rrraaarrrrggghhhhh! ok, so i'm like totally P.O'd with this movie i just saw, "Crazy/Beautiful." i mean, i should have known that it was possibly gonna suck. but it didn't! for the most of the movie, everything was pretty realistic. (BTW, if you haven't seen the movie and plan on seeing it someday, don't read the rest of this blog, cuz i'll probably give away parts of the movie) kirsten dunst is a decent actress and played her alcoholic/suicidal problem teen part really well. and jay hernandez (who is totally, totally, totally *hot*) did equally well as the token young latino working hard to get out of the ghetto. the way the character's paths crossed and the relationship developed were totally believable. they (i felt) accurately showed the conflicts that arose as part of the relationship (ex: carlos' family not approving of him dating a white girl). so here i am, totally wrapped up in this realistic love story, enjoying all of the randomness that they encounter, and then POW! the last half hour turns into unrealistic, melodramatic shite! the love struck kids run away and drive off into the sunset only to come back so the girl can reconcile everything with her father. she triumphs over the wicked stepmother. boyfriend is not punished for running away or skipping his midterms, and gets his recommendation to the Naval Academy. and they all lived happily ever after. excuse me while i go get my barf bucket. grrr...i don't know why i'm so pissed about it. yes i do. all of the work i've done in acting class has really made me more perceptive to the "reality" of scenes and stuff. so the instant this movie got un-real, i felt it and it made me sick. dammit. well, if i had to give it a rating, i'd give it 2 stars. it could have gotten another half a star, but they blew it with the last half hour. *deep cleansing breath* well, i feel much better now that i got all that ranting out of my system. ta ta, dearies!
More airport shenanigans...
I have a love/hate relationship with air travel, as most people do nowadays. It's bad enough that I got violated on my airfare because I had to fly on short notice (nearly twice as much as I would have paid if I bought my ticket an extra week in advance). But has anyone else experienced the same type of wretchedness that comes with flying today? In the 2 years after 9/11 that I had to travel by air, I was "randomly searched" by airport security on nearly half of my flights - the locations of such occurences were the following: -Kansas City -St. Louis (on the connecting flight from KCI to LaGuardia) -Ft. Lauderdale -London Honestly...the only one that made sense was London. And that was the most blatant example of racial profiling that I had been subjected to - only brown people were pulled aside before getting on that plane. After the searches died down (have not been subjected to one since London), I then had to deal with delays. The one (and only) time I flew out of Phi...
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