i finally got to see the escape! i was actually very surprised by how many episodes that i saw when this show originally aired. i think i only missed five episodes tops. This show is really good, though at times a tad unbelievable. i am now seriously crushing on Wentworth Miller and watching the special features was really interesting, the different techniques certain actors used to develop their characters especially. Now i can’t wait for season two to come out on dvd because i know that i missed most of the first half: i think i saw it twice. i’m really excited about it coming back January 22… which just so happens to be my first day back at school too.

i just happened to catch this on PBS (of all places) late on a Sunday night. It has pretty good special effects for the time. i especially appreciated the Robert Duvall cameo at the beginning. Good acting all around but i would have preferred a different ending. i’ve never read the book, just Heinlein’s Puppet Masters. Several events made me think of the Faculty, like everyone standing around drinking water, which i’m sure inspired the later movie. Definitely worth watching.

The music stunk, the voices weren’t done well, the plot was horrible, and the message thinly veiled and wrong hearted. This movie basically says that the only reason humans would decide to save the penguins is because all of a sudden they can dance. What a load of b.s.

So, three people have read this book, but no one but me has read the one that comes before it in the series?

Why couldn’t they have followed the book closer???

A bit of a stretching for Law and Black, since Law usually does depressing dramas and Black usually does over-the-top comedy. i found it to be a very enjoyable happy medium: both men were smashingly handsome and charming and lovable. What was so great about this movie was that everyone had a sad thing that they were working through, Amanda her parents’ divorce, Iris and Miles their unrequited love, Graham and Arthur their wives’ deaths. Jaspar and Maggie were both insensitive self-centered jerks.

There was such a strong contrast between the two couples’ holidays! One jumped in the sack immediately, the other hardly kissed. i loved Graham’s daughters. My respect for Winslet as an actress has grown exponentially the past couple of years. But my respect for Diaz still falls flat; she only barely pulls this part off, and only by acting nearly exactly like every other character she’s ever played. The costumes and jewelry in this movie are awesome, i totally want some of the sweaters both of the leading ladies wore. All in all, a great film, even if the ending fell flat and felt corny. Stupid Amanda, too much of a career girl to give up her empty life for a new family that would make her so much happier. i hope Iris and Miles make it.

Definitely worth seeing!

There were some good moments and good ideas in this film, but overall it was a fiasco. i really loved the work Peter Stormare did in Prison Break but he was totally over the top here. The entire storyline with him and Pryce was totally unnecessary, distracting, and disgusting. i wanted more backstory on the Queen and more love between the brothers and more of the references to fairy tales and more of Angelika’s family. This ended up being seriously befuddled and only a little interesting and redeeming.

This book was just okay. The characters weren’t very well developed (i only felt for them a little bit). The science was pretty well explained but i don’t think that i believe the theories behind it. The twist at the end was not what i was expecting or wanting to happen. Quick read that will probably fall out of my brain right away: not the great book that i was expecting upon reading the hype about the author on the back of the book.

The first time i saw this i was a bit confused about what was going on and wasn’t sure that i liked it. The second time around was much better, as has been the third, fourth, fifth. i can’t get this movie out of my skull now, with excellent quotes in it all around, humor mixed in, and depth that can’t be tapped in one viewing.

The past seven years of my life have been hard, but i don’t think i would trade them back for anything. i fully understand when Valerie says ”...for three years I had roses and apologized to no one.” To me this movie isn’t so much about being homosexual or of another race as it is about being free. The government in this movie is led by totalitarian Christians who are unyielding in their “faith”, their definition of right vs. wrong, which to me as a Christian myself is totally offensive and twisted. i don’t endorse homosexuality but i don’t think any government should be imprisoning those who are. i don’t think the color of one’s skin should be a reason to be beaten and killed. And i don’t think that i should be judged for my own individuality and love of the truth.

The idea of a nazi-esque London is scary, even moreso the idea that this type of government could happen here in the U.S. Here i think it would be run by the other side of the spectrum, the liberals, but either way it’s dangerous. All of these topics are sensitive, i know, but truth does not know any political boundaries, all parties are wrong on some issues some of the time, and i can’t help but be afraid that the country i love so much is slowly becoming something i cannot love and will eventually fear. “People shouldn’t be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people.” i can’t imagine blowing up the Capitol, the Supreme Court, or murdering key members of the government, but here in the U.S. the militia is vilified just as much as V.

Gun control is a scary thing to me, the idea that people in power want to take away my right to have a weapon, to protect myself in self defense, or join a militia and defend my country. But then these are rights that i am guaranteed in the Constitution and the government isn’t really the country (even thought that’s usually how we think of it)...

i am. My father, my mother, my brother, my sister, my neighbor, my classmate… we are America. How dare we let the government take away our money and throw it away on Social Security? How dare we let them keep our children dumb and brainwashed into who they want them to be How dare they even consider in their wildest of dreams that they are smarter or abler than we to provide for ourselves, to build our own future, to protect ourselves. “Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us. But within that inch we are free.”

i have often felt as if every inch of me will perish, as if i am paralyzed by fear when i shouldn’t be. What Valerie says is right, that our integrity is all we have to hold onto, that love is what is most important of all. “I hope that the worlds turns, and that things get better,” but most of all i hope i can be strong enough to be who God wants me to be. The near future may be hard, harder than even i can imagine, but i would rather see this country fall than become corrupted like the government V brought his vendetta to. i think this movie is a good reminder of the danger we are all in and if we let it will empower us enough by reminding us that we can change the course of the future.

Easy and quick to read without being boring or trite. Kind of reminds me of Hornblower from a cabin boy’s (girl’s) perspective. Definitely worth reading if you ever wanted to go to sea.