Okay, I'm officially annoucing my move to my Korean blog, Adventures in Korean. I won't be posting any more on this blog, until after I return from Korea.
After a convenient name change, this blog seems to be developing a very specific theme.
- Lyn's demonstration of (his liberal intrepretation of) how a Jedi warrior disables an enemy opponent: there are actually two insistences of this - both hilarious - and the second probably my favorite scene in the whole movie
- The Jedi warrior references subtle juxtaposition with Ewan McGregor (aka the young Obi Wan Kenobi - if you don't know who I'm talking about... get out. Now.): this was supposedly unintentional and they just happened to cast McGregor for the part. Whether true or not, whatever, I don't care. It was funny.
- The glorious, GLORIOUS 70's rock. Long live Boston.
- Pretty much the entire last twenty minutes of the movie. I will give nothing away, but it's great. And it led me to decide my next bullet point.
- Jeff Bridge's character (the original psychic warrior) is Walter Bishop. And through the transitive property, Jeff Bridges is also Walter Bishop. And Walter Bishop is the Dude.
Okay, so I realize it's not Friday anymore. You'll have to excuse the tardiness; I thought the Stargate: Universe premiere was only one hour, when it turns out it was two. And even though it's not a film, I give it two thumbs up, just for being more interesting to me than Stargate: Atlantis.
Labels: filmographic things
So I got tired of waiting around til I go to Korea to start my Korea blog, but I also didn't want to have a Blogger blog (no offense Blogger) for it, since uploading pictures is a pain in the butt. After shopping around, I eventually started a blog for Korea on Wordpress. I'll still use this one for my 'unrelated to Korea' posts, but I'll be using Wordpress for Korea/'getting ready for Korea' stuff.
Labels: korean things
As two out of three of this blog's followers already know (and one will soon be finding out, provided she keeps reading), my grandmother died last Sunday (September 9th, 2009 at 7:44am, to be precise). She died of Alzheimer's, which is very sad because it meant she died in a lot of mental pain and unfortunately because of her arthritis she was in a lot of physical pain as well. While I'm certainly not happy that she died, I am glad she was finally able to pass because she was trapped in a bad place for longer than anyone's grandma should be.
Hmmm. I might just have to make this a thing, given how I do love those movies.
Movie du jour:
Inglourious Basterds
My Grade: A
I was tempted to give this movie a lower grade, because of my bias towards some of the characters who died (and this isn't a sentimental film, so you can be sure people die). But I'm going to be bigger than that and give it an A. It was a damn good movie. I was thinking about comparing it to District 9 but I don't like it when people compare movies across genres so I won't.
I think my dad said it best when after the movie he declared (and I'm paraphrasing, cuz I forgot what he actually said) 'I know this movie was supposed to be over the top, but it's a lot more historically accurate then some movies that were supposed to be serious historical depictions.' And unfortunately the best part of what he said I can't remember. He said something other than 'over the top' but like I said... can't remember what it was. But it rings true, in terms of the realisticness of the ending and the way the plans put into motion unfold. (PS. I just asked my dad what he said, and he couldn't remember either but this time he used the word 'outrageous')
Also, I'd like to give some props to Christoph Waltz who plays Col. Hans Landa. He was one magnificently evil bastard. I suspect that one day he might be on the list of best film villians, not because he was particularly evil but because he was so deliciously calculating in his evil.
And thus I shall leave you with that. Calculated evil.
Labels: filmographic things
I got back from my day at the botanical garden so late that I didn't have time to post about it. And from Friday to Sunday I was in PA and outside of wireless internet range, which is why this post is several days late.
I knew there was a botanical garden in DC, but I didn't realize it was also a conservatory. The botanial garden was nice, but since it's August a lot of the flowers were loosing their blooms. But still very nice and in the early summer I bet it's beautiful.
Then, after eating a delicious and extremely filling meal at the American Indian Museum, I went to the conservatory. WOW. That building makes me want to work in DC so I can go there everyday; it also makes me wish I had gone there before leaving College Park.
My personal favorite rooms were the orchid room and the Hawaiian room. The Hawaiian room was the coldest in the building. I kept trying to hang out in there since it was so hot, but it's pretty small so everytime someone came in I had to leave.
UNFORTUNATELY, a series of unfortunate events (not the book series) led me to leave my memory card for my digital camera and my cell phone (which I needed to get a ride back to get my memory card) behind. So no beautiful pictures, which is a real shame.
After that, I went to go see Julie & Julia at the Chinatown Theatre.
My Grade: B+
I enjoyed this movie as much as a thought I would, and perhaps more. I have to say Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci, playing Julia child and her husband (respectively) were extremely enjoyable to watch. I'd probably give the movie an A, but at times the storytelling was a little slow and mainly the Julia Child obsession (although fully admitted) was kinda creepy. But it was a nice movie and worth the extra expense of seeing it in Chinatown instead of at home.
The only thing is... everytime I see a movie where meat that still looks like the animals that it once was is being prepared... I leave wishing I was a vegetarian... but I love bacon too damn much.
Labels: botanical things, filmographic things