Sunday, April 27, 2008

And now… another movie post!

It’s film festival week here in Athens so there will be many more movie posts in the near future. Today we saw Persepolis at the Athena Grand with the guys. It was so well done. While sitting there watching the biographical animated film about a young woman’s experience growing up in Iran I went through every emotion that I have. Even though most of the scenes were relatively short, they were like those feed-this-starving-child-for-one-dollar-a-day commercials that latch on to your emotions and just won’t let go, but in a good way.


Before seeing the movie I did not watch the preview or read anything about it, so I had no idea what to expect. I also was totally unaware that it was all in French. I LOVED this. I love listening to French, learning French words, and trying like a fool to speak French, love French.

My favorite character was the grandmother who stuffed her bra with flowers. She knew what was up and wasn’t afraid to let anyone know it. In the ever present “turning point” scene she says:
Marjane’s grandmother: “In this life you’ll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it’s their own stupidity that makes them act that way. That will keep you from responding to their meanness. There’s nothing worse in this world than bitterness and revenge. Hold your head up and stay true to yourself.”

Amazing. I highly suggest seeing it. I told this to my Mother and was very impressed when she knew what it was just from hearing the title. 10 points!
This afternoon was going to be spent peer editing my English paper with my English partner, but I got stood up. I hope that it won’t damage my grade too much. I think for now I will finish said paper, do all of the readings for my diversity class and then take a nap.

Links

• One of the biggest (and stickiest!) science experiments ever seen.

• I love my sister, but I would never want to keep her around for this long.

• Want. This. So. Bad. ugh

• Shopping Tips for the Forever 21 Virgin

• Rutherford B. Hayes, the first presidential geek.

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I need to B my L on someone’s T’s.

I woke up this morning and felt just terrible. My allergies have made my head feel awful along with other things that begin with the letter a. When Jenna woke up, she told me that she felt the same way. So what are two hungover, procrastinating college girls to do on a Saturday afternoon? Yeah, we went to the movies.

We decided to see Forgetting Sarah Marshall because it is imperative that we see anything and everything that Judd Apatow touches. I tried really hard not to go to the movie website or read about it on IMDB because many comedies have been ruined for me because I read or heard all of the punch lines prior to seeing the actual movie. It’s best to stay away. I only knew about a few funny parts due to commercials, so I enjoyed the humor very much.

Overall it was consistently funny, but not as funny as knocked up or Superbad. There were some predictable parts, like when the two couples had a bang off, but the interactions and dialogue felt less like actors reciting lines to one another and more like real people discussing their lives. I thought Jonah Hill’s character was more annoying than funny, but it was probably supposed to be that way.

Next to Jason Segel, Russell Brand was my favorite main character. Especially right in the beginning when he goes on about his missing shoe. Also, I would like to point out that in the cast list on Imdb, one of the girls that Segel sleeps with is cast as “Gag me girl.” Love it.

An afternoon well spent. Currently, I’m sipping my freshly made muddled lemonade and listening to the season one soundtrack of Dexter on repeat. Speaking (blogging?) about Dexter, I really liked this article from New York Magazine. I hope that Aaron gets off of work soon, I’m ready for some fun in the form of movies on VHS circa 1991, strawberry smooties and board games.

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