Taylor Kitsch Saves the World Again in Battleship

Just a month after the John Carter debacle, Taylor Kitsch tries to save the world again, this time from the sea, in the naval adventure, Battleship.  It's those pesky aliens again, and this time, they show their naval prowess - which is frankly, an eyeful to see!  I actually enjoyed watching it. There was even a fight scene done almost wholly through radar - and boy, was that fun to watch!

As for Taylor, well, I guess after he did John Carter, he proceeded here - because in the beginning of the movie - he still had that John Carter haircut.  Of course, he had to shed it off soon as he joined the US Navy.  He does look hotter with shorter hair and he has a short naked bath tub scene here with all the suds strategically placed.  What actually made the movie hotter for me was also in that bath tub scene was Alexander Skarsgard! Now, if only, instead of Alex blabbering about, if he just put Taylor's you know what in that mouth of his to shut him off - now that would be cool to see! Haizzz... my fantasy world.....

Alexander Skarsgard: Oh Captain My Captain in Battleship

I am not actually sure if Alexander Skarsgard's character in 'Battleship' was a captain since I wasn't paying too much attention to their ranks, but who cares?  Walt Whitman's classic poem opening is a perfect title for him in this movie!  I'm sure his appearance early on in the movie allowed the mommies in the audience - who were unceremoniously dragged by their sons - or husbands - to watch this mindless war games movie - a breath of fresh air.  I say excellent casting to that!  He does look sexy in that uniform, doesn't he?  And he's tall! In that soccer scene, when he patted Taylor Kitsch on the back, you could see he was head and shoulders taller than Taylor!

Jeremy Renner in the Right Place

I had to put up this post since I discovered that another one of my blogs featured Jeremy Renner 'shirtless' - which was weird, since that blog post talked mainly about their shoot of The Bourne Legacy here, a few months back!  I realized I don't even have a post about this Oscar-nominated actor here!  I guess it's because I haven't even seen The Hurt Locker and The Town - movies which showcased his acting talent!  I should have to remedy that!  That's inexcusable for a cinephile like me!  I did see him in the latest Mission Impossible, which was a lot of fun to watch!!

Older Woman, Younger Man: Quotable Quotes from The Right Attitude to Rain

The book I just finished reading (Alexander McCall Smith's The Right Attitude to Rain) is about a woman in her early 40's, well-off, beautiful and a successful editor of a philosophy journal, who falls in love with Jamie, a much younger attractive man.

Yun lang, Jamie was a recent ex-bf of Isabel's niece, Cat, who has been changing boyfriends in an attempt to find the RIGHT one.

Kaya ayun, the novel has some very interesting hugot lines.

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"To him she was just another friend, nothing more, and one could talk like that to a mere friend. And that, she thought, is my personal tragedy. As long as I am afraid to tell him of my love, to confess it to him, then I shall have to pretend that we are just friends on this level."

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"For each of us, she thought, there is our completeness in another. Whether we find it or not, or it finds us, or it eludes all finding, is a matter of moral luck."

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"When you are with somebody you love the smallest, smallest things can be so important, so amusing, because love transforms the world, everything."

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"Why should I not love him? she asked herself. How absurd that we should deny ourselves something when our moment of life is so brief, our very world is transitory."

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All that mattered, therefore, was that happiness and love should have their chance, their brief chance, in this life, before annihilation and the nothingness to which we were all undoubtedly heading, even our sun, which was itself destined for collapse and extinction, signifying the end of the party for whomsoever was left.

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She did not have to apologize for Jamie; she did not have to apologize to anybody for her happiness.

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Human affairs though, were reduced to monetary calculation all the time, and marriage had traditionally been about money every bit as much as it had been about love.

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'Be prepared to shed tears when you get to my age and you think back on lost opportunities. Somebody asked me to live with.....' there was the briefest hesitation and then, '........with her. I said no, because people would talk.'

'We shouldn't care so much about disapproval', said Isabel. 'But we do, don't we?'

Book Review: The Right Attitude to Rain

The Right Attitude to Rain by Alexander McCall Smith brings you to the beautiful city of Edinburgh in Scotland. As you read the novel, the author allows you to be in the city as well, as he describes portions of the city and the pace of life in this capital city.

I will certainly use this book as a guidebook of sorts if I do get a chance to visit this city soon! I could trace the footsteps of the main character as she makes her way in and around her home city.

This is a pretty introspective novel as almost no action happens, and most everything is dependent on the moral judgments and philosophical decisions of the main character Isabel Dalhousie.

The pacing is almost glacial, there would be times you'd be tempted to put the book down, but there are many philosophical musings here that can be used as hugot lines for the more hopeless romantic of persuasion.

Now I understand why writing has to have action and why there has to be antagonists in the story. There is almost no obstacles that bar the way of the main character that the story can be dull and uninspiring, since she practically has everything she wants in life.

However, I plod on reading because I find uncomplicated lives like Isabel same to mine and how I look at life. The less complications, the less drama, the less stress, more happiness. Sadly though, lives like mine and Isabel Dalhousie don't make an interesting read.