Boy with a Coin - Iron and Wine
Monday, November 29, 2010 8:22 PM
Love & Other Drugs
Sunday, November 28, 2010 10:41 PM
I was so looking forward to this film. I had heard great things about it (Oscar buzz, even) and I couldn't pass up a film with both Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal. My mom and I went to the movies, thinking we were going to meet up with the family to see Tangled, but when our showing was sold out, the family went home and we decided to see this film.
I should have just saved my money and went straight home. The story, the acting, the concept, everything was horrible. It has been awhile since I have left a film so disappointed...quite frankly, I'm not sure why either of us stayed the entire time. I won't go over the details (nothing interesting enough to spend my time on) but neither of the main characters made me want to care about them. When I see a film, I want to root for the people. I want them to have a happy ending, to learn a valuable lesson and to become a better person. However, for this particular film I could not care less about what happened to them. In fact, I thought the characters didn't deserve a happy ending and should have ended up alone.
If this film gets an Oscar nomination for any of the major categories (especially Best Picture) it's simply a space-filler. Jake and Anne are darlings of the Academy Board but in no way did their performances or this film garner any kind of esteemed recognition.
I should have just saved my money and went straight home. The story, the acting, the concept, everything was horrible. It has been awhile since I have left a film so disappointed...quite frankly, I'm not sure why either of us stayed the entire time. I won't go over the details (nothing interesting enough to spend my time on) but neither of the main characters made me want to care about them. When I see a film, I want to root for the people. I want them to have a happy ending, to learn a valuable lesson and to become a better person. However, for this particular film I could not care less about what happened to them. In fact, I thought the characters didn't deserve a happy ending and should have ended up alone.
If this film gets an Oscar nomination for any of the major categories (especially Best Picture) it's simply a space-filler. Jake and Anne are darlings of the Academy Board but in no way did their performances or this film garner any kind of esteemed recognition.
Labels: Anne Hathaway, Jake Gyllenhaal, movies
4 commentsToday
4:34 PM
I have spent so much time in Starbucks today that I know when I go home, my computer, my clothes, everything is going to smell like coffee.
Finals are beginning this week, into next (and possibly the week after). I cannot express how frustrated I am with one of my classes. This Tuesday is the last day that we have anything assigned--we've read every story in every single one of our textbooks, we have all posted and discussed our own individual stories--but yet he is insisting that our last class is December 12th. That's two weeks after everything is wrapped up, mind you. What are those two weeks for? We don't discuss anything other than the readings in class, but we will be done with those in two days. There is absolutely no reason for us to be there. He is awful at scheduling, especially since he doesn't take into account that he is always behind on grading our assignments. I would complain to the dean, but there have already been complaints submitted and basically the dean says there is nothing he can do. Shocker--someone who works for ASU isn't doing anything...'cause that has never happened before, or anything. It's completely unexpected. Out of the blue. Sarcasm is much harder to get across online than in person, I must admit.
At least it's finally becoming winter (well, Arizona winter). The temperature is dropping, the days are incredibly short, the clouds hang in the sky and the air smells like rain.
Finals are beginning this week, into next (and possibly the week after). I cannot express how frustrated I am with one of my classes. This Tuesday is the last day that we have anything assigned--we've read every story in every single one of our textbooks, we have all posted and discussed our own individual stories--but yet he is insisting that our last class is December 12th. That's two weeks after everything is wrapped up, mind you. What are those two weeks for? We don't discuss anything other than the readings in class, but we will be done with those in two days. There is absolutely no reason for us to be there. He is awful at scheduling, especially since he doesn't take into account that he is always behind on grading our assignments. I would complain to the dean, but there have already been complaints submitted and basically the dean says there is nothing he can do. Shocker--someone who works for ASU isn't doing anything...'cause that has never happened before, or anything. It's completely unexpected. Out of the blue. Sarcasm is much harder to get across online than in person, I must admit.
At least it's finally becoming winter (well, Arizona winter). The temperature is dropping, the days are incredibly short, the clouds hang in the sky and the air smells like rain.
Labels: ramblings
1 commentsTrinkets from the Past
2:52 PM
There once was a girl
Who worried too much.
Her delicate nerves
Were bundled in a bunch.
She would fret and fright,
Feign and frown,
Certain she had let
Someone down.
When the dark nights
Would slip into days,
She spent her time
Counting the ways
She would say yes,
When she meant no
And taking the road high
While her heart felt low.
She dreaded the day
Trinkets from the past
Kept her company
Forgotten, at long last.
There is so much I want to write...
Saturday, November 13, 2010 9:33 PM
But I don't know what about.
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