vabullard Reviews

A Little Bit of Heaven (2011)

I Demand My Time Back, like Now.

[1/10 · 11 March 2013]

"I am a "young" white female. My father hasn't been the best father. My mom is a complete and total basket case so I have the right to insult them and behave like a 14 year old boy because I am dying. This message is o.k. because I am a "young" white female."

I wasn't allowed to shout in my summary but that summary was supposed to be all caps with an exclamation mark at the end. I don't review many movies but this one is so bad that I just have to say something in defense of women and children whose parents aren't "perfect", by the way, who IS perfect?

This character should REALLY get over herself. She is insensitive, mean spirited and stupid. She lacks any valid emotions. Everything she says and does is completely narcissistic and I want my time back. Seriously.

By the way, I am a female too. This is not a "chick flick" this is a butchering of the true spirit of femininity. Girls are soft, we want to be loved, we want to be treated well by the men in our lives and if we don't get those things that we want we are disappointed but at the end of the day we conduct ourselves as real women do: with dignity. We don't go around starting relationships that we know we can't finish and we don't create emotional wounds in others that will never be resolved (she is dying!).

Why would she lower herself to treating her parents like crap when they are clearly not well equipped? This is beneath any human being. It is better for the mental health of the woman and for the cohesiveness of the family to be graceful and do your best to help your idiot parents. Instead of condescending upon her mom and dad she should have done a better job of having some positive quality time spent with them before death.

She is dying! Doesn't she want to leave things on a positive note? Doesn't she want her parents to think that they aren't so bad? It isn't like they can have any MORE spoiled, entitled children to screw up. There are tactful ways of going about conveying to your parents that they suck and this character has absolutely no empathy toward the parents and for that and many other reasons I hate this movie. This movie teaches us nothing and is a complete waste of time, film and money.

My recommendation: Do not watch this piece of garbage.

The Words (2012)

An aesthetically satisfying and enigmatic movie. I believe I have cracked the "code".

[10/10 · 11 March 2013]

The Words is a movie about a man who writes a book and I believe that the movie is a puzzle, like a Rubik's cube. This is important to me because I am a writer and this movie offered some wonderful insight into writing fiction that is based on facts. I am writing a book that is fiction which is based on things that actually happened to me and the wisdom of my experiences, I believe, will help people make better choices in the future. I have read no other reviews of this movie so my review is colored in the shade of my own thoughts and this makes me believe that my review is pure and/or original.

Overall, The Words is a movie about a book that is about loss. The author portrayed by Dennis Quaid has lost the author Rory has lost and the old man has lost. There is a very telling line in the movie that reveals the secret of the movie for those who didn't get it: fiction and reality are very close but they never actually touch. For a writer like myself this was such a magical line and it dove me into an ocean of thought. How can I keep my reality and my fiction close but not allow them to touch?

Anyway, the movie is profound. I even think that I have figured it all out. I was going to save my final analysis but I would guess that the first sentence in my second paragraph here tells it all. The old man, the young man and the successful author have all lost something very important to them. The character Daniella tries to convince Clay that he has to let go of the thing that he lost but it is so much a part of his identity that he can't let it go. The old man lost everything and was never quite able to recover anything. The movie tries to make you believe that what Rory has lost is his self-respect and identity as a professional but Rory's story is never fully concluded. I believe that Rory's story is resolved in Clay's "real" life.

The book written by the old man is a metaphor for the deepest recesses of a person's soul laid bare for everyone to see, a book that is so personal and so honest that it is more valuable than his relationship with his wife. The book that was "written" by Rory is a metaphor for the ability of human beings to lie about who they really are so they can feel good about themselves but this falls short of satisfying Rory because it is a complete and total fiction and the lie is so painful that it could destroy everything and maybe it does destroy everything because they don't tell us what happens to Rory and Dora. The book written by Clay, a book which we never really get to finish, is an illustration of what happens when you put your career, your ambition, your needs, whatever ahead of the needs of your spouse which is a parallel to the story of Rory and Dora.

I assume that the deterioration of the relationship between Clay and his wife is due to Clay putting his needs ahead of those of his wife because writers, in general, don't get paid to write books and financial struggles are a big problem in relationships when there is a lopsided contribution being made. This is also illustrated in the relationship between Rory and Dora.

The old man is watching Rory and Dora because they have what he lost and if only he could reverse time and have what he lost back he could be happy but this is impossible because no one knows the future. If we knew the future we would make better decisions, we would safeguard those things that are of importance to us. We would treat the things that matter most like they really matter. Clay wants things to be the way they were but it's too late. In reality, Clay is the old man but he is also the successful young man because he has what he has toiled so long and hard to obtain but at the cost of his relationship with his wife, which is more meaningful than everything else which is illustrated by the old man's life.

This movie is about loss. The loss of love, the loss of a person's identity and the loss of self-respect but it is all the same loss. It is hard to believe that one person is able to experience so much loss but it is so. This movie allows us to look at loss from different perspectives and realize that all loss is identical.

Now I will read the reviews of others.

What Color Is Love? (2009 TV Movie)

Poor BM : ( ...NOT! - Borat

[1/10 · 22 June 2012]

What is so awful about this movie is the way they, unsuccessfully, frame Nicole as a sympathetic character and the way they try to highlight the non-existent race issue. Nicole deserved absolutely nothing because:

1. She had an affair with another woman's husband.

2. She is a single mother and broke making her unable to provide for the child.

3. She is alone and has no husband or kids of her own. The child would be better off with a family that is related to him, who has children, a mother and a father. The child would be happier with his father, a mother and siblings.

4. The child's father and his family love the child and would not do anything to hurt him so he would have the love and support he needs from a family instead of with a single mother.

5. She is promiscuous.

The bottom line is that this woman had no consideration for her child when she conceived him, gave birth to him, selfishly considered him her meal ticket and thought that the baby has some power to validate her as a person. News flash: the baby doesn't love you, the baby must be taught to love by you and if you live a selfish, woe as me existence, constantly playing the victim and expecting others to pay for your mistakes, including the existing children and wife of the man you are screwing behind their backs, you should expect to be treated as the selfish, stupid, juvenile, unfit, ill-equipped, sorry excuse for a mother and woman that you are.

Message to all the girls out there who think they can be gold-digging whores and everything will work out if they hang in there and "do what's best for the child": YOU ARE WRONG!

No one deserves to have a child and those who do have a child should be mature enough to treat the child like a human being, not some magical idol that can save your life, validate you and pad your bank account all at the same time.

Nicole should give up the child, find her own life and identity and stop using the child for her selfish reasons.

THIS MOVIE SUCKS BUTT! Don't watch!