Two Towers, and Some Pretty Nice Arse Whoopin.

Yeah The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers was slow for decent sized gaps in the middle, and had about 12 too many slow rotating shots of some character walking across a mountain peak or huge valley, but there was one hell of a nice battle scene at the end. The set for that scene must have been gargantuous, I'd be quite interested to see a "making of" film on this movie. My favorite part of the movie was actually the character Gollum, who was entirely rendered using CGI and some of the most recent and advanced techniques. Unbelievable what they can do now, and how lifelike they can make a creature.

For guys who think LOTR is for nerds, I recommend at least showing up for the previews, as you'll get to see "The Run" as it is being called. Basically they take a Nissan through downtown Prague on surface streets, while breaking speeds upwards of 120 miles per hour. They have some really nice overhead shots from a distance that make it really obvious the car is just bookin it alongside the river. You can see the movie online at Z.com, but it's much weaker than the big screen full frame rate surround sound version. Also saw previews for a few good movies coming out including Bad Boys 2 which looked like it had some pretty sweet car chase scenes in it as well.

Back to the movie, it diverged from the book seemingly at the same level if not more than the first, but overall the creative depictions of both Gollum and the "Ents" as they are called, made it worth seeing. We'll go with 5 M's out of 7. Ended up hitting the sack at like 4 and not waking up til 2, gonna try to hit the sack at 2 tonight and not wake up until noon. Oops, I'm late already.

I was taking a look at my schedule for next quarter, and going online looking for the class websites in advance, and after looking one of the classes over, I've decided I'm not interested in it whatsoever. This somewhat sucks, because I'm either taking that class on Monday and Wednesday from 2 to 3:15 in IV Theater, which is the absolute closest classroom in relation to my room, or I can take a class I'm actually interested in that counts for the same requirement, but this one meets Monday Wednesday and Friday at 8am in Phelps, literally the furthest away you can get. Theoretically that means I'll be able to get up to workout or swim easier, but 8ams are generally lame no matter how you slice it. I have a couple days to decide, we'll see.