Duplicity

On Tuesday, April 28, 2009 I went to see the movie Duplicity, featuring Julia Roberts and Clive Owen.

This movie is about two spies/intelligence agents who first met each other at a party. What follows is their story, their journey from at first hating each other to actually developing a relationship of sorts.

The other premise of this movie is that two CEOs are at it... One company has developed a top secret product and the other one wants to get his hands on it... So they end up hiring the duo of Roberts and Owen to try and uncover the secret and then share it with the other company. Granted of course, they want to steal this and sell it to the highest bidder.

How does this film end? I'm not going to tell you. You have to see it for yourself. The acting was really good and the script was very clever. An enjoyable film.

This is Jergens Squared, at least!

As we all know, *Raoul and *Rupert are one of the most, if not the most dramatic gay couple I know. Thank goodness for that, because I don't think I could deal with another dramatic gay couple like that. Their little episodes are like soap opera stories and I don't really need to watch TV, because all I need to do is just watch that!

This time around, the drama is even more blown up (or juicy, if you prefer). This time around, it involves Raoul, Rupert and *Ronald.

Ronald has been in the picture before, but he rarely shows up in the drama because he's usually not hanging out with those two. Rupert and Ronald have a clear disdain for each other, and Raoul is not really a good friend of Ronald's. Ronald's the one that believes that he should be dating Raoul, not Rupert because they are both armed forces.

Despite the fact that Ronald is a self-centred jerk who doesn't care about anyone but himself and only likes to talk about himself (Hmm... Why does this sound so familiar?) I discovered that Ronald will do anything and everything to get his way, and if that involves ruining peoples' careers, so be it. Ronald recently completed training and had 20 complaints against him from the people in charge of the field exercise. Things were looking really bad for Ronald because the case was pretty much built up against him. It looked like he was going to be discharged. Of course, Ronald has such a tunnel vision of career choice that he cannot fathom doing anything else with his life, so he felt threatened. What did he do? He somehow manipulated seven other people to file complaints against the people who were in charge of the field exercise to pretty much discredit them and get his case thrown out. So, he's safe now.

So he's the latest drama regarding the three of them.

Back in February, Raoul cheated on Rupert with Ronald.

This has been the second episode in less than two years... Raoul has cheated twice in a "relationship" that has lasted two years (they celebrated somehow, their two year anniversary on April 7). I don't know, something isn't quite right if in less than two years, there has been two episodes of cheating. I don't think that peoples' emotional needs are being met properly.

Thank goodness Raoul has decided to move away. I can just imagine the divaness that Rupert would love to unleash on Raoul. Why does Rupert stay with Raoul? Oh... Probably because he's a gold digger right? Everything is paid for by Rupert. What type of self respect does Rupert have if he stays with someone who has cheated on him TWICE? But hey, with the amount of drama that goes on, I would not be surprised at all Rupert has been cheating on Raoul, but hasn't been honest about it.

Coraline 3D

On Tuesday, April 14, 2009, I went to see the movie Coraline 3D.

This movie is about this girl, Coraline, who just moves into a new house where her parents are busy finishing up a catalogue. So, she gets really bored and starts exploring her house... She finds this trap door that doesn't work during the day but at night, it leads into a parallel universe where she finds her "parents" and they are the parents that she dreamed of. What she doesn't realize is the dark secret that her mother harbours...

A dark and kind of horror-esque cartoon. Nice animation though, and quite good on Real 3D. Not necessarily a theatre movie, but definitely worth it on DVD (provided you get the glasses that allow you to see 3D).

Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French did voice work for this film, which is awesome.

Hmm... Why am I not surprised?

Here is a link to an article I read online about students and their sense of entitlement, as well as their research skills in university.

Why am I not surprised?

One Week

On Tuesday April 7, 2009, I went to see the movie One Week featuring Joshua Jackson. It's a Canadian film about someone who gets diagnosed with cancer and is thought to have one week to live. The main character then takes a trip somewhere and meets some interesting people. The main character has an obsession with world's biggest things.

The movie had some very nice scenary and showed me parts of Canada that I have never seen before. It was a bit indepedent/art house though, I have to agree. I also can't talk about it more without ruining the ending.