2013 movies to be watched
(sorted alphabetically, as always):
- Despicable Me 2 The minions! :D
- Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters I’m always up for some unique spin on classic fairy tales, and this movie sounds (and looks, judging by the trailer) like it’s going to be a fun one.
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Peter Jackson’s epicness, will totally watch this (even though I haven’t even checked out ‘Unexpected Journey’ yet)!
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire The first movie isn’t better than the book, but it’s a pretty good adaptation, IMO, so I’ll be sure to check out the second movie too.
- Iron Man 3 Tony Stark. ‘Nuff said.
- Man of Steel Nolan as the producer, and already I’m going to line up to watch this movie. It doesn’t hurt that Zack Snyder is the director.
- My P.S. Partner A korean movie about accidental phone sex? The summary already crackles me up. I expect to ROFL out loud, hahah
- Pacific Rim Giant robots from Guillermo del Toro? Oh, hell, yes!
- Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters I expect this to be another fun movie from the franchise.
- Star Trek Into Darkness Throw Benedict Cumberbatch in as the villain and I’m already in. Can’t wait!
- Thor: The Dark Worlds Another superhero movie! Man, 2013 is a good year, eh?
- Top Gun Well, it’s actually re-watching, since this movie was actually out before I was born and I watched it for the first time when I was still on the elementary school, I think. I always like this movie.
- Wolf Boy Had this on my 2012 list, but it hasn’t been released on my country, so I re-list it. Song Joong-ki! :D
The Help
It’s official, I’m now a fan of Miss Stone as well. :D
I love the movie, by the way. It’s- Well, it’s kind of predictable in its own way, but I’m still a sucker for stories like this. I love Skeeter, I love Minny and Aibileen, and I love Celia Foote to my surprise, hahah.
(And boy, I did tear up a couple of times during the movie, dammit.)
And in my mind, Aibileen goes together with Skeeter to New York at the end of the movie, and then she becomes the first ever African-American writer to be hired by Mrs. Stein. Skeeter and Aibileen become flatmates, obviously, before Skeeter finally finds a perfect New York gentleman and then she gets married.
I’ve got a guy on my staff who got hit in the head with a glass door Thursday. His forehead wouldn’t stop bleeding, but he wouldn’t go to a doctor ‘cause I got another guy who got beat up covering Cairo. And the first guy wouldn’t see a doctor until the second guy saw a doctor. I’ve got a producer who ran into a locked door ‘cause he felt responsible for the second guy.
I’ve got an 18-year-old kid risking his life halfway around the world, and the AP who sent him there hasn’t slept in three days. I’ve got 20-somethings who care about teachers in Wisconsin. I’ve got a grown woman who has to subtract with her fingers staying up all night trying to learn economics from a PhD who could be making 20 times the money three miles downtown.
They’re journalists.
Come after me all you want, Nina. Come after me every day. Look through my garbage. Invent things out of thin air. That’s what you’re paid for. But you touch my staff and you are walking into a world of hurt. I have an hour of prime time every night and I will rededicate my life to ruining yours.
"Suits s01e02 - Errors and Omissions
- Harvey : What are your choices when someone puts a gun to your head?
- Mike: What are you talking about? You do what they say or they shoot you.
- Harvey: Wrong. You take the gun, or you pull out a bigger one. Or, you call their bluff. Or, you do any one of a hundred and forty six other things. If you can't think for yourself, maybe you're not cut out for this.
Suits s01e01 - Pilot
- Harvey: Look, I have to put my own interests above yours. It's nothing personal. You're fired.
- Mike: What? So you're worried that if I stay that they might find out about me and you'll lose your license. But if you fire me then I could tell them you lied about me and you'll definitely lose your license.
- Harvey: Are you telling me that if I throw you under the bus, you're going to drag me with you?
- Mike: You put your interests above mine and I'm just putting mine back up next to yours.
- Harvey: You're rehired.
Castle s04e15 "Pandora"
- Beckett: How many other women have you semi-stalk in the name of research?
- Castle: Is it a trick question?
The Hunger Games
Not bad, not bad at all (as in: I don’t hate it), but still the book is superior.
But that’s just the way it is with book to movie adaptation. You lose the main character’s inner monologue. It’s just that one of the reasons that I like the trilogy so much is precisely that, Katniss’ inner monologue, especially the part when she’s conflicted about ‘owing Peeta one’ but fully knowing that she might have to eliminate him later in the game. Instant conflict! And I became the fan of Katniss right there and then, because she isn’t ungrateful but merely a realist, and she just doesn’t have the luxury to be a hopeful person.
And I grow to like Josh Hutcherson as Peeta. His Peeta looks so harmless and kind, and that’s the way I always picture Peeta to be. I still cringed when Josh delivered the ‘I don’t want to be a mere piece in their game’ because it’s such a cringe-worthy line, IMO, but at least he tried.
I just wish that the movie takes its pace slower, because I’d like to feel Panem as a world first. And of course I’m hoping for more elaborate back stories of Katniss, Gale, Peeta and also Katniss’ family. Things just got lost or misunderstood when you cut some of the book material to fit them into the movie. For instance, they never explain why Katniss behaves the way she is towards Prim and her mother, and it’s only when you read the first book that you understand why. And why Gale doesn’t volunteer as tribute. And why you also root for Peeta alongside Katniss.
But I like the action. Cato is chilling, the way he can so easily break another boy’s neck - snap! - just like that made me shudders. Jennifer Lawrence is Katniss, she feels distant - just like how Katniss should be - but yet you feel for her. Gale is, well, Liam isn’t given a lot to work with, because even in the book the character fades into the background as the game progresses, but the viewers in the cinema react strongly when Katniss kisses Peeta and the camera pans to Gale, so I guess everyone does like some love triangle story.
John Watson: Punch you?
Sherlock Holmes: Yes, punch me, in the face. Didn’t you hear me?
John Watson: I always hear “punch me in the face” when you’re speaking, but it’s usually subtext.
[Sherlock punches Watson in the face and Watson punches him back, before jumping onto his back and grabbing him in a chokehold]
Sherlock Holmes: Okay, I think that’s enough now.
John Watson: You want to remember, Sherlock, I was a soldier. I killed people!
Sherlock Holmes: You were a doctor!
John Watson: I had bad days!"
Sherlock s02e01 “A Scandal in Belgravia”
Love this episode so freaking much!
Ha, yeah, that’s all I want to say.
