Laptop? Movies? School?

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 2:27 PM

So yesterday I went to a movie called The Last Station. I was thinking of seeing it, but it wandered off of my mind, and I forgot about it. When I saw a commercial for it, which was very odd considering it was an independent movie, I thought it was about a radio station that was the last radio station to play a genre of music or something like that. I was way off, incredibly off. I'm pretty sure radio stations didn't even exist during that time period.


It was a fantastic movie about Tolstoy. I'm sure 90% of you don't even know who that is, and it's very sad. Well, he was a great writer, full name Leo Tolstoy. Almost all Russians know who he is because of what he did. He was like William Shakespeare, except maybe even better. He changed the way a lot of people thought, and entire communities of people were built following the Tolstoyan way. Anyway, it was a very emotional film and very long. I'm sure I'm one of the few young people who would have enjoyed it. Among the entire crowd who watched it, I was the only one below 50 years old.

Moving on, I want this new laptop that was shown at CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, which I've been following for many years. It's a great event, but very nerdy. Things like computers, new technology and games are shown there. This laptop called the m11x was shown and it looks fantastic, and it's generally pretty cheap for what it is. I'd love to get that if I could, I'm tired of waiting for a Macbook Pro. Not to mention it's $1200 cheaper.

Onward even further, my school is seeming to start pretty good. I've had 3 snow days, and that really seems to screw up college students a lot more. It's not like high school where you just come in the next class because you have it every day. Each of my classes only meets up twice a week, and class has been cancelled quite a few times, so it means more cramming in a shorter amount of time, aw well.

I also saw Cop Out, and I'll try to post a review of it up tomorrow. I have some schoolwork to do for today, and making a movie review is actually harder than it seems and takes some time, so watch out for that tomorrow if you're interested.

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Dragonball: The De-Evolution.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 7:09 PM

DragonBall Evolution is a 2009 live action film adaptation with the same name. The anime was amazing and is highly regarded as one of the greatest animes of all time, if not the greatest. But that's a whole different story. The movie however, is one of the most horrendous of all time. The transformation from anime to live action was probably the worst that I can think of, and I hope it ceases to exist. All in all, by itself it is a very bad movie, but it might thrill people who don't know about the anime. Let's review it. Spoiler alerts.


Review of "Dragonball Evolution".

Plot Summary.
Well, the story is pretty much nowhere close to what the anime is, but let's have a go at it. Piccolo, an evil namekian from 2000 years ago, escapes from imprisonment and is looking the the dragonballs. It's Gokus 18th birthday, and he gets the 4th dragonball, by his grandfather, Gohan. He meets his soon to be girlfriend Chi Chi, and his grandfather dies because of Piccolo. He meets up with Roshi, and eventually Bulma, Yamcha, Piccolo's servant Mai. They all eventually form a group and collect 3 dragonballs. They are stolen by Mai, and Piccolo turns out to have the other 4. Goku turns into the Oozaru, but mans up and takes its power and becomes one with it, then kicks Piccolos ass. That's pretty much it. You don't have to watch the movie now.

The Good.
Well, I don't know, not really much to say. Because it's really short, it makes it less painful. Less to watch. There's some okay effects, nothing to grand. Yeah I don't know, if you think anything was really good about the movie, then congratulations to you for not wanting to pull your eyes out of your skull. I guess they got the kamehameha, except it can't bring people back from the dead...

The Bad.
Too much, way too much. I'll simplify it as much as I can. The movie was way too short. I know this contradicts what I said earlier, but think about it. As much as it was short, it could have been longer, because the story could have been much better. Not even that, the story could have been the real story, and not some new one that the script writers decided to make while they were like "Screw it, everyones going to watch it anyway". The writers were James Wong, Ben Ramsey and Akira Toriyama, the same guy who wrote the god damn manga, yet the movie turned out horrible. Stephen Chow was going to direct it, but didn't. If you don't know who that is, he was the guy who directed Shaolin Soccer, and his more popular and very good movie, Kung Fu Hustle. Imagine how good it would have been! More bad? The god damn characters. If you watch the first season of any of the dragonball series, you will notice something immediately, the characters don't match up. Goku isn't supposed to be 18 at all during any time period. Bulma isn't some random girl, and certainly doesn't have brunette hair. Chi Chi isn't a high school student who's really patient. GOKU IS NOT AMERICAN AND DOESN"T GO TO HIGH SCHOOL. I don't even know how they fucked up Yamcha, Master Roshi and Piccolo. I don't even want to talk about it anymore.

My Overall Thought.
This movie, shouldn't have happened. It's odd that all of the horrible movies make a lot of money, but this is one of the few movies that I'm glad landed in the bargain bin if that. It was in the news that Wal-Mart had it on overstock because no one was buying it even though it had a ridiculous sale price of only 4.95. I don't have the link for it, but I'm sure it's in the news somewhere. This movie had so much potential. The moment I saw the trailer for it in 2008, I knew it was going to be horrible from the way it looked. Everyone was americanized! Horrible decision they made giving the director role to James Wong.

My Rating.
Now, this movie wasn't a complete absolute terror, it'll probably bring good to kids and people like that. I give this movie a 3 out of 10, only because the only people who should be watching this are 3 year olds. They don't have the mind to remember such horrible movies like this.

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Williamsburg, Cop Out, and Hating.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 8:05 PM

The most exciting thing to happen within the past couple of days is this little place called Williamsburg. It's probably one of my favorite spots in New York, if not my favorite.


I went there with Mike and Allaire, and it was amazing. It was the first time I had gone anywhere with Allaire outside of where we live, so we actually had things to do and places to go. It's amazing there, and anyone who doesn't know of it,, should definitely look into it. You're accepted there, no matter what type of person you are. It's full of culture and it's thriving. People are incredibly nice, and very odd, but a good type of odd.

There's always clubs and parties to go to, there's stores everywhere, and the streets go on for miles, full of art on the walls of buildings, amazing landscapes, and tons of events. You can just go out and walk with no goal, and get entertained. I would love to live there one day, but it's really expensive there from what I hear.

Cop Out is coming out this week, and it looks okay, but what I'm most psyched about is that Kevin Smith directed it. He's one of my favorite directors, but I think he might screw this one up. There's no Jay and Silent Bob, there's no New Jersey universe, and it's with Bruce Willis and some other guy I don't know about. I hope it'll be good so I can continue to be a fan of his.

In other news, people have to stop hating other people, it's pretty annoying. I was going to go to a movie night at a friends house, but I was with a friend. When I went there, the person asked me why my friend was there. We stayed for a little bit, and she said that people would refuse to come because he was there. How stupid is that? Just because you hate someone, you're not going to come? Kudos to you.

Is it really that hard to withhold something towards someone? Not really, people do it all the time. Well anyway, me being the person I am, offered to leave with him so that they could continue on, so we left and came back to my house. It's sad that things like that happen, and it's a shame that there are people like that in the world. I know it might come out offensive, but there are annoying people out there in the world, but some of them are good hearted and that's all there is to it. Try to be a little more thoughtful before insulting someone you really dislike.

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School's Almost Here.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 10:24 AM

School is on it's way back, and I still have a lot of reading to catch up on. I have a couple test this week, which is kind of odd, because I had the whole week off, so we're not really learning. I don't know how well I'll do on the tests, but I hope I do well, wish me luck.


Yesterday, I made Jell-o, or Jello, or however you spell it. Here's the question of the day, is Jello solid or liquid? I don't know what the hell it is, but I think it's just a viscous awesome substance. It's a lot of fun to make, play with and eat, and I'm thankful that it's around for all of the boring days that my friends and I have.

So I got a call from my mother yesterday, and she really surprised me. She told me she was going to move away to Hawaii next year, and that seems really odd. She just moved to Harlem around 2 years ago, and it seems like she's just settling in. I don't know what's going to happen, but I guess I wish her the best.

I also started drawing with Charcoal. It's a gift that Allaire got for me, and I really appreciate it. I never really used it before, but Mike tells me that I'm supposed to use it for shades of colors, but I think using it any way I want is better. It's not always fun using things the way they were meant to be used, especially when it comes to artistic things.

I have no idea what's in store for today, but I was thinking of going to the park, because it's very beautiful outside.

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Video Blog? Boring Day?

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 2:50 PM

So I'm going to try to create a new type of bond between written text and video. I'll try this, maybe a few times and see how it goes.


Yesterday was pretty boring, but I did do some things that kept me a little entertained. I didn't really do anything, but I did see a horrendous movie. I was watching this movie, 17 Again, which wasn't too bad, I actually kind of liked it, but it ended, and then I was going through the list of movies on the guide channel, and I reminded myself that The Wrestler was going to be on.

I saw it movies, and I must say, it's an amazing movie. It's sad to hear that people have been seeing it in the bargain bins in places like Wal-Mart and Best Buy or whatever. It's a really good movie, and I do recommend seeing it. Maybe I should do a review on it.

Anyway, so after realizing it wasn't playing, I kept scrolling through the movies, and I saw Dragonball: Evolution. One of my friends Patrick, has an utter hatred for this movie, and we've discussed it's horribleness, many a times.

I watched the whole thing through, and during the early parts I messaged Patrick saying I was watching it, and he told me to prepare myself. It was my first time watching it.

Anyway, today, I've been trying to crack my iPhone 3GS, which I just got, but it won't happen because of some new firmware they released, they being Apple.

I have been playing Magic: The Gathering a lot on an application called Lackey, and it's a lot of fun, and it's free best of all. People who play that game, know that it's an expensive hobby, and it's very consuming, but I have a life, or at least I think so.

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Valentines Day!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 8:06 AM

Well, here it is again. Some of you may be with someone, and some of you may not. Today is one of the highest suicide death ratings throughout the entire year, and throughout the entire world, which is very sad. I've been reading a lot of negative comments on Valentine's Day throughout the past couple of weeks, and it's probably because you might not have what you want, but I think it's a great holiday.


It isn't meant to put you down, it's meant to enthuse and excite you. Just because you don't have a significant other doesn't mean you can't celebrate the day. You have your mother, grandmother, aunt, friends, it could be someone you've never even thought of. There's a lot more people in your life than you really think, and I'm sure that today, someone is thinking of you, and you don't even know it.

Last year, I made Valentine's Day cards for all my friends that were girls, and they all seemed to really like it. It wasn't out of romance, but out of making them feel good about themselves, and myself as well.

I also wrote "Everybody deserves some recognition, even if it be from a friend" and I'm sticking to that.

Happy Valentine's Day everyone, have a good one. Blog you later.

 

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Snow Day!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 2:53 PM

What better a day than today, the day when I have the most classes. Yesterday I was at school and told everyone that school was cancelled and I heard pure happiness. Right after I went to a friends house and we had a pretty good time.


Things have been going pretty good so far. I'm about to see Allaire and Erika and maybe some others a little later, and I hope to have a good time. Whenever she's there.

I finally started getting some Rolling Stone magazines, and I've been reading up on them, as well as Freud, and I gotta say, both things are pretty interesting, setting aside the differences. I like reading all of the music stuff, and it helps me find new stuff to listen to. Maybe I should do another album review one of these days, I've only done 1 in my entire history of blogging.

Anyway, Valentine's Day is coming up, and I'm so confused, I have no idea what's going to happen. I want to see Allaire, but there's a lot of complications. I don't really know what to do, but if the worst case scenario happens, I'll just see her on Tuesday, which is our 10 month anniversary.

It's been quite a while, for me at least, and it will last far longer.

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Movie Collection!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 7:49 AM

So I have this gigantic movie collection that some people know about. Probably composing of well over 200 movies, and I want to end up watching most of them. Who needs a Netflix account when you have all of these movies, that no one has heard about?


I doubt anyone who's looked at these movies knows more than one or two of them. Some of them are foreign films or old black and white films. I'll name a couple of them, see if you recognize any of them.

French Connection
Conversations
Up In The Sand Box
Siddhartha
May
The Hidden Fortress
The I Inside
Idle Hands
The Hudsucker Proxy

I won't name any more but yeah, those are all really good movies. Some of those are foreign films from Sweden, Japan, and Spain, and they're very good. Idle Hands is one of Jessica Alba's first movies, when she was not nearly as popular as she is today.

In other news, it was supposed to snow yesterday but it didn't, but it is snowing now, but only very lightly. I really like snow storms, they're very fun, and I love to walk in in them.

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In class optimism.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 9:30 AM

In class right now. As I wait for my teacher to come to class, I keep wondering about my future. I really want things to change, but not in the dramatical sense. I feel like things are good for me, and I'm really pushing hard to do a lot better. My mind is clear, things aren't bad, but things aren't amazing either, but I'm okay with that.

I'm more worried about the people around me though. My father has always had it rough and I want that to change, but it's tough for everyone in the house in general. Some of my friends seem to be having anxiety with a couple of different things ranging from home life to school to freedom.

My teacher has just arrived, and now I'm off to class.

Before I go though, I hope you all have optimism. I know I do and you need it to get through life.

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