I did list my top three Leonardo DiCaprio performances a few days ago, because he is one of my favorite actors. Unfortunately, I hadn't seen Shutter Island yet..
1. Arnie Grape
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Still
mind-blowingly good! It doesn't even feel like he's acting and that's
why it's still baffling that he didn't win the Oscar for it. It's by far
one of my favorite portrayals of all time (from anybody).
2. Teddy Daniels
Shutter Island
It's hard to say much about this, without spoiling anything, but I really love how he manages to balance between all the emotions while solving the crime. He's so fragile and yet composed.
3. Hank
Marvin's Room
I
feel that this is very underrated. Not only because the rest of the
cast is fantastic but because his acting never feels forced or rehearsed
or unreal. He's just in the moment!
22.4.15
Elin and Julia watch the classics.. sort of: #3
Movie: Shutter Island
Status: Elin's never seen it. Julia's seen it once.
Favorite scene: Teddy's first bad dream.
Timeswe I pause it: About 10 because of all my newly formed theories that I needed to discuss. Julia may have been a little sick of me in the end..
We may not have been equally frightened at the beginning (I was fearing there'd be lots of jump scares) but I think we were both equally engrossed in the end! I may have tried to discuss the movie a little, during the time and we were both thankful that we watched it together because (knowing myself and my impatience) I would have jumped to the end to solve the puzzle if I'd seen it on my own.
It was really good! And that surprised me. Julia was also surprised, but more because it was "easier to understand the second time around", apparently. I didn't think I'd enjoy it quite as much as I did, because it did seem a little too.. scary for me (I'm very sensitive - Orphan's about the scariest movie I've ever seen). But it wasn't! And it made me think and Leonardo DiCaprio was amazing and the feels. Oh, the feels.
Status: Elin's never seen it. Julia's seen it once.
Favorite scene: Teddy's first bad dream.
Times
We may not have been equally frightened at the beginning (I was fearing there'd be lots of jump scares) but I think we were both equally engrossed in the end! I may have tried to discuss the movie a little, during the time and we were both thankful that we watched it together because (knowing myself and my impatience) I would have jumped to the end to solve the puzzle if I'd seen it on my own.
It was really good! And that surprised me. Julia was also surprised, but more because it was "easier to understand the second time around", apparently. I didn't think I'd enjoy it quite as much as I did, because it did seem a little too.. scary for me (I'm very sensitive - Orphan's about the scariest movie I've ever seen). But it wasn't! And it made me think and Leonardo DiCaprio was amazing and the feels. Oh, the feels.
Julia's excited face, my excited face and the living room.. where the exciting stuff happens.
18.4.15
The Wonderful Life of a Student
You get to feel like:
You've gathered three melons as a private stockpile for the ice age and now all of them have fallen off a cliff
Something's wrong because your eyeballs are stuck all the way inside your head and now they hurt and you'd like to massage them without injuring yourself, but you can't
(even though every book is written solely in "monkey".. why didn't anybody warn you?)
17.4.15
Elin and Julia watch the classics.. sort of: #2
Movie: The Shawshank Redemption
Status: Julia's seen it once. Elin's never seen it.
Favorite scene: The river.
Times we pause it: Zero.
Julia wants to turn off all the lights because "she can see my reflection in the TV and she doesn't want to watch me". I delight in the fact that she can't turn them off by throwing a stuffed bunny at the light switch. As she gets up I open my chocolate bunny.
There is a certain added pressure when you watch a movie that's deemed to be "the best movie ever" (it says so on the cover) for the first time. Thankfully I loved it! I even re-watched the best scenes a few days later and got goose bumps. It might be a little long, but that's really the only negative thing about it.
Status: Julia's seen it once. Elin's never seen it.
Favorite scene: The river.
Times we pause it: Zero.
Julia wants to turn off all the lights because "she can see my reflection in the TV and she doesn't want to watch me". I delight in the fact that she can't turn them off by throwing a stuffed bunny at the light switch. As she gets up I open my chocolate bunny.
There is a certain added pressure when you watch a movie that's deemed to be "the best movie ever" (it says so on the cover) for the first time. Thankfully I loved it! I even re-watched the best scenes a few days later and got goose bumps. It might be a little long, but that's really the only negative thing about it.
The failed bunny toss.
16.4.15
Elin and Julia watch the classics.. sort of (aka the Chocolatebunnymovieclub) #1
Movie: Léon
Status: Elin's seen it about ten years ago. Julia's never seen it.
Favorite scene: The dress-up.
Times we pause it: At least three (because Mathilda)
We both fall in love with Léon. I want to take care of him because I feel he wouldn't kill if he knew all his options. And because people use him (Tony). Not sure I'd let him live with me though.. We both find Mathilda very provoking and she makes us have to take a few discussion breaks. Not because Léon is doing something inappropriate but because she's balancing between being a child and an adult. Maybe it's necessary, because Léon is more like a boy than a grown-up and he needs this in-between girl to push him, but it sure makes us uncomfortable!
I try to take a picture of Julia, to document the moment she watched one of her new favorite movies. This is what happens:
Status: Elin's seen it about ten years ago. Julia's never seen it.
Favorite scene: The dress-up.
Times we pause it: At least three (because Mathilda)
We both fall in love with Léon. I want to take care of him because I feel he wouldn't kill if he knew all his options. And because people use him (Tony). Not sure I'd let him live with me though.. We both find Mathilda very provoking and she makes us have to take a few discussion breaks. Not because Léon is doing something inappropriate but because she's balancing between being a child and an adult. Maybe it's necessary, because Léon is more like a boy than a grown-up and he needs this in-between girl to push him, but it sure makes us uncomfortable!
I try to take a picture of Julia, to document the moment she watched one of her new favorite movies. This is what happens:
15.4.15
While Gollum's occupied..
I thought I'd list my top three performances from an actor who's style I know and really like: Leonardo DiCaprio (while I'm busy getting to know Kevin Spacey's style better).
1. Arnie Grape
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Still mind-blowingly good! It doesn't even feel like he's acting and that's why it's still baffling that he didn't win the Oscar for it. It's by far one of my favorite portrayals of all time (from anybody).
2. Hank
Marvin's Room
I feel that this is very underrated. Not only because the rest of the cast is fantastic but because his acting never feels forced or rehearsed or unreal. He's just in the moment!
3. Danny Archer
Blood Diamond
I don't know if I like this portrayal so much because I love the movie or because he is so convincing? I guess it's a little bit of both.
1. Arnie Grape
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Still mind-blowingly good! It doesn't even feel like he's acting and that's why it's still baffling that he didn't win the Oscar for it. It's by far one of my favorite portrayals of all time (from anybody).
2. Hank
Marvin's Room
I feel that this is very underrated. Not only because the rest of the cast is fantastic but because his acting never feels forced or rehearsed or unreal. He's just in the moment!
3. Danny Archer
Blood Diamond
I don't know if I like this portrayal so much because I love the movie or because he is so convincing? I guess it's a little bit of both.
12.4.15
Being Gollum.
Upon realizing that I've only watched seven of Kevin Spacey's movies, I knew I had to change that:
I want to re-watch:
The Life of David Gale
The Negotiator
I want to watch these for the first time:
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
L.A. Confidential
The Shipping News
and then I might have some new movies of his, to add to my favorites, besides:
The Usual Suspects
Pay It Forward
American Beauty
I want to re-watch:
The Life of David Gale
I want to watch these for the first time:
The Shipping News
and then I might have some new movies of his, to add to my favorites, besides:
The Usual Suspects
Pay It Forward
American Beauty
Apparently, The Usual Suspects has turned me into Gollum! I fear for all the people in my building (particularly the dachshund upstairs that keeps giving off a single high-pitched bark every two minutes)..
6.4.15
Movie night: Easter edition
Since all five of us siblings were home this weekend, we actually made time for two movie nights; on Friday we watched The Matrix and on Saturday I made everyone (except my not-easily-persuaded brother) watch The Usual Suspects.
On Easter Sunday we went about 15 minutes from where my parents live, ate some sausages and climbed a mountain (where I had to rest every ten steps or so, due to equal parts exhaustion and euphoria):
On Easter Sunday we went about 15 minutes from where my parents live, ate some sausages and climbed a mountain (where I had to rest every ten steps or so, due to equal parts exhaustion and euphoria):
My sister Sara tried to embody Legolas. My mother did not.
When I got home, I finished this crayon picture while watching World War Z.
It was a fantastic weekend. I'm so blessed!
4.4.15
About halfway through The Matrix (for the first time)
I hope someone will run him over.
Just as he's stepping out into the street..
BOOOM!
Squashed.
Mulan said it best:
"You know how it is when you get those manly urges and you just gotta kill something?"
That's how I feel now.
I just want to shove his stupid steak up his stupid ass.
2.4.15
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