time passes

Only posting because if I don't make a habit of it, I'll stop all together and I don't want to do that.

Two super quick movie review - no three...

Pan's Labyrinth - ****.5/5

Great film. I am mad at myself because I downloaded it. Which, one, means I am taking money out of the filmmaker's pocket; and two, I watched it on my laptop, which makes the quality shit and not nearly how the filmmaker intended it to be watched. I needs me a 63" wide screen plasma. One day...

Great story. I think that Captain is one of the most evil characters I have ever seen on film. Brutal scene with the knife. Haunted. Totally my kind of film though, loved the ending.

Lion's for Lambs - ****/5
Not sure what category this movie falls into - political thriller? (IMDB says "drama|war") Anyways I had a feeling I had seen it before I downloaded it, and as soon as I saw the first shot I knew that I had. Even still I watched it straight through and enjoyed the whole thing.

This one makes you think, and when I saw it university it was a perfect "fight for what you believe" in type of things. I like it especially because of the criticism it levels against the media and its role in the whole "war on terror".

Defiance: ***.5/5

It was a good movie. Completely frustrating because half of the movie is in Russian and because we live in Korea, the subtitles were, well, in Korean. So every time they would start speaking Russian everyone in my group would groan. Whatever.

Awesome performances by all the male leads: Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot) was really great and a boy who grows into a man. Daniel (swoon) Craig was also great, not as pout-ie as his 007 preformances which was nice and Leiv Schreiber who is always amazing.

Not gonna lie, kind of under whelmed. Gets points for that "enduring human spirit" thing.

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Not much else going on. I am slowing starting to see a reduction in my belly fat. That makes me feel pretty good. However I will still call myself fat until the time that I can say, "hey? wanna see my abs?"

I might start going to muay thai with X. Not anytime soon soon. Maybe in like... April. My gym membership is paid for till then and this new place would be 100 a month. I have never been involved with anything like that, or at least not in my adult life. Might be good for me. I'm afraid of physical confrontation. Offically, I'm against it - "I'm a lover, not a fighter". But its more the fear of pain and injury. Yeah might be good for me.

Oh yeah leaving for China next Saturday. Should probably start packing. Its just four days, but CHINA!! Anywhozl. Shower time.