i feel like something is wrong with me because so many people liked this movie and i didn’t. i felt like it was an after school special, just longer and just as boring. it was kind of funny when i was watching the making of in the special features, where they were saying that they wanted to make a positive movie about latinos, and then they had that scene where she goes into the convenience store for a soda and they had this asian sterotype at the register. i feel like that scene should have been cut out, it had no point to it. i wasn’t deeply invested in the characters although the ending was touching.

i was glad when i was done reading the book, i didn’t think i would make it through. some parts of the book i like, but sometimes it got too technical that it lost me. i like more of the personal touch he put into it, but not having a military background and not being familiar with some of the things he talked about kind of turned me off. another thing that bothered me was how he kept saying how other people kept telling him what a great writer he was, and comparing him to hunter s thompson and chuck palahniuk. makes me want to read fear and loathing and any palahniuk book and see if it’s remotely true. i feel like it can’t be. maybe he was better at writing the blogs than writing an entire book. just one girl’s opinion.

i thought this movie was going to be terrible because scarlett johansson was in it, but i was pleasantly surprised.

favorite lines…

“Let me tell you something ass-eyes, let me tell you ALL something: war has made me very PARANOID! and when you get to eye-balling me, makes my Agent Orange act up, makes me want to KILL!”

“Killin is my buisness and buisness is GOOOOD”

“Slippery he say. You think Charlie cares anything about slippery? The only thing he know is to slip your throat.”

i loves me some cottage cheese, preferably 2%. i disagree with the comment that it doesn’t taste good plain, which i have done on many occasions. my roommate likes it mixed with pinapple which i don’t like so much. but i am kind of weird because i like to put tabasco on it, yea yea i know what your thinking, but i like it. cottage cheese and doritos sounds pretty good, i have to try that next time.

i tried sushi a couple of years ago and i hated it. my roommate loves it tho. i would be open to trying it again. i rather eat sashimi.

i finished this movie earlier today and i can’t get the song POP! GOES MY HEART out of my head. it’s a catchy tune. it’s a cute, cheesy movie, exactly what i expected it to be.

i disagree with the last comment. i think the book translated into the movie very well. i first saw this movie years ago and when i watched it recently with a friend, it was just as good as when i first saw it. it is about family, secrets, love, heartache, and passion. definitely not pointless.

my friend was trying to go to sleep when i started watching this movie and i kept annoying the crap out of him because of i “cackling” so much. just a fun movie to watch.

this movie is a beautiful, touching story about two friends who meet after not seeing each other for years. one man who never really dealt with the loss of his familly on 9/11 and the other who is unhappy with how his life is going. it is not all depressing…it has its funny moments. the development of the two main characters is worth watching.