Side by Side

Split Screen: Remarkable Women and the actresses who played them - Set of very interesting photos found at Yahoo! Movies today.

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feeling slow/lazy these days, my foot still hurts a little though i don’t limp anymore.

The Namesake is a good movie, worth seeing.

finally finished this book called Say Uncle by Eric Shaw Quinn. bought it at a yard sale in west hollywood for two bucks, later found out that it’s autographed by the author. the book itself is ..okay. there’s very little conflicts and no hardship in the story, doesn’t seem real. like most fictions, it’s too ideal to learn anything from ..offers no real emotions/struggles that touch your heart. dialog is good, somewhat clever, some chapters are obviously trying to create a situation comedy scene where everybody falls on top of each other with cake on the face, but there’s a reason why tv does better job at it ..some stuff is only funny when it’s visual. mr Quinn is probably better off writing sit-com scripts.

300

I finally saw the movie today. Did i like it? I did actually. Some of my friends saw it and said pretty much the same thing about it - good visuals but a weak plot.

Well I am a visual person myself I could live on just the “pretty stuff” alone so a movie with good visuals is a good movie to me. They were right this movie is as visual as you can get, rich colors, dramatic lightings, characteristic looking actors, great custom design, beautiful compositions. If you’ve seen Sin City then you’d know Frank Miller and know what I’m talking about. Even though 300 is colored, they kept it very simple to fit the theme and the historical background, earthy tones, all shades of brown and gold, bronze, light and dark, all the calm mellow colors combine to creative a perfect stage for 300 flying red capes shedding enemies’ blood and the touch of blue in their eyes. Lighting was amazing! especially the scene where the boy battles the wild wolf on a snowy night with the snow falling. I thought all the actors had the right looks and body for their characters, the king, the queen’s dark long beautiful hair.. also loved the oracle girl’s dance it was beautiful. The warriors’ capes, armers, shields, women’s flowy garments simple yet elegant, the Persian king and his gurls were the best, layered with luxuries and mysteries, exotic. Pause at anytime during the movie you have yourself a perfectly shot picture with all the visual elements in a perfectly balanced composition.

So the plot was plain and straight forward, but I kinda feel that keeping it simple was a smart move for a movie with so much for the eyes. Plus it’s simple yet powerful, there’s love, bravery, hatred, loyalty, politics. What more could you ask for?

this is what i call dancing!

see it’s working already! i’m blogging again! ..anyways, just saw the movie ghost world. it’s a cute little movie, but what’s really entertaining is this —–>

“shake it shake it shake it babe shake it like a Polaroid picture, oh ohh, oh ohhh~!”

best friends

watched every single movie that’s in the theater right now, well almost. if you haven’t seen Casino Royale, you shouldn’t be sitting here reading my blahs, go see it! ..yup it’s really good and the new Bond is so hot! going to watch all the bond movies starting from the very first one