I have been figuratively swamped with work lately. It's hard to juggle track practice, school, alien hunting, and procrastination into one day, so I really haven't had time to touch a computer that isn't for typing a fucking eleven page trigonometry project for five fucking hours. But enough about that.
I want to talk about 50/50 and, Jesus Christ, what can I say? I'm sorry Drive, but you have been supplanted as my favorite movie of 2011. It's not a masterpiece or a classic, but it sure is a hell of a movie.
The premise is that Joseph Gordon-Levitt gets hit by cancer out of nowhere. The movie follows him trying to deal with the sudden illness along with his best friend Seth Rogen, his girlfriend, his cancer buddies, his smothering mother, his sick dad, and his therapist Anna Kendrick (who played Stacey Pilgrim in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World!).
I can't recommend this movie enough. They have successfully made the film funny without resorting to low brow cancer related jokes. It's genuinely hilarious, but that doesn't mean that it's lacking it the drama. The fifteen to twenty minutes were just absolutely heartbreaking, and that comes the part in where you won't be able to take a break from crying in the last scene since the next scene drops a bigger bombshell than the last.
People absolutely need to watch this. It's superbly done, well acted, and filmed greatly. Even the score was spectacular. Just a very good movie to watch. I'll give it four crappy paintings out of five.
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