You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

On Tuesday, November 30, 2010, I went to see the movie You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Woody Allen's latest film.

IMDB.com summarizes it nicely:

Follows a pair of married couples, Alfie (Hopkins) and Helena (Jones), and their daughter Sally (Watts) and husband Roy (Brolin), as their passions, ambitions, and anxieties lead them into trouble and out of their minds. After Alfie leaves Helena to pursue his lost youth and a free-spirited call girl named Charmaine (Punch), Helena abandons rationality and surrenders her life to the loopy advice of a charlatan fortune teller. Unhappy in her marriage, Sally develops a crush on her handsome art gallery owner boss, Greg (Banderas), while Roy, a novelist nervously awaiting the response to his latest manuscript, becomes moonstruck over Dia (Pinto), a mystery woman who catches his gaze through a nearby window. Written by Sony Pictures Classics.

A very well done film. I enjoyed it. The writing was great (it was written by Woody Allen). The only thing I have a beef with is the ending. What is it with films' endings recently? I'm talking about these films that end but really, there was no ending at all... I saw 10 1/2 and that film had such an ending. Then this one! I hate these types of endings! It's like I have never seen the film at all!

However, aside from the ending, the movie was great. A very clever film where the dialogue is clever and the acting is splendid. Definitely a film to see.

Harry Potter 7: The Deathly Hallows - Part I

On Saturday, November, 27, 2010, I went to see the film Harry Potter 7: The Deathly Hallows - Part I.

This is the first part of the seventh movie in the seventh book. It is Harry's seventh year, supposedly at Hogwartz, but he can't really go back, since Voldemort, he whom shall not be named, wants to kill Harry. We follow Harry, Ron and Hermione's journey on hunting down the horcruxes and for them to destroy it. During this movie, one part of it they had to break into the Ministry of Magic to get the horcrux back.

There were some minor changes in the movie. For example, part of the escape from the Ministry of Magic, they also took back Mad Eye Moody's eye to bury it. There were also a few details that I forgot within the movie. One thing I forgot was that Dobby, the house elf, dies... That was one little detail that I had forgotten.

I can't wait until Part II. I know how the book ends and therefore I know how the movie ends, but I still want to see it being presented on the big screen.

Um... And you're a parent?

I stumbled across this lovely link. It's a news article about a woman who has an issue with KFC.

The woman is having an issue with KFC because she bought her daughter popcorn chicken and then the daughter was choking on the bone in the product.

Though I do agree that the response from the company was way less than stellar... The question that I want to ask is, "What type of parent feeds their two year old daught popcorn chicken?" I think I was still eating porridge/liquidy/fluid food when I was two... I mean, two year old children have teeth and can have some solid food, I guess, but popcorn chicken, seriously?!!

I don't think this woman has a right to complain because of her stupidity and ignorance. And now she's in the news.

It Gets Better, from Pixar

My friend sent me this link. A clip on youtube about being gay and giving hope to people out there. I totally agree with this clip... After the student jumped off the bridge because his idiot roommate filmed him having sex with another man!

We need more of this type of education in schools. I know that I try to stand up for gay students whenever I can. However, it's hard to do when I don't have a full time job and when positions that I am qualified pass me by like a fat kid running after the ice cream truck.

It does get better. I hope it gets better for me too. I would love to walk up the nine steps and walk in the door and have a hug and a kiss from my boyfriend/husband too.

Life As We Know It

On Tuesday, November 23, 2010, I went to see the movie Life As We Know It, featuring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel.

Katherine Heigl plays the character of Holly, who's a professional baker and chef. At the beginning of the movie, she is set up on a blind date with Josh Duhamel's character, Eric, or known as Messer. They were set up by their mutual friends, Peter and Alison Novak.

The blind date is disastrous. However, this is the first time that they have met. We see this relationship develop as their mutual friends, who are married, are expecting a child. We also see that they have a disdain for each other and they make comments at each other's expense.

The unthinkable happens. Peter and Alison both pass away in a car accident. And... As their last will and testament, they have named Holly and Messer as the guardian of their child, Sophie.

Once they have learned about this, they spend time learning about the baby and taking care of her... They have to learn to get along with each other, for the sake of the baby...

What happens at the end? You'll have to watch the movie to find out. I am starting to appreciate Katherine Heigl more and more... She's no Kate Winslet, at least not yet, but she always surprises me whenever I see her act. I haven't seen Killers, the movie before this one that she did with Ashton Kutcher (and I am in no hurry to watch it), so I can't vouch for her acting in that one, but I think she did a good job with this movie.

Teacher, I salute you

I stumbled across this article on Yahoo.

This is the type of teacher that gay students would have dreamed of having while they were figuring out their sexuality. This is the type of teacher whom I would have appreciated when I was in school and this is the type of teacher that I aspire to be.

Gay teens have to suffer in silence because apparently it is still okay to discriminate against someone for their sexual orientation, when it is clearly stated in most places it is not okay. However, actions speak louder than words. A lot of teachers do not combat homophobia in the classroom and let lots of homophobic comments slide.

We need more teachers like this in our classrooms, regardless of elementary or high school.

Math = rich? An interesting equation... Almost as interesting as ...

Stumbled across this link about mathematics and life.

An interesting find... Now, me being a mathematician, where are my riches? lol

I think they forget to factor in that university students are now graduating with more debt than ever...

At least it's nice to see that being smart in math could mean that I could be richer... Though, being a teacher, you're not really that rich anyway. lol

10 1/2

On Tuesday, November 9, 2010, I went to see the film 10 1/2. This is a French Quebecois film featuring Claude Legault.

Legault stars as a child care worker, named Gilles. He meets a kid named Tommy who has lived his life in violence and with parents who did not care for him properly. He tries to save the kid even though many of his teammates have given up on this kid and have labelled him as a danger to society.

A lot of good acting on the part of Legault. He was given a lot of meat to work with for this character and he did well with it. What happens at the end? You'll have to watch to find out. Though, it is not a typical ending.

Never Let Me Go

Today, I went to see the movie Never Let Me Go. This movie features Keira Knightley and is based upon a book written by a Japanese author.

This movie flashes back to a bunch of students who went to Hailsham School. Right from the beginning, we notice that something isn't quite right about this school. However, we don't exactly know what it is. We only know that there is a hint of what it might, since at the beginning of the movie, we were told that thanks to technology advancement, the life expectancy in about 1974 was 100 years old or something like that.

We learn through the movie that Hailsham School, along with other schools educate children that are donor children. They are the ones that donate organs so that people can live on.

There is also a love story thrown in with it as well as a life story... However, I will not go into those stories here.

A nice science-fiction movie. Not a thriller, but a nice science-fiction movie.