Where ya goin? Flying somehwere?

Let me tell you something people, this movie will make you NOT want to do two things: drink and fly. I had to get on a plane the day after I saw this movie, and it was not my favorite flying experience to date. Whip (Denzel Washington) is a pilot who struggles with alcohol and drug addiction. He awakens in the morning, still drunk and does some coke a few hours before he has to fly. This is the first 5 minutes of the movie-and also garnered my biggest eye roll moment of the movie-must the hot stewardess be completely naked through the first 5 minutes? Your man will love it, I suppose. Anyways, if you saw the trailer you know what goes down (ooh spoiler alert-the plane crashes, sorry!) and the movie is basically the aftermath of what happens to whip.

He struggles with his addictions big time. There are parts in the movie where I was honestly thinking, "get your shit together dude!" But hey, an edgy Denzel is my favorite Denzel ( a la Training Day, I guess?) The anticipation of Whip getting his act together (or not) is not an easy one. Especially when he has a drug dealer like John Goodman, who I must say is hilarious in all his scenes. He's serious about what he does, but funny at the same time (he tells one of the black body guards watching Whip, "go watch the door, Cee Lo!).

There is also a sub plot that involves a recovering heoin addict Whip befriends named Nicole. I spent half the film thinking it was Jessica Chastain (from The Help), but its not, and her part in the film seemed kind of boring and unneccassary anyways. I would absolutely recommend this movie, just maybe not before you travel, or have wine night with the girls. The again, Denzel is the in the movie...

The Best Bad Idea

Argo is the real movie about the fake movie. At the height of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, six people had escaped the US embassy from takeover and its Tony's (Ben Affleck) job as a CIA extractor, to get these six people out of hiding in Iran back home safely. SO, how does he choose to do this? By posing that he and the other six are part of a film crew in Iran to shoot a science fiction movie. They have everything to back it up: real producer, story boards, script, etc. Now all Tony has to do, is train these six escapees on their temporary identity long enough to not be pubicly excuted since the Iranians know they are missing. Sound crazy? That's because it is! Thats basically all I can tell you about the movie's plot-and there is so much more to this movie. It is seriously intense, pretty much from beginning to end. I spent the majority of the movie trying to keep my shit together, and it was pretty tough. Thank goodness for John Goodman (as a hollywood makeup artist) and Alan Arkin (hollywood producer), in between fits of biting my nails off, they provided lots of good one liners (Argo fuck yourself). I have always loved Ben Affleck, to me he has always been a bit underrated. He's on a nice little roll with his directing and starring in his own films, though (The Town, Gone Baby Gone). This time around, I have to admit it was weird not seeing him in a Boston-area heist involving cops and robbah's, but it still worked, and I definitely liked Argo more than I thought I would!