Dexter

I have been watching "Dexter," another great show by Showtime. It has the actor that played David in "Six Feet Under." He works in blood forensics. His particular job is figuring out how someone died by their blood splatter. At night, he is a serial killer....

It sounds really dark, but it's actually really comical. Definitely in a dark way, but comical none the less. Anyone who liked Six Feet Under would like Dexter, it's comical in the same way.

He has had an uncontrollable urge to kill people all his life. His dad (who is a cop) realizes this at a young age, and decides to teach him to use that in the right way. This means for him to only kill bad people.

So, he lives by what his father teaches him all his life, and you watch him go through his dual life. It's an addictive, interesting, and humorous television show.

Walk Hard

"Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox story," was one of the funniest movies I have watched in a while. I normally really hate spoof movies. They are never funny to me, and they usually make fun of movies that I liked. Walk Hard is another spoof movie, this time about Ray Charles and Johnnie Cash.

This movie made me laugh every five or ten minutes. Laughs are few and far between for me when I watch most movie that are supposed to be funny. It's not because I don't have a sense of humor, it's because I just don't think stuff on movies is funny most of the time.

So this movie is loosely (very loosely) based on the lives of the two singers. You can tell when they are mimicking something that was on the movie "Ray" or "Walk the Line," but they turn it into some sort of twisted alternate storyline. For instance, they have Ray's little brother killed by Ray on accident with a machete instead of accidentally drowning in a tub of water.

For some reason, the actor playing Dewey (John C. Reilly) who we all know is in his 40's, starts out the movie when he's like 14. So that was a little strange... but it was still funny.

If you want a silly movie that will make you laugh, this is a great movie to watch.

Feast of Love

I really liked Feast of Love... I figured it was going to be another pointless romantic comedy, which I enjoy so I would have watched it anyway. It was still a romantic comedy, but the characters and plot were so well written and developed that it set it apart from others of it's kind.

The story was centered around a man named Bradley. It starts out with his marriage that he's been in for six years. His wife soon meets a woman, that she falls in love with (I know not the stereotypical way to go, but it was really believable and sweet the way they fall in love), and shortly leaves her husband for. You don't see much of the wife after that, but it's a fitting ending for her, and you know she's happy.

The man was actually a really good, loving husband, so you feel sad for him rather then happy like you do in some movies like this. He ends up meeting another woman, who he doesn't know it but is sleeping with a married man (who is a complete jerk) on the side. She is an independent, fierce woman, and likes Bradley because he is sweet and sensitive, and she likes being a lady for a change.

The two marry, Bradley is really happy, but they keep showing scenes with the woman where you realize that she is actually in love with the married man. They haven't been seeing each other since she told him she was to marry Bradley, and run into each other later. The man leaves his wife, and sadly, the woman leaves Bradley.

Bradley is alone, and heartbroken again. He intentionally cuts off the tip of one of his fingers, claiming he want his outside to feel the way his inside does (awwhh! This was so sad). Thankfully, Bradley falls in love with his nurse at the hospital, and this relationship works out.

I loved this movie because it was about the best and worst things about being in love. It was beautifully written, and the character of Bradley was completely lovable.

There will be blood...eventually

I just watched There will be Blood, and was sadly disappointed. Everyone kept talking about it, and how great of a movie it was, so I guess I had pretty high expectations. This film is set in the early 1900's and is mostly about a man and his young son who are involved in the oil business. The boy's mother died in childbirth, so he is raised by his father, and acts as his father's business partner. The boy loses his hearing when there is an oil explosion, and the father ends up sending him away since the boy can no longer help him work. The father starts to lose his mind, and the plot is about that decline.

If you ever wanted to know what it was like to be a oil man, you should watch this movie.

This movie was soooo slooooooow...... I almost fell asleep a couple of times. It was two and a half hours long, and probably about a quarter of it there wasn't anyone talking. There wasn't even any dialog the first ten minutes. There were a ton of drawn out scenes where you had to watch the actors walking for a minute or two, while some strange music was going on in the background. Sometimes they would zoom in on people's faces for way longer then necessary. I guess they were trying to portray the mood, and how people were feeling through the way it was filmed rather then on dialog.

Even so, the acting was superb, and the directing was definitely different than usual. That was probably why so many people liked this movie. It seems that people think artsy movies are somehow profound. As long as it's filmed and played out different then normal, it's a good movie. I liked this movie for the acting. The main role must have been a hard one to play. You starting out really liking the main character, and slowly came to despise and pity him.