Saturday, December 4, 2010
Easy A Review.
11:56 AM
First let me start off by saying WOW! I can't get over how fantastic an actress Emma Stone is. I really hope she keeps going on this track and doesn't end up a Lindsey Lohan 2.0, she's not only funny but subtle and genuinely likable & relatable in this film. It's basically a teen sex comedy..... but with a brain, and that is a pretty refreshing change.
The movie itself has a pretty basic storyline, girl lies about sex, lie spreads and snowballs, hilarity ensues. But the movie is so much more then that. A lot of the humor in this is very subtle and doesn't rely on dick and fart jokes or poop gags to get the chuckles from the audience. And in the film it's not just Emma Stone who's outstanding, Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson as Olive's parents are flat out funny. And it's so nice to see Lisa Kudrow and Thomas Haden Church back in action!
This movie for me is a full price 5/5 ! I cannot recommend it enough.
The movie itself has a pretty basic storyline, girl lies about sex, lie spreads and snowballs, hilarity ensues. But the movie is so much more then that. A lot of the humor in this is very subtle and doesn't rely on dick and fart jokes or poop gags to get the chuckles from the audience. And in the film it's not just Emma Stone who's outstanding, Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson as Olive's parents are flat out funny. And it's so nice to see Lisa Kudrow and Thomas Haden Church back in action!
This movie for me is a full price 5/5 ! I cannot recommend it enough.
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Thursday, December 2, 2010
"Hi, remember me, I hired porn out to you on the weekend..."
12:14 AM
One of the most utterly awkward things about working in a video store would have to be meeting customers outside of working hours. Now don't get me wrong, despite having some of the most amazingly funny and generally wicked customers when I worked at the video store, there are always a couple you simply dread bumping into when you are out and about shopping.
One customer bump-in in particular was a gentleman who had gone on a porn renting bonanza the previous weekend. Now he had hired a stack of new releases, a goooood $50 worth of all different and slightly odd types of porn (you can never say that my video store wasn't diverse) and had brought them back late the next day, so he got fines for each dvd. Unlike many customers he paid the fines without a fuss and even made a bit of small talk. However.....
What the fuck do you say to the guy when you bump into him at the local mall?!?! Which is exactly what happened to me. He came up to me while I was shopping and asked me where we knew each other from..... and he was not best pleased when I refreshed his memory of how... exactly... we knew each other. I managed to stumble my way through an embarrassing conversation with this guy while he sort of mumbled and looked at his shoes turning an ever increasing shade of red.............................
Not one of my better shopping trips, although I did giggle about it for about 10 minutes after he left. Poor bugger.
One customer bump-in in particular was a gentleman who had gone on a porn renting bonanza the previous weekend. Now he had hired a stack of new releases, a goooood $50 worth of all different and slightly odd types of porn (you can never say that my video store wasn't diverse) and had brought them back late the next day, so he got fines for each dvd. Unlike many customers he paid the fines without a fuss and even made a bit of small talk. However.....
What the fuck do you say to the guy when you bump into him at the local mall?!?! Which is exactly what happened to me. He came up to me while I was shopping and asked me where we knew each other from..... and he was not best pleased when I refreshed his memory of how... exactly... we knew each other. I managed to stumble my way through an embarrassing conversation with this guy while he sort of mumbled and looked at his shoes turning an ever increasing shade of red.............................
Not one of my better shopping trips, although I did giggle about it for about 10 minutes after he left. Poor bugger.
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- Grace C
- I love movies, and for over 5 years I worked at a video store somewhere in the depths of Auckland so I could be close to my precious movies & rent those bitches for free! However, I have since moved on. But even after moving on from the store I still have a load of video store stories of crazy customers and random happenings to talk about!!