I'm so afraid of what I feel...
I have to type this all again because the power went out...*frowns*...
Okay, other than work today, which was pretty busy as usual, I managed to chat up some random people during both lunch and dinner. I was rather lonely today, and it was nice that I was around people who were so chatty. It's a good thing. During lunch I got to help someone find the DMV, and during dinner at Boston's I managed to chat with the waiters/waitress there, most of whom (I found out) were fellow students at USF trying to pay their bills. I can relate.
Since I already said I went to Boston's, that means one thing, I saw a movie.
Movie Review: "Step Up"
Channing Tatum ("She's The Man") and the lovely Jenna Dewan ("Take The Lead") play a poor boy/hip hop dancer and a driven but nice rich girl/ballet dancer in this predictable but enjoyable movie. A petty and misguided class-motivated act of vandalism leads Tyler, the poor boy, into trouble with the law, with 200 hours of community service at the scene of the crime, the Maryland School of the Arts. While there on janitorial duty after school he meets up with Nora, aka the rich girl, who needs a partner. The two strike up an instant chemistry and begin to mash his hip hop skills with her ballet skills. Both of them have some family troubles. Her father died not too long ago (*gulp*) and he is in a foster home with a couple of younger foster siblings (who he becomes closer to as the movie progresses) and gets into trouble by stealing cars and going to underage drinking parties (like certain members of the 2006 ABC class) with two brothers, whose mother is a hard-working single parent. There are, of course, various obstacles to the obvious romance and chemistry between the two leads, such as his background (and tendency to quit at the first sign of trouble), her background (a furtive kiss of theirs is caught by her mother, to much awkwardness), and the fact that she has a boyfriend (who is disposed of after he betrays his friend, who happens to be a great producer of orchestral/dance/hip hop music and who has a crush on Nora's friend, who is dating a musician). The tragic but rather timely (as cynical as it makes me sound to say it) death of the younger brother of Tyler's friend gives Tyler the push he needs to make his dream of entering the school as a student. Of course, there is a lot of pretty credible dancing in this film, and of course the climactic scene is a blend of hip hop and ballet, and of course the ending is a happy one, where the main characters have their dreams come true. Still, despite the predictable trail and ending, the movie is enjoyable largely because of the credible dancing/acting and chemistry of the two leads. These two different people find themselves not so different after all, which is always a hopeful message, even if it seems rather unrealistic to me. We can dream.
That's all...
Okay, other than work today, which was pretty busy as usual, I managed to chat up some random people during both lunch and dinner. I was rather lonely today, and it was nice that I was around people who were so chatty. It's a good thing. During lunch I got to help someone find the DMV, and during dinner at Boston's I managed to chat with the waiters/waitress there, most of whom (I found out) were fellow students at USF trying to pay their bills. I can relate.
Since I already said I went to Boston's, that means one thing, I saw a movie.
Movie Review: "Step Up"
Channing Tatum ("She's The Man") and the lovely Jenna Dewan ("Take The Lead") play a poor boy/hip hop dancer and a driven but nice rich girl/ballet dancer in this predictable but enjoyable movie. A petty and misguided class-motivated act of vandalism leads Tyler, the poor boy, into trouble with the law, with 200 hours of community service at the scene of the crime, the Maryland School of the Arts. While there on janitorial duty after school he meets up with Nora, aka the rich girl, who needs a partner. The two strike up an instant chemistry and begin to mash his hip hop skills with her ballet skills. Both of them have some family troubles. Her father died not too long ago (*gulp*) and he is in a foster home with a couple of younger foster siblings (who he becomes closer to as the movie progresses) and gets into trouble by stealing cars and going to underage drinking parties (like certain members of the 2006 ABC class) with two brothers, whose mother is a hard-working single parent. There are, of course, various obstacles to the obvious romance and chemistry between the two leads, such as his background (and tendency to quit at the first sign of trouble), her background (a furtive kiss of theirs is caught by her mother, to much awkwardness), and the fact that she has a boyfriend (who is disposed of after he betrays his friend, who happens to be a great producer of orchestral/dance/hip hop music and who has a crush on Nora's friend, who is dating a musician). The tragic but rather timely (as cynical as it makes me sound to say it) death of the younger brother of Tyler's friend gives Tyler the push he needs to make his dream of entering the school as a student. Of course, there is a lot of pretty credible dancing in this film, and of course the climactic scene is a blend of hip hop and ballet, and of course the ending is a happy one, where the main characters have their dreams come true. Still, despite the predictable trail and ending, the movie is enjoyable largely because of the credible dancing/acting and chemistry of the two leads. These two different people find themselves not so different after all, which is always a hopeful message, even if it seems rather unrealistic to me. We can dream.
That's all...