movie review: chaplin

Ok so here is my weekly review for the challenge between me and daronline (if you have no clue what I am talking about see to entry from last tuesday).

If you’ve been living under a rock your whole life and don’t know much about Charlie Chaplin, or even who he is for that matter, then you should watch the movie CHAPLIN. This movie has a great cast with actors such as Robert Downey Jr, Dan Akroyd, David Duchovney, Kevin Kline, and a ton of others. Robert Downey Jr. plays the role of Chaplin and does an EXCELLENT job. In fact, this movie is the one that made me realize how great of an actor Robert Downey Jr. really is. If you didn’t already know, Charlie Chaplin was a silent movie actor/director comedian from 1914 to the 1960’s. The movie is pretty much a full biography of Chaplin, starting when he was a child in England to him telling his life story in the 70’s. What makes this movie great is Robert Downey Jr.’s ability to not only capture who Chaplin was as a person, but also as an actor. If you have seen old Charlie Chaplin movies you will be in awe when you see Robert Downey Jr. do the same bits and skits Chaplin created. RDJ’s acting while being Chaplin is almost identical to the original and at times you forget he is not the actual Charlie Chaplin. What also is a special touch to the movie is when they take the normal scenes in the movie, such as the Chaplin hiding from the police, and turn it into the typical Charlie Chaplin silent film. Parts like this in the movie keep it entertaining. While it may be a long movie, every bit is interesting and enjoyable, so if you like Charlie Chaplin or don’t know much about him and think you might, you need to see this movie. 

Challenge: #6 July 12 3:48 pm

my friday secret

So if your just tuning in to this ongoing challenge between me and daronline this may confuse you. Every Friday we are to write an entry about a secret of ours. My secret is that I LOVE children, but HATE them in stores, like walmart and target for example. Ya I know, not exactly a juicy secret or anything, but an experience today reminded me of this. See I’ve always loved children, I think they are great and they seem to really like me too…we just get along. I even almost based my career off of children being a prenatal nurse….but lately I’ve been thinking maybe I don’t like them as much as I thought I did. I think about all these situations where I just want to pull my hair out and take the liberty of disciplining some persons kid for them. Then it occurred to me every time I felt this way it was while shopping in a supermarket or store. Is it just me or is every kid in walmart the spawn of satan?! I go to walmart and I can’t walk five steps without being run into by a kid or I can’t think of what I need to get because they are whining about all the shit they NEED…I NEED THIS! I NEED THAT! you know what I mean. Then I leave the store and go out to dinner and there is a cute kid looking at me and I can’t help but think how much I love kids…weird huh. I think the problem with the walmart kids has to do with the parents for the majority of the time. I mean, I know sometimes there is just that bratty kid that you really can’t do anything with and the parent is honestly trying, but sometimes you just see these parents you let their kid do whatever they please, and those are the kids I just want to SMACK. I just want to smack them and their parents, tell the kids to listen and tell the parents to pay attention to JR, aka spawn of satan. 

chalenge: #5 July 11 8:26 pm