Revolutionary Road

Jamie and I saw Revolutionary Road. Don’t worry, there are no spoilers in this post, and if there were, it’s not like I’d warn you.

The premise of the movie is simple: The year is 1950-something. A young couple moves to suburbia and experiences social awkwardness, outrageous fights, crying fits, and 3-hump-sex-scenes.

That’s right. 3-hump sex scenes: the 1950’s version of a 1-minute-man.

Okay, Okay. It’s a very serious drama. Won awards and everything. Yes. I’ll get to that in a second. The sex scenes need to be addressed! Revolutionary Road almost has as many sex scenes as Marley & Me, except there are no tasteful pan outs or scene cuts. The entirety of each sex scene consists of three thrusts.

Every time.

And after the third thrust the man was always completely worn out. I guess endurance was invented in the 1960’s…

It was a running joke throughout the movie. Hilarium.

Ahem, aside from the 3-thrusts, Revolutionary Road is excellent. A central theme of the movie is frustrated ambition – CUE THE BLAKE QUOTE!

“Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.” – William Blake

Oh yes I did! I have a BA in English Literature. The only useful part of an English major is the ability to smack Blake quotes into blog posts. (And that makes the $34k/year tuition totally worth it.)

And not to ruin the movie for anyone… but I think the screen writer had my Blake quote mind… just sayin’…

On the drive home I told Jamie that I’m glad I moved to Minneapolis. If I stayed in Miami my life would be a fashionable, (and humid) version of Revolutionary Road.

Yes. I’d be the only guy in Miami wondering “If I only I had moved to Minneapolis!!! WOE IS ME!”

I settled for undergrad, and I’m so grateful that I did not make that same mistake for law school.

Well, I’m still going to do some handwringing, but I’d rather worry about loans (for a great school) than trying to market a tier 3 JD.
Ahem. And now back to a very neglected boyfriend… (he actually asked if I was going to start blogging when we got home…I don’t think Blake can help me with this one…)

Filed under: drama, must see , movie review, Revolutionary Road

Junebug

Saw Junebug today. It’s another installment in the “meet the parents” genre: a chic city woman meets her husband’s religious, backwood family.

“Honey, is it going to be that bad?” “Heh…you have no idea…”

We meet the bullish mother, silent father, angry brother, and the brother’s ditzy/chatty (and pregnant!) girlfriend.

“BE MY FRIEND!”
The wife is an art dealer. So we have the kooky semi-autistic artist who paints bloody civil war scenes and, uh, penises.

“It’s so deep!”

He also speaks in riddles and gives constant impromptu sermons….

Two problems with this movie – there are a lot of unnecessary sex scenes that add nothing to the plot or character development, and there are a lot of lingering shots of empty rooms ala botched arthouse style.

The biggest problem with the “meet the parents” genre is that the married couples never seem to have had the “so, where are you from?” conversation. They might as well have married a serial killer…which might make for a more interesting story…

Filed under: crap, drama , Allesandro Nivola, Celia Weston, Embeth Davidtz, Junebug, movie review, Scott Wilson

Rachel Getting Married

We watched Rachel Getting Married last night – Anne Hathaway plays a junkie gets out of rehab a few days before her sister’s wedding.

The cast?

• Anne Hathaway as the Junkie


Via MovieWeb

• The bitter sister (who’s getting married)
• cold mother
• effeminate annoying dad who is constantly screaming with gitty, gitty glee
• dad’s new wife
• sister’s fiancé (who looks like Kanye West’s body double)


Via MovieWeb – Sister and Kanye West fiance…

• sister’s annoying friend
• fiance’s suave, junkie best friend

And, and and…

There’s screaming, drama, and drawn out, painfully awkward moments.

It’s a good movie, but there are several scenes at the end (about 20 minutes worth) that are just dancing at the wedding party, and could have been cut – otherwise it’s a good movie.

Filed under: drama, must see , Anne Hathaway, Kanye West, rachel getting married