Day 1: Your Favorite Movie

So...I decided to do the 30 Day Movie Challenge and what better place to do it then on my movie blog? So, here it goes...

Day 1: Your Favorite Movie

My favorite movie has been Stand By Me for several years now. The friendship between the four boys and the acting by each of them is realistic and adorable. The movie is both funny and sad, sometimes at the same time. Great story, based on the novella The Body by Stephen King. I can't possibly say how much I love this movie!

Movie Review: Big Fat Liar

Big Fat Liar (2002)
Starring: Frankie Muniz and Paul Giamatti
Characters: Jason Shepherd and Marty Wolf
Directed by: Shawn Levy
Tagline: The truth is never overrated.
Grade: A-

This is another one of those movies that people might not want to watch just because of the genre. Most people consider movies that don't have cussing or bloody violence to be bad. A lot of my favorite movies have violence and cussing (Stand by Me, anyone?) but a lot of great movies are family movies, like this one. The movie is about Jason, who lies all the time...about everything. One day, after sneaking in the window to the classroom with the help of his best friend, Kaylee (Amanda Bynes, who, as always, rocks and steals the scenes she's in), he realizes he hasn't written his paper that was due that day. So he makes up a whole story about how he was in the ER all night with his dad, who had choked on a meatball...which is soon proved to be false when his parents show up at school...his dad meatball free. His teacher gives him until 5:00 that night to write his paper...which he very fittingly titles Big Fat Liar. On his way to turn in his paper, he runs into Mr. Marty Wolf...a ruthless movie producer. After Jason accidentally leaves his story in the limo, Wolf sees it and decides to claim it as his own. Hilarity ensues, with Jason and Kaylee to sneak off to Hollywood and all of Wolf's enemies ganging up on him to force him to confess that he stole the story. All in all, a solid movie from the time when Frankie Muniz was in every movie that came out...like Agent Cody Banks (I also liked that one...but, like I said, I like pretty much every movie.) The clear "winner" of this movie is Amanda Bynes, who wins in all her movies. (See the amazing, AMAZING She's the Man.)
-MOT

Movie Review: The Thing Called Love

The Thing Called Love (1993)
Starring: River Phoenix and Samantha Mathis
Characters: James Wright and Miranda Presley
Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich
Tagline: Stand by your dream
Grade: B

This movie was pretty good. It wasn't the best one movie I've seen, but it had River Phoenix in it, so I was willing to give it a lot of leeway. He's one of the best actors ever, and one of my very favorites, so that's why I watched it. And he was great. The movie about a girl from New York (Miranda) that moves to Nashville to pursue her dream of being a country music singer. Once she gets there she meets a "cowboy" from Connecticut (Dermot Mulroney), a Southern belle with an unfortunate name (Sandra Bullock, ah! lol), and a Texan boy that's actually doing pretty well in the song writing business (James). River was amazing (as usual), Samantha Mathis was ok, but kind of annoying, Sandra Bullock was awesome and funny, as always, and I've liked Dermot Mulroney since Young Guns. I also liked the ending, where she ended up with the guy she was meant to be with instead of making some stupid ending. I don't like stupid endings. So overall, I guess it was a pretty good movie, but I wouldn't reccomend it over other movies. But River Phoenix fans would probably enjoy it. But it also makes me sad that this was his last role in a movie and the role wasn't spectacular like his role in Running on Empty or, my favorite movie of all time, Stand by Me.
-MOT