Dear Aunty Caroline:
I'm an 22 year old blond failure.
My fiancé has left me for my best friend, she's really hot and sexy. And I feel like garbage when I'm near her... because I'm chubby and I have acne marks, overall I think I'm really cute!
What should I do to split them? I'm really sad with this situation. =(
Please help me!
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
NATIONAL TREASURE - FILM REVIEW
“National Treasure”
“National Treasure” is a film produced by Jon Turteltaub and Jerry Bruckheimer, with Nicolas Cage, Diana Kruger and Sean Bear. It’s a family friendly adventure movie which lasted a little longer on the theatres due to the audiences it had.
Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage), a third generation treasure hunter is trying to find the Legendary Knights Templar Treasure, based on some clues left by the America’s Founding Fathers. However, Ben Gates discovered that the map of the treasure’s location was hidden on the back of the Declaration of Independence, the best guarded document in the U.S.A. Even so, Gates must steal the Declaration before it falls into the wrong hands. With all the clues joined, Gates was able to get into the catacombs beneath New York City, where the Treasure was hidden for 2000 years.
This movie has some pros and cons that I consider important to refer. “National Treasure” is a film fulfilled of good scenarios that are tie in with the story of the movie itself. There is a mixture of old scenarios and new ones that gives much more interest to the movie. In terms of story, “National Treasure” is a film with some details about the foundation of the U.S.A and it is a movie with plenty of imagination. The producer knew how to reconcile the history of the U.S.A and his imagination and he did it very well. In my point of view, one of the best things that this movie has and which attracts the audience is its story. Another thing that I kept in mind was the interpretation of the actors. They represented their roles very well as if they were real treasure hunters. It was fascinating!
On the other hand, there are some bad things that must be considered. There are only two things that I consider important to mention: firstly, some of the clues were found too easily, without much searching; secondly, there were some technical errors (nothing of much importance). As you see, this movie hasn’t many negative points to focus on.
In my opinion, “National Treasure” was one of the best adventure movies I’ve ever seen! Its scenarios, its story and imagination add to the interpretation of the actors are the main positive points of “National Treasure”. Ignoring the few negative points the movie has, it is with no doubt a great adventure film. I certainly had a good time watching it and wondering what the next clue was!
Francisco Bernardo
SHAUN OF THE DEAD- Film Review
“In a time of crisis a hero must rise...from his sofa.”
29 year old Shaun (Simon Pegg) is having problems in his already very pathetic life. His girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield) has dumped him because of their daily expedition to Shaun's favorite pub, the
Personally I didn’t really enjoy the film, especially because it doesn’t quite fit anywhere in the usual movie categories. It’s definitely too stupid to be a true zombie flick, but it’s not that stupid to be a spoof. Some of the actors are really god (such as Pegg and Frost)
Anyway, if you like blood, zombies, British humour (probably the best part of the film)
And if you don’t mind the fact that “Shaun” release would surely make George A. Romero roll over in his grave, (if he was, of course, dead) then, your taste in matter of cinema scares me.
And this film is the perfect choice for you.
Inês Pott
Film Review - Shaun of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead, a film directed by Edgar Wright, is an attempted parody of the 2004 released zombie horror movie Dawn of the Dead. In it appear some well-known British comedy actors such as Simon Pegg (as Shaun), Kate Ashfield (as Liz) and Nick Frost (as Ed).
Written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, this motion picture portrays the unusual way of how the living of a 29-year-old man, with no real ambition in life, oddly turns out. Shaun, the main character, played by Simon Pegg, is a desperate failure: he has a dead-end job at an appliance store where the staff he works with doesn't take him seriously, spends his nights with his best mate, Ed, at the local pub, the Winchester Arms and his girlfriend, Liz, breaks up with him. This last was quite significant, since after that he decides to turn his moribund life around. However, strange things begin to happen as people start acting in bizarre ways, and Shaun and Ed conjure a plan to save their friends by dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living.
The action takes place in modern London, basically in the main character’s house, in his couch and at the Winchester Arms bar.
I found the plot rather weak. It was in need of inspiration, as well as imagination, and was quite unconvincing, since it was about flesh eating zombies who “died” again by being shot in the head…
It is classified as a “Romantic comedy with some zombies”, however I did not find it romantic nor hilarious, but there sure are a lot of zombies.
In my opinion, a lot more effort could have been put into this film. Not from the characterizing sector, that part was reasonably good, they were fairly convincing zombies (I’ve never seen a real zombie but that is probably how one looks like).
I was not particularly fond of the film, but I imagine that someone who likes zombies or zombie’s almost comedies, or Dawn of the Dead’s spoofs, will enjoy this film.
Carolina Bruxelas
Written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, this motion picture portrays the unusual way of how the living of a 29-year-old man, with no real ambition in life, oddly turns out. Shaun, the main character, played by Simon Pegg, is a desperate failure: he has a dead-end job at an appliance store where the staff he works with doesn't take him seriously, spends his nights with his best mate, Ed, at the local pub, the Winchester Arms and his girlfriend, Liz, breaks up with him. This last was quite significant, since after that he decides to turn his moribund life around. However, strange things begin to happen as people start acting in bizarre ways, and Shaun and Ed conjure a plan to save their friends by dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living.
The action takes place in modern London, basically in the main character’s house, in his couch and at the Winchester Arms bar.
I found the plot rather weak. It was in need of inspiration, as well as imagination, and was quite unconvincing, since it was about flesh eating zombies who “died” again by being shot in the head…
It is classified as a “Romantic comedy with some zombies”, however I did not find it romantic nor hilarious, but there sure are a lot of zombies.
In my opinion, a lot more effort could have been put into this film. Not from the characterizing sector, that part was reasonably good, they were fairly convincing zombies (I’ve never seen a real zombie but that is probably how one looks like).
I was not particularly fond of the film, but I imagine that someone who likes zombies or zombie’s almost comedies, or Dawn of the Dead’s spoofs, will enjoy this film.
Carolina Bruxelas
Friday, May 4, 2007
IS THE RIGHT SIDE THE WRONG SIDE?
Gatos Fedorento’s four humorists are being target of threats made by the extreme right wing, as a response to an outdoor they placed in Marquês de Pombal, in which they express their opinion against the xenophobic message from the Partido Nacional Renovador (PNR).
PNR fixated a notice in Marquês de Pombal, in Lisbon, last Wednesday, the 4th of April, which is clearly xenophobic and against the immigrants.
Gato Fedorento, the well know humorist quartet, as a response, created an identical notice, placed right next to the other one, in which the humorists parody the right’s by writing the exact opposite of every sentence they wrote. “It is a message with which we do not agree. It’s a polemical message and polemical messages as well as any polemical thing ends up to be funny.” says José Diogo Quintela, a member of Gato Fedorento.
Lisbon’s Town-Hall (CML), which usually takes a long time to decide anything, was very quick when it came to detache the notice (only took 24 hours), accusing Gato Fedorento of not having a “legal authorization” as stated by the town councillor of public spaces, António Prôa. The CML decided to remove both bills. The PNR’s because it was so vandalized that it was visually polluting the area. The Gato Fedorento’s because it hadn’t a license. “When we saw that it was allowed to post grotesque messages is Marquês de Pombal, we didn’t want to be behind. I only regret that the PNR’s bill is so destroyed, because if one could read it, ours, next to it, would be even funnier” said Ricardo Araújo Pereira, other member of Gato Fedorento. He also said “it wasn’t hard to get a licence, because we didn’t ask for one”.
Now the four comedians are being threatened by the extreme right wing. This party is known to be the author of many cases of violence, like: threats, beatings, murders, illegal weapon possession, among others. Besides it has suspicious financing and it is known to keep relations with skinheads and the National Front. The threats are being posted online, in the Nationalist’s Forum, where some typers claim to be willing to physically harm any of the four humorists. “To greet them I think one of these days I’m going to make a little visit to the school at leaving time (…) where one of those left-wing bourgeois has his child studying” wrote one nationalist, naming the school where Ricardo Araújo Pereira has his daughter. Other nationalist said that “as from this day, they may be put under any violence”. Ricardo said to the DN “no comment, but I’ve reported the case to the authorities”, “our bill is an humorous act, not a political act. It’s a political joke, I will not promise that it won’t have political consequences”, the comedian added.
Apparently, with the PNR, which is up to no good, there is tolerance. With Gato Fedorento there is inflexibility. It seems that the law is strict with humorists and soft with capitalists.
PNR fixated a notice in Marquês de Pombal, in Lisbon, last Wednesday, the 4th of April, which is clearly xenophobic and against the immigrants.
Gato Fedorento, the well know humorist quartet, as a response, created an identical notice, placed right next to the other one, in which the humorists parody the right’s by writing the exact opposite of every sentence they wrote. “It is a message with which we do not agree. It’s a polemical message and polemical messages as well as any polemical thing ends up to be funny.” says José Diogo Quintela, a member of Gato Fedorento.
Lisbon’s Town-Hall (CML), which usually takes a long time to decide anything, was very quick when it came to detache the notice (only took 24 hours), accusing Gato Fedorento of not having a “legal authorization” as stated by the town councillor of public spaces, António Prôa. The CML decided to remove both bills. The PNR’s because it was so vandalized that it was visually polluting the area. The Gato Fedorento’s because it hadn’t a license. “When we saw that it was allowed to post grotesque messages is Marquês de Pombal, we didn’t want to be behind. I only regret that the PNR’s bill is so destroyed, because if one could read it, ours, next to it, would be even funnier” said Ricardo Araújo Pereira, other member of Gato Fedorento. He also said “it wasn’t hard to get a licence, because we didn’t ask for one”.
Now the four comedians are being threatened by the extreme right wing. This party is known to be the author of many cases of violence, like: threats, beatings, murders, illegal weapon possession, among others. Besides it has suspicious financing and it is known to keep relations with skinheads and the National Front. The threats are being posted online, in the Nationalist’s Forum, where some typers claim to be willing to physically harm any of the four humorists. “To greet them I think one of these days I’m going to make a little visit to the school at leaving time (…) where one of those left-wing bourgeois has his child studying” wrote one nationalist, naming the school where Ricardo Araújo Pereira has his daughter. Other nationalist said that “as from this day, they may be put under any violence”. Ricardo said to the DN “no comment, but I’ve reported the case to the authorities”, “our bill is an humorous act, not a political act. It’s a political joke, I will not promise that it won’t have political consequences”, the comedian added.
Apparently, with the PNR, which is up to no good, there is tolerance. With Gato Fedorento there is inflexibility. It seems that the law is strict with humorists and soft with capitalists.
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