NYC Movies

Self,

Well As I've said I was in New York for almost a week. Aside from bringing the new year there, I found several activities to entertain myself while I was there. One of which was going to see a couple movies.


Well Before I left Cali Schehimazade and I agreed that we would wait to see Seven Pounds together when I got to New York as oppose to seeing it individually and just talking about it like we do with most movies.


Our resolve to see it was increased New Year's eve when both Caliyorker and Sexyback* both reccommended it as we were eating the shrimp Schehimazade fried for all of us as our first bite to eat of the New Year at 4am. In short I loved it. It is well crafted in a way that kind of keeps you in suspence as to what's going to happen next. Will gave an excelent performance as did Rosario Dawson, who by the way is is beautiful. I mean in the scenes where she wasn't wearing any make-up or she was made-up to look ill, her natural beauty just shines through! The proplem with the movie is that the way the story unveils itself, makes it hard to tell someone about it without giving the story away. SO that's all I'm going to say.


Now even though I talked about Seven Pounds first, the first movie I saw while I was there was The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. We went late New Year's day. Caliyorker had stayed at the house even after everyone else had left and ended up spending the whole day with us. Caliyorker, Schehimazade, Hueyleen and myself went to like a 11pm showing in Brooklyn. This was another great movie. Another example of well crafted storytelling. Even though the unique circumstances of Brad Pitt's character is impossible, you easily accepted because you are ethralled and engaged with all the other aspects of the film. Both of these films will be added to my personal collection when they become available.

LOL You know, sinice I'm on the topic of movies I've seen while I was in New York, there's two more I'm going to add here really quick. These were DVDs that I had never seen and Hueyleen and Schehimazade were quick to point out that I slept on them. The movies were "The Skeleton Key" and "The Others" staring Nicole Kidman. Both of these films were advertised as horror movies or atleast scary. I'm not the horror movie type so I had no interest in seeing them when they were premired. How-be-ever* after sitting and watching them, they were very good. Not to sound repetitive but again both of these films were excellent storytelling. LOL I can't go into what they are about because it will give the story away...but if you get a chance watch them.



Sincerely,
Pharaoh

*These names were originally used in "NYE ini NYC Update" on 1/13/09.
*Schehimazade told a story about some guy he had over who was trying to act snootty, but then actually opened his mouth to say that as a part of his aires...too funny.