Big Bad Cerberus

"Who is the hottest baldy?"
-Britney Spears
-Kevin Federline
-Mr. Clean
Is that even a question?

Quick little blog about my uneventful weekend.
Well, except for Friday. I forget what I did earlier in the day. I don't think much, sat around. Then a couple of cats came over and we played some Melee until we had to pick Dean up. After we came home and played some more Melee. What else is there. Then! 300! The epic movie I've been waiting so long to see. It didn't disappoint. It was everything I expected. It had everything I could ask for in a movie cinema wise. Every part of the movie was artfully crafted. Nothing was ignored. The background, the characters, the outfits, the transitions, etc. The story was amazing. Full of morals I value. There are so many lessons that can be learned from the movie and I hope all us took a few of them away after watching the movie. I know I did. After the movie ended, it felt like my whole body was on fire. I was burning up. I am sick and I thought maybe I had a fever, but I don't think thats what it was. I think so many feelings, emotions, ideas, and morals, were circulating through my body that I just started burning. On top of all that, just the pure visuals that I had to deal with added to my being overwhelmed. I was engulfed by greatness. 300 basicllay stood for everything I believe in cinema wise, and morally. The movie also had good timing in my life. There was a lesson about love, and expressing to the people that are in your life. There is a part in the middle-begining where narrator talks when the King is leaving the city after he just said his goodbyes to his wife and child. The narrator says something about the King not being able to say that he loves his family because that is sign of human weakness. And I thought to myself, "Is that really true?" So what I want to achieve is making me weaker? But then later in the movie when the Spartans face darker times things started to flip. The Captian loses his son, and the Captian says the thing he regrets most is not being able to put his pride aside so he could tell his Son how proud of him he was and how much he loved him. I think message affected the King as well and I think he regretted how he want about the part where he left his family. This whole idea made me feel much more comfortable. That even the proudest beings can express love without shame. It is okay, it isn't weak to rely on others. There are people out there that want to help. Just one of the lessons I learned.
Here is something that made the movie a little sour for me. After the movie Mitch kept trying to make admit that I liked the movie, but crafted his words to make me out to be a hypocrite. Of course I liked the movie, I knew that I would before I watched it, he knew this. He asked me, "How did you like this comic book turned movie?" I am not a big fan of the comic book turned movie idea and he knew this as well. The stories aren't enough to keep me interested. I can watch the Spidermans, X-mens, Fantastic 4's, but they never last in my memory. I think those movies are just visually impressive and that alone can make someone millions. So people keep pumping those out. I want the whole package. But Mitch asked me the question while we were leaving our seats and I told him that he couldn't compare this movie to this shitty comic book movies. He later asked me again in the car. He was driven to make me look like a weaker person. Luckily, Dawson was there to fight him off with me. He told him that Frank Miller is considered a Graphic Novilst, and Mitch had no arguement for that.
I just learned that Zack Snyder, the director of 300, also directed Dawn of the Dead (2004). He has another movie in pre-production right now slated for 2008 called "Watchman." Based on a novel written by Ian Rankin (tell me how you like it if you've read it). If he can pull that one off to, I will suck Mr. Snyders dong. Look for it. I will also be looking for any other Frank Miller joints coming out as well. Sin City and 300 did not disappoint. I may actually just read one.
After 300, we went to Jon's and played Melee for a little.
Sat. I guess Leah had some special school thing so I lost 2 hours of sleep. So after church I took a little nap and when I woke up, Jon and Dick were watching DVDs in the basement. I had planed a big melee day but I didn't get any calls or texts from anyone so I figured everyone was busy. Andy came over later and we cranked out some good melee. Later we did some voice overs to a couple of animes. They were funny to us, but I doubt they are funny to anyone else. I'll YouTube them regardless. After we rented Fanal Fantasy 7: Dirge of Cerberus around 11:00 pm and planed to beat that by Sunday night. We slept over at Jon's killing about half the game til 5 am. Then woke up and finished the rest. An okay game, but we expected that after reading some reviews. Basically played it because we are going through a Final Fantasy 7 craze. Helped clear up some gaps in Vincent Valentines story. Also made me like Yuffie a little. I wouldn't recommend this game however.
That was basically my weekend. Little melee, more melee, 300, church, melee, melee, voice overs, Drige of Cerberus, sleep, Drige of Cerberus, More Dirge, then sleep. What a spring break.