What Women Want

-Why is everyone treating him like he's royalty or something?
-They made Mel do a choreographed dance--why? Eww
-This movie is basically his real life back then; that's why he's a lunatic
-I can think like a dude: boobs, boobs, boobs, sex, etc.
-Daughter rags on father for not remembering her boyfriend's name, but I didn't.. pete's sake, I didn't remember her name either and I've been watching the movie
-"Nearly killed me--too bad he missed" because he barely ran into her, not life-threateningly, so corny
-Is he toolfully taking advantage by stealing her ideas? Loser!
-Oh my gosh are they really talking this long about making out? "You kiss so good. Mmm." "That was hot." "Ooh, making out was fun."
-Suicidal over not being a copyrighter? I'm not certain, but I imagine it's not that simple of a problem nor would getting the job you want be the solution

The ***** Wears Prada

About an unstylish wannabe-journalist (Hathaway)'s being an assistant to a successful and allegedly-stylish fashion magazine editor (Streep) in order to get opportunities to become a journalist. Seemed like a ridiculous concept to me, but I've never had an interest in being a journalist, so maybe I just wouldn't know. I doubt it, but "who knows." I didn't like the movie. Notes:

-The introduction where everyone was bustling around to fix everything for Miranda (Streep) to her liking before her arrival and their being frightened of her was so cheesy
-"Accordian" post-it notes go in a special dispenser--always. Always. Everyone knows this, at least those who would buy them would, and a workplace full of haughty people would make sure they had the dispenser, so as not to appear or feel slovenly. Any office would. This bothered me because it was stupid and ignorant, but also I fear they may have thought it would be funny if Andrea (Hathaway) looked "clumsy" in having difficulty trying to pull apart post-it notes, when the reality is instead of being embarrassed, she should have made fun of them endlessly for being so primitive.
-This is the second "Cinderella"/make-over movie of Hathaway's that I'm aware of
-Miranda's clothing was awful. The most-notably terrible article of clothing of hers for me was that ghastly gold coat she wore.
-Everything done with sunglasses and/or eyeglasses was cheesy
-I'm pretty sure Miranda had the same make-up throughout the whole movie, aside from the one scene where she didn't have any
-Incompetence is not made up for by dressing more stylishly, except maybe when you're a female working for a straight male or a gay female
-I hate hats
-No one would lend (or give) someone in-style Channel, "etc." designer clothing/accessories for free. It just wouldn't happen. But what was up with her keeping them and wearing them outside the workplace? Movies...
-Miranda's rescheduling things and arriving early showed she had nothing better to do. No one said anything about it, except that they'd better be mad early since she always was. But I think it's funny that someone that self-important would depreciate the value of their time. I don't think that way myself, but people like that usually do.
-The whole, "Yeah, I mean, there's a hurricane, but it's just a little drizzle and I'm "important" and have connections, so you will get me a flight out of here," "I can't believe you couldn't get me a flight out of that hurricane," and "I'm so sorry I couldn't get you a plane that would fly through a hurricane." -- Awful. Just really, really bad. I think it was the worst part of this movie.
-Fashion is too expensive, in the terms of designer crap which goes out of style faster than it came. But those people are idiots, paying exorbitant amounts of money for garbage that they let someone else decide was in style to begin with, then isn't the next week, so let them suffer. But the money could go to better use...
-What quality-printmaking establishment on Earth would illegally make decent copies of an unpublished installment of a highly-popular book series (Harry Potter)? I mean, I think you could go to prison for that. Crazy world, but seriously, that would probably never happen. And also, what happens when those brats demand the next book which hasn't even been written? I can't stand brats.
-The blonde guy was pretty much Andrea's boyfriend's twin, though maybe ten years older
-The standard-sized birthday candle on the cupcake was endless
-Whose daughters were the twins? Miranda? Did she adopt? 'Cause, I mean, she is like eighty years old
-Boohoo fashion, who cares

Escape From Alcatraz

This is a "classic" about three prisoners' escape from Alcatraz, based on a true story. I didn't like the movie. Notes and/or problems the movie had:

-The mouse being taken care of was adorable
-The prisoners dressed like office workers
-After Morris asked the prisoner who took care of a mouse if there were any forks during his first meal in the cafeteria, the guy responded by saying, "You see any?" Moments later, the guy asked Morris if he could have his spaghetti, to which Morris replied, "You see any?," even though he clearly had some. Cheesy. The guy said that he did and Morris gave it to him and the guy fed it to the mouse. That was adorable--rodents eating things is so cute 'cause they hold it in their tiny hands.
-It was never mentioned what Morris did to be imprisoned to begin with
-The papier-mâché heads were mad shiny
-The flowers thing was so cheesy
-Who would care that the painter had his painting privileges taken away? He should have thought about things like that before he did whatever he did to get himself in prison
-The mouse would totally have died in Morris' clothing--if not from suffocation, from drowning

Legally Blonde

About a girl (Witherspoon) who goes to Harvard law school in order to win back the guy who dumped her for not being smart enough. I actually like this movie. I don't think I cared for it much the first time I saw it, but I'm not sure. Maybe I was biased because I don't typically like movies like this one. Here is the short list of problems I have with the movie:

-The concept: she goes to Harvard to win some guy back, but had no interest otherwise
-That whole dip ("dip...then snap!") scene--Stupid!
-It is now a Broadway musical

Fracture

This was about a guy (Hopkins) representing himself in court for the attempted murder of his wife against a "hot shot" prosecutor (Gosling). I didn't like the movie. Notes and/or problems the movie had:

-Having not seen the trailer as far as I know, I spent about ten minutes trying to figure out if Hopkins would once again be the bad guy--in this case, the murderer. It wasn't clear because it seemed like Hopkins was supposed to be "cool" and he drove around in some sports car or whatever ("hot shot").
-Why do couples without children who've been together for a long time stay together when one or both don't love the other?
-The suit Gosling was to wear to Hopkins' hearing or whatever was on some sort of table with a lidless and full coffee next to it, which, of course, and irrelevantly, spilled all over the suit
-Community candy bowls are gross
-I'm tired of irrelevant "dating" between characters. Gosling's boss-to-be being in the movie was also pointless.
-She (his boss-to-be) invited Gosling, the technical stranger, whom she had only done it with to upcoming-Thanksgiving dinner at her family's home. He went.
-The ending was lame because there was no way of knowing: what relevance the cops standing outside Hopkins' home after his confession to Gosling, such as, was Gosling wired when he visited Hopkins' home after having been invited to get some gift? And, also, we don't know for a fact, while it is fiction, whether or not Hopkins gets life, or the death sentence, as the last scene was brief and in the courtroom where the last thing spoken was the judge asking for opening statements. I did get a kick out of the fact that Hopkins appeared to have at least two lawyers to defend him. I think there were like three or four.
-I'm glad more of my time wasn't wasted, but with a little more time, simple things like who the heck was who (beginning) and what became of Hopkins could have been answered (end). It was like catching a movie ten minutes in and leaving ten minutes early.

I would like to see

Again:

Eye For An Eye
Dean Koontz's Intensity
Double Jeopardy (I don't remember liking this one, but the concept is interesting)
Ransom
Nick Of Time (I don't know... I don't think I liked this one, but I'd like to know)
Multiplicity
Mr. Mom

My Fake Fiancé

This was an ABC Family original movie about two strangers--a guy (Lawrence) who owed $15,000 to some dude for gambling and a female (Hart) who had all of her belongings stolen while moving into her new house--who meet at a wedding that decide to get married for the money and presents. I watched this 'cause...well, she was Sabrina. I didn't like the movie. Some of the problems it had:

-ABC Family movie says it all, really
-"Whoa" guy a.k.a. Joey Lawrence
-Bald Joey Lawrence
-Baldy's eyebrows are mad weird looking
-They said "cliché" quite a few times in the movie, in regards to how "cliché"-ily goon the two "goons" looking to get the money owed from Lawrence were
-The fact that not only did the bookie want to be called "the monkey," as though that were better than his real name (Eugene), but he also met with Lawrence at some sort of place where there were mad different monkeys and apes living together in a zoo-like setting but not fenced-in or separated as far as I could tell and/or remember
-The "goons" and the bookie they worked for were mad goofy
-You always know what will happen in these movies, but the fact that Lawrence proposed at the altar was sleazy
-The part where they went to Hart's parent's house and there were mad pictures of Hart's sister and her children and the father said to Lawrence he was going to show him some picture of Hart's sister from her yearbook. It was in a box in the same room which might have been the living room. While rummaging through a box with the father, the mom was all, "He doesn't want to see that. He'd rather see Jennifer's (Hart) yearbook. ... Where is that, anyway?" Father, "Oh, we put that in the attic." Hart then picked up a 4" x 6" frame with a picture of her and sort of showed it to Lawrence, saying, "Here's a picture of me graduating from Harvard." Man, that was cheesy. I mean, good golly, Miss Molly. So bad. Gross.

Killing Me Softly

What caught my eye was the title as it shared the name with a song which I quite like (the Fugees' cover). The movie was about a woman (Graham) that leaves her boyfriend for some random dude who she later realizes may have killed his ex-girlfriend. I didn't like the movie. Some of the problems it had:

-It was cheesy
-Bad acting
-It wasn't really clear as to who the main guy's alleged "sister" exactly was to him. I think in the second scene with her, while Graham was climbing one of those indoor "rock" walls, the "siblings" were kissing in an inappropriate way for siblings to. It was hard to tell and the scene switched right after they appeared to kiss. It was never clarified who she was to him. In the end, he told Graham that they "knew each other as children" or something. Actually, now that I think of it, I think the guy even said it was his sister. Why?
-Graham finally realized through receiving notes and other hints warning her to stay away from him that he was probably dangerous and had possibly killed someone, but went back to their home anyway. Though scared of him, she allowed him to tie her up on a table. He non-forcefully put each limb into a knotted rope and she could easily have fought him off, but she didn't. It looked as though she could have untied herself, but she instead asked him to untie her. Eventually he did when she told him she was confused when he wasn't around or some junk.
-The ending with her going down an escalator and seeing the guy (a renowned mountain climber) going up the escalator was cheesy. She thought, "I'm a flatlander, I guess I can't be up at those altitudes." It was brought up a time or two that she was a"flatlander" and he was a mountain climber. "Who knew a flatlander would land a mountain climber?" "She probably hasn't even climbed stairs." It was weird.

Big Stan

My brother recommended and gave us this one to watch. It was literally about a guy (Stan) on his way to prison for fraud whose fear of being raped there led him to get training in the six months before serving his sentence to fight men who tried to off. I didn't like the movie. Some of the problems it had:

-It wasn't funny
-Dr. Cameron from "House" was Stan's bimbo wife. Considering the excellency of the series "House," I figured she doesn't have a sense of humor and figured the movie would make a lot of money as Schneider's movies usually do. I am certain it didn't because I'd never heard of it before my brother gave it to us and it's like two years old.
-Vulgarity doesn't necessarily equal humor. I'm not sure it ever has.
-Schneider is distractingly unattractive
-When Stan arrived at the prison, he fought the "toughest" guy and a bunch of other guys to show he was tougher so no one would mess with him. It happens all the time in fight scenes, but you have to hate the fact that opponents come up one at a time when it's one guy against a group of people.
-The prisoners were gathered up outside for some reason on bleachers while Stan spoke to them. Stan decided that he would help others not be raped by threatening that he would fight anyone that did. He told them that they couldn't rape anymore, explaining that some people were only there for not-so-bad things. One of the guys asked, "What about rapists?" Stan agreed that it seemed fair and said that was okay. Another guy asked, "How about child molesters?" Stan said that was okay. That was great, but then he ruined it a minute or two later by saying that they couldn't because they had to quit cold turkey.

The Forgotten

This movie seemingly had an interesting concept: everyone a woman (Telly) knows has forgotten her son except her and thinks she is crazy and making him up. I didn't like the movie. The movie begins with her talking to her psychologist about her son who died in a plane crash fourteen months prior. In the following scenes, she is led to believe she is forgetting things, like where she parked her car and whether or not she'd been having coffee while speaking to the psychologist. When she got home, she found that books which presumably had pictures of her son were empty and video tapes which had footage of him were also blank. She blamed the husband, thinking he was trying to force her get over the loss of their son. The husband claimed they'd had no son and later her psychologist came over and told her the same. She ran away, came back later and spoke with their neighbor who'd taken care of her son a couple times. The woman told Telly she didn't know what she was talking about.

Telly ran away to the apartment of a man (Ash) whom she had spoken with earlier on a swing set. She mentioned to him how her son and his daughter were friends and that they had died in a plane crash on the way to camp. I have never heard of kids going somewhere on an airplane without their parents, and certainly not for camp. Ash said he didn't have a daughter. She showed him the room which had been his daughter's, to find that it was now a room for his hockey stuff. He thought she was out of her mind, but I guess since he was drunk, maybe he figured he wasn't thinking clearly so he told her they would have to talk about it the next day and allowed her to stay. She went back in the room while he slept and noticed blue paint behind a tear in what looked like some fabric wallpaper. She picked at it and pulled away the wallpaper to find blue walls covered with a child's drawings. The next day she showed him the walls and told him his daughter had drawn them. He told her they were there from previous tenants before he moved in and said he was going to call the cops to have her to escorted out. She said she would leave if he just said his daughter's name, Lauren. He did and then told her he would need a minute. She went in another room and he came and told her that he had called the cops because she needed help. She was taken away by cops and outside they met with the NSA, who took her. Ash went back to the blue room and found he was able to visualize seeing his daughter drawing on the walls and doing other things in there. He ran down to get Telly released because he realized she wasn't crazy. He told the NSA to let her go, but they refused and when he tried to talk to her, the men were fighting him off. Ash told Telly that he remembered and he broke the driver's window, unlocked the doors and told her to run. Not handcuffed, she made a break for it and one of the two NSA men followed her. She quickly managed to lose him. I kept wondering how the movie would end until Telly saw something in the sky. It was a giant ring of technical nothing, indicating that there were aliens. I was upset to say the least. I don't watch movies that I know involve: aliens, vampires and some other things I can't think of right now. Because they are stupid. Always.

Telly and Ash joined forces to find out why everyone forgot their children. She told Ash that she suspected it had something to do with aliens. Because of something someone said, they realized their children might be alive. They set out to find out if their children actually were alive. They hit a man with a car because he wouldn't get out of their way and the NSA was after them. At one point, Telly went to speak with her husband. He didn't recognize her. She tried to get him to remember by telling him to say "Sam," their son's name, since Ash suggested she try that since it worked out for him. "You lost me," he said, and walked away. Later, Ash left the motel they had been staying in in the middle of the night to capture some man. He knocked him out with a fireplace poker from the fireplace in the motel, tied him up tried to get him to tell them what happened with their kids. The guy being questioned told them they were going to make things worse. Telly told him to tell them where their kids were and promised that no one would know he did, to which he responded, "They're listening." Moments later the top of the motel blew off and the man disappeared.

They found out where the guy they'd questioned lived and it had furniture covered with clear bags. "It looks like whoever lived here left, but didn't move out." There were a couple of failed attempts at being profound. They spent the night in the stranger's house, which was really weird. The next morning they tried to get out of the house, but the doors wouldn't open. Ash broke a giant window and they left. A female cop who'd been interested in Telly's case arrived in an unmarked cop car at the house just as Telly and Ash got out. The cop was there with Telly's psychologist, who earlier had insisted on helping her find Telly because he "believed Telly's story." Ash gave Telly his car keys and told her to leave, saying, "someone had to get out of there." The cop pursued the man who got hit by the car that was walking on the porch. She told him to stop and said that she'd shoot if he went further. He didn't stop and she shot him. He kept going and she shot him two other times. He kept moving, not phased. The cop then went to Telly, who was by Ash's car, and told her that she believed her. The cop was then sucked up into the sky. The psychiatrist told Telly to go with him in the cop car.

Telly insisted, for some reason, that he take her to the airport where she last saw her son. He told her he was going to take her to the police or something because they would be able to help her. They reached a stop light, and, from the passenger's seat, she put the car in park, removed the keys and told him to get out of the car. He told her he would take her to the airport. When they arrived, they went into the abandoned building and found the man who Ash hit with the car waiting inside. The psychiatrist told the man they (the aliens) should just end it because it had gone too far. The other man said it wasn't over yet and walked away, further into the empty building. The psychiatrist turned to Telly, who asked how he was involved. Basically, he told her that the aliens got help one way or another and that cooperation was the easiest way. He told her to let it go or something and she said that she wouldn't, since the man said it wasn't over, which probably meant she could get her son back.

She went after the other man and spoke with him. He told her that everyone else in the experiment had forgotten about their children (which would never happen). He said that they could measure the love or something that mothers had for their children and that they didn't understand it. He talked more about it with her and she kept asking where her son was. He told her things would be "much easier" if she would just forget. With a morphed face, he yelled, "You need to forget!" so loudly that he broke all the windows in the building and Telly fell to the ground. It was so cheesy. He then asked her to think back to the first moment she saw her son. When she did, he took the memory and then asked her what the name of the boy was. She asked, "What boy?" The alien walked away. She was still lying on the ground when she remembered her pregnancy. Then she said,"I had life inside me. I had life inside me. I have a child. I have a son. His name is Sam, you son of a b----." Chee-sy. He yelled, "I need more time!" before being sucked up into the sky.

Telly went home and yelled "Sam!" throughout the house. He wasn't there. She went to the park which was apparently next to her house. She continued yelling his name at the park. She asked a boy if he knew a Sam Whatevertheirlastnamewas and he shook his head. A boy yelled, "Hey, mom!" It was Sam. She went to hug him and then let him play some more. On the swing set, she saw Ash, who earlier had been sucked into space at one point. She spoke to him as though they were practically strangers (which they were before what they'd been through, since their kids weren't even really close friends), I guess because she figured he wouldn't remember. I'm assuming he didn't since Lauren, who was also back, and Sam clearly didn't. To Telly, Ash said, "I think we've met before." That was the end.