The Art of Getting By (2011)

oh boy oh boy a real review... 

sry for that... it has just been so dang long since i last wrote an actual review and not just random stuff popping up in my head. anywho shall we?

The Art of Getting By.... Well it is about George.. a social awkward teenager on his senior year. George is not big on school, homework or even assignments during class.. actually he is kinda weird with his head in the clouds or well the head is in a book looking over his amazing drawings that almost nobody ever get to see. Due to this lack of interest in school he get to see the principle quite often.. Anyway one day a girl hits up a conversation with him after school.. this girl being Sally.. Sally and George becomes really good friends.. but then as all good dramas go Georges life starts to crumple...

This was SOOOOO sweet... 

okay now that i got that out of my system lets go over  the movie.. it is a normal teenage drama flick thing but like more and more of the recent ones of these, i believe it to have a really good story and background theme.. George is feeling this type of rude depressing feeling toward school.. like what does it all matter.. trust me i get this feeling.. it is like that these days we live to slave our way through life, first in school to learn stuff that we later can use to slave away in a job so that we can make money to live for,... he also goes about life like he doesn't have anything to say to the world, kinda like he feels like a parasite that just tag along for the ride.. when he meets Sally or well think it is the other way round... she noticed him, making him become someone that stands out of the crowd for once... and quite early in the movie you get the fact that while most people are scared of dying (this seems to be the normal anyway) he is not scared of that.. he is scared about life.. scared of living it.. and i think that is the true core of this movie.. about not being scared of life.. about a young man that has to learn to live life and to become something, SOMEONE..

so as my earlier statement kinda implied this is a really cute movie.. a really warm one to.. made me feel really good afterwards even though i did hit a bumpy passage here and there (I am NOT crying... that much) and i like that in a movie.. and Freddie Highmore that plays George is just plain adorable..


Oh and I have just come to realize that I am having a movie crush on Emma Roberts so-ehm guess I'm gonna roam around IMDb and figure out what to watch next ;)

a special safe place

jumping right into it.. being that i have been working a lot lately.. or well actually just working normally but being slightly sick all the time it feels like a hell of a lot more than it is.. specially since i tend to be sleeping when i'm off.. that is if i'm not revisiting oldies...  anyway at work we have been talking about what i do when i'm off and sleeping seems like a really bad answer >.< and watching movies is a favorite pastime of mine... so we've been talking a bit about that.. my colleagues don't really get it.. most of them can't sit still or stay entertain long enough to watch a movie and some of them even fall a sleep when trying to..  it gets even harder for them to understand when i tell them that i don't just watch the movie.. i am doing so much stuff at the same time.. often sitting with 2 pcs on so that i can play games, write or some other stuff at the same time.. or i just sit and draw, fold paper or whatever hobby i got going on at the moment.. it does come as a shock that i don't have to focus fully on the movie i'm watching.. okay i admit it sometimes i do need to give my full attention to a movie and not just when i watch foreign movies. Sometimes the movies are so deep in riddles that you have to pay full attention.. but to me they are far apart..

so why is it that i find so much joy in just sitting there going through one movie after another? Honestly I don't know... think it might be the escape in it combined with the freedom to do other stuff... as a kid and teenager, you would pretty much always find me with my nose stuck in a book and believe me i am the proud owner of a small library section at home (being i just move i got aware of just how many books i really own) i loved the escape from reality you get from a book, the emotional roller coaster all the while being absolutely safe right there were you are sitting.. i still read from time to time but not in nearly the same amount that i used to.. it feels like i don't have the time for it anymore.. which is probably stupid because all it takes is for me to take the time for it.. and this is where movies come in.. cause watching a movie gives the same feeling of escape, of getting through different emotion.. the difference is i am not bound to it like i am a book.. i can be doing other stuff at the same time.. making it feel like it is not as time consuming as a book.. although the reality is i get way to little done while i'm watching movies.. playing games just don't seem to cut it in the whole get your stuff together theme.. 

one of the things my colleagues had trouble with was how do i stay awake.. well thing is sure if the movie does not catch me i will get bored.. very bored in deed and sometimes i have to shut it down because it does not feel fair to the movie that i am bored.. thing is the movie does not have to be boring for me to bored.. sometimes it just isn't what catch me at the time and then it is simply better to wait until the mood is actually there... but falling a sleep.. 

well if i'm so tired that i could sleep standing then i should not engage in watching a movie.. i will fall a sleep no matter how interesting the movie might be.. ex.? first time i tried to watch Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr. i fell asleep before the movie hit the 10 min mark.. I LOVE that movie.. and was really trying to stay awake but ended up sleeping on the floor under the coffee table all the same..

another time i might fall asleep is when watching my absolute favorites.. i currently have 2 movies that i know by heart and if i put them on then i'm gonna fall asleep.. it is a sure thing and i'm not completely sure why.. being that i know almost every line in them i think my brain might see them as a safe place and go into slumber.. this is however just a theory... and when i wake up after i know everything that has happened i know the lines even though i am very much aware that it has been quite a while since i last actually heard them.. 

anywho.. this has just been me thinking about weird stuff.. 

Still Alive....

i know i have been away for a while.. quite sorry about that.. the reason.. well i kinda had to move.. and spent most of August and September stuck in boxes.. i still kinda live in a few boxes but only because i have a busy schedule.. furthermore  my internet isn't the best at my new place making the streaming kinda hard.. and then there is something about gaming a little to much lately

anywho all that aside what have i been doing lately? well my dvd collection has been in play.. a lot.. and after getting tired of watching pitch perfect on repeat i threw myself at an old danish movie series about a gang of robbers.. really cool movies and even though they are of older date and movies i grew up with.. Saturday night entertainment ;)... i actually never seen all of them (still haven't seen all them...but working on it) and then i kinda slipped and fell in the castle trap >.< i love love love castle.. but since i only have the first 3 seasons i kinda ended in dang i net internet mode last night.. so now.... i am going through my entire collection (exept the christmas movies)... i'll be busy for a while with that ;)

am hoping to finish up some post in the nearest future... i will try... anywho... now you now where i have been hiding out lately ;)

/SilverChild

what a perfect ending..

I really hate waiting for episodes.. like a whole week before i can watch the next penny dreadful... i have been under this curse for 3 weeks now... me not like... 

anywho.. i decided to watch orange is the new black because it has this really nice thing about airing seasons and not episodes.. which isn't all that bad.. watched the last episode of the season today however... a lot went down this season and beginning with bumming me out by letting voss out of prison.. come on we all watch because of her and pipers little thing going on... 

but i managed to enjoy myself quite a bit on the way through.. and i must say i loved the ending of the season... it was just lovely and it's gonna be fun when the new season comes by.. like really we got blackmail, revenge, nuns almost run down by a car.. what is not to love? 

well was just gonna jump by quickly before turning my head at person of interest... so looking forward to seeing Amy Acker being all crazy and armed with a taser.... ehm yeah i'm weird... just deal with it.. 

oh bugger....

there was something about me watching lost... that got kinda lost somewhere in it all... -.-' 

anyway since lost got lost (blah i need to stop that) i kinda fell on a moment of "oh hello Eva Green" which was a goooooood moment.... i love love love Eva Green... there is just something special about that woman... and well penny dreadful is kinda great... all dark and stuff... and then there is the oh bugger part... it is a new series.. airing currently... and i am not good at waiting for new episodes... so after watching for a couple of days i run into the oh right new episode airs tomorrow.. BUGGER!!!!

then thinking oh well lets watch some rookie blue.. after all i did just leave it... and so i get a couple of episodes and then... we're back on the oh right new episode airs tomorrow problem.. dang it..

so what do a girl do.. go back to lost... well i ought to but when have i ever done what i ought.. right pretty much never... so now we are going to watch the new season of orange is the new black.. it has the nice deal of airing a entire season at once instead of one episode a week... me like that.. me like a lot... 

so that is what i'm gonna be doing for a couple of days... 

Pitch Black (2000)

I'm watching lost I swear it... however... was out in the real world this weekend and ended up at a friends place.. we turned telly on and there was this movie on with quite the kick of action.. i did not know that i missed it... anywho my friends boyfriend told me that it was part of a series and that the first one was little know but worth the watch... wanting to watch the said movie again i found the prequel... hence me writing all of this stuff ;)

Pitch Black is about well ehm this commercial transport ship that just for the fun of it is transporting this guy that have just been captured after escaping from prison and is sort of like i dunno... dangerous to humans... and we off cause is transporting him along with a... oh you guessed?... a group of humans.. goodie that just sounds like THE PLAN of all plans... anywho.. said transport ship doesn't really like being all to close to a meteor storm and ship, crew and passengers crashes on this planet.. most of them being safe and sound on this hot desert planet finds well 3 suns and some nasty nasty aliens with a taste for flesh... good news is nasty aliens only hunt at night... the really really bad news.. well every 22 years this planet has an month long eclipse... and oh yeah it is about to occur...

I don't know why but i always said that i'm not to big on sci-fi.. don't know where it went wrong but ehm i have been watching a lot of sci-fi's in the last couple of years... and i like it... think it might be because a lot of sci-fi's has a good amount of action in them and i am a girl for the action c", ) 

anywho what do i think of this movie...? oh boy oh boy oh boy... there were like aliens and and uuuuuuuuhhhh shiny eyes >.< 

sorry i do realize i need more sleep... on a more serious note though... it is a really good movie... storyline got you a bit on edge yet is predictable enough so that you don't get totally lost.. the aliens.. well i like their design and i like that they used the design.. it is not just looks it actually has a point to it.. oh and then there is a lot of blood gory and other goodies... 

The Clean-up-deal...

so when i was making the pages link i noticed that some of the older post is missing the trailers.. guessing they have been deleted on YouTube... anyway made me decide that maybe now was as good a time as ever to do a little clean up in the posts.. so in the nearest future i will be going over the post one by one giving them a new trailer link when needed and if possible and i will also be adding a movie poster in them so AND do a much needed read through of the post... maybe just maybe i will be able to get rid of those dreadful mistakes i have been staring at a couple of times while thinking oh i need to do something about that.. but not right now... heads up though it might take some time... have a bit of trouble with my eyes so i need to take breaks from the screen.. also i have that odd thing called a life ;) 

spell checks it is