Sunday, December 12, 2004 |
02:47
I'm back home from what seemed like a hard day's work or non-work outside. Actually I've been back home for a few hours already but been a bit busy watching movies. Watched two movies today actually. Quite a feat that I've never done for a long time already. 'Collateral' was okay I guess. It was pretty much all talk and no action during the first hour but after that it got kinda interesting with Tom Cruise as Vincent and Jamie Foxx as Max doing this cat and mouse game. I watched this movie in the afternoon so that got me started in the movie watching mood. Just a few hours ago, I watched 'Fahrenheit 451' which I borrowed from my cousin in the evening. It was really a different film that I've never watched before. It had a strange 80's feel to it with this distorted view of how the future would look in the eyes of this director. Since this was a fairly old movie, I felt that this was how Francois Truffaut viewed the future to look like back in 1966 when the movie was made. Visit the IMDB or just follow the link above to know more about it. Briefly, it's about this different world where all books are banned and reading is considered a crime. It revolves around this guy, a fireman, just that the firemen in this world don't put out fires but they actually go round to destroy any books that they find. The title comes from the fact that the temperature that books burn is at fahrenheit 451. I'm not really sure how true that is but that's what they propose. I can't really imagine how such a world could exist but according to this movie, it seemed such a scary time and place to live in. I don't think I could survive in such a world.
Anyways, after that I watched Sex and the City which was quite an interesting episode today. Damn, I've been watching too much TV and movies lately. I'm going to get the LOTR: ROTK EE DVD soon too which I'll be holed up in my living room just savouring every second of it. I sound like such a LOTR freak aren't I? In addition, my cousin also just lent me this anime show called 'Chobits'. It's comprised of 3 DVDs with 9 episodes each. So that's supposed to keep me occupied for the next week or so when I have nothing else to watch or just don't feel like reading anymore.
The latest news I heard from my visit to the Taylor's College today was that our SAM results is supposed to be released on 13th Dec which is this Monday!! That just freaked me out. I almost fainted in front of the counsellor. I hope it isn't true though. We can check it out though at the official SSABSA website for the results if we can't wait to collect it from the college. GAH!!
Anyways, it's the Fab Five coming out soon, so got to go get ready. Cheers people!
It's true, it's true! 451 fahrenheit is the degree at which book paper burns. Bradbury actually called up the fire department to ask them. It's in the dvd extra features which I'm guessing you haven't watched yet! But I hope you liked the movie.. wasn't it great? Especially the ending.. I thought the ending was gorgeous. ~ the cousin..hee
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