Films of the Week: Last Week

I got really caught up with the holiday weekend and wasn't able to post this on Saturday as usual. I meant to schedule it, but there just wasn't time. Oh, well. I'm still Miami, but we're resting at the hotel, so I decided to write this post.

I watched a lot of films last week that I always wanted to see, but hadn't gotten the chance to yet. It was a really good week of film watching.

Friends with Benefits was much better than No Strings Attached because
it focused just as much on the comedy as the romance. The plot also gave
the main characters more depth.

Broken Hll is the typical story of boy meets girl,
girl rejects boy, girl gets boy in legal trouble and
they start a choir at a prison for their community
service project and to help boy get into music
college. It was entertaining enough to do while
I went through pitches.

Of course, I've seen The September Issue. I saw it in theaters and then I
bought it, but it's different watching it after you start a magazine. I'm not
as scary as Anna, but I hope to one day be anywhere near as good.

Prom was so cute it was almost painful, but they slipped in a bad boy story
line to even it all out. Of course, he's really just misunderstood and needs
someone to believe in him. The school's golden girl perhaps?

Interview with the Vampire has been on my Netflix queue for a while, but
I kept holding off on watching until last week. I love how tortured Brad Pitt's
character is by his decision and how delightfully evil both Tom Cruise and
Kirsten Dunst's characters are. It also ended perfectly and I'm so glad they
didn't have a sequel.  

I love Meryl Streep, so I watched Heartburn. It's about a woman who marries
a notorious womanizer and finds out he's cheating when she's pregnant
with their second child. She takes him back, but can't seem to get over his
infidelity. 

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Films of the Week

I spent so much time watching The Tudors that film inadvertently took a backseat. I'm so surprised at myself. I did watch two films, one in the early hours of the morning when I should have been asleep.

I've seen Strictly Sexual before. It's surprisingly a very deep film about two
 women who invite out-of-work construction workers to live with them
in exchange for sex. Somehow, it's not raunchy, which is a turn-off for me
with films. I tried to watch the series on Hulu, but it just wasn't working. The
acting in the film isn't amazing by any means, but it's
Oscar-worthy compared to the series.

What Dreams May Come is a total tear-jerker, but it's so creative and
the entire concept of Heaven is composed well on film. The story is
about a couple who lose their children in a car accident and the husband
dies in a car accident a few years later. When his wife commits
suicide, he goes to Hell to find her. I saw bits of pieces of it before,
but seeing the entire thing really brought it out in a new light.
This is definitely on my list of favorites now.

Films of the Week

Apparently, I was in the mood for family dramas this week. It seems to be a running theme of the films I watched.

A cute first-love story with a young Reese
Witherspoon. There's also a lot of family drama.

A man tries to adapt to his teenage son coming out
of the closet, his father-in-law moving in and
sexual tension with a co-worker. It doesn't
make me want to have a lot of grown-up
responsibility any time soon, but it's good.

I wish was as lively as hers. I don't really have to explain this one, do I?

There are so many handsome men in this film that I could barely follow
the plot. But it was an OK film. The shooting was a little amateur, though.