Sometimes It's Good To Not Fit In

I am in love...(no, T-Pain- not with a stripper) I'm in love with a show and its name is Misfits. This show is on its 3rd season, and it just keeps getting more and more interesting. Misfits centers around a group of young offenders who serve at a community center. This little gang of miscreants was given superpowers by a mysterious storm- these powers included invisibility, the power to read others' thoughts, etc. The gang has since swapped their original powers for different ones. The young offenders were not the only ones to gain superpowers in the storm. Each episode has the group battling surreal circumstances, most of which involving the use (or misuse) of superpowers. The show is irreverant, sexy, funny, and all together amazing.
A lot of Misfits fans are bemoaning the loss of Nathan (the adorable Robert Sheehan) and they keep comparing his character to that of Rudy, the newest young offender. I think that's pretty unfair to the new guy- he hasn't had a chance to really develop. We've known and loved Nathan for two seasons, we should at least give Rudy two seasons to grow on us. Besides, Rudy wasn't a replacement for Nathan, (although they both have the same funny, quasi-annoying personalities)He is a character in his own right.
Misfits is on Hulu, so please watch it. I love it, love it, love it! If I love it so much, why don't I marry it? Well, I tried, but it's apparently illegal in several states. Ah, America!

Escape

I rented and watched three movies over the past two days- all of them were decent.

First, I watched Cowboys vs. Aliens...which was really interesting...up til the point I fell asleep. It's not the movie's fault- I'm apparently an old woman. What I saw up til the point of slumber was pretty good though. I like Daniel Craig as an actor (I especially love the way he walks. Watch him walk away...It's like that saying goes: I hate to see you go, but I loooove watching you walk away. Hello, nurse!) Olivia Wilde was not looking as cute in this movie, but I think it's because they swaddled her up in that old fashioned dress. If you want to see Olivia looking gorg, look at The Change Up or I guess, anything else she's been in that doesn't involve period dress.

Anyway, what I got from the movie was that old dude's wife (Daniel Craig's character's wife) had been abducted so he was super haunted by that, and there was some alien creatures out and about that they had to fight and...I gotta go back and look at that movie.

The next day, wide-eyed and bushy-tailed, I watched Hanna. Love Eric Bana!!! I am the president of the fictional Eric Bana fan club... No! In fact, I am the Dear Leader of the fictional Eric Bana fan club. I'm not cool enough to be in a real fan club. The girl who played Hanna did a fabbo job- Saoirse Ronan. Basically, Hanna is a superhuman young lady who was trained to fight and speak a bunch of different languages by her dad, Eric Bana. Back when she was young, her mother was killed by Marissa (played by Cate Blanchett)and she and her father had to escape.

Basically, the whole movie is about her evading her pursuers and trying to make it on her own in this crazy, crazy world. Can you imagine going from living as a recluse with no technology to being around a lot of people and a lot of electronics? Crazy. I liked the movie, but what I liked the most about the movie was the song that played while she was escaping from the government facility- it's Escape 700 by The Chemical Brothers. This song makes me which someone was chasing me, just so this song could play in my head as I ran.

The Game was the last movie I watched. Michael Douglas was in it and was, as usual, a great actor. The movie was a psychological thriller so it had all the twists and turns of psychological thrillers. Michael Douglas' character signs up for this recreational "game" and then has to go through all these twists and turns as the game plays out. I'm not going to go into the ending or anything, but I will say this: crappiest birthday present EVER! I would be so mad. Hadn't they heard of gift cards? Geez Louise!

You Set My Soul Alight

I don't know why the title of this post is a line from a Muse song (Super Massive Black Hole if you were curious) but I suppose this post deals with love, so it makes sense.

I watched The Adjustment Bureau (it's been out for awhile, bear with me, it came on the telly last night on one of those movie channels I have with the Beasts of all Beasts Time Warner). Anyway, I liked the movie. I didn't bother to learn the names of the characters, of course, because I am distractable as all hell (distractable is a word, right?). I'm going to call them boy and girl or guy and girl.

Boy meets girl. Boy falls instantly in love with girl- which ALWAYS happens. Boy finds out about mysterious faction that controls peoples' lives and that does not want him to be with the girl he loves so much. (The usual, right?) So of course, as in all movies, he fights the power! (Public Enemy, anyone?) and SPOILER ALERT: gets the Chairman to change "the plan".

Matt Damon and Emily Blunt's characters were likeable people, Matt Damon's character more than Emily's. I don't know what it was, but that quirky shit Hollywood keeps trying to put on women is not that cute. Oh, look at her! She dared herself to crash a wedding party and is hiding out from security in a men's bathroom. How quirky and attractive! Look, she drops his phone into his coffee, and just does not give a shit! Awesome!

OK side note, actually that phone in coffee thing super bothered me. She didn't destroy the phone, but she could have and he said he just got the thing...mmmm not attractive to me. It actually brought me out of the movie a little bit. I was thinking: MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN. Bitches be crazy.

Anyway, so she's all quirky and pretty and whatnot, so he's just gotta fall for her right? If only it were that simple, ladies. I just want to warn you that, in real life, it's not. Otherwise my crazy glasses and wide-eyed stare, ala Zooey Deschanel and crazy do and weird ass activities would make me the most popular girl in town. And it hasn't...yet.

Anyway (again), the dudes behind the scenes, the adjusters I guess (Mad-Men looking d-bags), feel that if he decides to date the girl he won't become President or some shazz and for some reason, it's super important. They feel that if he gets with the girl, then he'll be happy in life. And, you know, can't have that. So they run around trying to ruin the guy's life so he can eventually become president. Why do they need the guy to become president? No one knows. No one knows anything. Just like in real life!

I'm so off on a tangent today, ladies and gentlemen. But SPOILER ALERT: They get together in the end. Betcha didn't see that coming, huh?


*****I do want to make this point though: some things could only happen in the movies. I'm not talking all the sci-fi weirdness. I'm talking about this dude finding a girl, talking all this crazy talk about Mad-Men looking guys who are after him and how she can come through a door with him and he doesn't know what's on the other side, and the fact that this chick actually goes with him. No further questions. She just goes...

But, hey, she's quirky I guess. Quirky people just take the leap of faith. But things have to get kinda boring later on in life, when they're married and settled down and looking at each other from across the breakfast table.

DUDE: "Honey, I got those TPS reports ready for my boss today. He'll be happy. Can you pass the cereal?"
GIRL: "I guess. When is some weird shit gonna happen to us again? That was fun."

...And they lived happily ever after.

The Virgin Diaries

Sometimes, watching TLC is like watching a train wreck. TLC apparently stands for “The Learning Channel”, which I suppose is where you learn how odd people can be.

Today, I had the pleasure of stumbling onto The Virgin Diaries, which is one of the saddest/funniest things I think I’ve ever watched. They showcased several different virgins on their show- some virgins who want to wait for marriage and some virgins who are virgins because they haven’t found someone to lose their virginity to, yet.

The saddest/funniest couple was the one who hadn’t kissed before marriage. When the officiate announced that the man could kiss his bride, I thought they were eating each other’s faces off. Their mouth movements were reminiscent of piranhas feeding on a cow carcass. To make things worse, they didn’t really know they were doing anything wrong. So they proceeded to feed on each other’s faces kiss each other passionately the rest of the evening, even though the guy didn’t seem that into it. They then rode off into the sunset to engage in the most awkward sex ever the best night of their lives. They admitted towards the end of the show that sex is not as easy as it looks and then proceeded to tongue kiss each other which nearly burned my retinas. I hope they Googled sex beforehand to make sure they inserted the right parts into the right parts. Ay yi yi.

Carey’s plight made me really sad. The guy is a 35-year-old virgin who just wants to lose his virginity to anyone. He likes cats and making fudge, so obviously the ladies should be all over that. Carey was just so open and honest with his date, telling her that he was a virgin and hadn’t had a date in 8 months and before that, hadn’t had a date for about 8 years (which is not something I would recommend telling someone you’re interested in). I was really rooting for him to find someone to have sex with. I wanted to yell through the screen- DON’T TELL THEM ALL YOUR BUSINESS! Just act normal, have sex, and let them think that you just sucked at it for whatever reason. It was like he became a freak show to all the ladies. Lord. The funniest thing is that he had the opportunity to have sex but he said she came on too strong and that he had the right to be picky. Oh, Carey.

The three women were hilarious. I like how one of them, on a first date asked the guy what his timeline was for marriage. I bet his brain started sending off ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ESCAPE! messages as soon as she came out with that. The alarm bells probably should have started going off when all her friends/roommates watched him approach the house from the window and then greeted him at the door, raving about what a great person she is. Yiiiiiiiiiikes. And the singing. Double yiiiiiikes. But they were pretty likeable people. They managed to find three male virgins, which surprised me. I didn’t know there were three male virgins in all the world (besides Carey and piranha kiss dude).

So what did “The Learning Channel” teach me tonight? Ummmm….not to ever participate in one of their embarrassing reality shows? See? I guess you can learn something from TV!