2008
Written and Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
Starring George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton and Richard Jenkins

First of all – I regret that I didn’t get to catch it at the theaters when it first came out. FREAKIN SCHOOL!

I love Tilda Swinton, I love Frances McDormand, everyone loves Brad Pitt and I’m the one in everyone so I love Brad Pitt as well = enough reason to love the film. I rented it yesterday and watched it right away because darn, had I been wanting to watch this for a long time.

Imho, the kernel of this movie lies within the characters. In the DVD commentary, the Coens said that they tailored every character to the actors they had in mind. Which really shows, because the whole story revolves around these people, these characters, and the plot is able to proceed because of them and their actions. Every character is so clearly defined, and not by some typical stereotype – that’s way too easy – but rather, awkward and queer people that are so unnatural, that they seem to be the most natural thing ever! Well, other than the fact that Brad Pitt is a complete dork. Bravo, wardrobe designer, bravo. That’s a feat right there. Lemme help you add it to your portfolio.

It’s pretty awesome how the plot goes. Awesome as in WTF!?  The beginning was kinda slow, introducing the characters and such, but once the stage is set and the players are ready, the plot unfolds in the most unexpected way. The witty dialogue is a big plus to the film. Although I don’t really know much of the Coen’s type of writing style, this is definitely something unique and enjoyable.This reminds me a little of Pulp Fiction, which is one of my favorite films ever. It doesn’t follow the typical Jolly Woods type of scenarios. Often, you’ll find yourself wondering what the heck just happened, why is this happening, and whether the whole thing is a blunder on the writer’s part, which I can assure you, it’s not.

Summing up, this is a fun film with no lesson learned. The ending doesn’t make you think, but neither does it satisfy you. It’s just a… termination. Done. Period. Buried. You just don’t think about it anymore. I’m sure there are underlying themes and all that serious stuff, but the point of this film is not to emphasize all that stuff, but kinda the opposite. It’s more of to take things with a pinch of salt (or pepper, if you’re into that) and just..chill.

Fun film.

My Verdict: 7.5/10  

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EDIT: I just found out that it’s Tilda Swinton’s birthday yesterday, (or technically today) what a coincidence! HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU LOVELY LADY!!!!

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This is the story:

So today, my sister and I went out and paid a little visit to the game store we have not visited in a while. We got all our PS3 games there. Heck, I think we’ve even got our PS3 console there. Anyhoo, today we went and for some weird reason the store was superbly crowded, especially around the PS3 games section. We maneuvered our way through the crowd to a nice spot where we can see most of the titles, and then we started to try and decide which one to get. The game on the top of my list was Batman Arkham Asylum because, man, the whole internet is crazy over it and I know I HAD to get the game! But it’s a freakin 79 bucks, so screw that, it can wait. And Uncharted 2 was the thing-to-get for some reason, even saw a guy having this conversation with the store person about them not having a copy of it when he wanted it blah blah blah etc. but I haven’t heard enough of the game to care, so that can wait to.

And then I saw Bioshock for 29 bucks. DING DING, here’s a funny story: On my last birthday, this really good friend of mine bought me a copy of Bioshock for PC. I was beyond thrilled, but I went home and tried to play it on my laptop and apparently the laptop couldn’t handle the awesomeness that disk contained, so it wouldn’t play. Months & months & months later, my laptop died and got replaced by a good old Mac Book Pro I bought secondhand from my cousin. Like the saying goes: Macbook Pros don’t run PC games. And so, that copy of the game never saw the sunlight again (Well, not counting those times when I took it out to drool over it.) DING DING, end of story. The moral of the story? My sister bought it. 29 bucks, that’s less than half of Batman, and I’m not even using a calculator.

Beside Bioshock, there’s the Orange Box that contained the game Portal which I had been wanting to play for a while; there’s Ghostbusters; there’s Assassin’s Creed, and then I saw Ghost Recon. Immediately it brought back memories of the time when my cousin and I rented it and it broke his PS3. Good times, good times.

So in the end, we got Ghost Recon and Bioshock. Two games richer, whoots! (30 hours of my life poorer – for bioshock at least). Now it’s between completion of Fallout 3 and the starting of the new games. To complete or begin, to complete or begin…that is the question.

I’ll think about it after I finish Fallout 3.

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I had no idea what to blog for the second post, but I really want to post something. So I looked back at my previous blog and decided to do the same thing. This is an excerpt from the second post of that blog:

…so I went to livejournal and fumbled and tumbled around but couldn’t make sense of anything, so I came back to this account on blogspot I created merely for letting out the rant I had on my birthday. Didn’t plan to really maintain it, but since now there’re a total of two posts, it just MIGHT work. Who knows.
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I don’t think I’m gonna post anything too long, it’s like putting in too much commitment, so I’ll stick with “short and frequent” over “long and never after that”

Yea..so this is pretty much what I’ll say for this post. Apparently the first post of a blog isn’t the hardest thing to do, it’s the second post.

Oh well. At least that’s out of the way.

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