Well basically the movie has been called the male version of Devil wears Prada. This is because it is basically a story of a guy (Simon Pegg) who always wanted to enter the Hollywood circle. He eventually started writing for a famous magazine but wanted to tell the truth while his job demanded him to write puff up pieces for celebrities. He found it hard to climb up the because of his principle and eventually gave in to attain his dream life.

The movie was a great to watch, it was funny, had embarrassing moments and I found some scenes enlightening. What I loved most about the movie was the underlyning theme of the movie. This dude had a dream but wanted to attain the dream in a particluar way (Telling the truth) he was principled but found that being principled was not going to get him what he wanted. This is a batlle I go through almost daily, the idea of getting what you want or getting it the way you want. Sometimes the world is not gonna bend for you and you are required to bend. The interesting thing was that after he bent and got what he wanted he realized the Hollywood circle was not what he wanted. I guess if you break your personal principles to get what you want you will not be satisified because you do not feel achieved or self actualized. I also explicity understood the meaining of selling your soul to gain the whole world. It was an interesting movie and is a really good one to watch with friends.

Well I was 20 minutes early to Watchmen so I got to see some previews, it so happens that all the movies that caught my eye seem to be coming out in May. I guess its gonna be a good month.

Star Trek

Wolverine

Terminator 4

Transformer 2

Movies that have cool trailers but will probably suck

Angels and Demons

I wake up 6:45 am (only God knows how). To start my day off, I haggle with AT&T for 45 mins about my phone bill and the call ended with me paying $554 (Long story, ask me when you see me). I then head to class, Note: remember that I have missed two days of school, so I had the WTH expression on my face for the whole day cause I did not understand what the professors where talking about.

Earlier that day I had also emailed the company I last did co-op with so they could send my W-2 so that I can file my tax returns. I have changed my address since I last worked there but magically two hours later my roommate tosses me an envelope with my W-2 in it which just came in that day. Keep in mind no one in the company knows where I live now or anyone in my old apartment.

Next thing I am driving home and I get a phone call from a company telling me my Car is out of warranty and then they try to get information about me and my car. I was like naaaaaaaaaah! I gave them fake info.

Then I check the mail (snail mail) and then I get a shirt in the mail addressed to me, I check the price tag it cost $110. I look at the return address, I have no clue who it is from, never seen that name before but the package is addresed to me. What the hell is going on a whole day filled with the most random events.

This movie was about two friends Vicky and Cristina who agree on everything except the way to love. They go to Barcelona for the summer for vacation and fall into a love triangle with this very blunt but real painter after a strange encounter and a random trip to Oviedo. I found the characters in this movie very real. Cristina was the free spirit friend, she was up for anything as long it was exciting, all Cristina knew about herself was what she didn’t want. Vicky was the cautious friend, she had the conservative job and had a safe fiance and did not understand Cristina’s free spirited nature sometimes and Juan Antonio was the painter who had just ended a heated relationship with his ex-wife who ended up stabbing him.

“Only unfufilled love can be romantic”. A quote by Maria Elena, Juan Antonio’s ex-wife, which ended up to be the basic theme of the movie. The movie showcases the mystery and dissatisfaction of love and how sometimes love I not as cleanly cut out and perfect as the world demands it to be. This is more of an indie movie than a Hollywood blockbuster staring actresses like Scarlett Johansen (I will see any movie she is in), Rebecca Hall and Penelope Cruz (What more can you ask for). I will reccomend this movie for a day when you are introspective and maybe need a change of perspective from all you know.

My rating: 88%

Rotten Tomatoes: 82%

Trailer

So I started thinking how do we create these powerful and intelligent servants without them taking control of us who are weaker and less intelligent. Many scientist have pondered on this for long and answers such as Asimov’s 3 laws have been offered (Which has been proven unsuccessful in iRobot). The answer may not be that far away, in fact it may be within us. If you analogize the relationship humans have with God and the relationship we have with robots, us being god (The creators) and the robot being humans (The created) you can see how we can survive.

There are three things to do.

Hide their abilities from them: The robot does not have any information about its components. It is not aware of its processing power, how much hard drive space it has or even what these things mean. So a robot has no clue if it is running on a Nintendo 64 chip or some super core 2 duo stuff. If we knew our individual capacities there would not be the Olympics or the World cup we would just check our individual abilities to see who is better. This way they are left guessing how good they are, something we spend a good amount of our lives doing.

Give them a different perspective of life: While they are cutting a steak for your delicious dinner the think they are drawing a steak. That way they do not know what a knife is and what kind of harm they can inflict on a human if they ever get the idea of taking over the world. We do not see the world the way God does hence we do not understand all the secrets of the world.

Make them have different perspectives from other robots: This will allow the robots get into arguments such as who can run faster, who has a cooler logo and what is the meaning of life. These allow the robots to occupy themselves with useless events in their idol time and prevent them from doing research on humans. The same way we distract ourselves with frivolous things in the world.

Following these three steps will ensure that the human race can eat, sleep and fight each other in peace and not worry about pesky robot intrrupting us unecessarily.

I have always been a Spiderman fan, that was the first Superhero I was infatuated with, I picked him over stronger superheroes like Superman (Who was my first love until he was stolen) because of his weaknesses, he was more believable, he could die and he needed wit and intelligence mixed with his powers to stay alive so everyday will be an adventure. The Spiderman 3 movie just KILLED all my fantasies when they decided to make Peter Parker into a p@$$y!

So I started another superhero search, dreaming up super cool action sequences in my mind as various Superheroes. The one that fit best with me and my style was Iron man (Tony Starks). After watching the iron man movie I realized this dude was perfect. He is #10 on the Forbes list of richest fictional characters (So I have enough money to buy toys). Did you see his house in the movie? If they featured it on MTV cribs it would be a season finale and they will never make another MTV cribs after that. I like his swagger, he is confident, knows what he wants and knows what he needs to do to make shit happen unlike Batman who has emotional problems and keeps whinning about, if what he is doing is ethically correct. He is what a super hero should be like, he can also die and is intelligent so this dude totally eclipses Spiderman, the more I think about it the more I cannot understand what I liked in that loser. My only qualm with Iron man is his name, it is the most uncreative Superhero name on the planet. It is as if the creator of the character was German and just learnt english so he named the character the most obvious name he could think of because that is all he knew. To all of you out there that keep stealing my favourite stuff from Super Heroes to my pro-evo teams (You know who you be). I am making an offical announcement, STAY AWAY from Tony Starks he is my favourite Super Hero now.

A major problem for me when I walk into a book store is that by the end of my stay I want to leave with about 10 books but nothing annoys me more than owning an unread/unfinished book. It is so frustrating to want to read/learn something but do not have the time. When I see books with great presentation and packaging, on interesting topics, I just want to eat them. I love information and I just cannot get enough of it, in fact I am so passionate about learning new things that sometimes I can relate with Syler (In Heroes) problem. His hunger for a new power, to understand it, to learn it and to use it, which actually drives hm to kill people to obtain these powers. Well I am not that bad but sometimes I wish I lived in a book store. My friend Obilo once said he wants to sleep in a room like the one Evey in V for Vendetta woke up in, filled with books.

Waking up to a gallery of Ideas, to a gallery of perspectives must be inspiring. I want a room just like that. I also recall my professor in my ethics class who said It would be amazing if her brain was constantly connected to the internet (Wikipedia). I totally wish the same too. There is so much to know, so much to learn but not enough time.