She Said So

A Few of My Favourite Things

People often never ask me what my favourite song is. Probably because they are asshats I don't have one, because that would be like having a favourite movie, and that's just far too difficult a choice.

Actually ... I do have a favourite movie. It's E.T.. So I guess I do have a favourite song, it's Under Pressure. I swear to God, 2.54 onwards changed my world and I'm not just saying that because it's Bowie.*

 

 

'Cause love's such an old fashioned word, and love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night, and love dares you to change our way of caring about ourselves.
This is our last dance.
This is ourselves under pressure.

*Okay I AM just saying that because it's Bowie but shit man, it's BOWIE.

Also, this? This is the saddest scene in the entire universe. I can't even watch it now lest my keyboard spaz out from the salt flood that will result from "come ..... stay.....". Oh god. *slumps on desk*

I'll Be Right Here
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial at MOVIECLIPS.com

 

 

Ferris Trailer Recut

I love this. I love this even more than the Ferris/Fight Club theory. 

Cameron was always my hero. Ferris was fun, he was a ratbag, but Cameron was always my hero. He was trapped. Trapped by his dad, by his best friend, by his house. But he was the one that took a stand. He was the one that fought back. The movie was always about Cameron, Ferris was just the gloss.

Cameron was always my hero.

I love this.

 

A Year in Movies

So I know I tend to be slightly over-abundant in my day to day use of superlatives but this? This is just batshit fucking radcakes. It really is. 270 films from 2010 beautifully smashed together in just over 6 minutes by Gen I. It made me smile, cheer, clap, cry and remember why I love doing what I do. Enjoy.

 

P.S. Please note that at first watch there were at least two scenes with Sam Rockwell and two with Ryan Reynolds. Not that anyone's counting. Well I'm counting but ... oh look, just watch it okay.

Things what I do not want in a man, and one thing what I do.

I do not want a man that finishes every sentence with "yeeeeeeeeeeeewwwww".

I do not want a man that deems "oi c**t, get over 'ere ya p*ssy f*ggot*" to be an acceptable form of spoken english.  Yes I actually heard that yesterday. Yes he was saying it to his friend across the road and yes his friend acknowledged and indeed "got over there". Perhaps it was the start of a joke. Why did the p*ssy f*ggot cross the road? To get the c**t on the other side. 

I do not want a man that finishes every message with LOL. LOL is not a substitute for punctuation now is it ROFLCOPTER

I do not want a man that starts discussions with "I'm not racist but...."

I really do not want a man that wears this.

I DO, however, wish for a man who will do this:

 

Christ on a bike if that isn't STILL my favourite scene in any movie EVER then I don't know what is. And when I watch I like to imagine that:

a) Our girl Molls chooses Duckie over Blane "His name is Blane? That's a major appliance that's not a name."

b) Two and a Half Men was never invented thus my teen crush can continue unabated without the knowledge that Duckie became ... ugh... just everything wrong with television.

Best. Site. E.V.E.R.

Don't even think about saying there is a better website in the world than this because there isn't. There just isn't okay.

Nerd Boyfriend proves that any girl can take her ordinary, everyday boyfriend/nerd and create ... the uber-nerd. 

Alternatively if, like this humble writer, your nerd boyfriend is still at the imaginary stage and thus a little hard to dress, one can just sit ... and look ... and dream a little. 

If you'll excuse me I just need to take a moment.

Scott Pilgrim Will Rock Your World

So let me just preface this post with a few statements:

1. I have been waiting for this movie for about a year, so yes I'm a little batshit crazy with happy-hyperness.
2. I have a nerd-crush on Edgar Wright for the pure and simple reason that he co-wrote and directed Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.
3. If Edgar Wright decided to direct animal porn I would probably queue up to watch it just because he directed it.
4. Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are cinema classics. If you do not like them I shall have to cease my friendship with you even if it is just imaginary.
5. There is nothing wrong with imaginary friends.
6. Jason Schwartzman is in the film. Jason - hello can you be more awesome - Schwartzman. I'd like to be imaginary friend with him. Lots.
7. The logline is "An epic of epic epicness". I mean COME. ON. PEOPLE.
8. Okay yes it also has Michael Cera playing the same character Michael Cera plays and doing that confused, wide eyed Michael Cera look that Michael Cera gives in every Michael Cera movie. But did I also mention Jason Schwartzman is in it too??
9. I once got a drunken text at 2.23am from a man-child that said "you are rad but if you can tell me who starred in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz without googling then you are the raddest girl I've ever met". True story.
10. Here is Scott Pilgrim vs The World.

Snooze and the City

So there I was. 

All ready to write some blustering diatribe along the lines of how seeing Sex and the City 2 is about as exciting to me as tooth extraction, and how it further perpetuates the myth that women are vacuous creatures who spend their days obsessing every detail of their seemingly vapid designer lives blah blah blah ... and it was going to be a good one too.  I mean I mentally wrote it in the car on the way home last night and everything! But then this morning, I saw this and I thought "nah, this dude's on the money. I have nothing." Dude on the money, I bow down to you sir.