Shit Boyfriend Makes Me Watch vol 3

BF: You like Nicholas Cage?

Me: Love him.

BF: Ok, I've got a movie for us, then.

Nicholas Cage in the 80's, directed by the Coen Brothers, and teamed up with Holly Hunter makes for a pretty great movie. It's a little odd at times, but all in all pretty awesome.

Hi McDunnough (Cage) is a thief and has been in jail numerous times where he meets Ed (Hunter), a police officer. Hi proposed to Ed after learning that she has just been dumped by her former fiance.

They get married and soon want to try for a baby. Well, the discover that Ed cannot have children.

A local famous furniture store owner, Nathan Arizona, and his wife just had quintuplets and the news got to Ed and Hi.

They figured, Hey what the Hell, they have more than they can handle and end up stealing one of the babies.

Two of Hi's friends that he met in jail come to visit after escaping and find out about the baby being that of the rich Nathan Arizona. So, they steal it in hopes of getting ransom money.

But Nathan Arizona has hired a bounty hunter to find the baby, too. Hi and Ed have to race to get the baby back before the bounty hunter does.

This movie is funny and Nicholas Cage is spot on with his not-so-smart character. I definitely recommend.

Shit Boyfriend Makes Me Watch vol 2

Holy crap. I logged on this morning and saw this...

That's right. My dad is now a reader of Jumble Mash. I called him up and said, "so ugh, what do you think about it?" I was bracing myself for, "You curse a lot." or something of the sort, but instead he said, "It's a great blog and you are a good writer. I may start one of my own." HA! My dad is going to be a blogger. Gotta love it.

Anyways, back to the real reason for posting.

This week's movie was In Bruges. First of all, let me just say...Colin Farrell and his sexy eyebrows. Yummy.

I actually ended up really liking this British comedy. And I'm a sucker for an accent.

Colin Farrell plays along side Brendan Gleeson as two hitmen in hiding. It cracks me up because Farrell is constantly complaining about being In Bruges and voices his negative opinion about the place throughout the movie.

But anyways, being in hiding Farrell (Ray) and Gleeson (Ken) really start to question themselves. During Ray's last job, he accidentally killed a little boy which is the reason they have been sent into hiding.

Ray's guilt about the situation pretty much eats at him even though he is trying to move on and then Ken is ordered to kill Ray because what he did was unforgivable, according to their employer.

As Ken is walking up behind Ray to kill him, he realizes that Ray is in the process of killing himself. Ken, then realizes that he cares about Ray too much to follow through with the orders. He warns Ray and convinces him to leave the city.

Ray is arrested for assaulting a couple and sent back to Bruges...where his employer is now hunting him.

I really don't want to give away too much of the ending because the ending it AWESOME but I will say that Ken puts Ray's life ahead of his own while trying to save him.

This movie is full of bad language and violence so watch it when the kiddies aren't around, but be sure to watch it. It's funny, adventurous, and exciting. The plot sounds more depressing than it actually is.

My rating?

Shit Boyfriend Makes Me Watch vol 1

At least once a week, Boyfriend and I have a movie night. Maybe once out of the course of our relationship has he let me pick the movie. Well, after the most recent weird ass movie that he made me watch, I told him I was going to start blogging about the crap he makes me watch.

I'm going to try to do this every Saturday, but it may change from time to time. Then I'll rate the movie on a scale of 1-5, one being meaning the movie sucked big time and 5 meaning that you should stop what you are doing and go rent the damn thing.

The first movie I'm going to tell ya'll about is a 1975 film called One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

A very young Jack Nicholson (who annoys me to no end by the way) plays a man named McMurphy with several assault convictions and thinks that he can get out of doing work in prison by pretending to be insane. So he is sent to a hospital for help and actually fits in pretty well.

He tries to liven up the place and gets a lot of the other patients involved in things like card games and basketball. He also gets them into a lot of trouble. Oh and some of the other patients? Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, and Vincent Schiavelli. I didn't even know it was DeVito until Boyfriend pointed it out because he is just so young in the movie.

(Movie is not in B&W, don't worry)

Anyways, the head nurse pretty much gets tired of McMurphy's crap and gives him a bunch of shit. So he rebels even more and actually throws a party in the hospital after hours. He sneaks booze, cigarettes and girls through the window and they all participate in the festivities. At one point they start putting alcohol down a patient's feeding tube. It was pretty hilarious.

They all pass out and get caught the next morning and McMurphy gets into some serious trouble. Including electric shock therapy. I wish I could tell you the rest, but it would give away too much. I did actually end up enjoying this movie, which surprised me, since I don't like Jack Nicholson. So my rating?

I couldn't give it full three so I gave 2 3/4. And I kinda really suck at reviews. Sorry for that.