Movies

Wow, long time no post.

I’m heading to my homeland today. 2 hour trip, motorbike screaming just to maintain 100kph.

I’m visiting a friend I haven’t seen in maybe a year? maybe more. Should be fun.

Uni is a little crappy lately. I dropped a class, got to make it up next semester. They’re all very nice to me about it though. I’m still behind drastically in one of my classes (which I should have finished completely by now).

My sis is moving in for a few months. Haven’t lived with her in years.. Should be good.

And my big news, is that I’m committed to visiting New Zealand over the winter break. If only for a few weeks. I aiming at a month. Lots wandering around aimlessly. Maybe I can rent a bike there? Price could be an issue though.

If I like it too much, I might not want to come back.

I just need to get away. Do something on my own for a change.

I’ve been gaming too much, to avoid study. That’s why I fucked up my class so much.

But still… I’ve finished 4 seasons of Pro Evolution Soccer 6. The lynchpin of my team is Zinedine Zidane. I wouldn’t let him retire. In the game he just turned 38, even at 38 he’s amazing.

Speaking of which, I saw the movie “Zidane”, it’s excellent art movie. A full game from Zidane’s perspective, no dialogue as such. He gets sent off in the end, but creates an amazing goal. He drags his feet when off the ball, as if he’s playing with an imaginary ball. So subtle.

I haven’t shot archery in weeks. I’m getting back into though.

Ballet just finished for the term. 2 week break. I’ll miss it.

I’ve decided I need to do exercise of some sort in the mornings or I do nothing of use with my day. Cycling, yoga, or a jog, maybe even swimming, but that seems like too much.

I’ve been downloaded and purchasing tons of music lately. I bought a Sophie Koh cd, should be arriving soon. Some Veda Hille CD’s arrived. I’ve got some new Nina Nastasia albums, and I’m expecting some more Tujiko Noriko. It’s funny I think most of my music lately seems to be by women artist. That’s a turn around. I actually remember saying I couldn’t find any music by women artists. Shows how hard I looked.

Last night I saw Mullholland Drive.

A damn weird movie. Fastastic. Urgh. My vocabulary defies me again.

Naomi Watts was excellent in all her roles, but they all were.
I wish I had the energy to talk about this, but I just spent an hour or so going over it with L. Anyway, I’m going to download some more David Lynch movies.

I can’t remember if I posted about this movie…

It was the best fairy tale movie I’ve ever seen, which doesn’t really say much I suppose. However it was great because it was so much more then a movie with a fairy tale in it. It has a meaning to the tale, a reason for existing. I think it was worth 5/5. I get flak of family for after every movie I like, I say it was the best movie I’ve ever seen in my life. Usually I’m joking. But this one was seriously up there. One that’s worth remembering. It really sucked me into it. I felt like I understood it.

I just came back from seeing “The Good Shepherd”.

It was terrifying. An excellent movie, brilliant. I can’t say enough for it.

It’s a funny thing, when I see a movie this good, everything I say about it sounds too nice. It wasn’t a nice movie in the least, it was emotionally terrifying… Matt Damon was remarkable. I’ve never seen him so good.

The funny thing is the movie was so good, praising it sounds wrong. It was too real, too sad, I related too much to the main character, at the same time as I lost all sympathy for him.

Never before have I seen a movie, where I start of liking and sympathizing with the main character, and grow to lose all respect and sympathy for him. Loath him. Though I still empathise with him, perhaps even more so by the end.

Miff starts soon. Gotta be ready this time, choose everything in advance.

I just got back from seeing The world’s fastest Indian, at my local hoyts.

There was only 5 people in the cinema at a 6.30pm showing.

It’s a bit sad that so few people see good movies, but at least it makes them more enjoyable for those that do, hehe.

Yep it was fantastic, Anthony Hopkins was brialliant. I’m always biased to a movies I’ve just seen and liked, but I think it’s the best thing I’ve seen him in. Considering he usually is playing himself in recent roles I’ve seen, it might not be that much of a feat.

I really didn’t notice it was Hopkins. The character was so real. I had this constant feeling of dread that something horrible would happen to him. It’s a really inspiring story, that makes me want to get the documentary now. Basically it’s about an old guy from New Zealand who’s been tinkering with his old Indian motorcycle for his whole life, he has a 24 year old dream of going to Boneville salt flats to see how fast he can get it. He goes there and breaks a world record for fastest streamlined motorcycle under 1000cc’s.

The real story is in the determination he has to follow his dream. I guess it sounds a little cliche put like that. But it’s the best told version I’e seen. That, and it never ceases to be an inspiring lesson.

He wasn’t just determined though, he had an open mind. It’s like his dream had put into perspective the things that were important. He clearly made friends easily, and wasn’t concerned about the walls that are so often constructed around us (by us). If I remember correctly a quote from him is something like: “People expect old people to just die quietly in a corner”. I don’t know if that’s just for the movie or from the man, but either way, he was a doer, that ‘lived’ to the end.

It’s people that ‘do’ that are remembered.

Burt Munro is the man’s name. I had to look it up even after just seeing a whole movie of people calling him Burt.