I finally got to Watch W.E this week and really enjoyed watching the movie. I myself never knew that King Edward VIII abdicated the throne of England for the love of a woman prior to watching this film, and this movie did a great job explaining just how much King Edward VIII must have loved Wallis Warfield Simpson to give up such a position that he was destined for. Little did I know that his brother was King George VI, who Colin Firth portrayed in "The King's Speech", also a very good movie about a king who stutters, and has to over come his speech impairment during the bombings of World War II, to inspire and give his people hope, in one of the most difficult times in England's history! Although I very much enjoyed the movie, I hope that Madonna makes a few changes in the DVD when it's released, such as adding the year at the start of the film, and the year during the transition from past to present when we first see Wally Winthrop played by the very beautiful Abbie Cornish. I also noticed that some of the transitions were cut to short, and may have been deleted to keep down the film length for the theater or the film was damaged and repaired for the Projector at the theater I watched it at, (I couldn't tell which ), but I would like to see the additional footage in the DVD release. I also really enjoyed watching the making of the movie on You Tube, and since the theater that I watched the movie in lacked a DLP projector, The vividness of the landscape and characters filmed in HD, just did not do this film justice watching on an old theater projector.
Reviews
12 Reviews
The Music Never Stopped
(2011)
If you loved "Forrest Gump", you'll love this movie!
11 August 2011
Warning: Spoilers
Wow, how could I have missed this movie's release at the theaters? I just found the "Music Never Stopped" on Redbox and thought I would rent it, and it is such a heart warming movie, that I put in the category of, "Forrest Gump", which is one of my favorite all time movies.
What I really enjoyed about the movie is how a father who had a fall out with his only son 20 years prior over the 1960's rock and roll music he listened too and so loves, is reunited when his son has surgery to remove a tumor, and loses his memory.
His father soon learns that music allows his son to bring back memories, and he soon learns why his son loves music by artists, Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead and Buffalo Springfield, by actually taking the time to listen to the lyrics, and his son on the events that took place that inspired music artists to write such songs.
What I really enjoyed about the movie is how a father who had a fall out with his only son 20 years prior over the 1960's rock and roll music he listened too and so loves, is reunited when his son has surgery to remove a tumor, and loses his memory.
His father soon learns that music allows his son to bring back memories, and he soon learns why his son loves music by artists, Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead and Buffalo Springfield, by actually taking the time to listen to the lyrics, and his son on the events that took place that inspired music artists to write such songs.
The Switch
(I) (2010)
Using a Turkey baster to have a child?
3 September 2010
I found this movie to be very interesting in concept, The interesting thing is that, Back in 1987 or so, the San Jose Mercury News did a story on a Lesbian couple that went to a bar and picked up on a man, brought him back home, then took his used condom and impregnated them selves with a Turkey baster, with out his knowledge. Now 20 years later, should they be entitled to back child support?
The social question here is, should the biological father have a right to know he has a child, and also be involved in his own child live possibly with joint custody or at the least partial custody, in my opinion, I think he should. Since Jason Bateman was only a sperm donor, he gave up those rights in this movie but if he had not, should he have to pay back child support for a child that he never knew he had 20 years later, if his sperm was taken with out his permission? Our laws seem to only protect single mothers with no disregard for a single father who may not have had the financial means that the mother may have had, and our laws do not require that a mother tell the father if he has a child. Mothers may do this to avoid the father seeking joint custody and or child support, or have a say on how his child may be raised, however should the father have had the financial means to support the child, I am sure the mother would be the first to file a paternity suit. Sounds like a double standard.
On another note, is Hollywood trying to produce to many Jennifer Aniston films in one year, a seasoned actress, I just did not see her best in this film, and know that she could have done a much better job acting, it seems as if the director rushed through the takes to meet his or her budget.
The social question here is, should the biological father have a right to know he has a child, and also be involved in his own child live possibly with joint custody or at the least partial custody, in my opinion, I think he should. Since Jason Bateman was only a sperm donor, he gave up those rights in this movie but if he had not, should he have to pay back child support for a child that he never knew he had 20 years later, if his sperm was taken with out his permission? Our laws seem to only protect single mothers with no disregard for a single father who may not have had the financial means that the mother may have had, and our laws do not require that a mother tell the father if he has a child. Mothers may do this to avoid the father seeking joint custody and or child support, or have a say on how his child may be raised, however should the father have had the financial means to support the child, I am sure the mother would be the first to file a paternity suit. Sounds like a double standard.
On another note, is Hollywood trying to produce to many Jennifer Aniston films in one year, a seasoned actress, I just did not see her best in this film, and know that she could have done a much better job acting, it seems as if the director rushed through the takes to meet his or her budget.
Salt
(2010)
A action packed spy thriller with a twist!
29 July 2010
I always love watching the very beautiful Angelina Jolie on the big screen, so I tend to be biased in my review of her movies.
Salt was a movie with a very unexpected twist in irony. I found it to be very action packed, and interesting in concept.
The United States Central Intelligence Agency has always been concerned about foreign powers planting foreign spies in various government agencies and political positions, so they can secretly undermine Democracy. Could moles be in the FBI, or the CIA, or could they be at the heart of the High Tech industry, secretly embedding back doors and Key Loggers that upload passwords encrypted, in small packets not easily deciphered, into our governments and banking industries computers.
"For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
Watch the movie to find out!
Salt was a movie with a very unexpected twist in irony. I found it to be very action packed, and interesting in concept.
The United States Central Intelligence Agency has always been concerned about foreign powers planting foreign spies in various government agencies and political positions, so they can secretly undermine Democracy. Could moles be in the FBI, or the CIA, or could they be at the heart of the High Tech industry, secretly embedding back doors and Key Loggers that upload passwords encrypted, in small packets not easily deciphered, into our governments and banking industries computers.
"For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
Watch the movie to find out!
The Kids Are All Right
(2010)
The trailer looks very funny!
24 July 2010
I found this movie to be very interesting, as it seems to do a very good job of what a lesbian couple go through in raising children of their own with a male in the picture. The interesting thing is that, Back in 1987 or so, the San Jose Mercury News did a story on a Lesbian couple that went to a bar and picked up on a man, brought him back home, then took his used condom and impregnated them selves with a Turkey baster, with out his knowledge. Now 20 years later, should they be entitled to back child support?
The social question here is, should the biological father have a right to know he has a child, and also be involved in his own child live possibly with joint custody or at the least partial custody, in my opinion, I think he should. Since Mark Ruffalo was only a sperm donor, he gave up those rights in this movie.
And should he have to pay back child support for a child that he never knew he had 20 years later, if his sperm was taken with out his permission? Our laws seem to only protect single mothers with no disregard for a single father who may not have had the financial means that the mother may have had, and our laws do not require that a mother tell the father if he has a child. Mothers may do this to avoid the father seeking joint custody and or child support, or have a say on how his child may be raised, however should the father have had the financial means to support the child, I am sure the mother would be the first to file a paternity suit. Sounds like a double standard.
The social question here is, should the biological father have a right to know he has a child, and also be involved in his own child live possibly with joint custody or at the least partial custody, in my opinion, I think he should. Since Mark Ruffalo was only a sperm donor, he gave up those rights in this movie.
And should he have to pay back child support for a child that he never knew he had 20 years later, if his sperm was taken with out his permission? Our laws seem to only protect single mothers with no disregard for a single father who may not have had the financial means that the mother may have had, and our laws do not require that a mother tell the father if he has a child. Mothers may do this to avoid the father seeking joint custody and or child support, or have a say on how his child may be raised, however should the father have had the financial means to support the child, I am sure the mother would be the first to file a paternity suit. Sounds like a double standard.
Letters to Juliet
(2010)
What a heart warming modern day love story!
22 April 2010
I just watched , "Letters to Juliet" last night in San Francisco at a pre-screening at the AMC Theaters, and really enjoyed the movie.
"Letters to Juliet" is a very heart warming and inspiring film, that portrays two individuals that have been separated for nearly 50 years, have married and led separate lives, but are inspired by a soon to be journalist who replies to a letter that she finds hidden in a loose brick that was thought to be lost, addressed to Juliette,(A dear abby type columnist in Verona), and after 50 years do they still feel the same love that they once had for each other when they first met? But wait, is one of them still married, or is he dead, or will he still love her? Do they finally marry? An interesting twist in events soon unfolds.
Amanda Seyfried was amazing, and even more beautiful today then when I first saw her in the movie "Mean Girls".
This film is a modern day classic love story that you can watch over and over and still find just as heart warming as when you watched it for the very first time.
Jose F. Medeiros :-)
"Letters to Juliet" is a very heart warming and inspiring film, that portrays two individuals that have been separated for nearly 50 years, have married and led separate lives, but are inspired by a soon to be journalist who replies to a letter that she finds hidden in a loose brick that was thought to be lost, addressed to Juliette,(A dear abby type columnist in Verona), and after 50 years do they still feel the same love that they once had for each other when they first met? But wait, is one of them still married, or is he dead, or will he still love her? Do they finally marry? An interesting twist in events soon unfolds.
Amanda Seyfried was amazing, and even more beautiful today then when I first saw her in the movie "Mean Girls".
This film is a modern day classic love story that you can watch over and over and still find just as heart warming as when you watched it for the very first time.
Jose F. Medeiros :-)
13 Going on 30
(2004)
A movie that all of us that were 13 can relate too and love!
3 April 2010
Warning: Spoilers
I myself enjoyed watching this movie, but some how missed it at the theater, and stumbled on it at my local blockbuster, and decided to rent it after watching Ghosts of Girlfriends Past at its Theater release.
At first, I thought that this movie was a take off of Big with Tom Hanks but with a twist since it involved a female, but soon realized that it was much different, the very beautiful Jennifer Garner plays Jenna, a teenage girl that wishes she could be 30 years old, and after some magic pixie dust falls on her in a closet, wakes up as a 30 year old woman, who just happens to be in the middle of a strip tease dance by her Hockey Player Boyfriend that is in his underwear, and she is startled by. Jenna appears to not remember anything of the past 17 years of her life and what a half naked man actually looks like.
The odd thing about this movie, is that Jenna soon miss's her chubby child hood friend Matt, played by Mark Ruffalo, who she was once best friend's with, but had embarrassed him, so she could date one of the football jocks after the cool kids accept her into there clique, Matt Flamhaff is devastated by her betrayal, as he is cast aside for her new friends.
Now in his 30's, and after 17 years Matt has lost weight, has moved on, and is engaged to a very beautiful news reporter, and unknown to Jenna, as an adult she is actually not liked much by her peers, has not had any contact with Matt, as she is not a very nice person in her adult life.
Her best friend is now Lucy played by Judy Greer, that was her child hood friend that co-herced to be mean to Matt,(She was one of the mean girls in high school), and who appears to be her friend and look out for her but really envies her position as the editor of a fashion magazine and deep inside wants to take her place.
The story also has an interesting twist, and ending which, I rather not spoil. Several scenes that enjoyed and found humorous, was the Michael Jackson thriller dance by the adult Jenna and the adult Matt, and her boss's, version of the moonwalk (Some thing we called the back slide back when I was in high school).
I must add that I found the movie very humorous at times, and enjoyed the music by Madona, Michael Jackson, Pat Benatar, Liz Phair, The Go-Go's, Rick Springfield, Talking Heads, Belinda Carlisle, Whitney Houston, Lillix, Vanilla Ice, Hill Ingram, and Billy Joel.
Mark Ruffalo, Judy Greer, and Jennifer Garner each did a great job acting in this film, and although this a fictional story, I feel that it was done in good taste and is movie that you, and your children will enjoy watching over and over again.
Jose F. Medeiros
At first, I thought that this movie was a take off of Big with Tom Hanks but with a twist since it involved a female, but soon realized that it was much different, the very beautiful Jennifer Garner plays Jenna, a teenage girl that wishes she could be 30 years old, and after some magic pixie dust falls on her in a closet, wakes up as a 30 year old woman, who just happens to be in the middle of a strip tease dance by her Hockey Player Boyfriend that is in his underwear, and she is startled by. Jenna appears to not remember anything of the past 17 years of her life and what a half naked man actually looks like.
The odd thing about this movie, is that Jenna soon miss's her chubby child hood friend Matt, played by Mark Ruffalo, who she was once best friend's with, but had embarrassed him, so she could date one of the football jocks after the cool kids accept her into there clique, Matt Flamhaff is devastated by her betrayal, as he is cast aside for her new friends.
Now in his 30's, and after 17 years Matt has lost weight, has moved on, and is engaged to a very beautiful news reporter, and unknown to Jenna, as an adult she is actually not liked much by her peers, has not had any contact with Matt, as she is not a very nice person in her adult life.
Her best friend is now Lucy played by Judy Greer, that was her child hood friend that co-herced to be mean to Matt,(She was one of the mean girls in high school), and who appears to be her friend and look out for her but really envies her position as the editor of a fashion magazine and deep inside wants to take her place.
The story also has an interesting twist, and ending which, I rather not spoil. Several scenes that enjoyed and found humorous, was the Michael Jackson thriller dance by the adult Jenna and the adult Matt, and her boss's, version of the moonwalk (Some thing we called the back slide back when I was in high school).
I must add that I found the movie very humorous at times, and enjoyed the music by Madona, Michael Jackson, Pat Benatar, Liz Phair, The Go-Go's, Rick Springfield, Talking Heads, Belinda Carlisle, Whitney Houston, Lillix, Vanilla Ice, Hill Ingram, and Billy Joel.
Mark Ruffalo, Judy Greer, and Jennifer Garner each did a great job acting in this film, and although this a fictional story, I feel that it was done in good taste and is movie that you, and your children will enjoy watching over and over again.
Jose F. Medeiros
The Notebook
(2004)
A wonderful heart warming love story that you can grow old with!
3 April 2010
Warning: Spoilers
The Notebook is such a wonderful and heart warming love story that I have to comment on it. I some how missed this movie in the theaters, but was fortunate to find it while browsing the video's at my local Blockbuster. It was Rachael McAdams' beauty that caught my eye, and made me want to watch this movie, but as soon as I started to watch this film, I was reminded of one of my past loves that I met, and had lost and only wished that It was I in this film as Noah kissing the very beautiful Rachael McCadams.
Rachael plays a young teenager named Allie, who spends the summer with her family in a small town, and meets a young local boy who she eventually falls in love with, but is forbidden to see by her mother who wants her to marry a man who is wealthy and has a high social standing in society. Ryan Gosling who plays Noah, writes to her every day while Allie goes off to college, but Allie never writes back to Noah, and she believes that he has never written her, and he must have been using her.
Finally they both move on with their lives until Noah decides to sell his home that he had promised Allie that he would some day buy, and restore.
Allie by chance reads about Noah's home for sale in the newspaper, and realizes that she still has feelings for him, and although she is engaged to be married to a dashing and handsome soldier who comes from a wealthy family, has doubts and wonders why Noah never wrote her or ever tried to find her.
This story also has an interesting twist when the older Noah who is played by James Gardner is reading a story to a an older woman who has Alzheimers that is in a nursing home.
Each actor in this film gives a great performance, but the passion between Noah and Allie makes you feel just how much your first love will always be special to you no matter how much time has passed since you both have been with each other, or any other relationship that you each may have had in life's many twists and ironies.
The Notebook is a modern day classic love story that you can watch with your children over and over again.
Jose F. Medeiros
Rachael plays a young teenager named Allie, who spends the summer with her family in a small town, and meets a young local boy who she eventually falls in love with, but is forbidden to see by her mother who wants her to marry a man who is wealthy and has a high social standing in society. Ryan Gosling who plays Noah, writes to her every day while Allie goes off to college, but Allie never writes back to Noah, and she believes that he has never written her, and he must have been using her.
Finally they both move on with their lives until Noah decides to sell his home that he had promised Allie that he would some day buy, and restore.
Allie by chance reads about Noah's home for sale in the newspaper, and realizes that she still has feelings for him, and although she is engaged to be married to a dashing and handsome soldier who comes from a wealthy family, has doubts and wonders why Noah never wrote her or ever tried to find her.
This story also has an interesting twist when the older Noah who is played by James Gardner is reading a story to a an older woman who has Alzheimers that is in a nursing home.
Each actor in this film gives a great performance, but the passion between Noah and Allie makes you feel just how much your first love will always be special to you no matter how much time has passed since you both have been with each other, or any other relationship that you each may have had in life's many twists and ironies.
The Notebook is a modern day classic love story that you can watch with your children over and over again.
Jose F. Medeiros
Forrest Gump
(1994)
One of my favorite all time films!
3 April 2010
Warning: Spoilers
All I can say is that I love this movie! Tom Hanks is such a wonderful actor. The very beautiful Robin Wright was perfect for this part, she always loved Forrest, but just was never really in love with him, and ends up jumping around from guy to guy looking for love and drugs as a adolescent sexually abused flower child of the 1960's.
Although Forest was born with a learning disorder, he goes on to accomplish great things, and meet some of histories most notable figures of the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's such as President John F. Kennedy, President Lyndon Johnson, President Richard Nixon, Governor George Wallace, before he is shot, leaders of the Black Panthers, Elvis Presley and Forrest even receives the Medal of Honor for selfishly saving the lives of his fellow platoon members during Vietnam war.
After Forrest's return to civilian life, he goes on to start a shrimping company named the Bubba Gump shrimping company with his former Lt. Colonel, who thn wisely invests the companies profits in a small start up in Silicon Valley called Apple computer.
Although Forrest accomplishes success in life, deep inside all he really wants is to marry Jenny, his child hood friend and first love, and have a family. The story takes an interesting twist when Jenny is diagnosed with a disease that we can only assume may be AIDS due to her care free and irresponsible drug use and numerous sexual partners over the years.
Such a movie, although fictional inspires all us to strive to be good hearted and kind, in a child like manner as Forrest Gump is.
This film is a modern day classic that you can watch over and over again.
Jose F. Medeiros
Although Forest was born with a learning disorder, he goes on to accomplish great things, and meet some of histories most notable figures of the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's such as President John F. Kennedy, President Lyndon Johnson, President Richard Nixon, Governor George Wallace, before he is shot, leaders of the Black Panthers, Elvis Presley and Forrest even receives the Medal of Honor for selfishly saving the lives of his fellow platoon members during Vietnam war.
After Forrest's return to civilian life, he goes on to start a shrimping company named the Bubba Gump shrimping company with his former Lt. Colonel, who thn wisely invests the companies profits in a small start up in Silicon Valley called Apple computer.
Although Forrest accomplishes success in life, deep inside all he really wants is to marry Jenny, his child hood friend and first love, and have a family. The story takes an interesting twist when Jenny is diagnosed with a disease that we can only assume may be AIDS due to her care free and irresponsible drug use and numerous sexual partners over the years.
Such a movie, although fictional inspires all us to strive to be good hearted and kind, in a child like manner as Forrest Gump is.
This film is a modern day classic that you can watch over and over again.
Jose F. Medeiros
You've Got Mail
(1998)
A modern classic love story with two actors that share great chemistry together!
3 April 2010
What can I say about this movie? I first watched this movie when it was released at the box office, and loved it.
I recently re-watched this movie again and after all these years still love this movie. It really is a modern day classic love story, and Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan just were perfect for the lead characters and have that special chemistry together.
Greg Kinnear also gives a stunning performance and makes all realize, are we really with who is right for us? Should we be honest with our selves and our significant other if we feel that we should move on, and not just be in a relationship so we won't be alone? I am glad that this isn't one of those movies where the women are just trying to climb the social ladder by sticking with one guy, till they find the next best thing.
Jose F. Medeiros
I recently re-watched this movie again and after all these years still love this movie. It really is a modern day classic love story, and Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan just were perfect for the lead characters and have that special chemistry together.
Greg Kinnear also gives a stunning performance and makes all realize, are we really with who is right for us? Should we be honest with our selves and our significant other if we feel that we should move on, and not just be in a relationship so we won't be alone? I am glad that this isn't one of those movies where the women are just trying to climb the social ladder by sticking with one guy, till they find the next best thing.
Jose F. Medeiros
The Last Song
(2010)
I enjoyed watching the movie!
2 April 2010
Warning: Spoilers
I also did not read the book, but enjoyed watching the movie. Mylie Cyrus plays Ronnie a troubled teenager going through her rebellious stage and yet still struggling with the resentment she has for her father, who she feels abandoned her, and her younger brother after her mother and he divorced.
Greg Kinnear and the very beautiful Kelly Preston play Ronnie's parents and are both great actors. Ronnie's father seems to be struggling with cancer, and her mother wants them to spend the summer with him before he dies. Although in the beginning of the movie, Ronnie starts off as a disrespectful, unappreciative brat teenager in the beginning, she soon starts to enjoy the island her father lives on, and the time left with her father, and after meeting a young boy that she kiss's for the first time, and that later becomes her first love, realizes how important her father really is to her, and soon realizes how much her father really loves her.
I rather not spoil the movie's ending by letting you know what else happens, but thought that it had an interesting twist.
Jose F. Medeiros
Greg Kinnear and the very beautiful Kelly Preston play Ronnie's parents and are both great actors. Ronnie's father seems to be struggling with cancer, and her mother wants them to spend the summer with him before he dies. Although in the beginning of the movie, Ronnie starts off as a disrespectful, unappreciative brat teenager in the beginning, she soon starts to enjoy the island her father lives on, and the time left with her father, and after meeting a young boy that she kiss's for the first time, and that later becomes her first love, realizes how important her father really is to her, and soon realizes how much her father really loves her.
I rather not spoil the movie's ending by letting you know what else happens, but thought that it had an interesting twist.
Jose F. Medeiros
Hannah Montana
(2006–2011)
A good show that teach's children values, such as ethics, honesty, and fairplay!
27 March 2010
Why are there so many bad reviews? and Why is this show so immensely popular? I have to admit I never watched the show until last year, and watched my first episode a few months ago and thought, hey this is a good show for children, and enjoyed watching it with my nephew who is six and niece who is five ( They love her and the cast). I also bought the Hannah Montana movie, and also enjoyed watching it. First this is a show that is geared towards children, but I also found that it taught good moral values, ethics, and diversity.
Is Disney going down hill, I think not. Disney is still producing great quality children shows that teach good American values, morale's and ethics and honesty and fair play.
Obviously Hannah aka Miley Cyrus has grown into a beautiful teenage young woman and is now progressing to other areas of entertainment in her career as well as breaking out of her shell, just as Hillary Duff, and Christina Aguilara did when they were both her age and had to move on from the Disney Channel. Growing up is just a fact of life, does that now make Miley a bad role model? I think not!
Jose F. Medeiros
Is Disney going down hill, I think not. Disney is still producing great quality children shows that teach good American values, morale's and ethics and honesty and fair play.
Obviously Hannah aka Miley Cyrus has grown into a beautiful teenage young woman and is now progressing to other areas of entertainment in her career as well as breaking out of her shell, just as Hillary Duff, and Christina Aguilara did when they were both her age and had to move on from the Disney Channel. Growing up is just a fact of life, does that now make Miley a bad role model? I think not!
Jose F. Medeiros
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