it's late but i don't feel like going to sleep yet, so here's some rambling about a movie i haven't seen in about 8 years.

everybody was talking about ~Leo~ because of the golden globes, and it made me think of this movie, which i actually think about a lot. i saw it once, in the theater 8ish years ago with some bozo girlfriends who i didn't feel like arguing with, and i remember hating it almost instantly. something about it got on my nerves, and i became more and more furious about this whole "sad annoying white people" narrative that i was sitting there rolling my eyes and seething. i'm fine with unlikeable characters but not if the whole…

If Jack and Rose shared the plank of wood and both survived the sinking of the Titanic...

This is what would've happened.

Rose: So now I'm crazy because I don't love you, right? Is that the point?

Jack: No! Wrong! You're not crazy, and you do love me. That's the point, Rose.

Rose: But I don't. I hate you. You were just some boy who drew a naked portrait of me once, and now I loathe the sight of you. In fact, if you come any closer, if you touch me or anything, I think I'll scream.

Jack: Oh, come on, stop this Rose.

[He touches her for an instant and she screams at the top of her lungs before…

I've got a confession to make...I hated Titanic.

Aside from the pure spectacle of it all (which even that didn't impress me much) I didn't see what the big deal was. I wasn't even all that wowed by Leo and Kate in it. I mean, they were good, but not as good as people claimed they were. When this was being hyped up as the big reunion of the Titanic stars, I wasn't exactly "thrilled" or anything. So, the first time I saw it, I went in with low, low, LOW expectations. Not only was I floored completely by their performances and the film itself, but this has grown to become a favorite of mine.

Sam Mendes once again does…

Revolutionary Road is extremely ambitious in its endeavor to tackle multiple subjects in under 2 hours: marriage, suburban ennui, meaning of life, unfulfilled dreams and abortion. The end result is an emotional rollercoaster featuring some of the most consistently stellar performances I've seen from an ensemble ever.

Adapted from its source novel depicting the falling out of a suburban couple in the 1950s, Revolutionary Road features some of the most engrossingly blistering and naturalistic depictions of a relationship you will ever see in movies, which may probably have been where Jack and Rose ended up if Titanic hadn't sinked. It chronicles the slow yet inevitable deterioration of a seemingly perfect marriage with microscopical insight and razor-sharp precision. It begs the…

"I hate you. You were just some boy who made me laugh at a party once... And now I loathe the sight of you."

"What the hell are you doing in my house if you hate me so much? Why the hell are you married to me?! What the hell are you doing carrying my child? I mean, why didn't you just get rid of it when you had the chance?... I wish to God that you had!"

I'm at the age right now where all my friends have been married for a few years and have just had their second or third kid. More than one of them have talked about this "hopeless emptiness" the protagonists experience in this…

Plenty of people are on to the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

As a couple tries to save their crumbling marriage, the rules of society, their reality, and their differing desires thwart their attempts until devastating decisions are made that forever change their lives.

Richard Yates's classic 1961 novel Revolutionary Road had been optioned for adaptation since only a few years after its release, but it would take four decades for it to be finally made, likely due to complications with the intense subject matter.

Sam Mendes returns to the domestic drama which gave him his name while Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio reunite for a much different role together than their previous outing. Their…