Catch Me on a Rainy Monday
I woke up today a little dazed and confused. It was almost 10 in the morning and yet the sky outside was still quite dark. I was a bit concerned since I already made plans to treat my friends out to dinner in order to belatedly celebrate my 22nd birthday... all that planning and fate hands me a glum day to celebrate my birthday.
After lunch I continued going through the DVD collection and found Catch Me If You Can as the next movie that I'd like to see again. Honestly, the first time I saw it, I didn't have good expectations for this movie - after all, it was a Leonardo DiCaprio flick... probably some romantic chick flick. But the story of Frank Abagnale Jr. just really blew me away. I really admired Abagnale, he had real guts and determination to pull of all of those scams... and all in his teens. And here I am already at 22, without the guts and determination to make my mark in the world. Once again, Tom Hanks comes up with some superb acting for his role as FBI Agent Carl Handretty. A total change in character from his part in Saving Private Ryan. I did do some research on Frank Abagnale Jr. after the movie and it turns out that the movie was actually tweaked... the real story is in here.
Well, in between I was actually interupted since I made plans to go see a movie with my friends before my birthday bash. We all decided on National Treasure, starring Nicholas Cage. I've heard a lot of rave reviews about this and decided to check it out. In the end, all I can say is that it is a typical Jerry Bruckheimer movie... admittedly entertaining, but hollow in the end. In other words, it's not a movie I'd like to watch again, not a movie I'd be putting in my DVD collection. A couple of interesting actors in the movie though: Boromir from the Lord of the Rings was in the flick, he's playing the main badguy. Jon Voight plays Nic Cage's father, and because of his role in Mission Impossible, I just can't help but feel that there's something fishy about this guy, like he was going to backstab his son or something. Unluckily, there was no such twist in the movie.
We agreed to have dinner at this Japanese restaurant beside Citibank. I knew at once that having Japanese was going to mean mucho dinero, but went with it anyway. Also, a couple of my friends told me it was quite affordable, so I bit into it. Well, we ended up with a ton full of food and of course, I ended up footing the bill. The sad part about it was that I was so engrossed and so worried about the tab that I didn't get to enjoy my food. Well, at least my friends were satisfied.
All throughout the afternoon it was raining hard and the pace just intensified that night. As a result two of my friends had to stay at another friend's condo for the night because it was flooded in the streets. I'm now feeling really guilty because they might take their leave tommorow because of this. Well at least it sure is going to be a memorable celebration for them tonight!
BTW, Liverpool beat Arsenal, 2-1 in the English Premiere League. I just finished downloading the game on Bit Torrent... but i'm a bit sleepy now so maybe tommorow, I'll watch how this tragedy occured.
After lunch I continued going through the DVD collection and found Catch Me If You Can as the next movie that I'd like to see again. Honestly, the first time I saw it, I didn't have good expectations for this movie - after all, it was a Leonardo DiCaprio flick... probably some romantic chick flick. But the story of Frank Abagnale Jr. just really blew me away. I really admired Abagnale, he had real guts and determination to pull of all of those scams... and all in his teens. And here I am already at 22, without the guts and determination to make my mark in the world. Once again, Tom Hanks comes up with some superb acting for his role as FBI Agent Carl Handretty. A total change in character from his part in Saving Private Ryan. I did do some research on Frank Abagnale Jr. after the movie and it turns out that the movie was actually tweaked... the real story is in here.
Well, in between I was actually interupted since I made plans to go see a movie with my friends before my birthday bash. We all decided on National Treasure, starring Nicholas Cage. I've heard a lot of rave reviews about this and decided to check it out. In the end, all I can say is that it is a typical Jerry Bruckheimer movie... admittedly entertaining, but hollow in the end. In other words, it's not a movie I'd like to watch again, not a movie I'd be putting in my DVD collection. A couple of interesting actors in the movie though: Boromir from the Lord of the Rings was in the flick, he's playing the main badguy. Jon Voight plays Nic Cage's father, and because of his role in Mission Impossible, I just can't help but feel that there's something fishy about this guy, like he was going to backstab his son or something. Unluckily, there was no such twist in the movie.
We agreed to have dinner at this Japanese restaurant beside Citibank. I knew at once that having Japanese was going to mean mucho dinero, but went with it anyway. Also, a couple of my friends told me it was quite affordable, so I bit into it. Well, we ended up with a ton full of food and of course, I ended up footing the bill. The sad part about it was that I was so engrossed and so worried about the tab that I didn't get to enjoy my food. Well, at least my friends were satisfied.
All throughout the afternoon it was raining hard and the pace just intensified that night. As a result two of my friends had to stay at another friend's condo for the night because it was flooded in the streets. I'm now feeling really guilty because they might take their leave tommorow because of this. Well at least it sure is going to be a memorable celebration for them tonight!
BTW, Liverpool beat Arsenal, 2-1 in the English Premiere League. I just finished downloading the game on Bit Torrent... but i'm a bit sleepy now so maybe tommorow, I'll watch how this tragedy occured.
posted by The Black Prince @ 10:50 PM
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