January 30, 2004
In Need of a Lighthearted Movie
Last night, I went to go see Monster, which stars Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci. If you're looking for a happy movie, don't watch Monster. It's a great film, but quite disturbing. Much has been made about Charlize and how she looks like a totally different person in the movie. Everything you've heard about that is true. She's not pretty at all in this movie. While there is nudity, you almost don't want to see her topless. Excellent, excellent movie. We'll see if she takes home the Oscar or not.
As if watching Monster wasn't heavy enough, I came home and popped in Thirteen, which I got from Netflix this week. Thirteen is about a 7th grader who goes from an innocent girl to a girl hooked on drugs, dabbling in sex, and cuts herself. Another excellent movie, which makes me think about what the hell is happening to kids these days. I mean, I don't think anybody in my 7th grade class was that messed up. Sure, I was in a good educational environment, which may have prevented things like that from happening. But have kids really gotten that bad in 12 years?
Hopefully, the two of the movies that I have coming next week will be crappy and lighthearted enough to even things out a bit.
Posted by tien mao in Movies at 7:35 AM
Come on... you saw Kids, right? Those kids were doing the same crap back then.
And its scary.
Posted by: Maine at January 30, 2004 10:40 AM
oh yeah! kids. but this just seemed more disturbing. maybe i'm just getting old.
Posted by: tien at January 30, 2004 11:43 AM
Holly Hunter was on the Tonight Show; Jay Leno made a stupid joke about how her family had a fight with another part of the family over a pig (she's from Oklahoma) and she was stonefaced.
Posted by: Jen at January 30, 2004 12:36 PM
Sadly, a friend of one of my swimmers is a 14-year girl who would fit right in with that movie. So yeah it does happen and it is scary.
Posted by: Justin at January 30, 2004 12:51 PM
i think i have some sort of strange attraction to holly hunter. it's the way she talks. the drawl with the slight lisp.
Posted by: tien at January 30, 2004 1:11 PM
holly is pretty hot, although she's getting too skinny. she looks stringy now. kinda the madonna/courtney cox syndrome.
i liked her in the piano. she was sexy in that.
Posted by: jeannette at January 30, 2004 2:29 PM
I remember kids being this fucked up when I was a teenager. Tien, it was only 10 years ago...
Posted by: corie at January 30, 2004 2:54 PM
wha? 12 years since i was 13. not since i was a teen, that would be 8 years ago.
Posted by: tien at January 30, 2004 4:49 PM
i lied to my parents and went to my first beer party when i was 12 or 13.. i havent seen this movie but from you've described specifically, i can say that it's pretty much right on to what i was doing when i was 13. tien, you are getting old. or else you lead a really sheltered teenage life.
Posted by: rachelleb at January 30, 2004 5:16 PM
wait, you were wearing thongs, drinking every night, smoking pot, selling drugs, stealing from stores, cutting your arm, and having sex all at 12 or 13?
Posted by: tien at January 30, 2004 5:26 PM
ill respond offline
Posted by: rachelleb at January 30, 2004 5:30 PM
Dude, when we were 13 and 14, we would just play football in the park and eat pizza. We were sheltered youths, Tien.
Posted by: Maine at January 30, 2004 8:41 PM
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