Movie marathon

I have limited social life, which means I spend most of my time working and doing stuff at home. Ranging from annoying my cats to singing loudly when listening to Muse (when I said "sing", I mean making unrecognisable noises), I manage to survive with less human interaction. In these past few weeks, I have been trying to catch up with all the movies that I have missed on theater or TV series that I have never seen just because my trusted friend alerted me about it.

So here's my conclusion:

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If you wager Kristen Stewart will ever improve her acting, I think you're going to lose your money. I thought Snow White and the Huntsman will redeem her dead-face acting in the two Twilight movies (I can't bear watching the final two) or her dead-face acting in Into the Wild  (yes, i repeated dead-face acting), but no. Of course, not. I was kidding myself when I thought, oh well, maybe she would look convincing this time. The only reason I stayed on watching it because I think this movie has a good visual. I like the tone. I can't really explain in film technical terms, but the colour of the movie really captured my attention. And I think Charlize Theron isn't disappointing. Though, I wonder why she had to speak in that slooooooow way. Final verdict, I promised myself I will not watch any movie involving Ms. K-Wart anymore cause she has the ability to kill everything around her. Oh, additional note, I think my friend was right: Chris Hemsworth DOES look like a shampoo model in this film.

Next, The Avengers. I told you I WAS catching up. It means I have the right to be extra late. A reoccurring face, Chris Hemsworth. Along with Jeremy Renner (spoiler alert: I will talk about Bourne Legacy later). I think you know the rest of team Avengers. I'm a bit sad that Edward Norton is not in this installment, continuing his role as Dr. Banner aka the Hulk. Don't mind Mark Ruffalo, though. Anyway, conclusion: Tony Stark will always be a hilarious brilliant asshole and Jeremy Renner looks good in tights. Pull him out of that leather costume, he looks like a photocopier salesman. Or a repairman. Whatever, he's just not that cool. Story wise, I ought to read the comics first to be able to say anything about the story. Just a bit confused with the way they depict the Norse gods.

Okay, Wild Bill comes next. I don't think this movie ever went to our theaters. It's really old, like last year...yeah, I know. How time flies. You can find more about it here. It's an okay movie about family and messed up relationships with the typical English brawl and weird Cockney accent. I like it first cause it's English, second cause it's funny in a morbid way. It's not super brilliant, but I reckon you won't waste your time watching this. The characters development felt real, somehow.

I actually went to the theater to watch Bourne Legacy. How I wish I went for a different movie. Basically, it's another thing that happened while Jason Bourne went apeshit in his third movie. It involves a different agent from a different program by the same organisation. James Renner is the other agent. I was expecting strong plot, raw actions, deadly fighting scenes, and all. What I got is the the silly version of everything that I mentioned. Even the bike chasing scene became hilarious with Renner's gimmick. Remember when he took out the sunglasses on the bike that he stole? Remember the WAY he put on the glasses? And what's up with the Thai agent anyway? Is he so dosed up he becomes strong but lacks brain cells? I prefer if the organisation sends a killer robot from the future instead. I remember Renner explaining in an interview that the story is basically about a character wanting to belong to something. Yeah, you definitely can see it that way. You can also see it as an addict trying to get more drugs before he goes mad. And I couldn't push away the image of Renner as a repairman. Sorry, man.

Last one, Person of Interest. This is a TV series. I ran out of series when I finished watching Fringe and Games of Thrones. I read my friend's blog where she mentioned about it. I managed to get a copy and have so far watched the first five episodes. I think it's good. I like the vigilante theme. And considering it's developed (and written I think) by Jonathan Nolan (yep, brother of Christopher Nolan), I wasn't surprised finding a familiar darkness and edginess. It explains, IMO, the paranoia faced by Americans after 9/11. I think a lot of writers use that as script material. Person of Interest executes it well. At first, I didn't particularly like the main character played by Jim Caviezel. But he sort of grows on me now. Will definitely finish the first season in the next few weeks.

I got several other movies, but I will keep them for later. And now back to work.

Dream a little dream for me

upside down Ciko. credit: me

If you Google  "when someone appears in your dream it means that person misses you", you will have interesting "psychological facts". Well, of course the first statement is highly debatable. I once dreamt Ricky Gervais, John Safran, a few a Greek and Russian old women, all in one occasion. Can't say they miss me, no? I don't even know the Greek and Russian women *smirk*. But it is still interesting to think that the person I dreamt actually misses me.  



Last night I dreamt about one of my exes. He's from a distant past, the first person who taught me a lot about life. He's married now, and I, because the universe loves a twisted fucked up plot, became quite good friends with his wife. I thought I would avoid them at all cost, but it didn't happen according to my plan. Back to the dream: in it, I was really close with him, sharing the typical conversation that we had when we were still together. The silly old jokes, the sarcasm towards each other, hugs and laughter. It felt so real, I woke up with a fright.

Fear aside, I knew I missed this person. And I think that's a reason for him to pop into my subconscious. I doubt that he thinks about me, let alone misses me. I know that in the end, it won't matter because I realise he was a part of my life that I have long abandoned because it was too poisonous. 

Sometimes, what's in the past doesn't stay there. When your past catches up with you, what do you do? Do you hide and wait? Do you bravely step forward and act like you don't care? I used to run and hide, but for the past two years or so, I have learnt to slowly build up my courage to face all past nightmares. Remember the cliche saying: the ultimate win is to live well.

I also have learnt that the hardest is the present. The present requires you to act, so you can move on from what is called the past and what will become of you in the future.

Maybe dreams are reminder too, letting me know that I have unresolved issues; hints for my hidden problems.Or maybe they are just silly collage that my subconscious haphazardly arranges and presents when I sleep. 

Oh, I have another fringe idea. If, let's just say, human minds are interconnected with some weird wireless system, is it possible that when we dream, we actually are connecting with the people in our dream? It will be nice, I guess. We just need to sleep to see people that we miss. Double win: sleeping and catching up with those who are dear to us.

The death of Multiply

How many of you have known that Multiply is closing down their blog service? I found out maybe a week (or more) ago. And then I read the "official" news on the web. I went to check my account, even though I knew I wouldn't mind if Multiply just deleted everything that I had there. Most of the writings is trash---unimportant emotional breakdowns. I have a few here too, but I have tried (maybe not so hard) to limit the cliche cheesy-smeeshy-rants. 

So, when I went to see, my Multiply account/blog was still there. There's an announcement from the Multiply dude (I'm sure he has a title AND a name, but I forgot) apologising and explaining what's going to happen with Multiply. The blog service will be closed down permanently on the first of December. Maybe a few weeks from today, they will announce how users can save and download their blogs if they want to. If not, Multiply will delete all contents. 

If I can be a bit sentimental about this, I'd say I'm a bit sad that the blog service will be terminated. My blog on blogger has been running for a longer period of time (I was just too lazy to add new posts) than my Multiply blog, but somehow I remembered I was more productive with Multiply. I did movie reviews and shit. Here, I just bitch. I guess one of the reasons why I was quite excited writing new posts for Multiply was because I could see how many people with Multiply account had read my piece. Call me a narcissist or whatever, but it's nice to know that a few people read what I had to say. Even though, there's only one person who would actually give a comment/feedback.

When I stopped writing for my Multiply blog (because of different reasons), Blogger has revised the dashboard menu. Now I can see how many people have accessed my posts. Blogger also includes statistic and other stuff, like ads, that I'm not really interested in. So moral of the story is: knowing that there are people who access my blog (incidentally or not) is quite thrilling. 

I'm sure you (people who blog) have, at least once, said to yourself: I'm only writing stuff for myself; I'm not trying to get famous or whatever; this is just a personal blog, so I don't care whether people read it or not; etc. etc. Yes, of course we write for ourselves, but does it mean we don't want other people to read it? If this is really the case, why do you have a published blog at the first place? Why don't you make it private? I like knowing that there are those who enjoy reading my blog. If I can make the readers feel something, even though it's contempt, I'd be quite happy.

I guess now I need to wait until Multiply announces how I can download my blog. It's trash, but it's my trash.