Obviously, this pointless little anecdote ends up with us watching said movie, and me laughing rather hard.
Because for a shit movie, it was actually kinda good. Sure, Jack Black plays the same character he always does; a misunderstood, rude, greedy, yet hopeful loser, with the ego of, umm, a person with a really huge ego. Additionally, the plot isn’t too original, with him following his dreams and going three rounds against the toughest wrestler of them all. He gets kicked around a bit, before the orphans from his monastery and thenun he’s got the hots for shows up. From there on, he is the one kicking ass. Predictable as the flow of the tide.
But the movie’s insanely entertaining and fun. The gags work the way I suppose they’re intended to, eccentic behaviour is like an epidemy, and Jared Hess displays the same keen eye for details as he did in “Napoleon Dynamite“. Additionally, the soundtrack is cool, especially the repeated song “I’m a religious man”.
A 5.0/10 is the only correct grade for this, I think. Mostly because it sure as hell isn’t any better, while it at the same time isn’t bad.
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“it was actually kinda good.”
My teacher, named Terje, just stopped by this computer, and thanks you for reminding him that he shall tell another class not to use the word “kinda”.
What I am doing? Finding stuff for a project about “two countries”. A norwegian project.
3. January 2007 @ 12:45 ( Permalink )
“My teacher, named Terje, just stopped by this computer, and thanks you for reminding him that he shall tell another class not to use the word “kinda”.”
Why? Isn’t “kinda” a perfectly applicable word? Shouldn’t he, as a teacher (and thus, I take it, something of an educated man), always remember that languages change, and in turn remind his students of this fact?
4. January 2007 @ 13:05 ( Permalink )
Remarkable few dictionaries which uses it then.
4. January 2007 @ 16:46 ( Permalink )
Remarkable few dictionaries which uses it then.
That may of course vary, cottonpie.
As for the word “kinda”, it totally justfiable in this context. Wether or not it’s a good word… well, that’s kinda a given, isn’t it?
4. January 2007 @ 21:14 ( Permalink )
Good morning! This is Terje, the “teacher and something of an educated man”.
I will ask you to realize, that even if you find that a word sounds good to you, and also “perfectly applicable, that doesn’t mean that it should automatically be incorporated in written English. You may utter it as often as you can, and you may also utter as many other words of different types as you wish, and in which and every way you want, but please don’t expect your sounds to be accepted as written language. (Or should I say “stuff”, I guess that’s more up to your way of expressing yourself!
5. January 2007 @ 11:07 ( Permalink )
I am not responsible for whatever I let my teacher says.
5. January 2007 @ 11:08 ( Permalink )
Nor am I responsible for any mistakes I make while writing, and my fingers are all over.
=D
5. January 2007 @ 11:09 ( Permalink )
“You may utter it as often as you can, and you may also utter as many other words of different types as you wish, and in which and every way you want, but please don’t expect your sounds to be accepted as written language.”
And what else than a transcription of spoken language is written language, then?
(Sorry about the short reply, but I’ve only got my laptop at the moment, and its keyboard is kinda uncomfortable to use.)
Oh, and please don’t expect your reactionary, conservative drivel to be accepted as sense. At least not with better arguments than that.
5. January 2007 @ 20:13 ( Permalink )
Apologies for the above comment; I was, as I said someplace else, in a bad mood, and so I was unable to remember my manners. Again, apologies.
Because seriosuly, what kind of demented idiocy is that last “paragraph”? Ridiculous. (At least the semiotics; I think I stand by the semantics.)
9. January 2007 @ 01:43 ( Permalink )
But then again, those semantics can just as easily be said to be valid for my own arguments, so I guess I was shooting myself in the foot whatever the fuck I did, eh?
9. January 2007 @ 02:24 ( Permalink )
“And what else than a transcription of spoken language is written language, then?”
A system of transcribing the common streaks of a spoken language in such a manner that all users of the spoken language have the same general rules to follow regardless of their idiosyncratic differences in the spoken variety.
Also, I recently saw “School of Rock”, and it’s not as bad as you make it out to be. Insanely predictable, very unoriginal, but funnily executed. Think I’d give it a good strong 6/10.
2. July 2008 @ 17:12 ( Permalink )
I don’t dislike “School of Rock”. It is exactly what it says on the box; a fun yet brainless comedy. “Nacho Libre”, is downright nauseating.
2. July 2008 @ 23:55 ( Permalink )