Saturday, 24 November 2007

Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium

Yes, I know it's rated G, but since when have high schoolers not been allowed to see G-rated movies? Last night, Lauren and her gay best friend (me) went to Old Town Pasadena to see just that, a G-rated movie, at the Laemmle's there. We missed the first five or ten minutes of it, which sucks, since that also meant we missed the previews. It started off weird, but that's, again, because we missed the first few minutes. I gotta say, it was a good movie. Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman played their parts well, as did the little kid who played Eric (I don't know his name). Basically, if there's ever a time where you're hanging out with your (gay or otherwise) best friend and you're bored and you wanna see a film, head down to your nearest Laemmle's and see Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium (but don't really. The only reason we saw it was because we're not old enough to see R-rated ones and the rest looked especially crappy. But it was all good because Mr Magorium's was a great movie.)

Now, the reason I'm posting right now is really because I have very little else to do. I'm printing photos of one of my friends playing football (American) to sell to his mom. Not what good friends usually do, but his mom would end up forcing the money upon me somehow, so why fight it?
I also want to bring to my own attention the fact that this blog is almost because a movie-review site. Now I've got Mr Magorium, the Martian Child, and something else that isn't coming to mind right away. But I must say, they were all great films. V for Vendetta, too. That's my favourite movie of all time. This year, unfortunately, I couldn't watch it on the fifth of November, so I watched a few days prior to make up for it.
Another great video (not full-length or anything; it's only 7 minutes long) is Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása (Good Weather For Airstrikes) by Sigur Rós. It's a music video that is not yet on iTunes (and may never be on iTunes) due to its controversiality. However, it's a beautiful video that can touch the heart of any sensitive human being. I hope. Some might find it offensive or un-Godly, but, if you do decide to do a YouTube search for it (and I can guarantee it'll come up), just keep and open mind and try, try, to be mature. That's something I hate above all. Immaturity. It pisses me off. Especially beer-belly, bald, Middle American white men who are in their forties or fifties and still haven't learned to grow up. It repulses me.

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