Jenny's Intro and prediction's!

Hola todos!
Sorry I'm super lame-sauce and didn't post earlier! I actually tried two days ago and realized I just didn't know where to sign in so yeah, I had to learn how to first... But all is good now, I obviously have learned the ways of a blogger. So what the hell Shawn? Why so impatient? hehe. So yeah! I'm super excited about this challenge of ours, I'm really going to stick to this movie commitment thing! yeah yeah! I think it might actually be more challenging for me to stay awake in the damn movies than to make it to them, hehe. So here go the movie predictions and my first review of the year!

To start off 2008, I went to see a movie titled "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" at the Bytowne cinema. It was actually released in 2007, so it doesn't count in anyway towards this movie quest dealio, but I liked it enough to post about it. It's pretty sad, my mom kept having to wipe her eyes through almost the entire movie. I had just finished watching Big Daddy prior to watching this, and the opposite effect of these two movies (seriously being a wacked out combo) seemed to prevent me from being able to shed a tear, haha. The movie is about a man who was some big shot guy, editor of Elle magazine in Paris (this is a french movie with english subtitles) and he gets a stroke resulting in his whole body being paralyzed, except for his one eye. His other eye had to be sewn shut for some reason... anyway, he writes his autobiography, with the help of his physiotherapist, one letter at a time. His only means of communicating is by blinking, so they develop this system with letters and blinks for yes and no, etc. So the movie goes through his life as he tells it to his physio and we see how it horribly difficult it is to live in a body that is his own prison. The development of relationships between himself and his family and friends is also one of the main issues. It's based on a true story. It won an award at the Cannes films festival and I thought it was pretty mindblowing, so thumbs up on this one!

As for the movies released in January, these are my predictions after watching their previews.

One Missed Call is based on a Japanese movie, and I tend to be entertained by their ridiculous horror/thrillers that they come out with. This looks kind of like it's along the same lines as Ringu or the Ring, so I expect I'll be entertained but not too scared. Maybe there'll be an occasional jump of suspense, hopefully it'll be waaayy better than Dead Silence, which has got to be one of the worst horror/suspense movies ever, but my level of expectancy isn't too high.

In the Name of the King looks like it's just a bunch of "epic" battles and music thrown together with Medieval way of speaking to try to lure in all the Lord of the Rings and Beowolf fans, only to dissapoint. I enjoyed LOTR veyr much, not Beowolf though, and I'm really not looking forward to seeing this movie. Of course, this is probably the one we're going to end up watching together Shawn, so at least we can poke fun at it, hehe.

Veggie Tales just makes me want to hurt myself. Honestly. Why would they have crappily animated vegetables have "adventures" that look lame enough to bore a six year old. I cringe at the thought of sitting in a theatre watching what looks like it's going to be 2 hours of torture, the voices of the veggies are sooo annoying! They remind of the crap cartoons my friend's little siblings watch day in and out and are literally consumed by their poor humour and lack of imagination. I'll be very surprised if I end up enjoying this movie.

Oh dear God, First Sunday looks fucking terrible. The Are we There Yet? couple of movies were crap and the most I expect out of this one will be a couple of funny puns maybe jokes but that's about it. I'm not sure if I feel more sorry for someone who is willingly seeing this movie for having such bad taste, or for someone being dragged into it for having to waste their time despite their better judgment.

I don't know what to think of Fanboys. It looks... eccentric? I suppose hardcore Star Wars fans are just easy to make fun of and they decided to make a movie of it... we'll have to see!

Cloverfield. After having Shawn claim that this movie will most definitely kick his ass repeatedly ever since we first heard about it months ago, you just can't believe that it's not awesome. If this movie ends up being crap after all the built up anticipation, I think Shawn might actually cry.

SO. For 27 Dresses, I'm going to be a complete Girly-girl and admit that I actually really want to see this movie. After seeing Katherine Heigl in Knocked up and watching following Grey's Anatomy religiously for two seasons, I can't not want to see it right? Besides we need a bit of a chick-flick to break up all this horror and or crappy movie streak that seems to be developing in January.

ok, almost done!

To be honest I haven't seen any other Rambo movie, so I don't know if I'll like this one. It seems like it's the most manly movie you can possibly watch, so maybe I'll wait to see 27 dresses and watch these two movies back to back, haha.

Untraceable looks like one of those movies that has potential but if it's not twisted enough, it won't be satisfying at all to watch. It's an all or nothing type of deal and I think I'll be pleased or disappointed depending on the outcome of the plot.

I have been wanting to see Be Kind Rewind ever since I saw the poster in the lobby at the theatre. It looks mindblowingly funny and I expect nothing less than that from Jack Black. The storyline is fucking fantastic.

SO the movie that looks most promising to me: Be Kind Rewind
Least promising: the pirate veggies

whew. ok i'm suuuuper tired, and that was a crazy long post. I'm pretty sure I destroyed you with the length of this post Shawn, mouahaha. Also, I think Teeth comes out in January, as well as Mad Money, are those not counting for major movies?