Oye, much has happened within the past 2 weeks roughly. Lets see, I saw the Italian Job, Matrix Reloaded, Color of the Truth (HK flick), My Left Eye See's Ghosts (HK flick), and had an exciting weekend (not really but it had good parts). I'll give really short reviews of the movies and talk about other stuff. After I take a shower......*cue waiting music*................. So the Italian Job, flashy movie about thieves and backstabbing. Nothing memorable except for the mini coopers and the actress being hot. I wouldn't expect much from a Mark Wahlberg movie anyway. I give it a gracious 6 / 10. You're not missing anything by missing this movie.
Matrix Reloaded, sequel to the hit first movie continues the story where it left off. Plenty of action to go around. Keanu's kung fu skills are still stunted due to his stiff neck problems... (lol) and Trinity is still the badass chick. The car chase scene was amazing, probably one of the best ones I've seen in a while. Plot is like throwing peanut butter in water. It's all action up to a point, and then they throw a wad of thick peanut butter and expect you to swallow it smoothly. Nothing deep really happens, unless you really think about what is said, then it can be more profound than you initially expect. Personally, I found the CGI (computer animation) action/kung fu to be too out there. Like it made me feel that this wasn't really a movie. They just had a couple of computer gamers make a short cinematic for a new computer game. If I wanted to see computer animated fighting, I'd go play a computer game, not pay $7 for someone to show me a 5 min segment of keanu *trying* to do kung fu. But all in all, it's worth seeing just because you have to see the trilogy. The first was classic. This however, I hope will be the runt of the 3 movies. I give it a 7.5 / 10. I want to look forward to the third...
The Color of the Truth is a cop story that is reminicent of the late HK hit movie, Infernal Affairs. The skinny: a cop's son is out for revenge on another older cop who supposedly murdered his father in a tangle. He gets to know the older cop and befriends him, but what are his true intentions...? A good story with OK action. Comedy is a bit lame, but a "good try". Probably one of the better HK movies that has come out to date. Has a good cast full of new and old HK stars. Music is fitting for the movie. The only thing I didn't like was the ending. It wasn't bad, I just thought it could've been better. So, I give this a 8 / 10. (hrmmm the movies are getting progressively better...) I would recommend it to anyone who's in to good cop/bad cop type movies, or anyone who likes a good story.
Moving onto My Left Eye See's Ghosts, starring the diva, Sammi Cheng. Just to start it off, Sammi and Lau Ching Wan do a great job and it's no wonder that they are of the few best actors in HK. This is a sort of a ghost story that's not scary, with lots of comedy, and some romance... I guess it's probably classified as a comedy ghost flick more. The skinny: A widow inherits her rich husband's fortune and decides to go drinking and driving (no no, tsk tsk) and gets into an accident that leaves her with a freakish power to see ghosts. Sammi's character makes a shaky, but fairly solid transition throughout the movie to show her change of heart. Lau Ching Wan has great ability and carries his role as a ghost surprisingly well. Laughs are not really all over, but it's a very silly/cute movie that had me snickering and smiling throughout. The romantic part is kind of thrown in the background to serve as a guidance line so the movie actually goes somewhere. It pulls together at the end pretty well and works for a good ending, although albeit is a little obvious what happens. Overall a good flick. I would only say that there needs to be more humor, like really good jokes. I'll give this movie a 8 / 10. Another film that is worth watching if you're a fan of HK cinema.
School is going pretty well. Just finished my midterms so I'm glad that's over with for now. I discovered that my Phil class has 4 essays, and we've only done 1 so far and it's the 5th week... which means the essays will probably be coming very soon, and very close together... >_< essay writing, what I dread the most. I've been meeting quite a few people in my classes and outside of them. Never really get to know any of them though, b/c I only see them in class and during lunch so that's very unfortunate. Well I'll hope for the best for the rest of college... I have a great story about my weekend and the District Bagging contest. Unfortunately I"m too lazy now to write it all out in my blog b/c it's a pretty long story (but a good one! sounds sad tho, hahah) and I want to go to bed. So please ask me about it!! I would love to tell you about it. Well, that's a wrap. G'nite.
Sorry it's been a while since I posted last. College life has been pretty busy lately. Hw is starting to pile up and spending so much of my day there doesn't help =/ I've also been working a little too, about 10 hours a week. This past weekend I had to work on both saturday and sunday >_< for 7 and 8 hour shifts... I guess that's ok as long as I don't have too much hw. The weekend didn't suck that bad b/c I got to see Kill Bill on friday with Kevin. I'll give a review later along with another movie. I've met a few people but haven't had much chances to hang out with them... It sucks to live at home... I feel so isolated from everyone else and alone on my lonely southern half of MI. *sigh*
So some other random news... I'm officially the best bagger at our South Mercer Island QFC~! How lame is that, lol... There was a "Bag Off" competition among all the courtesy clerks and I ended up coming up with the fastest time along with good building technique, etc... lol. I won a QFC fleece vest... OOoohh... Aaahhh.... It'll come in handy when winter comes around.
So I watched Kill Bill friday, and Spirited Away just tonite. Kill Bill, the anticipated fourth film my Quentin Tarantino, is a blood bath movie about an assassin who has awaken from a coma in seek of revenge against her former partners in crime. Action is spectacular. Plot is thin, but not really needed in a movie like this. Filming was amazing. Humor was used very very well at good points in the movie. I would recommend this to anyone who's got a stomach for gore and likes a good old fashioned kung fu flick. People lookng for a deep story won't get too much of it, altho it does give a bit of history of the characters. Overall I'd have to say this was a pretty good movie. 7.5 / 10 is my rating. The gore and blood was a bit much for my tolerance. I'm not looking forward very much to Volume 2 as I was initially for this one, but I may or may not see it. Moving on to Spirited Away, an anime film about being a stranger in a new place. I really liked this movie even though it was aimed toward a younger audience. It had a good story and very creative characters. Not a really really cool fiction world that I would want to go into, but it was definately a unique and interesting world. Humor is very light hearted. Lots of cute parts as there should be in a children's anime movie. There were actually some CGI shots but they weren't very impressive b/c it was just of water and a beach. More of that would've been cool. I would rate this film an 8.5 / 10 and recommend it for anyone who likes watching the occasional light and fantasy world anime. It's one of those movies that anyone would enjoy. After all, this movie did win a few awards. It definately won't put you to asleep either so it's a movie that should be on your to-watch if you're into anime. Well that's enough, need to get back to work... u_u;
Well, the first week of college was interesting... (I like to start vague, that's right.) Nothing that took much adjusting I guess. The big classes don't bother me too much at the moment. I know they will eventually when I need to ask questions and my TA's are going to be too busy or lazy to helpe at all. Then I'll be screwed. Finding buildings the first time was a little hassle. Now I know how to plan my time to get from one place to another. So far I'm don't really like many of my prof's cuz they lecture pretty boring or they have tough accents that I have to decifer. Except for my Chem prof, who I think is at least trying to keep us awake by giving us random videos and experiments to watch him do in his lectures. The loud noises will keep me awake =X Chem lecture has 500 people >_< THat's crazy... Math has 80, but the prof sucks. He's boring as hell and doesn't even lecture about what we're doing in our hw... @_@ He's off lecturing about sinusoidals when we're finding tangents of circles... Philosophy can be interesting I guess. The discussions are interestng but if it's just the prof lecturing... expect to find me unconsious. =P
I've been seeing a lot of MI people around campus and in my classes which is cool. It's really intimidating to talk to people who are already in groups, which also makes it a bit hard to know more people. I've met a few new people, but not enough for study groups... Then again even if I did find a study group, the odds of being able to form one in the morning when I'm on campus is fairly unlikely. I'd have to go back at night and look for parking and such. Yet another disadvantage of living at home... It'd be a bitch just to go to a CLUE study session. Well I'll have to try to find some other way.
Food is ok at the U. The Hub has crazy long lines for everything except for pizza. (Pizza is good, but usually it's the same thing and it gets old fast) The asian food there is also bad. By George doesn't have good food, for the crazy prices they have. One of these days I'll have to try and eat at Macmahon and the Ave. Hopefully it won't take as long as it seems far.
It feels like almost every asian you meet at the UW is part of some sort of Asian Religious group and trying to convince you to join it. I'm not against religion, I'm Christian, but I'm not exactly the type to go to religious fellowships for fun. Meet people, maybe, but I don't really want to be going to a place to meet people where people will be saying stuff like "Hey, I forgot my bible. Can share with you and praise the lord that I forgot my bible?" Ok, stupid, but that's not the point. There are like 3 different korean studen assocations, probably about 5 chinese ones, and probably more with the massive # of indonesians and vietnamese here. Well, I hope that the seemingly huge asian population will open up more people who aren't necessarily part of some religious sect. (sorry if i sounded a little rude, no intention of doing so) Time to eat... phood...
