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Filmsi - July 2010

The Social Network - the movie! Are you serious?

Hey interwebs I'm sure all have you have heard about the new movie about Facebook?! And my first reaction was like no way this for serious like could they really make a movie about Facebook, seriously FACEBOOK!!! Its like the time I watched the trailer for a "horror movie" about the donkey punch (if you don't what this is count yourself lucky), like this has to be some sort of joke, right? With offical websites and release dates announced it seems like this is legit but I'm cynical and usually ill-informed about these things so if anyone knows if this is true then feel free to dis-credit me and my ill-informed ways.

So for the time being here is a link to the trailer from Youtube. Enjoy and was heaps funny coz its so serious and then after the realisation that its not a joke then it becomes a little scary.

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Heres the offically site link

Really Long Link or 500millionfriends.com

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July 19th 2010 @ 08:17

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Little Miss Sunshine, 2006

Refreshingly different Little Miss Sunshine is a story about a seemingly ordinary and overly average family whom are struggling with the daily problems with life, may be it money or personality clashes. Yet despite these problems even from the first few scenes it has pretty clear that this family really care about each other even though for a large amount of the time they want to kill each other.

This is clearly the modern family, the mother Sheryl (Tony Collette) walks in the house with take-out chicken in the car and they set the table with plastic plates - even with one scene it’s becomes evident that she is a working mother with a lot on her plate. Dinner brings about an array of different topics of discussion but particularly the subject of Uncle Frank's (Steve Carrell) attempted suicide which is honestly explained and discussed to the young Olive (Abigail Breslin). Olive despite the gloom of the subject matter maintains her innocence and demonstrates both curiosity and a child's understanding of the situation and instinctive (surprising for such a young girl) comforting Uncle Frank. The dinner scene essentially builds and develops characters easily and as the audience we have a pretty good idea how each character is like.

The main plot of the film is that Olive has been qualified to enter a beauty pageant for little kids, the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. The family with little options decides to take the whole family across the state or whatever for her chance in the Little Miss Sunshine pageant; here of course the family goes through a few mishaps and adventures.

The most interesting and commendable aspect of this film is that its incredibly real, you believe the characters and even tho you can pretty much figure out what these characters are like from the first couple scenes but you see a little more about them as the film progress. Yes, in general the characters don't change much but you do see something really special about them. A commonality with all the characters despite them being different is how much they care for Olive. Each one of them sacrifices something that is worth a lot to them for Olive. As if to hold on to a piece of innocence that Olive seems to radiate. The character of Olive is just completely lovable, cute, positive and well behaved child who lives in her little bubble of innocence - which is incredibly charming. Abigail Breslin as Olive was just a delight to watch she brings warmth and likability that is really difficult to achieve, even adult actors may struggle with. In general all the actors and the characters were likable and had their own individuality yet remained quite charming. I was particularly surprised and impressed by Steve Carrell's character Frank, a self-confessed know-it-all yet with real major psychological issues and Carrel shows depth with Frank and that there is a lot going in his mind but he is recovering. I like it because this is so different from Carrel's other roles particularly because he is usually boxed into his character in the Office and everyone starts to think he can only do that sort of crazy, obnoxious characters and has that standard type of comedy. But clearly that isn't true.

As much I really enjoyed this film I can see that it may be not everyone's cup of tea. When I first watched this film I really enjoyed it but I felt that it was a little too simple and many would find it slightly boring as there isn't a constant action or drama or even the usual toilet humour that we are use to. But with a second screening, I like it more, there is depth and the plot may be a little thin but it was definitely balanced by the really interesting and likable characters. You have to be patient with the film and let is really sink into you and you find that it's a really funny film and not just a drama piece. At face value it may not seem much but it’s definitely worth a watch.

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July 8th 2010 @ 13:40

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Death at a funeral, 2007

Just to clarify this is the British film Death at a Funeral and not the upcoming American version with Martin Lawrence. So the other day I was about to watch Death at a Funeral and I told my family that I'm going to watch death at a funeral, and their reaction was like well no shit there is death at a funeral personally when I first heard about this film I had no such reaction and naturally my family cynically dismiss my attempts to convince them they should watch it with me.

Without a doubt there is something very English about this film, not because everyone has an English accent, is pale and driving around shitty cars but the humour it self is quite English - slightly dark and completely cringe worthy. It's start all serious with a casket being driven to a beautiful green country house. The casket is then carefully place into position and lead character peers into it and finds that they have gotten the wrong person. And that’s when all the fun begins. An hour and half (or roughly) of ridiculous things happening, from drugged up a boyfriend, the blackmailing midget, seedy one night stands coming to haunt you and the overachieving sibling. And of course that rude and inappropriate uncle that shares way too much information.

So well I think you get the picture. Not an overly intelligent piece but definitely worth a watch, its fun and it's silly and generally an enjoying experience. No, it may not win an Oscar but then again not many comedies do which is a shame because comedies are incredibly difficult to pull off. Death at a Funeral delivers the goods, if it wasn't for the swearing and the nudity I would say this something people of all ages could enjoy (I mean people over the age of 12). I will be honest with you I'm not too familiar with the cast which makes sense I live in Australia when most of the stuff that is made popular is the US blockbusters rather than a well made Brittish comedy pieces even though I believe is this was quite popular when it was released. Anywho where was that sentence heading? Oh that's right, about the cast and I was explaining that I not familiar with cast even though there were a few people that I have seen in other films and I did mistakenly think one of the actors looked a lot like Ricky Gavis but he clearly wasn't it. There isn't really much else I can say, I mean its was really a cool and easy to watch kind of film - like on a cold lazy Friday night in kind of thing. So yeah that's it... go watch it.

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July 6th 2010 @ 06:31

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