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Happy 2010! I thought it would be fun to say what we were all doing 10 years ago. Of course, since about two people read my blog, it might not be THAT much fun. 10 years ago I was a junior in high school, hadn’t joined the army yet, lived with my parents, and still wanted to be a sign language interpreter. Your turn!

Okay. So I don’t like to watch movies about the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan, or the coming ones in Yemen (lol), but this wasn’t too bad. Because I was in the military, and am an Iraq-era veteran, it’s hard to watch and sometimes I get irrationally sad and upset watching them. I teared up once during this film, but it wasn’t because it was done well, more because I was sad. Anyway, the movie is about this squad of EOD and it chronicles the last 30 or so days of their rotation. It starts off good, with interesting cinematography and good action and a pretty good plot. But then, like every war movie, it devolves quickly into showing the audience how horrible life in the military is because you’re so wounded emotionally. Granted, the EOD guys probably are. I would be too. But it seemed a little forced in the film. The actors were good, and overall it was interesting to watch – except for some of the Blair Witch-y camera work, which I think everyone hates in general. The details were all corr...

Don’t read this if you don’t want to know what happens. I really enjoyed this film. It’s a “coming of age” type of movie based on a memoir of a girl in the 1960s who falls in love with a married man who she doesn’t know is married. There isn’t too much to say about the movie because it was short and sweet, and the acting was quite good. Carey Mulligan, who I have never heard of, played the lead role of Jenny Miller and she was fantastic. Peter Sarsgaard was also great, and so was the guy who played Dr. Octavius is the Spiderman movies. She’s up for Best Actress, and I would love for her to win, but I still think Sandra Bullock has a lock on it. This was a great movie, though, and there are tons of people who will never see it, which is sad because it’s great. Once she found out he was married, she went to see his wife and son, and found out that it wasn’t the first time he had cheated and he’d even gotten a few girls pregnant. Her parents performed wonderfully in the film as well, and ...

Starting off, this movie seems like it’s going to be sweet. It’s broken into chapters, and the first chapter seeems great. (I am telling the plot now, so stop reading if you don’t want to know)… The first chapter shows a dairy farmer and his family in France being visited by a German soldier, Colonel Hans Landa, who discovers there is a Jewish family hiding beneath the floorboards of his house – one girl gets away. This part is awesome, and the actor who plays the Colonel is genius. Right from the start you figure this is going to be compelling and interesting to watch. His pipe is also awesome in that first scene. The second chapter was about the Basterds, led by Brad Pitt, who can’t really act too well but is always charasmatic and funny and thus is fun to watch. Quentin Tarantino is a weird guy, but his movies are campy, a little more over the top than Sam Raimi (who I love). I never really liked Tarantino’s stuff because the music is very strange, like western/horror or something –...

I have never been a huge fan of quirky comedies (a good example is Juno and movies like it) because they make me irritated. They make me irritated because it’s quirky-ness for the sake of quirky-ness. I can’t really explain it any better than that and I’m not going to try. As a result, I knew this movie wasn’t really for me, but it was on the list of nominees, so I’m watching it right now. So far, I don’t like it. Joseph Gorden-Lewitt, otherwise known as the obnoxious kid from 3rd Rock From the Sun, is the lead male in this film, and he always looks really tired and isn’t a good actor. Like, at all. He also isn’t funny and this is supposed to be a comedy. Zooey Deschanel, however, is adorable. I’ve always liked her, even if I didn’t like the film. This movie is about their relationship and, apparently, the 500 days they were together. Of course, because it’s a quirky comedy, the days aren’t particularly sequential. There’s a scene, then a black screen with “Day 71″ or something and the...