Tangled

Ahhh, who doesn't love the occasional Disney tale? Tangled fulfilled all the Disney cravings I had, tracing back to the glamor and feisty fun of Little Mermaid, Cinderella and of course, Shrek. Tangled is the story of Repunzel told in an intriguing, funny and charming fashion.

I recommend it for all those that want to fulfill their Disney appetite.

The Black Swan

The Black Swan is one of those really artsy movies you can't help thinking about after watching it. It's very well made, kind of over the top though and a bit scary. Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) is a professional ballerina. She's very rigid, delicate and involved with her career, actually too involved. In a new play called "The Swan Lake," she's chosen to be the lead by a charming but manipulative director Thomas Leroy (Vincent Casserol). In her role, Nina has to play "The White Swan," a role that she's perfect at. But she not only has to play the White Swan role that shows vulnerability, fragility and meticulous perfection, but also another role, that of the "Black Swan," which is loose and sensual.

Natalie Portman does a very good job in portraying her character as a strained and obsessive artist, desiring perfection. After every single practice, she vomits. And for breakfast she readily eats a grape fruit, and that's it.

Trouble starts when Nina meets another ballerina Lily, who seems to fit the role of the "Black Swan" perfectly. Lily is everything Nina is not: confident, bold and attractive.

Because of her repressed way of life and her secret desire to be free, Nina starts having dark fantasies and hallucinations, several of which include, a "Black Swan" mirror image of herself trying to take over, killing Lily, her feet getting webbed together, her fingers bleeding, etc.

All this mental havoc continues consuming her, until the end, when she reaches her final act....

I feel like her mom has a part to play for Nina's destruction, asking for nothing but perfection from her daughter.

I would recommend this movie if you like thrillers and are looking for a new movie experience. This movie might have connections with real life too: with obsession for an art.

It's like Heath Ledger and the pill overdose: how far are you willing to go to master your art. And is it worth it?

Nina seems to think so.

The Last Airbender

WOW... this movie sucked! It was the WORST. I can't describe how terrible it was. You'd think that in a two hour movie... SOMETHING would have gone right, or at least okay... well, after watching this movie, I realized that it's completely possible to create a laughably bad movie.

I was LAUGHING throughout the movie because it was just that bad.

Why was it bad, you may ask? Well, the acting was bad, the dialogue was flat, and the characters were boring, and their names were mispronounced.

The evil King Ozai might as well be Ozai uncle. He was totally not intimidating!

OH MY GOD...... it was bad.

Season Finale: Lost

I just finished watching the season finale of Lost (Caution: Spoilers ahead).
What I got was a message rather than a plot development.
Before he kicks the bucket, Jack Shephard, the consummate leader of the "Lost" gang, was advised by his father to reach out to those he loves for support (how typical...).
Other than that, some loose ends were tied and the surviving characters got to reconnect with the dead characters before they all journeyed to heaven.
So did I like it? You can say so. The episode had a necessary "finale feel" to it.
It wasn't tear-jerking status though...

Mulholland Drive

I chose to watch Mulholland Dr. because it was on the IMDB top 250 list and in my treasured book, "1001 Movies You Have to See Before You Die." It follows Rita (Laura Harring) and Betty (Naomi Watts), two aspiring actresses in Hollywood.
The plot is REALLY confusing so I am not even going to try to explain it here...
The only thing I can say is that the cops, the voodoo guy hiding behind a coffee shop, the director, the creepy cowboy, the gangster, and basically the whole first one and a half hours of the movie is TRIPPY and CONFUSING.
By the end, no one knows what the reality is. Is Betty real or Diane real? Both are played by Naomi Watts... but who is real? I think that Diane is real (if you watch the movie, you might agree....)
The plot makes me feel frustrated, but I would like to believe there is some significance behind it. The film could be about illusion vs. reality or the craziness of Hollywood.
OVERALL, the only thing I really admired about the movie is its cinematography. Each scene made me feel differently. In the beginning, when a car is driving down a seedy street, it is eerie and ominous. Later on, when Rita and Betty are stepping into a taxi late at night in LA with lights flashing everywhere, it is glamorous and exciting. When Rita and Betty have their love scene (the screen seemed to be covered with a palate of beige), it is romantic. When Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux), a famous director drives to his house and sees his wife cheating on him, the lighting is bright and the scene is funny. Especially when Kesher furiously dabs pink paint all over his wife's jewelry as a comeback...
Therefore, it's careful attention to the camera lens that makes this movie unique and probably worth watching...

North by Northwest

Well, I watched this movie in school, which automatically makes it ten times more exciting then it generally would be... (I'm not being sarcastic)....

"North by Northwest" is a stylistic film and very impressively made, especially for the 50s. It has an interesting flavor to it. The characters seem to mould into the plot and give it life, which is lacking in movies nowadays. Well, I believe Alfred Hitchcock REALLY deserved an Oscar. Hitchcock is indeed my hero, no joke. His movies are very suspenseful but not to the point at which they'd wanna make you throw up or leave the theater. That's the difference between watching a Hitchcock film and "I know what you did last summer" or even "Se7en" and "Silence of the Lambs" (PUKING seriously...)

Anyways, why should YOU watch North by Northwest? Well, it's one of those classics that's just well made. There are a bunch of plot devices that are generally present in Hitchcock's films: McGuffins, the Anti- Hero, Cool Blonde, and Charming Villain. What makes North by Northwest SLIGHTLY different from his other films is that it falls short on the gloomy bank. It's PRETTY humorous most of the while...

SO, if you want to watch a more light hearted Hitchcock film (with of course some sHOCK), I recommend you see North by Northwest. And if you're worried about its credibility: its number 32 on imdb top 100. And also, it has a rating of 8.6 AND was nominated for three oscars... so there you go. By the way, Cary Grant is hot.

GLEE

Well, who doesn't love Glee? Umm... no one? No, I'm serious.

I was talking to my friend the other day, and she mentioned that Glee had more normal people  in it and that's why she liked the show. WELL, I agree!  The characters show emotions that we can relate to and express it through song and dance- as we probably do in our own private bedrooms and showers. We see jealousy, happiness, anger, and all sorts of other things, that we at one point in our own high school lives have felt. It's not like High School Musical with barbie doll characters and zero plot substance... Even Zac Effron couldn't sit through the first half of that crap... 

That's why I think Glee makes more sense! It's a well done musical and show...the characters are content with being themselves and surface ALL emotions- whether good or bad!! The actors are also really talented, a characteristic really lacking in High School Musical (except for Corbin Bleu- he's cool).

Just be happy!!!! And be free!! Wow, Glee has rubbed off on me too much :P 

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL = POOR QUALITY

GLEE= HIGH(ER) QUALITY 

ALRIGHT, I need to continue studying for the test tomorrow. God, I hate being a second semester senior....