Precious-9

Oh Precious...I am very confused on how I feel about this movie. It was so depressing, but also enlightening at the same time. It was very hard for me to connect with this girl...I mean I've never been through anything that she had to go through. She had an incredibly abusive mother, a father who raped her, and she had the reading level of a 2nd grader but still had straight A's. Is this what some people really have to live through? I can't believe it. I don't want to believe it. I can't believe that in America, the country I was born and raised, there can be a person out there living in such awful circumstances. In the beginning, I didn't like her as a person. She seemed very ignorant of what she needed to do to get out of her situation. When I see poor people and hear about the way some people live, I have always immediately judged them. I hear about people living on welfare and the first thing I think is that they're lazy and don't know how to work for a living. Although some people are like this, and should be looked at in this way, many people in poverty have no choice in the way they live. I think that Precious' mom represents all the people out the leeching off the system, not wanting to make anything of themselves. Precious' homelife was an extreme, but they needed to do this to get the full effect for people like me who don't know things like this go on. Precious had no choice in the way in which she was raised. Most people looked at her and their impression was that she was a fat, pathetic idiot who had no hope in life. Nobody knew that she was the bravest girl they had probably ever met, who had to cope with the most horrible home life imaginable. That is definitely what I take out of this movie. Precious jams the message of "don't judge a book by it's cover" right into your head. This message appears in movies very often, and many of them have gone at it through looking at people in poverty, but I don't think that anybody has done it as well as Precious. It has opened my eyes and I think that if any movie does that, it's an incredible one. So I would 100% recommend you to see this movie. It's hard to watch, but it's worth it.

Boondock Saints-7.5

I watched Boondock Saints for the first time last night. I know I know, it's pathetic that I hadn't seen it till now but I'm not big on action movies. However, I really loved this one! The actors did an amazing job and were very convincing. If you haven't seen it before (shame on you) here's the jist: Two brothers get in a fight with a few men from the Russian mob and end up winning. After killing the men, Boston calls them heroes and they soon get a message from God that they must "destroy all evil so the good can florish." Interesting huh? So we are with them on their journey of taking down all the bad men in Boston. We also follow the head investigator in these crimes played by Willem Dafoe. He does an AMAZING job in this role! The only other movies I know him from are the Spiderman movies...which I'm not a huge fan of. But now I am definitely going to go look up some more of his movies. The only problem I had with this movie was the directing. Troy Duffy wrote (props) and directed (eh) Boondock Saints. There were so many parts in this movie which could have been incredible but ended up being a little dull. I felt like it took away from the movie. I would've loved to see what Quentin Tarantino could do with this movie. I think if he had done it, it would've been a classic. Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day is coming out on Tuesday so go have a marathon!

About Me

Hey everyone! I decided to start this blog because of my passion for movies, which I wanted to share with others. I love discussing movies with people, and luckily, I have a job at Blockbuster so I get to do this very often. I'm currently a Freshman in my community college and I'm majoring in American History. I also have a job at Tim Hortons (not so proud of that one). In this blog, I'm going to review movies I've just seen or talk about some of my favorite or least favorite movies. Feel free to comment and let me know what you think! As you can tell by my name, I love the movie Almost Famous and it's currently my favorite movie :) Enjoy!