ninamarcelino Reviews

Imagine Me & You (2005)

A good chick flick!

[9/10 · 12 May 2012]

This is the very first lesbian - love film I have ever watched. And weeks ago I started watching a lot more of the same genre - and still find this movie the best among the rest (although I Can't Think Straight is coming closer).

About this. It is a great movie, absolutely. I am not saying this because I am beyond pro-homo or that I am one of 'em. The movie had spoken for itself. I actually liked the idea of two people getting settled with life for once and for good - until a tiny bit of fate happened and changed it all. And also the fact that it did not just talk about the problem of loving a girl - when you are also one.

In a tiny and very unimportant bit, it is a gay movie. But the rest talks about falling in love and all the complications that come in between - like liking somebody else when you are well married. And that is exactly what the movie is about and should be called, a love movie.

And who the hell knew the demure and sexually confused Rachel was a bad ass lesbian from Lost And Delirious? Well done, Piper!

Kiss Me (2011)

Good, but could have been better.

[7/10 · 12 May 2012]

It's a Swedish Film.

Um. I don't know how to start this but it is just an OK-Movie for me. Its plot is pretty much like Imagine Me & You, only a bit more realistic and more explicit - which to tell, I am not a big fan of. But I really could have liked it even more. I could have liked it even more if they did not show us excessive make outs yet no more than a scene or two of the two girls 'really' getting to know each other. They hardly talked and then the next moment, they were so in love. Although of that, the actors and the story itself moved very well. I have to admit that there is something in the movie that just hooks you in to loving their relationship.

Now another good thing. I liked how it is about a father who is a bit of homophobic - then after so lately, learning that it is about what is best and would cause happiness for your child. Although it showed that homosexuals are strange, in the end it proved that it should not be. A lot of clichés, but it fit well.

SHAG ME, FRIDA.

From Prada to Nada (2011)

Prada Nada

[6/10 · 12 May 2012]

About these two sisters who were extremely rich and knew no other world but the one of Beverly Hill's. But not until their father died and bankruptcy came face to face with them. They needed to sell their home and live somewhere else. Unfortunately, 'somewhere else' was East LA, in where they finally saw their family roots and cultures they never tried of seeing. Adaption was hard, but with love being learned and found… it wouldn't be much.

I do not know why others did not like this, but I actually found it worth the watch. I liked how they came from being so clueless about life to finding ways to live. It is something pretty realistic—perhaps not about the mansion and all that—but getting into a life you never had the chance to live… or even see, then eventually love it. But two things that I did not like were the fast-paced love affairs of the Dominguez sisters and the way the director (maybe) did not make it seem like they were losing everything they once took for granted. (Fun with Dick and Jane is a good example for a good one.) Over-all, it was satisfying.

I Can't Think Straight (2008)

Gorgeous, funny and sexy.

[9/10 · 12 May 2012]

I have always thought this movie would be funny and quirky, and it is. I loved the way they put comedic scenes in certain parts without being inappropriate. I loved it even more because in so many ways, I also find it extremely sexy (unlike the many other lesbian films that needed to show pure nudity). Although it might be one of the many I'm-gonna-marry-but-I- fell-in-love-with-another story, it hit off just right. 'Cause it did not just focus about that, but having to come up to your parents. It is about standing for who you are and for the one you love.

Such a good love movie.

A must-watch. Lisa (Tala) and Sheetal (Leyla) are both so bloody gorgeous I think I am a pebble - or less than.