Me and Earl and The Dying Girl. House Arrest. The Little Rascals. I Spit on Your Grave 3. Hocus Pocus. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. Shutter. Window Wonderland.

19 Saturday Dec 2015

As I’m trying to make a list of 30 Christmas themed films I’ve never seen, which is quite a challenge, as I think I’ve covered all the titles I might like last year, I have a little time to write some reviews, amd as I’m going on a holiday in 2 weeks, I won’t be posting any film reviews till next year. My plan is to publish 10 more posts with film reviews in November and then only the TV ones in December. I don’t know which shows will still air in December, but I’ll review all of them.

Me and Earl and The Dying Girl

If you were that kid who spent all their time making your own versions of popular films, then you’ll get this film, as that’s exactly what the main characters were doing. Where you that film freak that everyone knew they’re gonna exceed in what they do? Did you get distracted or discouraged along the way and now you don’t do anything film related anymore? The kid spent a whole year making a film for his friend. I hated that they lied to us that she doesn’t die at the end. As a whole it was an enthralling coming out story. I hoped it to be like Perks of being a Wallflower or It’s kind of a funny story and it was in a way, just more melancholic.

7.5/10

House Arrest

Jocose and unerringly how all family films should be. I said it in the previous post, but 90s family films are one of those little things that make my life better. I wish Jamie Lee Curtis did more films like this one. Didn’t we all want to lock our parents in the basement?

7/10

The Little Rascals

Turns out I’m too old for some of the family films after all. The film was witty, but not exactly what I expected.

4/10

I Spit on Your Grave 3

I absolutely love the I Spit on your grave series as I’m a huge fan of the rape and revenge genre. The original The House on the Left and I Spit on Your Grave, pictured rape, but took a path of revenge as a healing process. I thought the remake of the first part was very good, but i was crest fallen with the sequel. They went from rape and revenge in the first one to rape porn. The second part was more scary, as the survivor could not end her nightmare as they brought her abroad and the person she trusted was related to the rapists. The third one though does not show almost any rape, but focuses on avenging rapists. There was this 80s film called The Ladies Club where the rape survivors went to rape survivors anonymous meetings and they decided to castrate/murder all the rapists. I highly recommend it to everyone interested in the subject. This is what this story is about. I absolutely can’t stand the ending of ISOYG 3, as it shows that rape victims don’t have a chance of having a normal life, as the girl will probably end up jailed for life.

6.5/10

Hocus Pocus

I am still disenchanted that Thora Birch isn’t acting as much and that her career didn’t start off after The Hole, American Beauty and Ghost World. I remember following her career as a kid, like I do now with a few other actresses. I watched all her films when they came out and I’m sad she isn’t doing this to that same extend anymore. It’s like with the Olsen twins, or Kay Panabaker, I will never get over them retiring. Why can’t someone I don’t like and who is talentless retire for once? The only way I could have enjoyed this film more would be if I watched it on Halloween, back when I was Thora’s age. This is most likely my second favorite performance of her as a little kid after The Monkey’s business. And I am definitely watching All I want for Christmas this Christmas.

7/10

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

What a piece of garbage. When I first watched the first movie, I was shocked with how good it was, and glad that looked past the teen franchise headline. The second part doesn’t have the closing labyrinth or the mechanic spiders. Instead it has zombies and a bunch of boring talks between the characters. I will watch the last part and It better be rather gnarly.

1.5/10

Shutter

When It came to Netflix, I asked my horror mates if they’ve seen it and they said it was chilling. To be honest, I found it quite displeasing. We all have seen these types of horrors, where they focus on the picture as there’s some other entity on it. It looks like the girl did not avenge them because they raped her, even though she did kill these two who did, but she was still obsessive of the guy. Why on earth did he electrocute himself? Everyone knows you can’t shoot or electrocute a ghost. The final scene was what finally convienced me. Watch it, because, believe me, you’ll like the ending.

3/10

Window Wonderland

This is not exaclty the type of films we had in mind when we let Chyler go on Greys. After years, we’ve finally accepted her exit, but we expected her carrer to start off, not to go back. I love Christmas films, but this was like one of those crappy Christmas dog films that no one knows why people make, and you won’t enjoy unless you’re under 8 or have a dog of the same rase at home.

2.5/10

Private Practice
Greys
SVU
Bones
Desperate Housewives
Gilmore Girls
Dexter
The Big C
Friends
Judging Amy
Parenthood
Brothers and Sisters
Cougar Town
Castle
Shameless
Full House
The Middle
Revenge
Bates Motel
Orange is the New Black
Lost
American Horror Story
Fuller House
Downton Abbey
The Killing
Chase
Sex and the city
The Good Wife
Six Feet Under
Switched at Birth
My So Called Life
Nashville
Party of Five
Suburgatory
Surviving Jack
Scandal
Big Little Lies
Camp
The Carrie Diaries
The Goldbergs
How To Get Away With Murder
Everybody Loves Raymond
Married With Children
Scream
Younger
Grace and Frankie
Freaks and Geeks
When Calls the Heart
Arrested Development
Pretty Little Liars
Past Life
The Simpsons
Bunheads
Puberty Blues
No Ordinary Family
Weeds
Sharp Objects
Bad Judge
Awkward
Go On
30 Rock
Dirt
Close to Home
Thirteen Reasons Why
This is Us
Modern Family
Riverdale
One Day at a Time
Top of the lake
The Leftovers
Ozark
Killing Eve
Good Girls
911
The Resident
Crikey! It’s the Irwins
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Veronica Mars
Dead to Me
Schooled
The Handmaid’s Tale
Station 19
Red Band Society
Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath
Little Fires Everywhere
The Act
The Morning Show
Everything Sucks
Mad Men
For the People
Unbelievable
Bloodline
Gypsy
Liar
The Insatiable
Carol’s Second Act
Chernobyl
When They See Us
The Society
Girlboss
When We Rise
Locke and Key
Russian Doll
The Loudest Voice
Soundtrack
Sugar Rush
V
Grandfathered
Faking It
Secrets and lies (only season 1)
Eye Candy
The Whispers
The Slap (AU)
The Good Place
The Good Fight
Hollywood Darlings
Off the Map
Scream Queens
Friday Night Lights
Thirteen
The Family
Absentia
F is for Family
Starved
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Fargo (only season 1)
90210
Dead of Summer
Amber
Degrassi Next Class
Looking for Alaska
The Catch
Mr Mercedes (only season 1)
Light as a Feather
American Crime Story
23.11.63
Divorce
American Crime
The Politician
Ravenswood
Save Me
Wet Hot American Summer

15.04.2011 ‘You forgot the number one rule about remakes: never fuck with the original.’ (Scream 4)

01.06.2011 ‘We need to become doers.’ 2×16 ‘You’re a doer, remember?’ 5×22 (Greys)

5.08.2011 “It’s just… Meredith always makes me think screwed up people have a chance.” (Greys)

9.10.2011 ‘You be wowed, I’ll be drunk.’ (The Big C)

10.11.2011 ‘George is dead and Izzie is gone and we’re all different. We’re different.’ (Greys)

17.12.2011 ‘I thought I was headed in the right direction. My Dark Passenger back behind the wheel. But if I was so sure I knew where I was going…How did I get so lost?’ (Dexter)

23.01.2012 ‘You’re drowning, Grey.’ (Greys)

18.11.2012 ‘You’re a serial killer and I’m more fucked up than you are.’ (Dexter)

7.05.2013 ‘I think my antidepressants just kicked in.’ (The Big C)

10.05.2015 ‘The sad widow is my friend. My best friend.’ (Greys)

‘When I lived in Porpoise Spit, I used to sit in my room for hours and listen to ABBA songs. But since I’ve met you and moved to Sydney, I haven’t listened to one Abba song. That’s because my life is as good as an Abba song. It’s as good as Dancing Queen.’ (Muriel’s Wedding)

‘I used to think about
your life in New York. I tried to imagine your room. I kept track of the time difference, so I knew when you were awake and when you were asleep.’ (Disobedience)

‘Nothing’s clean, Howard. But we do our best, right?’ (The Aviator)

‘No, I’m not quitting. I don’t quit things.’
‘No, actually you do. Your mother quit your father. Your father quit you. You quit your boyfriend and if I read your hospital chart correctly you quit your life momentarily on a couple of occasions. You quit. It’s what you know how to do.’ (Greys)

‘Where the hell was I that year?’
‘Your were watching television’. (Everybody Loves Raymond)

‘It’s impossible to worry about anything else when there’s blood coming out of you.’
(Short Term 12)

‘I wanted it to happen. And when we were girls… Even then, it was the same. It’s always been this way! I have always wanted it.’ (Disobedience)

‘Sometimes it’s easy, sometimes you play games in your head. You make up someone, someone good.’ (Greys)

‘There comes a moment when our lives change forever. The moment we admit our weaknesses, the moment we rise to a challenge, the moment we accept a sacrifice, or let a loved one go. And sometimes the change in our lives is an answer to our prayers.’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘Yesterday I went to the movies all day by myself. One after the other. I’ve never done that before. I had a really happy day.’ (Doing Time for Patsy Cline)

‘I just need something to happen. I need a sign that things are going to change. I need a reason to go on. I need some hope. And in the absence of hope, I need to stay in bed a feel like I might die today.’ (Greys)

‘She saved me my whole life. Without her, I’m nothing.’ (The Favourite)

‘Don’t wonder why people go crazy. Wonder why they don’t. In face of what we can lose in a day, in an instant, wonder what the hell it is that make us hold it together.’ (Greys)

‘Bree sobbed quietly in the restroom for five miutes, but her husband never knew, because when Bree finally emerged, she was perfect.’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘I am not food, you cannot just eat and eat.’ (The Favourite)

‘I don’t love him.’
‘Of course you do.’
‘No!’
‘Don’t take me for a fool Olive, I’m many things but I’m not a fool.’
‘I know that, you’re brilliant.’
‘Don’t you see, it’s over. Whatever this is, was, it’s over.’
‘I love You.’ (Professor Marston and the Wonder Women)

‘At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing, is reason enough to celebrate.’ (Greys)

‘Many years ago, a neighbour and a good friend of ours took her life, and that left us all heartbroken and perplexed. But somehow, when I was alone in that hotel room, I forget about all the pain that she caused. In those awful moments, I thought maybe she had the answer.‘ (Desperate Housewives)

‘What happened last year when you fell in the water?’
‘I almost drowned. Do you think I did that for kicks?’
‘You put your hand in a body cavity that contained unexploded ammunition.’
‘I was trying to save a patient!’
‘Why is it that every other person in that room had the sense to hit the deck? You know people run away from this line between life and death. You seem to stand on it and wait for a strong wind to sway you one way or the other. You’re careless with your life. You’re not slitting your wrists but you’re careless. Probably because your mother told you you were a waste of space on this planet. The problem is you believed her. And if you don’t want out one of these days you’re going to die because of it.’ (Greys)

‘This is the street where I used to live and these were the people with whom I shared my life. I met them the day they moved in. And I saw what they brought with them. Beautiful dreams for the future. And quiet hopes for a better life. Not just for themselves, but for their children, too. If I could, would I tell them what lies ahead? Would I warn them of the sorrow and betrayal that lie in store? No. From where I stand now, I see enough of the road to understand how it must be traveled. The trick is to keep moving forward, to let go of the fear and the regret that slow us down and keep us from enjoying a journey that will be over too soon. Yes, there will be unexpected bends in the road, shocking surprises we didn’t see coming, but that’s really the point. Don’t you think?’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘Was your life not working when you let that slip out from under you?’
‘When are you going to stop suggesting that I’m suicidal?’
‘When you start acting like someone that wants to be alive.’
‘Give me my chart.’
‘Why?’
‘Because I’m not suicidal, and if it says that I am, then it’s wrong.’ (Greys)

‘There is nothing wrong with me.’
‘Then show me your arm.’ (Degrassi)

‘Look, my whole life, I have been the freak. The girl who nobody picked for dodgeball. The girl who didn’t have a mom. The girl who dressed funny because it was her dad buying her clothes. And then, tonight I looked at these people, and I thought maybe there’s a future where I don’t have to be a freak. Maybe I can be who I am and that’s okay.’ (Everything Sucks)

‘Dr, I have been this way since…since I can remember. There is no cure.’ (American Horror Story)

‘He was so crazy about me, I couldn’t breathe. So we tried drinking our way back into love, but it never made sense in the morning. So I ran. And every time I came back, he was here. And he was still crazy about me.’ (My Blueberry Nights)

‘Bree van de Kamp had always wanted to live her life with elegance and grace. That is also how she wanted to die. Her plan was to pour herself a glass of her favorite chardonnay, put on her most stylish nightgown and leave behind a note on embossed stationery.’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘All we have is this moment. The future is just a fucking concept that we use to avoid being alive today. So be… here…. now.’ (Six Feet Under)

‘On the train coming here, we were in the same cart, I saw you, you were reading and you feel asleep. I didn’t dare to look at you, you were so beautiful, it was scary. Afterwards, I couldn’t stop thinking about you. It made me smile. Then I thought of all the men who would get to hold you, who’d make you laugh. How lucky they were.’ (Enemy at the Gates)

‘It was a good day. Maybe even a great day. Even when it was hard, I was the me in my head. There was a moment when I thought I cant do this, I cant do this alone. I close my eyes and imagine myself doing it, and I did, I blocked out the fear, and I did it.’ (Greys)

‘There comes a time when we must expose our weaknesses. When our secrets can no longer remain private, when our solitude can no longer be denied, when our pain can no longer be ignored, but sometimes we feel so alone that a weakness we thought we’d overcome suddenly becomes too strong to fight.’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘Why did you get married, Esti? Why didn’t you just leave? So everything was all right when I left?’
‘No. I was ill.’
‘What sort of ill?’
‘In my head.’
‘If I had to sleep with a man, why not with our best friend?’
‘Oh, Esti…’
‘It hasn’t been a complete disaster.’
‘And that’s enough?! Do you have to have sex every Friday?’
‘It’s expected.’
‘It’s medieval. What happened to you?’
‘Nothing. You happened to me. And then I started teaching and that became important. I give them ambition.’
‘To do what? Push out seven babies and be a good wife?’
‘Don’t. Don’t. I help them to value themselves.’
‘Okay, but what about you?’
‘That is me. And you? Are you happy?’
‘Yes, I am.’
‘Have you been with other women?’
‘No. Not really. And you?’
‘No.’
‘But, Esti… Do you still
only fancy women?’ (Disobedience)

‘OK, then, listen. Let’s not get caught.’
‘What are you talkin’ about?’
‘Let’s keep goin’!’
‘What d’you mean?’
‘Go.’
‘You sure?’
‘Yeah. Yeah.’ (Thelma & Louise)

‘She let me live at Nora’s house. She let me believe that I was a part of their family. I fell in love with that family. What am I supposed to do, just sit there, pretend I’m related to them? I was happy. For the first time in my life I was happy.’ (Brothers and Sisters)

‘You will be left all alone with your bitterness and your rage and your knowledge that you loved her and she loved you and you threw it away for them.’
‘Do you love her?’
‘Yes.’
‘And Have you always?’
‘Yes.’
‘So then ask her.’
‘Olive, will you forgive me?’ (Professor Marston and the Wonder Women)

‘No razors, no scissors, no fucking freedom.’
(Short Term 12)

‘You can’t take a picture of this. It’s already gone.’ (Six Feet Under)

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Me and Earl and The Dying Girl. House Arrest. The Little Rascals. I Spit on Your Grave 3. Hocus Pocus. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. Shutter. Window Wonderland.

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