Aug 30 2007
Women and Movies
Well, I had a whim the other day and asked my friend Megan out to dinner. This time I disregarded all the previous advise I’ve received and I was myself. We had a long, in depth conversation about fantasy novels while we dined at a Japanese restaurant. I can’t recall the name of the place, but it’s a nice little restaurant. When we arrived, we were the only people in the restaurant.
It turns out that Megan and I have a lot in common. We like the same genre of books and a lot of the same movies. We also both like sushi. I even discovered that hanging out with her is more fun then playing Dungeons and Dragons, which is what I usually do on Tuesday nights.
While I was talking with Megan, we were discussing where we wanted to go if we could travel anywhere. It made me think. I would like to have a big enough following on this site that I could quit my job and trave l the world writing posts from where ever I visit. In fact, I just got an invite to visit Houston, not the most exotic place I could think of, but it’s not here.
In other news, I went to see War the other night. Jet Lee and John Statham are two of my favorite actors and I love action movies, so this was a must see. But after I finished watching the movie, I felt a bit let down.
Overall, there was little suspense in the movie. There were a few engaging scenes, but between them was a lot of filler.
The ending especially let me down. I don’t want to give away what actually happened, but you had a really good twist I thought, followed by the second best fight scene in the movie, and then it was over with no sense of resolution. I was left sitting there thinking “that’s it? it’s over? how could that be it?”.
After a little bit of research and seeing some trailers, I’ve complied a list of movies to see.
In the theater right now there is: Stardust, based on the story by Niel Gaiman. War, starring John Statham and Jet Lee. And the Last Legion, set in ancient Rome.
August 31st Balls of Fury comes out staring Christopher Walken and Dan Fogler.
Openning on September 7th are two movies: 3:10 to Yuma, starring Christian Bale, and Shoot ‘em up, starring Clive Owens.
November 16th is the opening of Beowulf staring Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, and Angelina Jolie.
December 7th is the release for The Golden Compass staring Nichole Kidman and based on the novel by Philip Pullman. I read this book a few years ago and now I can’t wait to see the movie.
December 21st Nicolas Cage returns to the big screen in National Treasure: Book of Secrets.
December 25th is the release of Aliens vs Predator, the sequel to the 2004 movie Alien vs Predator.
January 18th, 2008 we get to see Cloverfield. This was the unnamed movie trailer shown during Transformers where New York City was destroyed.
July 18th, 2008 is the slated release date for The Dark Knight staring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger.
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