Well, I just got back from seeing Attack of the Clones, and needless to say...the 8:30 PM show was actually my second viewing (I watched it opening day with one of my classmates). Haha!

So what did I think of the movie? It was cool! Sure, the acting is clunky in some parts, and Lucas can do better with some of the dialogue (maybe), but it still nevertheless was entertaining. Ewan McGregor's scenes as Obi-Wan were the best ones in the movie, while the romance scenes between Anakin and Padme were cringe-inducing up until they travel to Tatooine from Naboo to look for a person who will be pivotal in Anakin's rebirth as Darth Vader. The final battle was awesome (especially Yoda's lightsaber scene!!), and the clonetroopers look bad-ass. Can't wait till Episode III comes out in 2005!!!


Anyways, if I'm in the mood next week I'll post a recap of the Spring semester. So why is this semester so special? Because a girl in one of my film classes was able to take the place of Denise in my thoughts...

And YES, I am WELL aware that is something Anakin would've said to Padme in Episode II!

I'm telling ya...Sam Jackson is Da Man.

Last night, I saw a film called Replicant, which stars Jean Claude Van Damme as a serial killer in which a clone is made from him so that the clone could be used to predict the killer's next moves (he plays both the killer and the clone. Er, obviously).

I watched it in my Film Symposium class because the movie's scriptwriter was there for a Q&A session. The movie never made it to the theaters (if you saw the ending, you'd know why). It's too bad, cause Van Damme actually acted well in that one. And the clone hooks up with a fine hooker later in the film too.

Black Hawk Down didn't get nominated for Best Picture in the 74th annual Academy Awards?? BAH!!! Haha, just kidding...it didn't deserve a Best Picture nod. But how interesting that Lord of the Rings beat out Moulin Rouge, A Beautiful Mind, In The Bedroom and Gosford Park with 13 nominations. The last time a film almost swept the Oscars in terms of nominations was Titanic (14 nominations) back in 1998. Anyways... Unfortunately, I don't think Black Hawk Down will win any Academy Awards AT ALL...since the technical categories it was nominated in will most likely give the nod to Lord of the Rings. Oh well. And who DID watch Gosford Park?? That's what I'm wondering...

Yesterday, in my Film Symposium class, I watched a film called Focus...starring William H. Macy and Laura Dern (both who are in Jurassic Park 3). It was pretty good film. The story's theme is about anti-Semitism in the U.S. during the World War II years. Macy and Dern play a couple who are mistaken to be Jewish--which causes Macy to be demoted from his job (he quits) and leads the couple to being harassed in their neighborhood. Pretty crazy stuff...and the ending was very interesting. Unexpected but powerful--which the ending to a film like Artificial Intelligence could've been if the last 15 minutes was cut out.

Only 99 DAYS left till the film I've been blabbering about for the past couple months comes out.

Looks like The Fellowship of the Ring isn't the only fantasy film that has characters smokin' out.

Well, the 59th Annual Golden Globe awards have just come to an end...and needless to say: Is there ONE freakin' movie that Russell Crowe doesn't win or get nominated an award for?? L.A. Confidential, The Insider, Gladiator, and now...A Beautiful Mind? Oh well. Gladiator was cool, haha. And I was rooting for Lord of the Rings to win. What a disappointment. Oh well. And finally, Harrison Ford wins a big award--the Cecille B. DeMille award (I'm a film student, and yet I may have misspelled that name...oh well again). He could bring millions of dollars to the box office...and yet he can't win an Oscar and some stuff. I call that...the Jim Carrey syndrome (Definition: funny comedian does an okay film like The Truman Show, wins the Golden Globe but gets snubbed an Oscar nomination). Haha! EH...oh well. He'll still be remembered the same way Al Pacino, Marlon Brando and all those other noteworthy actors will be how many years from now--so it's call good.

A little less than 15 minutes ago I came back from watching the film Black Hawk Down. Did I like it? Needless to say, if you like Saving Private Ryan, you'll like this film.

People getting their limbs blown off and stuff...that's so cool. JUST KIDDING!!

No seriously, Black Hawk Down was pretty intense—and had some humorous parts here and there.

An EXAMPLE: When Tom Sizemore's character casually walks around in the middle of a fierce gun battle (after he arrives with reinforcements) shaking the hands of Delta Force members and Army Rangers trying to blast away Somali militiamen who are shooting back at them. This guy gots balls, that's for sure.

And the fact only 19 U.S. soldiers died as opposed to 1,000 Somali rebels after the battle was over? That's craaaazzzy.

Of course, after watching this film, a person (an American, in particular) gets convinced that Somalia should be the next country to attack after the war in Afghanistan comes to an end. Ain't gonna happen, warmongers!

That is all.

Last night, a couple of friends and I watched Ocean's Eleven. It was pretty coo. If the vault at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas actually looked like the one in the movie, I'd say the movie gave us a pretty good idea of how to rob it! Of course, the vault obviously doesn't look like the one in Ocean's, so tough luck for us, haha.