Inglourious Basterds

This was brilliant. It is a masterpiece. If anyone knows me, I complain every year about the amount of WWII holocaust movies, but this one was different, edgy and hilarious which is why I loved it so much. Only Tarantino would present a movie like this. I loved that it had chapters and I loved all of the characters. This was just brilliant writing. Now for my criticism... the music. Of everything Tarantino he really botched this part up, which is always something he is so good at doing. Shame on him for using a piece he used in Kill Bill. In fact, he used the same style of spaghetti Western and Zamphir, which was awesome and fresh and new in Kill Bill, but was not quite right for Basterds. I think he should have used music or style from this time or used classical scores. The movie would have been at perfection if he would have fixed the music. BUT in the first chapter in the Frenchman's home, the end of the scene with the build-up of tension, the music was breathtaking. Other than that, the music fell short everywhere else. Christoph Waltz is brilliant. He is my new favourite actor. This movie is his American debut and from now on I think he should be doing American films. I don't want to say that this is Tarantino's best film, since the Kill Bill's are masterpieces, but he has refined his dialogue so that his monologues don't babble on like they sometimes do. For this he has refined his writing craft. I best describe it as Woody Allen's new work (VCB). I love this movie, which makes me want to rewatch the Kill Bill's. On the other hand, it may be awhile before anything this good comes out of Tarantino again ie. Death Proof may be repeated again. This is a must see, and although it's genre is a War drama, I see it more like a comedy meets WWII but with taste Quentin Tarantino style.

Post Grad

I get the feeling that the screenplay was written before the recession since typically these projects take a few years to finish. In lieu of that, I think they should have made some tweaks to it like how its really hard as a post graduate to find a job in the field we want because of the recession and the lack of jobs. Enough of my complaining... well not quite. The movie was cheesy thanks to Michael Keaton who has yet to play a Dad that is not quirky. What happened to Keaton? He used to be Batman and Batman is sexy as hell. It makes sense that Bledel's character can't get a job that she wants, but all her friends... give me a break. As if every post graduate is trying to get a full-time job a few days after graduation and spending their whole life in school... yeah right. Only people who are either boring or going to have a quarter-life crisis in a few years. I liked it, it just needed some changes and it would have been better. Bledel's character is like any other self-obsessed person who doesn't want what she has and still seems to get what she wants anyways... I know that happens to some people, but they should really show the reality of things and that life just doesn't work like that. Its overly optimistic which is why it is cheesy. On a good note, Jane Lynch is awesome and she also happened to be in Julie and Julia.

The Last House on the Left

They never actually say that their house is the last one on the left, which I think they should of either incorporated it into the dialogue or changed the title. I was thinking this movie happened in the suburbs, not some lake town and some isolated lake house. The movie was graphic, and the acting was good. The escaped convict's girlfriend was an irritating actress... they should have cast someone else. For a horror movie, they still seem to incorporate boobies, which quite frankly was unnecessary to the story or the direction of the plot. I thought it took away because it was just a distraction... not to mention the last image they show of the girlfriend at the end and its change of focus. What you think are good natured protagonists being antagonized by these foul bandits is not the case. And in that respect I actually didn't like the movie because of the reaction of the parents of Mary. I especially did not like the last scene.

Julie and Julia

This was a fantastic movie. I tried explaining it to someone and they rolled their eyes. One of the things I liked was that the character Julie was having lunch with her friends who were all rich and successful and here is Julie who hadn't completed her book and was supposed to be the most successful out of the 4 women and she realizes she needs something that she can finish, so she starts her cooking blog that her husband suggests and she cooks all the recipes from Child's book in 365 days. Some of the recipes are delightfully funny like the lobsters and so on. And then the other half of the story is about how Julia Child got into cooking and her frustrations with her and her friend's massive cookbook. The two stories parallel each other, but are also not the same. I loved the movie, it was charming, funny and heartwarming. I wouldn't necessarily say its a chick flick because of saw plenty of older gentlemen watching the movie too. If anything, it has a more aged audience because of Julia Child.

Perfect Getaway

Strangely, I have the feeling that this movie only made it to theatres in the US and not in Canada because its not playing in the city and its only been out for 4 weeks. I liked this movie. Its not the best thriller I've seen, the characters themselves are slightly odd, especially Olyphant's character. Because I was expecting some major plot twist I missed the obvious which my sister was surprised I hadn't known, which is why she never leaned in to tell me because she thought I had figured it out. Jovovich's American accent was quite good. And for that, she shouldn't always be typecast. There was one particular sequence where they have 3 shots side by side of 3 people running which was super awesome, it just didn't belong in the film. I hope I see the exact same shot being used in another movie where it belongs.