Moonrise Kingdom

Mr. Bishop: "My daughter has been abducted by one of those beige lunatics!"

This movie had me at Khaki Scout Troops of North America.  A very different movie which drew me in immediately for that factor.  Everything was amazing about this movie: imagery, characters, dialogue, story, cast, and music.  In my opinion, there's nothing more appealing than dysfunctional characters, which happens to be everyone in this movie. Normal is boring and wEirD is compelling.

The Sam Shakusky search party

It was melancholy but heartwarming, funny as hell, and shocking ("She stabbed him with lefty scissors!") Best part of the movie was definitely the khaki scouts. The pack of 12 year olds were basically like elite soldiers, acting beyond their years. Even better was Scout Master Ward played by Edward Norton (Ward:"Scout Master’s log. September second. First day of search party for Sam Shakusky. Morale is extremely low, in part, I suppose, because Sam is, unfortunately, the least popular scout in the troop, by a significant margin.") I gotta admit it was really funny to see Bruce Willis play this sad, incompetent cop rather than the John McClane superstar cop he normally portrays. I downloaded the soundtrack yesterday and this movie is going down on my Ex-mas list. I can't wait for Wes Andersons next movie. I didn't think it was possible for him to top Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou buuuut I'm gonna have to say he did with Moonrise Kingdom. What the what!

"Giminey cricket, he flew the coop!"

Miscellaneous Photos

I was clearing out some junk on my laptop and found a miscellaneous folder where I've stored random photos I've found on the internet on. This must have been before I discovered Pinterest. I have to share some of these photos because they are hilarious:

Classic Leo

That's the American way

But we're America damnit! And we'll do whatever the hell we want no matter how retarded it might be! 

The malevolence...

I remember that earthquake like it was yesterday. The earthquake I didn't feel because I was busy deflating 30 rubber, shock absorbing, water tubes! COME ON

Probably the greatest photo. Ever. 

Its the simply things in life you treasure

Holy Batman!

This was an ACTUAL ad for an ACTUAL product back in the day. There's nothing like that memorable date when you meet a good looking, charming man, who's polite and pays for your meal.  Then he invites you back to his place and then you see THIS on his wall.  If this doesn't immediately raise any red flags in a girls mind and doesn't get out of his creepy basement ASAP, then she deserves to die. He might as well plaster the words "Hey I'm a serial killer - YOUR NEXT."

What everyone's thinking when they're caught alone in the dark

 "You can experience how disadvantaged a T-rex must feel" - was actually the first thought that came to my mind, oddly enough. Yes technically, the dino does have arms, but come on, with arms so small in proportion to the rest of the body they might as well be non existant.

I'm baffled on how accurate this is. This also applies to my last semester of college.

We all sort through our societal problems in our own special ways. Combine retailers loaded prices with our economy today, a new pair of jeans just might be worth killing for.

Dear god, I always wondered what I found so appealing in those post-apocalyptic movies. Simplicity, simplicity, SIMPLICITY. I'm grateful for the numerous opportunities and privileges the United States provides (there's my Happy Thanksgiving plug in) but sometimes I feel like its too god damn much! My brain can barely keep up with me on a day to day basis. As soon as I start planning for the future and considering my innumerable choices, my brain wants to commit suicide. Sometimes I just want to move to a small habited island where currency is coconuts and daily naps in hammocks are required.

Colbert-Hanks Halloween and Cloud Atlas

Every talk show host seems to have their best moments with Tom Hanks. ALWAYS.  Its even better when its your favorite talk show host.

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If "non-self-centered" Tom isn't gonna "promote" himself in the new movie Cloud Atlas, then I will.  

My recommendation is...

GO SEE IT

And I did see Cloud Atlas this past weekend and I loved it.  But its one of those movies that you really should watch twice because so much is going on you often miss things the first time around.  I liked how many different genres are seen throughout the film.  It had thrills, scares, horror, laughs, love story, drama, redemption, sci-fi - you name it.  

I love a good mix. 

One of my favorite timelines was the "Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After." Set in future post-apocalyptic Hawaii with Tom Hanks as Zachary the goat herder.  His tribe is under constant threat from an opposing cannibalistic tribe and has some form of schizophrenia as Hugo Weaving playing like the devil on his shoulder. This is one you definitely would need to see a second time because they twist the words by the way they talk. You learn to pick up on it but I feel like I might have missed some key dialogue.  

Another good one was "The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish."  This tale was hilarious as Cavendish is thrown into an old people's home and is determined to escape.  Hugo Weaving plays another fantastic side character as Nurse Noakes who is a bit like Nurse Ratchet. And he is playing a woman.  A burly, robust woman.  

I would not have wanted to be on the editing team figuring out how to connect all these different scenes together as one cohesive piece but my god they did it.  Really impressive and original. Plus it has Tom Hanks - come on, its gonna be good.