Hey you guys! Long time no post! But I can explain: see, my computer screen is messed up more than usual in a way that I can only see the screen if I am poking the side of it, so anytime I try to type with two hands, I can't see what I'm doing. That plus I worked everyday last week and didn't feel like doing much else. And this week I was sick. And my dog ate my homework. No, just kidding: no dog!
Anyway, tonight Zach and I watched this movie called Kissing Cousins. If you can't tell by the title, it's an independent rom com. It was actually pretty cute. The main character, Amir, is a professional relationship terminator (people hire him to break up with their partners for them) whose friends are all settling down. He begins to feel lonely, and even his family thinks he's a joke. His cousin Zara comes to stay with him and she ends up introducing herself to Amir's friends as his girlfriend. As you can imagine, this gets complicated, and it has a lot of potential to be amusing. It delivers. There were a few LOLs from both Zach and I. The camera isn't all that great, but it's really not too bad, and I think they did the best with what they could. Don't let Amir's neighbors in the beginning throw you off... they're awful, but the rest of the characters are interesting enough, and the acting is quite good! Guess who's in this movie?! Steve Urkel! I mean Jaleel White! I mean Stefan Urquelle, as he is more like in this film, except that he thinks he's just the cat's pajamas and isn't trying to hide it. I think he's trying to overcompensate for his role as Urkel by trying his hardest to be super cool and funny and tough like "no one had better dare to mess with me! I'm going to stab this pancake right under your nose and make bad jokes but act like I'm a genius when I spout them out!" SurprisinglyUrkel's Jaleel's acting was the worst. But it's still fun to be like "Haha, it's Urkel!" and makes jokes about his lame character. You know, maybe he just knew how absurd his character was and decided to have fun with it? I don't know. But enough about Urkel! Overall the writing was good for an indy comedy. It's not too smart to alienate today's American viewers, but it's not so stupid that I couldn't enjoy it. It's a nice blend somewhere in the middle. And you may be thinking the whole time "Eww, how can they pretend to be dating? They're first cousins!" but did you know that it's totally legal to marry your first cousin in most US states? It is! (I'm pretty sure the people who made the movie didn't even know this.) It seems to be a major taboo with anyone you talk to, and I had been under the impression that it was a major cultural taboo here for all of my life, up until recently, when I read about it on Facebook and was about to be all like "nuh uh!" and school an acquaintance about it until I checked my facts and found out that yeah, it's totes legal in most US states! Boy, I sure am glad I usually check my facts before talking smack about a subject I think I know. Sidetracked again! Anyway, check out Kissing Cousins one night when you're in the mood for a comedy (available instantly on Netflix). I'd totally watch it again. We'll give it 3.5 stars or bullets or $ or popcorn kernels or whatever it is I decide to use on here for movie reviews in the future.
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Going with cocktails!
Anyway, tonight Zach and I watched this movie called Kissing Cousins. If you can't tell by the title, it's an independent rom com. It was actually pretty cute. The main character, Amir, is a professional relationship terminator (people hire him to break up with their partners for them) whose friends are all settling down. He begins to feel lonely, and even his family thinks he's a joke. His cousin Zara comes to stay with him and she ends up introducing herself to Amir's friends as his girlfriend. As you can imagine, this gets complicated, and it has a lot of potential to be amusing. It delivers. There were a few LOLs from both Zach and I. The camera isn't all that great, but it's really not too bad, and I think they did the best with what they could. Don't let Amir's neighbors in the beginning throw you off... they're awful, but the rest of the characters are interesting enough, and the acting is quite good! Guess who's in this movie?! Steve Urkel! I mean Jaleel White! I mean Stefan Urquelle, as he is more like in this film, except that he thinks he's just the cat's pajamas and isn't trying to hide it. I think he's trying to overcompensate for his role as Urkel by trying his hardest to be super cool and funny and tough like "no one had better dare to mess with me! I'm going to stab this pancake right under your nose and make bad jokes but act like I'm a genius when I spout them out!" Surprisingly
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Going with cocktails!
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