seeing as everyone else (yes, all two of you) is expressing their opinions of taxi driver, i feel it only fair to throw in my two cents.
those cents consist of thus: since this film is considered one of the "classics" (and not just by the guy), it bears at least one more watching on my part, on a somewhat less populated occasion. however, thus far i have not been "wowed" by it, nor do i believe it to be an "ass" movie. i respect it for the fact that it is character-based in a world that is predominantly plot-based. taxi drive is about robert deniro, not what robert deniro does. at least that's the was i understand it. on the other hand, i am having a little difficultly picked out the "point." it is entierly possible that there is NO point, and that i'm wasting my time. maybe character stories don't really have a point, at least not in the popular sense. but anyway, i feel that this film bears a more dedicated watching before i can offer a more final verdict.

i just watched universal soldier on FOX. it was siginificantly better than universal soldier 2 (or was it 3...i can't remeber), almost to the point of being a good movie. i rather enjoyed it, although i felt a little sorry for her reporter friend and all the scientists that died. especially the black guy...*shudder* that didn't look like fun... but overall, it was a pretty good movie.
and brodie brought up something i forgot to mention in my star wars review...the politics. now, i like america just as much as the next guy, but the whole subtle glorifying of america kind of got to me. i mean..."i heard they even tried to amend the constitution so that you could stay in office." "actually, i was glad when my two terms were up." or how about the south? oh, i mean SEPERATISTS. i mean seriously, every sentence where they're mentioned, you could pretty much take out "senate" and "seperatists" and put it "union" and "south." or, as brodie mentioned, the whole talk in the grass thing. if you really think about it, there didn't seem to be much point to that conversation, except to glorify deomcracy. or "as soon as we stop believe democracy can work is the day it stops working for us" or whatever the hell the queen says. yeah, i like america. it's a great place to live (aside from a few things), but there's not need to glorify the democratic system we so mindlessly support in films such as star wars. i think the rebulic would have been MUCH cooler as some sort of socialist goverment. but maybe that's just me. anyway, over and out.

well, i seemd to have mangled the htm is that last post, so just do your best to ignore it.
in the meantime, i feel i am now fully equiped (having seen it in the theatre) to review star wars episode II: attack of the clones. ahem:
first i foremost, i would like to say that i rather like this movie. at least compared to episode one: the phantom menace, it rocks the house. compared to a new hope, empire, or jedi, however, it seems severly lacking. i will first mention the things i like about this latest installement in the star wars universe:
1. the acting was better. no, it was not GOOD per se, but it was better. of course, as i have oft mentioned before, a block of wood could act more convincingly than jake lloyd. little bastard.
2. the action was better. yes, the fight with darth maul was cool, but that was about all the episode one (notice how no one calls it "tha phantom menace"?) had in the way of action. clones, however, is ACTION-PACKED. the car chase at the begining (my personal favorite), the fight with jango fett, the end battle...all exciting, well coreographed and throughly enjoyable.
3. yoda kicks ass. yes, i know everyone is saying this. yes, i know we all know yoda kicked ass already, it's just that we weren't aware until now just how MUCH ass. and it's ALOT.
4. the limp-sabre.
5. natalie portman's nipples. pay close attention when they're on tatooine. if she's wearing a bra there, i'm wearing one right now. which i'm not.
6. c3po saying "i'm so confused"

and now, the things i DID NOT like:
1. too much cg. the stormtrooper clones were all cg. even on close-ups. i could tell. BAD. bad george.
2. i don't see why people think natalie portman's so great. yes, she's hot (i don't know many chicks with abs like that), but if this movie is any indicator, she can't act worth shit. but maybe it's just me. i mean, porn stars can't act either, but they make lots of money.
3. shitty script. i cannot say this enough. the downfall of this movie was it's script. pure, unadultered SHIT. except for the sand line...which was pure genius.
4. not enough dead sandpeople (or, as brodie might say, "tusken raiders"). he kills three. THREE. yes, i know he kills them all, but we only see THREE die. not enough. i want more carnage. and while i'm on that scene. anikan's transformation into super-badass wasn't very convinceing. the music needed a little work, as did the camera work and, of course, the lack of murdered sandpeople.
5. the "gladiator" scene. is that...russel crowe?
6. the limp-sabre.
7. boba fett. or, as my sister has deemed him, the "chuckling child."

well, that's about all i can think of for now. it's wasn't nessicarily a BAD movie, it just wasn't nearly as good as it COULD have been. you've got one more shot at winning my trust back, george. don't blow it.

one last note: preceeding the film, there was a preview for the matrix:reloaded. i was THIS CLOSE to creaming my pants. it has SWORDS! the one thing that could have made the matrix cooler, and it HAS THEM. god i'm buzzed. i haven't been this excited since that time i thought i might get head. (which i DIDN'T, by the way)

well, i got bored, and started looking for some places where we might be able to get a grant from. i came up with these two after limited searching:
number 1
posted by Belisarius at 5/25/2002 02:16:00 PM | 0 Comments

although i imagine not many people other than that guy are going to be interested in this, there is apparently going to be a silent hill 3. this fact was confirmed by the boys over at penny arcade, who also told us (well, me) that the army (that's right, the us army) is making a war strategy game that apparently KICKS ASS, and is - get this - FREE. perhaps the military doesn't deserve ALL of the constant ridicule i pour on them after all. so there you have it. and shinobi - whatever it may be - sounds cool.

i know that's from clockwork orange (well, some of it), i just haven't the remotest idea what it means. *sigh* i supose i really should read it.

well, i just watched the season finale of smallville. although i have, at an earlier date, expressed exasperation with the formulaic nature of said show, i am quite happy to say that this episode reduced all of my complaints and critcisms to smouldering rubble, sort of like clark's car. it was gripped, exciting, and - best of all - there were NO krytonite-enchanced one-shot villians. joy! and there was plenty of lex. i swear, if i was gay, i would so be nuts about him, like chicks might go nuts about brad pitt of justin timberlake. he's just THAT COOL. unfortunatly, there were some downers: first was the SHITTY (there was just no other way to describe it) acting during the scene where chloe comes to pick up clark. on the romance note, if i was the sort of person that did that sort of thing, i would have a MAD crush on chloe. i mean, she's just so cute, and so cool... and of course there was something nixon, the ass-hole reporter (i hope johnathan kent kicks his ass into the ground), who i simply HATED, and the cliffhanger ending. in fact, it was a TRIPPLE cliffhanger:
will clark save lana?
will johnathan beat the shit out of nixon?
will lex save his dad?
these questions will be answered...right now: yes, hopefully, probably not.
ah. well, i've suceeded in doing no homework tonight, except working on the drama web page. go me.

ok, now i must point out, first off, that i have never watched the x-files on a regular basis, and my interesting in said so has been, for the most part, a strictly un-through thing. however, after seeing (many, MANY times) trailers for the SERIES FINALE (there seem to be alot of those lately...i find it somewhat hard to believe that fox is letting the x-files and ally mcbeal go), i decided to tune in and watch it, no matter the shittyness of my television. as it turned out, the crappyness of my tv was only slightly greater than the shittyness of the x-files season finale. i was expecting an action-packed thrill ride, quite possibly accompanied by moments of romantic tension and culminating in a no-holds-bared showdown where the ultimate truth would be revealed. i was sorely dissapointed. the romance was right there in the open, the was JACK SHIT in the way of action, and the ultimate truth was...well, not very ultimate. i mean, "the final alien invasion is on the end of the mayan calendar, december 22, 2012." whoop-de-fuckin-do. and that's IT. there's not more to the "ultimate truth." just that we're all going to get seriously FUCKED. and if that wasn't enough, it ended not with mulder saving the world in some heroic deed of self-sacrifice (or by just being badass, which would have worked too), but with mulder and scully in a motel room, talking about how they want to believe in a higher power that would make it possible for them to fight off the aliens, followed by mulder making it clear to all of us who managed to let the deeper meaning of that slip by us what that conversation was really about by finger scully's cross necklace. i'm sorry, but that just...well, SUCKED. i don't know if chris cater had a relegious awakening or what, but that simply blew ass. (yes, that's correct. it both sucked AND blew. it was THAT bad.)
on the other hand, prom was pretty kickass.

well, a big resounding JOY followed by a slightly less resounding goddamnit. the JOY for our movie getting accepted (but really, was there ever any doubt?), and the goddamnit for my pictures, even though they're not that great, i'm pissed at freeservers for sucking the donkey balls that it does. we need to move this behemoth, and SOON. as for the 20th, 21st, 19th, etc, i should be here, as i'm planing to get a job which will keep me in corvallis all summer (ha HA, take THAT parents). and we will SO do a q&a thing for the tv movie. rock ON. oh, and i fixed the pictures. stupid freeservers.

i got bored, and took some pictures of myself sitting in front of the computer using my sister's digital camera. i hope they don't scare you. if they don't scare you, and you're a hot girl about my age, my e-mail address is squattingturnip@coremotions.com. see how it's got "emotions" in the address? that means i'm SENSITIVE.
here,
here,
and
here.

ok, despite that fact that she's, well, MY SISTER, i acutally think my sister's not that bad sometimes, maybe even cool. then i find out she does something like buy ym magazine. i mean, i would like it if she was buying n'sync cds, or something like that...i mean that's understandable. different people have different tastes in music, as we established earlier, and although i might not respect that particular choice, i could at least sort of understand. ym, on the other hand, is quite likely the most shallow, degrading and downright STUPID magazine that i have ever had the agony of reading. let's sample some headlines: 21 coolest girls in america (plus some lame ones). admitedly, some of these people are pretty cool (blues singer, dirt motorbike racer, sit-down striker for harvard custodians), but with only a few exceptions (most noteably a somewhat impressive young woman, she can squat 500 lbs, but looks sort of like a small car) they are all beautiful, skinny, nineteen year old girls. or for the "lame" teens, i do agree on some (mary-kate and ashley olsen are teh colllective DEVIL), some of them i'm not so clear on...like the guy who made $800,000 illegaly in internet stock trading (i have a bit of perhaps misplaced respect for computer hackers), or the people who set up the web site to "vote for the biggest 'slut' in the NYC private school community." ym says "way to reinforce sterotypes and ruin lives, guys." just seems somewhat hypocritical comming from a magazine full of sterotypical beautiful teenagers. and then of course there's the "how to be popular" article. yes, it's almost as shallow as it seems. and features such tips as "rule #3: makes yourself over," "rule #1: move," "rule #14: be the best junior varsity cheerleader," and of course "rule #9: go out with an almost-as-popular varsity athlete." sounds like a great reciepe for putting the "itch" in "bitch." however, none of these top "rule #15: join a secret society that humiliates younger girls?" what they FUCK? this will not make you popular, so much as it will make people FUCKING HATE YOUR GUTS. humiliating people is NOT a good way to make friends. and of course the list goes on and on. anyway, i've ripped ym enough of a new cornhole for now. however, it's not an all bad thing: if it weren't for the ym website, i would never have know that am Anna Kournikova in Enrique Iglesias' lastest video, "escape." isn't the internet great?

ok.
i've got it:
when i get old enough, i'm going to find a girl name may/may/whatever spelling your prefer, and who's last name is parker. i'm going to get married to this girl, and change my last name to hers. then, i'll convince my sister to marry a man with the last name of parker, and have a kid named peter. then, when she dies, her son will come and live with me and may/mae. in this way, i can garuntee that my nephew will grow up to be spiderman. unfortunatly, i'll die, but that's the price we all pay for fame.

i just got back from seeing monsoon wedding, which - despite my best efforts - i saw with my family, and NOT with a girl (a girl NOT RELATED TO ME). i should like to rectify this situation, so i will now be accepting applications to go see it once again with a luckly woman, preferably one who will allow me to get up with the boogie, and possibly get up with the get down as well. aside from lacking in me being with a girl, i found monsoon wedding to be a throughly enjoyable film. great acting all around, smashing dialouge, delcious characters and - i know this is incredibly cliche, but it means something comming from me becuase i NEVER say it - beuatiful scenery. and indian women. whoo... i've decided i need to go to india. it rocks. but yes, it was a very good movie. my favorite bit had to be the romance between dubey and alice. they're just so...cute. :) it made me happy. and a little jealous. in fact, my only real complaint was the somewhat gratuitious use of the "let's-not-use-a-tripod/steadicam" trick. now, i'm all for a hand/shoulderheld camera some of the time: it contributes to the atmosphere, and in some situations can be extremly effective. although monsoon wedding did have it's share of these moments, i found the jerky camera movements sometimes were tedious, or even distracting. however, that's merely a small complaint; overall the cinematography was excellent. especially the scene where it cuts betweent he big wedding and alice and dubey standing on the bridge in the rain. my somewhat extensive vocabulary fails to facilitate my desire to describe this particular portion of the film. so just go see it yourself, and you'll know what i'd mean. anyway, now i need to go wash the chocolate off my hands (i made truffels!) and go to sleep. i have a big day tomarrow. mother's day and all that. big plans. i think. anyway, i'll see you all later.

whee he he he...
ok, for those of you that's DON'T read penny arcade on a regular basis (which you SHOULD), go read this strip. and then read this strip. anyway, i gotta go get some hard cocks - i mean breakfast. later.

you know what could be a REALLY COOL SHOW, but ends up being just pretty good? smallville, that show on the WB about the young superman. it could be great; some of it's really good. for example, just about any scene with lex luthor in it kicks my ass. but the show itself...really episodic. each episode basically goes like this: someone gets powers fromt he kriptonite. clark kent finds out about it. the inevitably turn evil. clark has to stop them. clark stops them. sometimes there kriptonite involved, and clark looks tense for a while, but he always triumphs. and he's ALWAYS FUCKING RIGHT. clark kent is NEVER WRONG. it gets...a bit annoying. and the other people with kriptonite powers (with the exceptiong of lex, although we know he turns evil later) is inevitably evil. never once are they good. very annoying. and godamnit kent! lana wants you! look at her face when you and chole started holding hands! you freaking moron!!! grrr... although chloe's plenty cute too...and probably more my type than lana anyway. oh well. but it's a good show. watch it, if only to see lex, becuase he is SO FUCKING COOL.
lunchie out.

i, foolishly, allowed myself to watch "judge joe brown." i less the human being for the experience.

i just watched the network television premeire of the much talked-about mummy. not the mummy returns, but the original one. although i wasn't nessicarily wowed by it, i did find it to be more than i had expected. in other words, i'd sort of planed on it being a bit of a dud, but aside from the apparent paradox of how making someone essentialy immortal is a curse, it was a pretty good movie. it took me a while to figure out the the brendan fraser was, apparently, american (right?) and not just another "british" guy who didn't talk like he was from britian, and to stop thinking of pokemon whenever they mentioned "evie." i did like it though. someday i'd like to see it on a better tv than ours...piece of shit... part of the movie, however, was unboutedly the magi (although pharoh seti's wife was a close second), because they were so fucking cool. i mean, the leader guy, with the tatoos and everything...i was afraid he was gonna die, and it sure as hell looks like he does, but he shows up at the end, with nothing more than a bandage to show for fighting (presumably) hordes of undead preists. damn. if THAT isn't badass, that i don't know what is. plus he looked SO COOL. and the movie doesn't take itself to seriously either, which - in my opinion - was a good touch. anyway, mummy = pretty cool movie. at least cooler than i thought it would be. so if you haven't seen it, maybe you should.
toodles.

well boo-fucking-YAH. da vinci days film festival here we come. is case you haven't figure it out on your own, this will be our first time showing anything in a festival sort of setting. (if we get accepted, that is) so root for us. when we figure out when and if our movie will be shown, we'll let you know. so you can some and, you know, cheer for us.

in other news, i decided to support my school and the children's miracle network, and we to the mr. spartan pagent last night. i mainly went just to see the other movies (i made colby's) in order to determine if they were or better, comprable or worse quality. they did, of course, range in quality, but some of then were VERY funny. darren's, for example. he may have a thing for freshman ladies, but his video was pretty damn funny. we'll have to get brodie a copy of the show if only so he can see that video. adam perrigan (that IS his name, right?) had a pretty cool video too, although it wasn't that FUNNY, per se. unfortunatly, there were a coulpe of duds: except for the begining and ending, chris payne's was sady unfunny, and the one about the sasquatch (i'm not sure who's that was) had it's funny bits, but was also just sort of...wierd. the rest of the pagent was at an ok to good level; plenty more SNL rip-pff skits (which i would have recognized if i ever watch SNL. one of them, however, contained a guy that HAD to be chris farley), a men in tights dance (bastards stole my idea) and of course sean babcock trying to dress an mannequin. there were other things, and i think i may have contributed a bit myself with my loud and invasive laughter, but i don't feel like trying to remeber everything. all in all, it was pretty good, and worth my mom's six bucks.

don't make judgements about my taste based on the fact that i don't find a particular weezer album a wonderful as you do. i like what i like, and i don't not like maladroit overmuch.

as for other things, i just saw spider-man. with leila. it was a fun movie, although the dialouge was...unpleasent. "god bless you spider-man! bless you spider-man!" even if spider-man had just saved my baby (acutal baby, as in youthful child), i would NOT say that. i mean jeez... it's so...lame. but aside from that, the movie was alot of fun. toby maguire is...cute. in the sort of michel j. fox sort of way. there's really no other way to describe him. but despite that, he pulls off being spider-man amazingly well. and of course he just makes peter parker all the more loveable. almost any movie involving teenagers has teenage angst. it's unavoidable. spider-man did as well, but i felt it was protrayed in a fairly realistic and believable light. for example, when good old uncle ben tells peter that "with great power comes great responsibility" along with some other "be a good kid" stuff, peter doesn't imediatly look thoughtful (hmm...great power...hey, that could apply to my newly-aquired spider powers! better be careful!), or say "gosh uncle ben, you sure are right. i'm sorry i've been such a bad kid, and didn't get home in time to paint the kitchen." he gives ben shit for berating him, and tells him he's not his dad. ouch. cheesy, yes, but somewhat beleiveable. and besides, you forgive alot of the shitty dialouge becuase hey, it's a comic book made into a movie. so in conclusion, it's a fun movie, go see it. but go to the matinee. it's cheaper.

since brodie seemed to think it was good music, i downloaded maladroit myself, and have spent today giving it a listen. despite the fact that i consider myself a weezer "fan," (i'm wearing my by-now trademark weezer sweatshirt as i type) i wasn't overly thrilled with this, their latest offering. admitedly, i have not listened to pinkerton yet, but in my humble opinion. blue far outstrips anything maladroit has to offer. brodie mentions that green seems like the same song over and over - a fact which i do not dispute - but i feel as if maladroit suffers ironically from this same malady. i didn't really give it a serious listen, however; it merely adorned my cd player for the later half of my school day, providing some ambient background music for my otherwise somewhat listless life. i will, in the near future, give it a more solid listen, and a more complete or serious review will be made at that time. so for now, spend you weezer money on blue, or possibly pinkerton, which i myself should buy. if only i had a job... *sigh*

update:
although i still the blue is better, after giving some of of maladroit a more intense listening, i like it better that i initially thought. there are a few songs i particularly like, such as "keep fishing," and i think it's a little better in general that i originally thought. so kudos to weezer.

as i just recently said, holy fucking shit. i realize that my seem like gratuitious use of profanity, but i feel that it is, in this case, deserved. just...go check it out.

and by the way... he he he...you can tell it's really late, or we're stoned becuase we're misspelling things ever more than usual. he he he. and now down to sleep. oh, and if we want to get technical, morpheus was the rip-oof, not kazaa. morpheus just used to kazaa protocol. at least the original did. for example, if you were to look at your old morpheus incomplete files, they had names like kazaadownload294728362.dat. so really morpheus was just a client using the kazaa protocol, sort of like limewire and bearshare use the gutenella protocol (i think. i'm not all to up-to-date on peer-to-peer file sharing protocols/programs.)

i came home today carrying a copy of a movie entitled "my first mister," which had been reccomended and loaned to me by my psychology teacher, mrs. carmen, who is a fellow film aficionado. with a title like that, i expected it to be not exactly my type of movie. it sounded like a deep "relationship" sort of movie, with loads of crying and emotional confrontations. i mean come on...the title sounds like a romance novel. but although it did have its share of crying and emotional confrontations, it was - at least in my opinion - a VERY well-made and generaly touching story. i mean, it's the first movie that's made me cry since toy story. so you KNOW its gotta be good. anyway, i reccomend this movie to just about everyone. some of you might condem it as a "chick flick," but if you do, i'll beat you punk-asses down, or hire someone bigger and stronger to do that same. cause chick flick has bad connotations (at least for guys) and this was a good movie. GOOD.

as for other things, my foot really hurts and i don't know why, i'm going to go see spider-man this friday (i hope), and the other girl i refered to was the one and only sophie. i mean DUH. i would have just said "sophie," but i like to think that i have a proud traditions of reffering to people without their names. i guess it just got too much for some people. anyway, i'm tired, so i'm going to sign off now. later dudes.