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I cannot function in a world without music.
I want to fly.
I admit to being extremely random.
I shop to stay sane.
I ♥ my BHs.
I want to travel the world someday.
I learn from the TV.
I actually love school. :|
I believe I am a superhero in my own right. ;))
I lead, but it is He who leads me.
Not the next.
The first.
Multiply!
I can't believe I still have this
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009
"You're mad, but you're perfect for me."
Summer is the time to watch movies you've been dying to watch for so long, but couldn't because of your very hectic schedule. And so I did. Since I'm getting my fill of action-adventures because of my parents who'd forcibly bring me to the cinemas (I always end up glad that they did though), I'm now looking at chick flicks.
We know the formula for this kind of movie. Feisty, lovable heroine + everyday problems made more complicated for the silver screen + ditzy but actually very helpful support system + gorgeous male who comes in the form of the unattainable heartthrob or "the best friend" + cheesy, cliché, but still very sweet and melty lines + a cinematic ending. But the movies I watched were surprisingly more similar to one another than I expected. And though the three I’ve watched are every bit the chick flick--predictable formula and all--I find myself embracing them.
1. Wild Child
This is every bit the coming-of-age, with its lead having been sent to a boarding school in England to curb her wild ways. She knew it was all wrong for her--a direct contrast to her carefree California lifestyle--so she sought to get expelled. It tugs at your heart, seeing that during her mission to get booted out, she found reasons to stay.
2. Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
Can there be a more amazing movie? So the plot (for me) is a bit ambitious, the British lilt a little distracting, the ending too perfect. But it just makes you believe, you know? It makes you believe that with gritty perseverance, ingenuity and an overwhelming desire, the perfect ending happens, which includes finally bagging the Sex God (played by the most gorgeous actor I've seen in ages, Aaron Johnson :x).
3. Wedding Daze
More mature I guess, compared to the previous two. It's ten levels unrealistic, but the main point of the movie is that love can come even in the strangest way possible, that it can be instantaneous and insane, that it can happen on a seemingly ordinary day in a crowded diner filled with old people. And surprisingly, it's successful in making us see that. Also successful in making me laugh until my cheeks hurt.
(Oh and I should mention Jason Biggs, whose voice makes for the sweetest, most moving “Will you marry me?” I’ve ever heard.)
One thing I noticed not just in these three, but chick-flicks in general was its heroines. They all have flaws--a refusal to be open-minded, naïveté, a temper, selfishness--but that makes them all the more real, easy to relate to. They’re not perfect, but they become perfect in the eyes of that someone who loves them, who just so conveniently happens to be incredibly good-looking. So okay, the mushiness of the you’re-perfect-for-me’s is slightly sickening, but it’s beautiful still. It’s a phenomenon really, when even with the existence of shortcomings, someone learns to love completely and irrevocably.
Forget fairy tales--life is better off being a chick flick. ;))
♥ ayna: 4:44 PM.
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"You're mad, but you're perfect for me."
Summer is the time to watch movies you've been dying to watch for so long, but couldn't because of your very hectic schedule. And so I did. Since I'm getting my fill of action-adventures because of my parents who'd forcibly bring me to the cinemas (I always end up glad that they did though), I'm now looking at chick flicks.
We know the formula for this kind of movie. Feisty, lovable heroine + everyday problems made more complicated for the silver screen + ditzy but actually very helpful support system + gorgeous male who comes in the form of the unattainable heartthrob or "the best friend" + cheesy, cliché, but still very sweet and melty lines + a cinematic ending. But the movies I watched were surprisingly more similar to one another than I expected. And though the three I’ve watched are every bit the chick flick--predictable formula and all--I find myself embracing them.
1. Wild Child
This is every bit the coming-of-age, with its lead having been sent to a boarding school in England to curb her wild ways. She knew it was all wrong for her--a direct contrast to her carefree California lifestyle--so she sought to get expelled. It tugs at your heart, seeing that during her mission to get booted out, she found reasons to stay.
2. Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
Can there be a more amazing movie? So the plot (for me) is a bit ambitious, the British lilt a little distracting, the ending too perfect. But it just makes you believe, you know? It makes you believe that with gritty perseverance, ingenuity and an overwhelming desire, the perfect ending happens, which includes finally bagging the Sex God (played by the most gorgeous actor I've seen in ages, Aaron Johnson :x).
3. Wedding Daze
More mature I guess, compared to the previous two. It's ten levels unrealistic, but the main point of the movie is that love can come even in the strangest way possible, that it can be instantaneous and insane, that it can happen on a seemingly ordinary day in a crowded diner filled with old people. And surprisingly, it's successful in making us see that. Also successful in making me laugh until my cheeks hurt.
(Oh and I should mention Jason Biggs, whose voice makes for the sweetest, most moving “Will you marry me?” I’ve ever heard.)
One thing I noticed not just in these three, but chick-flicks in general was its heroines. They all have flaws--a refusal to be open-minded, naïveté, a temper, selfishness--but that makes them all the more real, easy to relate to. They’re not perfect, but they become perfect in the eyes of that someone who loves them, who just so conveniently happens to be incredibly good-looking. So okay, the mushiness of the you’re-perfect-for-me’s is slightly sickening, but it’s beautiful still. It’s a phenomenon really, when even with the existence of shortcomings, someone learns to love completely and irrevocably.
Forget fairy tales--life is better off being a chick flick. ;))
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*AN AMAZING LEGACY
*An amazing prom
*Learn to drive
*To still be in Section 2 with my loves Kind of ;))
*Step foot on NYC ♥
*All Time Low’s So Wrong, It’s Right
*A new iPod
*A white MacBook Pro
*Kris Allen as my American Idol
*Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
*Saving Juliet by Suzanne Selfors
*A new pair of shades
*Automatic Loveletter’s first studio album to come out
*The entire season of Hunter x Hunter and Ultra Maniac
*Skullcandy headphones
*See Marc Nelson in person! :”>
*A new watch
*The 5th time
*A Canon/Nikon DSLR
*A prized neoprint :> :>
*Watch a live NBA game
*My own Robbie (Aaron Johnson) ♥
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