bang! boom! sex!

Smokin' Aces, with a lot of fun actors, like Ray Liotta, Ryan Reynolds, Jeremy Piven, and Common (who was pretty cool, suprisingly). To me, this movie is good and bad, not neither, but both. It has a lot of great moments, though they're oddly paced and placed. Sometimes there is too much context, sometimes not enough, and somehow the plot is squeezed in between the action like little pudges between a too-tight shirt and low-rise jeans. As Ms Kim pointed out, the first portion of the movie is kind of like a long movie trailer...which isn't necessarily horrible, I'll note, movie trailers can be interesting to watch in and of itself. But....? Hm. The characters are interesting generally, though the story goes a little bit too far towards "too unpredictable" in regards to them, and it's thus hard to care for the characters because of it. I would have liked to see more of Ryan Reynolds being a badass, and less of Andy Garcia and that strange accent he was afflicted with. Smokin' Aces would have made a great comic book, it was decided, especially looking at the interesting manner of doing the end-credits, but is an odd sort of good-bad movie.

-the first several paragraphs of this are great, I think, though it then delves into somewhat technical stuff for yoga teachers - Strength of Mind

-fun with ESL!

-interesting ponderball quote: "One should lift oneself up by one's Self."

Random Word of the Day: sapidity