Three Films In

Ok, so I told you before that I think Kristen Stewart, aka Awk, is a great actress. I'll admit that even though I called out a friend for her lack of knowledge based on the fact that she'd not seen many of Awk's movies, that I, myself, had not seen that many. Sure, I'd read things and seen movie clips, but before two days ago I had only seen four of her movies, two of which were Twilight and New Moon. I decided I needed more to back up my story that she is a good actress.

I went to her filmography page on IMDB to chose a movie. I chose In the Land of Women(2007) first bc, even though I've not 'followed' his work, I've always thought Adam Brody was sort of cute. While I thought it was a good movie, and Kristen certainly didn't do any bad acting in the movie, I wasn't blown away. There wasn't anything moving about the character and no real connection to the audience. This I blame on the fact that she wasn't really the female lead which I'd assumed from the poster.

Actually, there wasn't really a female lead at all, IMO. So, looking at this as an Adam Brody movie rather than a Kristen Stewart one, it was very entertaining. I thought there were an abundance of comedic parts. Carter Webb's(AB) grandmother was absolutely hilarious. And as I told Irish, AB is now solidified as the most adorable grown man ever. I'm not sure that'd be considered a compliment by him, but oh well. Ha.

In the end, I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes AB, or sad movies with a good many comedic lines thrown in. Just a warning, the movie could be considered to have ended abruptly and possibly unresolved, but in my opinion the issue in which the movie was about was resolved and that was good enough for me.

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The next movie I watched was The Cake Eaters(2007). This was a movie I'd never even heard of until I was searching through Awk's filmography. After watching the trailer and seeing that she played the role of a young girl with some sort of disease that affected her movements, I thought that would be a good indicator of what she was capable of as an actress.

As I watched the movie I discovered that she plays Georgia, a girl with Friedreich's ataxia. It's a genetic disease that causes damage to the nervous system which causes shaky and clumsy movements, speech problems, and eventual heart disease.

To me there are two types of movies. There are the edge-of-your-seat kind and then there are those with an actual story to tell. Now, I'm not saying that all action packed movies can't be good, however, sometimes it's just better to settle into a good story. That was the case for this movie. Although, Kristen wasn't the star of this movie, it was an ensemble cast and multiple stories to follow, she still did an outstanding job. Of course this is still just my opinion, I feel it very strongly. That brings me to the third movie I watched. Speak.

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Speak(2004) is about a girl starting high school with no friends bc of an incident that happened at the end of school the previous year. With the whole school against her, her clueless parents, ex-best friends and teachers, she goes day to day just getting through it.

This movie was so horrible... in the best way. I got so emotional while watching it, and then at the end I was still crying when it went off. Then as I lay in bed, trying to go to sleep, I cried some more. I don't think the movie was supposed to be that moving, but oh well. I guess it just effected me so much to see what she was going through and to see the complete and utter blindness around her. It's really sad, but I can just imagine that there are other girls, real girls, that are going through a similar situation.

In closing, I would definitely recommend this movie - if you're into getting a wake up call and possibly depressed. (And for those Gossip Girl fans, the man that plays Bart Bass is in it. He's a real asshole.)