Guh...what movies have I watched in the past three weeks...?
Um, I saw Aliens. It was really good; I was impressed. Still scary, though perhaps not quite as scary as the first one. I was glad to have watched it.
Mockingbird Don't Sing. A very sad movie based on a true story about a girl who was abused by her parents (mostly her father). She was tied to a potty chair for the first thirteen years of her life, and never spoken to, so when she finally got out of that house, she had no idea how to talk or act like a human at all. Various people helped her and her condition improved greatly, but she was never able to talk normally. It's a truly heartbreaking movie, especially because the first thing you see in the movie is a line saying that it's a true story.
The Dark Knight. Pretty sweet movie
Christian Bale and Morgan Freeman are awesome actors as usual, and there were some
really nifty action scenes in there. I'd heard a lot about the Joker, obviously, and I'd seen the trailers that had his famous lines, "Why so serious?" and "Let's put a smile on that face!" But when he actually said it in context...*shudder* The Joker is just about the freakiest villain I've ever seen, I think, because he's so cruel but acts as though everything's completely normal. My only complaint with this movie is that they seemed to be trying to pack a little
too much into it. There was so much content that everything had to move rather fast, so there wasn't really enough time to get a grasp on what was going on in time to have a reaction. In my experience, anyway.
And just last night I watched I Am Legend for the second time. Ah, I love that movie. I don't care how many people diss it; I think it's very good. Though as I was thinking about it later, I realized that if they'd cast anyone other than Will Smith as the lead character, it would probably have been a rather lame movie. Will Smith just has a brilliance about him that makes the whole movie shine. [spoiler]Last time I watched it, the scene that made me cry was the one where the dog dies, but this time it was actually the scene directly following that, where he goes into the video store and talks to the mannequin. He says, "I promised my friend I'd say hello to you today.... Hello." And then he says in such a broken voice, "Please say hello to me."
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You can find out things about the past that you never knew. And from what you've learned, you may see some things differently in the present. You're the one that changes. Not the past.
- Ellone, Final Fantasy VIII
"There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by...truth. If you're offended by the
truth, that's your problem. I have no obligation to not offend you if I'm speaking the truth. The truth is
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- Brad Stine