~*~::{Reading Blog #28: Video Games}::~*~

I haven't seen any movies or read any books lately...but I hung out with people this weekend, and all we did was play video games, play video games, and more video games.

Normally, I don't play that many video games...I mean, yeah, I play Pokemon tons and Super Smash Bros Brawl, but never really any big thematic war video games like COD 5 or Halo or anything...war games, well, war in general just bugs me and playing video games about it really does bug the crap outta me.

The one game that was kinda fun that entertained me...Nazi Zombies. I mean, it sounds really stupid, but all you do is shoot zombies that at one point in their life were nazis. You go round by round leveling up and the more you level up, the more you level up, the more zombies you have to shoot to make it to the next level. My favorite gun was the ray gun, but Cullen kept taking it from me when I wanted to get it...him and his "Me First" attitude...haha, but I'm not bitter at all. C:

Oh, good time. We were playing that game and after shooting a bunch of nazi zombies and such, I forgot who it was, but someone yelled out really loudly "Wow...a ray gun? How unrealistic..." like the nazi zombies were realistic...I laughed really hard. Knowing me, it was probs me that yelled that out. Oh well. C:

~*~::{Reading Blog #27: LOST}::~*~

End of the semester, possibly the end of Mr. Cheng as my teacher...F**K! I liked Cheng...we had a bond...if I have a new teacher...I will have to be "nice" again...anyhoooo...

Lost. I have been watching this show since day 1...first season was good and straight-forward. Second season, a bit more confusing...now, it's just...BAH! It's too confusing, it's bad, the characters are too intertwined within each other. I honestly can't focus enough to sit through the whole thing and know exactly what happened. I have a better chance of taking physics again (38% on the final, by the way...) and getting a solid 100% than actually understanding everything in Lost. I gotta admit though, the plot and the twists are just ingenious. The character development is such the likes I've never seen before, and everything ties together in the end...Like Saw, Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, and Saw V...and soon to be Saw VI. This post isn't as long because it's the end of the quarter, and I'm in mourning of not having Cheng next semester...I really hope I do.

~*~::{Reading Blog 26: Romeo & Juliet}::~*~

Okay so my internal clock is so messed up because of the fact that we had today off...I thought today was sunday instead, and my mom reminded me that today was monday...so, my bad.

I'm gonna ramble on Romeo & Juliet now...normally, I like romantic cheesy love stories. Anything cheesy and anything that has to do with a love story, I'm there...but when you mix those two and then add suicide and murder? Oh, jeez. You got me drooling to read the story. The plot was very relateable...dating someone that your parents don't approve of, but you keep dating them because you're "in love with them and want to get married and have 5 children in a small cottage blah blah blah." I just kept thinking through the whole story...that's really gross that Juliet's only what, like...15? And she's being chased by a 21 year old or something? Yeah, yeah, it's what happened in the olden days, but seriously...ICK.

I ESPECIALLY liked the ending, and not just because there was death. I liked the ingenious of it all. "I'll pretend to sleep, my family will think I'm dead, and then dig me back up and we'll run away together with all the worms in my hair! HA! Perfect!" the only problem is that they should've had better communication...if Romeo would've known, he wouldn't have drank the poison and then Juliet wouldn't have gone all hari kari and commit suicide. I know that if you're in love you don't always think logically, but seriously...how illogically can you be to not tell the other person you're gonna pretend to be dead? Sorry...that book just bugged me when it came down to these things...

~*~::{Reading Blog 25: Of Mice and Men}::~*~

I'm gonna go on another ramble about terrible books from my past.  Here we go.  So...Of Mice and Men.  I hated this book.  It was really boring and about convicts.  Oh, joy.  Let's see a bunch of poor convicts talk about how tough their lives are since they killed that one person or raped that one whore.  I hate it...why would I have pity on some convict?  It's their fault.  So, they wanna have a nice life and run away from the cops?  Aww, how cute...they still committed crimes!  BAD PEOPLE. 

But back to the book...I thought the plot was terrible.  It really didn't do anything for me.  Except for the old guy with the lack of an arm, where they shot his dog...that made me sad.  Same for when George shot Lenny.  That depressed me a bit...but come on...why are all the books we read in class emotionless and terrible? "Oh, but they're classics!" They're only classics because people remember them...for being pointless and terrible!  GRR! 

I'm done venting now.

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~*~::{Reading Blog #24: The Unborn"::~*~

Okay.  I went to this with Alex, Jacob, and Cassy.  This movie was utterly terrible.  Honestly, I hated it...it was so stupid.  Besides the fact that the beautiful Miss Meagan Good starred in it, I hated every bit of it. 

It was about this one girl that was born a twin that had the other twin die in the womb...but it wasn't the spirit of that dead twin that wanted revenge...it was her grandfather that turned evil for whatever reason that came back in the body of her brother.  It make absolutely no sense.  She killed it after getting an excorcism from a christian priest...she was jewish.  This movie had links to WWII and the holocaust and the slaughter of jews, so it was all over the place.  The parts that were supposed to be scary really weren't scary at all...they made me laugh.  They said that mirrors were dangerous, but it never really explained why.  This movie was just terrible...don't see it. 

Oh, and what was the cliffhanger at the end?  The woman was pregnant with twins...and they were supposed to be the evil spirit.  WHOA!  Did NOT see that coming...*sarcasm*

Don't waste your money...because it sucked.  And if you do see it, know that Meagan Good is MINE...

~*~::{Reading Blog #23: To Kill A Mockingbird}::~*~

So, Marley and Me hasn't come in from the library yet, so I can't really do my blog on it now, can I?  No.  I've decided I'll do a ramble on To Kill A Mockingbird from last year. 

So...this book.  I honestly liked it.  One of the only books from school I've actually enjoyed reading...the only thing I didn't think was good about it was the first half...the first half was kinda pointless, I thought, and didn't really tell enough of the story...well, enough that mattered anyway.  I really like the way that Scout personalized everything and translated it into what a young girl would think, whether it be the not wanting to act all girly or hearing rumors about Boo Radley, or whether it be her meeting and befriending him.  The book was very well written and would read it again in a heartbeat. 

~*~::{Reading Blog #22: Marley and Me}::~*~

I saw Marley and Me at the mall with Cullen at 10 o'clock...there was nobody in the theater...good stories.  We were running around and yelling in the theater, and being just obnoxious altogether.  

What I've decided to do for this and the next 2 blog posts is do a comparison on the book and the movie.  I'm gonna read the book and do a post there and then do a 3rd and final post about the similarities and differences in the book and how the characters act.  I'll just do a summary now and I'll do a more thorough review next post after I read the book.

So...this movie was eh, okie.  The plot was good, but I hate Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston with the burning passion of 1000 suns...yes, that much.  And the little kid that played the oldest child pissed me off so much...what a snot!  I'm glad his dog died...he deserves to be in pain.  

So.  The movie is about a young couple getting married, having 3 kids, getting a dog, having the mom go through post-partum depression, living in a bad neighborhood, having troubles in the office, and going through heartbreak when the dog dies at the end.  Sorry, it's kinda obvious...it's about a dog.  Jeez...

If you are looking for a kids movie, make sure you think twice before bringing them to this.  This should've been rated PG-13 because of adult themes and dealing with the death of a pet, but...I dunno.  I liked it.  

The next post on Marley and Me may not be for a couple weeks, because I'm #148 on a list of 153 at the library, so...it may be a few weeks before the comparison, but it'll take me a little time to read the book, so it's all good.