Movietalk

My comment on Dóri's blog is a whole post itself, lol. Yeah, I liked Highlander...

Anyways, I watched five movies during the weekend again! Yay! And not for class but for pure entertainment.

Tropic Thunder - give it a chance. I mean it. It's so deliciously vulgar. Cheap hilarity at its best.

Evan Almighty - seriously I can't believe how Steve Carell could give his name to this crock of crap but at least he's hot. And funny, just not in this movie. But it's still a heartwarming family comedy and Morgan Freeman plays God again. Who could argue with that?

Max Payne - that is one hot movie! I loved it! I don't know why all the critics brought it down. Yeah, okay, the beginning is a bit flat but if you ever played the game I think you won't be disappointed. Except that the movie kind of abandons the game's storyline. Lol.

Reservoir Dogs - as I expected, it became my favourite Tarantino movie. I like the ambiance that Tarantino starts to build his movies from, I just don't like the results in the end but he balances his personal taste and common sense in this movie perfectly. But I heard that this movies has excellent music and remarkable swearing in it and I couldn't detect those at all. The cast is one of the most spectacular I've ever seen. I heart Tim Roth and Michael Madsen. ^_^

X-Men 2. - I just realised I haven't seen this movie and the 3rd part either. That is a lethal mistake for someone who grew up on comics. I'll make up for that soon. Also this year the Wolverine movie comes out, which tells the story of my favourite character's origins.

The conference on Saturday was a drag... don't want to talk about it. Before that I slept over at a friend's place on Friday and I baked her tomato-mozzarella croissants and choco-coco cake. That was nice. :)

End term is near. I'm developing a dandy gastric ulcer. =/

Worst week ever

OK, I wrote this two weeks ago but didn't have time to edit it so there you go:

Of course it was not the worst week ever, we always claim that this and that is the worst thing ever but we know they are not, we just like to moan about them for hours.

First off, I would like to take Chris's advice and thank some people for the Entry Of The Week Award. My parents for passing their skillfully writing genes down to me, Joe for having a sense of humour and of course my wonderful hairdresser whom I am never going to see again! Thanks!

Anyways, about my week. So we had those English exams and apart from losing a lot of sleep over them and spending nights learning for them, they kind of turned out as I expected, of course that does not mean they turned out good but as an English philosopher once said: "you can't always get what you want". The losing sleep part is actually not the tests' fault, my best friend had some personal problems and so I went to do best friend things with her and I got home late every day. But... here comes the black soup, as Hungarian people love to say.

I had an exam today in History of European Cinema and I failed.

WHAT?!

Yes.

I spent the weekend watching silent movies. Oh. My. God. They were disastrous. Half of them were boring but also horrible (horrible, as in you do not want to look) movies about the Russian revolution and the other half were simply never ending footage about people walking around on the streets of Berlin or whatever. While I was watching I remembered one of my favourite lines from the High Fidelity movie. I can only quote in Hungarian: "Ezért jó lemezboltban dolgozni, itt mindenféle trágya zenéket hallgathatsz kedvedre!". Well kids, that goes for movie school, too: "Ezért jó filmes suliba járni, itt mindenféle trágya filmeket nézhetsz kedvedre!". Hurray!

Apropos High Fidelity. I have finished the book in two days or so. I loved it of course. It was really interesting to compare the novel to the movie and it was easy for me since I know the latter by heart. I just realised that the movie is set in the US and the novel in England. The slang they are speaking and their taste in music and books are also changed around a bit in the movie to suit the American culture. Apart from that, Dick meets his girlfriend in another way and there are more scenes in the book that were simply left out, of course. The only thing I did not understand was why the two skater kids were included in the movie. Absolutely no mention of them in the book but they are fun so no problem. What the most outstanding thing was that the Rob of the book is actually an arse! For me, as a girl, it is obvious why he was a social fiasco! I know people like him and they are very frustrating. The movie-Rob is more of a mimosa type if you know what I mean and is kind of more heartbroken and less rude, I guess. But I think that is only because there are less opportunities for character building in a movie.

That's enough about last week.

So I didn't have time to finish this post because I was running off to a wine tasting last Monday. 'Tasting' is putting it very mildly. People who participated and earned 1st, 2nd or 3rd place in the game at the BTK-TTK Autumn Days won a free trip to Villány and I joined them. Let's just say that the wine was the best I have ever had and a jolly good feeling was all around the place. :D My friend is a senior and he formed a group with his freshmen and I was with them, they are very nice. :)

On Friday I went to see a favourite band of mine in Labor. That place is so cool but a bit too dark. Some nice lamps would do some good. Anyway Žagar was playing and it was so amazing, the perfect concert Žagar-wise. :)

Apart from that I'm starting to get worried about the end of the semester. :(:(:( *paranoid* But before that I still have to work at the 'A vászon és a dívány' conference on Saturday and I'm going on a road trip to see a friend's band two weeks later. Good times.


Here are two pictures, one from the wine tasting and one from the school's pitch. What a view. :)