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A youthful orange revolting in clockwork

I really do watch quite a number of movies.

Caught 'A clockwork orange' a few nights back and I was impressed! It is seriously one of the best book-turned-movies I've ever watched. Although most of the scenarios were very different from what I've previously envisioned when I was reading the book but everything was pretty awesome(I really didn't expect everything to be so 70s). I loved the brilliant acting, the great use of music to accompany the violent scenes and especially how it left me feeling quite terrible. (Y)

And to keep up my whole Michael Cera streak I've watched another one! I don't know why but the more I watch him on screen the more he looks like a potato instead of a turtle. Anyway I still enjoyed 'Youth in Revolt' very much! Michael Cera did well in this one! The screenplay to this film was BRILLIANT. I'm not one who actually laughs out loud when I watch shows but this one had me going for quite a while. It has some really, really funny one-liners. And Michael Cera gets the girl once again in this film, but it's finally due to his efforts(as compared to N&N when the girl falls in love with him at first sight. HOW DO YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH A POTATO?). (Y), once again!

(Yes, all I do on this weblog is review movies in a mediocre manner) (I'm sorry)

What I've been enjoying lately

Dear Mr. Tarantino

You are a magnificent human being.

Please never stop contributing in your glorious ways to this world.

HCMcity!

Just booked 3 nights stay at a bed&breakfast in Ho Chi Minh City!!!!! Yay holiday!

Plus check out my cute friends:

(Yes my fb is in pirate language)

In other news, Dixin got accepted in FASS too!!!!! So that makes the 3 of us and I AM SO GLAD. Good times coming along now.

On MC

So I caught 2 Michael Cera films recently. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and Paperheart.

I caught N&N last night and I was really disappointed. It was really forgettable and the only thing I liked about it was the soundtrack. I especially disliked the whole, let's put a random band into a scene really unneccesarily and announce their names out loud so people would realise they're there and make this movie really cool with loads of indie cred! They used Bishop Allen. (Also occured in Skins, and in their case, Crystal Castles) Other than that, the movie was so bland! I was quite excited about it a year ago when it first came out(although i didn't watch it then) and that was just efforts wasted on my part. >:(

Paperheart was much better though. I've loved Charlyne Yi since the day she went on Conan(!) and was really funny and awkward and downright adorable. And yeah, she was like that in the film. I liked what the story was based on, the whole fake-documentary thing. I just didn't like the michael Cera parts.

Okay so here's what I actually want to comment about: Michael Cera. Honestly, I do not get him. I liked him in arrested development and his appeal kinda ended there. His awkward, dorky thing is cute to watch for a while, but film after film he does the SAME THING. And I fail to understand how he gets parts in movies where girls are actually attracted to him(hot girls, at that. See:N&N) because he looks a lot like a turtle to me. I don't see why he is getting so much fame!!!!!! Stupid turtle boy.

Rocks

When I was 13, I thought I was really cool because I listened to weird music. One day, we had to introduce ourselves during a music lesson. I introduced myself and added, "And I like Industrial Rock!(The likes of MSI etc)". The teacher paused for a moment and said, "Maybe next time you can bring some to class to show us." She thought I liked rocks. From industrial areas. Industrial rocks.