fight scenes

Oh my blagh. I feel like the most boring person in the world. So instead of talking about my repetitive yet adventurous and fun days, I'll just talk about a few of the movies we've watched recently. And by we I mean Matt, Petey, and I.

3:10 to Yuma: I actually really enjoyed this movie. I don't normally get into westerns, but I must say, 3:10 to Yuma was way different than I expected. I love the Russell Crowe/Christian Bale combination, and I love how I hated the ruthless ginger killer (who we're pretty sure is secretly in love with his boss, Ben Wade (Russell Crowe)). The movie takes a slow start, but I love how insane Russell Crowe is the entire movie.

Gladiator: Okay, this movie is definitely not for the light-of-hearted. The fight scenes were insanely epic, and I loved the storyline. Russell Crowe's character, Maximus, is the general of the Roman Army. The Emperor Marcus Aurelius states his dying wish that his son, Commodus, does not become Emperor and that Rome shall become a republic again. Maximus is betrayed by Commodus, who orders Maximus' execution. Maximus escapes and flees back home, only to find that his family was murdered by Commodus' command. He is picked up by the slave trade and sold to be a gladiator. Since he's skilled in combat, he works his way up the gladiator latter in order to free himself and fulfill the dying wish of Marcus Aurelius. Eventually he challenges Commodus to battle in the Coliseum...
The Last Samurai: Possibly Tom Cruise's only good movie. Oh how I dislike that man... but this movie was probably his crowning jewel. I loved the deep philosophy and calmness of nature coupled with the intense battles of war. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, and it definitely had some beautiful visual moments, as well as good acting from Tom Cruise (surprising, huh?)


Also among the mix...
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: If you've even seen the movie "Hero," this movie reminds me a lot of it. The fighting is the type of martial arts that only exists in movies- you know, the kind where they can fly over trees and catch 50 stun darts coming at them with a pair of chopsticks. But it's absolutely stunning with cinematography, the fight scenes are stupendously ridiculous, and not to mention two of the main characters are girls that can kick some serious butt.

Fearless: Another martial arts epic, but this time the fighting is almost all realistic. Jet Li's moves are swift and fierce, but after his family is murdered, he travels away to escape the pain. After a year or more, he comes to the realization of what a good fighter really is. It isn't just beating everyone up every time, it's about knowing when to stop and to respect and cooperate with your opponent. Most memorable quote: "My dad's wushu can kick your dad's wushu."

The Matrix: Definitely one of the strangest movies I've ever seen. This movie is extreme to the max, in the idea that we are not living in the world that we see. Humans are used as batteries to power horrible machine/robots that took over the world in the early 21st century. The matrix is actually a computer program that makes us believe "reality" is real, when it is in fact all in our minds. I can't really explain it, but wow, this movie is so extreme. I watch it when I need me a good Sci-Fi fix.

Cajun Murderer

This was our lovely game of Super Scrabble.
I'm pretty sure you can tell which words are Kim's and Petey's (the smart words), which words are Matt's (the lesser words), and which words were mine (any three letter word).



















And this... this was my crowning achievement.
Spelling cat twice.








After Kim spelled murderer, we joked about spelling "Cajun Murderer." As made obvious by the picture, we did in fact spell it. Whee.







You're probably thinking, "Wow, this is so lame, I can't believe they played Scrabble for fun."
Well...
Yeah. But it was fun and funny, and also, it's SUPER Scrabble. Whoo?

Where in the World is my Willie Nelson?

Last night me, Jenna, Jared, Jeff, and Neal watched School of Rock.

Before we did, we decided to make a Wal-Mart run at midnight and get some ice cream.
Well, I got this delicious Willie Nelson "Peach Cobbler" ice cream, Neal got Stephen Colbert's "Americone Dream," and Jenna got "Cinnamon Buns."

Well, I know that this post is super exciting, but I'm writing this post to tell you to never put your ice cream in a communal/shared freezer.
Because it'll get stolen.
And you can't track people down.
Well, I suppose if I went to every single room in the apartment building and checked all the trashes, I could find out who ate my Willie Nelson.
But I'm not that crazy.

Lesson learned.

I just want my Willie Nelson back. *Sniff*

FHE Spring Social

Monday was the last FHE for my ward up at school, so we had a kickin' Spring Social.

Brother Roundy's property is quite large and beautiful. In the winter, we went snowmobiling and sledding, and for our Spring Social, we drove out to his pond and pavilion and had a lovely BBQ complete with a waterslide and paint fight.


Even if the water was a little cold and the weather was a bit windy, it was still loads of fun!


It's been suggested to me that this picture could be the Loch Ness monster of Brother Roundy's pond...


I'm not exactly sure how Brother Roundy constructed this excellent waterslide, but it was in fact, well... excellent. There was a pipe that pumped water up the hill and down the slide, and there were tubes and pillows in trash bags to slide down on.





Paint fight when freezing cold?
Yes, you are still cold. You just taste acrylic paint along with it.






My roommate Megan, me, and my neighbor Neal.







The best part? We inherited a ton of hot dog buns (99 buns, to be precise) that were leftover from the BBQ, so now we get to feed the ducks until they're so full of bread that they'll explode.


I'm really going to miss my FHE family, they really are loving, exciting, and just awesome.

First Dam

Today Jenna, Kaylee, Melanie, and I went and fed the ducks (but mostly seagulls, those darned birds) at First Dam because Jenna had an entire loaf of stale bread and the weather was so superbly beautiful.

Sorry this picture is a little blurry, but I like it anyways. These are the seagulls fighting for a chunk of bread.

My favorite picture from the trip. I call it, "Greedy Seagull Taking a Large Slice of Stale Bread." But not really.

"Birds Have Evil Eyes."

Earthquake

Thursday at around 6:00ish I was sitting in my apartment attempting a test review for math. Suddenly it felt like my neighbors were somehow pounding hard enough on the thick brick wall to shake the couch I was sitting on. I then thought logically and said to myself, "Wait a second, they can't possibly be able to do that." The shaking in the back of the couch quickly turned into a rumble beneath that shook my sitting device. I looked up at the front room closet and saw the coats in and the doors on the closet shaking. They weren't shaking violently, mind you, but they were shaking enough for me to realize that it was in fact an earthquake.

I then went through a series of thoughts in about .4 seconds.
My first thought as I glanced at our wimpy front room table was, "Should I crawl under the table?! I'm pretty sure that might be a death trap. Well, how about the door frame? Dad always told me to go under a strong door frame!"
My second thought was, "I don't have a 72-hour kit!"
My third thought was, "Maybe this is God's way of reminding me to get a 72-hour kit!"

This all happened within seconds, but it felt so much longer, as does anything that abnormal and potentially dangerous. I asked my roommate if she had felt it, but she said she didn't feel anything. I then asked my neighbors, and everyone else had felt it, so I knew I wasn't crazy.
Within minutes, Facebook was full of chatter about the earthquake. It was then that I discovered that the earthquake reached as far as Salt Lake.
Pretty cool, huh?

I looked up the U's seismology website for recent activity, and it turned out to be a 5.0 earthquake near Randolph, UT, which is a little northeast from Logan. So, not that big of a deal, but big enough to shake up Logan to Salt Lake.

Cool nifty-o.
I'm getting a 72-hour kit for future real emergencies.