The Breakfast Club!

This movie, made in 1985, starring Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, and Judd Nelson, is one of mine and Anna's favorites. It follows a day in the life of The Breakfast Club , a group of high schoolers thrown together in detention on a Saturday. There's the princess (Molly Ringwald), the brain (Anthony Michael Hall), the athlete (Emilio Estevez), the basketcase, (Ally Sheedy), and the criminal (Judd Nelson). I've seen it about twelve million times, and Anna can quote every line, it's getting a little annoying.

Even though we've raved about it every time we review something, we're going to do it again. This movie, impeccably acted for a group of teenagers. I WISH I lived in 1985. The vomit that it thrown at our faces like High School Musical and Abduction are ruining the film industry for today youth and the previous generations as well. It's no wonder people want their lives to be a John Hughes movie as opposed to say reality television celebrities (if you could even call them that). It is only now that people realize what is becoming of film. In the case of Easy A and Fired Up, both directed by Will Gluck, finally coming out new smart and funny high school movies that are commendable. More about that another day. Judd Nelson by far out-acting everyone (I also think he had the most lines) and Anthony Michael Hall pre-steroids just makes me happy.

My favorite part is either the scene where they're running away from Vernon through the school, or when they're all getting high. I feel like the running montage really holds the entire gist of the movie, and of the wasted youth of teenagers in the eighties. The idea of running from authority and the idea of growing up and changing and becoming a puppet of society. Running from the ideals of society and of adults is, really, what teenagers do best, with society heaving and clutching at it's chest because it's old and slow. When Vernon and  Bender are in the storage closet, it shows how society manipulates and spits in the faces of teenagers, just because they have a different, more hedonistic view on life.

Next comes the part where they get high! I love this part for a couple reasons; it shows that sometimes it's okay to let go and to cave in to peer pressure, because sometimes very well done montages follow the taking of drugs. This is definitely the part that relates the best to teenagers; I'm not saying all teenagers smoke pot, but we've all done something that we weren't supposed to do and had a lot of fun doing it. It's just something teenagers do.

Ally Sheedy out acted Judd Nelson by far. Anna wrote that part, and lied. (No she didn't! I <3 Judd Nelson. <3 <3 <3)

This is a really long review. Oh well. The part where they're all sitting in a circle telling each other what they did to deserve a detention wasn't scripted, they all improvised. The part when Andrew is telling the story of how he taped Larry Lister's buns together, it really shows how adults affect teenagers--he did it to impress his father. I feel like it also shows how little teenagers have changed, and how they really won't change for a long time. When my mom was a teenager, she did the same things I do now; argue with teachers, leave at lunch and maybe not come back.

Then comes the ending--there is a revelation that comes to us, the idea that everybody can be anything, and inside each of us there is a brain, a criminal, a basket case, a princess, and an athlete. Take from the film what you will, because isn't that what being a teenager is all about?

Shaena again has no time to watch a movie so she doesn't really post.

            Hello! So, first things first, NaNoWriMo is coming up (if you don't know what that is, Google it. I'm not your mother.) and so posts might be all over the place, because both Anna and I will be suffering from Writing Psychosis. Just a warning. We'll most likely only be posting Sundays, apologies! <3

When Harry Met Sally

Have you ever had that best friend that could finish your sentences? The one that could tell what you were thinking because they're thinking the exact same thing. I have one of those. I also formerly had one of those (Not the same person) for, like two days. This movie captures that friendship. It's a movie you can relate to and experience. When they watch a movie on television and talk about it on the phone at the same time.

Beautifully acted by Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal. Which is a feat because I'm not really a fan of Meg Ryan. It's a classic story of best friends falling in love. IT'S SO CUTE. In New York City. Because NYC is coooooool. :)

This is taking too long.

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

            Happy Sunday everyone! I've just finished watching I Know What You Did Last Summer, directed by Jim Gillespie and starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ryan Phillippe, and Freddie Prinze Jr. (all of the main actors excluding Ryan Phillippe were in the Scooby Doo movie!!!) They play four high schoolers who, during their last summer together, run a man over then dump his body into the ocean. They swear never to speak of it again and go their separate ways. Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) goes to university but is haunted by the memory of having killed a man, Helen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) goes to New York to pursue a career in acting but comes back to work with her sister in a family run store, Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr.) follows in his father's footsteps and becomes a fisherman, and Barry (Ryan Phillippe) still lives with his rich parents as super douchebag of the nineties.
            Everything changes when Julie receives a letter saying, you guessed it, "I know what you did last summer". So begins a hunt to find out who sent the letter.
            Everything about this movie screams 90's. It's obviously directed at older teens, with the music and the language and the low cut shirts showcasing Jennifer Love Hewitt's assets. I personally liked this movie but honestly it is not a piece of cinematic brilliance. A lot of mistakes were made and it isn't very original, but I'll give it three point five out of five stars.
            It's sort of a sleepover movie, you know? Like Asylum (also about four friends being stalked by a psycho murderer) or The Midnight Meat Train. It's pure slasher horror.

SHAENA IS BACK!!!

             Hello internet! Gosh I haven't posted for like two weeks. And I'm not going to analyze anything today, I'm just going to talk about movies and film in general because I don't have time to watch anything.
           
             To be honest, film has quickly become one of my favorite artistic mediums (and if you don't agree that film is art to be taken seriously, STFU and GTFO). I love the subconscious aspect of film, where the director just gets inside your head and makes you realize and feel things not outright presented in the shot/scene. For example, the use of straight lines to represent strong male dominance, and the use of curved lines to represent soft female elegance. Another one is the canted angle, that sort of makes our skin crawl and tells us, yes, run, there is something wrong here. I love canted angles c:
              Not to mention what the individual actors bring to the screen. Have you ever seen a movie with Johnny Depp where he's completely out of character for him? Not including Rango. Johnny Depp is almost always portrayed as the protagonist that we identify with but has a certain dark charm we feel sort of apprehensive about. For example, Sweeney Todd! We love Sweeney, for his elegance not expected of a psychopathic murderer. We love him despite the fact that he kills in cold blood waiting for the revenge he's craved for years. Not to mention his roles in The Secret Window and Alice in Wonderland. Okay, I'll admit it, I have a huge actor-crush on Johnny Depp--I've fallen in love with his acting and his characters. As a drama student, I've always wanted to be as good an actor as him.
               Personally, film has a huge effect on me. The role film plays in my life has changed my identity completely--if someone has taken a line from a movie and they use it on me, I'll call them on it right away because chances are I've seen the movie and memorized the line. I'm constantly comparing my friends to characters in films and plays--Talis is Ferris Bueller, Sam is Cameron, and Drew is Sloan. My social teacher is the principal and my parents are Mr. and Mrs. Bueller. Just today I was skipping down the busy city street and I swung myself around on a light post, then Sam caught me and ruined the fun.
               So that's it for today, sorry you didn't get an analysis but I'm honestly too lazy to fight with my parents about the TV and skip supper to analyze something.

Where in the World is Osama bin Laden

I love this movie. This documentary about what is currently and was (in 2006) the situation like in the Middle East is one of my favorite. From the Supersize Me guy (Morgan Spurlock)himself comes an honest documentary relatively free of conspiracy and dramatizations that your local news spits at you.

Begin with your average New York filmmaker and tell him his wife is about to have a baby and he starts thinking. What kind of world are they bringing a baby into? So he sets off on a search for the most wanted man in the world in order to find out the truth about a part of the world that he doesn't really understand as well as say, the problems in America.

He not only looks out for Osama bin Laden in every place he goes but he also goes to places to inform himself. He first goes to unexpected places like Paris, London and Northern Ireland to learn what terrorism was like there (they've had WAY more terrorism there than in America).

It also gives a funny spin on it other than really incredibly annoyingly boring documentaries that put me asleep. I have literally fallen asleep in class because of the movie we had been watching. My teacher poked me with a pencil. ANYWAY! As you watch the movie they put little cartoon things in it but with mild swearing which makes it kind of like Saturday morning cartoons plus South Park plus political situations. But don't let that throw you off because I really think it's a good movie.

I don't know maybe you'll get bored or maybe you'll love it like me but now I have to do my "I just blogged on an iPad dance" and then watch some SHAYTARDS and then I'm going to go to BED! I'm tired. *giggles nervously*

Oh and that promise I made about Wallace and Gromit, probably won't happen because Shaena is blogging tomorrow. YAY!!!!!!

Night night.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Hey. It's Anna. I contemplated on this one. It was between Eternal Sunshine and The Complete Collection of Wallace & Gromit Shorts (and you thought there was only and movie, no. This is what the movie is based on). I decided I'd do Wallace and Gromit on Monday. I promise.

Now that we're done with the more or less irrelevant things...MOVING ON!

It begins at the end. Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) meets Clementine (Kate Winslet), a girl who constantly changes her hair colour and her mind. She is literally CRAZY! It gets really confusing after that, really weird.

We learn that before that Clementine gets Joel erased from her mind with some random weird procedure thing, and so, after learning this Joel gets the same procedure. Shortly swirl and collage of everything that has happened in the past with Clementine and Joel gets vomited onto the screen. They were in love. They were together. But they had their problems too. It kind of goes from the end all the way to the beginning and then to the end again. At first it's hard to follow but then it makes sense.

All the while future Clementine and Patrick (Elijah Wood) get together and then different things happen with them as Clementine begins to remember Joel when Patrick steals his things (and quoting Joel's letters) and gives them to Clementine not thinking that they were linked together in any way.

As for the acting I think it was beautiful. Jim Carrey strays from his goofy self and gets serious (well I guess he's seriousish in The Truman Show). Kate Winslet shines as a quirky, crazy woman coming up with eccentric. But she's always serious so whatever. And then there's Elijah Wood but without a British accent he isn't as good. Mark Ruffalo doesn't really have a specific character he likes to  play and lets his funnier side through in this film. Then Kirsten Dunst shows up and quotes some stuff to some music and poops on the movie and it makes me sad.

I guess it's just one of those films that are interpreted and looked at a million different ways.