The Fighter (2010)

Main actors/actresses: Mark Wahlberg, Melissa Leo*, Christian Bale, Amy Adams

* indicates Oscar winners.

Trailer:

Summary:
Showing how torn Micky (Wahlberg) is about whether or not he should pursue his dreams or listen to his family's advice: his sports "manager" of his mother (Leo),  and especially his idolized big brother Dicky (Bale). Dicky, a once great boxer has turned to substance abuse  leaving Micky to fend for himself in the boxing world emotionally, and physically and literally lost on his career. And through all the adversity from his family, and some encouragement from his girlfriend Charlene (Adams) and a couple of others, he decides to do it and go for his dream, his way. And needless to say he becomes a great champion. :)

My thoughts:
Finally watched it, 3.5 months too late but it doesn't matter. It was amazing. Completely understand why Melissa Leo won over Amy Adams for the Oscar's Best Supporting Actress, but still iffy on Christian Bale vs. Geoffrey Rush from The King's Speech. They're just too different to compare and both of their acting abilities show a wide spectrum of genius that I kind of can't pick. But it really is amazing. I was surprised that I actually liked it but now I understand what everyone's talking about now. Should've totally watched these 2 movies before my Oscar predictions but oh well, they deserved it. :)

Review:

The movie has every sports movie cliche that you can imagine. There's a uphill battle against adversity, but in the end, it all works out. They win. Everyone's happy. End of story. But it's not.

Instead there's terrific terrific terrific acting. There's nothing forced about the movie which just makes this movie so much better and believable. The only big qualm I have about this movie is that the ending is abrupt. I mean the ending is good except it doesn't take it all the way leaving the audience wanting more. Well at least for me I guess.

I would and could write more excepts but I don't really want to ruin the movie for anyone who's planning on watching it, basically, you will WANT TO watch this movie. I promise. :)

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Even if you don't like sports movies, like me, I think that you'll appreciate it for its great cast and its tempting so go out and watch. Mad love for this movie, and it doesn't help that Wahlberg is adorable, he makes even sweat rolling down on a shirt look hot and all. :)

Grade: A- (due to the lack of an ending)

Skins: Michelle (S1E7)

Michelle...we don't really know anything about her except the fact that she's Tony's girlfriend who has no idea that she's getting effed over by him.

So in the Cadie episode, we heard Cadie say to Tony that karma's going to bite him in the ass (well different words, same meaning) and I guess it finally did because Michelle got the clap from Tony.

So that was basically the episode. Like that's it. Michelle's a boring character again, just like the past 2, honestly only Chris', Cadie's and Tea's episodes were good. But I mean I guess it was a good feminist episode. The girl who got cheated on stands up for herself la di da....the story that happens in literally every single show. Predictable. Literally.

Wonder what's going to happen between Stanley and Michelle now? And if Tea and Tony are going to go public? We shall see...

Daisy's next. It better be good after this shitastic and underwhelming past 3 episodes.

So over it.

Letters From the Height of Summer (Dear Bird) -- Kowalski

"We're STD compatible..."

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One last thing to add: I really really really like Michelle's hair. Both the color and the style. The same goes for her outfits. Okay that's it. Done.

Skins: Abbud (S1E6)

So this week focuses on the slightly mysterious Abbud. We actually don't know anything about him. And I don't think I have ever heard him speak, except for that one time when he asked Tea to dance. THEREFORE, I  am pretty amped to see his background and all that. After last week's boring Stanley episode, I'm ready for something interesting.

Episode summary from MTV:

What happens when you go on a class field trip into the woods for a little self-discovery? You create your own "trip"...by any possible means. But no amount of drugs, no buzz will make Abbud forget that he's completely in love with his best friend. He longs for the day when those feelings are reciprocated. Sadly, it looks like that day may never come.

So we have ourselves a little adventure in Canada which is a nice break from wherever the hell Skins is supposed to take place in. Haha. They "totaled a moose." Nice. I'm still kind of confused what the teacher did to the moose?! Am I that naive or is anyone else confused with me?

Anyways, it's really cute that he likes Tea. :) Except she's his best friend. And lesbian. Those significantly lower his odds down to 0. Oh yeah, and she has that thing with Tony as well... Ah. The perils of horny teenagers on Skins. And she doesn't want a relationship with Betty. Who and what does she want?! It's so confusing, she's so confusing, I wish that she could just get it together and stop leading a bazillion people on.

NO DRUGS soooo the boys go hunting for shrooms and end up licking a toad and throwing up EVERYWHERE. Watching Chris lick/tongue that toad is absolutely hilarious and disgusting. And it's still moving in the shot. Gross. I seriously think Chris is my favorite character because he has so many dimensions but uses humor as his outlet. And the sex advice that he gives Abbud is hilarious, so wrong, but hilarious. "Target the sick and the weak!" Oh yeah, and him and Tina. Cute. :) Or kind of not, because that's like sexual harassment, but I think that they're kind of adorable. And I like how he kind of cockblocks Dave for Tina. He's so immature yet he's mature around Tina. But then again, Tina is one of the most insecure adults ever. So perfect match I say.

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Overall, this episode wasn't really about Abbud at all. It was kind of just an all around trip that didn't focus on him at all. Once again, I don't know anything about him except the fact that he likes Tea. Oh, and he almost died. And I discovered that Chris is my favorite character, the only good part about the episode.

Skins. Boring again! Hope next episode gets better with Michelle, although she doesn't seem that interesting either. You're so tame now, I want the old Skins back! Or maybe I should just start watching the UK Skins now. I'm annoyed now too because I think all of the characters are actually not that great at acting. This episode only exemplified it. Skins, I'm like Tea, I can't decide if I like you or not.

But I like this song...:)

STRFKR -- Millions

"Cool. I usually get put in the room. The one with no windows?"