tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55333257986371460462024-03-14T03:04:23.905-05:00I like being a mess, it's who I amA blog about stuff. Movies, books, music, my life. Just whatever I feel like writing about.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02692757926290338784noreply@blogger.comBlogger161125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533325798637146046.post-87096433027091670312016-12-12T15:49:00.001-06:002016-12-12T15:49:45.834-06:00College Movie Project: Christmas Movies!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Actors: This was one of the first of one of those movies with 9 million actors you know and love. Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Alan Rickman, Liam Neeson, and Emma Thompson- love them all!!! They're fun and British and delightful. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;">Christmas movie! I probably saw this 3 times in the movie theater I loved it! It's fun and light hearted. It's a Christmas tradition. I doubt I've skipped watching it a single year since it came out and probably watched it multiple times. For a while I was in charge of our Christmas movie playlist so this was always on there...along with Apocalypse Now...but mostly this. I love this movie and can always watch it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">I don't get all the hate for this movie, besides the unrealistic airport scenarios and the fantasy aspects of it I still love it! Bill Nighy is delightful, Kiera Knightley is gorgeous as usual. I still scream at the Alan Rickman character for being a total idiot! What is wrong with you!? Laura Linney's sister character is also horribly annoying- why does her brother how such unbelievable access to a phone...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">"Would we call her chubby?" Thank you Hugh Grant! So this was Fall 2003, this was probably the first time I was ever consciously aware of the whole people calling NORMAL sized women fat OMG. I remember totally not seeing this or understanding it before then. I'd always heard and listened to women complain about too skinny women (Ally McBeal was my favorite TV show for a while) but I guess I hadn't really seen it till then. I remember thinking the Natalie character looked amazing, she was pretty and totally not fat. I had a friend who I totally thought looked like her (She really did) and I told her and she got so offended because she said she was fat- SHE IS NOT FAT your freak! Anyways side track...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This movie is endlessly quotable too- "there was more than one lobster present at the birth of Jesus?" or "</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;">And I'm </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;">sorry for all the cock-ups</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;">my cabinet</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> are absolute </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;">crap" or " Don't buy drugs, become a popstar and they give them to you for free!" </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Actors: Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Idina Menzel, Taye Diggs, Jesse L. Martin, and Wilson Jermaine Heredia from the Original Broadway cast and they look and sound amazing! They brought in a few new folks Rosario Dawson and Tracie Thomas and they're fab too. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;">My HS and College BFF Robynne and I went to see this over Thanksgiving break. We were like the only ones in the theater and it was a huge theater over at Huebner Oaks. We were super excited and cried and remember doing Selections Rent in HS. I remember HATING that they cut Halloween! One of my favorite songs, but I still loved it and thought it was awesome. How does Taye Diggs not age? He looked/looks and sounds amazing. Idina, Jesse and Wilson too! They did not age! Adam and Anthony well they may have aged but they still sounded great. But I remember loving it and this was before I was too angry about movie musicals cutting songs (flashforward to my violent hostility with Into the Woods- fuck that shit).</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Love. Still love it. I have never cried at the end of Rent, I've always cried during One Song Glory, Goodbye Love, Will I...uhhhg it kills me! Also "I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had" I die. Also I want to sing that harmony with someone...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">I can't think of any number it really improves on...I enjoy the hallucination in Tango but that's about it. I get annoyed in What You Own with the New Mexico stuff just visually it's excessive. I enjoy Mark being on the roof and stuff but Roger's stuff is distracting. OOOhh Santa Fe the number though I love! I do enjoy it on the subway. And the funeral also kills me. So good! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">"There will always be women in rubber flirting with me!" so true. Such a fun scene. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Okay criticisms, gonna force myself, the visible breath looks totally fake! I actually remember listening to the audio commentary by Chris Columbus a hundred years ago and he talked about it - when it was real it looked fake and when it was fake it looked real so funny. But it's totally distracting sometimes. I miss Halloween still. I also miss some of the extra narrative in Rent and Goodbye Love. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">I'll Cover You while one of my favorite songs totally is over choreographed I don't know what happened there but the fake running is awful. I miss that they don't sing-through the dialogue - </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">recitative.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6a6a6a; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold;"> </span><br />
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<a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2016/10/september-2003-december-2006-in-movies.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">College movie project overview</span></a><br />
<a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2016/10/college-movie-project-stranger-than.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fall 2006 - Stranger than Fiction</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #888888; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2016/11/college-movie-project-clerks-2-lost-in.html" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration: none;">Clerks 2, Lost in Translation, Sideways and V</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Google Genre: Fantasy/Mystery</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Movie Tagline: Difficulty times lie ahead, Harry.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Actors: The most perfectly cast children ever in the history of anything. I really don't need to talk about them do I? Emma Watson became the best role model for any smart, confident girl ever. Rupert Grint made dating redheads okay again. Daniel Radcliffe plays internal struggle so well.<i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">In fall 2005 I was an RA in the Freshman girls dorm Baldus at TLU. This was the dorm I'd been a Freshman in too. I didn't really know or remember my RAs, but I wanted of course to be the best RA. My door decorations were super elaborate and I always had very unconventional programming (we were required to do so many a month). So I decided to take a group of my residents to San Antonio to see Harry Potter on opening night. There were only about 5 of us that went but it was awesome! I hadn't read the books at this time so I didn't know anything about what was going to happen. But knowing that I was a super scaredy cat one of my residents warned me about the maze scene that would make me jump and told me. I had already screamed in the great lake scene. But this was such a fun little field trip to make with a group of students and would be very familiar a few years later when I got to rent out an entire movie theatre to show an advanced screening of Harry Potter for my students at SAC. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">I love all the Harry Potter movies and had never watched one out of order before. While HP and Prisoner of Azkaban is the one Hail and I always talk about them being uncomfortable in their adolescence with, this one they're also pretty uncomfortable with it too. Hermione comes into her own and is just so beautiful and mature. The boys have super shaggy hair, I think it gets worse in Order of the Phoenix, but it's pretty bad here too. Maggie Smith is delightful as always and there are just so many fun moments. This is the first of the HP movies that ends on such a downer note and it only gets darker from here, so it was nice that there was so much lightness and levity in this one. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">I hadn't read the books and wouldn't for another 6 years. I had seen The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe as a stage play as a kid but I hadn't really thought about it for years till I saw the movie. I remember loving the movie from first watch, it's so pretty and fantastical. I cried when Aslan was killed and remember I didn't make the religious parallels till much later. Yes, yes, even with all the sons of adam and daughters of eve things...I don't know I'm just not one to make religious parallels easily I guess. I don't think at the time we were as obsessed with sequels so I don't think I knew there would be more movies. Years later I'd be so upset when I realized they weren't continuing the series right away because they are so good! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Now I can't stop seein ghte religious meaning in it. I see sacrifice and the god and selflessness and so much in it. Aslan is a god I can behind, he takes care of his people but also lets things happen to them and to see their chocies.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">This is a Christmas movie, if you don't believe me that's fine. But I love it. A few years ago I read all the books, I was probably 25 or so and I remember loving them so much and crying at the end. I still love these movies though and find them beautiful. I can't wait for my niece and nephew to watch them and read the books. I often wonder what it would be like to experience them as a child. What is that quote about the reading you do as a child as being some of the most important reading of your life...So I have friends who feel that way about the Narnia books, they read them as children and they became a part of them...like so many children in the last 20 years with the Harry Potter books. But I'm supposed to be talking about the movie right? I love it. It's lovely and totally a Christmas movie. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Directed by </span></span><span class="itemprop" itemprop="name">Brad Bird</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Actors: Voice actors...actors with very distinct voices- They're all great.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;">My sophomore year of college on October 24, 2004 my college roommate was killed. She died while running with a classmate on Highway 90 near the TLU campus. She was a cross country runner and we were roomates our freshman year and planned to live together all throughout our time at TLU and in grad school too. We both wanted to be teachers. This movie came out two weeks after her death and about 3 weeks after a group of our friends decided we needed to go see it. It was the first time I laughed after she died. We laughed and then cried but it was exactly what I needed. I stopped hanging out with most of my friends as much after that, it was too hard. But as much as I love this movie I don't watch it very much. I've probably watched it 3 times since then, but I bought because of what it means. To me it reminds me of the worst year of my life but it's a lovely movie that shows what it means to be a hero.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;">I hadn't seen this movie in years. I tried to watch it with my nephew reccently but he wasn't really interested. It's never been one of my favorite Pixar's but because of it's sentimental value I love it. It has parts that are really funny - I love the end when Dash is trying to run and he keeps having to speed up and slow down. I also love Edna their costume designer she's fabulous. Frozone's "Where is my super suit" and his never seen wife's "why do you need to know!" still makes me laugh. I think it's fun but it's too damn long, omg why is this children's movie 9 hours? It's actually 2 hours but that's still too damn long. Jason Lee is delightful and who doesn't love Holly Hunter, I could listen to her voice for hours, she's awesome. </span></span><br />
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<a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2016/10/college-movie-project-stranger-than.html" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fall 2006 - Stranger than Fiction</span></a><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02692757926290338784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533325798637146046.post-75362733989678671582016-11-27T18:49:00.000-06:002016-11-27T18:49:00.887-06:00College Movie Project: Saved! and Closer<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Both of these movies have in common the fact that I used to force people to watch them...well not really force but I would always tell my friends who hadn't seen them that "you have to see it!" and then we'd end up in my dorm watching them...and me watching them watch them to make sure they loved them both as much as I did...</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Summer 2004: Saved!</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;">Directed by </span><a class="fl" data-ved="0ahUKEwiouIWzjrrQAhXJrVQKHcOvCyMQmxMIuAEoATAZ" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Brian+Dannelly&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPgE-LUz9U3MDZJKzZUAjOTkwtLTLTEspOt9NMyc3LBhFVKZlFqckl-EQBbH2_9MAAAAA&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiouIWzjrrQAhXJrVQKHcOvCyMQmxMIuAEoATAZ" style="background-color: white; color: #1a0dab; cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Brian Dannelly</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Actors: <i>Jena Malone</i> I love her. She's sweet and good and totally likes like she could be <i>Mary-Louise Parker</i>'s kid.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Mandy Moore</i> she's great in this, this was back when she still had to contractually sing in all her movies.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Macauley Culkin</i> ahhhhhhhhhh!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">The man had never seen this one! I told him that it came out before my sophomore year in college and when the DVD came out I made all my friends watch it. This is true. I remember very specifically watching it on the floor of my huge dorm room with random friends and everyone loving it as much as I did. I had a lot of friends who went to christian high schools and they enjoyed it. I remember also having a conversation with my choir director Dr. Boyer about it. He LOVED the line after Hilary-Faye throws the bible at Mary and Mary says "This is not a weapon you idiot". Still a great scene.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Such a great little teen movie. I don't find it as painful to relive as I do Garden State. For some reason this holds up better for me. I still think the themes and situations the students go through are poignant and important. I don't really think I read anything new or different into is than I did 12 years ago though. I think it's fun that the parents are having the same struggle as the kids, that's always a nice parallel. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;">I always laugh a lot but the scene that makes me laugh when I remember it is when Macauley Culkin and Eva Amurri (aka Susan Sarandon's daughter) are having coffee and see Mary coming out of the Planned Parenthood Eva says "there's only one reason good christian girls go to the Planned Parenthood" and Macauley says "She's planting a pipe bomb?"! OMG I die. I love that moment. SO funny. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;">I also love the carpenter Jesus at the beginning when Mary hits her head in the pool. I love Mary-Louise Parker as the ditzy oblivious mom and her future Weeds co-star Martin Donovan they just look so good together. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;">I will also always wonder how anyone could smuggle a frozen turkey out of a Piggly Wiggly in only a tube top and mini skirt...seriously Eva how?!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;">Overall- it's such a cute easy movie and I think beside the Incredibles it the last of the semi-happy movies I have on my College Movie project list. I'm pretty sure the rest are seriously depressing and dark- yay! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Directed by </span><a class="fl" data-ved="0ahUKEwiouIWzjrrQAhXJrVQKHcOvCyMQmxMIuAEoATAZ" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Brian+Dannelly&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPgE-LUz9U3MDZJKzZUAjOTkwtLTLTEspOt9NMyc3LBhFVKZlFqckl-EQBbH2_9MAAAAA&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiouIWzjrrQAhXJrVQKHcOvCyMQmxMIuAEoATAZ" style="background-color: white; color: #1a0dab; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">M</a>ike Nichols</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Actors: <i>Natalie Portman</i> I love her. I loved her hair so much I took a picture of her form this movie to my hairdresser and said I want this and then had that haircut for almost 7 years. But also I love her. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Julia Roberts</i> Love her. I don't normally love her but in this I love her.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Clive Owen</i> LOVE. I fell in love with him in this movie...not the character though he's a douche. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I've easily seen this movie a hundred times. I'm pretty sure I've watched it at least once a month since I got the DVD. I find it so honest and awful and terrifying and beautiful and all those things. In 2004 when it came out I saw it in Theaters with my best friend over Christmas break. We both loved it. I think after college it took on a different meaning for me. I was something Alice and sometimes Anna. I was harsh and critical of love. Every horrible breakup and I'd come back to this movie and find comfort, everyone is terrible...even though Alice lies she's the most honorable one in the bunch. Ann is awful, Larry is a douche, and of course Dan is just sad and pathetic. So Alice is the heroine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I mean she tells him right up front, exactly what she does. Dan should not be surprised how Alice leaves him. Larry shouldn't try to get Anna back, dude just leave her alone OMG. Dan cut Alice loose sooner! What is wrong with you people? But still it's honest, these sort of things happen in relationships, people do horrible things to one another. I feel like This movie honestly helped me shield myself a litte. It probably helped me shield myself too much in some situations but anyone could be an Alice or Anna or Dan or Larry out there and all four of them are dangerous characters in their own way. If you want to believe in love that lasts none of them are good examples of that. They all look at love as so temporary...Alice will love you till she doesn't- it's terrifying. Dan will fall in love with someone just by looking at them and doesn't care if he's with someone else or not...poor Ruth. Anna cheats...Larry cheats and wants to have sex in exchang for a divorce- fuck you Larry! It's just cruel and awful but somehow it makes me feel better. So I watch it over and over again and will probably continue to. </span><br />
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<a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2016/10/september-2003-december-2006-in-movies.html" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">College movie project overview</span></a><br />
<a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2016/10/college-movie-project-stranger-than.html" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fall 2006 - Stranger than Fiction</span></a><br />
<a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2016/11/college-movie-project-clerks-2-lost-in.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clerks 2, Lost in Translation, Sideways and V</span></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02692757926290338784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533325798637146046.post-89299741135621817192016-11-24T10:53:00.004-06:002016-11-24T10:53:23.613-06:00My Favorite Gilmore Girls EpisodesYes I'm 31 and yes I am <i>obsessed</i> with the Gilmore Girls. I was Rory's age during the original run and grew up with her. The show was relatable and funny and real if a bit eccentric and Rory LOVES to read and Lorelai LOVES coffee. Instant love. I have watched and rewatched the series dozens of times. I have shared the series with many people- friends, family, and unsuspecting significant others (sorry). And even though Rory is probably why I started watching Lorelai is why I continued watching.<br />
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So when news of the revival came out not only did I scream, but I then had about 20 people tell me about it because they knew I'd be so stoked...like I didn't know my friends. I then started listening to the <a href="http://www.gilmoreguysshow.com/">Gilmore Guys</a> podcast that just added to my obsession these last 6 months. It didn't make me love the show any more I still am pretty freakish in my obsession, but it did make me think about it in new and different ways which is totally fun!<br />
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So I finished my most recent Gilmore Girls rewatch a little early towards the end of October and then last week the last Gilmore Guys podcast for Season 7 Episode 22 and still had over a week left before the revival! Then the world almost ended. My family decided we're doing Thanksgiving on Friday- ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 25! The day the new episodes come out! Don't they know that will ruin my life?!?! But that's okay I'll wake up at midnight watch the 6 hours and then make my green beans and go to Thanksgiving...yes I'll be tired but it'll be worth it. SO what to do with my Thanksgiving Day? Watch my favorite 5 episodes you suggest? Okay!<br />
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<li><b>Season 2 Episode 10 The Bracebridge Dinner</b>: I know it's cliche'd but it's fun and snowy and has costumes and lots of townies. All the things you love with a big town shindig episode. Luke and Lorelai early chemistry which is some of their bet early chemistry. Sookie kitchen freak out. Early Jess and Rory chemistry. Emily and Richard looking fabulous- I want Emily's dress suit. It's a fun episode.</li>
<li><b>Season 3 Episode 9 A Deep-Fried Korean Thanksgiving</b>: Last year I made Hail watch this episode with me while we prepped for Thanksgiving. I've watched this episode probably for 10 years on Thanksgiving. It's so fun. The Gilmore Girls go to 4 Thanksgivings because they have freakish stomachs that allow them to eat the world and never get fat (someone please sign me up). Sookie's Thanksgiving is my favorite she gets drunk because her husband decides to deep fry her organic turkey and she's in denial. It's also one of the best Sookie episodes since her Wedding planning one. The Girls look beautiful and all the sets do too. I love the fall colors. There is a reason they're ending the revival with Fall because it's the Gilmore season. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><b>Season 4 Episode 2 The Lorelais' First Day at Yale:</b> Copper Boom! Going to college! I remember all these feelings and like Rory I only went to college an hour away from home as well. But it still was sad and I cried when my parents left. But this is fun. Paris, Tana, Yale! It's just a fun feel good episode. AND it changes Gilmore Girls forever- seriously this is a moment in the show where things are never the same because they're not living together anymore. Love.</li>
<li><b>Season 4 Episode 21 Last Week Fights, This Week Tights:</b> MY FAVORITE EPISODE! Of all time. Lorelai and Luke. LORELAI and LUKE! Renaissance Wedding! Jess! So good. There's a lack of Rory in this one (finals and a bad date) but it's okay because it's all about Lorelai. The Sam Phillips song that Luke and Lorelai dance to is beautiful and makes me cry. This is another episode that changes everything. I would say Season 4 is probably my favorite season, so much build up and potential. But this episode is wonderful and lovely and yay. </li>
<li><b>Season 5 Episode 18 To Live and Let Diorama:</b> And I love this episode juts because it's fun. Mr. Twickham dies which isn't the fun part but leads to the creation of the Star Hollows museum and diorama! So Luke has to work with Taylor to help build it and then for the opening Rory and Paris come to town and get drunk with Lane. Fun, fun, fun! It just makes me laugh. The next episode following is also a close 5.5 because it kinda continues where this story is going. </li>
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So not all of these episodes are groundbreaking super important episodes a lot of them are just fun and make me happy. Also I feel like a lot of these besides maybe Last Week Fights, This Week Tights make great introductory episodes to Gilmore if you want to share with friends. LOVE.</div>
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The first Gilmore Girls a Year in the Life trailer made me cry and I'm buzzing with anticipation. I will cry so much. I don't think I'll make it 10 seconds. Richard's funeral, all the reunions with the boyfriends. Rory being kinda lost. Lorelai not knowing what happened to her dreams. So many tears! I can't wait.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02692757926290338784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533325798637146046.post-83509679560416641462016-11-19T15:10:00.001-06:002016-11-19T15:10:16.713-06:00College Movie Project: Clerks 2, Lost in Translation and Sideways (and kinda V for Vendetta)Over the last few weeks the mane in my life has helped me watch quite a few movies for my movie project. With little to no respect for keeping chronology...or even some of my original rules.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Summer 2006: Clerks 2</span></b><br />
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<b><u>Movie Facts:</u></b><br />
Directed by Kevin Smith<br />
Google Genre: Buddy film(?)/Comedy<br />
Movie Tagline: With no power comes no responsibility. (true)<br />
Actors: <i>Jeff Anderson</i> and <i>Brian O'Halloran</i> which you'll only know from Clerks or other Kevin Smith movies; <i>Rosario Dawson</i> who I guess wasn't a big enough star at the time to realize she should turn this down.<br />
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<b><u>Before Rewatch:</u></b><br />
I was slightly annoyed to be watching it out of order, I had plans to watch <i>Clerks</i> on Election night<i> </i>because the very first time I saw it was on election night in 2004 and I had since watched on each subsequent election nights, must less stressful than actually watching the election. But I ignored my type-a-ness to watch it in order.<br />
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I told the man how much I loved this movie when it came out and the scene in the jail always made me cry and that it's such a great friend movie. Neither of us had probably seen it in a few years.<br />
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">After Rewatch</u>:<br />
I didn't cry this time. I still enjoy this movie, it makes me laugh and I do appreciate the mail bonding in jail scene but I don't know. To me the whole situation was just so sad. I feel like because I am now someone who hates when people are miserable in their jobs, I find it personally offensive, I think I didn't appreciate it as much as I used to. I feel like I just didn't find anything redeeming in it really.<br />
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My favorite scene is probably the argument about Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, I know people like that even today. Can't we all just get along! I severely dislike the Lord of the Rings because I was tricked into watching 9,000 hours of the extended versions without my knowledge and I will never get those hours of my life back. But I can still appreciate it's place in the world, but yes Star Wars will always be better- suck it.<br />
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I probably laughed hardest at the Wanda Sykes cameo and Earthquake.<br />
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Overall I really don't care for this movie as much without it's partner. I think when you watch Clerks then Clerks 2 it just makes better sense and you don't feel so shocked by everything. It's probably the first Kevin Smith movie I'd watched in a few years, it's just not high on my rotation list.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Fall 2003: Lost in Translation </span></b><br />
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<b><u>Movie Facts:</u></b><br />
Directed by Sophia Coppola<br />
Google Genre: Drama Film/Indie Film<br />
Movie Tagline: Sometimes you have to go halfway around the world to come full circle.<br />
Actors: <i>Bill Murray</i> this was before the big Murray revival right? He's great in this.<br />
<i>Scarlet Johansson</i> is the perfect lost little millennial. The man didn't like her performance, I tried to convince him it was appropriate...I think I failed.<br />
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">Before Rewatch</u>:<br />
I love this movie! I watch this movie probably a couple times a year and just love it so much. I feel like when it came out I could totally relate to the whole, what am I going to do with this ridiculously expensive liberal arts degree I'm working on! I would have been a Freshman at TLU at the time so I probably still thought it was an awesome idea and I wonder if this made me rethink that...I don't regret my degree but I can relate to the feeling that one might.<br />
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">After Rewatch</u>:<br />
Where the fuck did those drugs come from? OMG I did not remember that drug scene at all! I remember the scene but I did not remember that they took drugs, I literally have watched this movie dozens of times and had never noticed it. This probably all goes back to me being so incredibly naive when it comes to drug culture but seriously did not remember that.<br />
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Something that I really thought about this time too that I normally don't care about or pay attention to was Giovanni Ribisi's character. He really doesn't do anything terribly wrong. I mean he's a little neglectful or his wife's feelings, but nothing really terrible. He sends her a sweet love-fax (I want a love-fax) and he puts his arm around her when Anna Faris' character is being annoying, so honestly I feel like it's the post marriage thing- marriage changes everything (when will people believe me) and that the person you married is totally different than who you knew before. I also think that is a totally relatable feeling of marrying someone and then being like oh-shit I've made a mistake who is this person. Especially if you marry someone while you're still in school!<br />
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On the other side of it I always kinda ignore Bill Murray's fling with the lounge singer, where was Scarlet at this point? Why didn't he just go find her, or was he drunk? He must have been drunk right because when he wakes up the next morning he seems to really rethink his poor choices.<br />
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One of my favorite things about this movie is probably how little dialogue is actually in it. I love the montages and the scenery- the temple, the flower arranging class, the pool, the city lights, the arcade...it's just cool to see without a lot of distractions.<br />
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I still love this movie and will probably always love it. It's so good and always makes me smile. And no I don't care what Bill Murray whispers in her ear at the end. It would not make the world a better place knowing what they are.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Spring 2004: Sideways</span></b><br />
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<b><u>Movie Facts:</u></b><br />
Directed by Alexander Payne<br />
Google Genre: Drama film/Comedy-Drama<br />
Movie Tagline: In search of wine. In search of women. In search for themselves.<br />
Actors: <i>Paul Giamatti</i> duuuude get over it. But he's great in this role.<br />
<i>Thomas Haden Church</i> hey it's the guy from Wings!<br />
<i>Virginia Madsen</i> is a goddess and I love her.<br />
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<b><u>Before Rewatch:</u></b><br />
I remember I saw this with my first college boyfriend. This was way before I started really getting into wine, like years before and I remember still loving it. I remember Virginia Madsen's scene that they showed that year at the Academy Awards or Golden Globes when she's talking about wine being alive. I just remember loving her character so much and while it's totally not fully developed enough I just love her.<br />
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<b><u>After Rewatch:</u></b><br />
Still love this movie. I've probably watched this movie a handful of times after really starting to get into wine and whenever I go to wine tastings or a winery or anything I always think about certain scenes. I think it's fun to think about two men doing this, especially since my girlfriends and I have been talking about doing this for a few years. I think it's funny that they would go to wine country for a bachelor weekend...especially when the soon to be married bachelor isn't really into wine.<br />
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Not even 10 minutes into the movie I started laughing not at what was on the screen but just thinking about a scene- the man in my life asked me what was funny and I told him I was just thinking about a scene. A little bit later there's a scene where the men are at a winery tasting wine and Thomas Haden Church's character is trying to describe the wine and Paul Giamatti turns to him and says "Are you chewing gum?" and it does a quick cut to the next scene and I just start cracking up! It's one of my favorite scenes and always makes me laugh. Just thinking about it now still makes me chuckle.<br />
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People who know me know I don't like comedies, it has to be a really specific type of comedy for me to like it. So movies like this that are so funny but still so dark and depressing are really my favorite types of movies. I love the swing of emotions. The ending is rough for some people, I know people don't like unfinished things but I'm fine with it. I like to think that Virginia Madsen's character opens the door and maybe they don't get together immediately but become friends and eventually figure it out. I'd be upset if she immediately let him in. I love this movie and will keep watching it. <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">BONUS MOVIE: Spring 2006: V for Vendetta</span></b><br />
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<b><u>Movie Facts:</u></b><br />
Directed by <span class="itemprop" itemprop="name">James McTeigue</span><br />
Google Genre: Drama film/Thriller<br />
Movie Tagline: <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.</span></span><br />
Actors: <i>Natalie Portman</i> love her! It always takes me a little bit to get used to her accent but once I do I love her.<br />
<i>Hugo Weaving</i> isn't there like some weird thing about his role in this, like he wasn't the original V but does the voice? Or he did the acting but someone else did the voice? I can't remember<br />
<i>Stephen Rea</i> love him! The eternal police detective, but he plays it so well.<br />
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">Before Rewatch</u>:<br />
Okay I did not watch this when it came out. I watched it at some other point afterwards. Probably on November 5th, because I've been watching it on November 5th for years and years, which is why it's a bonus movie because it fits the timeframe and the man and I watched it on the 5th. We watched it right before the election and of course a few days later it's viewing takes on a bit more of a surreal quality, but it's always a good movie to watch annually.<br />
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">After Rewatch</u>:<br />
I love Natalie Portman but he character's motives are just not very clear in the beginning. Does she want to have dinner with Stephen Fry or not? If she does why the hell is she so late? Also the next day at work why does she look so suspicious when delivering the packages? She already looks like she know's she's going to try to deceive someone. I don't know--- always bothers me, still bothers me.<br />
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I always want to know more about Larkin and what the experiments were there. It reminds me of something out of a Margaret Atwood book. I want to know more about the doctor and her involvement and all of it. Like an Atwood book it's scary to think about some of these things happening and Stephen Rea's monologue about guessing how it'll happen - someone will do something stupid. It always starts with someone doing something stupid...<br />
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My favorite scene is always the first one with V blowing up Old Bailey and Evey looks at V like he's crazy conducting a fake symphony. It always makes me laugh.<br />
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It's a good movie, I enjoy watching it once a year and will continue to do so.<br />
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<b><u>Final Thoughts:</u></b><br />
I really love all these movies except Clerks 2, it'll probably have to wait another 4 years or so to be watched again. Lost in Translation out of the bunch is my favorite probably followed by V and then Sideways.<br />
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<u><b>Previous Movie Posts:</b></u><br />
<a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2016/10/september-2003-december-2006-in-movies.html">College movie project overview</a><br />
<a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2016/10/college-movie-project-stranger-than.html">Fall 2006 - Stranger than Fiction</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02692757926290338784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533325798637146046.post-77176470912699722942016-10-28T06:57:00.005-05:002016-10-28T07:00:47.345-05:00College Movie Project: Stranger Than Fiction Fall 2006<a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2016/10/september-2003-december-2006-in-movies.html">It's movie project time! </a> Read about it there <<<<<<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Fall 2006: Stranger Than Fiction</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Directed by </span><a class="fl" data-ved="0ahUKEwi5jaOYs_vPAhXF4CYKHeWLAzEQmxMIoAEoATAS" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Marc+Forster&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPgE-LUz9U3SMo1yitUAjNNDU1SjLXEspOt9NMyc3LBhFVKZlFqckl-EQAUTTeCMAAAAA&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi5jaOYs_vPAhXF4CYKHeWLAzEQmxMIoAEoATAS" style="background-color: white; color: #1a0dab; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Marc Forster</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Google Genre</b>: Fantasy/Drama </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b>Movie tagline</b>: Harold Crick isn't ready to go. Period. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><i>Will Ferrell</i> being not funny- I mean he's funny too, but it's a serious role (also I will never not first call him Colin Farrell)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">Monday night? I laid out all the movie choices on my coffee table and let the man in my life pick one since obviously I'd be watching all of them. Me to the man in my life- "you haven't seen it? It's so good!"...that's it. Apparently I sold it/he already wanted to watch it- whatever.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">The next day talking to my sister she said "oh I don't think I've seen that" and I reminded her that she <i>vehemently</i> refused to see it with daddy and I. Dad and I went to see it back over Christmas break that year and she wanted nothing to do with it. After I shared the summary she said "oh yah that doesn't sound like something I'd like" and I STILL disagree, she would like it. I really enjoyed it, dad thought it was weird but enjoyed Dustin Hoffman's role and he always likes when funny people play drama roles. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">The man in my life laughed a lot during this movie. There were a couple of places where I re-laughed. I can't remember if I cried the first time I saw it- I could see myself crying back then, but now I'm just touched, it's sweet. I love the ending and think it's all really touching. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I love when Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson's characters finally meet and hope they got together after that scene. (cheese city I know) Queen Latifah is fairly forgettable</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> in her role but has some good moments. It's nice she wants to help Emma Thompson kill Harold...kinda. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">My favorite scene back then was when Harold brings Ana "flowers". I always loved that! Now I just roll my eyes but that's also probably because I have a really screwed up sense of romance...no not screwed up I just don't like most romantic things is what it actually is.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Now my favorite scene is probably the one right after that, Ana makes Harold dinner and as she's cleaning up he starts playing her guitar and she walks back in and jumps him. Much more realistic to me.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;">The funniest parts to me were either after Harold finds out he's going to die and he runs back to his apartment "Harold frantically grabbed his lamp. Harold, incensed, shook the hell out of it for no apparent reason" or when he's trying not to move the plot along and watches a days worth of Discovery channel where animals are being violently eaten- then a wrecking ball finds him. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;"><b><u>Final Thoughts:</u></b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;">I still really like this movie. It's not very frequent on my rotation but every once in a while I pick it up for it's dry humor. If you know my movie taste you know comedy is so not my thing, I like thoughtful comedy and typical Will Ferrell movies are not my thing (and yes sometimes I do say that in a really mean way- sorry). I love all the Spoon songs sprinkled throughout and just find it entertaining. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;">So good job 2006 starting things off well. </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02692757926290338784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533325798637146046.post-5598324366617536082016-10-27T06:59:00.001-05:002016-10-27T06:59:03.061-05:00September 2003 - December 2006 in Movies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Before I turned 30 I did this really silly movie project where I watched <a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2015/02/30-days-30-years-30-movies.html">30 movies in kinda 30 days</a> where I challenged myself to watch a movie from every year I'd been alive. It was a super fun project that totally took more than 30 days but I did watch a movie from each year and some were good and some were bad. But since I enjoyed it so much I thought I'd do the same thing (kinda) for my 10 year college graduation anniversary! I was just going to do a movie per year like my 30 project but then that'd be really short and I wanted to make it more interesting...so I'm going to do more than that but break it up into semesters. So Fall 2003, Spring 2005, Summer 2006...etc. I made a list to start it off! I'll have till December 16th to finish it.<br />
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These are all the movies I saw when I was at TLU, the ones in italics are the ones I think I'm going to watch. * = I own it. If it was in my 30:30:30 project it's noted and will not be re-watched for this project. (Special Note: Google and Wikipedia have a disagreement or two on when movies came out so there could honestly be a few more I'm missing but I'm only including here the ones I saw in the theatre not movies that came out and I then saw later, I may make another list of those later...)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Butterfly Effect</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights*</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Longest Yard</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02692757926290338784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533325798637146046.post-51624590908504716692016-09-15T06:47:00.001-05:002016-09-15T06:47:04.644-05:001,461 Days Ago.4 years ago I started a series of day posts...<a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2012/09/theyre-only-days.html">They're only days</a>. It was in reaction to my impending divorce and move to BCS. I went back 6 years for that one. But I have always been a little bit obsessed with important days, dates, nostalgia and the like. I don't think I live in the past but I can't help remembering it- constantly. Okay maybe it's a problem. Lets look at some days!<br />
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313 days ago I told my apartment complex in BCS I'd be ending my lease May 30, 2016...I didn't have a job yet, but by hook or by crook I was heading home at the end of May.<br />
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243 days ago I got into Law School! St. Mary's Law School- the only one I wanted to go to. Where my dad went and of course back home in San Antonio. I cried hysterically, called my dad and he <u>totally</u> lacked enthusiasm because he had no doubt I would get in- THANKS DAD! Then I called everyone else and we all cried together.<br />
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Shit was getting real.<br />
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215 days ago I accepted my position at Palo Alto on the phone at 5:05 PM and proceeded to cry on Greg and Andrew's shoulders for another half hour freaking out about life.<br />
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183 days ago I left College Station. I thought my decision to leave San Antonio was hard, this was harder. I voluntarily left to pursue a new job, law school, and most importantly being with my family more.<br />
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These past 9 months have been amazing. They've also been incredibly challenging. Like when I moved to BCS it's hard to make new friends, start a new job knowing no one and of course not having your wine drinking friends by your side is just the worst! (Miss you my ladies that drink!) But these months have been filled with laughter and tears and love and hugs and more tears and music and stress and delicious REAL Mexican Food. So it's all worth it.<br />
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I don't have any major insights or anything but I'm weird about dates and couldn't just let it go by.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02692757926290338784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533325798637146046.post-59437197526359093932016-08-09T18:16:00.001-05:002016-08-09T18:16:42.246-05:00Why did I give that book 2 stars? (aka Mid-Year Book Report)<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MTtHvH_NVpo/V6pjCnARVPI/AAAAAAAAMsk/Cr6J4VpLyBUVCBStBltlbIAYUxMktcjyQCLcB/s1600/graveminder.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MTtHvH_NVpo/V6pjCnARVPI/AAAAAAAAMsk/Cr6J4VpLyBUVCBStBltlbIAYUxMktcjyQCLcB/s320/graveminder.jpg" width="212" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4069433-tyler?shelf=2012-in-books" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2012</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Ah yes the year I painfully introduced myself to </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3354.Haruki_Murakami" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Haruki Murakami</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (he’s now a favorite author of mine) and also the year I read too many damn books- 55 to be exact. </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4069433-tyler?shelf=2013-in-books&view=table" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2013</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Another year in which I read too many damn books, 56 this time. Also the year I read all the </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3472.Margaret_Atwood" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Margaret Atwood</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and Fantasy type books, I read the Narnia series for the first time. There are no dissonant 2 star reviews this year. The books I gave low star counts too totally deserved it. I also got better at writing reviews this year I so I still stand by what I said. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02692757926290338784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533325798637146046.post-34353347062698096152016-04-13T22:53:00.001-05:002016-04-13T22:53:34.662-05:00Review: Hamilton: The Revolution
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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26200563">Hamilton: The Revolution</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5725556">Lin-Manuel Miranda</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1608189840">0 of 5 stars</a>
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So good! This was like a behind the scenes tour or audio commentary on your favorite movie. I didn't need these stories to love Hamilton anymore but here they are they made me love it even more. This book made me cry in basically every chapter. So many heart breaking stories, so many beautiful moments, and so much passion and drive! Between the story about my fake boyfriend Leslie Odom Jr. finding his burr and Wait For It. Of course the gut wrenching stories behind It's Quiet Uptown. The entire cast was clearly sent from God, because they're perfect. It's one of those things where everything had to fall into place perfectly for it to work and it did. This is a short book - 230ish pages- and I had it pre-ordered from Amazon so it arrived yesterday on time on it's release date. But when I woke up I didn't want to wait till after work to start it, so I downloaded the audiobook and listened to the first half on my commute. I read the second half in my hardback copy. This book is gorgeous! The pages are beautiful, the pictures and the sketches and the notebooks, it's just a gorgeous item I already cherish. The audiobook is delightful, Mariska Hargitay's voice is very soothing and appropriate. I'm still going to listen to the audiobook over the next few days on my commute because sometimes they throw different things into the narration that make it fun. Also I'm waiting for Lin's part in the audiobook. In the libretto parts of the book I can't help but sing along in my head, I've been listening to this musical for half a year now and so I know it by heart. I love the backstory and the backstory of the backstory too. If you're a fan pick it up.
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In 14 days I'll be moving back to San Antonio. After 3 1/2 years I've come to really love this place and the people. When I first moved here I hated it, I was so homesick I wanted to just pack up and head home. My boss joked back then that when I went home for Christmas that year she wasn't sure I would to come back! It was bad. But over Christmas I made the decision that would end up changing my life here. I looked up information about the community theatre that did musicals in town and decided to audition for one of my favorite shows. It was through this threatre that I met some amazing people and three very special ladies who would become my closest friends while living here. So it's only fitting that as I get ready to head home I commemorate my time here through songs from the shows I was a part of.<br />
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The first show I did was in the February and March of 2013. <b>Sunset Boulevard</b> one of my favorites growing up (my step-father had been obsessed with it). So I knew the show very well and was so excited to be in the cast and have a bunch of fun random little parts. I love the music for this show, it's Andrew Lloyd Webber on crack, fun harmonies and crazy piano, it was a fun show...well kinda dark but still really fun. The costumes were cool and 40s-ish? and it was fun to be back in character shoes after taking about a 9 year break from doing musical theatre. I wore my hair in a <i>snood</i> because I will always have too much hair for my own good. The song that always comes back to me is "This time next year", it takes place at a New Years party and everyone is singing about their hopes and dreams and plans for next year. I've been planning and talking about this move for almost a year now too so it's great that it's actually finally working out. My only resolution this year was to find a job, get into law school and move home- all those things are happening so I consider it a successful resolution so far.<br />
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The next show I got to do with the theatre was <b>9 to 5</b>- sooooo fun! I mean Dolly- come on how could you go wrong? This show had a lot more dancing in it than I was used to/qualified for but it was just a blast! We started rehearsing for it at the end of May 2013 and it ran sometime in the Summer. So since it was summer I feel like all the cast just had a lot of fun with each other, we went out almost every night after rehearsal and it was just too much fun. I feel like all the songs were particularly meaningful to me and if I thought about certain ones I would get a little teary. I feel like the show just spoke to me so much because I had left a husband, started a new job and was feeling all the overwhelmed feelings too! "I just might" always made me tear up and we were in really low lighting so it was all sorts of emotional, "Shine like the sun" was so great too when you listen to the lyrics, but I think "Change it" is the song that really fits my time here because it was a song I always looked forward to and it cheesily plays into my own thinking. If you don't like something then get off your butt and change it! Whenever this song comes on my playlist I can't help but sing along and smile, and tear up because I'm a sappy mess.</div>
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Then I took the fall off the next semester but came back in December 2013 and January 2014 for <b>Jesus Christ Superstar</b>. JCS has been my favorite musical for as long as I can remember. I've seen it at the Majestic Theatre in San Antonio at least 3 times as well as 3 community productions and have wanted to be in it <i>forever</i>. I was so thrilled when I found out I got to be in this one because I love the show but also it was Director selected, no audition. It only ran one weekend because it was a fundraiser show and it had an abbreviated rehearsal schedule, but again it was a super fun show, the dancing was a weird sort of modern, and we needed to wear kneepads under our flowy hippie dresses. It was just a cool experience once you got past all the bruises. "Heaven on their minds" will always be my favorite song from this show- I just love it so much, but for a song that I feel represents my time here in BCS or my attitude I think "Could we start again please" is it. Not that I want to do over anything because I've loved every experience I've had here, but because I want to relive it! I would have joined the theatre community a little earlier, done some shows in the fall now that I know what my schedule looked like, but I just want to relive it all again! This who experience was unexpected for sure.</div>
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Immediately after JCS I auditioned for <b>Little Women</b> the show in which at 28 I played a 12 year old blonde girl from Massachusetts. Don't worry no one believed I was 12. I was so shocked when I was cast as Amy March, I believe I started screaming at 6AM when I woke up and saw the cast list. My mom was staying with me and just started laughing. This was another fun show to be a part of, a super small cast compared to the other shows I'd done. One of my favorite things about this show besides the awesome people I got to work with, were the costumes! So fun. My wedding dress was gorgeous, my back from Europe dress was shiny and pink and my dresses as young Amy were super cute with the aprons on top of them. Then of course getting to dye my hair Blonde was fun too. Yes blonde's really do have more fun I promise. I killed my hair, but it was so fun to completely change my appearance so drastically for a show. (I'll never do it again!) This is a show I was pretty much completely unfamiliar with the music prior to the show, so I'm so glad I did it because there are some great songs in it. When I think back on this show I think the song at the end of the first act that everyone loved belting out backstage or in their cars is the one that sticks with me the most. "Astonishing" it's a great song to pump yourself up and tell yourself that you're going to do the best you can and you're going to be great at it. You'll conquer everything you need to, to reach your goals. So I love it. </div>
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The last show I did at the theatre was a very different experience than all the others before it, so that's why it was my last. It wasn't bad it just didn't have the same feel and this was the point where I started to realize that the theatre had served it's purpose here to connect me with some amazing people and new friends. So my last show was the summer of 2014 for <b>Legally Blonde</b>. I had already started to dye my hair back to it's natural color now, so it's a good thing I was cast as Chutney the curly haired killer daughter. I was also a law student but all these roles could be done as a legal brunette. This was another dancing heavy show and I feel like it was an excellent work out between the "ethnic movement" and the prison jump rope scene. The music for this show is just fun and happy and another great motivational song that I always come back to is "What you want". This is the number we wore band uniforms and hot shorts for (good god the hot shorts). But Elle is studying for her LSAT and trying to get into Harvard and she has to deal with all these distractions while studying and I feel like I lived that this whole song last year, studying for my LSAT and applying for law school and jobs and having so much up in the air, but I still did it all my own way and it paid off in the end...like it did for Elle ;)</div>
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So that's it! My sappy journey through musicals! I have so many pictures from these shows and some great stories, a few injuries, some good and bad costume choices and questionable eyebrow makeup. I used the word fun too many times, but that is what it was. As someone who used to be very opposed to fun, I learned to enjoy it and embrace it. I met some amazing people and created memories I'll cherish forever. I'm so glad I went out on a limb here and got involved with the theatre, my life in BCS would have been very different and possibly much shorter if I hadn't. Thank you theatre community!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">***I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that in Summer 2015 I did do a brief thing with another community theatre in town, but I only came in for one song or olio during their intermissions and then left, but it was a super fun and cool experience too with the Stage Center, it was really fun to see how a different theatre in the community worked and I wish I'd done more there in my time here***</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02692757926290338784noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533325798637146046.post-48974706088703140192016-01-12T11:15:00.001-06:002016-01-12T13:52:37.903-06:00What did I read in 2015?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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44 books. I read 44 books last year and my goal was 40. So yay! But I feel kinda bad because I definitely cheated this year. Of those 44...17. 17 were audio books. I drove home to San Antonio at least once a month last year and a couple months twice. So every trip home I got through at least 1 audio book and sometimes two. So now that my dirty, secret (so wasn't a secret), confession is out there lets talk about what I read!<br />
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Every year I keep a spreadsheet on Google Drive that tracks what Genre (my defined genre may not align with the rest of the world's), the authors, audio books, if I liked it, how many a month and a few more variables I like to keep track of. For someone who hates math I love to look at these numbers. Here are the most important ones to me:<br />
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13 books in the Memoir/Nonfiction category.<br />
8 books read in July. (only 1 audio book)<br />
6 books by Hugh Howey (but some were a collection- I know cheating again)<br />
480 Pages was the longest book The Hypnotist's Love Story<br />
17 books that were released this year<br />
1973 oldest book published The Princess Bride<br />
4 Sequels<br />
16 Library books (a student worker said I go to the library more than him)<br />
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24 EPUB books<br />
3 Physical books<br />
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In 2014 I only read 30 books and I remember it came down to December 30th before I hit that goal. In 2015 I hit my goal on November 8th. Comparing from year to year Non-Fiction is a new winner category for me. This year I just couldn't get enough of real stories! And my favorite book of the year comes from this category- we'll get to it. July is typically the month of the year I read the most. It's summer, it's hot outside, so I stay in and read a lot. Hugh Howey is a two year winner for Author I read the most from, but I only discovered him two years ago so I've exhausted his catalog now. in 2014 my longest book was 1,300 pages...so I fail there. I wasn't tracking the other stats prior to 2015, so I don't know on those, but it does look like in 2014 I read a lot more sequels.<br />
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The worst book I read this year I didn't even rate with a star, Holly Madison's Down the Rabbit Hole was a fine book. It probably doesn't deserve a no star review but since it was such a guilty pleasure read I just couldn't rate it. The second worst book I read this year and did feel it deserved a 1 Star to bring it's rating down was Lena Dunham's Not that Kind of Girl. OMG who is rating this thing so high. If you want you can read my review <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1342461503?book_show_action=false">here </a>but I did not like this book. I assume it was geared towards her fans but there was no redeeming value in this book uhg. Then in the 2 star spot we have a tie between the final installment of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/935861094?book_show_action=false">The Southern Reach </a>trilogy and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1197573079?book_show_action=false">The Girl on the Train</a>. Reviews are linked. I actively hated both these books but I finished them because I had to. I'm just that stubborn.<br />
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1191993291?book_show_action=false">Once Upon a River</a> the second book I read this year, fiction. About a girl who's unfortunate circumstances send her floating down a river and surviving the only way she knows how (by attaching herself to men). A heartbreaking story with a beautiful ending. This was a recommendation and I loved it. Also a library and audio book.<br />
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1397581378?book_show_action=false">In a Dark, Dark Wood</a> Probably my favorite mystery read of the year. A creepy story of a bridesmaid (Hen) weekend gone awry. There's lost memory and conspiracy and lots of snow and running. I don't know how this book came on my radar but I'm so glad it did. Another library audio book...I'm noticing a trend<br />
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/792000156?book_show_action=false">The Good Nurse</a> A true story of serial killer nurse! Sign me up! Such a great story too, how did this guy keep killing patients for so many years? Because our health system allowed him to. What a creepy story. This was a library book as well but an Epub one.<br />
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1316350431?book_show_action=false">Pirate Hunters</a> Okay next year I'll write down how I heard about my books. I loved this! Nothing like scuba diving treasure hunters trying to make history. A great non-fiction account of what it took to find the legendary <i>Golden Fleece.</i><b style="font-style: italic;"> </b>Another library book but I checked out the actual physical book. I read this one at Fish Camp and kept bugging everyone with how good it was.<br />
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1301243297?book_show_action=false">Isaac's Storm</a> I read this during a particularly rainy weekend and I devoured this thing. I could not put it down. Erik Larson is my favorite nonfiction writer and I just loved this book so much. The story of the great Galveston hurricane. I bought the actual physical book from Half Price and when I went to pay the cashier asked if I was buying it for a class, I told her no it was just for fun and she looked at me oddly. Apparently this book is a textbook!<br />
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/768801416?book_show_action=false">This is the Story of a Happy Marriage</a> a collection of essays by Ann Patchett. I loved this book. I checked out the physical book from the library and had been wanting it for so long. It was great. All her stories about love and marriage, friendship and opening up a bookstore. I had never read anything by her but have added her fictional works to my TBR list. I remember this book so fondly and with many tears. It was lovely.<br />
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My second favorite book of the year another physical library book I was waiting and waiting for it's release. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24013720-wind-pinball">Wind/Pinball</a> by Haruki Murakami my favorite Japanese author (ok and probably the only one I've read). These are his two first novellas printed in English for the first time. They're also a part of the Rat stories Rat 1 & 2. As the first things he published it was so neat to see where he started and the beginning of what has become such an amazing storyteller. I loved reading about his process of translating and how he originally became a writer, the stories themselves were great as well but the whole was just so special. I keep a list of all the books I want to purchase hardbacks of when I have my house again and space and this is at the top of that list.<br />
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Then my favorite book of the year....a library audio book...<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1202316883?book_show_action=false">DEAD WAKE</a> by Erik Larson. Two of his this year made the list. I started listening to this book during the great Memorial Day weekend flood of 2015. Appropriate as well. I was stressed, the roads were closed and I couldn't get home! We all know the story of the Lusitania, but do you know the story of the passengers or the crew. What about Woodrow Wilson? Did you know he was dating while he was in the White House? Did you know how freaking dangerous U-Boats were? Seriously I question the sanity of those who signed up to be a U-Boat sailor (for many reasons). The stories are all interwoven and anything in this book is there for a reason. Even though you know the ending it is still so suspenseful and I totally kept thinking ooooh they're going to make it! This is why Erik Larson is so great. I got the audio book for my dad for Christmas because he's been driving a lot for work and he recently finished it and loved it too.<br />
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Looking back on 2015 I'm happy with what I read. I've started out 2016 reading a book for a book club and planning for a slightly less impressive reading goal of 35 because I hope to move home, start a new job and go to law school this year. I don't think I'll have as much time to read this year. But I will probably continue my audio book trend as I drive to and from San Antonio, I'm really enjoying using my library and I still like to shop for bargain books at half price. Happy Reading in 2016 friends.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02692757926290338784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533325798637146046.post-41985701296050009292016-01-06T15:03:00.001-06:002016-01-06T15:03:05.347-06:00What did I see in 2015? Movies! Happy New Year! This is my first of my annual movies and books and sometimes music of the past year review. Last year I saw quite a few movies, I even saw more movies than a good friend of mine who I feel is always at the movies. Technically 21 but I saw one twice...can you guess which. <br />
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Here's the quick and dirty view of what I saw and my immediate thoughts afterwards <b>(***Star Wars maybe spoilers if you haven't seen it yet****)</b><br />
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<li>Big Eyes- good, predictable, but good</li>
<li>Whiplash- so good!!! OMG why aren't I a musician?</li>
<li>Mortdecai- about what was expected which was not a lot...I don't know why I saw this...who's idea was this?</li>
<li>A Most Violent Year- SO GOOD! Really enjoyed. OMG</li>
<li>The Last 5 Years- terrible, awful, no good. Why God why?</li>
<li>50 Shades of Grey- about as expected- actually I expected a little more maybe...thank god for purse alcohol</li>
<li>Woman in Gold- nothing special, but fine</li>
<li>Aloha- not as bad as I expected but not good</li>
<li>Magic Mike 2- Tanning Chatum is everyone's type...</li>
<li>Trainwreck- not nearly as good as expecting- such an average chick flick</li>
<li>Minions- saw for work..it was fine</li>
<li>Ricki and the Flash- excellent mother daughter movie...awwww</li>
<li>The Gift***- soooo good!</li>
<li>The Man from UNCLE- really good, very enjoyable, just fun</li>
<li>Grease- Sing-A-Long...ummmm I remember this movie differently </li>
<li>American Ultra- weird but good</li>
<li>Psycho- TCM September movie- good</li>
<li>The Intern- cute chick flick nothing special</li>
<li>The Martian- LOVE! </li>
<li>Joy- interesting...not bad but not excellent, loved the actors</li>
<li>Star Wars: The Force Awakens- OMG! Why, why did you kill him? Rey is so Luke's, I must see this again.</li>
<li>Star Wars: The Force Awakens- second viewing...Duh Rey is so Luke's bite me if you don't believe me listen to the music. Also why is their piano, Star Wars doesn't do Piano...this deserves at least one more viewing...</li>
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So my favorite movie is a tie between The Gift and The Martian and yah I guess Star Wars (we'll get to that later). The Gift was a total surprise favorite I wasn't expecting to like it as much as I did. It was creepy it was suspenseful I'm not a good mystery solver so I was surprised. I just loved it. The Martian was a non-surprise favorite. I loved the book and knew I'd love the movie. This was just a fun feel good movie. </div>
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The three runner ups and also surprises that are in the favoritish category are Whiplash, A Most Violent Year and The Man from UNCLE. Whiplash was intense, I hadn't planned to see it but some friends were going and I was invited- movies are $4 here it's easy to justify going to any of them- and I was so pleasantly surprised. I knew it would be good but didn't know how good. Fun, intense movie. A Most Violent Year I really wanted to see because of the actors in it and it did not disappoint. I had just watched another violent movie that weekend and this fit right in. Not a feel good movie but great. It was so pretty in a dark mysterious way. I just really liked it and remember it fondly. Then The Man from UNCLE I didn't hear about till the week it came out and was like, okay why not go to a movie. It was so fun! I loved it. I found it light hearted and entertaining something I don't normally go for in movies, so it was fun.</div>
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WORST movies I saw this year hmmm that' tough there were a lot...Mortdecai- still don't know why we went to this movie, seriously someone please remind me- terrible. The Last fucking 5 Years. Who is responsible for this?!?! Seriously WHO and WHY and please don't ever direct anything again. 50 Shades of Grey- eh we knew what we were getting into so we brought alcohol. It wasn't worse than expected though...</div>
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Now Star Wars- oh Star Wars. I could probably just write a full review but I'm lazy. I loved Star Wars. I was supposed to originally see it at Midnight with my family, I was going to drive to SA and see it with them, but then we decided we were too old and would just see it when I get home. THEN one day I get a message from my brother in law asking me when I was coming home for Christmas...I responded and he said something along the lines of that sucks and I slowly learned that his office has rented out theaters to see it and he and my sister would be seeing it without me. I disowned them and told them they were dead to me...then got over it and made a plan to just see it with my dad when I got home. My sister loved it and decided she wanted to see it with our father too so she saw it for a second time when my father and I saw it for our first on the Saturday after Christmas. </div>
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I only cried 3 times. I was expecting more tears, but it was great. I loved it immediately and decided I needed to see it again. So two days later I got to see it with my brother in law and his best friend for my second viewing. This time I got a little misty but not big tears. I still loved it. In the end I got to see it with my dad, sister and brother in law- the three people I wan't to see it with most and who care that I didn't get to see it when it first came out. I successfully avoided all spoilers for it and didn't know who died or really the backstories of anyone and so all was good. I will still probably see it one more time before it leaves theaters.</div>
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So it was a good year for movies. I think like last year I wouldn't have seen so many movies if I didn't live in a town that has $4 matinee prices. Evening prices are only $6 so that's not really bad either. In San Antonio I don't even want to think about how much 22 movies would have cost me, but here in College Station I'm fine with it.</div>
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Here's my movie post from last <a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2014/12/what-did-i-see-in-2014-movie-edition.html">year</a>. </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02692757926290338784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533325798637146046.post-85552738928735886262015-12-27T08:10:00.001-06:002015-12-27T08:10:08.906-06:00Review: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20663702">Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7802044">Caitlin Doughty</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1050393078">4 of 5 stars</a>
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Really enjoyed this one. I have been following Caitlin Doughty's 'Ask a Mortician' YouTube series for a few years now and always loved her 'death positivity' and the way she shared information and her thoughts on the death industry. Her book was terribly informative but also very humorous and real. She has such a passion for her profession and the people/bodies she takes care of it comes across throughout the entire book. Parts of the book were really gross, lots of details on embalming and cremation, but humorous anecdotes that reminds you even in the death industry you have to find things to laugh about. Caitlin is also the founder of 'The Order of the Good Death' a community of morticians, doctors, artists, and death positivity folks who want to help get away from the commercialization of the industry, as is said many times in the book and it's horrifying to me, but death is big business and big money. So the Order wants to make it more personalized and let the family be involved again, all things that do sound lovely.<br /><br />I've pretty much wanted to be cremated since college when I took a 'Death and Dying' class but just because you're cremated doesn't mean there aren't pre-cremation services, viewings or rituals that could take place. So while I know this is probably a touchy subject to a lot of people and most people wouldn't want to read a book like this around the holidays, I really enjoyed it and don't get scared talking or thinking about it. If you've ever been interested or just have a morbid curiosity about cremation, mortuary scienty, or why a young woman from Hawaii would choose to go into the death business after getting a liberal arts degree then I'd say pick it up, you might like it.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02692757926290338784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533325798637146046.post-64694848043536399082015-11-08T18:34:00.001-06:002015-11-08T18:34:49.641-06:00Review: Pretty Girls: A Novel
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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25250077">Pretty Girls: A Novel</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12504">Karin Slaughter</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1432934190">4 of 5 stars</a>
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Suspenseful! I was so nervous after the first 100 pages. The rest of the book made me anxious! I was reading so fast I know I skipped over a lot of stuff. It's been a while since i was so anxious to read a book I probably skimmed over a lot of it. I read it all I did but I was reading so fast because I just had to know what happened. This was a great suspenseful mystery. Not all mysteries are suspenseful but this one was. As is well known on Goodreads I greatly dislike books that go back and forth between narrators in most cases it really pisses me off. In this case however it didn't. The story was told from the point of view of two sisters living the same time frame and interacting. It was also broken up with letters from their father. The narrators were not unreliable- thank god, I'm over that female trope- but they were very different. We didn't so much see inside their heads as much as we lived their dialogue. This was a book that the story took place in the dialogue instead of the behind the scenes things. I read fast between the dialogue- the spoken words were the important things. I do feel this book was a bit too long, there were lots of moments where things seemed to drag, I found myself screaming at the horribly stupid characters in my mind. OMG what is wrong with you, why are you doing this by yourself have someone help you! But it was still great and a good way to end my 40 books for the year. I checked this book out digitally from my library and love that. I've read a bunch of good library books this year. I'm not done reading but my challenge is over. I'm glad it ended with a good suspenseful novel like this.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02692757926290338784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533325798637146046.post-29747355434371010772015-10-27T18:00:00.001-05:002015-10-27T18:00:37.699-05:00Review: Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239186">Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5869">Erik Larson</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1301243297">5 of 5 stars</a>
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There is a reason I studied history in college. I just love a good story and history is filled with them! Scary stories, stories that tell us where we've been and where we could be again if we don't freakin' learn our lessons. This book was amazing. It was the story of one man's complete belief in his way and that his way was right. About another man who wanted to find out more, why, how. About stupid American politicians who didn't want to listen to foreigners because they were right...seriously listen to the people who have been there longer than you....uhg history! It's about learning to not dismiss amateurs cause sometimes they get things right. It's about trusting your gut, listening to your wife, getting away from the freakin' water- omg the water is coming towards you go the other way! It's about learning from your mistakes and trying to figure out what more could be done. It's just a really good book.<br /><br />Now this is Erik Larson's first book of this kind- where he takes a subject researching all the moving pieces and puts together a story out of it- I believe and so it's not as detailed as some of his later works, but it's still so good! It was fascinating to hear how the weather bureau was founded, about the signal corps, how weather stations were originally set up and where. It was also cool to see how if things had happened just slightly different Galveston would have been "Houston"- if that was the case maybe I'd hate Houston a little less today... I just really enjoyed it. I don't know a lot of weather and meteorology and storms but now I have an interest. <br /><br />Another thing this book gave me was a new irrational fear to add to my list! Drowning inside my own house! OMG how awful that must have been! Again hopefully I will never live by the sea but if I do if water is slowly coming up to my house over you know a 12 hour period...I would go in the direction AWAY from the water...that makes sense right? Loved this book. I recommend to anyone who list history, to any Texan, for anyone who hates Houston (or Galveston), for anyone who loves Houston (or Galveston) and for anyone who has ever lived by a body of water...yep.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02692757926290338784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533325798637146046.post-61333009859189336492015-10-14T08:11:00.001-05:002015-10-14T08:11:53.089-05:00Review: This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17349222">This is the Story of a Happy Marriage</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7136914">Ann Patchett</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/768801416">4 of 5 stars</a>
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I was about to say this book only made me cry three times but then I read the last page. Goodness this woman is a wonderful writer- storyteller and has had a very interesting life. I've never read any of Ann Patchett's novels and this is a collection of Essays she's written over her time as a writer. They cover everything from school, friendships, marriage(s), nuns and dogs. This book has been on my to read list for two years and I'm glad I read it now instead of when I added it. I don't think I would have seen it the same way. <br /><br />My favorite essays are "The Sacrament of Divorce", "The Right to Read", "Introduction to The Best American Short Stories of 2006", "The Bookstore Strikes Back", "This is the Story of a Happy Marriage" and "The Mercies". Honorable mention to all the ones about her dogs- omg the tears and the ones about her grandmother. There's a lot of good stuff in here.<br /><br />Several of her essays address the readers specifically and I loved a quote where she said that once the book is in the readers hand the author should stay out of it cause the relationship is now between the book and the reader not the author and the reader. I agree! I've always felt bad for authors who get pestered about their characters after the book is finished, if they'd had more to say don't you think they would have written more? Tangent.<br /><br />Anyways I liked this book a lot and would recommend it. I'm not sure if I'll read any of her novels, I'm such a fan of her essays now I want more of those- she talked about how her novels are all made up stuff and her essays were written because she was trying to make a living as a writer so I don't know...
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02692757926290338784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533325798637146046.post-66026981199001337722015-10-07T08:05:00.001-05:002015-10-07T08:05:46.755-05:00Review: Wind/Pinball: Two Novels
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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24013720">Wind/Pinball: Two Novels</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3354">Haruki Murakami</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1354671660">5 of 5 stars</a>
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So basically Murakami has always been amazing. These were his first two books/novellas really and they were amazing. I loved it! It's like seeing him find his voice and style as a writer. This is the first time these we published in mass in English and I'm so happy to have been able to read them finally! There's also a super cool introduction where Murakami talks about how he initially wrote in Japanese but didn't like it so he then wrote it in English and translated it into Japanese! How cool is that! He said once he did that he liked his writing much more. He started writing after going to a baseball game and just had the thought that one day he'd be a famous writer, so he better start now. At the time he and his wife owned a jazz bar! He's just fascinating I need to read his memoir too, but I just loved these stories and love his writing.<br /><br />All the usual Murakami themes and motifs are there- music, a story inside a story, women who are smarter than men, men who are absolutely useless and way too old to be going through identity crisis, cats, weird sex dreams, other literary references (quotes, retelling of other's stories, reading at all), minimalist stuff (apartments, design), trains, and food- eating always plays a role. It's just so fun to see these things told over and over again and it never seems repetitive or boring.<br /><br />This books fits in the larger scheme of his Rat stories. A character without a name but Rat, who effects other's lives without really living his own, or by just being passive in his own. The first book he was just a side character and in the second I'm not even sure who he was. But that doesn't take away from anything.<br /><br />If you've never read Murakami and are wanting to get into it I still highly suggest Norwegian Wood as your first, but these as a close second because if you don't like this you're probably not going to like where Murakami goes in his late works either. YAY!!!
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02692757926290338784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533325798637146046.post-41004465884692344772015-07-31T18:47:00.001-05:002015-07-31T18:47:35.647-05:00Review: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19288239">Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3354">Haruki Murakami</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1030095702">5 of 5 stars</a>
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Most Murakami books I only want to read once, I'd read them again if I could read them for the first time again but I can't. I think this one I could read again. The coming of age story of a 36 year old man. Tsukuru is haunted by the abandonment of his best friends 16 years earlier, his entire adulthood was shaped by the fact that they left him without reason. It wasn't until a girlfriend told him he deserved to know why that he finally decided to get to the root of the problem. The first half of the book focuses on the time right after his friends left him in flash backs between high school, college and present. The second half is his journey to track down his old friends and ask them why. Through the asking of why he learns more about him self and the world than he had in the previous 16 years. <br /><br />It was really good. It has all of Murakami's regular characters- music, whiskey, fixation on breasts, dreams, and trains. All of Murakmai's books feel very comfortable because you know all those things will be there. Another thing that's always there is the sad and kinda pathetic male character. A male character without any really outstanding characteristics. Plain, boring men. Men with jobs and good lives all around but nothing exceptional about them. Meeting them once you would't remember them- Tsukuru is no exception here. Why did his friends find him such good company? Why does his girlfriend like him so much? He leads such a boring life and has literally NO INTERESTS. Then there are the women in Murakami's stories that are always so damaged- there's always a woman with some sort of mental illness or a woman who has been damaged by men- always. In fact mental illness does seem to always be involved too- depression, suicide. <br /><br />I loved the book, it was not a feel good book. It wasn't a horribly depressing book either. Also spoiler alert- the ending is very unsatisfying but I don't think there was another way out that would have left me satisfied. Another book that just makes me want to read more. I found this one light enough to where I don't feel like I need 6 months off Murakami like I did with 1Q84 and Wind Up Bird...those took a toll on my mind...
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02692757926290338784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533325798637146046.post-14218515783836717702015-06-24T15:06:00.004-05:002015-06-24T15:06:35.635-05:00Mid Year Book Report 2015I would say my reading dramatically increased the year I got my Nook and Joined Goodreads.<br />
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Guess what year I'm talking about...in 2008 I actually ready 15 books but that was also the year I started grad school. So at the end of 2009 I bought my first of many nooks and joined Goodreads in the Summer of 2010. <br />
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But this isn't about my Goodreads love affair which I'm sure I've talked about before...but my book reading this year a little past the half way point. And I will kinda compare it to previous years...<br />
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So every year I set a reading challenge. For a few years it was 50+ and I hit it but these last two years I've brought it down a little. Last year just to 30 (which was a very surprising sprint for me at the end I didn't think I'd make it) and this year back up a little to 40. As you can see I'm behind. Why am I so behind? It's driving me nuts! But I'm in a book rut. I can't find things I want to read. I can't find as many book that I can just read in 2-3 days because they're than enrapturing. I remember in 2012 and 2013 I would just put books away! I could devour two books a weekend and I just found so much I really wanted to read. This year that just has not been the case. I'll start a book get about 50-75 pages into it and just give up, can't finish it, it refuses to hold my attention. I feel like the few books I have read have taken me very little time because they were fast paced and fairly easy. So lets break down what I've read so far.<br />
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Out of 13 books only two 5 Star books. BOTH non-fiction. And one I didn't even read I listened to the audio book of. It was an amazing audio book, but an audio book non the less. Next we have a good number of 4 Star books. We have a leadership book, 4 alien/dystopian/other worldy books, a crime fiction book and then a general fiction. None of these books were 5 star material but they all were good and I enjoyed them for what they were. Oooh one of those kinda alien books in that group is totally a short story that doesn't belong here but is here because I finished it...ooops. If I hit my goal I'll figure out a way to remove it later. 3 Star books are just average to me, I didn't hate them and I don't regret reading them but they're just like eh they're there. I have a Liane Moriarty fun not-yo-mama's chick lit style book and then a YouTube personalities book...both were delightful and I think of them both fondly but just 3 stars. The the last book is a 2 star. I hated this book. I'm upset I wasted a week reading it. Everyone else in the world loves this book but I did not. A Girl on a Train...uhhg.<br />
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Three out of these 13 are audio books and that's okay. I like audio books when I drive back and forth to San Antonio and I have done that A LOT this year. I'm surprised there isn't another one in there... oh there is 4 audio books- good job. So that helps, I'll probably knock out another 2-3 books via audio book before the year is through. <br />
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Looking at the books like this none of them seem to go together, I don't have a cohesive theme or trend. I don't every year but some years I do- some years I read a lot of Mysteries or a lot of Sci-Fi and some years it's just all over the place. I think if I had one theme that I just was really enjoying at the moment I could read book after book like that but I'm not. There has actually only been one book that I just had to get back to and needed to know the ending of and I was pretty bummed when it was over. But I usually look forward to reading and starting new books and this year I'm just blah. I choose to vedge and watch TV or YouTube instead of reading...hopefully it's just a half year funk...and I'll snap out of it soon.<br />
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PS Something I'll probably write about a little more at the end of the year is how I remember books a few months after reading them. I've been looking back on how I rated books last year or the year before and wonder why I gave it such a lot rating when I remember it so fondly and recommend it to everyone! I think sometimes when I review a book immediately after I finish it I'm more critical vs if I let it sit a while and then think back on how the book made me feel. Anyways more to come on that.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02692757926290338784noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533325798637146046.post-62649385922625104642015-05-09T06:49:00.003-05:002015-05-09T06:49:44.236-05:00May the Fourth- Star Wars Original Trilogy: Jedi<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Last weekend I did this > <a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2015/05/may-fourth-star-wars-binge-episodes-1-3.html">Star Wars Prequel Trilogy</a></span></span><br />
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Does everyone enjoy Lando as much as I do? I hope so<br />
37 minutes in, no clear drinking game identified...<br />
Hey it's the Emperor. Does he has a cane?<br />
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Everytime someone dies? Lots of people die in this one right?<br />
44 minutes in seriously bored...<br />
Didn't I used to like Return of the Jedi? Okay fine I still like it, but...<br />
Oh good, ghosty force Obi-Wan...let's have a heart to heart<br />
Yah Luke call him on his bullshit<br />
Obi-Wan takes all the credit what about Qui-Gon/Aslan/Zeus/Ra's<br />
Yay Admiral Ackbar!<br />
"Good luck, you're gonna need it" - I say this all the time and no one gets the reference...it makes me so sad. My dad does...<br />
PAUSE... we interrupt this viewing to go Paint with a Twist...<br />
Okay, we're back and Chewie is flying casually...<br />
My dad's dogs are about to make their debut! Shitzu's make adorable rebels!<br />
So Stormtroops can't shoot or fly...so what are they good for again? I feel like they were so much more competent when they were the Jedi's Clone Army...<br />
I mean they did rescue the Jedi forces several times... then the Empire takes them over and the suck, besides their quantity.<br />
Seriously Mark Hamill looks old...<br />
I agree with R2 it is pretty there.<br />
Oooh look it's the Ewoks!<br />
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They're just to cute to be anything else. Adorable, I just want to cuddle one! But then I remember they're people in suits...and that's not okay.<br />
Poor Han so worried about Leia...poor Leia so trusting of small woodland animals...<br />
Lol, yes Chewie because something dead in a tree is the perfect thing to mess with!<br />
EWOKS! Lots of them!<br />
I like the pretty grey haired one...<br />
So like all of the Cannibal Scene in the 3rd or 2nd Pirates movie is taken from here right? Which Pirates was that? At World's End? I think so...or Dead Man's Chest...dammit I get those confused.<br />
And they're able to immediately make clothes appropriate for Leia...<br />
Awwww the baby Ewok is adorable.<br />
Shock em R2! Get 'em!<br />
She died when you were born! That's like really very young not just regular young...<br />
Oooh I wonder if in the new trilogy Leia will be a Jedi too! Oooh!<br />
Vader is so totally slacking on the killing...geesh...<br />
Did any other Jedis wear black besides Anakin? I don't remember seeing any of the others besides father and son...<br />
Don't you bring Obi-Wan into this!<br />
Uuhhg still 30 more minutes...I'm over this. I'll finish it in the morning...<br />
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Okay last time...<br />
So why does Vader have to pick up the Emperor, why didn't he use the Force or a light saber...<br />
Use the Force Luke your dad is mostly machine and heavy...<br />
Also why does Vader die so easily when everyone else lives forever it seems? Is he dying of a broken heart like his wife?<br />
So how does Luke know that Jedis are burned? Seriously does he just like know Jedi shit and not have to be taught?<br />
Will he teach his sister? I have so many questions!<br />
Also when you kill the Stormtrooper/Clones leader how do they know who to follow?<br />
Also the new clips at the end piss me off still...All of them.<br />
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So these movies are just fun. Good entertainment, okay story, but really fun. I love the cheeseyness of them after being on the shelf for 30ish years so it's just fun. I enjoyed this whole re-wartch from the Prequels to the Original and am looking forward to the December release of the new ones! Although I'm a little disappointed it's not may when the other 6 were all released in May...I think that was cool. Now to get back to studying for my LSAT in less than a month now.<br />
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I've mentioned this before but Star Wars especially Empire Strikes Back always makes me think of Clerks! And the Clerks cartoon- it's Hoth Cold also what about those independent contractors. Anyways like the others I'm going to take this whole blogging thing very seriously and share my thoughts as we go along. Warning I had a long day and my wine glass is very very full, I'm using the medium size glass tonight, I have normal, medium and large (the large holds a full bottle...we're not there yet). Let's watch!<br />
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Scrolling words again...<br />
Oooh look doesn't start with a battle- yay!<br />
Oh wait did they say why we're on Hoth? How they got to Hoth? I should start paying attention<br />
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Drinking game? Every time someone references the cold? or Skywalker...hmmmm choices<br />
Yah cause building a tent in that is going to be easy...<br />
Rouge 2 is super excited to claim that he found them<br />
Shoot it! Shoot it!<br />
Maybe I don't really understand military strategy- okay I know I don't understand military strategy- but I feel like this is a bad one- like in the early episodes of Battlestar Galactica when they just kept jumping till the were found- is that what the rebels are doing? Sad.<br />
Why do people keep arguing with Vader? When will they learn?<br />
Why are the explosions green and pink?<br />
Dagobah (yes I looked up how to spell it) is kinda boring... I'm trying to remember the Eddie Izzard Star Wars jokes, they always cracked me the f' up.<br />
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The Empire is British and the Rebels are American...Accents are so very special.<br />
Man Luke's little fighter carried so much stuff!<br />
Oh old Yoda- it's so weird seeing him like this right after the prequels.<br />
I happen to like nice men? Keep telling yourself that Leia- Leia lies!<br />
Poor worm doesn't get to eat today.<br />
My cats have abandoned the cause...<br />
Oh no Bobba Fett's voice is different on my DVDs it's one of the dubbed ones- sad day! Empire and Jedi are the most obnoxious of the remastered ones...uuuuhg already dreading seeing Hayden at the end of Jedi <a href="http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/">NOOOOOO!</a><br />
Everytime the Force is Strong is mentioned! (Hoth drinking game is no longer working- an hour in clearly)<br />
Is it time to go to Cloud City yet? - also dude why is yoda's mouth like neon green?<br />
YES Vader Death!!!! Everybody drink!<br />
Handstands always help me use the force too. Seriously though Yoda's green is very inconsistent... very distracting it is<br />
Lando!<br />
Also Empire isn't as long as Episode II & III but I feel like it tells more stories without annoying me as much- like this whole Cloud City story is my favorite!<br />
Poor 3PO. Hi Vader.<br />
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At least they brought 3PO's parts to Chewie in jail.<br />
Yah Lando we really shouldn't make deals with Vader...never a good idea.<br />
Han you look pretty good for someone who has just been tortured.<br />
Oh good Han is going to share his true feelings with Leia soon.<br />
And douche.<br />
It's nice how carbonite floats so easily through hallways.<br />
Oooh it's a trap another good drinking game!<br />
Oh another Force reference...my wine glass is getting empty<br />
Awww that's nice Boba calls him Captain Solo.<br />
Oh good R2 just do some spins right in the middle of the fire...seriously<br />
Lol, Luke sucks at deflecting flying objects<br />
R2 gets electrocuted a lot, maybe that's why he spins in the face of laser fire...<br />
3PO isn't as punny as he was in Episode III<br />
Father son time! And my favorite Empire meme!!!<br />
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I don't know how old I was when my dad introduced these to me, but I do know it was before I was in middle school and we watched them whenever they were on TV. Haley had them on VHS and would sometimes let me borrow them...sometimes. We saw most of them together when they were re-released in the theaters. I know Hail and I saw them all together but I think dad came to Empire and Jedi...not positive unfortunately. So daddy and Hail are super excited about the new film next December, I'd told them they need to prepare for the midnight showing because dammit we're not ruining our perfect score now. But Hail would need a baby sitter and dad's old...so we'll see if that actually happens- fingers crossed. <br />
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Now I probably last watched them the first summer I was in College Station, I usually like to binge these during the summer, so it's been a few years. I watched part of New Hope a few months ago when it was on TV and I always catch Jedi at really random times on Sunday mornings when it's on, but all as a group it's been probably 2 years. So excited to watch them together. So let's get started.<br />
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<b><u>Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope</u></b><br />
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<b>Released: </b>May 25, 1977<br />
<b>Rated: </b>PG<br />
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<b>During Thoughts:</b><br />
Oh god, just google Star Wars memes and enjoy your life for the next ten minutes...this is what I was doing during the opening text...I'm good I've got the gist.<br />
It's sad to play Star Wars drinking games alone...I need some of that <a href="http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/10/15/never-drink-alone-again-because-now-theres-wine-for-cats/">cat wine from Japan</a>...<br />
okay I need to take this more seriously- hey didn't we start the last episode like this? with a battle? yes, yes we did. right before we met Gievous!<br />
OMG that one storm trooper totally looked like he was going to trip over the fake dead body!<br />
No one has learned to shoot better in all these years? Why wouldn't they train the clones to be better marksmen? Isn't that a thing the cloners could breed into them? this is my question.<br />
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First Vader death? take a drink? Every time 3PO sounds worried?<br />
Wow does Carrie Fisher look young! Oh yah...she was a Senator?<br />
Tatooine looks much more orange in this one...<br />
That storm trooper looks so beat up! It's kinda sad. Hmmm I wonder why they never take off their helmets in the original series, I mean good for the series because unlike Palpatine I doubt Jengo could reverse age...<br />
Awwww Luke's theme!<br />
'No I don't like you either.' I need to start telling people that...<br />
Much less attracted to Obi-Wan in this movie...<br />
Stop lying Obi-Wan- he was a shitty friend, he never listened to you<br />
Lol, again with the civilized light saber, lol<br />
Vader death two! Everybody drink! Dammit...false alarm...stop drinking...this drinking game sucks- if I'd gone with C-3PO's worrying we'd be half way drunk by now...<br />
Fire just doesn't seem like the Storm Trooper way...why fire?<br />
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Yay! Scum and villainy! Also the foundation for my favorite Star Wars Meme ever!<br />
Oooh Chewie's at the bar! 48 minutes in finally some Ford ...let's celebrate!<br />
OMG maybe Hayden wasn't such a bad actor- Mark is just as bad a surly teen! Uhg his whiney voice...<br />
Awww Jabba...I miss my frogs...both died too soon. Jabba and Pickles.<br />
Do they keep calling the force Religion in the next two movies? I don't feel like they do...we'll see because I'm very curious about that now<br />
OMG the bad effects when the Death Star starts pulling the Millennium Falcon in...were they literally standing outside the set shaking it?<br />
Ooops I started googling stuff about The Magicians that was picked up by <a href="http://io9.com/the-magicians-adaptation-is-finally-coming-to-a-tv-scre-1702130984">SyFy</a> my bad...<br />
1.16 in Aren't you a little short to be a Stormtrooper<br />
Again they train princesses/queens very well in this galaxy because they all know how to shoot- seriously is this a part of diplomatic training?<br />
Ooooh how about every time someone says they have a bad feeling about this?!? I feel like we've had several of those...Vader doesn't seem in the mood to kill people today...<br />
I love how 'advanced' the Death Star is but it just takes Obi-Wan a few pulls of some levers and handles to shut down some things...<br />
Oooh I like how Padme's hood was very similar to Leia's- but Padme showed her stomach and her gown was blue but still the hood is exactly the same! I promise...<br />
PS I've moved on to wine glass 3...just in case my typing gets sloppier than usual...<br />
Again with the precarious internal heights...<br />
Uhhhg. Obi-Wan's about to die isn't he...<br />
<a href="http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/">Every time.</a><br />
They all look so young!<br />
Luke you are a child, stop crushing on your sister, Solo is clearly the better choice.<br />
Oh look he's going to use the force soon...are their fewer British rebels in these episodes?<br />
I'm kinda bad at focusing on movies when I'm by myself...<br />
So I do like that Episode One chose to parallel Episode Four in the endings that's kinda cool...okay done with IV tomorrow we'll do V<br />
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<b><u>Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back</u></b><br />
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<b>Released: </b>May 21, 1980<br />
<b>Rated: </b>PG<br />
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<b><u>Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi</u></b><br />
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<b>Released: </b>May 25, 1983<br />
<b>Rated: </b>PG<br />
To be watched...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02692757926290338784noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533325798637146046.post-2791621889068927722015-05-03T20:27:00.002-05:002015-05-04T20:04:31.359-05:00May the Fourth- Star Wars Binge- Episodes 1 - 3I've missed movie blogging. It was a good month off. I meant to beauty blog more...but that so didn't happen...I got like two maybe 3 blogs out. But that's okay. So I've been debating what should be my next movie blog and what I should pick and then all of a sudden May is here! Monday is May the Fourth and in honor I've decided to Star Wars binge this weekend- in-between cleaning and practicing my LSAT Logic Problems.<br />
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I'm a Star Wars fan thanks to my dad, it's all his fault. I saw the rereleased original trilogy in the theaters in Middle School with my dad and sister. I'd seen them before that of course, but it was super fun to see them on the big screen...then all the new ones. Now I know there's a lot of debate in how you should watch Star Wars and I try to ignore all of that. I just go 1 - 6. Usually napping for a few hours during Episode 2 and waking up with it still on- seriously this is a thing you can do- it's hella long. So let's start with the 1 - 3 the <i>new </i>trilogy and what lots of people wish never happened. Whatever I don't care. I enjoy them and was super excited standing in line for all the midnight premieres with my sister. I don't care if you hate them yes there's crappiness in them but there's also Natalie Portman- so I rest my case. Let's go!<br />
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<u><b>Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace </b></u><br />
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<b>Released:</b> May 19th, 1999<br />
<b>Rated:</b> PG<br />
<b>Staring:</b> Natalie Portman, Liam Neeson, and Ewan McGregor (yay)<br />
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I remember when this movie came out. I remember before when the music video for the score was first released and I was so excited waiting for it. The music was choral and loud and threatening and amazing. I mean duh John Williams in Abbey Road. I remember standing in line with Haley and her boyfriend at the time starting at like 8:30 in the evening for the midnight showing. I didn't hate it. I loved it and was so excited for the ones that followed- go ahead judge away.<br />
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But I remember everything leading up to the movies and being so excited, the posters, the previews, the interviews the tv spots. I remember it all so fondly. I don't watch Episode 1 & 2 very often...maybe once every two years? Episode 3 is great for when I want to cry- I don't care how many times I see it no mater how much I'm dissatisfied with the acting it still makes me cry...dammit Natalie. So it's been a few years since I saw this one probably... So sure overall episodes 1 - 3 are disappointing but it hasn't lessened my love of the original three nor my excitement for the new-new ones. But I always reserve the right to be snarky...<br />
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<b>During Thoughts:</b><br />
Oooh Natalie Portman you're so fabulous- but dislike the fake deep voice...stop that<br />
Oh god all the quotable lines...<br />
Ooooh what was the drinking game we used to play with this one? Episode 5 was drinking every time they say Skywalker (you're drunk in 10 minutes) and Episode 2 was drink every time Hayden tried to act tortured...hmmm<br />
Yah just walk into the water with your cloaks on and pretend you look cool...it's cool we'll wait.<br />
Oooh yah it was Natalie Portman costume changes! Not as good as the other drinking games but still fun...<br />
I love how stupid the droids are in this one...they pretty much suck you can trick them far too easily.<br />
Hey look it's that one guy!<br />
Hey R2<br />
Oh no...child actors...some things you can't teach...uuuhg<br />
Oh so earnest... I'm a person...<br />
Yippee was a poor choice...<br />
Immaculate conception!<br />
I find the actual pod race is kinda boring...maybe that's why I don't watch this movie that often.<br />
Oh god the bad acting by that child...seriously...<br />
Dian McDiarmid! I'm always shocked that he was able to play his role after all the years.<br />
Yoda...did not un-age well...he looks better in episode II.<br />
Samuel Mother Fuckin' L- you do you.<br />
Oh that hair looks painful Padme<br />
OOOH this is how the music video started...then the choir came in...<br />
The droid carriers remind me of chair racks...like how you stack them all together and then roll them around...anyone? anyone? just me.<br />
Sith time. Also means dramatic choir time.<br />
And precarious heights for no reason time...this is common in all 6...well there's kinda a reason...death is the reason.<br />
Padme is really resourceful for a queen- how does she know how to shoot a gun and grapple hook things? Did she grow up as a diplomat's daughter?<br />
<a href="http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/">Noooooooo</a>! Why do the always die in really bad ways?!? Like they're awesome with their lightsabers and they like forget to shield and then they're dead? It's so annoying.<br />
You too Sith- really y'all suck at defending yourselves...but I do like the cut completely in half unlike Qui-Gon<br />
Always two there are...then we pan to you Palpatine because everyone knows!<br />
Haha this makes me remember the Robot Chicken with Little Hitler and Little Palpatine...anyone else remember those?<br />
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<b>After Thoughts:</b> Okay that one is pretty painful, I'll give you that. It's really really really hard to take seriously. Natalie Portman is flawless. Ewan McGregor is concerned. Baby Anakin is annoying as hell, but mostly because the kid is trying so hard to act...it's terrible. The council is annoying as in all these movies because DO YOUR JOB! But still entertaining. Looking forward to my nap in Episode Two, but first I need to do some logic problems and start the laundry...<br />
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<b><u>Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones</u></b><br />
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<b>Released: </b>May 16th, 2002<br />
<b>Rated:</b> PG<br />
<b>Staring:</b> Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, and Hayden Christensen<br />
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So this one is supposed to be the love story. This is where we're supposed to see Natalie Portman and Hayden Christiansen fall in love...I don't see it. I can see Natalie trying, but there's just a lack of chemistry...I feel like it's' a little better in the 3rd movie but we'll find out soon enough. <br />
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So I didn't take my nap, I did watch a good amount of this movie because it is just so so so much better than Episode 1. There are still many laughable moments and Anakin's acting does not get better with age or new actor. He is such a sulky teenager in this. And his anger is frequently more funny than serious or threatening.<br />
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So this is also the movie they try to make it really clear that he's got a dark side. His emotions always get in the way and he makes really poor choices. So basically they make it very clear that doing things based on what you want is selfish and is what makes people dark...so anytime Anakin does something because he loves Padme or wants to help Obi-Wan instead of doing his 'duty' he's leaning towards the dark side.<br />
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Ewan McGregor is awesome in this one too. He is much more fatherly and seems to be the most unmotivated by personal issues of all the Jedis. I love the weird creatures he visits on the cloners planet, the cool guy with the mohawk is my favorite. Then of course there's Yoda's one time badass fight scene...it just looks so fake now...but I am glad they gave Yoda a facelift. I guess they just CGi'd him more instead of trying to use the puppet because he looks way better in this film.<br />
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So overall I just don't feel like this one is bad. I really like a lot of it. I think it foreshadows a lot. The acting still is sad and it could be about 22 minutes shorter and I'd be really happy.<br />
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<b>Released: </b>May 19h, 2005<br />
<b>Rated:</b> PG-13<br />
<b>Staring:</b> Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, and Hayden Christensen<br />
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Okay last one of the new trilogy. Weird we're going to have another one...so I guess this one will get changed to the Prequel Trilogy? Then the Original and then the new new trilogy? Whatever. So this is the last one and I would normally say my favorite of the Prequels because I cry...but that's probably a poor thing to judge it on. So let's see how it holds up...now that I'm watching these I actually think I may have only watched them once since I moved here. Right before I read the Foundation Trilogy because had I watched this after I would have wanted to talk to someone about it so much. Please someone talk to me about the Foundation books! Please!!!<br />
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Okay movie time. I made myself some chicken, spinach and macaroni for the occasion...actually it's just what was easy. I spent the afternoon doing logic problems and my brain couldn't take anything complicated.<br />
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<b>During Thoughts:</b><br />
Should have watched the Clone Wars cartoons...the ones from when we were in high school...oh-well<br />
Hold on Anakin you're going to get us both killed...not really his concern.<br />
Okay the dying droid noise is a little too much...<br />
Grievous!!! (yah I had to look up how to spell that) See how the hell are you supposed to know who he is without the Clone Wars cartoons?<br />
R2 kill them all!<br />
I find myself becoming more and more attracted to Obi-Wan as the movies progress...but I feel someone in real life with his hair and beard would not be as attractive...<br />
He was an unarmed prisoner...low-blow.<br />
C-3PO you're all clean and gold!<br />
Leia buns! So in this movie Natalie seems to have reverse aged...well not her but the character Padme, she seems to be less mature and more stupid in love...blame it on the pregnancy?<br />
Yoda and the Wookies! It always makes me smile.<br />
41 minutes in first tears...dammit Obi-Wan- he will not let me down, he never has... UUUHG<br />
Oooh the cool lizard thing- I want one! He has feathers too!<br />
So uncivilized...yes cause slicing off people's arms with light sabers.<br />
Now everyone waits...poorly. Padme senses it. Anakin cries.<br />
Samuel L's nose is flared meaning he's pissed.<br />
God those Jedis suck if they can't last one minutes with Palpatine.<br />
Uhhhg now he's going to go on about power, ultimate and supreme power...so annoying...will someone kill him please.<br />
And all I hear whenever anyone says the Force is strong with you is Eddie Izzard- how strong? As strong as a small pony...lol<br />
Okay this one is pretty long too...I still have an hour left? really? more wine.<br />
Oh my poor lizard creature dies :( sad day. Yah yah and a bunch of Jedis.<br />
Chewie saves Yoda. Awwww.<br />
Noooooo - more tears I hate when Anakin kills the younglings...saddest day.<br />
Padme's hair looks amazing. Why can't my hair look like that? Oh...yah cause her's is fake...<br />
I love the old school wipe transitions...<br />
And all the tears 1.35. Don't make Obi-Wan realize it was Anakin! Nooooo!<br />
This is how liberty dies with thunderous applause. Pretty much...<br />
Now for for more tears dammit Padme- and Obi-Wan!<br />
Why does he always want to be more powerful than everyone? Like really you want to be more powerful than everyone why?<br />
Oh yah- lust for power- thanks Obi-Wan<br />
Good scoring, I do enjoy the use of themes in movies- do regular non genre movies do that?<br />
When Obi-Wan says he's failed Anakin- oh god I die...<br />
And back to being an angsty teen- I hate you! God grow up.<br />
Oooh there's a little bit of Evita in that last theme...The choice was mine and mine completely...as Padme goes in and out of consciousness<br />
Fun trivia how many movies has Natalie Portman been pregnant in? I don't know the answer...Two that I have...Where the Heart Is and this...both births were traumatic...<br />
And now the sound we can all be grateful for <a href="http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/">http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/</a><br />
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<b>After Thoughts:</b><br />
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Yay! So I do no know and understand I have been wrong. Episode II is the best of the new trilogy. Episode III is fine it's just kinda one of those necessary movies to complete the story and so everything is getting tied up. Also you know how it ends! And where it leads. And that is to someplace better. Also Natalie Portman is an ugly crier...but we've always known that.<br />
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I appreciate this movie and this trilogy for the backstory. So it's not as good as the originals whatever it's still fun and entertaining and really what more are you looking for from a Space Opera?<br />
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Okay I'm done writing about this like I have any authority to. Tomorrow I'll watch A New Hope and probably start Empire...or I may just watch Clerks instead! Just kidding. Okay we'll continue this tomorrow on May the Fourth. Goodnight.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02692757926290338784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533325798637146046.post-36833285332199783342015-04-03T10:27:00.001-05:002015-04-03T10:27:46.204-05:0030 Movies in 30ish Days before 30: Final ThoughtsSo....I did it! I successfully watched 30 movies form the 30 years I've been alive before I turned 30...in 30ish days. I got a 2ish day head start since I knew it would be a busy month. But I did it! What a crazy and interesting and satisfying project.<br />
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So setting off on the project I was always excited about. I thought it'd be fun to see how poorly some movies aged, how poorly I remembered some movies and if I still liked the ones I thought I did. For the most part there weren't a lot of surprises there either. But about 7 movies in...I started to realized what I'd committed myself to. 30 is a lot of movies. It's 30...movies...none of the movies were under 90 minutes and several were over 120...so it was a COMMITMENT. I wrote 11 blog posts in March which is about 11 more than I'd been writing over the last few years. So the watching was time consuming and then the writing was even more so. Some of the movies I found entertaining to liveblog my thoughts to - OMG there were some bad movies. Other movies I watched with friends and their commentary was awesome. Then some movies I was just kinda meh about and just wrote some closing thoughts to. I also ranked all the movies...did I not give any Cs? That's hard to imagine, apparently I'm not a very tough movie grader. I gave a lot of B-s and a lot of A-s not a lot of A+s though. Anyways here are the movies that were selected.<br />
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One thing I was asked over and over again throughout this challenge was, "Is {insert weird movie title here" really your favorite movie from {insert year here}?" And the answer was always no. I don't think any of the movies I watched were actually my Favorite Movie for that year, but movies I really liked, thought were interesting, movies I remember scaring the Jeebus out of me, or just movies I had a specific memory or emotional attachment to. I watch a lot of movies apparently so I also tried to pick movies I hadn't seen in a few years. That got more difficult after I passed 2010 but it was still fine.<br />
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I also ended up renting a lot of movies online. I only ended up having 14 of the ones I watched. Friends had a couple of them, but I had a bunch of free Google $ from my Chromecast but I did probably spend about $20-30 renting movies for this project as well. There were some that were originally on the list that I'm bummer I couldn't find to rent. Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead?!? Seriously how is that gem not available for rent! I also ended up buying a few movies during the project because I knew I wanted to own them anyway. Mitty and Big Hero 6 were on sale at Target so they entered my collection during the month.<br />
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I'm super thankful for my friends who put up with my movie project and constantly talking about movies and what it all meant to me because I'm sure it was a bit annoying. But one of the things I've told everyone about after this was all said and done was how I didn't realize before this how much movies have been a part of my life. I always say I was really shaped by my books and music I listened to, but movies are there too. I love movies like I love music and books, I really like the sad and depressing stuff. I like the light bubblegum stuff here and there but when you ask me what my favorites are they're going to be a little darker and without a happy ending. Oh my gosh give me a movie without a happy ending and I am so excited.<br />
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Anyways it was a super fun project, no I will not be doing this in 10 years for 40. I have yet to watch another movie this week and it's felt kinda weird. I don't know if I'll watch one this weekend, I'm so movie'd out! But there were a bunch on my initial list that I didn't get to watch that I may sporadically watch but we'll see. I did really enjoy blogging about movies, so I may try to blog more about some of the crap I watch we'll see.<br />
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Here's are the links to all the previous blogs!<br />
<a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2015/02/30-days-30-years-30-movies.html" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px; text-decoration: none;">Overview of the Project</a><br />
<a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2015/02/303030-1985-legend.html" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px; text-decoration: none;">My thoughts on Legend</a><br />
<a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2015/03/303030-1986-1989-movies-short-circuit.html" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px; text-decoration: none;">1986-1989</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"> Movies</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2015/03/303030-1990-1993-movies-arachnophobia.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">1990-1993 Movies</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2015/03/303030-1994-leon-professional.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">1994 Leon</a></div>
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<a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2015/03/303030-1995-1999-to-wong-foo-thanks-for.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">1995-1999</a></div>
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<a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2015/03/303030-2000-2005-boondock-saints.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">2000 - 2005</a></div>
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<a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2015/03/2006-2010-pans-labyrinth-juno-vicky.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">2006-2010</a><br />
<a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2015/03/2006-pans-labyrinth-and-2013-secret.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">2006 & 2013</a></div>
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<a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2015/03/2011-2012-girl-with-dragon-tattoo-and.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">2011 & 2012</a></div>
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<a href="http://tyleralyse.blogspot.com/2015/03/2014-big-hero-6-final-movie.html">2014</a><br />
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****** Special Note on Legend because there has been some controversy as to when it was actually released. It was limited released in 1985 but wide released in 1986- So I counted it for 1985. It's my project I can do what I want :) Thanks. ***********</div>
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