2007 promises the release of some much-awaited films. But the anticipation of the Spiderman, Fantastic Four, and Harry Potter sequels, it seems, will take longer than I hoped. Fortunately, there’s the romantic-comedy Music & Lyrics which, I believe, is coming very, very soon (Is it next week?). I just love Drew Barrymore.
Since nothing great, IMO, is currently playing in theaters (except maybe for Night in the Museum which is just so freakin’ funny! I wonder if the new Brad Pitt film, Babel, is any good..), I left Deej to decide which film we should see yesterday. The poster of Apocalypto is a bit scary but, I have to say, intriguing. Since it’s a Mel Gibson film, I honestly thought I was gonna see a famous actor play the protagonist role (kind of like Jim Caviezel in The Passion of the Christ) but apparently, the first characters shown at the start of the movie are the main characters. (Where in the world did Mel Gibson find these tribal people??) The film is gory, morbid, gruesome, and all the similar words you can think of. If you ask me, I really should’ve just paid half the price of the ticket since through most parts of the film I had my eyes and ears covered with my hands. :dead: Most of the scenes were very brutal, but as a whole, I liked the movie because of its unique appeal. The actors were brilliant (maybe even better than the already-famous ones) and the plot, even if it’s just the common survival-of-the-fittest kind, is full of suspense. I’m sure most men who love action-packed movies would find Apocalypto great. Women, on the other hand, could just look away and not watch the barbaric, ravaging scenes.
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The Wordpress 2.1 is just like how they described. It’s definitely faster, the interface nicer, and the new features, such as auto-save and tabbed WYSIWYG/code editor, are very useful. The upgrading process is quick and easy too. All of the plugins I have installed remained intact, except for one. It seems that the old “More Smilies” plugin doesn’t work with the new version Ella. Fortunately, the author of the plugin has also updated “More Smilies” for our sake. We only need to replace the old one in the plugins folder, enable it, and it’s good to go. However, I have one little problem… The smilies icon which is supposed to be clickable in the WYSIWYG editor is no longer there, even if I try to enable it in Options > More Smilies. Waaah. Somebody help.
Other than that little problem of mine, Wordpress 2.1 is undoubtedly an amazing development. Don’t you just love Open Source?
Babel was good, though not something I’d be raving to watch just because. If you dig movies that induce socio-political awareness, Babel beats Lino Brocka movies hands-down. But that’s just me; I couldn’t care less about people in Morocco living off trading goats for goods. lol. I actually got into a row with someone because of my apathy.
I just got an email from sheeromedia this morning saying they’ve reserved my domain. taken na ung eskaparate.com un pa naman sana gusto ko so it’s going to be FireEyedBoy.com :P cool, eh? Fire Eye’d Boy (Broken Social Scene) would be my answer to the cliché question “which CD(s) would you bring with you if you’d be stranded on an island”
PS Fire Eye’d Boy is track#6 off “Broken Social Scene” (self-titled), the actual CD title. Baka may mag react na musicphile eh. heheh
Oi, Jeff, ano yun?? :confused: What did I say? :secret:
Nakakainis. I still haven’t seen Night at the Museum. Nakakainis talaga. Inggit. Inggit. Inggit. I very much am interested to see Apocalypto. I just love movies with lots of gore, haha.
Congrats on the successful upgrade! :D Kaso, evidently, I don’t use any smiley plugins. Sa WYSIWYG editor lang ba merong clickable smilies? Kasi tinry ko yung WP-Grins dito sa localhost installation ko, pero wala namang lumalabas sa editor ko. Hindi kasi ako gumagamit ng WYSIWYG, nahihirapan ako hehe. ^_^
check mo yung plugin, a lot of plugins haven’t been updated to be compatible with 2.1 eh… Maganda yung apocalypto? talaga.. kaso tamad kasi ako manood ng movie kung walang manlilibre eh wahaha kuripot eh noh? lols
I want to watch Night in the Museum. Preferably before Music and Lyrics is shown (February 14!). Haha, if you love Drew Barrymore, I love Hugh Grant. I also want to watch Blood and Chocolate, mostly because of Hugh Jackman :heart: . :P Hahaha.
I haven’t upgraded to 2.1 yet…is it easy? I might do it this weekend though. :)
Okay correction! Hindi pala sa Blood and Chocolate si Hugh Jackman. Haha. I saw a movie trailer with Hugh Jackman pero hindi ko na maalala kung ano! =)) Anubayun.
SHARI: gusto mo pala ng gory ha, magugustuhan mo sigurado yun! hehe. palabas pa ang Night at the Museum! ay, di na pala, wednesday na, change picture na. :D Yup, the smilies popup is supposed to be clickable sa WYSIWYG, pero weird, hindi na ngayon. Apparently, i’m not the only one having this problem, madami na rin akong reklamo na nabasa. I haven’t tried WP-Grins.. u think it’s better? :D onga, minsan i prefer hard-coding pa din. hehe!
MAE: Yeah, the one I installed is an updated version.. Feeling ko tlaga may na-overlook lang yung author. hehe! O ano, libre kita nood tayo mubi, hehehe! :tongue:
TINA: Dat nanood ka na, baka wala na tom ung Night At the Museum, hehe! dibidi nlng. :D Oo, favorite ko si Drew, ang funny kse nya. :) Di ko lam yang Blood & Chocolate (whatta combination ha!).Uu, madali lng ung pag-upgrade. Go, go! :)
Malay mo, ma-extend sa cinemas. Wala akong pasok ngayon, baka i-date ko na lang sarili ko sa SM. Kaso walang pera. Teka, si Mae ililibre mo? Eh pano naman ako?! Haha! :D
Anyway, have you emailed the plugin author? Para maayos na rin niya.
Hmm I miss watching movies. The last one I saw in the theatre was, like, Da Vinci Code pa, hehe.
May libre?! Ako rin gusto sumama dyan. :P
I watched apocalypto the other day and I learned one thing. From childhood I believed that a Jaguar is a dog. But it’s a cat. Now I know.
BTW, this movie is fantastic but I think I don’t like the ending. It’s been better if they put more actions as well.
Another movie I recently watched is the Pursuit of Happyness. It made my wife, it inspires me to solve a Rubik’s cube. And I did it at last.
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LOL. Nice one about the jaguar being a dog. :D
Yeah, I agree. The ending’s kind of bitin. Would’ve been great if they elaborated it a bit more. :) Good job with the Rubik’s cube! I’ve tried it before too but I could never do it.. :P