it happened last year.  and last tuesday it happened again.

have you ever had to make a decision about choosing between doing what is right or doing what makes you happy?

and you really could never be right and happy...

but you chose to do the right thing... and feel miserable...

when all of a sudden, rewind.

your back in the same cross road

only this time you already know what happens behind door number 1

would you pick door number 2?

1.  If you were running from the police and accidentally went inside a room where a screening for a part in a movie was currently on-going what will you do?
a.  pretend that your applying for the part
b.  apologize and leave the room
c.  take one of the directors as a hostage

2.  If your in a party and you saw one gorgeous guest in a skimpy one piece asleep in a dark room with another man possibly taking advantage of her, what will you do?
a.  leave them alone, it's none of your business; there's prolly other rooms with drunk sleeping beauties
b.  challenge the other guest to a one-on-one even though you know you suck at fist fighting
c.  ask for help and come out looking like a sissy

3.  If you suddenly found yourself flirting with the girl of your dreams in a bar with an unspoken promise of possibly getting her in bed that night, what will you do?
a.  get roaring drunk with her, then leave
b.  get roaring drunk with her, then spend the night in lust-heaven with her
c.  get roaring drunk with her, then spend the night in lust-heaven with her friend

4.  If you see a car get fly off a cliff down the lake with the possibility of having a dead girl occupying the trunk, what will you do?
a.  get away as fast as you can; you never know who can be lurking nearby
b.  jump in the water and try to find out if there really was a girl in the trunk
c.  call the police; it's insane to stay there without reporting anything to the proper authorities

5.  If you find a dead body in your shower, what will you do?
a.  run away as far as possible
b.  wrap the dead body with a blanket and leave her in the gutter of some street
c.  call the police; you have to report this

      These are some of the scenarios you will see in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, a detective mystery (is there such a thing?) movie that could've been pilfered from those dime a dozen detective novels back way back before paperbacks got good.  It's hilarious but stupid, in a really, really good way.  It stars Robert Downy, Jr. as a small town pickpoket/robber casted in a detective movie by accident, and Val Kilmer as Gay Perry (make a wild guess why he's called that?), a real private eye  saying lines like:

"I call it my faggot gun [referring to his derringer]... coz it's only good for a few shots then you change it for something better."

ouch.

hahaha.

Conspiracy

Based on the only transcript found by some group of people (i'm sorry for the vagueness but i can not remember... if you're so interested, google it.  it's there.) about what actually transpired in a closed-door meeting of haydrich (wonderfully played by kenneth brannagh), and political leaders and SS men.  It was in this meeting where they planned the "gassing" of something million Jews (i forgot how many they actually managed to gas, but the target was 5,000 per hour!).  Plan isn't really the right word to use.  The SS men have actually started with the "pilot testing" of the thing and stuff.  It's more of informing the other important politicians about what's going on, making them think that they were part of the decision process, and showing them that the SS people are really the ones in power.  basically, its a political move.  but listening to the conversation.  knowing that everything said there was a narrative of what actually transpired.  the small talks.  the jokes.  the gossiping.  the wining and dining.  it seemed so normal.  like they weren't talking about killing people.  oops!  wrong word.  it's not killing.  they called it "evacuating". 

and do you know what happens to the Jews when you suffocate them with carbon monoxide?

they become pink.

Laramie Project

Laramie Project is a documentary sort-of thing, based on actual interviews of people living in Laromie, Wyoming by a group of theater people from New York.  Laromie is a small town, prolly much like one of those quaint little provinces we have here, where everybody knows everybody and everybody meddles with everybody's affairs.  Now what makes Laromie, Wyoming such an interesting place?  Apart from the fact that a gay guy from their city was badly beaten and tied to a fence by two guys from the same neighborhood, none.

and there the story revolved.

what made me buy the vcd though was steve buscemi.  i find this guy hilarious!  he's weird.  and he looks weird.  he wasn't used much in the movie though.  and he was sortof the average joe type.  not the kooky roles which he always seem to portray.  and there a lesbian garofallo (i suck at spelling... i don't know how to spell her name), the girl from boys don't cry and christina ricci, and a possibly gay joshua jackson.  now what's up with that?  this is the second movie where joshua jackson was gay.  and he looks absolutely yummy as one (gad! i'm turning into a fag hag! hahaha!).

Breakfast Club

An 80's movie about 5 kids who got detention together one saturday.  First is miss prom queen.  The popular rich bitch of every high school, who wasn't really as bitchy as these characters were usually portrayed (i guess the new generations are really getting worse).  Then, there's the stereotypical bad ass soon to be drop-out material with an abusive father and a sucky home life.  And naturally, there was the jock. The blond and blue-eyed all-around American guy from the wrestling team (played by Emilio Estevez.  I loved this guy!  always associated him with Mighty Ducks) who really didn't seem as dumb as most jocks are portrayed.  If there's a jock, there must also be a geek.  A pretty naive, gullible geek.  And lastly, someone original, there's the nutcase.  Funny, pretty little nutcase. 

It's one of those feel-good movies where everybody gets a happy ending.

The Score

Edward Norton played a novice crook moonlighting as a mentally retarded cerebral palsied janitor out to steal a scepter with a help of a veteran lock opener.

Did you read what i just wrote?

EDWARD NORTON.

Nuff said.

Everyday People

One day in the life of a resto situated in a black neighborhood, owned by a Jew.  Story began with the restaurant manager telling everyone that the owner plans to close down the biz in 3 weeks time. 

What follows is a peek in the life of everyone involved --the rich girl working as a waitress who was determined to become a succesful poet, the single mom waitress who's thinking of becoming a stripper to earn more bucks, the previously orphaned waiter who finally found his dad, the old waiter who got plenty of mouths to feed, the black guy determined to buy off the place to put more classy establishments in the hood, the black guy selling black ribbons to show support for his brothers, the Jew who was torn by the decision: to sell or not to sell, and the ex-convict former doctor turned cook.

more movies soon to come...