Cuilaranel

The stars are veiled. Something stirs in the East. A sleepless malice. The eye of the enemy is moving.

He is here.

The horses are restless and the men are quiet

It is the road to the Dimholt, the door under the mountain.

Have you learned nothing of the stubbornness of dwarves?

One that is cursed. Long ago the Men of the mountain swore an oath to the last King of Gondor, to come to his aid, to fight. But when the time came, when Gondor's need was dire, they fled, vanishing into the darkness of the mountain. And so Isildur cursed them, never to rest until they had fulfilled their oath.

"The way is shut. It was made by those who are dead, and the dead keep it. The way is shut."

Seventeen, Eighteen

Thirty-three, thirty-four.

A diversion.

What about side-by-side with a friend?



Not that many...as always...

Has anyone heard of the Vinyl Cafe? I heard it's a Canadian thing and I wondered if that was true.
It's so amazing. I wish I could tell stories like that.

I love Unfinished Tales! My favorite one right now is actually the first one concerning Tuor. I still don't know why as it was short and...well...unfinished. Currently I'm on the tale of Aldarion and his beloved, cold, wife.
Tolkien's works are more like poetry to me than anything else. More like what poetry should be. That's why I like reading his work. It always sound so much more beautiful than anything else I've ever read.

I just watched Thirteen last night. What a disturbing movie. It was like the book Go Ask Alice. I hope none of you can say "That's my life on the screen." but I think I know people like that girl in the movie. I kept screaming at the mother to get her girl some therapy but naturally she wasn't listening. Hell, I think we all need therapy.

Anyway tonight hopefully I'll watch Once Upon a Time in Mexico.

Can't believe the Oscar nominations!!

I'm rooting for Return of the King for best picture. Peter Jackson best directory. Johnny Depp best actor, Keisha Castle-Hughes best actress, Renee Zelleweger best supporting actress and Ken Watanabe for best supporting actor.

That'd be my dream list right there. What a night that would be. But I'll bet Charlize Theron wins best actress, Mystic River for best picture, Peter Jackson for best director, Naomi Watts for supporting actress, Ben Kingsley for best actor, and Tim Robbins for supporting actor.

That's probably what will happen. Then again they DID exclude Cold Mountain, which is what I had predicted they would not at all do. I had thought they had forgotten that such a movie as Whale Rider existed.
What a fantastic movie that was. The soundtrack is just amazing.

I just received the LOTR Fellowship brooch from my parents as a Christmas gift. I know it's January but they said it would take a while to ship out to Michigan (where we were visiting relatives at the time) and hence, it only arrived now. The thing is that we checked where it was sent out from and it's only a 10 minute drive from where we are. That's ironic.

Part Four (of God knows how many) : The Hardcore fans

Disclaimer!: I'm only going to put one thing I don't like about it and one I do. I'll try to make this a slightly balanced review. I don't care if you think I'm doing this because I'm full of myself and think I could do any better. I'm just curious to see how many people agree/disagree with me and why. It's called a discussion.

Some of the movies are new, some old. Sorry I haven't seen the following movies that I want to see:

Cold Mountain
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Freaky Friday

That's all I can think of for the moment.
( Here are my reviews )

Kingdom of Heaven


Release Date: Summer, 2005 (wide)


Cast: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Liam Neeson (Godfrey of Ibelin), David Thewlis (Hospitaller); other cast not announced yet.


Premise: Set during the 12th century in the holy city of Jerusalem, a young peasant blacksmith (Bloom) becomes a knight so that he may help repel the Crusaders who took control of the city in 1099. Meanwhile, the young knight also falls in love with the city's beautiful princess (Green)... (Neeson plays the blacksmith's father; Thewlis plays a priest.)



Stepford Wives


Release Date: June 11th, 2004 (wide)


Cast: Nicole Kidman (Joanna Eberhart), Matthew Broderick (Walter Eberhart), Bette Midler (Bobbie Markowe), Christopher Walken (Dale Coba), Roger Bart (Roger Bannister), Glenn Close (Dr. Emily Francher), Faith Hill (Sarah Sunderson), Jon Lovitz (Dave Markowe), Matt Malloy (Herb Sunderson), Mike White, Lorri Bagley (Charmaine Van Sant), Colleen Dunn (Marianne Stevens), Tom Riis Farrell (Stan Peters), Jason Kravitz, Lisa Masters (Carol Wainwright), Kate Shindle (Beth Peters), Robert Stanton (Ted Van Sant), Christopher Evan Welch (Ed Wainwright)


Premise: Joanna (Kidman) and her husband (Broderick) move to the beautiful upper-class suburb of Stepford, where she soon starts to suspect something is strange and artificial about her new female neighbors. The wives living in the houses around them all seem to be too perfect, with bland, character-less personalities. Everyone that is, except her new friend Bobbie (Midler), who as a cranky, sarcastic, non-exercising alcoholic still has some semblance of personality and independence. As Joanna and Bobbie investigate their neighbors further, they discover that there is indeed something artificial about them, something... robotic, the result of the husbands banding together to replace their human wives with cyborg copies who are subservient, sexually compliant and devoid of any distinguishing character traits. Will Joanna and Bobbie be the next ones replaced by perfect robotic clones? (Roger Bart plays a gay confidante of Kidman's character who ends up getting "straightened out"; Walken and Close play a couple; Lovitz plays Midler's husband)


X3- X-Men 3


Release Date: May 5th, 2006 (tentative) (wide)


Cast: Hugh Jackman (in talks) (Logan, AKA Wolverine), Patrick Stewart (in talks) (Professor Charles Xavier), Shawn Ashmore (Bobby Drake, AKA Iceman), Daniel Cudmore (Piotr Rasputin, AKA Colossus), Alan Cumming (Kurt Wagner, AKA Nightcrawler), Famke Janssen (Dr. Jean Grey), James Marsden (Scott Summers, AKA Cyclops), Sir Ian McKellen (in talks) (Erik Lensherr, AKA Magneto), Anna Paquin (Rogue), Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (Mystique); other cast not announced or confirmed as signed yet.


Premise: (6/1/03) There is much that is currently unknown about this movie's premise, but here's what is known. This movie will follow the continuing adventures of the superpowered group, the X-Men, led by Professor Xavier, and based at his school for gifted students, as they try to foster good will for mutants like themselves, in a world where some people are born with extraordinary powers, and many ordinary humans fear them for it. One likely subplot to be addressed in this movie is the status of Dr. Jean Grey, who experienced something strange in the second movie, something to do with something called Phoenix... (I know a lot more about Phoenix than that, but I'm trying not to spoil the second movie.) Another possible element that may be introduced in this third movie is the idea of the Sentinels, giant mutant-hunting robots constructed to capture and control the "mutant menace" forever.


All of this information is courtesy of Yahoo! Movies and the pictures all came from Yahoo! except the one of Orlando.

When is the LA permiere of RotK?

I talked to my manager today. She told me that this Spanish guy probably doesn't realize just how young I am. She also laughed and added, "It's lucky your dad hasn't come by with his shotgun. That's what my dad would have done." To which my dad replied darkly, when I told him later, "I don't own one."

Oh and this will probably be the last time I update before my vacation tomorrow. So good bye for now!

Theres' a guy at work who's annoying me. He's a 30-something Spanish guy.
He extended his hand out to me at one point and I thought he was shaking it, instead he held on to it. He asked me if I had a boyfriend. I told him no and left.
Now he's invaded my personal space and has been touching like my elbow briefly. I'm talking to the manager tomorrow about him.
Wish me luck guys! Hope the bastard doesn't stalk me.

Going to bed the other night, I noticed people in my shed stealing things.
I phoned the police but was told no one was in the area to help. They said they would send somebody over as soon as possible.
I hung up. A minute later I called again. 'Hello,' I said, 'I called you a minute ago because there were people in my shed. You don't have to hurry now, because I've shot them.'
Within minutes there were half a dozen police cars in the area, plus helicopters and an armed response unit. They caught the burglars red-handed.
One of the officers said: 'I thought you said you'd shot them.'
To which I replied: 'I thought you said there was no one available.'

My dad is taking me on a mystery trip. This means that he plans the entire trip without telling us until we go. Now, this may sound bad but I don't think so. Generally it's to really great places like amusement parks or to a different state like South Dakota. Etc..
Anyway I think he's taking us to Disney World, no, I HOPE he's taking us to Disney World. He's been mentioning it for a looong while now and I can only hope...Hope with me folks!

Tess of the D'Urbervilles update: Pg. 313

I bought the new Radiohead CD and listened to it. I don't like it.
And thus I trekked back to the record store, FYE, and decided to look for another CD first and then exchange it. Turns out I couldn't exchange the damned CD to begin with. "That's why we have those listening stations." the guy yawns from behind the counter.
I nod numbly and stuff "Hail to the Thief" back into my bag. Now what?
So now it's currently nestled in my CD case. I may listen to it again and try to like it. I doubt that's going to happen.

Found this at collegehumor.com and that's why I had to post it. I'm sorry.


Harvard
You're the best -- you know it, as does everyone
else (except for US News and World Report every
few years). You might not be hip, you might not
be pretty, but you're smart as a whip and you
never need to do another impressive thing in
your life.


Which Ivy League University is right for YOU?
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But anyway so I've been keeping up with Project Greenlight. Loving it. I'm going to go see the movie just because I've followed it's process. I think that was the whole aim of the "Behind the scenes" thing but oh well.
I want to see a few movies right now but alas I'm poor. Even with my job. Why? Because my next paycheck is all going to this "Mystery Trip" my dad is planning. It's where he doesn't tell us where we're going until we're practically there. It sounds like an easy way out of actually figuring out what's happening but that's not really my dad. He's had this planned for weeks/months now and it's sort of a family tradition. That way we're in suspense trying to figure out where the hell we're going and he can laugh like a little boy does when no one can figure out who put the frog on the teacher's desk. So anyway that's that.

I think I'm done. Back to reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles for my English class. I HATE THIS BOOK. I am renting the freaking movie!
Now I'm done.

Timeline

For anyone who's read the Michael Crichton novel, here's the movie. Book was excellent, as always.

Release date: November 26th, 2003 (wide).

Cast: Paul Walker, Frances O'Connor, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly, David Thewlis

Director: Richard Donner

What's it about?: Three students working on an archaeological dig must travel back in time to 14th century France to rescue their professor, an obsessive academician who has become trapped after venturing into his favorite era to study it first-hand.

Yay tomorrow's pay day! Just thought I'd share that with everyone.
I've been working the service desk, do you think that'd count as "leadership skills" on a college application?

I'll probably update with another upcoming movie sometime later on tonight.

I love doing this and no one has complained so I'll continue. I update every day about three hours after work. Nice relaxing activity for me :)
How's my life been going? K-Mart. That's all I can say. And I got this Spanish Guitar CD that's crappy. I'm going to exchange it tomorrow probably for the Romance Spanish Guitar and see if that's better.
All the below taken from movies.yahoo.com. Please don't sue me


'Casablanca' gets a new digital transfer & deluxe 2-disc set '
I saw the commercial for this and it looks awesome. Behind the scenes stuff they kept all these years completely remastered. I'm very excited. It was such a great movie!


Just have to comment about this. Why in the world is Lindsay Lohan doing all these remakes? This movie has been remade twice already, this will be the third. The first had Helen Hunt playing Lindsay Lohan's part I believe. I'm just wondering why Ms. Lohan is doing this as she already played a part in remaking "The Parent Trap" not too long ago. I sense a pattern.

Ed Harris and Nicole Kidman together again. Yay. To be released: Sept. 26, 2003 (LA/NY) The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins), a distinguished professor at a prestigious New England college whose professional life is shattered by allegations of racism and whose personal life is infected with the cancer of a lie he has been living for fifty years. His career and reputation in ruin, Silk begins a dynamic resurrection through two new relationships: one, a friendship with the writer Nathan Zuckerman (Gary Sinise) whom he intrigues with his story, the other a scandalous affair with a young woman (Nicole Kidman).
For more information about this movie, please go here. You can view the trailer and see the image gallery etc...

Preview of the day: The Brothers Grimm

Release date: Fall, 2004 (wide)

Cast: Matt Damon (Will Grimm), Heath Ledger (Jake Grimm), Jonathan Pryce (Delatombe), Lena Headey, Peter Stormare, Mackenzie Cook, Richard Ridings; other cast not announced yet.

Director: Director: Terry Gilliam (12 Monkeys, Brazil, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Fisher King, Time Bandits; he's also got The Man Who Killed Don Quixote and Good Omens in development; and is the subject of Lost in La Mancha)
Whee! Learn your directors!

What's it about?: Brothers Jake (Ledger) and Will Grimm (Damon), renowned collectors of folklore, have made a career out of traveling from village to village pretending to rid them of "enchanted" creatures. Their bluff is called, however, when they are forced to investigate a haunted forest where girls have been disappearing mysteriously. What they discover leads to a series of adventures involving an actual sorceress that mirrors that of mythology and the fables that the Brothers Grimm would eventually become famous for... (Pryce and Williams play two villainous characters called Delatombe and Cavaldi).

Genre: Action, Eye Candy, Fantasy, Historical, Thriller

But first a news hit about Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Taken from msn.com



Aug. 4 issue — Between takes at the shrieking shack—a ghoulish, precariously quaking house on the fringes of the wizard village Hogsmeade—actor Daniel Radcliffe fiddles with his magic wand. Today’s scene is a doozy: Harry Potter finally confronts the sinister (for now) Sirius Black. ( Read more )

And now for some reviews and news

HOLLYWOOD (AP)Taken from msn.com -- If the weekend's top movie — "American Wedding" — glowed like a happy newlywed, then you could say the critically reviled "Gigli" stumbled like an ugly bridesmaid. ( read more from this review/news )

Meanwhile, the horseracing drama "Seabiscuit" expanded its run by 434 theaters, coming in fourth with $17.5 million, for a total of $49 million. It lost only 16 percent of its audience in its second weekend. Most movies lose about 40 percent.
Taken from msn.com

Box Office
Here are the estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at North American theaters, according to Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc. Final figures will be released Monday.

1. "American Wedding," $34.3

2. "Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over," $20.1 million

3. "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," $19.1 million. (YAY)

4. "Seabiscuit," $17.5 million.

5. "Bad Boys II," $12.7 million.

6. "Lara Croft: Tomb raider — The Cradle of Life," $11.3 million.

7. (tie) "Finding Nemo," $3.8 million.

7. (tie) "Gigli," $3.8 million.

9. "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," $3.2 million.

10. "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines," $2.9 million.


Gigli review from movies.yahoo.com
This misbegotten mess is less a movie than a string of over-the-top audition monologues, those random set-pieces designed to show off an actor's facility with language and attitude. Those can be entertaining in their own way, but they do not have anything to do with creating a character or telling a story, just two of the many movie-making essentials that are missing in "Gigli." ( Read more here )

American Wedding review taken again from movies.yahoo.com Okay, I admit it -- I laughed. A lot. Even more surprising, I smiled.

I was even a little sorry that this is the last of the American Pie trilogy. ( Read more )

Preview: The World of Tomorrow
Stats

Release date: May 14th, 2004 (wide)

Cast: Jude Law (Captani Joseph Sullivan, AKA Sky Captain), Gwyneth Paltrow (Polly Perkins), Angelina Jolie, Casey Affleck (Dex), Bai Ling; other cast not announced yet.

Director: Kerry Conran (feature film debut)

What's it about?:This science fiction adventure set in the 1930s starts as New York City reporter Polly Perkins (Paltrow) starts to investigate why so many famous scientists are starting to be reported missing. Soon, she starts to get clues, as strange flying machines and giant robots threaten the city. Luckily, her old flame, aviator Captain Joseph Sullivan (Law), AKA Sky Captain, is there to battle the bad guys with his friends, the Flying Legion, in his Warhawk P-40. Soon, Polly is flying away with Sky Captain to Nepal to find a crazy scientist, Dr. Totenkopf, who apparently wants to destroy the world...

Genre: Action, Eye Candy, Historical, Science Fiction, Superhero, Thriller

Taken from movies.yahoo.com

Star Wars III- May 25th, 2005

Mission Impossible 3 - TBA 2004/2005

Harry Potter and Prisoner...- June 4th, 2004

The Last Samurai - December 5th, 2003

Garfield - May 14th, 2004
Bill Murray (voice of Garfield the Cat), Breckin Meyer (Jon Arbuckle), Jennifer Love Hewitt (Dr. Liz Wilson), Nick Cannon (voice of Louis the Mouse), Debra Messing (voice of Arlene the Cat), Stephen Tobolowsky (Happy); other cast not announced yet.

King Arthur - December 25th, 2004

Indiana Jones 4 - July 1st, 2005

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Fall, 2005 (wide)
Johnny Depp rumoured to be playing some part

Batman 5 - Summer, 2005 (wide)
Guy Pearce (in talks) (Bruce Wayne); other cast not announced yet. (Why not just stick with one actor playing Batman? Couldn't get George Clooney I take it?)

X3 X-Men - May 5th, 2006 (tentative)
Talks of a Storm movie just to keep Halle Barry. Also pursuing Hugh Jackman to keep playing Wolverine. He still hasn't signed on.

Spider Man 2 - July 2nd, 2004 (wide)
Tobey Maguire (Peter Parker, AKA Spider-Man), Kirsten Dunst (Mary "MJ" Jane Watson), James Franco (Harry Osborne), Alfred Molina (Dr. Otto Octavius, AKA Doctor Octopus), Brooke Adams (Felicia Hardy), Dylan Baker (Dr. Curt Conners), Elizabeth Banks (Betty Brant), Bruce Campbell (Snooty Usher), Daniel Gillies (John Jameson), Rosemary Harris (Aunt May Parker), Donna Murphy (Rosalie Octavius)

Movies with Orlando Bloom

Troy - May 14th, 2004 (wide)

Ned Kelly - March 19th, 2004 (possibly a moderately wide release)

Elizabethtown - TBA 2004/2005 (wide)
Talks of Orlando signing on already. Already with Ashton Kutcher and Kirsten Dunst. A comedy/roman/drama kind of film about eight people set in apparently the town of Elizabethtown.

Movies with Johnny Depp

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• J.M. Barrie's Neverland
• Lost in La Mancha
• The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
• Once Upon a Time in Mexico
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
• Secret Window
• Speed Racer
• Take Down



Movies with Cate Blanchett
• The Aviator
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• The Missing
• Veronica Guerin

Daniel Day-Lewis
• Rose and the Snake

Billy Boyd
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Viggo Mortensen
• Hidalgo
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Nada for Dominic Monaghan

Liv Tyler
• Jersey Girl
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Natalie Portman
• Cold Mountain YAY! I adore this girl. She's such a good actress and she's going to be in Cold MOuntain with Jude Law! And Nicole Kidman! Yay!
• Star Wars Episode III

Edward Norton
• The Italian Job
• The Painted Veil

Jude Law
• Cold Mountain
• I Heart Huckabee's
• The World of Tomorrow


Right so I'm done. All of this information taken from http://www.movies.yahoo.com

I love getting my movie hits! I will update with more information later probably.

Updated my profile. I rated most of the communities I'm in. It was much fun :)

I adore this POTC soundtrack! Yay :) I've listened to it for hours now.

Oh and today was my first day on cash register at K-Mart. Very tense. A lot of people swearing on the nearest Bible that the shoes were 30% off and it's not their fault they read the sign wrong, it's ours. Also a lot of people buying beer but I can't scan it because I'm not old enough yet. So I had to keep bothering the service desk girl who was really cool about it, at least. And no one snapped at me about my pace being too slow! Yay!

Have received utmost dire news...TTT will not be released until August 26th...dangerously close to when school starts. Now I have a love/hate relationship towards the end of August.