Just sitting here, don't have much time before I have to get to class. Today I'm gonna go to Border's and get me one of those Idiot's Guide to Algebra books. According to the reviews at Amazon, it's better than the Dummies version. Ho-hum, what else. Not much. I saw History of Violence last night, which my English prof labeled "brilliant." Can't say I agree. Mortensen handled the action scenes very well, but I feel when it came to the more emotional scenes with his family, he came up a bit lacking. As for the action, there was lots of blood. I don't peek through my fingers anymore, but one time I said, "Eww!" and another time I said, "Gross!" And the sex scenes -- Jesus! They're the most explicit sex scenes I've seen in a movie in a very long time, short of porn. Movies have been so sexually conservative for the past decade or so, I was surprised. So, a mixed bag. Not a bad movie by any means. The prospect of gazing at Mortensen's chisled features for two hours doesn't hurt either. And oh, I liked the scenes with Mortensen's son's situation at his high school, where he was getting bullied. The guy who played the bully really reminded me of someone, not someone specific, but ... maybe of a certain type, with his slitted eyes and perfectly sculpted face.
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