Everyone here at Chez Guru has a crush on Shaun
White. The 8 year old likes his cheekbones. The 10 year old likes his hair. My
fella likes his “in the pipe” daring.
Who knew the Olympics could be so interesting?
We
are hooked.
We even like the Skeleton, possibly the most boring, televised
sport. At our house it’s not boring because the 10 year old has come up with a
Skeleton dance move that she does during commercial breaks. It mimics the
shaking bottoms of our favorite Skeleton athletes, and it is awesome.
So guru girl is having a media moment these days,
and it’s even extended to the big screen. I’ve seen not one but two movies in the past month.
Saw “That Awkward Moment” – the Zac Efron movie --
on opening night. My fella and I were the only patrons over the age of 18 in
the theater. Because the movie is about a group of 20something guy friends as
they grapple with growing up.
My guy and I could relate to, oh, none of it
anymore. Because it’s about hook ups and bar scenes and the bittersweet magic
of love in your 20s. From the guy perspective.
So it also includes bathroom humor, nudity and lots
of “men are from Mars” moments. Let’s just say the boy approach to romance is
perplexing. The movie explores that with dialogue and plot twists that are, at
times, witty.
But the movie’s best moments were captured in the
trailer, which you can watch, for free, when it plays during the Olympics.
You
can watch the trailer and juxtapose Shaun White’s face onto Zac Efron’s body
and think how much better the movie would be if they had just cast Shaun and
featured a Yolo flip or two.
The other movie I saw, which can’t be saved if it
featured a hundred Yolo flips, was “The Monuments Men”. This is George Clooney’s
latest directorial effort.
He also stars in it, obscuring his smoldering good
looks with a wispy little pencil mustache. That was George’s first mistake in
this movie, but not his last.
The movie’s about a group of World War II
soldiers charged with protecting and finding great European art. Hitler’s
stolen a bunch of it and hidden it. But where?
It’s up to George Clooney’s group of ragtag
soldiers (art-wise civilians recruited to form this elite team) to figure it
out.
There were some amusing moments and dialogue, but,
not one love scene. Not even a love interest. In a movie with George Clooney.
Talk about a crime!
The movie was also confusing. You were supposed to
be amazed by the cleverness and daring the team showed in getting behind enemy
lines and finding the stolen art.
But these parts were awfully vague. The
soldiers would just miraculously get a tip about the art, arrive at its
location and exchange meaningful glances.
This was almost as confusing and
frustrating as the 20something man’s approach to dating!
So neither movie earned a gold medal in my book. But
like Shaun, I’m ready to shake off my disappointment and look to the future and
the greatness it holds, specifically greatness in the form of Colin Farrell and
his new movie “Winter’s Tale”.
It features romance, intrigue and not one man
wearing skinny jeans or a mustache. Ingredients for a gold medal movie indeed.
Happy movie viewing, guru girls & guys!
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