i catched "the last samurai" last night with bea, her cousin anton and his girlfriend, gabbie in powerplant. when i got to powerplant, bea, anton and gabbie were half-through with their dinner which was a-ok with me, since i was an eternal latecomer and i had already grabbed a bite before i went there. bea texted me about half an hour before i got there that they had already gotten me a ticket to "the last samurai". i was a bit hesitant at first to watch it since i've seen portions of it from a pirated VCD (which isn't as fuzzy and blurry as some of you might think ;p but the original is still the best. support origs! hehe) and though i liked it and even felt a bit weepy towards the end, it wasn't a film i wanted to see again. but since the ticket was already bought, i went ahead and watched it (i got there about 8.30 and the movie was at 10.20... we waited for 2 hours harhar). it took all of me to stop myself from politely backing out from the movie but still vouching for the ticket just so i could grab a cup of coffee and study (yeah yeah, i'm weird, i know :D), but since that would be rude (and i'm a very nice little girl hehe), i didn't do that.
expecting the movie to be boring (as what my initial impression of it was), i was SO wrong. it was SUPERB. truly a quality and definitely worth watching. when anton told me before we went in that "Samurai" already outgrossed "LOTR3" in the States, i smiled to give him the impression that i somehow believed him but vehemently disagreed to myself (being an LOTR fanatic). i scoffed at the idea of a japanese-epic-slash-american-samurai-wannabe movie toppling the superb and marvelous (bias seeping through hehe) LOTR 3. but i ate my words soon after. i loved the movie! everything about it was great and done masterfully. katsumoto (ken watanabe) was my favorite... shall we say, samurai. his presence was so powerful and impressive, he could have outshone the lead character of nathan algren (tom cruise). bee-yoo-ti-ful.
and so shine was right... one had to see the movie first before critiquing the casting of tom cruise as a samurai. the story behind it is worth finding out the reason for which cruise (very american, to say the least) was cast as a samurai. and, thank gosh, there weren't any untasteful and tacky love scenes stuck anywhere within the film. for once :) oh and by the way, my good friend sprz has put up a new blog herself. check her site out. thanks for the help! :)
before i forget, do any of you know how i could make the font for the tagboard smaller? the font for the posts are fine already but i really want to make the font for the Name and Url and Message dialog boxes smaller... they're humungous. and irritating. :(
last but not the least (or maybe a bit), know david's tea house in virramall. greenhills? terrible service. passable food but terrible service. clean, attractive and bright place but terrrrrrible service. no sense of customer courtesy at all. i'll explain (,defend and justify) myself next time around. for now, gotta study for an S&A long exam. ciao.
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