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So how do I entertain myself now?0
chris lin posted in Movie, Personal on December 4th, 2007

I noticed this week was the last week any of my tv shows will air before going on break due to the strike. That's what gone? Prison Break, Dirty Sexy Money, Chuck, Heroes, The Unit, Desperate Housewives and The Office.

What am I suppose to go now? Go out? Socialize? Looking around on Google tells me that they don't think that negotiations will end by the end of this year. If it's anything like the last strike (22 weeks, 500 million dollars lost by industry), I need to start looking at the list of movies I haven't seen yet and run through them.

28 Weeks Later3
chris lin posted in Movie on August 4th, 2007

Oh man I hate this kid.

Doom 32
chris lin posted in Movie, News on September 9th, 2005

Are you ready for Doom the Movie? I know I am.

Movies movies movies!0
chris lin posted in Book, Movie, Personal on August 22nd, 2005

With nothing to do for the past weeks, I have been watching movies. Whether with friends in theaters or by myself, my eyes have been glued to some type of motion picture box or screen. I'll list the movies I saw with like a sentence of how I liked or disliked it. So far, all the movies I have watched I liked or loved.

Finding Neverland - What a sweet drama movie, actually made me teary. You know it's a good movie when it can change your emotions.

Crash - Man, this movie seriously moved me. It had so many racist issues of today and shed some on me. Arg, so good, it hit me so hard so many times.

Stewie Griffin - The Untold Story - If you love Family Guy, this is a movie about it. It's seriously funny as hell. I laughed harder watching this then I normally do when I watch the episode.

Deuce Bigalow - European Gigalo - Comedy movie, had my laughs. Wasn't as good as I wanted it to be but hey, I didn't expect much from it.

Wedding Crashers - Another comedy movie (get the trend?) that I watched in the theaters. This probably tops as one of the funniest movies I have seen. Everything was, in my opinion, delivered perfectly. Then again, this movie has a lot of sexual jokes and that's right down my alley

For some reason, i thought I watched more. Anyways, I movies to watch for this week are…Shawshank Redemption, Seven Samurai, Madagascar and maybe a few other ones.

Oh, besides movies, I've been reading 2 hours every night too. Just finished the Harry Potter series, the whole month of August I was reading 3-6 and I just finished 6 the other night when I stayed up til like 5AM finishing it (then again, I started at like 1AM). Good series, I will be awaiting the seventh and final book. I plan on reading the following books before school starts: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (book3-5), America The Book by Jon Stewart, The Art of Intrusion and The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick and some other books I downloaded online (ebooks rock!).

I love you Will Smith9
chris lin posted in Movie, Personal, Reviews on February 20th, 2005

I went with some friends last night to watch Hitch: The Cure for the Common Man. What a funny movie! For some reason, I have always liked Will Smith's movie; maybe because I watched movies like ID4 when I was a kid and grown accustomed to his acting. But ya, when watching the movie, I noticed that everyone laughed from little kids to grown adults. And it was the first FULL theater film I EVER been to that didn't have some retard commenting to the movie or just being an asshole in general. I was in awe.

I am broke.1
chris lin posted in Movie, Personal on February 7th, 2005

Saturday night, the team leaders from my club all headed over to the Yard House in Long Beach to eat dinner. Our president wanted this to be a social where we got to know each other so our team would be more comfortable with each other but almost all of us knew each other so it was pointless. Only Robert didn't show since he was on call at work and got called in.

We had fun, took pictures and spent way too much money on food. After we headed over to The Pike and watched Sideways. Good movie, but not something you want to watch late at night. It's comedic at many parts of the movie but it's also mildly slow in my opinion.

House of Flying Daggers1
chris lin posted in Movie, Reviews on January 3rd, 2005

Has anyone seen House of Flying Daggers? It's a beautiful movie, like all the Chinese movies that were brought over from China. The scenery and colors that Yimou Zhang used in the movie was SOOO…beautiful. The fighting like all those other wu shu movies are ok, this one worse than others. Good wu shu fighting would be the scene with Donnie Yen and Jet Li in the movie Hero.

I also noticed in Crouching Tiger, Hero and this movie, Zhang Zi Yi is in all of them. Kind of weird but I don�t mind. She�s an up and coming actress in China and she�s damn sexy

Never forget, May 19th 20050
chris lin posted in Movie on November 3rd, 2004

Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith is coming to a theater near me May 19th 2005.

Here's the only trailer out right now

Right click and save as…

Let us have a moment of silence.

Hero and such4
chris lin posted in Movie, Personal, Reviews on August 27th, 2004

I went with a friend to watch Hero today. It was released in 2001 in China and I didn't realize until halfway through the movie that I had already seen it before. Good thing I didn't remember any of it though, it was just some scenes that I remember distinctly since it was so out of the world. For all of you who don't know, Hero was brought over by Quentin Tarintino to the US since it was a China only released. It was a good thing too, since he left it subbed and didn't have any dub the movie. That would've been a crappy experience for me then. Go watch it, it's similiar to Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon since both have the same martial arts where you fly around and do some crazy swordplay.

I loved that sorts of movies when I was a kid and just watching it now reminds me of all those other movies I had watched before. We all know it is fake, so who cares? There's no need to express your feelings in the movie theaters, no one really cares. I understand when people where like 'WTF' and that's impossible when they saw Crouching Tiger but there is no need to say it in this one, you saw the commercials and you should have expected. Americans need some more edumakation in old school Chinese movies. For those curious, the plot outline is "A series of Rashomon-like flashback accounts shape the story of how one man defeated three assassins who sought to murder the most powerful warlord in pre-unified China" (IMDB).

I have my first essay coming up on Monday for English. Well, it is more of a draft but the final is due Wednesday so I will think of it as a final. It's something about education and I should do good on it aside after filtering out all the grammar problems I have. The joy of English, I spent my entire life learning it yet I can't write a proper essay without it being riddled with grammar.

Hrm, site updates? I won't be doing one bit of coding on this layout anymore as I am working on a new one. This will probably take a month plus since I don't have much time anymore (note lack of blogging…or maybe I'm just lazy) plus I am going graphic intensive on this one and making sure it validates correctly. I will probably make it only xhtml transitional to ease my pain but eventually I want it to be strict also. I don't even know why I code up to standards, it is not my job or anything that makes me money, must be good practice or something.