whoa. it's certainly been a while since i last posted on here, and I actually feel pretty bad about it. Things have gotten relatively busy around here in terms of school and social life. Thats a good thing though. I'm pretty sure.
In a nutshell: things are going great. my class has finally reached the point of complete immersion in that everyone knows everyone and awkwardness in social situations has been completely phased out. there is childish tension here and there, but I feel its only a stage that will pass as soon as we grow to accept everyone as who they are. isn't that beautiful? it brings a tear to my eye just thinking about it. no, really.
i will admit it is a little difficult entertaining a majority of my classmates when there is simply no alcohol present in my home. they also seem a little less tolerant to my sobriety than i would like, but oh well. I manage it. Mom, you would be so proud of your boy. (and don't deny it, i heard about your intense doubts of my resistance to peer pressure, psha. I expect you to defend yourself in the comments, otherwise this sudden injection of guilt won't be as satisfying.)
Kelsey and I are on Netflix. that means i finally watched the Shining, one of kelseys favorite movies. Gooooood ol' Kubrick. gotta love him. kelsey and i had a good debate about as she was giving me a ride to school, which continued for a good minute or two in the parking lot, and i'm pretty sure all the nearby students thought we were fighting. i was just astonished was satisfied with the relative lack of character development and transformation in a story based around the mental deterioration of an idiot man played by an overhyped actor....imho.
IMHO means In My Honest Opinion. I learned that from iChat, a staple in my life these days. it links every student in my class together via their laptops, so that incredibly boring CSI lecture is moderately bearable:
DON'T WORRY. Hardly anything in the lecture actually makes it onto the quizzes. The only way i make it through that lecture is with Pepsi and Bread Rolls...like a medieval peasant...except without bad teeth....BECAUSE I FLOSS NOW.
Thats right. Steve Pappin flosses. His gums have gone from a dark red to a soft pink an have ceased squirting blood onto the bathroom mirror. While not as grotesquely cool, I think that's an improvement. Now i just need to work on that whole daily showering thing.........
other than all that...a lot of my time is spent at pools. School, then pools. I intend on heading back to the spring sometime soon, seeing how I'm pretty sure its the only water in florida that won't be a lukewarm 70 degrees....a refreshing pool is a hard find these days...the best time to go swimming in florida? In the rain. true story.
and now, for the grand finale: The Dark Knight. Holy Wow Crazy Awesome Sweetness to the MAX! Otherwise known as: Bitchin. Finally a movie that breaks the rules of a summer blockbuster with an amazing script and complete lack of a retarded audience. honestly. the most respectful audience i have ever been apart of was most certainly batman's. As soon as the previews finished, the theatre became the most deadly silent I had ever experienced. No one dared make a sound, because everyone knew who ever did would most definitely get a brutal knuckle sandwich.
What followed from there on out was pure unadulterated awesome, from heath ledger in a nurses outfit to aaron eckhart without half his face. Don't read any further if you haven't seen it yet, because I'm about the mention the part where maggie gylenhall gets blown to smitherines........maggie gylenhall gets blown to smitherines, and it was a breath of fresh air. Halfway through the movie and the main heroine is completely eliminated. do you know what that says? this is a movie about men being men, and it's for men. sure, you may say: hey! the lack of bodacious babes in any movie actually makes it a man's movie, and you're gay for saying that no chicks in a movie is awesome. to those of you i say: Go watch The Incredible Hulk and stop wasting my life. No, seriously, no one who reads this literary splooge would think that, so you're in the clear. where was i? oh yeah...i don't like maggie gylenhall...at all. Something about staring at a woman who's face is falling off doesn't appeal to me. I nearly cheered when she died. "Finally" I though "This movie can finally be totally awesome." and it was. from there on out, The Dark Knight became one of the most intense, edge of your seat thrill rides i've ever been blessed to witness. it was like the poison scene from casino royale for a whole 45 minutes. what more can you ask for? how about cameos? ok. You got'em. Something about The Dark Knight consisting of a plethora of awesome actors just shows you how sweet this movie was. They took a small paycheck just to be APART of this revolutionary blockbuster.
if you haven't seen this movie yet, feel ashamed. then go and see it as soon as possible.
FIN.
Jul 25, 2008
episode 4.270: Holy Toledo! Batman?
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OK, OK, keep your pants on little guy. first of all I am a little offended at your nicholson diatribe. you see, when the shining first came out no one had ever actually acted before. sure different thespians had pretended at be characters but no one had ever seen a man go stark raving mad on screen before and then actually go on to question the guys sanity off screen based on the performance. Overhyped? again you are failing to take these things in context. I mean with out jack paving the way Heath couldn't have done what he did.
maggie, well, I like her more than that twit in the first one. but for the record, all of batmans women die. except for talia who happens to be the daughter of raz al ghul. Actually she may have died too. Batman and Bond are a lot alike like that.
upon hearing that heath ledger was slated to be the joker, jack nicholson publicly stated that he was outraged not to be offered the role, feeling he earned all rights to the character due to his "way-paving" portrayal of the joker.
later, after the talented actor passed away with rumors of the dark role being the cause, mr. nicholson's only response: "I told him not to take the part."
oh yes, very sorry nicholson. only you have the psyche capable of creating such a twisted character. I mean, we all saw the shining...and the departed, and wolf, and anger management, and a few good men, and every other one of your movies where you play a character who's sanity seems to be hanging from a small piece of dental floss....please.
heath ledger may already be dead, but i believe him to have a much more respectable portfolio in terms of variety than good ol jack ever had. not that he isn't entertaining to watch.
and its good to here none of batman's women tend to make it....shows promise. is that bad to say?
well, considering that I don't read entertainment magazine religiously I was unaware of jacks insanely ego maniacal remarks, which I'm sure were taken in context. However I was not speaking so much on the aging career of the man, more on the singular portrayal of psychoses that opened up an era of disturbed possibilities. Honestly I wasn't all that hyped about his joker, while fun at the time, not nearly as memorable as some other roles.
As for ego maniacal actors, please, what career path did you choose? Better get used to that inflated sense of self worth, it's the cornerstone of Hollywoodland.
velly interresting.....my take on the difference between nicolson and ledger's joker, was that nicolson played the joker just as a bad guy criminal, whereas ledger played him with all his psychoses showing...which sometimes made him endearing. Both had to be strong actors to do justice to this role and I was happy to hear that Ledger, in fact, did not let the character affect him. That was hype. My vote though???? Ledger wins. I always saw Jack in the Joker. I did not see Ledger in the Joker.
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