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Birth -- the movie, not the event

10/5/2013

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Well, I just experienced déjà vu again. After watching the first 10 minutes of 'Birth' (2004) it seemed very familiar, as if perhaps, I had seen it before. Although as I kept watching nothing really seemed familiar except for that first scene where Anne Heche is burying something in the dirt. As I neared the end of the movie, I realized that I had seen it, but didn't remember any of it because there really wasn't much to remember (except for the creepy bathtub scene with Nicole Kidman and 10 year old Cameron Bright.)

I love creepy, scary movies, especially about reincarnation, so I was willing to put the time in. However, this was just creepy in a more pediphile/adultiphile sort of way.

The short description-- Nicole Kidman's dead husband is reincarnated and is now 10 years old and has convinced Nicole that it's really him.

SPOILERS coming up.

Ok that's cool, maybe it really is her husband. They certainly make you think that in the first minute as her husband dies and a baby is born. So after Sean enters Anna's life (within the first 15 minutes) the movie slows waaay down. It has now become work to watch it. But that's ok, because I can't wait to see how they're going to tie up this reincarnation thing. Hopefully, it will be worth the wait!

Anna dumps her fiancé for 10 year old Sean. After all, he was deemed crazy when he finally lost it and tried to 'spank' Sean after he caught them in the tub together. He had to teach Sean some respect! Really, putting him over his knee and spanking him?!! Yeesh.

Well the tub scene might not have been so creepy considering that Sean was really her husband, right? Or was he? The end of the movie takes a little twist as Anne Heche proves that he couldn't be Sean because her and Sean were lovers and he would have come to her first. So now get this... The thing that Anne Heche was burying were all the love letters that Anna had written to Sean. She hated Anna, and was going to give them to her as an engagement present but at the last minute, had a change of heart and buried them instead, in a shallow grave outside the apartment building. Sean saw her and dug them up and read them and believed then that he was really Anna's husband. Anne Heche found the letters in his backpack and knew that he had read them because they were all open. When the real Sean had given them to her they were sealed, because he wanted to prove that he loved her more than he loved Anna, so he never opened them.

REALLY?!!!!!

LAME... LAME... LAME

So he wasn't really her husband, just a very disturbed 10 year old?!!

In the end, Anna marries the other guy. We see their wedding and then the last scene is her, walking into the ocean in her wedding dress... Her new husband gets her, she is crying hysterically... The End. Huh?!

Not worth the wait.

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Top 10 Movies

10/2/2013

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Ok here are my top 10 favorite movies of all time... Well, I've actually just gotten to 6...



1- A Bronx Tale 1993 - directed by and starring Robert Dinero. Great coming of age tale taking place in NYC in the 1960's. Great story, great acting, great sound track, great wiseguys!



2- The Sound of Music 1965 - I always want to start out thinking that this is a sappy movie, but it really isn't. Great love story and not just between Julie and Christopher, but also about the love of their home and their country.



3- American History X 1998 - intense, not for the faint of heart! Edward Norton has some great monologues in so many of his movies- my favorite in this one was the family dinner scene with Elliot Gould.



4- The Godfather 1972 - how could you not include the Godfather and it's cavalcade of stars in a top 10 list. Nuff said!



5- Jaws 1975 - yes, I'm a sucker for shark movies, but Jaws is actually done really well and not in a bad way... As a matter of fact, if it were on right now, if be watching it - but it's not. Oddly, it seems to be on every Thanksgiving. How is Thanksgiving related to sharks?!



6- Bell, Book, and Candle 1958 - another movie with a cavalcade of stars - Jimmy Stewart, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Elsa Lancaster, Hermione Gingold, and Kim Novak as a hip beatnik witch. takes place in NYC where they go to a cool underground club, called The Zodiac, where the Brothers Candoli play a mean rendition of Stormy Weather.



I still need 4 more movies, but I'm just not ready to commit yet. In the meantime, here are some other movies that I like a lot:



Rounders

Sharknado - good in a really bad way - or is that bad in a really good way

Jurassic park

Fight Club

My Cousin Vinny

Tombstone

Silverado

Pulp Fiction

West Side Story

Gone With the Wind

Frequency



These are all movies that I've seen way more than once. Future postings will include a comedy list, more obscure and interesting movies, scary movies, b-movies, etc.

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Movie Time

10/1/2013

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Ok, I can't take it anymore. I watch a lot of movies and well, yes, sometimes the badder they are, the better. Sometimes they are just bad and sometimes I wade through the end only to find that OMG, I have seen this movie before and, yes, it was crappy.

So it was tonight.

"From Within" 2008, rash of suicides in a very Christian community, add a little magic or spells or well, I did hear the word 'curse' bandied about. Seemed like it had potential. Was it really a curse or were people just thinking that - it was just inside their heads, not really real? Well, I had to find out.

The movie is 89 minutes long and I knew I had to be getting near the end because I had been watching it for sooooo long. I paused it to see how much time I had left, figuring it to be about 15 minutes. I had only been watching for 45 minutes! I still had 45 more minutes to go. I'd already seen about 6 people kill themselves without much variation in the plot line... Yes, I use the term 'plot line' very loosely. I wasn't sure I could take much more - have I used the word 'tedious' yet? But I did want to see how it ended.

So for the last 45 minutes, I checked my email, FaceBook, and played a few games of Candy Crush. That definitely made it easier to watch. Then at the end where they were going to tie it all together, there at the end of the pier with the girl and the 2 love interests and the guns and the magic book and the spooky double that makes you commit suicide, I realized that I had seen this movie before and that it was crappy and that the attempt to tie it all together was very lame. Actually, the best part of the movie was after I had been watching it for about 10 minutes, my husband came home and I paused the movie so we could watch an episode of Breaking Bad (season 3.) and no, that's not why the movie seemed soooo long. It seemed long because it was incredibly boring.

Out of 5 stars - I'd give this 1. It wasn't even so bad that it was good. It was just bad. 👎👎👎👎

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