Two sexy movies and one not
Mr. And Mrs. Smith, Basically: If you think that seeing Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie be married and in love (rather separate things here) while having foreplay and flirtation in the form of car chases, gun/martial arts/etc fights around a fabulously domestic house, a body count, and, yes, actual fliration would be a sexy good time you a) are totally correct and b) should pretty definitely see this movie. I mean, come on. After destroying everything in their house trying to kill each other while the audience goes please please please have angry wallsex right now, they actually do. POSSIBLY THE GREATEST MOVIE FORMULA EVER? I think maybe yes.
Ocean's 13, Basically: Well, not as hot as 11, but infinitely better than 12, as well as definitely less confusing. (You know this? 13 was still a bit of that, but 12 was too much even for me. ps, that is one of the greatest things on the internets.) The con was pretty good, and I liked all the emphasis on the characters. Of course, the big question: are Danny and Rusty still gay? The answer: Wait, no, seriously, that cannot even be a question. Jesus. No, really, that's like asking if George Clooney is kind of decent looking. (ps, he totally, totally is, goddddddddd.)
Okay, So, Kissing Jessica Stein (warning, spoilers). Until almost the very end, I kept thinking that my entry would go like this: When I am rooting for the heterosexual rival romance AGAINST THE LESBIAN MAIN ONE, you know something's horribly wrong with your movie. I was going to talk about how it was very tell, not show, and how they never seemed quite right and how I wanted to have Josh's babies and so forth, ad nauseam.
Of course, if you've seen the whole movie you know that that was kind of the point, and in the end, I guess that means that the movie actually did what it was supposed to do, in make you see that even when everything is perfect in theory it still just didn't work without the chemistry and that they were better as friends and that yes, Jessica was supposed to have Josh's babies, the lucky biatch. The problem is that, while I rationally know and respect that happy endings don't work out and that some people just don't work as anything but friends, I like happy endings, and, maybe even more, I hate the message that this sent out.
I know, it could have just sent out the general message that sometimes relationships don't have chemistry. But the one it ended up with was one of that solid sexuality that - and I know that this is terribly politically incorrect - I still just don't believe. Maybe I just don't want to believe in it. I don't know. (I'm not sure how much I believe in guy bisexuality any more, but girls...) I know, I know, I'm missing the point. She was supposed to try something new, to open herself up, and the two connected and were bffs and made each other better, and I'm just some bitter thing looking for a movie with fluffy girl-on-girl action to get her mind off of things, several of which this movie just brought her right back to with an extremely negative viewpoint added in.
It's kind of funny, really, considering how much I found myself rooting for Josh not that far in. You'd think I'd be thrilled with how it turned out. I just... It's like when Heroes just happened to give the wanna-be illegal immigrant the one with the power to kill those around her without trying, you know? It's supposed to be all Oh, look, isn't it great that we can transcend race and she just happens to have that power, how realistic! but there's still that inherent thing.
I guess, partly, that this movie just hit kind of close to home. I mean, I think I'd have found it somewhat unsatisfactory anyway, but that really didn't help. Meh. I didn't articulate it very well in the end, I guess.
Kissing Jessica Stein, Basically: Okay movie if you're not expecting happy, fluffy girl-on-girl ending, and are willing to believe in the idea of solid, set sexuality in girls. I think the actual movie, the acting and so forth, was pretty so-so, but I'm not sure, because I just found it pretty unsatisfactory and am therefore pretty biased.
I think I need to go to bed. I'm not very good with emotions today, I think.
Ocean's 13, Basically: Well, not as hot as 11, but infinitely better than 12, as well as definitely less confusing. (You know this? 13 was still a bit of that, but 12 was too much even for me. ps, that is one of the greatest things on the internets.) The con was pretty good, and I liked all the emphasis on the characters. Of course, the big question: are Danny and Rusty still gay? The answer: Wait, no, seriously, that cannot even be a question. Jesus. No, really, that's like asking if George Clooney is kind of decent looking. (ps, he totally, totally is, goddddddddd.)
Okay, So, Kissing Jessica Stein (warning, spoilers). Until almost the very end, I kept thinking that my entry would go like this: When I am rooting for the heterosexual rival romance AGAINST THE LESBIAN MAIN ONE, you know something's horribly wrong with your movie. I was going to talk about how it was very tell, not show, and how they never seemed quite right and how I wanted to have Josh's babies and so forth, ad nauseam.
Of course, if you've seen the whole movie you know that that was kind of the point, and in the end, I guess that means that the movie actually did what it was supposed to do, in make you see that even when everything is perfect in theory it still just didn't work without the chemistry and that they were better as friends and that yes, Jessica was supposed to have Josh's babies, the lucky biatch. The problem is that, while I rationally know and respect that happy endings don't work out and that some people just don't work as anything but friends, I like happy endings, and, maybe even more, I hate the message that this sent out.
I know, it could have just sent out the general message that sometimes relationships don't have chemistry. But the one it ended up with was one of that solid sexuality that - and I know that this is terribly politically incorrect - I still just don't believe. Maybe I just don't want to believe in it. I don't know. (I'm not sure how much I believe in guy bisexuality any more, but girls...) I know, I know, I'm missing the point. She was supposed to try something new, to open herself up, and the two connected and were bffs and made each other better, and I'm just some bitter thing looking for a movie with fluffy girl-on-girl action to get her mind off of things, several of which this movie just brought her right back to with an extremely negative viewpoint added in.
It's kind of funny, really, considering how much I found myself rooting for Josh not that far in. You'd think I'd be thrilled with how it turned out. I just... It's like when Heroes just happened to give the wanna-be illegal immigrant the one with the power to kill those around her without trying, you know? It's supposed to be all Oh, look, isn't it great that we can transcend race and she just happens to have that power, how realistic! but there's still that inherent thing.
I guess, partly, that this movie just hit kind of close to home. I mean, I think I'd have found it somewhat unsatisfactory anyway, but that really didn't help. Meh. I didn't articulate it very well in the end, I guess.
Kissing Jessica Stein, Basically: Okay movie if you're not expecting happy, fluffy girl-on-girl ending, and are willing to believe in the idea of solid, set sexuality in girls. I think the actual movie, the acting and so forth, was pretty so-so, but I'm not sure, because I just found it pretty unsatisfactory and am therefore pretty biased.
I think I need to go to bed. I'm not very good with emotions today, I think.