Forgetting Sarah Marshall

I’ve been wanting to see this movie for a while, since I saw trailers quite a while ago. So today I finally went to go see it. The starting scene was funny, you get to see penis and butt, which apparently is hilarious to guys. The main character, played by Jason Segal, is painfully sensitive, and quite lacking in manliness, but I suppose he’s loveable. His ex is played by Kristen Bell, who is possibly one of the prettiest/cutest people ever! Case in point below.

Opposite her is Mila Kunis, who you may know as Meg Griffin from Family Guy.

Did anyone else notice that Meg seemingly only has one boob in the above picture, btw?

Anyways. So the movie definitely had a lot of humor in it. I mean, with a lovable big black guy, a middle-aged white man that seems to be lacking more than a couple brain cells, a fake sounding British guy who retorts as a comeback that “he had sex with the housekeeper”, and a devoutly religious prude guy who talks about the “playground being next to the sewage system”, how can it not be funny? But besides that, it wasn’t too special at all. The boyfriend loved it, as did a friend of his, and I thought there were some moments, but it wasn’t as great as I thought it would be.

That’s probably because all of the conservation sounded incredibly stilted and forced. It was pretty difficult to believe that the conversations were conversations that could ever actually happen, and I distinctly remember being bored during more than one of them.

Rating: 3/5 stars. It was okay. Good for a few chuckles.

Iron Man is SO AWESOME.

Yes. Yes. Yes!!

I wasn’t expecting a lot coming into the movie, because most Marvel movies, although decent, are not particularly exhilarating. But my boyfriend wanted to see it and I just wanted to see a movie, so we saw it. Best. Decision. Ever. The opening scene (that you’ve probably seen in trailers) is funny at first, but then goes into an action scene. I’m all about action. I loooove the kind of gunfights and shooting common in movies like The Departed, The Italian Job, Shooter, Die Hard, etc. So this was my cup of tea.

Robert Downey Jr, who plays the main character Tony Stark, has the whole sexy/player/sensitive/hardcore thing going on, and the rest of the characters are just as great! I don’t want to give away plot details, but I must say, my favorite type of character was in this movie – the old man. At the risk of sounding creepy, I love old men. The you know, kind, self-sacrificing type. Although my blood boils when they (almost inevitably) are harmed. And then, there’s the evil old man that you don’t suspect in the beginning but then you learn to hate very quickly. I couldn’t help but want to shoot all of the villains myself.

And Gwyneth Paltrow! (And doesn’t she look absolutely fab at a premiere for Iron Man?) Her character Pepper Pots, Stark’s assistant, was beyond cute, had great shoes, and had a couple biting remarks to say to unwitting one night stand girls. There was one scene where Pepper Pots is escorting the one-night stand girl out of the house, and the girl tried to belittle Pepper, only to have Pepper tell her that she “did all Stark asked her to do, even take out the trash.” That scene, and the one where a bad guy shoots the Iron Man only to have the bullet ricochet off of the armor and kill him, make Iron Man possibly the greatest movie I’ve seen in a while.

I can’t sing this movie enough praises!!

Rating: 5/5 Stars. Go see it now. I mean it. You won’t regret it.

21 is….. not so good.

So, Jim Sturgess is pretty cute.

And uh, that was the highlight of the movie. That and the scene at the end when Sturgess’ character “dazzles” the Harvard med school admissions officer. It was ehh interesting bordering slightly boring for the first two hours, with some interesting card counting and a funny lil bit featuring Ben (Sturgess), Choy, and a camera phone. Then the last half hour picked up a bit, and the ending was all right bordering on pretty good.

Also, in one scene Kate Bosworth’s boobs were obscenely large. See below for what I mean.

Which is weird, considering that she really isnt that uhm.. Well endowed in real life. Here she is the premiere of 21, looking a lil less boobed and a lil more normal.

I need to get myself one of those bras.

Rating: three out of five stars. solidly mediocre.