here we go again...
movie reviews:
The Good Girl (2002) DVD
~ Jennifer Aniston
this movie is a few years old, but i recently found out that Michal’s apartment complex has a pretty extensive dvd library, where you can borrow movies for free, so we did.
a description i had previously read stated The Good Girl , “questions whether goodness is a virtue or a trap”, and i guess if you know that’s what you’re supposed to be looking for, you could probably find it. however, it’d probably be impossible to locate Waldo if no one were to tell you he’s the crippled guy wearing matching candy-cane sweater and hat. if this were what the movie was really about, i doubt that it would be worth seeing. oddly enough, i didn’t start liking the film until i realized what it actually was, and that is simply this. The Good Girl is the perfect tragedy counterpart to the comedy of Napoleon Dynamite. i wholeheartedly believe these two films co-exist within the same character universe and that they are merely shot from different angles. (see Mallrats/Clerks/Chasing Amy/etc. to understand this one.) at any point it would have been completely conceivable/believable for Pedro to walk through Jennifer Aniston’s register counter with an armful of Hanes© cotton/poly blends he’d later use to promote his class presidential campaign.
you’ll like this movie if...
you read this review and follow it’s instructions
you have a penchant for full, though brief, frontal male nudity
you grew up in a small town and can relate the characters to people you knew
Jake Gyllenhaal gets you chubby
you will not like this movie if...
you did not read this review and follow it’s instructions
you grew up in a small town and can relate the characters to yourself(ouch)
you like FRIENDS, but don’t think Rachel is a whore
you are a girl and you sleep through half of it
buy this movie if...
it is $5 or less after Hasting’s generous employee discount
4 out of 10 elainestars
I Heart Huckabees (Two-Disc Special Edition) (2004) DVD
unlike The Good Girl, i paid to rent this disc. unlike almost every other rental fee it was money well spent. to dissect this movie would not do it justice so i won’t even begin to try. if someone has told you this movie is boring, immediately and permanently remove yourself from their company. stop wasting your time with them. if you’ve ever spent a holiday dinner with Wes Anderson, then you’ll feel right at home with director David O’Russell (the Irish can do no wrong) eating candied yams 2 chairs away. while maybe not as essential a watch as some films (TOPGUN, Hi-Fidelity, Believer), I♥ Huckabees should definitely be seen and felt, if not lived.
plusses-
Jason Schwartzman, from some angles looks a little too much like Tom Cruise for me to believe he will not soon be starring in a TOPGUN prequel as Maverick
Mark Wahlberg- another more than brilliant performance from one of yesteryear’s hottest, and fastest-rising new stars.
minuses-
Jason Schwartzman, from other angles looks a little too much like Luke Wilson and/or Rob Lowe for me to believe that Hollywood is not genetically producing today’s hottest, newest and fastest-rising stars
Jude Law, period.
buy this movie if...
you can afford it
7 out of 10 elainestars
adding to the continuously growing list of abandon-able sayings...
“...there’s nothing to see here!”
usually: preceded by “move along...”
always: a lie
a message to all readers:
give to Caesar what is Caesar’s. if you read this post and feel you received anything, you owe a response. tithing in the form of a response is good karma- and karma is good Christianity. plus it gets lonely in here.
speaking of karma...
Zack’s may consider his karmic debt paid in full for the alleged “incident” involving the 8 year old boy, by the sending of the Unworthy Eyes T.
representin’ the alumni, or west-coast extension of “tha brothahood” (aka "the lollipop guild")
Daniel: production begins immediately on the action figure. more news and pic to come. | 
