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Both of these are a bit overdue, but here you go...Megan's movie's in three sentences spiel (first sentence summary, second sentence what I think of the movie, third sentence "Megan advice")

1.Fight Club

(1) One guy (let's call him Cornelius) realizes that he cannot fall asleep and so he starts going to support groups (where he pretends to be in need of support, and somehow becomes addicted to support groups because they allow him to sleep), after a while of being a support group tourist, he meets Marla Singer who is also a support group tourist like him (which is a bad thing, because he falls back into insomnia); in this newfound state of insomnia, his condominium burns down and he meets Tyler Durden, with whom he helps create an underground fight club that grows to scary proportions at the end (because of Tyler Durden); Cornelius tries to stop the escalating violence emerging from Fight Club but then realizes something that changes everything (not going to reveal this because I didn't know it when I watched it and thought it was pretty mind-blowing).

(2) This is such a guy movie (gore and violence)--even with that, I thought it was such a good movie (Brad Pitt's abs helped) that reminded me in a sense of Wanted (but not really) and American Psycho (focus on material goods--Ikea).

(3) If you befriend someone who has Brad Pitt's abs (or is Brad Pitt), be very careful.

2. The Shining

(1) Jack Torrance decides to become a caretaker for a hotel over the winter (despite the fate of the old caretaker and his family) and brings his family (including a son who has a weird relationship with his imaginary friend, has psychic powers of seeing ghosts and events of the past and the future) with him to the Stanley Hotel; everything is fine at first but Jack starts to display signs of aggression caused in part by cabin fever--this aggression escalates during a snowstorm where the family becomes trapped in a hotel and Jack becomes influenced by the ghosts of the hotel and goes on a mad rage to try and kill his family.

(2) Creepy movie but I was able to sleep that night because I dissociated myself from the movie by focusing on technical aspects like acting (also, there were parts that were SO RANDOM during suspenseful parts--and by random I mean shot of person in a rabbit costume kneeling down and doing something to someone else who was on a bed--I have NO IDEA what that was supposed to mean).

(3) Yeah...don't become a caretaker for a hotel during the winter (AND OBVIOUSLY DON'T IF IT'S A HAUNTED HOTEL).

*Note: interesting story about this movie though--I was talking to one of my friends and she said that her dad brought her mom to a hotel for an anniversary and they watched this movie there together. I would not want that to happen to me. I would have nightmares...not even kidding.