Movie Love

Movie love: I have it, you have it, everyone should have it. I love movies. I decided that since I have very important things to do that cannot wait even a little bit, I'm going to blog about movies instead. (A movies name links to the corresponding IMDB page)

Since moving to number 77, I've discovered to my financial detriment that there's a video rental place about two minutes walk away. Wow, city life is fun. There's a general shop thirty seconds away, a Chinese take-away (oh Singapore rice noodles, my sweet downfall) twenty seconds away, and many, many other pretty shops that are so, so close. You can tell I'm from the country when I consider all this stuff a privilege, rather than a right.

So having a video rental place close is fantastic. We've hired quite a few movies between us (Tuesday is movie night) , although our rental history is very eclectic due to our differing tastes. The last time we went down we got 'Strangers with Candy' (my choice), 'Mission: Impossible III' (her choice) and a joint choice of 'Shortbus'.

Shortbus was interesting, to say the least. I had no idea what it was about beyond the blurb on the back of the DVD. I'd never even heard of it before. Certainly I wasn't expecting people having real sex on camera (nor was I expecting three men indulging in oral sex while one sings into another ones ass), but once I'd stopped going 'Oh my god! Naked people! NAKED PEOPLE!' I could actually get into the film. It made me laugh out-loud a few times, and that always wins me over.

Anyway, when I returned that one, Korean horror-comedy 'The Host' accidentally came home with me. I loved it, and I hate horror movies...so to be honest I'm not actually sure why I rented it, but oh well. Anyway, today's recommendation is...

The Host. If you like big scary monsters, unlikely heroes, blood, a few laughs and subtitles, then this is the movie for you.