10/10 Movie Soundtracks

Okay here's a list of movies with awesome soundtracks !!!!! I'm still working on getting a review up but here's this for right now :-) if u ever stop to listen and take in the songs in movies, these are some great movies with super good sound tracks.

1. Shrek 2 (dude shrek is the biggest meme buT THAT SOUNDTRACK THO)

2. Scooby-Doo (you know, the live action one from 2002)

3. Cruel Intentions (the soundtrack in this movie is honestly so perfect to me)

4. The Breakfast Club (if ur into some sick 80s jamz honestly!)

5. Daddy Day Care (dude those songs have me pumped for that movie)

okay so that's only 5, but those are the only 5 that I have ever registered in my mind that have some super cool songs in them!!!! sorry for the posting delay.

OKAY SO UPDATE!!!! I'm just going to add on to this list as time goes so!!! :-)

6. Chicken Little (you never realize how good it is until you really pay attention to it)

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    HEY!!!!!!!! It's me again. I haven't posted a review since my last one, but I haven't seen any good movies lately that I really feel like reviewing, so I've had nothing so post. Please contact me with movie review requests!! It would be deeply appreciated. You can find me on Instagram: @outdatedolivia, Twitter: @obLIViouslyliv, and via my email: oh.worth@gmail.com



THANK YOU FOR READING :-)))))

I Believe In Unicorns - Review

      HERE GOES NOTHING! This is my first movie review. I've decided to do it upon the 2014 Indie film, I Believe in Unicorns, written and directed by Leah Meyerhoff. This movie follows the love life of two teenagers, Davina & Sterling. It's rather obscure, but you can't help but to be intrigued by it's fanciful depiction of romance.

    Watching the first 15 minutes of this movie was hard for me. I was already bored, it's just like Sterling and Davina's relationship came right at you. It was rather abrupt and they seemed to fall in love all too quickly. All throughout the movie, I felt as if it was hard to follow. I didn't understand the scenes in between the scenes until halfway through the movie. It was apparent that their lives were being compared to a fairytale though. Maybe that was the point, maybe the whole movie was about how young love is a completely fiction. Or maybe, being in love while you're young is comparable to a dream. Possibly, being with the one you are crazy about as a teenager is so equivalent to a fairytale. I feel like I can relate to that. Also, I have to say, the journey Davina & Sterling had together was one heck of a ride. At the end of the movie Davina says, "There's so much I want to say, but i don't know where to start." and that's kind of how I feel about this movie. 

           Okay so here's a little overview of my thoughts on the characters:

   Davina has a handy-capable mother, who she seems to see as a burden. She doesn't take care of her mother like she should. Instead she is too caught up in some dumb boy. I thought it was completely irresponsible of Davina to leave her mother for so long when she knew she needed help. Her mom seemed like such a sweet old lady who felt bad for having to have her daughter take care of her, but Davina was selfish. I know if my mother needed me, I would never abandon her and I'd help her with everything she needed. I couldn't help but feel pity for Davina's mother. I had a question like did her mom have someone to help her out while Davina was gone? There just seemed to be a lot of missing pieces throughout the movie. 

   Okay, now onto Cassidy, who was quite possibly Davina's best friend. She only appears in the movie like 3 or 4 times and not for very long. It's kind of easy to forget that she was even in the movie. To me she comes off as a very good friend to Davina. She seems quiet and shy. Again with the loose ends in the storyline though, when Davina kisses Cassidy, nothing happens afterward. Their relationship is just so strange. I feel as if this story wouldn't have moved as smoothly without Cassidy in it though. 

   Finally onto Sterling. Sterling doesn't seem like Davina's type at all but he is at the same time? Sterling is just basically your average bad boy. There's something a little bit off about him though, which really seems to be apparent when we first meet him, but this part of him is a little distant. Sterling just seems to be very rigid and I don't feel like he really knows what he wants. Sterling is really just too extreme. Oh, and we can't forget, he's a unicorn. That's where the whole title and all the between scenes really come into play. It's as if Davina fell in love with a Unicorn. 

  The last character on my mind is Davina. Davina seems more troublesome than Sterling at some points in this movie. If there is really someone who doesn't know what she wants, it has to be Davina. She seems so problematic. I really feel like love changed Davina because before Sterling, she seemed like such a good, sweet girl. Then she met Sterling and started doing things that were out of character. Like irresponsibly running away and leaving during the middle of the night to go to some mosh-pit that Sterling didn't even really want her at. She just changed herself to someone she wasn't when she first starting hanging out with Sterling. I guess she settles down and becomes a little bit more herself later in the movie, but not at the beginning. 

  I'M HONESTLY REALLY CONFUSED ABOUT DAVINA & STERLING'S LOVE LIFE THOUGH. The only way I can make sense of it is by guessing that it was a relationship built on teenage dreaming. I feel like Davina had true feelings for Sterling and really wanted everything to work out and what not, but Sterling throughout the whole movie is super controlling. He kind of bosses Davina around and makes her do stuff that she might be uncomfortable with. He sort of seems to get something out of seeing Davina sad or unhappy. At one point he doesn't share his cake with her because he believes she's eaten enough-which is really like nothing at all-and she gets sad about it. He then asks her why she has to be so cute while she's sad, which could come off as romantic sort of, but not in these circumstances. I don't feel like Davina and Sterling had a healthy relationship at all. Sterling obviously had a superiority complex and anger issues. In two out of three of the sex scenes in this movie, you can see how he's very rough with Davina, especially after she slaps him. So I don't know if he's trying to fight for his dominance or if he's actually angry at her? It's very confusing to me. Also, in the last sex scene, could this be described as rape? I wasn't too sure because Davina seemed to be going along with it in the beginning, but again i couldn't tell if she was trying to push him off of her or what. That whole thing just really confused me, I had no idea what was going on. I felt very conflicted during this part.

  Now for the ending, what seems to be the worst ending of a movie ever. There's no closure whatsoever???? Okay so Davina freaking sets fire ablaze to the barn her boyfriend Sterling was sleeping in. She freaking killed him???? It was so pathetic, but I guess that's the only way that she thought she could get away from him. I guess if that's what it was supposed to symbolize then it makes sense but still. Also, here comes A+ friend Cassidy, she picks Davina up in the middle of nowhere, how noble is that? That whole ending happened way too fast for me. This concludes my review of I Believe in Unicorns though. I was mostly bewildered and shocked during this movie but movies that keep you questioning are always so nice. 

Introduction To Me

Hi, I'm Olivia. I'm practically 15 years old and I live in the heart of Tennessee. I'm a freshman in High School. I live a rather seemingly good life. I'm quite emotional and I'm well aware of it. Being a  teenager is sometimes refreshing, but most of the time it's exhausting. I have an exceptional group of friends. I'm shy, quiet, distant, cold and sad most of the time. I'm very interested in music and movies and many forms of art. I aspire to be an author when I grow older. Also, I'm (so far) a Straight A student. I want to say my future appears to be bright, but a lot of self-doubt gets in the way. That's how teen lives go these days though.

This blog is going to be dedicated to my love for both movies and writing. I'm going to be using my journaling capabilities to write critic-based blog posts about movies. I really do love the art of film, I've seen many movies. A lot of which I have gotten to explore in my blossoming teenage years. I've seen quite a few romance based indie films in my day, and hopefully I will get to view more. As I watch these films, I catch myself asking questions and critiquing how well the story line flows and the cinematography of the movie. One day I realized, "I would be a great movie critic!" and now here I am.

Okay well, there's your explanation. That's me & the reason I chose to start this blog.