Wings (1927): there are amazing special effects even for today. there was a huge freaking cast. almost like they shot this during the war and much of it was actual footage. and there are a ton of really gruesome scenes. i assume this is all accurate being produced only a few years after the war's end. there are insane plane shots and dog fights, but each time a plane is shot down, its fall and crash down to earth is always way too dramatic. a little while into the movie the stupid organ, which plays for the entire 150 minutes, gets so annoying. it is a silent film, so you have be able to trudge through that. but it is totally worth it and i really think you should all look for this movie out there. it is somewhat entertaining, but i really think you should see it based on its historical value. you learn about WWI and the movies of the twenties. this was the year of the first talkie too, meaning this is probably at the height of the silent picture phase. this movie had to have been a massive undertaking, comparable to how LOTR was today. and finally, it was winner of the best picture award from the acadamy. worth seeing.
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930): i can tell this movie is not about the acting because the acting credits don't come on until all the other technical credits have been shown. its hard at first to believe it and fully be in the movie because its a bunch of american actors, playing germans, and not using any accents. there is a bit of overacting from some of the characters. and as i watched, i kept forgetting it was the germans i was watching. thought the movie was about a bunch of american kids. you definitely see some pretty disturbing images of war. this is like the saving private ryan of its time and for WWI. makes me wonder if people will ever make any good movies about the gulf war, and not including the made for CBS sunday night movies or pearl harbor with benny a. there have been a lot of movies made about pretty much every american war. so now the challenge is on for hollywood to make pressing a button on a boat in the middle of the ocean and killing hundreds of people thousands of miles away. that's not to discredit the troops on the ground. please you can't tell me that those missiles didn't kill a huge percentage of the total dead. war just isn't like it used to be. has terribly long scenes, but there are parts with the constant sound of bombs for minutes at a time which makes for a real creepy feeling not found in most war movies. i kept losing track of who everyone was. it was a little weak on the plot and was very anti-germany the little "disclaimer" at the beginning doesn't make it any better. maybe what happened in the movie is all factual, but not a single good thing happens to the main characters. good ending, worth seeing.
well ladies and gents, i'm gonna give it to you straight. friday i had a second interview with that internship from a while back, but this time to intern in the fall. interview went well, they called me back about 30 minutes later and offered it to me, i said yes, and here stand i. so this fall semester i will be interning in washington d.c. for senator bob bennett (r-utah). i am so stinkin thrilled about it all. well, i still don't think it has hit me yet. as plans take shape i'll keep it updated here. as of now, kim would stay in utah, i will hopefully be getting a place out there that the university of utah owns with like three other guys, i get paid more than i'm making now, i would leave late august and return the first week of december, and i will probably be getting 8 credits for school out of the deal. those are the basics. anything can change at this point, including the fact i'm actually going. thanks to everyone for all the support by the way they pushed me on. special thanks to marsha haynes from uvsc!!
i came up with this very clever idea yesterday. lets assume that the sopranos is filming right now for their last season (i do not know if they are or not, but lets assume). they are all really churchy (fake or not) and all about italy and stuff, so i wonder if they will touch on the fact that the pope died. it is obviously something that in real life, the characters would all be very distraught over it for weeks. its just something that i can really picture the writers putting in. but then again, by the time that season actually comes out (fall '06), no one will want to watch stuff about the pope again. it will be old news by then. its already old news. and also, correct me if i'm wrong, but kim and i realized that they never mentioned the wtc after it had happened. time will tell.
took a final yesterday for ethical issues in criminal justice, which i realized was the highest course level i've ever taken at 4200. of course this summer i think i'm gonna shatter that record with some other stupid class. as far as my grade goes, i might get an A out of it. i didn't do so well on prior exams, so maybe a B+ or an A-, but an A is still a possibility. next up to bat is legal ethics which will be in the testing center later this week. i think i'm studying for it today but we'll see. i'll give you my thoughts on that after its exam.
i came across this little article about this artifact being sent back to its origin. anyways the article is so amazing to read because its about a history that i had never heard of and i guarantee that none of you have either. so everyone should read this because it is really cool and you will feel like you haven't completely wasted your day but you actually learned something. so, read it.
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