time well spent
when i went to see Torsten last Thursday he advised me to "take it easy and relax". as if i needed to be told to do that - i happen to be an expert at Taking It Easy, Relaxing and Just Chilling Out. however, never being one to ignore good advice (or a chance to chill) when it's handed to me, i've been doing a whole lot of Taking It Easy this week.
on Monday i defied gravity at Alton Towers, where the wild rides were a lot less terrifying than they looked, and the mild rides were more queasifying than i expected. my favourite ride was Air, the most comfortable roller coaster i've ever been on.
the rest of the week was spent cleaning, running errands, reading abandoned books, and also, catching up on the latest movies.
on Tuesday, after my meeting with David at noon, i found myself wandering aimlessly around the city and ended up in FACT, where i watched The Interpreter. it's quite a good watch - and wasn't one of those movies where a good plot, which would have been perfectly fine on its own, was spoiled by a romance between the lead characters. also, it was (apparently) filmed in the UN Headquarters, which is quite a nice building. featured some nice aerial shots, and one riverview shot too. i don't know much about the architect, Wallace Harrison, and to be honest, i didn't really know what the UN Headquarters looked like before this movie. but when i saw it i thought that it sort of looked like one of Oscar Niemeyer's buildings; and after a bit of Googling, turns out he was one of the designers. (that's right. hello, i'm an archi-geek)
on Wednesday i went to see The Wedding Date, which, unfortunately, goes right along with this one on my list of Movies That I Had More Or Less High Expectations For, But Disappointed Me Terribly. there was a nice story behind it, kind of like Pretty Woman the other way round. but it fell victim to really bad editing, which i would have excused seeing as how it was a book adaptation, but if they managed to do justice to Bridget Jones's Diary (the first one) why not this ? although, yum !
yesterday, i learned the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything at The Hitchhiker's Guide, which started off a little slow, but turned out to be okay-ish towards the end. another book adaptation, which i guess is pretty hard to do without having the movie seem skippish. i haven't read the series myself, but i'm pretty sure that there must be more to the characters and their back-stories than was portrayed in the movie.
today i have some errands to run, so there'll be no movie-watching. but next week i'm planning to catch Hitch, and see just what all the hype's been about, or if it was worth hyping on. stay tuned !
heh. Julia just came to my room. the lift is still out of order (has been so since yesterday morning) ! this is when i regret being on the highest floor of the building, but when i look out the window and see this, i figure it's worth it.
now playing : Love by Rosey from the Bridget Jones's Diary soundtrack
on Monday i defied gravity at Alton Towers, where the wild rides were a lot less terrifying than they looked, and the mild rides were more queasifying than i expected. my favourite ride was Air, the most comfortable roller coaster i've ever been on.
the rest of the week was spent cleaning, running errands, reading abandoned books, and also, catching up on the latest movies.
on Tuesday, after my meeting with David at noon, i found myself wandering aimlessly around the city and ended up in FACT, where i watched The Interpreter. it's quite a good watch - and wasn't one of those movies where a good plot, which would have been perfectly fine on its own, was spoiled by a romance between the lead characters. also, it was (apparently) filmed in the UN Headquarters, which is quite a nice building. featured some nice aerial shots, and one riverview shot too. i don't know much about the architect, Wallace Harrison, and to be honest, i didn't really know what the UN Headquarters looked like before this movie. but when i saw it i thought that it sort of looked like one of Oscar Niemeyer's buildings; and after a bit of Googling, turns out he was one of the designers. (that's right. hello, i'm an archi-geek)
on Wednesday i went to see The Wedding Date, which, unfortunately, goes right along with this one on my list of Movies That I Had More Or Less High Expectations For, But Disappointed Me Terribly. there was a nice story behind it, kind of like Pretty Woman the other way round. but it fell victim to really bad editing, which i would have excused seeing as how it was a book adaptation, but if they managed to do justice to Bridget Jones's Diary (the first one) why not this ? although, yum !
yesterday, i learned the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything at The Hitchhiker's Guide, which started off a little slow, but turned out to be okay-ish towards the end. another book adaptation, which i guess is pretty hard to do without having the movie seem skippish. i haven't read the series myself, but i'm pretty sure that there must be more to the characters and their back-stories than was portrayed in the movie.
today i have some errands to run, so there'll be no movie-watching. but next week i'm planning to catch Hitch, and see just what all the hype's been about, or if it was worth hyping on. stay tuned !
heh. Julia just came to my room. the lift is still out of order (has been so since yesterday morning) ! this is when i regret being on the highest floor of the building, but when i look out the window and see this, i figure it's worth it.
now playing : Love by Rosey from the Bridget Jones's Diary soundtrack
posted by nu. at 2:59 pm
2 Comments:
i miss seeing the movies! even the really, really disappointing ones. i've seen three movies this year. two last week on the airplane and one Sunday on video.
* note to self * gotta get out more...
i love movies! slowly building up a collection of DVDs, but i really enjoy the cinema experience.
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