Oscars- Best Pictures 2018

(Spoilers)*

Roma

This movie was a black and white movie, all in Spanish, telling a story about a maid in the 1970s in Mexico. There is really no plot to this movie.. it's literally like a realty show just following this maid around and living her life. She's a maid for this.. well I assume Mexican family, but they look White, she has a boyfriend, she gets pregnant, the boyfriend leaves her, she goes looking for him, he threatens her because he doesn't want anything to do with that, turns out hes a bad guy in this battle/war/revolution/whatever is going on in Mexico City at the time, she loses the baby, and continues to care for this family she is a maid to.

Suuuper slow movie for me. Her name is Cleo and she barely ever talks. There are scenes that just a lasted way too long. The kids in the movie are just constantly fighting and loud and annoying and it just gave me anxiety.. too much going on with them. The saddest scene is when she loses her baby.. I cried a lot during that part.. but also super long scene. There's really not much else to say about this movie. I did not like it and wouldn't watch it again.

BlackKklansman

This movie is a story from about the first black cop Ron to join the police department in Colorado Springs during the whole Black Panthers, KKK situation. He goes undercover to see if either organization is going to start a war/riot against the others or against the police. He ends up becoming a member of the KKK because he talks on the phone with leaders and gave them his real name, but another white cop ends up pretending to be him at the actual meetings and induction ceremony. 

I would say I liked this movie. It was comedic even though it was about real and awful things going on in the world. There were a lot of parts that made me nervous. I was always afraid this two cops were going to get caught by the KKK leaders and then something bad was going to happen. There was this one white guy that was just evil and every scene he was in it just made me nervous. I liked Ron a lot. The way he acted and the way he talked I don't know I just liked it. I liked that he, his real name, was actually a part of the KKK and he even had a membership card with his name on it. It just reminded me of the Dave Chappelle skit. And at the end when they have to drop everything with the investigation, he calls the leader back and just jokes with him while the other cops listen and ends up revealing that he's black. It was an entertaining movie.

Black Panther

Ok let's see.. I watched this movie like forever ago, so I don't know how much of it I really remember. I am very surprised that a superhero movie is actually nominated for best picture. Actually, I'm kind of not surprised that this particular one was nominated but I won't say why... However, I loved this movie. I love all superhero movies. Most of the time I don't like when these kind of movies are in a made up world or outer space or whatever like just too unrealistic for me, but this one was fun. I really like the sister. She was funny and I enjoyed her scenes. I also like/don't like how evil Michael B Jordan is and all the bumps all over his body super gross me out. Anyways, I loved this movie and would recommend watching it.. but Best Picture? Nah. 

A Star is Born

This movie was definitely too hyped for me. I saw this one before the nominations even came out for the Oscars. I wanted to see this one as soon as I saw the previews because it had Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga, and then I saw a lot of friends on Facebook say that they loved it since we waited awhile to see it, so I was like alright this is going to be an awesome movie. It was ok. It's a sad story for sure, I didn't cry though. So basically the story is about this famous country/rock singer sees Lady Gaga performing at a drag club because he's a drunk and he just wants to get to the bar. He ends up thinking she is amazing and likes her so he gets her to meet him on tour and go backstage and stuff. They kind of start dating and he brings her out on stage and gets her hooked up with studios and stuff and she then becomes famous. But she becomes all poppy and hip instead of her songwriter self and he doesn't like it saying she's become a sell out or whatever. You know the same old story in other movies. Well she stays famous and he stays drunk and they fight and he goes to rehab and he stays sober and then her manager tells him some ugly stuff like she is never going to be the best she can be because she is always worried about you and all you do is hold her back and etc. So then she has a concert and she tells him to come but instead he takes a lot of drugs and kills himself.

Super sad movie, super overly hyped movie, I didn't feel any emotion which I normally do, I didn't like the way Bradley Cooper talked the whole time, I hate when they mumble and talk so low,  like I get it you're a drunk but you know what? this is also a movie and we need to hear what you're saying. I didn't hate the movie, I know it sounds that way but it wasn't awful. I was just expecting a lot more from it. 

Bohemian Rhapsody

When I first saw the previews for this movie, I wanted to see it, but I also thought that it was going to be a stressful movie. Usually rock stars biography movies stress me out because of all the drugs and woman, or in this case men, and how they ruin their lives when they have things going so well for them.. it's just stressful. But luckily, this movie didn't go much into depth about that. It didn't completely ignore all of it, like it was for sure mentioned in the movie, and you know, almost everyone already knows about Queen and Freddie Mercury and his men and his drugs and his life, so they really didn't have to go into much depth about it. I actually loved how they did it. 

So what I didn't know was that he was Pakistani? Is that what he was? Is that how you spell it? But I didn't know he was from over there. But from this movie I absolutely loved his personality. Very confident. It's just so crazy how things just fall into place for people. He was at a bar and this band had just broken up after playing their set and he goes to talk to them and ends up pairing up with them. What luck for those guys. He's just very confident about his abilities and doesn't care when people are mean to him about his teeth. And then after they become big, they make Bohemian Rhapsody and their producer guy wouldn't let that be their single on the album because it was six minutes, so they just up and fired him because he was just so confident it was a masterpiece. Loved that part. Also loved/hated the part when his manager suggests he becomes a solo artist and Freddie gets so mad that this guy would suggest he be disloyal to his band that he kicks him out of the limo on the street. Hated it because it wasn't really the managers idea, but loved it because of how loyal he was to his band.. although he did end up leaving them later. Also loved the part when he finally leaves John Reid who was just a bad influence on him, a moocher, just taking from him and using him, who didn't have his best interest in mind, and doesn't look at him and says, "I never want to see your face again" and walks away. I also love how he really loved his wife. Even though he was gay and attracted to men, he really loved her and wanted to be with her because of the way she made him feel.. the real friendship, loyalty and support. 

I was really sad throughout the movie because he kind of reminded me of Michael Scott from the office in the sense that he just wanted to have real friends. He felt like his band didn't really want to be around him after they found out he was gay. I don't know how true that really is but the movie made it seem that way and it made me sad. And then when he found out he had HIV, ugh... just made me more sad. But the way he acted with confidence and without worrying and wanting to keep living his life and not making himself a sad story, just made me love him. LOVED this movie.

Vice

Hated it. Checked out halfway through the movie. I would have gotten on my phone and scrolled through all my apps multiple times if I weren't at the movie theaters. You had to know way too much about politics and history to enjoy this movie.

The Favourite

I reeeaalllyy don't like movies that are based on this time period and with Queens and royalty and all that stuff. But I saw that Emma Stone was in it so I thought ok, it won't be that dreadful. And it wasn't that bad. I did NOT like the lesbian stuff going on, but I'm just glad they didn't go into depth with all that. I think it more grossed me out because the Queen's legs were all boiled and stuff because she had gout and then the rubbing her legs and touching her down there just.... iicckk. Gives me the heebie jeebies. 

So basically it's this story of Queen Anne and her two Lady's who are competing for her affection. Lady 1 has been with her for many years and the Lady 2 is trying to become a Lady again instead of a servant, and therefore they start to compete because Lady 1 makes it hard for her. It turns out though that they are actually cousins. Anyway, the movie goes about kind of in a funny way. I remember asking my husband if this is supposed to be funny.. There really isn't much else to the story. Lady 1 gets kicked out and Lady 2 takes her place, but the Queen loved Lady 1, and then realizes that Lady 2 just acted the way she did for her own benefit, so then Lady 2 realizes that the Queen knows who she is, and all three of them are just stuck in an awful situation that none of them wanted to be in. They all lost. 

It kept me interested the whole time because I wanted to know who was going to win, but other than that it was ok.

Green Book

OMG I looooved this movie!! So I had seen the previews to this movie and I was super interested. It looked like something I would really like. The story is like back in 1960s of this black guy who is a classical piano player and he decides he wants to do a tour with his trio down in the south. So he has to hire this driver who will drive him around to all of his concerts and hotels, but he chooses this Italian guy because he's heard good things about him, not only that he's a driver but that he can in some ways protect him. The Italian guy however is kind of like not really liking black people at the time, not really hating them either but you know, still kind of iffy about it.. so he turns down the job. Well, the musician then calls his house to ask again and then to also ask his wife and the Italian guy ends up taking the job. Oh man. The whole time they are driving they are like getting to know each other and stuff and the musician helps the driver write to his wife because he is kind of illiterate, and the driver totally protects the musician in multiple encounters and has his back for everything! Just super loyal to this man, even when he was like heck no I'm not working for a black man in the beginning. Ugh, I just loved this movie. The driver just always talking crudely and not having a care about anything and always eating good food and helping out this guy. It was so good. Each time I kept thinking this driver is going to let this guy down, he's just going to forget to get him to a concert or take the job his friends were offering him, but he never let me down.

I for sure wanted Bohemian Rhapsody to win because that was for sure my favorite movie out of all of them, but then this was the last movie we saw and I was like, nope this is it! This is my favorite movie this year. But no way did I think it was going to win. It wasn't artsy or dark enough to win, so I was very surprised and very excited that it did!

Annihilation

Can I just write movie- do not recommend and be done?

One of the main reasons I want to watch a movie is because of the actors that are in it. Even when the movie looks dumb I just think, well this actor is in it so why would they waste their time and do a stupid movie? Which I know is a dumb way to think because they just do it for the money. But I decided to watch this movie for that reason. It had Natalie Portman in it and also Gina Rodriguez from Jane the Virgin, and I love the show Jane the Virgin so it can't be that bad right? I know.. dumb.

Honestly, I was interested half way through the movie. It's one of those movies that kind of keeps you interested and keeps you wanting to know what is actually going on, but then once it gets to the end, you either don't have any answers or the answers you get are just so stupid and annoying and it doesn't make sense.

So basically, there's this orb around some field that got there by like a meteor or something, and it keeps getting bigger and bigger and taking over more humankind. They send people in there to see what's going on, but none of them ever come back out... except for one guy. And this guy is married to Natalie Portman who is ex military and now a biologist. He comes back out and he's sick and totally different and doesn't know what's going on and so on. So she decides that she wants to go into the orb to figure out what is it because she feels like she owes it to her husband because she cheated on him with a big black man. Dumb reason. Anyway.. turns out that it's like alien like stuff and then she burns it all and it all vanishes... except! They are both now aliens! or something like that.

I did not like this movie obviously. It was super slow and it made no sense at the end.. like it wasn't a satisfying answer to anything.

The Last Black Unicorn

Omg. Let my just say I have never read an entire book in one day until this one. I love this book. I love reading autobiographies by celebrities I like, or by celebrities that have a lot of gossip being said about them because you know, I just love the chisme. My brother in law buys me these for Christmas almost every year. I've read Tina Fey's, Amy Poehler's, Mindy Kaling's and now Tiffany Haddish's.

Tiffany is just so funny. Her book is basically just all stories about her childhood and her mom and her ex boyfriends and her ex husband. Some of the stories I just couldn't believe they were just so crazy. One story actually made me gasp out loud, but I guess I do that often because my brother makes fun of me when I do it during movies. I was laughing the whole way through the book and telling my brother some stories from it. She is just so nasty it makes me laugh. I love how much she just doesn't care what other celebrities think about her and how ghetto she still is. She tells about how guy comedians always wanted her to sleep with them in order for her to open up for their shows and get exposure, but she never did that because she was wanting to make it on her own. And then after the movie Girl's Trip, they all started blowing up her phone and wanted her on their tours and stuff and she's like.. nah. Ugh, I love that. I don't know how true all of it is like if she really didn't sleep around with some of them, but to be able to make it and then turn them down... that's the best. Oh, but going back to how ghetto she is.. when people would like tell rumors or give her a hard time and treat her like she wasn't important.. she would always threaten them like she had people that would kill for her.. hilarious. I really enjoyed the stories of her childhood. She couldn't read until she was in high school, and she always got away with not being able to read because she could just talk her way out of everything, and I believe that for sure. It was a real fun book and I would totally recommend everyone to read it.. 18 & up.. she does a lot of cussing and like I said.. she nasty.

Whip It

I've tried starting this post three times and every time I get to it I just want to get it over with. I guess that shows how much I didn't care for this movie.

The story line is that this girl's mom wants her to be in all these debutante beauty pageants so that she can learn how to be a lady, but this girl just looks gross and likes to look gross... never has her hair brushed, always wearing clothes too big for her and dingy looking. Obviously she just doesn't care to be in any of these pageants, or to be a lady. She ends up finding out about these roller derby chicks and decides she wants to do that instead. She sneaks around and joins a team even though she's too young to play. She ends up being assigned to the suckiest team but because she's so good that team starts to win a lot and ends up going to the championship. Well, someone finds out that she is too young to play, and her parents find out that she's been playing, and a beauty pageant is on the same night.. so she decides herself that she won't go to the game. Then her dad looks her up online and finds all these videos of her playing and how good she is and decides to let her play in the championship game, because she needs parents approval to play since she's too young. She ends up playing and her whole family shows up and supports her, even her mom, which I thought was the cutest part of this movie.

I did not really like this movie. It was like a fun, easy movie to watch, but I just did not like how she dressed and looked and acted.. like wash yourself. It was fun to see how many actresses I knew though.. there were a lot. I just don't like the main actress.. Juno.. I don't even know her name but in all her movies she plays the same character.. girl who can't dress herself, who doesn't care about what anyone says, acts older than her age.. bleh.

About Time

 

I started a new job two months ago.. and I am absolutely loving it. I came from a bank that was all about sales goals, giving you so much responsibility and no time to complete anything, and just so busy and so stressful and not appreciative of anything, with not enough pay. Now I'm at a bank where I have no goals, I do simple transactions, it's not busy and I have all the time in the world to get on social media and watch movies. Soooo.. that's exactly what I did. I watched About Time over the last three days at work. And I'm even at work right now writing this blog.. on a Friday.. at a bank!

So this movie is about this guy who can travel back in time like all the men in his family before him. His dad tells him this secret and he thinks he's crazy, but he decides to try it anyways. They have to go into a dark room and squeeze their fists and close their eyes and think of a place they want to go in the past.. which I think is super silly but whatever right. He decides he wants to use his power to find love.. which he does.. and he has a baby, but as the years go by his sister gets into some trouble with this guy, gets drunk and gets in a super bad car accident, and he decides to take her back to when the relationship first started. The sister ends up not getting together with that guy, and when they go back to the current time everything is fine with her. But apparently when he goes back in time after having a baby it changes the exact sperm that got his wife pregnant, so now he has a boy instead of his one year old daughter..(?) I don't know.. It didn't really make much sense to me how nothing else would have changed but whatever right.. so he has to go back and lets his sister date that awful guy and then get hurt and then fix it herself. blah blah blah. But thennnn.... times goes on and he has a second child and then his dad gets sick with cancer. So when he passes away the son isn't too sad because he can always go back in time to visit his dad. Then his wife wants another baby... but if he has another baby.. he's run out of extra time because if he goes back again he won't have the same baby.. and that's when it gets kind of sad.

I think it was a pretty cute movie. He is so cute to the girl he loves and vice versa, how they play with each other and treat each other. And the relationship he has with his family, especially his dad is super cute too. It was a fun movie to watch.

Nacho Daddy


So this past month my brothers, husband, two year old and I went to Vegas for my 30th birthday. We didn't really have much planned out to do besides see the Jabbawockeez show, so when it came to eating out we basically hit our phones to see what was popular around us. On our last night there, we went down to the original strip or the old strip or whatever its called, and I was getting real hangry. My husband suggested going to this little food court thing and I was like heck no! I don't ever come to Vegas so I wanna eat something that I can't get at home. So I looked on Yelp and I found this place called Nacho Daddy.

Now if you know me you know I looooooove nachos. Basically my favorite food. I eat them for breakfast, for a snack, at all sporting events, for lunch or dinner, over here, over there.. I love nachos. So of course I made us all go, plus it had really good reviews on Yelp. We got seated right away, it was kind of like a Buffalo Wild Wings kind of place with a bar and sports on the TV, but they also had some like 90's music videos playing so that was fun too. It's always fun when my husband knows these weird random songs that I have never heard of before and the band names and everything, but that's another story.

So we get seated and the service was quick and pleasant. Didn't come hassle us all the time, made sure our drinks were full, you know all the good stuff.

Now the nachos.. omg. So their slogan is something like "never a dry chip" right? Because you know all these nachos peeps are stingy with their cheese and toppings.. always gotta be asking for extra cheese because I got 20 bare chips left on my plate and charging me 50 cents for it. Well, their slogan was so true. I got to like the fifth layer of my nachos and these chips were still packed with food. Not just cheese but the chicken, guac, beans, everything was on them. And they were sooo good. I was so happy with my selection that I couldn't stop talking about it for the rest of the night and the next day. Really wish we had a Nacho Daddy in Texas.. also I love the name so that's a plus too. I might be hyping it a little because I was super hungry that night, but I honestly don't think I'm even doing it justice. So good.

American Made

 



Hello again! It's been quite awhile.. five years. Soo, we've bought a house, had a baby who's about to turn two. But let's get back to business.

 

So I most recently (get it?) watched this movie American Made. It's about how the drug cartel kind of got started in the US and this guy name Barry Seal who was a pilot who worked for the CIA and then decided to start with this drug stuff, but I don't think it was really by choice.. he was kind of forced into doing it or they would've killed him, and then he was stuck doing it for years or they would have killed him, and guess what happened in the end.. they killed him. The movie makes it seem like he actually enjoyed it though. So the CIA knew that he started doing this drug stuff, but they didn't really stop him from doing it because they needed him for something with fighting and war and guns, I don't remember exactly what, but I don't think it's too important. But then the DEA found out about the drugs and came after him, and the CIA pretended they didn't have anything to do with him. But somehow, he got this deal with the DEA that if he helped them out and got pictures of the cartel, then he wouldn't go to jail. Well, he did what was asked of him, but then the pictures were released and the cartel came after him because he was a little rat.

Overall, the movie for me was confusing because when it comes to history stuff they already assume you know the basic background of it and if you're me.. you don't. So I had to ask a lot of questions. Other than confusing, it wasn't that bad. I enjoyed it at least. There's this one part where it shows him having so much money he couldn't launder it anymore in the banks because it was just too much, so he had to start digging holes in his backyard and burying duffle bags full of cash, and stuff them in his shed and at his work and ugh, it just gave me anxiety. And I also loved how loyal his wife was to him while he was doing all this illegal stuff. Stuck by him through it all, but I mean who wouldn't with all that money coming in. I also like almost anything Tom Cruise is in so good movie.