keep the cookies

Con Air (1997): first off, it is very entertaining. lots of action and a fun little story. okay, now the bad news. where to begin. awful editing made for a million continuity problems. editing is key to action movies and they failed big time. nick cage granted is a good actor, but has a retard's voice. so when they decided to make him talk deeper and more like a retarded southerner, it gets old very fast and i pretty much couldn't wait for him to die by the end of the film. lots of factual issues that are just so far fetched. for instance, i doubt that the DEA or u.s. marshals can just pick up the phone and order apache helicopters and the national guard to just do whatever they want. isn't there some kind of chain of command they must go through? the guys working for DEA and the marshals seemed more like rogue agents rather than legit employees by the way they acted. the rest of the force must have had the day off since they are the only two actually working. acting was really bad from everyone except malkovich. and finally, steve buscemi would have been the saving grace, but he is hardly in the movie. they could have used a ton more of him. and don't even get me into why steve didn't kill the little girl in the movie. made no sense. worth noting that dave chappelle make a funny little appearance. don't see.

Mean Girls (2004): for what it was set out to do, it wasn't half bad. but pretty forgettable since i'm trying now to remember what i thought about it and can hardly remember the movie at all. i do recall lindsay lohan being rather good as far as her acting went, but i think i just liked her narration. i also think that this is one of those movies where the book is much better than what ends up on film. i'm not a fan of these type of pre- to early-teen movies, so i'll have to say that you shouldn't see it. but as far as that genre goes, if you like them, buy it because it is better than most non rated R teen movies.

Million Dollar Baby (2004): i feel dumb now having to review this after it won best picture. like i have to give it a good review or else. the acting awards are all well deserving. flawless acting by all of them. the editing i thought was great and every shot flowed perfect. they should have won that award as well. my only issue is that its not the most entertaining movie out there. you are definitely sucked in by its emotion and characters, but for much of the movie its just lots of talking. that's not a complaint; its just gonna be hard for some to sit through it. you aren't gonna have huge planes flying around or blind piano players shooting up and feeling up the ladies. its very much worth seeing. not sure if its worth the pest pic oscar (that should have gone to kill bill 2 or the passion), but you'll be happy you saw it.

on the drive to work this morning, i hit all green lights but one, which is extremely rare. i go through 8 or 9 lights and usually hit about half of them on red. not sure what this means except for the fact that i actually got to work on time. maybe it will be a good day today? doubtful. i'm having to stay late today at work because my relief is sick. i had some things i wanted to do today after work and i wanted to take a nap before class and maybe eat some lunch. looks like none of that is gonna happen now. i'm fine with covering for peeps here at work (some of them at least) but this person has told me twice now that she'd make me cookies because i covered for her a few months ago. still waiting for those cookies by the way. not that i actually want them, but its just the principle of the matter. and since i know she reads this, she better not make me those cookies now because i know it will only be because i've complained about it today.

work sucks right now. i for once in my life slept through the entire night, however i am dead tired right now. i slept for about 30 minutes already at work and watched the royal tenenbaums with the director commentary. i have so much i should be doing though. stuff for the internship and homework is being greatly neglected.

i got a gmail account yesterday and have been contemplating whether or not to replace my yahoo email with this. seems pretty cool and all so we'll see. not sure why i have the hesitation. probably because i've had this email for so long.

quote of the day (on bright eyes):

I don't know if I'd put it above E. Smith, at least not until Brighty performs Hari Kari on himself. But this is still my first listen.