I decided to celebrate National LGBT Pride month by watching The Last Song, a fair to slightly above average coming-of-age film starring Miley Cyrus, Greg Kinnear & Liam Hemsworth. Consider this your alert of spoils.
A couple of things took me out of the movie experience
- The movie is based on a Nicholas Sparks book. So as I'm watching it, all I can think about is, when's cancer coming. I know someone's gotta have it. I swear, Sparks writes his books like a mad lib & just enters in setting & characters, as opposed to nouns, adverbs & similes.
- No female is playing hard to get with Liam Hemsworth. I'm sorry, Hemsworth has drawls droppin' everywhere he goes, just a fact.
- Every time someone said Miley's characters name, Ronnie, instantly I heard Rihanna busting out a, 'shy Ronnie...' and I lost focus.
- Greg Kinnear is a crazy good actor! I can't think of one bad performance he's ever had.
- Miley Cyrus, not so much. Anything slightly serious or emotionally stretching reveal her glaring growth areas.
- I need the beach soon. Even just watching the beach scenes had a soothing effect on my soul.
- Hemsworth is going to kill as Gale. I really need to start tempering my expectations for the Hunger Games movie.
- Girls like interacting with animals. Why? I really am curious. I fear that I may need to relent on my aggressive stance of animals needing to be in the wild in order to interact with girls.
- Tangentially related, I Love You, Phillip Morris is not about tobacco.
- Also just as timely, I've recently watched the SNL that Elton John hosted. If I was gay, I'd be extremely offended by that episode. It was basically an hour and a half of 'hey, I'm gay' followed by overly aggressive sexual innuendos & overt stereotypes. It would be comparable to Ken Jeong hosting & the whole show being about math, chopsticks & bad driving. You couldn't have one sketch were Elton wasn't just 'the gay guy'. C'mon man! Its not creative & you're better than that.
- The need for human connection is immense.
- To my knowledge, I've never had someone tell me a big lie. I don't know how I'd react upon discovering the truth. What's the ratio of built-up trust versus size of the deception. In my closest experiences, I lean towards understanding & wanting to move forward. Maybe a defense mechanism, I don't know. I'll hop on the couch another day for that one.
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