WINTER PASSING

Guy’s Review...

Zooey, Zooey... You where suppose to be the happy shining light in every movie you’re in. The girl that every guy falls in love with, the girl that they are willing to change their ways for. Now here in this little film you kill kittens, do drugs, try to fuck Will Ferrell and is just an all over negative person. What’s up with that?

Zooey Deschanel plays an actress that are just getting started in an off Broadway play. She works nights as a bartender and juggles boyfriends like no other. One night a woman approaches her. The woman is a publisher she offers Zooey a 100.000 dollars for a collection of letters that her father, a famous writer wrote to her mother when she was only a little kid. She accepts the offer and goes back home to retrieve the letters.

At home she meets a man and a woman that has moved in to her childhood home. Her father now lives in the garage like a hermit. Instead of getting the letters she’s forced to come to terms with her childhood and reconnect with her father.

This is a cute movie but I have a hard time to decide if it’s good or bad. the film was an hour and thirty minutes long but it felt like three hours. This is not a good thing at all. Even if the movie felt draggy I didn’t stop watching and that has to count for something, right?

Guy’s Rating: I haven’t decided yet. You just have to watch and decide for yourselves.

Girl’s OL: I agree as I’m so confused by this movie that I will recommend watching it, also, but with a warning sign for confusion.

THE RUNAWAYS

Guy’s Review...

I was never a big fan of The Runaways or even Joan Jett when she left the group to start up her solo career. Maybe the reason for this is because I wasn’t born at the time when all of this took place. I highly doubt that young Dakota Fanning or even Kristen Stewart knew much about the group before they agreed to play these parts. I gotta give it to them though, they actually look the part.

Otherwise this movie doesn’t have anything new if you compare it to other rock biopics. You get sex, drugs and rock & roll. There was still something that kept me tuned in. I think it was because I was worried about poor Dakota. She was the go to daughter in all mayor blockbusters. Now she just looks confused and weird. I hope that she keeps her career going into her twenties. If not she’s gonna be a huge train-wreck (stay away from Natalie Portman).

In general this movie is not that much to rave about. I guess my review is not that much to go on considering that I’m not a fan of their music. So if you’re a fan then maybe you need to watch this. Report back to me if it’s any good.

Guy’s Rating: Meh, not my cup of tea.

Girl’s OL: I hate Kristen Stewart, and now thanks to her, I also hate Dakota Fanning.

POSSESSION

Girl’s OL: Omitted due to disgust.

Guy’s Review...

This might have been one of the shittiest movies in a long, long time. Sarah Michelle Gellar (SMG) plays regular working woman married to the man of her life. The only problem in their life is that her husbands loser brother is living in the same house as them. The brother is irrational and envies the life SMG and his older brother is living. One night both the brothers are out doing errands. A fog falls over the town where they live, a thick fog. Thanks to the fog the brother smash their cars together in a head on collision. They both end up in a coma. The bad brother wakes up, but wait... He is not himself anymore. He is actually the other brother trapped in the younger brothers body... at least that is what we are led to believe.

Not only is the script bad here but also the idea, concept, actors, direction and more than anything else the fricking score. Every minute is like putting a drill to your ear while watching this shitty, shitty movie.

Guy’s Rating: I would be surprised if anyone sees this movie and remembers it.

ONDINE

Guy’s Review...

So, Colin Farrell plays a fisherman with a daughter that suffers from sort of kidney failure. One day on one of his fishing trips he catches a young woman in his net. She tells him that her name is Ondine. She sings a couple of weird song and convinces both Collin and his daughter that she some sort of mermaid. A very nice and believable story right? Well, things are not always like what they seem. Ondine has a darker past that we are led to believe.

Neil Jordan who directed this film has a really good eye. The movie is completely stunning and the locations are beautiful. The acting is nothing to brag about and neither is the script. I guess Neil Jordan has done enough good films that he can get away with one or two vanity projects by now.

Guy’s Rating: I don’t think so. Way too slow for my taste.

Girl’s OL: I thought Farrell had been locked away somewhere after Alexander, but here he is... “making” movies still.

(I needed this ridiculous cover I found in here)

HAPPY TEARS

Guy’s Review...

Parker Posey plays a woman that has to move back to her childhood home to help her sister (Demi Moore) to take care of their father (Rip Torn). This is one of those dysfunctional family movies. There’s a slew of these out there and it just feels like they a trying to out do each other. This one is not as extreme as “Running with Scissors” or “The Squid and the Whale” but is still pretty weird.

All the actors are as good as they can be with the material that they have to work with. There’s also some trippy dream sequences here that gives the movie a little bit of extra flare. Other than that this movie is just a straight up drama.

This doesn’t sound like I liked it very much but for some weird reason I did. Maybe I have something for Parker Posey to Rip Torn. Just maybe the tone of this movie was the thing that did it for me. I found myself laughing without knowing why. That has to be good right?

Guy’s Rating: I guess I recommend this. I still don’t know why but I do.

Girl’s OL: I feel like I’d been waiting for this movie for a while when I saw it, even though I’d never heard of it before - it was love at first sight.

THE BOYS ARE BACK

Guy’s Review...

Had no thoughts about this movie what so ever when I turned it on. I usually think that’s a good thing but sometimes it’s just really bad. This time it was a great thing. Finally Clive Owen gets a part that is challenging. Here he plays a father that has recently lost his wife to cancer. Now he’s alone with his young son in a house in the outbacks of Australia. He says that he won’t say no to his son anymore and just let him do what he wants. This will bring them closer together. Things are not that easy and Clive has to learn how to juggle his work as a journalist and the life with his son. Clive also has another son that he left at a young age. He invites him to stay with him and his younger son so they can reconnect again.

This all might sound super cheesy. It isn’t, it’s actually very moving believe it or not. Owen has never been better and the outbacks look beautiful. The children in this movie makes it better, their performances are spot one. The only thing that I think I had a problem with was the dialogue that Owen had with his dead wife throughout the movie. Did we need that? I’m not sure anymore.

Guy’s Rating: Nicely done, some good and bad feeling got stirred up here.

Girl’s OL: Thoughtful, cute, with a hint of sadness and a dash of Owen’s delicious good looks.

THE TOOTH FAIRY

Guy’s Fuuuuuuck...

Why is there still a demand for this type of movie? Just throw in a action star in the corniest piece of crap you can ever imagine. Who do I blame? I’m sorry to say that it has to be Arnold. He started of as being an action good. Then he decided to do “Twins” (which is good if you compare it to the action star comedies of today) and another bunch of crappier comedies.

Here “The Rock” plays a hockey player that calls himself the tooth fairy because he tackles the teeth out of his opponents. One night he decides to steel the money from under his girlfriends daughters pillow. Well, the tooth fairies find out and he has to be one for two weeks.

The only kinda good thing about this movie was Stephen Merchant. Not because he was funny here, just the fact that I know that he has the ability to be that made this film better. What da fuck did Seth MacFarlane do in this movie. It might have only been for a minute but I thought that this movie stood for everything that he hated.

Guy’s Rating: Fuck no!

Girl’s OL: How does that saying go... Fuck you, Dwayne.