My First Take of Jersey Shore

I admittedly haven't watched this enough.  I'm the kind of girl who watches TV by going writing, drawing, or playing on the computer. I occasionally look up, when something I assume is interesting happens.   However, I just heard one of the girls say "I'm gonna knock a bitch up".  Apparently, drunk Jersey girls feel the need to impregnate each other.   I'm also learning that all problems can be solved by tanning, going to the barber and getting your nails done.  I watched an entire episode today and became more familiar with the faces. I'm starting to tell the men and women (other than miss "got punched in the face" snookie) apart. I really have to relate to these girls when they want to wear shiny outfits, dance, and fight skinny, blonde bitches .  I'm not even kidding.  When Allan got home today, I spoke in a Jersey accent for probably about an hour.

My Favorite Things

I think the best way to get acquainted with my audience would be to share my favorite movies.  So this is basically a list of ANY of my favorite movies I can think of in absolutely no particularly order. This post change consistently as I begin to love new movies.

*Home Alone - got a thing for Xmas movies and John Hughes.
*The Great Outdoors
*Drop Dead Gorgeous -haven't seen it? rent it. Mockumentary about a MN beauty Pageant.
*The Godfather, and Godfather II- not so much with III
*Goodfellas & Casino
*White Christmas, and I'll just throw Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in there with it.
*The Wes Anderson stuff: Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Darjeeling Limited, Life Aquatic (Rushmore is my favorite, but we'll touch on that later)
*Christopher Guest movies!  This is Spinal Tap, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, the last half of For Your Consideration
*Lost In Translation
*The Ref
*Welcome to the Dollhouse
*Punch-Drunk Love
*Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
*Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky IV,  and I can't make it through Rocky V.  I bawl my eyes out when it gets to the scene with the Mickey flashback.
* First Blood and  Rambo II
*Addams Family and Addams Family Values   (love that Thanksgiving scene)
*They aren't all Judd Apatow, but the following still go together: Superbad, Knocked Up, 40 Year-Old Virgin, Pineapple Express
*Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal,  not Red Dragon
*Uncle Buck
*Magnolia & Boogie Nights
*Sister Act, Sister Act II
*Zoolander
*Talledegha Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby & Anchorman
*Rocky Horror Picture Show
*Barber Shop &   Beauty Shop
*Friday
*Gran Torino
*Precious
*The Year Without a Santa Claus, The Life & Times of Santa Claus, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, The Night They Saved Christmas, 
* specifcally not Gettysburg
*Resevoir Dogs, Jackie Brown
*O Brother Where Art Thou
*Unforgiven
*Million Dollar Baby
*I <3 Huckabees
*Very Bad Things, The Hangover, Swingers
*Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park 2
* I'm really losing faith in Kevin Smith however, Clerks, Clerks 2, Dogma, Zach and Miri Make a Porno
*One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
*Fight Club
*The Usual Suspects
*Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter  &  Full Metal Jacket
*Forrest Gump
*Alien
*Saving Private Ryan
*Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill vol. 1, Kill Bill vol. 2, Inglorious Basterds, True Romance
*The Wizard of Oz
*Although Unrelated both Stand By Me & Lean on Me
*V for Vendetta
*X-men, X2, I'm pretty much furious about X-men: The Last Stand
*Orca: The Killer Whale 
*The Weather Man
*Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
*King Kong (2005)
*Rosemary's Baby  As much as I'd hate to admit it The Exorcist. This is because this movie frightens me so bad that I get scared at just the thought of it. That tells me it must be good and effective, but I still hate it.
*Crash (1996). If you haven't seen it, it stars James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, and Roseanna Arquette.  It is about a group of people who are sexually fascinated with car crashes.
*Little Miss Sunshine
*Mulholland Dr.

Introduction

      I'm a 25 year-old lady on disability.  With all that time on my hands, I watch a ton of movies. In fact, let's keep it real, I watched a ton of movies before.  I'm really picky, kind of arbitrary, and I've always wanted to be a film critic.  I can't promise that I'm any good. I can't promise that I will review the movies that you like. I will most likely not review movies when they come to theaters, hence the "Couch Baroness" title.  I don't necessarily have a love of any specific genre. I  both love hate chick flicks, action, drama, documentaries, comedies (both smart and dumb) equally.  I am a little prejudiced against animated movies, so just take that with a grain of salt.

I would like to think that I know a lot about movies.  Hopefully, this will encourage me to learn more about movies. This will definitely seal the deal, and no one will never want to play Scene It with me ever again.  I have a large deficit of knowledge of older movies. I just have a couple favorites, but sooo much more to learn.

I watch most movies with my husband, Allan, so I will probably quote him to give contrary opinions to how I feel.  You may read this blog. You may not. I may never write in this again. All I know is it gives me a place to bitch about my intensely strong feelings about movies and films (I believe there is a difference).  Feel free to correct me. Definitely argue with me.   I will love you as much as you love me.

Your newly titled film critic,

Nicole Steele

p.s. I'm totally going to review TV shows too... oops.