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Entry posted by xccj July 25, 2007

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This is the first summer in the last five or six years that I have not gone off to a Boy Scout summer camp or a fifty mile trip during the vacation. Of course, my summer expires a bit early as I'm taking an early start collage class at U of W. But I have plenty of time to sit down and relax, and watch a movie! That, of course, after I build up a few blisters digging holes in the backyard... but when my parents aren't out making me do yard work, I've taken the time to watch some movies.

Really, I've seen an abnormal amount of movies this year (mid spring to summer). Most of them have been adequate enough. The list comprises of...

Spider Man 3... not an exceptional movie, but a good, entertaining one nonetheless.
Pirates 3... what, like I wasn't going to see that? It was good, but to fully enjoy it I need to see it a few times on DVD... with subtitles.
Ratatouille... for a G rated movie, it was pretty awesome. Glad Disney and Pixar are still at it.
Harry Potter #5... better acting than the other HP movies, so it was okay. Doesn't replace the book, though.

I want to see Transformers, but as I've seen more movies this summer than I did all of last year, I think I'll be waiting for that to come out on DVD. Anyway, I'm not a big fan (or fan at all), so it's not an urgent thing. In fact, if I wasn't reading blogs on BZP, I probably wouldn't even bother...

Better than paying extreme fees at the theatre have been the home DVDs I've watched recently. They are...

Pirates I and II… if I was going to watch the last in the trilogy, then I made sure to watch the first two. Pirates one is a great story that leaves little to be desired… in my opinion. The second one's okay… not up to the first one, but not a bad movie.
Indiana Jones (the three movies, in reverse order)… classic adventure movies. I decided to watch them again when I heard the announcement that Lego would make Indiana Jones sets… so I looked at the scenes and thought of how they'd be formed out of LEGO Bricks. But, after all… they're great movies. Maybe lacking all the cool special effects of today, but maybe that makes them all the better.
Lord of the Rings (extended version, all three movies)… I've forgotten how amazing those movies were. Animations great… some fabulous scenes of Middle Earth / New Zealand… and great action sequences. Although I've seen them quite a few times, they're still one of my favorite films, and surely work better as a trilogy than Pirates or Spiderman. And, since I don't have any other DVDs worth watching, I might rewatch the movies with the commentary on, which is almost as interesting as the movie itself.

So, thus, my excuses for not actually writing anything new lately. I'm working on Slizers, but I'm hitting this annoying writer block at one section. One of the chapters may turn out a little short if I can't find something interesting to add. I also have two other stories… both non-Bionicle related, that I could work on. For one, I have lots of plans but am hitting a similar writer's block, and the other I have lots of plans but I just haven't started it yet. And, in the end, I'm putting off writing more fiction to find something to post in my blog. Because, since I'm unable to take pictures of my MOCs, I'm no good at artwork, and I haven't written anything, blogs are the only thing that generate comments for me. So neh.

So I'm not sure which LotR commentaries I'll watch first… the Director's or the Actor's… those are the ones I find most interesting, as I would like to either direct or act in a movie like that.

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Edit: After looking through my MS Word documents, I did indeed find something old that I've never posted here but wrote specifically for a BBC story collection. You can view it here.