remy (both of them)

alrighty so i haven't posted in a while. life is just so very busy what with all this exciting grad school business and preparing for that on top of work and obviously my in game eq2/lotro adventures. so i saw the following two movies this week.

the x-files: i want to believe ~ i'll give x-files 5.5/10 snaps. i think the reason it's getting played down as crap by reviewers are that for this film you HAVE to be a fan of the series. there's not really that much to say about the film itself. it was an extended episode of the tv series in all reality. no really alien references. i liked it. it kept me entertained. i enjoyed seeing the characters farther in their lives.

charlie bartlett ~ 8.5/10 for mr. bartlett. first, i in no way see this film as a ferris bueller's day off for this generation. ferris was a free spirit and matthew broderick was all about enjoying life in that film. charlie, played by anton yelchin, is still about enjoying life but unlike ferris doesn't have the at least semi-normal family life at home. his father's in prison though he tends to lie about him a lot and refer to him as being dead in about 65% of the film and his mother is on klonopin and somewhat of an alcoholic who is present in body but absent everywhere else [i really got a royal tenenbaums feel off her from this film]. charlie's story deals more with how screwed up the american family has become and how that effects the kids produced from these families. a lot dealing with mental disease and treatment in a serious manner while still poking a bit of fun. tyler hilton who played murphey bivens put in a fantastic performance as did robert downey jr and hope davis. everyone else in the film was above par as well but how hard is it to play a screwed up teenager in high school when in reality you are or just were a screwed up teenager in high school...food for thought. i really love the tagline for this film too: popularity is a state of mind. so if you don't enjoy teen movies such as 10 things i hate about you, the breakfast club, the new guy, not another teen movie etc, i suggest you stay away because in all probability you won't like this coming of age tale either, but if those are your cup of tea then rent this sucker post haste.

in other news rukia and eros are both negative for heartworms and are now on prevention which is most excellent. aurora had her teeth removed friday and as you saw in the previous post the quote was listed as $200 but we came out at $374 so it's amazing how these prices keep rising from week to week in exponential bounds. i guess at some point i should call the vet out on this bullshit but right now it's just a growing credit card balance that i will resent for years to come but at least my pets will be healthy. aurora now needs to get started on her heartworm treatment which is going to be 12 weeks long and is quoted at about $300 so i'm going to assume $500 to $600 is going to be my upcoming bill.

sean last week was on bower parkway and happened to see a kitten get hit by a car. seeing as how we're alike in a lot of ways, you know...loud, obnoxious, gamer geeks that love animals...he stopped to check on the kitten who is most feral and continues to bite sean on the hand most viciously. so now we have another 10 week kitten [i know, i know...like we need another kitten...] who will at least let you pet her now and pick her up without hissing who lives in a crate in our room until we can get her checked for fiv/felv tomorrow at sunset animal clinic [hmm appears i may be on the verge of not going to grace for much longer, time will tell]. oh and i forgot to mention she's a grey tabby and i have named her remy after some news below that will excite most x-men fans. no pics today, i'd rather wait until she's a bit more calm before shoving a flash in her face. back to remy's rescue story. sean ends up at the emergency room two days later because i get a bit worried this adorable cat may be carrying rabies as she's acting odd and i'm not sure whether it's a) neurological damage from the wreck, b) really scared feral kitten just being a really scared feral kitten, or c) rabid feral kitten. so just to be safe we call doctor's care because well i'd like for sean to keep living at least until i'm the primary beneficiary in the will [just kidding] and doctor's care states to go to the emergency room. so sean heads there and they put him in a room and get all his info and inform dhec that he's been bitten by a wild kitten and then prescribe him some antibiotics for the infection the bite has caused. this is so they can charge him the $500 emergency room fee for a prescription of 10 augmentin. what a rip off. then they inform sean that only dhec has the rabies shots and dhec tells them not to worry if we have the cat because the cat will show signs of rabies before sean dies or we can let them kill the kitten now and dissect her brain to see if she's got rabies. we decide to stay away from the latter option and watch the cat. dhec wants to make sure we have the cat so they make us take her carrier and put it up to a window so they can look in while we're not home. i'm a little confused as to how much you can tell about an animal by looking into a crate from a window but eh whatever. remy appears to be doing better with maybe a broken tail and i'll know more after tomorrow's vet visit.

in other remy news...god bless the brave person who taped the x-men origins: wolverine preview at comic con. if you search for it on google you'll eventually find one that works and you'll know its the one from comic con cause it's all slanted as the brave soul tried to hide whatever recording device they were using. so as the screams from the fans at the con watch wolverine and sabretooth's stories evolve there in all his card throwing, bo staff swinging explosive fury was the man himself...remy lebeau aka gambit. far and away my favorite x-man since i was oh 4 years old and i've been so freaking pissed that he hasn't been included in any of the movies thus far but i'm okay with him not having to share a film with halle berry as storm. while i like halle berry in most roles, i think jada pinkett smith [or is she just jada pinkett now?] would've kicked halle's ass at being storm. but back to gambit the most awesome x-man ever...not only is he hot, he's cajun, he's cool, and he makes being a superhero look fun. okay so my first thoughts were holy hell it's about time, then the logical part of me got to thinking that my favorite pick for the role gambit would've been heath ledger [way before he was ever thought of as the joker, because really...who saw that coming?] who unfortunately is no longer with us. so then i couldn't for the life of me think of another actor who would be HOT enough to pull this off. then i see the man [26 years old] they've picked and i'm a little more at ease. ladies and gentlemen, taylor kitsch. i know nothing about his acting whatsoever so i'm hoping he can also land the hot cajun accent gambit is supposed to bring along with the bad boy attitude. speaking of teen movies from earlier i've been dying to see john tucker must die and he's in the film so away i go to obtain it sometime in the next few weeks. i'll be bubbling over with happiness about this until it finally hits the big screen sometime around may 1st, 2009. and yes i will be at the midnight showing and possibly more showings the following day if he pulls the role off.

we're getting very close to the return of collegiate activity and i am getting more anxious because i just can't wait! i've got 3 quizzes to take and i've taken the first 2 already. you only have to make 80% but i'm getting that ocd vibe that i sometimes get and took them until i made 100. i never made below an 80 but i did get a coupla 86s and 93s. i just feel better seeing the 100. oh well, i learned some interesting things about breeze for powerpoint and am going to try playing with it soon.

well i've gone on for quite awhile but i guess that's what happens when i don't post often. hopefully i'll get some more time to post soon but time apparently is slipping away quicker than it used to so for now...enjoy the silence.

-pyper