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

Dating...and other stuff

So, as I said in the last post, I recently dated I guy that I know now I shouldn't have. Because of that, I have decided not to date guys until college. Hopefully, they will at least be more mature than most my age are. (Although, they still won't be mature...I guess that's too much to ask.) Anyway, nothing happened today except my math tutor, Roy, came over today. Which translates into a pretty boring day, I guess. I listened to Sterling Knight's new song Starstruck, from his movie of the same name. It should be pretty good, Disney Channel movies have been getting better lately, but even if it isn't I'll probably still like it...cause Sterling Knight is pretty cool. Anyways, as I was watching a movie called The Thing Called Love I was reminded of a song that I knew of but didn't like until my personal favorite Idol besides Carrie Underwood, otherwise known as Allison Iraheta, sang it on American Idol. It's called "Blame it on Your Heart", which of course everyone knows of. Anyway, the beginning of the song goes:

"You've got a thing or two to learn about me baby
Cause I ain't taking it no more and I don't mean maybe
You don't know right from wrong and the love we had is gone
So blame it on your lyin cheatin cold dead beatin two timin double dealin mean mistreating loving heart.

Well all I wanted was to be your one and only
And all I ever got from you was bein lonely
That dream has laid to rest
Cause you have failed the test
Hey blame it on your lyin cheatin cold dead beatin two timin double dealin mean mistreating loving heart."

That's what I love about country songs so much: they dig into guys. lol but it's true. And a lot of times that's what guys need, cause they're only going to do it to the next girl they meet. And I'm the kind of girl that wants to help the next girl, because I know how hard it's going to be for her when she realizes he really isn't the boy of her dreams. But it always helps to know which breakup song to listen to. I believe Taylor Swift has all the answers. :) If you're mad, you can go for "Picture to Burn". Or, if you're in a softer mood, "White Horse" or "You're Not Sorry". If there's a boy that's cheated on you, you can listen to "Should've Said No" and if there's a boy that promised to always love you, but changed his mind, "Forever & Always". She even has you covered if you want to listen to a song about loving a great guy ("Hey Stephen"), Romeo and Juliet ("Love Story"), loving the guy that doesn't love you back ("You Belong With Me"...and the video has Lucas Till...you can't lose!), a guy that you adore ("Jump Then Fall"), or a song about being so in love with a guy, that it makes you brave and want to "dance in a storm in my best dress fearless" ("Fearless"), which is a personal favorite of mine. Funny enough, even though I've had all this trouble with this stupid, stupid boy my favorite Taylor Swift song is Love Story...I guess I'm just a hopeless romantic at heart...now I just need to find my Romeo....Romeo Romeo where for art thou Romeo?? Romeo?!?!?!...stupid boys. :)
-MOT

Just finished: The Thing Called Love
Watching now: Save the Last Dance
Excited to see: Knight & Day

So...

Let's see...I said I'm going to write about feelings. So, here's how I'm feeling. It's pretty normal for a 17 year old girl, I guess.
There's a guy that I went out with....I liked him a lot when we were going out...not so much anymore. Sometimes, I want to stab him with something sharp...not kill him...just hurt him very badly. Maybe put him in the hospital for a while. And I swear, I'm not violent. That's just how stupid and aggravating he is. And my problems with him isn't that he's too goofy (which he is) or that he's around all the time (which is also true). It's that he hangs out with my friends. They wouldn't even know him if it weren't for me and now he considers them his friends and thinks they'll be loyal to him. They're still nice to him...part of me is happy for that because I don't want people to think I'm bitter, but the other part of me wants them to hate him and be mean to him. I don't know why. I don't like it when people are mean to other people...but I wouldn't mind every once and a while someone slapping him or something....like, maybe me slapping him. haha Anyway, that's all I kind of feel like talking about. If I post anymore, I might get mad...or even madder. Wait...is that a word?

Just finished: Never Been Kissed
Watching now: The Thing Called Love
Excited to see: When in Rome