So, we're having a movie night. Monday night, at ten. We'll be seeing 2012 at Cinema City( Iulius Mall ) I've booked 14 19 20 seats for the show, but there is room for anyone who wants to come. People that have RSVP`d so far: Me +1, obviously Jimmy +5(!) Dora + crinutza Raka +1 Adi Eblog Clawd Camytzi Nebuloasa + Raul Richie Dan UOvidiu +1 Ovi Sîrb + Corina Anda +1(ily) Paul +1(Dani) Edit: made additional 5 seat reservation. Edit: we're now 20 on 19 seats. I've already made three reservations... anyone else? You can RSVP here, by commenting, or via twitter, using the #lunilazece2012 hash tag. Edit: we're already overbooked! Edit: Jimmy decided to go with his own gang some other time. Sorry about the mess. We're meeting at CinemaCity at 21:20 Well, thank you, one and all, for coming.

Gamer is just wow! Some years from this exact moment...  is how the movie starts. I just loved that line. Plus, the theme song of the movie is Marilyn Manson's version of Sweet Dreams. Quite fitting, I'd say. Moreover, the movie stars Gerard Butler and Michael C. Hall. After 300, I just wanna shag meet Gerard Butler. And I loved Michael's acting and character in Six Feet Under. The whole idea of the movie is totally new to me. People controlling other people via nanocells. Kinda like the Matrix, with a nice twist. But that's not what impressed me the most. What I was blown away by was the dynamism of the camera shots. It really felt like Quake, on steroids. If you're not careful, and the cinema's decent, the frames themselves grab you by the ass and make you dodge bullets. Also, the way in which humanity is portrayed, the occasional funnies and the intimacy you're fed make for one big bonus. It's definitely a ballsy movie for ballsy people, and is well worth a Saturday at the movies. Did I mention Gerard Butler's in it? Image credit, and more info: imdb.

I always loved Guy Ritchie films. RocknRolla is his latest right now, and it came out in 2008. I just watched it and, if you like Guy Ritchie films, where people speak proper English, you'll love it just as much as I do. By proper English I don't mean just a funny accent and some cute phrases you don't get to hear everyday. That brings me to SNATCH. It's from 2000, but it's my favorite movie. It had a lot of both proper English, improper English and a bit of Pikey. Some of the dialog is actually pretty hard to follow, especially when the pikeys talk among themselves, but that made me love it even more. I've leaned more English slang from that movie than from all my talks with actual Brits. The best part is: I could understand the Brits when they talked fast to me, which came as a shock. It was fun when some English lads realized I got that ability from watching SNATCH. Calling gypsies 'pikeys' gave me away. Of course, when said lads realized I was a fan — of Guy Ritchie — our discussion got to Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, another great film I like to recommend to people. The thing about this one is that there's not much dialog in proper English, but it makes up for that in humor. Plus, you get Madonna on the soundtrack. Some time ago, I'd recommend three movies to people that were keen on understanding, not learning, the English language. They were Trainspotting, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and SNATCH — in that order. Many people didn't make it through Trainspotting and very few managed to watch SNATCH in English without subtitles. It's saddening because the linguistic experience added a lot of value to those movies, and taking that away dampens the effect it has on you. Back to RocknRolla, though, it's a great film, not too funny, and some twists you actually can't see. Or, as I did, you foresee some twists that aren't there, and you keep waiting for them to occur. They don't, but isn't that a twist in itself?

I just got home from seeing Yes Man. It's a great film starring Jim Carey, among others. It's one of those movies you go to watch with your girlfriend, which is exactly what I did. You can look up Yes Man on imdb, this is not exactly what this post is about. Yes Man is, in my view, about doing what you feel you should and know would eventually make you feel good. It's pretty much an anti procrastination movie, an idea which I like. Lately, I've had some people ask me for advice on their love lives. Back in the day, I used to be really good at that, and would excel at pep talks. I also used to be quite the matchmaker, and would be great at getting people hitched. Then I realized I was taking out all the fun for people, and started giving advice like: 'grow some damn balls and figure yourself out!' You can imagine that did not work out well. Since then, I Have become more relaxed. Both about sexual concerns and life in general. I never did take much of life seriously. I guess that comes with growing up, and I sure am not there, yet. I did, however, get to live through a lot of things in a short period of time, read this, watched that, and in the end, I learned to follow my gut. That way, I know things will work out fine. 

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