Just A Girl Who Loves Tofu
That’s all anybody can do.
33/365
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Cast: Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy
Synopsis: They were five students with nothing in common, faced with spending a Saturday detention together in their high school library. At 7 a.m., they had nothing to say, but by 4 p.m., they had bared their souls to each other and become good friends. To the outside world they were simply the Jock, the Brain, the Criminal, the Princess and the Kook, but to each other, they would always be the Breakfast Club.
My Rating: 9/10
“Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did *was* wrong. But we think you’re crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us… In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain…and an athlete…and a basket case…a princess…and a criminal… Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club.”
32/365
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Cast: Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, Anthony Michael Hall
On the eve of her sister’s wedding, suburban teenager Samantha (Molly Ringwald) suffers silently as her family forgets her birthday. Even worse, some total dork (Anthony Michael Hall) keeps propositioning her with sophomoric innuendo when she really craves romantic attention from high-school hunk Jake (Michael Schoeffling).
My Rating: 9/10
“That’s why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they’d call them something else.”
31/365
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Cast: Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Jon Cryer
Synopsis: Andie Walsh (Molly Ringwald) is a teenager who lives in the dingy part of town with her terminally underemployed dad. She works at a record store with eccentric Ionia (Annie Potts) and is considered a misfit at her uppity high school, but somehow she rises above them all. Her oddball best friend, Duckie (Jon Cryer), is hopelessly in love with her, so he causes trouble for her romantic pursuits. When local rich kid Blaine (Andrew McCarthy) develops a fascination with her, they go out on a date together. Visiting the home bases of each social clique, they are basically ridiculed for their audacity to date one another. When Blaine eventually asks the delighted Andie to the prom, he is threatened by his rich friend Steff (James Spader). The romance versus high school social politics finally culminates at the big night of the prom.
My Rating: 9/10
“I’m not particularly concerned with whether or not you like me, because I live to like you and… and I can’t like you anymore. So… so when you’re feeling real low and… and dirty, don’t look to me to pump you back up ‘cause… ‘cause… ‘cause maybe for the first time in your life I WON’T BE THERE!”
30/365
The Lorax (2012)
Cast: Danny DeVito, Ed Helms, Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Betty White
Ted (voice of Zac Efron) lives in a town where nothing is quite as it appears; everything is plastic, including the plants. Hopelessly smitten by the beautiful Audrey (voice of Taylor Swift), who dreams of one day seeing a real tree, Ted boldly leaves the city determined to find the flora and grant her wish. Along the way, the young adventurer crosses paths with the Lorax (voice of Danny DeVIto), a diminutive, mustached defender of nature who doesn’t take kindly to human intruders. The better Ted gets to know the Lorax, however, the more he learns that his newfound friend has good reason for being a bit surly.
My Rating: 7/10
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” - Dr.Seuss
29/365
Mirror Mirror (2012)
Cast: Julia Roberts, Lily Collins, Armie Hammer
My Rating: 7/10
“Love is passing me the potatoes.”
28/365
The Roommate (2011)
Cast: Leighton Meester, Minka Kelly, Cam Gigandet
Synopsis: Fresh from Des Moines, Iowa, Sara Matthews (Minka Kelly) has just landed in Los Angeles as a college freshman studying fashion design. She meets handsome Stephen (Cam Gigandet), party-lover Tracy, and roommate Rebecca (Leighton Meester). Rebecca is nice, sweet and ready to share everything with Sara. It could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. But Tracy is convinced that there’s something seriously wrong with Rebecca and bad things start happening to everyone close to Sara. If Sara is to have a normal college experience, she’s going to have to get to the bottom of what’s up with Rebecca and quickly get out of her clutches.
My Rating: 6/10
27/365
Flipped (2010)
Cast: Madeline Carroll, Callan McAuliffe
My Rating: 9.5/10
“Every once in a while, you find someone who is iridescent. When you do, nothing will ever compare.”
“How could she sit there and laugh, and look so beautiful?”
- I am in love with this movie and I would watch it all over again.
26/365
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Cast: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara
My Rating: 8/10
25/365
Jack and Jill (2011)
Cast: Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes, Al Pacino
Synopsis:
Jack Sadelstein (Adam Sandler), is a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, who dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his identical twin sister Jill (also Adam Sandler). Jill’s neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down.
My Rating: 4/10
- The only part I liked was when they played Avril Lavigne’s song in the background.
24/365
The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
Cast: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig
Synopsis: The intrepid young reporter, Tintin (Jamie Bell) whose relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into a world of high adventure, and Daniel Craig as the nefarious Red Rackham.
My Rating: 7.5/10
“Don’t you understand? You care about something, you fight for it. You hit a wall, you push through it. There’s something you need to knowabout failure, you can never let it defeat you.”
23/365
Young Adult (2011)
Cast: Charlize Theron
Synopsis: Charlize Theron plays Mavis Gary, a writer of teen literature who returns to her small hometown to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson). When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate (Patton Oswalt) who hasn’t quite gotten over high school, either.
My Rating: 5/10
Everyone in this town is fat and stupid.
22/365
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Cast: Zi Yi Zhang, Ken Watanabe
Synopsis: This film, based on the novel by Arthur Golden, unfolds from the perspective of Chiyo (Zhang Ziyi), a girl who, at the age of nine, is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto in the early 1930s. Here, she learns that becoming a geisha can be the single path to wealth and independence for a woman. The head geisha of her house, however, Hatsumomo (Gong Li), is bitterly jealous of Chiyo and abuses her at every opportunity. Eventually Chiyo is taken under the wing of Hatsumomo’s rival, Mameha (Michelle Yeoh), by far the most famous and successful geisha in their district. Under Mameha’s tutelage, Chiyo becomes Sayuri, the most legendary geisha in the nation, skilled in all areas, from conversation to dance, and sought after by seemingly every man alive…except for the one whom she has secretly longed for since she began her training, The Chairman (Ken Watanabe) — a man who showed her kindness at a time when her view of the world had turned the most bleak. Now as World War II approaches, Japan stands at the brink of a new era and Sayuri must confront the possibility that history will leave all that she has worked for behind.
My Rating: 10/10
You cannot say to the sun, “More sun.” Or to the rain, “Less rain.” To a man, geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall. And yet, to learn kindness after so much unkindness, to understand that a little girl with more courage than she knew, would find her prayers were answered, can that not be called happiness? After all these are not the memoirs of an empress, nor of a queen. These are memoirs of another kind.
21/365
While You Were Sleeping (1995)
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher
Synopsis: This latter-day romantic screwball comedy stars Sandra Bullock as a love-starved subway toll booth operator, Lucy. Lucy pines for regular customer Peter Callaghan (Peter Gallagher), but the self-absorbed attorney pays her no heed. One day, Peter is beaten by a gang of thugs and tossed onto the tracks. Lucy rescues him from death. While he is comatose in the hospital, a comment she makes at his bedside is misinterpreted, and she then allows his family members, who haven’t seen Peter in awhile, to believe that she is his fiancée. Peter’s parents, Ox (Peter Boyle) and Midge (Micole Mercurio), take a liking to Lucy. But Lucy takes a liking to Peter’s brother Jack (Bill Pullman), though Jack is suspicious about her claim to be Peter’s intended.
My Rating: 8.5/10
“Do you believe in love at first sight? Nah, I betcha don’t, you’re probably too sensible for that. Or have you ever, like, seen somebody? And you knew that, if only that person *really* knew you, they would, well, they would of course dump the perfect model that they were with, and realize that YOU were the one that they wanted to, just, grow old with. Have you ever fallen in love with someone you haven’t even talked to? Have you ever been so alone you spend the night confusing a man in a coma?”
20/365
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Cast: Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFadyen
Synopsis: The Bennets (Brenda Blethyn and Donald Sutherland) are the parents of five daughters near the close of the 18th century. Comfortable within their means but well short of rich, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet are looking for suitable husbands for their girls, and they are encouraged to learn that an eligible young bachelor from a wealthy family, Charles Bingley (Simon Woods), has moved into a nearby estate. Eager to see if a match can be made, the Bennets bring their daughters Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) and Jane (Rosamund Pike) to a ball thrown by their new neighbor to see if sparks will fly. Jane seems to like Charles, and he appears to feel the same, but Elizabeth takes an immediate dislike to Darcy (Matthew MacFadyen), Charles’ egocentric best friend. While Elizabeth is infatuated with military man Lt. Wickham (Rupert Friend) and finds herself courted by William Collins (Tom Hollander), a well-meaning but drab man of the cloth, fate causes Elizabeth and Darcy to frequently cross paths, and while they don’t care for one another, they can’t stop thinking about each other, either.
My Rating: 8/10
- Every woman needs a Mr.Darcy.
“My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.”
19/365
The Woman in Black (2012)
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe
Synopsis: A young lawyer (Daniel Radcliffe) travels to a remote village where he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorner woman is terrorizing the locals
My Rating: 7/10
- “Don’t go chasing shadows.”
