Theatres, Torchwood and Things

Greetings all,

It's been a while. Things get busy, ruts happen and life moves along.

So starting off small:

I saw two movies this week. 500 Days of Summer and The Ugly Truth.

First, 500 Days of Summer was pretty good. I'm usual not big on Indie-esque flicks because I feel that they're pretentious, but this was amazing. Joseph Gordon-Levitt really played his role well as a hopeless romantic, thinking he's found the "one" in Zooey Deschanel's character summer. It's non-chronological, but not in an annoying way like Vantage Point, and in fact it really adds to the movie. The end makes it realisitc and not your typical romantic movie, but at the same time, it leaves a lot of potential for the characters (and further reinforces a belief of mine that I'll discuss sometime in the future)

The Ugly Truth was funny. Honestly there's not better way to put it. So maybe there wasn't amazing writing or academy award winning acting, but it was entertaining and just fun. Ars gratis artis, people.

As far as T.V., I've been watching Torchwood Children of the Earth. I've kind of followed Torchwood and the Doctor Who series sporadically, but rather than do a season three, Torchwood did a five episode mini-series. It was interesting. The gist involves an alien race using children to contact the world. We find out the aliens have requests for a chamber they can live in and commands for the world to give up 10% of their children. Torchwood is an organization trained in alien affairs that try to help but then are put on a hit list by the government in order to cover up a similar event in the '60's. Other minor need to knows are that Captain Jack Harkness, who is in charge of Torchwood, is incapable of dying, and that Gwen, a former cop turned Torchwood, is pregnant. It leads to some very interesting drama. It really was an amazing run with lots of unexpected turns and things that would be Taboo in American t.v. (Ah, thats BBC for you). It also showed an amazing depth in the characters and in the personality of people. I suggest watching it to get the full effect.

Yesterday a group of us went to Hard Rock Cafe Dallas, which was pretty fun. I got an awesome Hard Rock Glass and the TRE failed at being on time, but it all in all went well.

Sadly though, I must now get ready for the monotony that is work. The bright side is I have 1 month until Rice!!!