erin and middle mike

[sidekick]

hey, we watched Big Fish and Thirteen yesterday night.

Big Fish:

WOW I LOVE TIM BURTON. i mean seriously, the guy never disapoints me with one of his movies. this movie was really really beautiful. burton always seems to work outside of our own reality, so it was a bit strange and hard to adjust at first to the scenes that were very realistic...with the son and the french wife and the dying father in the bed.

but i really like how he coupled the realistic with the unrealistic...and you totally thought that the dad was just telling all these fake stories, but by the end of the movie you don't even know what is real and what is fake anymore, which i really like. it's like reality doesn't really matter anymore by the end of the film.

Thirteen:

this movie hit a little too close to home for me with things that happened to my sister when she was growing up, so it was really difficult to watch. i kinda figured when i picked the movie out that it was going to resemble things that went on in my house a little bit, but i didn't know exactly how much ,and it kinda rattled me. i don't think i could ever watch it again.

that being said, it was a really great movie. the girl in it is an incredible actress. and i really like how the director slowly drains colour from the film until by the end of it, it's almost entirely black and white, but the colour comes back when the mother finally has that breakthrough and they fall asleep together on the bed. if you didn't notice this, you should watch it again and look for the colour fading from the movie. it's a really great effect.

Movies (ones i've watched are in bold...you can come pick them up):
Thirteen
Starsky and Hutch
xx/xy
The Birdcage
Mean Girls
Big Fish
Pieces of April
Along Came Polly
School of Rock
Fahrenhype 9/11
This is Spinal Tap
Matchstick Men

[mikey]

i got a bunch of movies i think you'd like jake. I'll drop 'em by casa de souls sometime soon.

[sidekick]

^that would be awesome. i have the 12-19 of february off school, so i plan to watch a whole bunch of movies that i haven't seen yet.

[Erin]

What dod you think of mean girls?

I'm glad you enjoyed Big Fish so much.

And i'm sorry about thirteen being so hard for you to watch. I think it hits close to home for anyone growing up with a teenage sister/daughter, or for me, having been a crazy teen girl myself.

[pbreak]

Big Fish = one of best movies ever.

[Erin]

Originally Posted by pbreak

Big Fish = one of best movies ever.

I finally watched it without falling asleep. It was good. I liked it.

[middle mike]

Jake I feel you on both movie reviews. I loved "Big Fish" for the ending it made you think of the whole movie again. The stories were great and being a story teller my self I loved more.

We watched "Love Actually" It was good. I thought there was too many stories going on. I would have liked to see more information on a couple stories. Some times it got confusing. My Favs were the Man and his Portuiguise maid and the Brithish Rock star. Brithish I always enjoy.

Erin wathced Signs without me so I will get back to you on that one.

We should keep this movie exchange going I like it.

[Erin]

Signs scared me. I was hiding under my blanket.

[middle mike]

Jake we will be stopping by tommorrow to get a movie

[sidekick]

Just finished Along Came Polly...this movie was funnier than i thought it would be. Jennifer Aniston was actually really funny in it.

[Erin]

Agreed. I really like that movie.

[middle mike]

I saw it in mexico it was funny.

Jake will u watch Donny Darko with me? Erin won't.

[sidekick]

^for sure, i love that movie.

i just finished watching The Birdcage...Nathan Lane is hilarious in that movie.

[middle mike]

I watched signs. It was good. I liked how it was more about quincence(sp) karma then about aliens.

Sat maybe?

[sidekick]

^i think saturday might be good.

and yeah, i liked how it was more about fate and karma than about aliens. i just try to ignore the alien part most of the time because it's kinda cheesy (especially when they show the aliens at the end)

[middle mike]

yeah true

have you watched matchstick men yet? That is one of my favs or the stack

[sidekick]

^nope, but i'll watch that sometime this week. i think i'm going to watch one of the movies i rented yesterday (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow)

[Erin]

I hate donnie darko.

[sidekick]

Originally Posted by Erin

I hate donnie darko.

'hate' and 'terrified of' are two different things :p

[Erin]

This is true.

[middle mike]

it was a bad experence but if it asn't for Donny Darko we may not be together

[Erin]

Yuo slept threw the movie. Please... we would have been together.

[sidekick]

Matchstick Men: i really liked this movie. you were totally right about the directing style, mike. i dug it. and nicholas cage did some top notch acting in this one, too. i should have seen the ending coming, but i didn't, so it was a nice surprise.

School of Rock: funny movie...jack black is always good for a laugh and it did have a lot of great music in it (the song they do is actually pretty good). made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. GO KIDDIES! REACH YOUR POTENTIAL!

[Liqwid]

you should watch napoleon dynamite

`dalyn

[sidekick]

^already seen it.

FRIGGIN' IDIOT! GOSH!

:p