Love

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.

I don't pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me; love is knowing all about someone, and still wanting to be with them more than any other person, love is trusting them enough to tell them everything about yourself, including the things you might be ashamed of, love is feeling comfortable and safe with someone, but still getting weak knees when they walk into a room and smile at you.
If I never met you, I wouldn't like you. If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you. If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you. But I did, I do, and I will.

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.
You'll get over it...' It's the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not erased by anyone but death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no one else can fit. Why would I want them to?

It is impossible to fall out of love. Love is such a powerful emotion, that once it envelops you it does not depart. True love is eternal. If you think that you were once in love, but fell out of it, then it wasn't love you were in. There are no 'exit' signs in love, there is only an 'on' ramp.

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.

Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?



Never Back Down (2008)

As you can tell from the image above, this is pretty much the fast and the furious of the fighting world, and by fighting I mean Mixed Martial Arts, not your everyday boring Taekwondo, Judo or Wrestling. Instead, it’s a bit of everything combined, from Striking, Slamming, Grappling and Wrestling. Now you know what Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is, we can move onto the movie.

It’s your everyday, very typical angst movie where teenager gets in one too many fights, gets suspended from school, moves to new place then all is going well, until of a sudden blonde bombshell Baja Miller played by Amber Heard (some actress we’ve not heard from since) comes long a lures him into coming to a party, where he ends up having to fight Ryan McCarthy. (more about him later). Don’t get me wrong, I love this film but it’s hard to take seriously. It makes the MMA scene look like a bunch of rich kids, with their own little fight club. The best way to describe this movie would be to think Kimbo Slice Youtube videos, but with a couple of dudes who look like younger versions of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise who also happen drive Hummers and honestly not know that much about martial arts, considering the first fight they got in Sean Faris, known as Jake Tyler in the movie would have knocked out Cam Gigandet who plays Ryan McCarthy with his a couple of his punches, it was quite unrealistic. But never mind, moving on before this becomes a ‘too long did not read’ going back to my gamers are childish blog.

At his new high school, a rebellious teen Jake Tyler is lured into an ultimate underground fighting club in a Backyard Fight, where he finds a mentor in a mixed martial arts veteran. After receiving threats to the safety of his friends and family, Jake seeks the mentoring of a veteran fighter, to train his mind and body for one final no-holds-barred elimination fight with his unrelenting personal nemesis and local martial arts champion Ryan McCarthy

Over all good film one that mostly resembles MMA style more so than in any other movie.

But let’s face it; we put any of them in a ring with any current UFC fighter in the same weight class they would get their pretty little movie faces reconstructed with force.

Angst teen. Check. Hot Girl. Check. Rich Bully. Check. Fighting. Check.

Trailer:
Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1023111/
Official Site: Couldn’t find one.

Personal opinion, I'd watch it. Despite the mean remarks I've made I'll contradict myself and say it's a good film, that I enjoyed, with a good soundtrack and personally I think it's worth watching! 7.5/10

Similar Movies: Redbelt

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Redbelt, Movie Review (2008)

Movies that I've either enjoyed, or hated along with POR (Personal Opinion Review) including links and many other random little goodies!I'm no expert movie critic, but honestly… what kind of job is a movie critic anyway? If you're so good, with movies why aren't you out there making movies yourself, huh? So instead of talking shit about all the movies I don’t like, I’ll just recommend the movies I do like.

I was going to just start off with movies from 2009 and work my way forward to things that are not yet released, but I thought wowowo wait a second there, Luis. Why don’t you just write a little about the movies you’ve enjoyed, and work your way forward and that’s how I’ve managed to get this far. So without any future waiting here are the movies.

Redbelt – 2008

Now I’ve decided to start off with this philosophical martial art (MMA, Brazilian Jujitsu) movie flick because it shows you there is more to fighting, but when it comes to fighting make sure you’re good at it. Mike Terry is a Brazilian Jujitsu instructor in Los Angeles where he barely earns enough money to make ends meat. It would seem his only option would be to compete in tournaments for money, but to him competing makes you weak, and it’s degrading. One night in a bar, he saves some big shot Hollywood movie star from getting beaten up by locals, the Hollywood star played by Tim Allen, then befriends him and accordingly invites him and his wife over for dinner, later on their wives become business partners and so on and so forth. Brazilian Jujitsu instructor later on gets asked to help onset of Chet Frank’s (Tim Allen, Hollywood Star) new movie, of course due to lack of money and the fact he’s a big star Mike Terry says yes straight away, and helps him out. Later on followed by betrayal fighting, and more quotes Mike Terry is forced to compete in the Mixed Martial Arts competition to be able to survive. The movie also features UFC Champion Randy Couture.

Over all, it’s a really good film. It’s not all about fighting, but there is some and it’s full of memorable quotes such as the following ones;

‘A man distracted is a man defeated’

‘There is no situation you could not escape from. You know the escape.’

‘Who imposes the terms of the battle will impose the terms of the peace.’

Now to the trailers and other bits of information you may be interested in.

Trailer 1:
Trailer (HD): Couldn't find a good one.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1012804/
Official website: http://www.sonyclassics.com/redbelt/

My rating of this film, although it’s not packed with fighting it’s exactly what I expected, it’s still a great film but there was no major twist and nothing I didn’t see coming. But that’s how it was supposed to be. I give it an 8.5/10

Similar movies: Never Back Down

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Gamers are Childish

Let’s begin this very frivolous piece of writing, article or blog whatever you decide to call it with one of the big questions;

Are the majority of gamers big children?

And by children, I do not mean just simply by age and the way they simply act childish, I mean do they not have the ability to grow up? Is this why they’re so addicted to gaming and forget that there is a world outside of their computer screens? Of course in some fine cases, you’ll find people such as Dennis ‘walle’ Wallenberg, who has turned the enjoyment he had gaming into a job, probably even a career with some leading companies once his time is finally up playing. And yes, you could point out dozens of these people, but it Is still a small majority of these people that earn money from playing games, and an ever smaller majority that earn GOOD money. But the money they earn does not establish the fact they’re mature. Just connect to any random public server and make any smart remark, to then be flooded with complete idiocity. Where comments such as ‘n00b’, ‘stfu’, and other remarks are the only things for them to come back with? Why? Because their children. It’s the only thing they know. It’s the same as when you argue with a child that cannot yet speak fluently, all he will answer is ‘No, no, no’.

Gamers act childish, because they can get away with it.

Gamers, according to most of the studies done always show negative results, and we cannot deny that. At the same time, some positive results are given, such as the one story where it was said that to be able to fly a certain helicopter, you would need to reactions of a gamer, and possibly only gamers could ever fly It, that’s good, right? Now name one gamer you know that is now has actually pulled his finger out of his ass and decided that he should try to fly this helicopter and went down to the army career’s office and thought about trying out for the army? Or even had the qualifications to? Oh wait, he left school so he could play video games? Right, I see. So this means he doesn’t have the qualifications either. Again, a few exceptions but very minimal, if it isn’t national service very few people.

please note; this is something I started writing about a year ago, it's far from finished, it hasn't even been revised so please forgive any mistakes, typos etc.

I'm still willing to argue the point that most gamers are childish.

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