Summertime.

Current Playlist

Nicki Minaj - "Did it On 'Em"
Leila Broussard - "Masquerade"
Kanye West - "Monster"
Billy Joel - "Piano Man"
Oh Land - "Sun of A Gun"
Caitlin Rose - "For The Rabbits"
He is We - "And Run"
Glee (Gwyneth Paltrow) - "Do You Wanna Touch Me?"
Frou Frou - "Let Go"
Passion Pit - "The Reeling"
Bob Dylan - "Blowin in the Wind"
Johnny Flynn and Laura Marling - "The Water"

Scream 4 Dine In Experience

I just saw Scream 4 and I am proud to say it did not disappoint. I actually went to one of those Dine In movie theatres too where you get served dinner and watch the movie. It was my first time at one of these and it was pretty cooool.

Let's talk about the theatre first, I did a Cinema Suite which is fancier than the Fork and Screen. It had recliners and that was amazing, definitely worth the extra $3 compared to the Fork and Screen. Though, I've never done a Fork and Screen but I know they don't have those recliners so yeah. The food was okay, I had a veggie quesadilla. I liked the bonuses though like cookies and cream popcorn, mint chocolate at the end, warm towels. They had amaaazing drinks, I had an Oreo Mudslide yumm. Nice little experience, would definitely do again if I want to splurge a little. It's a little pricey $15 for a ticket then you have to pay for the food, too. Food was okay, your basics but still a nice little variety.

Anyway, Scream 4. Wow. It was incredible. Some people may argue with the fact that do they really need another? Why bring it back, the third one sucked anyway just leave it alone. Sometimes though it is nice to add on another sequel I think. Especially with a film like this and after all these years. It's nice to regenerate your love to a series and even give it more love. I'm a huge fan of the Scream series, such a dork about it too, and this movie was made for people like me.

Wes Craven is such an underrated filmmaker. I love how he utilizes the whole experience of the film, instead of just telling the story, he finds ways for the audience to really get involved and think and make it interactive. I love how he shows certain specific parts to test you out and intentionally leaves out others. Everything from the doppleganger of Billy as Jill's boyfriend even when he climbs through the window to the creepish scene with Sydney and the lady cop to try and help or throw off the audience to who the actual killer is. I love the throwbacks too like the denim jacket at the end the one kid wears, the whole stabbing each other scene. The funny jokes like how Stab is directed by Robert Rodriguez (actually the scenes shot were directed by him, so clever!). The whole social commentary they have in the beginning with the new Stabs and how movies like Saw and networking sites like facebook affected the whole Scream reality and horror movie industry 10 years later. Kevin Williamson wrote an incredible reboot to the series. Most importantly, the twist does not let you down. I guessed 1 of them but the other was such an incredible curve ball. I loved it. I could geek out for hours about this franchise, seriously, I love it. But I don't want to give anything away.

Scream is such an underrated franchise, in my opinion. They are such great films (with the exception of the 3rd which wasn't terrible just wasn't great). They're great because yes it's a slasher movie but anyone can see them. There's jumps and surprises but there's also laughs, too. And I just love the interactive aspect. Nothing beats seeing a guessing game film like this for the first time and you are shocked to see the ending.

Definitely worth it to see, such a great reboot. The twist was amazing. Movies like this definitely reignite your love of these franchises. I hope they don't force a Scream 5, I mean it's inevitable there probably will be one but don't make it just because you have to like Scream 3. Make it because you want to like Scream 4. See it!!

The future.

Happy Easter, everyone! Hope yours was lovely. I worked til 3 then had dinner with the family. Work was so slow but I got to watch 4 episodes of freaking Eerie Indiana on Hulu which was so awesome. I missed that show. I also got deep fried cheesecake for dessert which was both insane and awesome, but you know totally worth it. It's Easter it's okay.

I'm going to attempt to blog a lot on here, I feel like it might motivate me more to do stuff. Using the excuse of writing about stuff I've done or my thoughts or what I plan to do, maybe it'll make me want to do more.

I want to do a lot but I always feel like I do nothing. Let me elaborate. I want to act and do stand up and travel and have a great blog and just live. I feel like I am doing nothing with life. I do write my reviews for my blog and I am going to Spain. But I do go on auditions occasionally but many are student films or nothing serious. I am trying hard to write my stand up but haven't gone on any open mics since...like September/August. I just get such writer's block and when I do write about celebrities or anything by the time I want to do an open mic the jokes become stale. I feel like I need to go somewhere, move to Chicago or LA, maybe if I live on my own I will be more motivated. I want to move farther away because as much as would love to live in Manhattan none of my friends do. A lot of my friends here too aren't into acting, they're content with the lives, many are in serious relationships. I have many friends in Chicago that are into acting/directing/theatre maybe if I'm in that environment with them it'll push me more. In LA I have like 2 friends but I feel like I can make friends there and it might be easier and it's nice and warm.

I don't know, I've just been frustrated with life lately and something needs to change. Any tips? I'm pretty terrified of my future right now, not going to lie.

Inspiration

Life update.

I'm going to attempt to keep up with this blog and just post things I like from opinionated pieces to inspiration to my life and everything in between.

Today was one of those "I guess kind of productive but I feel like I didn't do anything days" meaning I woke up at noon and worked on a student film. By worked on I mean I sat around for 5 hours until they wanted to do my scene which took about 25 minutes to shoot. Of course I did get $10 and free pizza. But overall, I feel like it was a waste. Especially because I was all pumped to go to the gym but by the time I got home it was like 8:30 and I just didn't want to do anything.

So I've been sitting on my computer doing just that. Zoning out to tumblr and watching shows from yesterday.

I also ate some Ben and Jerry's and half of a huge muffin. So much for working out I did just the opposite. Ugh.

In other news, I am going to Spain. Spain and Ibiza to be correct. Yup, I just decided to fuck it all and book a Contiki tour by myself. Why not right? Maybe I will meet my own Javier Bardem, Eat Pray Love style, hahaha. No but seriously many of my friends are too poor or too lazy to go anywhere and it kind of frustrates me. I do understand some of them but others I feel like are bullshitting. They say they're poor yet they party all the fucking time. I don't want to spend my life wasting it away by drinking or whatever all the time. I want to see the world, so I will do just that even if I have to do it solo. I'm also thinking of going to Portugal while I'm in that area just because. I haven't booked airfare yet so the itinerary is still up in the air but who knows. I'm pretty excited though, something to look forward too and it's definitely a huge passion of mine. I hope to go to Costa Rica as well this summer to visit my friend but we shall see.

Well, I guess that's enough for now. I should probably go to bed considering I have to be up in 6 hours for work. Ugh.

Oscars disappoint.

So, the Oscars. What is there to say that hasn't been said? Didn't live up to the hype. Kirk Douglas should've hosted. I felt like the whole time James Franco was the rebellious yet still super cool guy who hated the musical theatre geek, Anne Hathaway. But I'm not going to lie, I still will bang James Franco. I also feel like Anne Hathaway did her best given what she had to work with. People seem to forget while they do host it's a written show, it's not like they're improv'ing. I feel like the writing was terrible. I really wanted James Franco to sing.

As for the awards, there were no real surprises for me except Best Director. Yes, director. But let me start from the beginning to explain my surprise. I am Team Social Network and while I was hoping for it to win I can see why it didn't. The King's Speech is a great film, the best? I personally argue against it. But you have to keep in mind it is the Academy that's voting. Similar to why Brokeback Mountain lost to Crash a few years back, I feel like the Academy is a little older and not used to change or the youth or Generation Y centered films. Thus, they go for The King's Speech instead of The Social Network even though both share similar themes of friendship and power. The Social Network is even a bit darker with themes of betrayal and society. But whatever, you know, you also have to look at it positively, The King's Speech is a great film and thank goodness another dull boring movie didn't win. This year we were blessed with fantastic films to watch.

You can tell with The King's Speech people just automatically picked it in every category, whether it was worthy of winning or not. Again, I have some disagreements about it winning best picture, but I can say whole-heartedly was not worthy of winning two awards: Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.

Best Original Screenplay, one can argue that The King's Speech is not entirely a work of fiction. It's based on history. There was one film so insane that came from one man's idea and created into a script that deserved to win and that was Inception. I am not even a fan of the film, I feel like Inception was totally overrated and didn't live up to the hype. But we all need to admit that Christopher Nolan is talented. From his work in The Dark Knight to Memento to Inception. He doesn't only direct these films but he WRITES them, too. Inception is a crazy, mind-bending thriller Nothing out there is like it and it was indeed robbed of Best Original Screenplay.

Now, Best Director. People automatically assume Best Picture = Best Director. They couldn't be more far from the truth. I feel like in every category to some extent the person is not only being judged on this film they're nominated for but also for their body of work and no other director has a more fascinating body of work than David Fincher. Every time David Fincher creates a movie it's a masterpiece. The way he intertwines the plot with the music with the performances create such amazing tones and you are left on the edge of your seat. With Fight Club, Panic Room, Zodiac, Benjamin Button, he is a genius. He made what might have been such a dull movie about nerds creating a website and sueing each other for it (in lament's terms) and created such a thrilling, even epic story. It boggles my mind that he did not win. The King's Speech, much like Black Swan, was a performance driven movie. Without those performances by Portman and Firth they would've been terrible. The Social Network the performances were pretty good but the story and the way we see the story and how it is created in this film is what makes it a great film and all of that was created by the director, David Fincher, and Aaron Sorkin the writer to an extent as well, but David Fincher was in charge of how Sorkin's writing was delivered and shown. I was completely shocked that he didn't receive the credit he deserved.

Thankfully though the future does look very good for David Fincher, what with filming the movie adaptation of the best-selling novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, I am sure he will eventually get what he deserves.

By the way, anybody know of what Tom Hooper's doing in the future? Maybe another mini-series for HBO, being that aside from The King's Speech that's what he was most known for.