It's been a while. Been caught up editing and doing the layout for the Ivy newspaper (Let's just say that it was an experience I'd gladly not repeat - who knew that arranging articles could take more than 4 days?). And also school's back in session. Considering that I had a relatively restful and productive weekend at Emma's, I'm not that pleased to be back.
We had a gala time and made/ baked a whole tonne of stuff.
The Veggie lasagna we made for dinner. We decided to make dinner for her parents on Friday and it was supposed to be a surprise. But her mum found out and slipped us an easier recipe, which turned out to be a definite windfall as neither of us had made lasagna before. Given that neither Emma nor I are good at cooking (because all I know how to make are omelettes :D ) it was a resounding success, if I may say so. Well, it helped that the recipe was relatively idiot-proof.
We also elected to make a lemon meringue pie. I've always loved meringues. Particularly since I tried Fen and Carmen's delectable pie a couple of years back at the Paramount Championship Culinary Dessert thing (at least I think they made it). We kinda cheated and used a mix for the filling but I think it turned out pretty well. We even gave a quarter to Rachel Ellis for her birthday (:
Well, baking aside we also watched like a million movies. Besides the House overload and Dr. Who (with David Tennant, whoop whoop!) and Friends mini-marathons, we managed to squeeze in a couple o' other movies including
1. Brokeback Mountain.
I confess that I've wanted to see this one for a while even though it's been, what, 5 years since it was first released? A "supposed" classic... or that's what we were led to believe. The movie revolves around a ranch hand (Heath Ledger) and a rodeo cowboy (Jake Gyllenhaal) who take a job guarding a flock of sheep up on the fictional Brokeback Mountain but end up getting more than what they bargained for. Quite honestly, I think the movie was over-hyped and over-sexed. I have nothing against gay people or against steamy sex scenes, but the amount of exposure was enough to make my stomach turn. Come on, was there really a need for the multiple scenes of both men in bed with their wives, the exposure of Anne Hathway's fun-bags (gross), the scene where Heath Ledger sodomizes Jake G. (gross^2) or the part where both men strip and dive off a cliff into a lake? Call me conservative, but I thought it was very indulgent.
The plot development was, I felt, also quite mediocre; the scriptwriters who thought up the whole let's-do-away-with-real-scene-transitions should be shot. You could argue that the awkward scene transitioning is artistic; that it has to do with the fact that love transceneds time, blah blah blah. Bulls***, I say. The flow of scenes seemed so jerky and confusing - distorting the passing of time in the movie and making it hard to follow. Needless to say, I did not enjoy it very much. The movie was artistic - I'd give it that much - and sent quite a strong message (DON'T HATE ON QUEERS, PEOPLE), but I had great issues with its execution. 6.5 out of 10.
2. Never Been Kissed
Well, given that it's a little predictable, it's still a cute little movie: your feel-good, Saturday night kinda movie. They do play up the teenage stereotypes a little, but hey - that's allowed in this kind of movie. I think. Like, you have your mean girls (Jessica Alba! Omigod!) and your jocks and your kinda-dorky-looking "cool kids". Still, it was well worth the watch. Plus, have I mentioned that Michael Vartan is gorgeous? <3 7.0 out of 10.
3. Wild Child
This was probably the crappiest movie that I have watched in a while; a typical Hollywood fake drama and an Americans-rule kind of movie. Just thinking about this movie sends shivers down my spine - it was downright terrible. Just something of the terrible acting coupled with the pretentious British stereotypes was enough to put me off the movie.
If it wasn't for Alex Pettyfer (Emma's DREAM GUY, see above), we would probably have stopped watching 5 minutes into the film. The movie is about a spoilt American teenager (Emma Roberts, the niece of Julia Roberts) who is sent to a British boarding school after one of her wild jokes goes awry. She vows to get expelled and sent home; shaking up the prim and proper school along the way. Now, doesn't that just sound like an overly exhausted plot? The storyline was very weak and the plot development was terrible (the main character gets sent away 10 minutes into the movie? WHAT. Have the screenwriters ever taken a basic writing class?). The introduction of some characters was superfluous and character development was average. It is important to note that Emma Roberts' acting is quite unlike her aunt's; she is annoying and unlikeable. Her character fails to have any redeeming qualities and at the end of the movie, I found myself disliking her immensely. This movie was a definite 1 out of 10... don't think about watching it anytime soon.
4. Dear John
So Portia Bekes was the one who wanted to see this movie because she "loves Channing Tatum" so Emma and I tagged along. This was the only movie that we actually watched in a cinema, so yeah/
(On a side note, I don't understand why people find Channing Tatum attractive. He has ears that stick out and make him look like an extra on "Planet of the Apes").
There were two things that really affected my movie experience. One, was that we were late to the movie (the result of driving around for half an hour deciding where to eat) and had to sit three rows from the front. The second was that the cinema was full of really annoying people who cried at the strangest moments (example: not 30 minutes into the show and this girl two rows in front of us started crying buckets when Channing Tatum told Amanda Seyfried that he loved her at the end of their 2 weeks. All her friends laughed at her, too. And the woman next to me kept sobbing and hiccupping throughout the movie. Yes, I do know that I'm mean and judgemental.)
But physical movie theatre aside, the film was extremely predictable and quite boring. The movie is about a Special Forces member (Tatum) who meets the love of his life (Seyfried) over the summer (or was it spring) and their subsequent romance over the next few years as they continue to correspond to each other by post, as Tatum is sent overseas for a tour of duty (and extends after 9/11). But their relationship comes to a grinding halt when Seyfried realizes that she cannot love a man who is constantly absent... blah blah blah. The plot development was terrible and despite being 'made for each other', Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried's characters spent a grand total of 20 days together (even though the movie was spread out over the course of a bajillion years). I don't know. There were just a lot of things not to like about the movie. Plus, Emma and I kept bursting into laughter at the most inappropriate moments (like when Channing Tatum cries because he hit the steering wheel in frustration, but accidentally set the windshield wipers off - causing us to go HAHAHAHA even though it was dead quiet. Portia looked like she wanted to kill us) because hell, the movie was strangely funny in parts. I think. A 4 out of 10 (and a waste of 11 quid).
Anyway, the point is that it was a bad movie. I'm just going to spoil the ending and say that they end up together. Enough said. At least I discovered a sweet little song from the movie called "Paperweight" by Joshua Radin and Schuyler Fisk (which, strangely enough, is quite an old song and has apparently appeared in Kingdom Hearts or something)
'Neways, it's time to be productive so cheerio.
<3
1 comments:
Hahaha you have to admit Alex Pettyfer is really hot. And I agree that Dear John was a waste of 11 dollars -- and Portia was definitely mad at us for laughing in the sad parts :)
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