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The Social Network

Aaron Sorkin is a genius. I have known that forever, as he wrote amazing things like A Few Good Men and The West Wing . This film was similar to that, especially with the fast talking awesomeness, but the problem was that the story itself was kind of a snooze, not to mention that Jesse Eisenberg is pretty obnoxious and not at all attractive. The story is pretty well-known already because Facebook is wicked popular, so there were no real surprises in the plotline. Overall, it was an okay movie. That's about all. What's interesting is my favorite part about the film was Justin Timberlake. I can't believe I'm saying it, but he's not a terrible actor, and he's really funny. Shocking, I know. The movie was good, but it wasn't as good as everyone said it was - and that's not to say my hopes were too high because they weren't. I like Aaron Sorkin but I thought the cast was dumb before I even saw the movie. It kept my attention, but just barely. The Social N

The Kids Are All Right

This movie was hyped like crazy as one of the best movies this past year and how everyone in it was going to be nominated. I should have known that it would be pretty boring, but of course, I didn't. The story is about lesbian couple Nic (Annette Bening) and Jules (Julianne Moore) raising two kids, the girl from Alice in Wonderland and the boy from Journey to the Center of the Earth . They find their sperm donor, Mark Ruffalo, and chaos ensues. Nic is super threatened and Jules ends up sleeping with him. The movie ends when their daughter leaves for college. First of all, I thought Annette Bening was great, but then again, I always think she's great, so that's nothing new. The story definitely dragged a bit, but there were parts that were funny and interesting, like when Jules told her to watch her drinking because it's day time and Nic said same thing with the micromanaging. Funny. I didn't really like the whole "we live in California and are super hip and lo

Knight and Day

I love Tom Cruise. I can't help it. I realize he's probably legitimately crazy and is horrible or whatever, but I like him. That being said, this movie was kind of a bomb. It was funny - but it's hard to say if that's because the script was good or Tom Cruise has a ton of charisma. Probably the latter. Anyway, after about 30 minutes, I started fast-forwarding through the pointless chases (which I usually like) and then all of a sudden it was over. Because that's all the movie was - chases, you know? The opening scenes were good before you got the actual back story because you hoped a little bit that he was actually crazy or the movie was going to be like 24 , but nope. Whatever. They are both getting too old for this stuff, in my opinion. And why did he have to take his shirt off a ton of times? It's not like he looks sexy or something with his old man stomach like Stallone or something. Whatever. Go ahead and skip this one.

Easy A

I just started watching this movie. "I just kept stacking up lies like it was Jenga." Hilarious. The writing so far has been really fantastic, especially for a high school movie like this. So far the cast has been good - Emma Stone plays the title role of a girl who lies about losing her virginity to a guy at community college and the lie spreads like crazy. The cast is genius. Malcolm McDowell as the high school principal, Stanley Tucci as her father, Lisa Kudrow as the guidance counselor, Thomas Haden Church as her teacher - genius. Even Amanda Bynes was great and she pretty much sucks. My favorite part though, of course, was the writing. It was like Mean Girls only more sarcastic because Lindsey Lohan isn't that funny. I am very happy so far. The scenes with her parents are absolutely hilarious - especially Stanley Tucci. I seriously think that he should be in every movie ever. I mean come on, this is genius writing: "Yeah, if I was a Gossip Girl in the Sweet Val