As my family and closest friends know, I am THE "World's Worst" when it comes to saying things out loud-i.e. putting some of my most desperate and heartfelt feelings into literal vocal tones.  I myself find this incredibly ironic because I am a loud outgoing individual.  In order to affectively communicate what I'm feeling I sometimes have to write it down.  Thank goodness for pen, paper and oh yeah...blogs.

I shall explain the title right off the bat.  After having graditated (my version of graduated) college, my brain has literally been eXpLoDiNg with ideas and I have been writing like mad. What am I writing?

Wow...I've been absent for too long...sorry life kind of happened and I had to tend to it.

But I'm baaaaaaaaack!!!

Well don't all cheer at once...sheesh. I jest. ;)

Ok, so I really don't feel like updating my life right now because things are sort of crazy.  The people at college failed to mention that with a "diploma" comes a whole different life style.  I knew it was coming, I'm just now in the midst of getting my act together. :)

Anywhoz, SUMMER! Yes!! So, I have decided to do something interesting (if you wanna call it that).  The idea started back when I watched the Academy Awards with a few friends at school.  I was greatly intrigued by the movies nominated.  Actually...I'll be honest.  I felt rather stupid watching the Oscars cuz I had not seen half the movies nominated so when something was mentioned I couldn't cheer or boo because I hadn't seen the movie! And I therefore could have no opinion as to whether I think it should have one the awards a movie did!

That needed to change.  Hence why this summer I have decided to watch some of the nominated movies ranging any time span.  Most of the ones on my list right now are from the 2011-2012 batch, and I've got a few random movies thrown in there as well, BUT nevertheless, I plan to do a mini review on the movies I watch, and write about it on this very blog.

*Cue da da daaaaaa music*

Alright, the undertaking of this will be rather simple, at least, I hope it will be.  I want it to be simple because I realized that I cannot POSSIBLY watch every single movie that was nominated for an oscar in any give year and compare.  If I did that I might as well turn in my keys to humanity and dedicate myself to a life of potato chips and a couch...no. Do you know how many movies that would be? Don't even try to do the math, you will get a headache.  I have a headache just thinking about it...

Right back to Oscar nominated movies.  What I have decided to do is rate each movie individually and give my thoughts on them.

Without further ado...let's get started! Annnnnd I would like to start with a movie that everyone for the past year or so has been telling me to see. It's one of those "What, you haven't seen it?!" type of movies. Yes. So tonight I watched...

This film was nominated for 13 awards and won 6 including Best Picture and Best Actor in a Leading Role.

My Take on the film:

This may be a little crazy, but apart from Hanks performance, I really don't see what all the fuss is about .  It is a very good movie and I think it deserved the awards it got.  But there were some things in the movie that for lack of a better phrase, turned me off.  First, there was way too much sexual content for my taste.  In the words of Forrest Gump, "That's all I have to say about that."

Second, Jenny, Gump's best friend and love of his life, was a 2D character and became shallow.  Throughout the movie, the poor girl is messed up due to abuse in her childhood, but the audience never explored her hurts and how deep they ran.  Maybe we didn't explore that because from Forrest's simple minded point of view, he saw it as "she was sad".  I'm a nitty gritty type of person, and I wanted to know more about Jenny, so that dissapointed me.

Third, I went into watching Forrest Gump thinking I was going to be drying my eyes half the movie much like I did when I watched Radio, another movie addressing the life of a man who has a condition similar to Forrest. (Go watch Radio by the way, it's EXCELLENT.) In all honesty though...it was sad, but not a tear jerker.  Forrest accomplished too much in his life for it to be a "sad" movie.

On a scale of 1 to 10, I would give Forrest Gump a solid 6.  It won 6 Oscars, so it seems to fit.  :)

Stay tuned for more movies both Oscar worthy and non Oscar worthy I shall be reviewing. Some to come include...

Iron Lady
Winter's Bone
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Reel Steel
Pirates 4 (this should be a hoot) 
The Artist
And much, much more! 

May the odds be ever in your favor.

Dear Readers,

Life happened.  I'll be back eventually.

Signed,

Facade: A superficial appearance or illusion to something.  (Dictionary.com)

All of us wear a facade at some point.  It is with great regret that I admit to wearing one every now and then.  To make things worse, I wear this facade around certain people.  The facade is worn to ward of confrontation and disagreement.  I'm tired of wearing it.  For so long now, I've wanted to tear off the mask and say what needs to be said.

It's important, really it is.  I'm searching for an opportunity to remove my facade.  Once I do, the words coming out of my mouth will be...

I am about to make myself very clear on a few things, and I need to get them off my chest cuz they are bugging me.  No, I'm not hating on anyone, it's just frustrating.  Tell me what you think, I'd be interested to know.

Ok here we go.

First of all, I cannot understand why people insist in continuing an abusive friendship.  Seriously! I have observed this recently where one person constantly bully's the other and I cannot help but wonder why this person lets themselves be bossed around by a peer.  To put this in more understandable terms, think of an extreme Laurel and Hardy or Abbot and Costello.  Does that make more sense?

Now in my mind, it's natural to think "But I love them, and I consider them a friend and they don't mean it."  My response to that is "If they didn't mean it, then why do they say it ALL THE TIME.  Why do they constantly push you around? If you really consider them a friend, then you would not let your self be put down by them as often as you do.  If they treat you like this, chances are they treat others that way too.  It would appear you are doing both yourself and your 'friend' a disservice."  That's just what I think though.  I personally do not care for "coarse jesting" (hopefully I'm not butchering that phrase).  In my opinion, I find it disheartening and demeaning.  Friends joke with each other on a certain level, but when you keep doing it over and over again, it can be too much.  Again, this frustrates me because I am currently observing this happen with someone else.  I cannot step in and say what I think, but there are days I wish I could.

Second, I'm finding it difficult to watch others get opportunities and chances that I wanted so badly.  It's kind of like the phrase "playing second fiddle".  Please don't get me wrong, I have a wonderful life with many great things going for me.  There are however a few instances where I hoped something would happen and it didn't.  I got the "second fiddle" position.  The only way I can say this is...

I'm tired of watching others play.
I may say "It doesn't matter or hurt."
It does hurt more than I care to admit.
And I'd like it to end please.

........Wow....french fries and a chocolate shake sounds really good right now.  Then again, so does a nap.

Ironically after I finished writing this, 10 minutes later, I am watching Survivor and I can't help but think....IRONIC. AND HILARIOUS. ;)