Too Close for Comfort
Went to see that movie Closer today. It made me feel like I needed to take a shower. It was filled with manipulative, sexually complicated, scenarios. Don't know why but it turned my mood inside out. I kinda wanted to see Spanglish afterwards to make it a double-header-day, and to wipe my brain clean of Closer, but the timing wasn't right for a double headeer and my movie partner had a soar throat. I'm still thinking about checking out of hotel Holly (I'm House/cat sitting) and going to see it later.I have moodiness from Closer which is also compounded from cat-guilt. I'm house/cat sitting while no one is house/cat sitting my house & cat. I feel like a teenage mother who left her newborn with the neighbors so that she could go party, or in my case, left my feline child at home alone so that I could sleep in a bed that is so comfortable it makes me feel badly for sleeping. Maybe my mood is due to too much sleeping???
Holly and Curt have this Celebrity Bed by Tempur-Pedic. Ok this thing rocks. No. It sucks you in and won't let you go. It's A-MAY-ZING, seriously, I can't go near it again. I can't! Be forewarned. Don't sleep for 18 hours in this puppy, then go see a trashy movie. all while leaving your feline child at home alone for days. It's bad.....I'm going to lay down for a bit....
posted by Jessiedc28 @ 5:44 PM
7 Comments:
I watched Wimbledon and Resident Evil: Apocalypse back to bask this week end. You are right. It does one good to cleanse the palate between viewings.
Just saw Spanglish. Great movie...didn't make me cry and much more along lines of what I think I needed to see today. Largely increased my number of smiles. Fab!! Now I feel like I can go back to being happy me.
Resident Evil...I can't get past the hairless dog. It does have a scary hairless dog right?
I can't believe you didn't like Closer. It is depressing, but it's gritty, raw, and real. It's was filmed in keeping with the play that it's based on, so it might have been harder to watch in movie form. I love that movie!!!!
Yes it does have nasty hairless zobie dogs. It is for the most part an eye candy movie. Zombie gore eye candy, special effects eye candy, hottie eye candy. Don't expect much and it is enjoyable.
L - It wasn't so much that I didn't like it -- I just didn't think it was what I needed to watch. And it wasn't really depressing. I found it incredibly unrealistic actually. The chances of one man/woman falling for the same man over and over again just to end up with the asshole in the end seems unlikely. Maybe once -- but not 4 times. And the girl with the fake name...how likely they were together for 4 years, over seas, and lived together and he never caught wind of her real name? She wasn't FBI for God sake. I don't know...
SS - Hairless dogs aren't my thing and they leave me without fingernails for I bite them off. Hairless THe hairless dogs are the only thing I remember about the movie. But I appreciate and understand the importance of hot chicks in a movie.
I didn't think that the whole love rectangle thing was realistic, but I thought that the conversations and the arguments were realistic of what people would really say to each other vs. arguments in other movies.
Lizzy, But do you think people would be really that calm and honest? No yelling? No fist fighting? The only hightened conversation was between Julia and the guy with the constant 5 o'clock shadow and even that was calm and ...well....seemingly rehearsed for such a calm moment. And then that part where he came down dressed, admitting he'd slept with a whore, just seemed so .... off. I don't know. I've been cheated on, as you know, and I was either so stunned, or "Zobie", and couldn't talk, or so sad I couldn't talk, or so mad I could have physically hit "M". Not calm, rational, and forthcoming.
And I don't know that the honesty in that movie is very reflective of relationships either. They SHOULD be that honest but I think the chances of someone actually fessing up to sleeping with a whore, especially when he wasn't leaving his wife for the whore, seems unlikely to me. But "M" never told me the truth about anything and I'm a classic avoider, so maybe that's just me....
Bottom line: I think it's remarkably odd that ALL 4 people, in a twisted cheating square, could all be THAT calm, THAT collected, and THAT honest. Seems too unrealistic.
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