♥ I'm now cleaning the house of a woman I babysit for. Or at least organizing it. It looks like an episode of hoarders in there so I'm psyched to be helping out.
♥ We got Netflix! So far I've watched the first two episodes of Better off Ted and Zombieland, which I loved, the first half of the first episode of Firefly (I'm having trouble getting into it) and Red Riding: Part 1, 1974 because I'm on an Andrew Garfield kick. Let me tell you that that is a gory-ass movie that doesn't end at all how you want it to. I'll talk about this movie under the cut if anyone's interested.
♥ I just pre-ordered The Social Network from Amazon for $17 bucks and got free shipping because I pretended to be interested in Amazon Prime. I canceled Amazon Prime immediately afterward, but that means I'll get the movie on January 11, the day it comes out! Can't wait for all of Andrew's gushy commentary, because I know it's coming.
Okay, so this movie. I'm not entirely sure what to think about it, since there were parts in the middle where I was like, "should I watch something else now...?" but since it was AGarf I had to watch it all the way to the end.
So for those of you that haven't seen it, this movie is about a young journalist, Eddie Dunford (Garfield), who wants to uncover the truth behind the abduction of elementary school age girls. He's doing a lot of investigative reporting and sticking his nose where people don't want it. Eventually one of the girls is found on the construction site of a new mall built by super-rich John Dawson. Eddie also ends up falling for one of the mothers of the abducted girls, Paula, whose husband has committed suicide. Paula is also involved with Dawson and lets him know about Eddie's search, and Dawson has some crooked cops come and beat the shit out of Eddie on a regular basis.
Eddie's friend and fellow reporter Barry is also killed under mysterious circumstances outside of a police station, and a male prostitute (who's played by Robert Sheehan from Misfits which I still need to get around to watching) and friend of Barry's gives Eddie all the research and information that Barry has gathered about the corruption in the police force and local businesses. Eddie, thinking he is doing good, gives the information to a cop at the police force that he believes to be a good guy. The cop gives it to his boss, who incinerates all of the evidence. Bawww.
In the end, Eddie basically is captured by the cops and tortured and gets the shit beat out of him again, and then the cops show him that they've (or someone has) abducted Paula and killed her, and Eddie has a mental breakdown. Then the cops put Eddie in the back of a van, bring him out on the highway, and push him out of the back of the car. Eddie doesn't die but his face turns into road hash. I cringed openly almost every time they showed the full extent of the injury. The makeup is really fantastic. I wanted to stitch Eddie's lip back together. Or make him take a shower to get all the blood off. Something. I'm not usually one for this type of movie, but again. Andrew Garfield. So Eddie, who's IN A RAGE, goes back and kills Dawson, and in the end you're supposed to see that he's driving his car into the cops. Takes himself out and takes the cops with him. Also, the mystery about the girls never gets solved. Just a note.
This movie is also really non-linear- it was hard for me to follow. It jumps around a lot. Since I was watching it on Netflix, I couldn't use my customary subtitles and I had trouble hearing sometimes. But there's a lot of shirtless AGarf. And sex scenes that come totally out of the blue. So. Not for the kiddies. But the acting was really great, and the point that they make about police corruption is very interesting.
so that's the movie! if you've seen it, let me know what you thought about it.