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The Good Student. I Know What You Did Last Smmer. Flirting. Helter Skelter. The Crush. Unlawful Entry. Helter Skelter. Can’t Buy Me Love. The Babysitter. The Crush. The Simpsons : The Longest Daycare. Frozen. Monsters, inc. Toy Story 3. Dear Dumb Diary. Lipstick.

23 Sunday Feb 2014

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The Good Student

Now when I think of it, I have seen it before. It was just as bad as the first time I watched it.

2/10

I Know What You Did Last Summer

Was I postponing watching this one or what? More like avoiding it. The only film that was on UK tv during that night shift I did once at that one place. It was either this or Glee. I remember rewatching Revenge two times, same episode, two channels. It-s just like Final Destinations, we know they are all gonna die, though here they did not.

3/10

Flirting

Good Australian drama avout coming of age and insides of a boarding school featuring young Noami Watts and Nicole Kidman.

6/10

Unlawful Entry

Oh the thrillers of the 90s. This one has Madeleine Stowe and is obsessive and awesome.

7/10

Can’t Buy Me Love

Simply amazing. One of the teen 80s films everyone has to see.

8/10

The Babysitter

Very average.

3/10

The Crush

An amazing thriller, I was not expecting for it to be this good. My favorite Alicia Silverstone film after Clueless.

I’ll tell ya, if you were ten years older…
You’d what?

I mean, let’s face it, you’re fourteen, I’m twenty-eight. That’s a big difference.
Whatever you say.
Seriously, Adrian. I want you to know, you can count on me. I’ll always be your friend, no matter what. Okay? Okay.
Like the night up at the lighthouse when we kissed?
Now, that was a mistake, Adrian.
Was sneaking in to watch me undress a mistake, too? Hmm? Nick, ever do a virgin?
What?
I know you want to.
Now, look! Let’s avoid any confusion here! I’m gonna make this very simple for you. You’re – You’re too young for me. There’s nothing between us.

You wanna do her, too, is that it? I’m not good enough for you? I came back here for you, Nick. My parents tried to take me away, but I fooled them. I came back here for you, and I found you with my best friend. I still love you, Nick!

I got my period.

8/10

The Simpsons : The Longest Daycare

An amazing short film from The Simpsons. Over the 25 seasons we have never seen Maggie at daycare. We don’t know much about the youngest Simpson. Maggie’s a precious little thing and there’s a scene at the very end that might have left me speechless, which seems fitting, as the film is mute. Completely deserved that Oscar nomination.

8/10

Frozen

An excellent animation, great songs, lovely characters.

7/10

Monsters, inc

I loved it so much when it came out, watched it, as I was rewatching Monsters University for the fourth time, and wanted to fill sin some blanks. Monsters, inc it’s a great entertainment for the whole family, but not as good as Monsters University.

8/10

Toy Story 3

I don’t remember much from the first one. And I have never seen a sequel, but this one? Cried at the end. Why would you give your childhood toy away?

7/10

Dear Dumb Diary

Incredible film for pre teens! I just love the book series. I honestly have them all and still buy when they come out. And I’m twenty. Adored the soundtrack, and no one is going to outhrow Emily Alyn Lind from the number one favorite child actress spot for me. She’s gonna have to outgrown it. Favorite song? Definitely Dear Future Jamie. The day she thought her Diary was stolen, the fear and panic, followed by a candy binge, everything a 13 year old fears, was shown so incredibly. I guess we’ll never know why little girls pay attention to everything and care too much about what everyone says. I know this too well, and If I saw this film when I was thirteen, I think a certain thing in my life would not have happened, and I would remain a jolly person, just like Jamie. I absolutely loved how she handled it with a song, actually believing this won’t matter in a few years. I have barely read the Dear Dumb Diary Books, but this was an amazing adaptation. I was exactly like Jamie, always in my imagination, super creative, having long conversations with myself (hello, Lizzie McGuire), always with a musical number in my head. Not much has changed.

‘Dear future Jamie, it’s me, I mean it’s you, only younger
Do you remember how complicated life used to be when everything seemed so
unfair, but you don’t care anymore, do you?’
‘I bet you never shared a single tear for me Jamie of the past, cause you grew up really fast.’
‘And have you ever told them that old story
About how they stole your diary from me
Oh Boy I bet that gets a good laugh.’
‘Maybe you’re in Hollywood among the movie stars.’

5/10

Lipstick

A truly interesting rape and revenge example. Just when you feared it would happen, it did.

6/10

Captain Phillips. Dallas Buyers Club. August Osage County. Saving Mr Banks. 12 Years a Slave. Her. The Wolf of Wall Street. American Hustle. Revenge. Blink. China Moon. Private Lives of Pippa Lee.

31 Friday Jan 2014

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Captain Phillips

10/10

Dallas Buyers Club

10/10

August Osage County

10/10

Saving Mr Banks

10/10

12 years a Slave

10/10

Her

8/10

The Wolf of Wall Street

7/10

American Hustle

7/10

Blink

8/10

Revenge

8/10

China Moon

8/10

Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Good until she married the old guy. I really thought it was going somewhere.

4/10

The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio. A Map of the World. Laws of Attraction. Don Jon. Carrie. Next. Rommates. The Shipping News. Diana. Mysterious Skin. The Best Little Girl in the World. Clueless. Kramer vs Kramer. Gravity. Say anything. Girls just want to have fun. Loverboy. Ice Princess. While you were sleeping. Arthur Christmas. Trust the Man. The Sounds of Music Live Musical.

06 Monday Jan 2014

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The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio

Every single scene of this movie, especially the one when she falls on the glass, amazing. I know it was a small film, but Julie should have been nominated for an Academy Award for her compelling performance.

10/10

A map of the world

What a beautiful movie, all of it. Even the awkward kissing the neighbor was in place. Julianne Moore and Sigourney Weaver in one film, yeah It could not get better.

10/10

Laws of Attraction

One of my favorite romantic comedies. It lifts me up, like nothing else. I’ve seen it 5 times this week.

What is this, medical waste in a glass?

10/10

Don Jon

Yes, it was Julie Moore week. Don Jon is slutty, but funny, and it ended just like I wanted, with him picking up the right woman, not the slut.

I’m sorry this may be rude but were you just watching people fucking on your phone right now?Did you just called me lady?

I just thought you could use something better than that shit you’re watching on your phone, am I right?

It’s actually pretty good. It’s pretty hot.

If you have a girlfriend, why are you watching dirty movies?

You’re fucking weird, you know that?
I don’t entirely disagree, but you’re the one who’s gonna go pretend to be texting while you watch people pretend they’re fucking on your phone.

Of course they are.

I swear to God I just fell asleep during that entire class. The whole fucking thing.

I really shouldn’t get so high after launch if i’m gonna be coming here later.

It is pretty boring, don’t you think?
I said this class is pretty fucking boring.

They give awards for porn too.

This fucking lady.

10/10

Carrie

Woah the Margaret’s self harm scenes and the last one of Margaret and Carrie on the floor. Every scene with Julianne actually, I am so happy I got to see it at the movies! Judy Greer’s character was fine too. For some reason so different from the original, Julianne’s Margaret completely fresh, and everyone thought that would be impossible to beat or show differently, and did I mention the self harm scenes?

10/10

Next

Loved it, and if you like people who can see into the future, then you will too. Being an FBI agent just suits Julie.

8/10

Rommates

‘Would it help if I cursed at you in Polish?’

Oh yes it would.

Weird representation of Polish people, but an okay film after all.

7/10

The Shipping News

The rape scene and when he comes all wasted and tries to make a move at her, and the house falling apart and her husband leaving all so good.

If I end up with strechmarks I’ll sue his ass.

Why are we talking about my husband?

When someone hurts you that much how do you…does it ever go away? Is it possible?

My father rapes his little sister and then he taught me how to swim.

You’re always sorry.

8/10

Diana

I am so disappointed with this one, when I heard Naomi would portray Diana I thought Yay she’s finally getting an Oscar, and even though her performance was great, the film itself was not good enough to get any recognition, it was crushed by critics, actually and I cannot really argue. If it was any other actress as Diana I would still watch it, just to see how Diana’s life was portrayed, but most of all how they decided to show her death. Here it was really tactful, they did not show the actual crush and I am not sure if I am disappointed or think it was a really respectful ending. Is Naveen Andrews really the best Pakistani actor out there? I never see any other Pakistani actors turn up in more than one movie. I wonder why they decided to show the love affair that was just so boring and did not draw any conclusions as to why she was killed. I may be talking about possible conspiracies, but they did not show how her death affected the world, that it would mess up military plans, that Clinton decided to vote against and that she did not marry a Pakistani, which would have been a scandal, but would change the position of other Asian countries, even though we see Pakistani own everything in the UK now without Diana’s help. I did not see it at the cinema, I was not sure if I should go or wait and I am not mad at myself that I didn’t. I am sad that one of the two films with Naomi I really looked forward to this year, turned out to be a disappointment.

5/10

Mysterious Skin

I actually saw it before Don Jon, I did not even think I would see Don Jon a month later, but the film was truly incredible. Better than Don Jon without a doubt, shows sexual abuse with so many little details. The Ufo talk was slightly getting on my nerves, but it was absolutely understandable. All the flashbacks were shot very beautifully.

10/10

Kramer vs Kramer

There are so many films like Kramer vs Kramer, where people fight custody, take it to court and the one person that the judge decided should get a kid and of course it is always the wrong one, decides to not take the kid. I am not thinking of I am Sam at this moment or oh Judging Amy even came to my kind while writing this, but really every family movie.

10/10

The Best Little Girl in the World

Not my favorite ED movie, and why does every ED movie end with a girl eating what she would consider a binge food and why does in every ED film the girl’s friend have to die and why cannot every ED film be as good as Sharing the Secret or The Secret Between Friends?

8/10

Clueless

I just love this movie, everything about it. The way Alicia Silverstone talks and acts in this film is amazing. I wish she did a similar role to this one in the 90s.

10/10

Gravity

Not as great as Contact, but okay. Loved the scene after she passed out and saw George’s character and I thought Sandra gave a fine performance.

Na zdrowie.

9/10

Girls just want to have fun

Fun at parts.

7/10

Say anything

Yes, 80s teen films are the best! Great, but could be better.

7/10

Loverboy

Hilarious, especially the parts where his parents think he’s gay and find all the evidence to prove that.

Our son is a flower.

8/10

While you were sleeping

Great romcom.

8/10

Ice Princess

A cute family movie, Joan Cusack killed it, as always. Kim Cattrall was fabulous to.

7/10

Arthur Christmas

Long and nothing special, why cannot every Christmas animated movie be as good as The Polar Express? Watched it only for Laura Linney.

4/10

Trust the Man

I am not enjoying Bart’s films, I have seen three so far and every single one of them lacks in writing and wit and the story line is always just bearable. The only good scene was the one when Julie was narrating the porn film with the worst stage direction she’s seen. Can we talk about the guy who was always touchy feely with her? I know it is not usually the case and young actors try to behave themselves not to ruin their carrier, but here he always found a way to get close to her. In real world is different, because when we see a guy like that we just tell him to get lost and he usually loses interest, but in the movie business, I do not know why she did not mention that to director and I cannot even imagine how terrible that must feel. I am biased because I am not sure if I am happy with it, as it showed how exhausting life an actress can be or disappointed because we did not get to see how this story line ended and she did not tell him to piss off.

3/10

The Sounds of Music Live Musical

Audra, Carrie and Laura killed it. There is this one scene that bothers me, and I know it should not, because it is a family musical, but my mind always ends up going there; when she comes back to the sisters all crying wanting to come back and the sister does not ask her if something happened to her, if maybe possibly the captain tried to take advantage of her, or she did not ask if she even likes him, she just says that having a man is better than being a sister. The kids were not annoying at all surprisingly, not as good as the movie, obviously, but a nice way to spend a cold evening.

7/10

Ellie Parker. Catching Fire. The Outsider. The Shaft. King Kong. Bermuda Triangle. My father the hero. I heart chuckabees. Movie 43. Children of the corn IV. Tank Girl. The Others. A wish upon the star. Pretty Persuasion. Eden Lake. Jewtopia.

30 Saturday Nov 2013

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Ellie Parker

People who don’t like it clearly haven’t been struggling actors. Painfully true and relevant.

8/10

Catching Fire

10/10

The Outsider

Oh I just love this one.

9/10

The Shaft

Oh I loved it. Every little piece of it.

7.5/10

King Kong

What a great remake.

10/10

My father the hero

7/10

I heart chuckabees

Hilarious.

8/10

Bermuda Triangle

6/10

Movie 43

3/10

Children of the corn IV

9/10

Rabbits

7/10

Jewtopia

5/10

The Others

7/10

Eden Lake

9/10

Pretty persuasion

7/10

Wish upon a star

7/10

Tank Girl

3/10

Saving Private Ryan. Heavenly Creatures. 3096 Tage. Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Adore. The Girl. Jaws 2. Carrie. We Were Soldiers. Mary and Martha. Avenging Angelo. Bad Girls. Short Cuts. The Addams Family. The Addams Family 2. Curse of Chucky. Resident Evil 2. Revolutionary Road. Vampires. The Way Way Back. Ramona and Beezus

02 Saturday Nov 2013

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Saving Private Ryan

A classic World War II film from Stephen Spielberg starring Tom Hanks. If you haven’t seen it by now, please do. And if you watch Castle, look out for Nathan Fillion’s cameo!

10/10

Heavenly Creatures

Two teenage girls plan a murder of one’s condensending mother. They fall in love along the way. What a beautiful story. Kate Winslet is cast as one of the girls in this not so ‘Picnic at the Hanging Rock’ Aussie teen thriller. I just love Australian cinema, and if everything is as good as what I’ve seen so far, than I’m really happy I moved over here.

10/10

3096 Tage

Incredible adaptation of Natasha Kampusch’s heartbreaking story of kidnapping, the 8 years of captivity and escape. This film was equally brutal and painfully honest as Natasha’s amazing autobiography.

10/10

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

One of the few teen classics I yet had to see, and now I have and I absolutely loved it. Onto Dazed and Confused.

10/10

Adore

Also known as Perfect Mothers. Naomi Watts goes back to Australia (she’s British but moved to AU with her mom and brother at 14) and along with Robin Wright sleep with each other’s sons. I adored it.

7/10

The Girl

Who would have thought this is how The Birds were made. This film shatters my view on one of my favorite directors.

10/10

Carrie

Rewatched the original before going to cinema to see Julie in the remake.

10/10

Jaws 2

I just love Jaws so much. One of my favorite horror subgenre, next to slashers and rape and revenge, is ‘shark and water creatures’ horrors.

10/10

We Were Soldiers

What a beautiful film from and starring Mel Gibson. Watch out for the talanted Madeleine Stowe, who plays Mel’s wife and helps deliver the shattering news of soldiers’ deaths to their wives. This is one of the very few films Madeleine starred in after retiring to a ranch in Texas 16 years ago.

9/10

Mary and Martha

A film starring Hilary Swank I never heard of  until I turned on HBO and it randomly popped up today. The film depicts focuses on the problem of malaria in Africa, as Hilary Swank tries to learn more about circumstances of her son’s death and the last few weeks of his life.

8/10

Avenging Angelo

By know you may have realized that I had a Madeleine Stowe marathon. I never realized how many intriguing films she was in, especially back in the 90s! I recommend this thriller to everyone!

8/10

Bad Girls

Western with prostitutes. Yeah, if you’re a straight guy or a gay girl reading this, you’re already looking for this film in online shops. Watched it this week and then I ran to HMV to get it on DVD. It’s not about prostitution, it’s about girl power. Women have always had it harsh. Any era, any time there is a conflict, a violent man can always threaten women with rape and that’s it, that’s how abusive people win over women. Even as strong as Madeleine’s character in Bad Girls. Bad Girls is a fun western, be ready to see Madeleine Stowe kick ass, and be a little bit disappointed with the other three ‘bad girls’ (Mary Stuartson from my other favorite film Green Fried Tomatoes, Andie McDowell and Drew Barrymore) wait around and disappoint.

7/10

Short Cuts

Julianne Moore and Madeline Stowe in one film, yes please! I know that this film is partially famous for the scene where Julie recites a long monologue, naked from waist down. I am always very protective of actresses, because of how Hollywood works, and the certain things that are expected of them in order to go far in their career. I do not mean couch casting, I mean unessesary nakedness. But when I look past scenes like that one, (there’s quite a few of those), it’s a really good film. I cannot find it on DVD anywhere, but I will one day.

8/10

The Addams Family

Both films are amazing, I hope I’ll get to see the TV Series one day.

8/10

The Addams Family 2

7/10

Curse of Chucky

Certainly better than the third one, and I’m happy they’re still making Chucky films. There can never be enough of them. The other creepy doll I love is the ‘living dummy’ from R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series from the 90s. But Chucky is creepy and hilarious! And he actually got kid’s soul this time.

The 80s were awesome.
Chucky, I’m scared.
And you fucking should.
Women. Can’t live with them, period.
Just keep your fucking mouth shut.

7/10

Resident Evil 2

Yeah ok, the third one was much better and it had little Spencer Locke in it. This one is not at all memorable.

7/10

Revolutionary Road

Leo and Kate back at it. Too sexual for my taste, and nowhere near as good as Titanic.

8/10

Vampires

If it’s not Nosferatu, The Lost Boys,  Stake Island or The Hunger with Catherine Deneve, I don’t care for vampire films, but I loved everything about this one.

9/10

The Way Way Back

I love crying at family movies, here I could barely squeeze one tear when he was leaving.

5/10

Ramona and Beezus

I tried so hard not to watch it, even though it has Sandra Oh in it, but then it was on and  it does have Sandra Oh in it.

4/10

The Breakfast Club. Terms of Endearment. Lost and delirious. The Departed. Insidious 2. Mama. Cracks. We’re the Millers. You’re Next. Don’t say a word. I Spit On Your Grave 2. The Interpreter. Something Borrowed. License to Wed. Resident Evil. Made of Honour. Perfume: The story of a murderer. A Fish called Wanda. This Means War. Scary Movie 5. Albino Farm. Train. Fun Size. Liz & Dick. Dark Tide. Kraken.

14 Monday Oct 2013

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The Breakfast Club

I still hate that we did not get to see what happened on monday and that none of the actors had really great carriers.

Saturday, March 24,1984. Shermer High School, Shermer, Illinois, 60062. Dear Mr. Vernon, We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did was wrong. But we think you’re crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us – in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Correct? That’s the way we saw each other at 7:00 this morning. We were brainwashed.

We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all.

10/10

Terms of Endearment

I have always hated that the daughter dies. Incredible performances.

You are not special enough to overcome a bad marriage.

I like the lights on.
Then go home and turn them on.

8/10

Lost and delirious

Lesbian? Lesbian? Are you fucking kidding me, you think I’m a LESBIAN?
You’re a girl in love with a girl, aren’t you?
No! I’m PAULIE in love with TORI. Remember? And Tori, she is, she IS in love with me because she is mine and I am hers and neither of us are LESBIANS!

She’s the only person who ever loved me, you know?

I think I’ll die without her.

Have you ever been really thirsty? And you open a carton of milk and you pour it in your mouth… and it’s… sour. That happened. Inside me. Forever.

I felt like a gray mouse heading straight for the mouth of a cat, and there was nothing, nothing I could do about it.

7/10

The Departed

I know I should love it, and I did, but It felt too long, and I wish it had more Jack Nicholson.

When you decide to be something, you can be it. That’s what they don’t tell you in the church. When I was your age they would say we can become cops, or criminals. Today, what I’m saying to you is this: when you’re facing a loaded gun, what’s the difference?

Why is the last patient of the day always the hardest?
Because you’re tired and you don’t give a shit. It’s not super-natural.

8/10

Insidious 2

In my line of work things tend to happen when it gets dark.

10/10

Mama

A ghost is an emotion bent out of shape, condemned to repeat itself time and time again.

Daddy, look! there’s a woman outside the window. And she’s not touching the floor.

6/10

Cracks

Girls, we are angels, eagles! To dive is to fly. Set yourself free of the shackles of conformity. Let nothing hold you back except the air itself. You are between heaven and earth. The rules no longer apply.

The most important thing in life is desire. You can achieve anything you want. The world is yours for the taking. Nothing is impossible for you, my girls. All you need is to desire it.

Dear team, please don’t be cross with me for leaving you in the lurch. There is no place here for me now. And I feel with great certainty that I must chance to make a discovery of my own. I’m not sure I will come across elephants or crocodiles immediately, but I shall write to tell you the minute I do. You must look after each other now, and do your best to be fearless and true. Carry these notions forth into the world, because without you they will simply disappear. Don’t fret, I will write soon. And PS, make progress to replace the short bread. Love, Di.

7/10

We’re the Millers

Hilarious, I loved that they got into the witness protection and went by the Miller name. The kissing scene truly uncomfortable. I cried when they played I’ll be there for you at the end of the bloopers.

You know what I’m sayin?
Well, I’m awake and I speak English, so yeah I know what you’re saying.

You’re making $500,000 and giving me only $30,000?
$30,000? I’m only getting $1,000!
You guys are getting paid?

7/10

You’re next

Disappointed big time, the posters and all the people saying it was a genre changing piece. It really was not, and I did not think the Purge was a masterpiece either, but it was much better.

3/10

Don’t say a word

Everyone was watching and no one helped him.

She heard.
How do you know?
She stopped breathing.

6/10

I Spit On Your Grave 2

A disgrace to an incredible movie and it’s satisfying remake.

5/10

The Interpreter

Definitely not recommending it, it was a drag, I slept 3 hours and was more exhausted after watching it. There was no shocking twists and everyone was just sitting, doing nothing. It was so slow I just kept playing pool and Simpsons Tapped Out on my phone.

4/10

Something Borrowed

I can’t take this ‘daddy beats me because he loves me’ excuse.

No, I didn’t pull my vagina! I just pulled… near my vagina.

4/10

License to Wed

It was cute, I absolutely loved the weddung vows in sand and Robin Williams was incredible. Oh and the mechanic kids were amazing, they even moved their eyelids and face muscles. Never to fart sounds so much better than Never to part. My mom is still talking about this one.

So Ben, what do you do, besides little Sadie here.
Oh, please. Please. You go to a liberate college, you have a bisexual rommate, you forget about God. Don’t sweat it. He doesn’t forget about you.

Bad news, guys. Next available date is in two years.

Reverend Frank is everywhere, remember?

The moment you told Joel that Sadie wasn’t a fish, I knew it was meant to be. Besides, anybody who kicks a reverend’s ass for his woman, you’re A-okay in my book.

8/10

Resident Evil

You’re all going to die down here.

I’ve been a bad, bad girl.

I don’t want to be one of those things. Walking around without a soul.

All the people that were working here are dead.
Well, that isn’t stopping them from walking around.

6/10

Made of Honour

Nobody in the world makes me laugh the way you do. You’re my best friend. I just wanna be with you.

6/10

Perfume: The story of a murderer

If someone told me this had Dustin Hoffman and Alan Rickman in it I would have seen it sooner. I know it is an uncommon opinion, but I was not impressed by it and I thought the ending was terrible. Up until after he killed Laura the film was inspiring, but when everyone was under the charm of the perfume and started taking off their clothes, I found it a little too despicable.

I have to learn how to keep smell.

For the first time in his life, Grenouille realized that he had no smell of his own. He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was a though he did not exist.

He still had enough perfume left to enslave the whole world if he so chose. He could walk to Versailles and have the king kiss his feet. He could write the pope a perfumed letter and reveal himself as the new Messiah. He could do all this, and more, if he wanted to. He possessed a power stronger than the power of money, or terror, or death – the invincible power to command the love of man kind. There was only one thing the perfume could not do. It could not turn him into a person who could love and be loved like everyone else. So, to hell with it he thought. To hell with the world. With the perfume. With himself.

Within no time, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille had disappeared from the face of the earth. When they had finished, they felt a virginal glow of happiness. For the first time in their lives, they believed they had done something purely out of love.

7/10

A Fish called Wanda

That was one crazy movie.

5/10

This Means War

3/10

Scary Movie 5

I’ve only watched this monstrous movie for Kate Walsh, who was in one scene.

1/10

Albino Farm

3/10

Train

1/10

Fun Size

4/10

Liz & Dick

Not that I’m counting, but if I’m not mistaken you just ended what, your fourth marriage?

Oh, who’s counting?

3/10

Dark Tide

3/10

Kraken

Enjoyed the killing and underwater scenes, everything else was terrible. Shame the octopus didn’t attack them too much, it basically took what was in the water.

1/10

Index of all the films reviewed on this blog.

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Index, starting with the latest and ending with the oldest. All the films reviewed since October 2010. I will make an alphabetical index soon.

Vera. Jury Duty. Defiance. Joy Division. The Perfect Husband. The Laci Peterson Story. Converstations with Other Women. A Case of You. All Roads Lead to Rome

The Girl in the Book. Lions for Lambs. Gone. My Sweet Audrina. Admission. Charlie’s Farm. Containment. The Abandoned.

Fathers and Daughters. Anesthesia. Miss You Already. Max. The Barefoot Executive. Bushwacked. The 33. Vacation. Wicked Little Things. The Killing Room. Charming Christmas. Indigenous. Jamie Marks is Dead.

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.

Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead. Paper Towns. The Man Who Knew Too Little. When Calls the Heart. Hidden. The Visit. The Gift. The Gallows. Sharknado 3

Driving Miss Daisy. Bad Santa. The Pacifier. Apollo 13. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2. Because I said so. Kon-Tiki. The Hand that Rocks the Cradle. The Clearing. Sweet November. Plots with a View. Lucky 13.

Little Miss Sunshine. This is Where I Leave You. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. The Myth of the Fingerprints. Titus. The Assault. My Sister’s Keeper. Evan Almighty. Violet & Daisy. Annabelle. The Purge 2 : Anarchy. Deliver Us from Evil. Poat Grad. Mr Woodcock.

The Help. Everybody’s All American. The Babadook. Take Shelter. Night and the City. The Guilt Trip. Before I Go to Sleep. If I Stay. As Above, So Below. Snakes on a Plane. Ouija. Horrible Bosses. Into the Storm. The Turning. Stage Fright.

Now And Then. The Manchurian Candidate. The Proposition. The Maze Runner. Child’s Play 3. The Dorm

Spy. The Fault in Our Stars. Tomorrowland. Insidious 3. Recess: School’s Out.

Clouds of Sils Maria. Clockwatchers. Manglehorn. Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion.

Delivery Man. Bad Words. Lemon Tree Passage. The Alphabet Killer.

Little Birds. Cape Fear. The Secret Lives of Dorks. Swiss Family Robinson

Hope Floats. American Reunion. Independence Day. Parental Guidance. Yours, mine and ours. Friday the 13th. Friday the 13th Remake. It Follows

Flash of Genius. Heller in Pink Tights. Ghosts of the Abyss. Nightwatch. Mixed Nuts. Grease 2. The Bling Ring. Jesse Ston: Thin Ice. First Daughter.

Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade. American Pie. Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit. Who is Clark Rockefeller? Rachel Getting Married. The Wedding Pact

Welcome to the Dollhouse. At Middleton. The Calling. Mom’s Night Out. The Family Stone. Babysitter’s Black Book. Nothing Like the Holidays.

Birdman. Cake. Paddington. Alexander and the Horrible Terrible Not so Good Nad Very Bad Day. The Gambler. Adult World. The Notebook. The Best of Me. Dear John.

The Theory of Everything. Boyhood. The Imitation Game. Unbroken. Whiplash. Big Eyes. Into the Woods. Selma. Inherent Vice.

The Goonies. The Apartment. Jaws. The Social Network. Along Came A Spider. Death Valley. Wind Chill.

Gone Girl.

Mockingjay Part 1.

Philadelphia. Quartet. The Painted Veil. When Harry Met Sally. Down and Out in Beverly Hills. Fireflies in the Garden. Evil Dead. Evolution. Sixteen Candles. Pregnancy Pact. Body of Evidence. Octane. Mirror Mirror. Life-Size. Prosecuting Casey Anthony. The Cat in the Hat.

The Heat. Europa Europa. Blue is the Warmest Color. Standing Up. Speed. Speed 2. Freaky Friday. Children of Men. Freedomland. Very Good Girls. Dead End. Stuck in Love. Miss Congeniality. Miss Congeniality 2. The Haunting in Connecticut 2. A Daughter’s Nightmare. Peace, Love & Misunderstanding. All About Steve. Texas Chainsaw 3. The Possession. Oculus. Candleshoe. All about Steve. But I’m a Cheerleader. Consent. G.B.F. Tarzan. Starving in Suburbia. Haunt. Blindness. Excision.

Absolute Power. The Details. Beyond the Poseidon Adventure. Sometimes They Come Back Again. Thinner. Cat’s Eye. Inside Man. Twelve Monkeys. The Governor’s Daughter. Closet Land. Being Flynn. The Big Lebowski. Marie and Bruce.

Howards End. The Bridges of Madison County. Ironweed. Inside Daisy Clover. Eastern Promises. Out of Africa. The Last Picture Show. All is Lost. Deliverance. Timepiece. Silkwood. The French Lieutenant’s Woman. Non-Stop. The Assassination of Richard Nixon. Acceptance. Fireflies in the Garden. The Ladies Club. Vacancy.

The Way We Were. The Electric Horseman. An Unfinished Life. Ordinary People. Educating Rita.

The Good Student. I Know What You Did Last Smmer. Flirting. Helter Skelter. The Crush. Unlawful Entry. Helter Skelter. Can’t Buy Me Love. The Babysitter. The Crush. The Simpsons : The Longest Daycare. Frozen. Monsters, inc. Toy Story 3. Dear Dumb Diary. Lipstick.

Captain Phillips. Dallas Buyers Club. August Osage County. Saving Mr Banks. 12 Years a Slave. Her. The Wolf of Wall Street. American Hustle. Revenge. Blink. China Moon. Private Lives of Pippa Lee.

The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio. A Map of the World. Laws of Attraction. Don Jon. Carrie. Next. Rommates. The Shipping News. Diana. Mysterious Skin. The Best Little Girl in the World. Clueless. Kramer vs Kramer. Gravity. Say anything. Girls just want to have fun. Loverboy. Ice Princess. While you were sleeping. Arthur Christmas. Trust the Man. The Sounds of Music Live Musical.

Ellie Parker. Catching Fire. The Outsider. The Shaft. King Kong. Bermuda Triangle. My father the hero. I heart chuckabees. Movie 43. Children of the corn IV. Tank Girl. The Others. A wish upon the star. Pretty Persuasion. Eden Lake. Jewtopia.

Saving Private Ryan. Heavenly Creatures. 3096 Tage. Fast times at Ridgemont High. Adore. The Girl. Jaws 2. Carrie. We Were Soldiers. Mary and Martha. Avenging Angelo. Bad Girls. Short Cuts. The Addams Family. The Addams Family 2. Crazy in Alabama. Curse of Chucky. Resident Evil 2. Revolutionary Road. Vampires. House of cards. White Squall. The Way Way Back. Cherry Falls. The Happening. The Sleepwalking Killings. The Blue Eyed Butcher. Static. Ramona and Beazus. Pora Mroku.

The Breakfast Club. Terms of Endearment. Lost and delirious. The Departed. Insidious 2. Mama. Cracks. We’re the Millers. You’re Next. Don’t say a word. I Spit On Your Grave 2. The Interpreter. Something Borrowed. License to Wed. Resident Evil. Made of Honour. Perfume: The story of a murderer. A Fish called Wanda. This Means War. Scary Movie 5. Albino Farm. Train. Fun Size. Liz & Dick. Dark Tide. Kraken.

The English Teacher. What Maisie Knew. Children of a Lesser God. Restless Virgins. Blow Dry. Me myself I. Hotel New Hampshire. Mental. Muriel’s Wedding. Maverick. The Conjuring. Elysium. Trespass. The Departiate. The Descendants. Frequency. The Suicide Shop. Simpsons The Movie. Frankenweenie. Easy. The Space Between.

Lincoln. Silver Linings Playbook. Not Without My Dayghter. Mrs Doubfire. Catch Me If You Can. Sinister. Nine Miles Down. Taken 2. The Assassins. Losing Isaiah. Unknown. The Cave. Freshman Fall. Little Black Book. Girl Fight. The Internship. Rogue. Bunnyman.

Stoker. Contact. Hitchcock. The Laramie Project. Anna and the king. Smokey and the Bandit. The conjuring. The Purge. The Call. The Big Wedding. World War Z. World traveler. The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Benny and Joon. Monsters University. Enchanted. Snow White and the huntsman. Hangover 3. Spring Breakers.

The End of The Affair. Hannibal. Psycho. Crazy. Stupid. Love. Savage Grace.

Midnight Cowboy. Lost in Translation. The Kids Are All Right. The Truman Show. Martha Mary Marcy Marlene. Sala Samobójców The Suicide Room

The Morning After. The China Syndrome. Interiors. Testament. The Day After Tomorrow. Missing. Fargo. Capote. The Graduate. Megan is Missing.

They shoot horses, don’t they? Les Miserables. The Impossible. Hyde Park on Hudson. Jindabyne. Maze. Coming Home. Tommy. The face on the Milk Carton. On the Edge of Innocence. Daughters. Confessions of a Go-Go girl. Why my daughter? Selling innocence.

Trust. Poker House. The Perfect Family. The Prime of Miss Joan Brodie. Sinister. The Hunger Games. Eye for an Eye. Punchline. Kika. The Perks of Being A Wallflower. Augusta, Gone. The House at the End of the Street. The Pitch Perfect. Beyond the Blackboard. ATM. The Crazies. Underground The Julian Assange Story. Mom at Sixteen.

Born on the 4th of July. Klute. Chloe. Schinler’s List. Loving Annabelle. Far From Heaven. Magnolia. A Single Man. The Unforgotten. Shelter. The New Daughter. Game Change. Elevator.

Hilary and Jackie. The Hours. Carnage. The Beaver. Little Man Tate. Foxes. The Iron Lady. Erin Brockovich. North Country. Frozen River. Winter’s Bone. In the Bedroom. Plain Truth. Breathless. The Grey. Dead Man Walking.

Steel Magnolias. Enter Nowhere. Sybil. Carriers. Detention. The Art of Getting By. The 19th Wife. Brake. The Awakening. Doubt. Funny Games US. The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer. Mulholland Drive. World Trade Center. The Accused. Taxi Driver. Nell. The Dangerous Lives of the Altar Boys. Flight Plan. The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane. The Brave One.

Secretary. A Lonely Place To Die. Norma Rae. Painful Secrets. Carjacked. The Yellow Handkerchief. Welcome to the Rileys. The Messagner. The Woman in Black. Panic Room. Chernobyl. The Treatment. Silent House. The Innkeepers. I Don’t Know How She Does it. New Year’s Eve. Head Of State. The Party Never Stops: Diary of a Binge Drinker. Invention of Lying. Piranha 3DD.

Very Annie Mary. Cabin in the Woods. Hell. Beautiful Kate. Seven Below. Off The Map. Lake Placid. Butterfly On a Wheel. History of Violence. Answers to Nothing. Blood Runs Cold. Kaboom.

Cold Creek Manor. Devil. Anonymous. The Human Stain.

Feast of love. For Lovers Only. Stiletto. Bond of Silence. Angel’s Crest. Remember Alice Bell?

Dream House. Contagion. Hidden 3D. 21 grams. Stay.

Kinsey. You can Count on Me. Squid and the Whale. The Mystic River. The Savages. P.S. The Other Man.

Downloading Nancy. Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her. Mother and child. Shark Night. The Runaways.

Valentine’s Day. PuppetMaster. Life as we know it. Gifted Hands. 27 dresses. Easy A. Anacondas Haunting for the Blood Orchid. The Resident. Conviction. Chopping Mall. Insidious. Step Up 3. The Amityville Horror. Village of the Damned. Jawbreaker. 30 days of night. Triangle. Frozen. Stake Land. The Shrine. The Reef. The Ruins. Case 39. Final Destination 5. The Betrayed. Choose. Held Hostage. Derailed. Piranha. When a stranger calls. The quiet. Speak. She fought Alone. Eat Pray Love. Rec. Quarantine. Mr. and Mrs. Killer. Road Train. Don’t be afraid of the Dark.

I Saw the Devil. Harry Potter 7 part 2. Monsters. Somewhere. Tomorrow when the war began. Old school. Cyberbully. Moonlight Mile. Daredevil. Fright Night. Night Fright. Sleepaway Camp. Super 8. I spit on your grave. Descent. Creepshow. Descent 2. Last House on the Left. Last House on the Left remake.

Hanna. Black Swan. Rest stop. The Strangers. Secret Window. The Age of Innocence. The Uninvited. The Hills Run Red. Valentine. The Mesmerist. Alice Sweet Alice. Pleasantville. Maniac. Devils rejects. Night of living dead. Basket Case. Grinhouse, Planet Terror. Sugar and Spice. Melancholia. Larry Crowne. Donnie Darko. Soul Surfer. Bubble Boy. Odd Girl Out. Saw 5. Minority Report. Ice Cream Man. The Haunting In Connecticut.

Dead Silence. Fame. Water for elephants. Pirates of the Caribbean 4. Evil Dead. Silence of the lambs. Exorcism of Emily Rose. An American Haunting. The Orphan. The Ward.

Scre4m. Just Go with It. The Switch. Little Nicky. Red Eye. Ghost World. Cursed. The Dark. The Husk. My soul to Take. Lymelife. Broken. Butcher House. Imagine me and You. The Haunting. Hatchet. Blair Witch Project. Lost things.

How Do You Know? Hit and Run. Amusement. Insane. The Cycle. Glory Road.

Boogeyman. It’s kind of a funny story. Birds. I Spit on your Grave. Tourist. Harry Potter 7.

Black Christmas. Happy Hell Night. Slaughter High. Under the Tuscan Sun. The Heat. Nancy Drew. Santa Claus 3. The Proposal.

American Psycho, The Shortcut, Night of the Demons, Asylum

Ring. Ring 2. Silent Hill. Grunge. Flock.

Daylight. Wit. 88 minutes.

Not Another Teen Movie, Repulsion, Forget Me Not, Prayers for Bobby, 4.3.2.1, Antichrist

Hills Have Eyes, Resident Evil, Legion

The English Teacher. What Maisie Knew. Children of a Lesser God. Restless Virgins. Blow Dry. Me myself I. Hotel New Hampshire. Mental. Muriel’s Wedding. Maverick. The Conjuring. Elysium. Trespass. The Departiate. The Descendants. Frequency. The Suicide Shop. Simpsons The Movie. Frankenweenie. Easy. The Space Between.

05 Thursday Sep 2013

Posted by Joanne in Jodie Foster, Julianne Moore, movies, Rachel Griffiths

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I am going through some serious withdrawals, and I’m forcing myself not to start a new show. Thankfully I finally have time to watch some films, better or worse ones, still make me incredibly happy.

The English Teacher

What does he think of all this?
He said I should go to law school. I have to do something and law school is something.
Oh no.
So I’m probably gonna do that.
Oh Jason.
All great art comes from pain, remember that.
You can’t go three feet in this school without hearing about you and Shakespeare doing it in the classroom.
Hey, Miss Sinclair, I wanna bend you over your desk.

6.5/10

What Maisie Knew

I need the soundtrack.

8.5/10

Children of a Lesser God

10/10

Restless Virgins

The final monologue was amazing.

I watch a lot of Grey’s Anatomy.

It’s not often you have a moment when you actually feel yourself throwing up, figuring out that what we wanted was less important than who we were. I wanted to get into an ivy league school, but not at the cost of my soul.

Now none of us new exactly what the future held. So much for the five year plan. Although maybe that was the best that come out from all of this. Figuring out that life doesn’t stop just because plans change. George Bernard once wrote ‘Youth is wasted on the young’. Hey George, you can have it.

7/10

Blow Dry

Excellent.

9/10

Me myself I

It reminds me of Sliding Doors with Gwyneth Paltrow, where she did and didn’t make it to the train, it’s just better.
When is mommy gonna be home.
It’s like another life.
Sure seems like one.
Damn you, cannot take away her life.
Absolutely loved it.

10/10

Hotel New Hampshire

What a great movie.

8/10

Mental

Hilarious.

5/10

Muriel’s wedding

So much love for this one.

Now my life is as good as dancing queen.

10/10

Maverick

The poker parts and the wit.

8/10

The Conjuring

7/10

Elysium

Without Jodie this film would suck, and why the hell did they kill her off?

4/10

Trespass

Loved it.

7.5/10

The Departiate

Fine, but nothing special.

4/10

The Descendants

A fine film.

7/10

Frequency

The flashbacks and the calls were great.

4/10

The suicide shop

Loved it until they all decided to live happily.

6/10

Simpsons The Movie

If only it was realistic.

7/10

Frankenweenie

I haven’t seen the original so I can’t compare it to anything, but the Tim Burton drawings and the creepy atmosphere were truly intriguing.

5/10

Easy

The low budget screams through the movie, but it was not that bad. I was streaming take off that neck thing through the entire film.

Shes the one and in just an easy chick.
I just don’t wanna do what I ve been doing it hurts too much.
Im celibate.
What’s that like?
Remember you showed me your lisense you looked like homer Simpson.

5/10

The Space Between

Good, though at times too slow.

You wanted a happy lady you should have hired Mary Fucking Poppins to take you home. Yes I know I said a bad word.

7/10

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About me

I am the dark and twisty Meredith Grey, the mad Dexter Morgan, hoping to grow up to be a little more like the wise, but fun Nora Walker. I am an aspiring filmmaker. My favorite actresses are Jodie Foster, Sally Field and Julianne Moore. Favorite genre – psychological drama. I watch anything with a sexual or mental abuse plot. I used to be a horror freak. I am obsessed with Grey’s Anatomy, SVU and many more. My other interests include making oil and pencil portraits and wildlife conservation. I cannot say no to beautiful landscapes, travel, Aussie accent, TV/film quotes and avocados. I have recently moved back from Australia to the UK. I’ve been running this blog for the last 9 years. Here I comment on films and episodes I watch. Enjoy! – Joanne

currently following on tv

currently (re)watching

dexter final season

shows I need to catch up on

Feud
Transparent
Gentleman Jack

will watch at the cinema

Last films watched at the pictures that I loved

the substance
blink twice

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my twitter bios

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)

My tumblr titles

10.10.10 – ‘Like I said, I’m screwed.’ (Greys)

15.04.11 – ‘It’s just a good story.’ (Greys)

22.06.11 – ‘I should have fought for you, Violet.’ (Private Practice)

20.12.11 – ‘I am a father, a son, a serial killer.’ (Dexter)

8.08.12 – ‘You have to pick the girl who lives.’ (The Big C)

5.10.12 – ‘You are my person. You will always be my person.’ (Greys)

10.11.12 – ‘Thirty second dance party. Dance or you’re fired.’ (Greys)

19.02.13 – ‘There’s nowhere on Earth I’d rather be right now.’ (Castle)

29.07.13 – ‘The family that kills together.’ (Dexter)

15.01.15 – ‘Let’s go home.’ (Parenthood)

20.05.2015 – ‘The sad widow is my friend, my best friend.’ (Greys)

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favourite film and tv quotes

‘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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