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| Okay, I figured it was about time I put MY say out there about stuff. Because I obviously haven't already done that, the rest of this site considered. So here it is: a page... for reviews. "Reviews of what?" you ask. I shrug and say "Meh. Whatever, you know." |
| Review #1 (film): Kill Bill: Vol. 2 Directed by Quentin Tarantino Compared to Vol. 1: Less blood, more plot. Less laughs, more "what the hell?" Less anime, more black and white. I rather liked the ending, well, just before the ending. The part with Bill. However, I liked the first one better, if only because it was hilarious and reminded me of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I did expect someone to come out with "Your arm's off." "No it isn't." "What's that then?" (pause) "I've had worse." But alas, that did not happen in the first or the second. There was no spurting blood in the second one. Don't get me wrong, there was blood, but it was not spurting. Violence aplenty, cool fights aplenty, obnoxious music aplenty. All in all, a good movie. I want a cool sword like she has. Anyone know where I can get one? |
| Review #2 (literature): The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain Let's get one thing straight: I had to read this book for Honors English III. I hate this class (with a passion far greater than you can imagine), and so far all the other books we've read have been annoying or worse. Anyway, this book was not that bad. MT seems like a cool guy. He likes to make his opinions known through the mouths of his characters, such as Col. Sherburn (the guy that shot the other guy in the street for.... yelling... and stuff). Apparently, MT does not like any of these things: Aristorcracy/Authority figures of any kind Government Religion Big groups of people Small groups of people People in general So, as you can see, MT was very content with his life. Huck, however, was not. He goes down the river to "find himself." As to whether or not this happens, I am at this point unclear. However, he does get "reborn." Get this: He's going down the river, and it's all foggy. And he loses Jim. So he is all alone and scared and quiet and whatnot and he sees ghostly things. Obviously, this means he died. Then he goes in a cave thing and comes back out (later) all yucky, which obviously symbolizes coming out of the womb. Rebirth. Oh yeah.* The only person that dies is Miss Watson and we don't even get to "see" that. So, mostly, it sucked there. But Tom gets shot. And they talk about lynching Jim. Oh, and that guy that gets shot earlier dies but no one cares about him, his death was only there for MT to make a point about Lynching Bees. So.... good book. *If you were not reading closely, you may have missed the sarcasm here. Please note that I am not in any way serious about this bs about rebirth. |
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| Review #3 (film): Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban This was my favorite HP book for a long time, until the 5th book came out and (I do believe) surpassed it. The movie, though certainly close, changed things a bit. For those of you who have not read the awesome HP series, you will be confused. For those of you who have, you probably will be too. Though certainly close, as I mentioned before, the movie strayed from the book, as was bound to happen. The whole bit with everyone leaving the Screaming Shack (or whatever it is called, I forget) and wandering about the Whomping Willow was changed. Lupin did not change like that, and by the by, that werewolf form sucked. If I remember correctly, Harry did not go out looking for Peter when he saw his name, only mentioned it to either Lupin or Dumbledore. Speaking of Dumbledore, I miss Richard Harris. Though the new guy certainly was good he was not as good as Richard Harris and therefore disappointing. Oh well. Several people told me they were confused by it. I, however, was not. This could just be my stunning intelligence; or the fact that I've read the books about a million times. Whatever. I'd give the movie an A-... I think. |
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| Review #4 (country): France Before I even get started, let me make one thing clear: I like France, I like the French, and this whole Freedom Fry thing cracks me up. I've taken 5 years of French, stopping just short of AP French next year. I just went there (to France), fulfilling my lifelong dream and therefore rendering the rest of my life pointless. Yes, I am going to review the country. France. We Americans talk about it all the time, mostly in sentences like "Those stupid French won't help us beat up the guys in Iraq" and "I hate the French, they're snooty." So, wondering why all this hatred is growing over here, I got myself a ticket to the Old World and flew on over. Well, they talk fast. A lot faster than I hoped they would, considering I was the only one of the five people in our group that speaks much French. However, they seem to like it once you tell them "je parle francais... un peu" and they slow down a bit, and generally do not laugh at you until after you're gone. They eat a lot of weird food, but they also eat a lot of great food, so I'm not sure what to say there. They have a lot of realllllly big monuments, the most noticeable one perhaps being the Eiffel Tower. Like it says in "The DaVinci Code" (Dan Brown), it is very fitting that the French should have a huge phallus as their national symbol. And boy, I went in more churches in those two weeks than I had in all my life before then. And the Arc de Triomphe?... Well... considering the fact that it remembers France's war victories... my only observation is that it should be a little smaller. All in all, I give France as a country an "A," if only because they have SmartCars and hate the USA's current president. |
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| Review #5 (book): The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galazy By D. Adams I've wanted to read this since I was, oh, 2, but I have somehow never been able to get around to it. Perhaps because my list of books I need to read is longer than the list of words I know (er, vocabulary). Anyway, I have very little to say about this, since it did take me a few days after I read this book for my brain to start working again. It was hilarious, and I have tried several times since to use the number "42" as an answer to various things in Calculus, but apparently my teacher has never read it. She just gives me a funny look and continues on. Anyway, it kicked major ass. Aside from being insanely funny, it was also extremely, er, well, I don't know. It was funny. That's all I've got. |
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