two VERY different movies

tonight was another two movie night... and you can't get much more different than this...

movie #1: eric, scott, ben, scott's friend christina, and i all went to see "closer"... R rated, julia roberts, natalie portman, jude law, clive owen movie.... it was... interesting... not a movie you leave with a "this is done" feeling... rather one you leave the theater going "hmmmmmmmmmmmm"... i know many people who don't plan to see it because it looks however it does, and that's fine... however i also think it's possible to see a flim, hate what the characters stand for and what they're doing, and still think it has a valuable and well-conveyed message... delete a couple scenes where the language was a bit crass, and this movie was such a movie... the point being, if you lie and don't be honest with yourself and others about what you want, everyone gets hurt... that, it conveyed well. ben and eric loved it,.... minus about 3 scenes, i liked it... scott didn't really like it, and i didn't hear many comments out of christina... so much for that.

movie #2: after that, ben and me saw "finding neverland", which i was supposed to see two weeks ago with roommate and dave. warning: bring tissues for the ending if you see this movie. i'd known it had gotten all A reviews on the sites i frequent (e.g. yahoo movies, etc.), so i was expecting a quality film, but i really didn't expect it to get to me how it did... it's based on the life story of the man james barrie (who wrote peter pan), and the way the film transitions so smoothly between imagination and the real world was really cool... the ending, like i said, was poignant though, and when the credits started rolling, i poked ben and just commented "now i really miss nicole again" before resuming crying :-P i highly recommend it, just like i said, i also highly recommend the tissues too :-P

otherwise, it's been a decent day... class, pizza seminar, and some math work aside, eric and i had been "not speaking to each other ever again" for two weeks now, and over the past several days we'd writen like 15-20K each way in emails sorting things out, so we enjoyed 2 hours at starbucks this afternoon laughing and being un-mad again.... yay for that... friends are a blessing indeed :-P

and that's the scoop

night y'all