[Movie] Se7en (1995)

Plot:

Lt. William Somerset, a burnt-out veteran cop, is on the brink of retirement. Forced to train his ambitious and eager replacement, Somerset is teamed with Detective David Mills on an investigation that draws these disparate cops deeper and deeper into the twisted world of a cunning and meticulous criminal. He is methodical, exacting and grotesquely creative. He is known as John Doe and he is the most vicious serial killer alive, fashioning murders based on the seven deadly sins. As each new victim is discovered, the detectives must combine their collective experiences to track the trail of a killer bent on seeking attrition for society's sins.

Man oh man! When I get excited about something, or say am strongly amazed by or love then I get into fits of "SICK! This is SICK!". I don't mean it in a bad way, but more like to explain what I feel about the movie. I need a powerful word.

So yeah, this is one sick, sick...sick (!) movie. I don't know where to begin really, because there's so much I want to say but they're all clashing in my head. Let me start by saying, I truly loved this movie. It has definitely become my favorite movie of all time. I have to say that I enjoyed every second of it, from start to end. My eyes glued to the laptop's screen, my heart beating 300 (trying to be reasonable here) beats a minute and my brain working at 10 (trying to be reasonable here again =P) thoughts per minute. Well to be honest, that's exactly what I love about these sorts of movies.

Definitely expect disturbing/violent, maybe gory scenes but, there's a story behind it all. It's not just the typical one bad guy killing every single person in sight, blood splatter here and there, a shock now and then and done; that's the end of the movie....no, there's a story behind this one which makes those scene's bearable and somewhat...interesting.

Being the "thinker" I am (refer to previous post) this movie just took so much energy out me that I didn't even want to drink or eat anything because I just wanted to focus on every aspect of the movie, scene, message and words. I wanted to solve the mystery, I wanted to guess what would happen next or who's gonna go to the chopping block. There was one point of the movie, where I guess correctly who's going to be one of the victims but as the movie came to a near end I started changing my mind and thought someone else is the victim. It turned out I was right the first time round but my point here is, the movie really plays with your head.

It was pretty intense because of the atmosphere and the whole idea of murdering people according to the seven deadly sins. But, *shakes head with amazement* it was very interesting and the feelings you feel, it's not fear or disgust but more like a...thrill. The movie for me, basically picked up when the action started, because right after that everything started coming together.

The actors.

Morgan Freeman's character I didn't like at all. Too cold for my liking and a personality that said "I'm the best". His job, in my opinion, turned into more like a satisfactory thing rather than being the good detective, saving people and it's my job kind of thing. I have to admit he became nicer later on but I wouldn't say he was a favorite. If you've seen this movie, you might disagree with me, but this is my personal opinion *grins*.

Brad Pitt's character was the nice, good, funny, smart and dumb but has a lot of wrath kind of character. I couldn't take him seriously at some certain parts of the movie even though he's being serious. I just laughed every time he opened his mouth. He laughs at his own jokes and when he includes a swear word at the end of his sentence...hahaha *remembers a scene* He was definitely the top in this movie. An astounding (first time I use this word) and unforgettable performance I have to say. He "shined" in the ending scene!

The bad guy, John Doe is how I will refer to him here instead of his real name because that alone is a surprise that I don't want to spoil, for me, beats Brad Pitt's performance by just a bit. When he first fully appeared on the screen, and the way he appeared was amazing for your information, I asked my self "wait, I know this person, looks familiar. Naaawh it can't be him. What did they do to his hair?". I was more assured by who it was from the credits (!!). He's one of my favorite actors. What disturbed me the most about him is his face. He had no expressions whatsoever. It was just one look the whole time; a look of utter carelessness, smartness and satisfaction. He cracked a smile at one point but nothing to get excited over *laughs* I could keep talking about him but then I'll just have to spill the beans.

The worst sin for me will have to be gluttony (always have been ever since I watched Full Metal Alchemist *anime*) and after watching this movie, lust comes in second place.

Best scene, for me, would have to be the final scene. It was beautiful (the place) first of all and that's where your thoughts go crazy because anything could happen at the moment; that's all I will say. Oh, and when the end is reached and the scene fades out, just before the credits start rolling, you see:

##### ###### John Doe

the name of the actor that played the role of John Doe, then the credits roll. Honestly that part alone, black screen and letters in white, was fantastic for me. I just loved it! Argh, I don't know how to explain it...I just love it *laughs*

Lastly, David Fincher directed this movie so go figure. Kudos!

A must see!
A movie you'll never forget.

10/10

[What's This?] "Analyzer "

I will always and forever be an "analyzer" (or a thinker) unless some kind of miracle happens where a lightening bolt strikes me and stops me from this madness.

Thursday night, I had quite a long chat with a good friend of mine which kind of went into the late night hours (11:00-11:30pm) and since my friend knows the kind of person I am, I was told to head to bed early since I "need", at least, one hour and a-half to analyze and think about "whatever I think about". I immediately defended myself by saying that that is not true.

It was true...

One may ask, what in the world would G think about? Well, that night I ended up thinking about my last assignment for my COMP437 paper - which is having to write a wiki article on "Feedback Relevance" and designing an interface to complement the article. I just kept getting ideas and sentences of how and what to start my wiki article with. After a while, I realized that my friend was right about me. Here I am, lying in bed, 12:30am and thinking about what to write for my assignment. O......kay! At that point I got angry and finally admitted that this is a problem because I could've used the one hour or so of thinking, by sleeping! Hence, came thinking part 2. I started thinking that I'm going to blog about this particular..."thing" and include it in the category "What's This?". I also started thinking how should I start it, what to write and so on, which all basically took about half an hour. Oh! I also thought if I should include a picture with this post and what should it be. Am I crazy? Yes, I think I am.

I stopped myself from all this madness and decided to get a drink of water. When I got back in bed, I finally fell asleep. So, I guess I should've done this earlier if it was going to make me sleep.

Next morning, I lost all my train of thoughts, all my ideas for my assignment and "this blog post" (which is about three days late by the way) and everything just turned out differently than what I thought about. What I thought about seemed cooler (!) but it's all forgotten now due to my incredible power of remembering things.

Word of the day: "think"

Are you a ?

P.S. If you're wondering why I used that picture, well, that's L from an anime called Death Note (best anime out there) and he is a major thinker! It's part of his job though.

Assassin's Creed Machinima

So it's finally done! *laaaah holy music*
It took quite a lot of work but I managed to do it.
I hope the lecturer doesn't ask me to add or change something about it because that would be troublesome lol

Used a couple of programs to get it done.

- World of Warcraft Model Viewer (to get the characters)
- World of Warcraft Map Viewer (to get the world)
- Fraps (for recording the actions)
- CineGobs (for editing)
- Windows Movie Maker (for putting it all together)

This is a final project worth 45% of the final mark for my Game Studies paper...dun dun dun duuuuuun. So Yeah! It's pretty huge.

It's not as smooth as I would've liked it to be but I'm happy with it!

The credits is the best part for me lol
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It's officially the last week of uni, tomorrow being the last day.
I'm pretty amazed by how fast this year has gone, actually, more like gobsmacked. I guess this is good in a way but at the same time you feel like you're running out of time or something. I can't really say that I completely finish tomorrow because I have some huge projects due in the next to weeks. So one can say, my "last day" of uni is on the 30th of October. That's good enough for me because I won't feel so under pressure and for once, I don't have exams/assignments due during my birthday! I can't wait to start watching movies again *cries*, I miss that A LOT!

[Music] The Sound of Reason - Palestine

Let the video and song speak everything...

Long live Palestine!

[Music] Outlandish - Always Remember

Weh! Haven't posted one of these song "reviews" in a while, so here's one.

Have always been a fan of Outlandish. These guys are fantastic! I only found out yesterday that they've released a fourth album, Sound of A Rebel, around May this year (Yeah, I know! So much for being a big fan). I'm this late because NZ doesn't know anything about these guys...sadly. So I had to do the searching myself. But anyways, I've listened to the first five songs of the album, and I have to say they've changed quite a bit compared to their previous work. The reason to why I haven't listened to the rest of the album is because I kinda got the "on repeat" craze for one of their songs. Yup! Always Remember. One could say it's the Callin' You of Outland's Closer Than Veins album. I just love this track. It's absolutely beautiful, vocally and lyrically.

So if you haven't heard it yet, here it is!

I think it's the lyrics that go to me =P

Edit: Feels Like Saving The World is another fantastic song from their new album!

An Open, Wide, Grass Field

You know how sometimes you just feel like running in an open, wide, grass field? I want to do this at the moment. Like run and run and run till I get the biggest stitch that anyone could ever get and have a breathing attack. Also, I don't want to run in a wide circle, I want the field to be infinite so that I can just run forwards till I get sick of running. This would do good...exclude the stitch and breathing attack though.

Well, apparently, my final year of university is coming to end and one can only imagine how hectic these last few months have been...from every single aspect. I think this weekend was the first time I get this shiver within me just from realizing and remembering the amount of work I have to do between now and the 23rd of October. It didn't feel nice to be honest, but hey! I guess this is what University is all about...I mean getting all worked up and working your brain off by getting everything done and in time.

Here's what I've got going:

• SMST319 [Game Studies] 20% Test - 5th October
• COMP436 [Advanced Graphics and Computer Games] Project Topic Presentation - 6th October
  
• SMST319 [Games Studies] 45% Final Project - 12th October
• COMP437 [Information Retrieval] 20% Assignment 4 - 21st October
• COMP436 [Advance Graphics and Computer Games] 20% Project Implementation + Report - 23rd October
  
• COMP477 [Report of an Investigation] 100% Project Implementation + Report - 23rd October
  

Bloody... Crazy stuff right there, eh! They're all huge and go towards the final mark so inshallah 5air! I can't wait till it's over, where I can get back to my job that's been on halt this whole semester due to the study work load plus selling our things and the packing for Oman to start. Yay!

I should head to bed.
I've decided, for the next few weeks, to wake up early and do something useful towards my studies; get some work done basically. That's if I can get myself out of bad that early in the morn'.

G'Night

Friend

Friends are beautiful.
I don't mean physically but in a general way...friends are beautiful. You can always count on a friend, or friends, to make your day. Honestly, it takes many things to get you down, to ruin your mood or your day, list goes on, and yet you have this friend that just lifts you up and make you forget about every single negative thing that came your way. They cheer you up and make you laugh, and when you give them a hug (depending on who it is -- to guys it's a No No) as a thank you gesture, they start to wince and claim that they got your coodies (yeah I know it's cooties but I've always said coodies), which makes you laugh even more.

Special bonds are made just like that, a snap of finger, especially when you feel you've chosen the right friend and you've thought carefully who is your right, true friend. I'm not saying every friend you come across is perfect and the friendship lasts forever. No. Surely, in every friendship there are the ups and downs, some to the point that strong friendships are forever broken, but that's what makes a friendship perfect anyway...these ups and downs I mean. Specifically the downs, they test the strength of the friendship. It tests whether if either side is worthy or deserving to return to. Am I right or am I right? *pokes tongue out*

Your friend is special to you. You need to appreciate them and never forget them. Believe you me, you can't forget about them because your so used to them being in your life every day that if there comes a day where you don't see them or spoken to them in some way you'd feel there's something wrong in the whole picture...there's something missing. This just shows how special and important they are to you...to me.

N.B. There are many more aspects of what a friend is, but I'm just sticking with the obvious ones.

But here's the thing; Treat people the way you want to be treated. Right? So what does this tell you? Since this is how you feel about your friend (all the things I explained) and that's how special they are to you, then guess what! Surely, that's how they feel about you too. YOU'RE a special and important friend to your friend(s). You're the one that's missed when a day goes by with your friend who feels there's something missing in their day. Right? I hope so.

So this post, is just dedicated to friends.
Don't forget that you're a friend too =)

Love goes out to all of my friends.

P.S. Friend can refer to a number of friends, not just one.