Two Romantic Thoughts for Tuesday

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I have two thoughts to share this Tuesday!  First, it's Valentine's Day...and I hope we all do what the day symbolizes for many, which is to share love with others.  Love isn't something you can keep to yourself.  Now really, how can you?  If you have love, you want nothing more than to be able to share it.  And that's what I wish for this day.

My second thought is...

Dream Guy of the Week #5

Ryan Gosling may have abs so amazing that Emma Stone said they looked Photoshopped (seen Crazy Stupid Love?), but this other Ryan has a bod you can't help drooling over either!

Dream Guy of the Week #4

After watching Requiem for a Dream the other night, you might wonder why I would call Jared Leto a dream guy...after all, he played very realistic heroin junkie in the movie, not some dreamy hunk of guy.  But you've got to admit - he is a really good actor!   

The past few years, however, we haven't seen much of Jared Leto when it comes to movies (other than in feature-length music videos that he starred in and directed for his band 30 Seconds To Mars).  He's been busy writing and performing music at sold-out shows all over the world.  With his brother, Shannon on drums, and Tomislav "Tomo" Miličević on lead guitar, Jared Leto seems to never run out of energy on stage.

Jennifer's Body

What a surprise it was for me to find Jennifer's Body among the DVDs available for borrowing at my local library. I didn't expect to find the movie there because it's just one of those movies that you just don't find too worthy of artistic or theatrical criticism. After all, it's a movie whose publicity centered around half-naked photos of Megan Fox.


But since I had never seen the movie and it was there - where I could borrow it and view it for FREE - I decided to go ahead and add it to the other material I was going to check out.  


When I first started watching it, I thought the storyline was totally unlike any of the reviews I had read about the movie.  Yes, Amanda Seyfried's character - Anita "Needy" - and Megan Fox's character - "Jennifer" - were the best of friends since childhood.  But they had an unbalanced relationship. They were total opposites, with "Needy" being the always eager to please, subservient companion to the self-centered, egotistical Jennifer. 

These two friends were also classmates in school, always sitting by each other.  If the storyline were to have focused on the classroom setting more, you would probably expect to see Jennifer copying off Needy's work.  But of course, that's not what the storyline was about so you won't see that there.  (Whew!  Thank goodness because that would've really added to the boredom of the movie).


Then of course, this girly bonding is a focal part of the movie.  To spice it up (and probably to get some media attention) there is a girl-to-girl kissing scene which I thought was given a few more screenshots than necessary to fulfill whatever purpose it was supposed to serve. 

While watching, I had to question why this relationship was such a primary focus in the movie, especially after that kissing scene.  I thought this was supposed to be a horror movie.  The horror scenes (if you wanna call those gory humor depictions "horror") were fairly mild in contrast to most movies that you'd find of this genre.  It's the reaction of the families of those that died that made the killings seem more ghastly and horrific than the scenes themselves.  The "families" did give pretty outstanding emotional performances, though, I must say.

There are some "horror" flicks that I wouldn't mind if I saw a second time.  But Jennifer's Body, I must say, is not really something I'd care to see again.  It's not really that bad of a movie.  Most of the actors look like they were really "into" their respective roles, enough to give each one a thumbs up performance.  I just feel like the movie is only something  you'd really make the effort to see if you just happened to be fans of the actors in it.   I'd rate this movie just two out of five stars (and that's probably being generous).  

Have I Seen Her Face Before?

I watched You Don't Mess With The Zohan yesterday and noticed how familiar Emmanuelle Chriqui (who starred opposite Adam Sandler) looked. She reminded me a lot of Nina Dobrev, who is popularly known as Elena in the TV series, The Vampire Diaries. 

Until I did a little research and learned that Emmanuelle is almost 10 years older than Nina, I didn't want to believe they are two different people.  Aside from their looks, both ladies are from Canada. Nina moved to Canada when she was two; Emmanuelle, on the other hand, was born in Montreal, Quebec.  Similarly, both actresses took acting classes and started working in the performing arts at a young age.

Perhaps what really surprised me the most is that Emmanuelle Chriqui appeared in a music video of my favorite Hinder song, "Lips of An Angel". Check it out for yourself in the video below.