, he was an honourable character. Still don't like Garrett Hedlund though.

8) Sam Hall- He was brilliant, and a very integral part in making The Day After Tomorrow epic.

9) Draco Malfoy- He's fabulous.

(And other HP characters you like)

So I really tried to make it a 10-man post, but couldn't. If I've missed anyone I'm sorry.

The Other Loves of Your Life

Just Kidding! Happy Birthday Dahlin, and have a lovely 17th!!!!!!!!!