There is no way to discribe this movie. Just go see it and be careful when you take a sip of soda, it might end up coming out your nose. My favorite line: “Pedro offers you his protection.”
Posts from the Movies Category
Monster
I really have been under a lot of stress lately, not just normal stress, but everything combined. Work, Life, health… A few weeks ago my dermatologist thought I might have skin cancer. It turns out that I don’t (thank god) but that was a NERVEWRACKING week to say the least. Work is always a little stressful (and I actually seem to work better that way) but lately it’s been plain stupid. I feel like I’m beating my head against a wall and it’s not getting any better really.
I never thought I’s say this but I actually miss Rochester a bit because of all the great people I worked with there. I like the people I work with today, but there are only one or two I would consider people I would hang out with outside of work, and we never seem to make it out. In Rochester we would always hang out, we were all friends and I had some great times. I think I had more of a social life there then I do here. I live in the suburbs here and none of my friends live close. I work in a corporate environment, which isn’t very conducive to me being myself or allowing anyone to get to know me at all.
I feel twice as old as I am now. But actually American Gigolo is on HBO and it’s a laugh. All Blondie music and bad 80’s sunglasses. I guess I don’t feel so old anymore. I am making a list of things I want to do so I won’t forget. Maybe I’ll post it soon.
In the mean time, take care and have fun.
MOVIES!
We went to see a bunch of Oscar nominated movies and they are all movies I want to buy. I was blown away by all of them. House of Sand and Fog was first, saw that a month or so ago. The We saw Mystic River and then we had Whale Rider from Netflix. I feel like whenever I write here I sound like a 12 year old, so instead of worrying about how I sound, I’m just going to write it all down.
I wish I had written about House of Sand and Fog right when I had seen it, because all I can do now is to look at it in relation to the other movies we’ve seen since then. Jennifer Connelly did a good job of playing a desparate, frustrated and lonely person. But Ben Kingsley and Shohreh Aghdashloo were amazing. I’m so glad that there was an actual Iranian in this movie. I NEVER cry at movies, and this movie made me cry. This movie is so depressing that there should be a warning on it. Because it’s so real, there is no one to blame and it’s just so awful. There is no wrapped up ending, you end up thinking about prejudice and vanity. It also made me think about all the people in the world who need help, and others are just to careless to notice or do anything about it.
Whale Rider: This movie was also amazing. Another one that made me cry. Movies never make me cry, this year has been a doozy though. Keisha Castle-Hughes was so touching in the scene from this picture. That’s when I got all choked up. Another strange coincidence is that the necklace she is wearing is something that a friend of mine had given me when he went away to New Zealand in high-school.
Mystic River: O.K. I didn’t cry at this one, but i was tense the entire time and had this nervous pit in my stomach. It was great. The movie was so well done. I want to see this one again because of the subtle shifts toward the end really change what you think o f all the characters.
On a very childish side note: I am so pissed that this is the only picture I can find of Sean Penn’s character’s back tattoo in that movie. He looks so tough and that tattoo looks so good in that pose when he’s standing in front of the window there. First of all it makes him look really hot (I don’t say that much) and you can see how much more we know about him at that point. If anyone can find a better picture of this scene, please let me know! I’ll give you credit on this website.
GREAT MOVIES, go watch!
LOTR
I went to see Lord of the Rings last night, well this morning at 12:10 AM. For the past two years my dad has wanted to go to the opening showing on for his birthday, so we all go. They have all been such great movies, but I am working on 3 hours sleep and I hurt my neck and it’s one of those things where I can’t even turn my head, and I”m holding it funny like I am trying to get water out of my ear.
Well, the movie was great, talk about fight scenes! Happy Birthday Dad (almost).
My stomach has been misbehaving very badly lately. Ever since this weekend I have been feeling so sick and I’m getting very tired of it. I had to miss karate yesterday because of it, and that was a very large and frustrating bummer. It had been my first chance in over 2 weeks that I’d been able to go. I was all set, and I had to leave work around 2:30. I even had to cancel a meeting, which I hate doing.
I got sick at 1 today and took some pepto. Now I feel a little better, but there is still that knot in my stomach. It’s not stress I don’t think, although today started off as the day from hell. I think it was the fact that I was watching rosemary’s baby last night. Boy is that a good movie. I think I brought the devil into work with me today though, cause everything went to hell until about 12:30.