Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Movie Review of Blow

Blow is a fantastic watch and stars Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz. This is a movie that is filled with drama and is directed by Ted Demme. This movie is a true story of how the american cocaine market was founded by a man named George Jung who was claimed to have been responsible for cocaine becoming the drug of choice for the rich and famous back in the 70's.
I compared the movie Blow to a book called Tweak by Nic Scheff. It's also a true story, and is about a guy named Nic who has a wonderful life but is really exposed as a child. Nic moves to New York and becomes addicted to meth. He ends up living on the streets and using all the time. This reminds me of the movie Blow because it is also a true story and George Jung looses everything aswell as Nic.
In the movie, George and his best friend "Tuna" (Ethan Supple), decide to sell marijuana in small amounts moving then onto larger sums. Sooner or later they progress onto cocaine. He soon has the time of his life. While selling weed he gets caught and goes to jail. George escapes from jail to be with his girlfriend while she is sick, until she dies of cancer. After this, Jung is on the run and meets up with his friend Pablo that he met in jail, and they start selling cocaine. What he doesn't know is that everyone he is with will betray him. In the end, George gets married, has a daughter and then lives in jail for a long time. He never saw his daughter ever again.
I really enjoy this movie and it is one of my favourites. I don't do drugs myself but i really find addictions interesting and i like to watch/hear about other people's challenges. I also think its really sad that George never gets to see his daughter because he messed up his life, and that this is a true story. Things like this happen to people daily so it's really interesting to know about.
In the end, I think everyone should watch this movie. Its an amazing story and is funny at times. I recommend everyone to rent it.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

About Me :)

My name is Robin Mighton and I have graduated. I am taking a fifth year to finish up some things before going off to college. I have brown hair with blonde highlights, freckles, brown eyes and I am short. I enjoy going to parties, hanging out with friends, dancing and playing baseball. I really enjoy music. My favourite bands are System of a Down, Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, Choking Victim, Leftover Crack, Metric, Rage Against The Machine, Eminem and more. My favourite type of music is metal.
I am excited about this semester because when it is over I will be totally done with highschool and i will be turning 19 years old. I work at No Frills so I will most likely be working there a lot once I am done. I am hoping to go to Conestoga or Fanshawe College next year to take early childhood education.
What comes to mind when thinking about this semester is turning leaves, coats, boots, scarves and winter. I am looking foward to it and I hope to achieve a higher mark in this class then the mark I recieved last year. :)

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Managing Style at Foodland

This is my Business Report. It is about my workplace and the managing styles used there. Enjoy!

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Horror Genre

The reason that I like horror is because I like being scared. When I was a kid I used to get extremly scared from watching horror movies. One time after watching The Blair Witch Project and Haloween H2O in the same night I had to sleep in my sisters room for a week. Even though I knew I would get really scared everytime I still wanted to watch them. I can handle horror movies much better now and I still love them. I recently saw The Crazies in theatres. It wasn`t that scary it was more suspenseful then anything. I really like an older film called The Strangers. I also really like all the Final Destinations, The Saws, The Sixth Sense, The Butterfly Effect, The Ring, The Orphan. I really liked The Orphan. It was about a girl that a family adopted that dressed really old fashioned and became obsessed with the fathers of the families. It turned out that the little girl was actually a 30 year old short women that made herself look like a little girl. In the end she killed the husband and she tried to kill the other kids. She tried many things to kill them but at the end the wife ends up kicking the girl into the pond and she dies. This is probably one of my favourite movies. This movie made me feel scared to adopt a child in the near future. I think humans like the horror genre because it gets peoples adrenaline going and people like to get excited.

Superhero Subgenre

Superheros are a fun thing to dream about and laugh about but it is always good to know that they arn`t real. When I was a kid i believed superwomen was real, well I believed everything was true and real at that time. I think the subgenre is trying to tell society something. I think it is telling society that there are special people in the world that are superheros to one another. Everyone looks up to something or someone in their lives. Kids brains are like spounges so superheros to them seem real. I do not have a favourite superhero at the moment. To be honest I am not really into superheros and random creatures with special powers, nothing like that. It is fun to try to believe and imagine things but nothing to intense. I think our society needs superheros so that they can believe there is a higher power. We`ve had superman, spiderman, batman and the hulk and to be honest I do not know what superhero will be next. I have not given it much thought. I think that the next superhero should be a women though, because we do not have a lot of women superheros.

Action/Adventure Genre

Personally, I enjoy the action/adventure genre. I really like movies where there is a chase. When someone is running from a murder, from a dog or just going on a run I think it is very exciting. It keeps me interested to find out what is going to happen next. I also like shooting movies and mofia movies/books. I like when people are yelling and swearing at eachother and start getting mad at eachother because it is awsome to see them all wrilled up and ready to kill someone because of a drug deal or something. I mean it isn`t awsome when stuff like that happens in real life, just in movies and books. One of my favourite action movies is Resovoir Dogs. There is one scence where there is just so much killing and freaking out, it is pretty intense. I used to play nintendo 64 and my favourite game was probably 007. It used to freak me out a little bit because I was so young but it was sweet trying to hide your player from the other player and then sneak around to shoot one another. I think the action and adventure genre is my third favourite genre. My favourite genre is Comedy and my second favourite genre is horror.

The Pretties

I love to read and I wanted to make sure that the book I choose would be interesting enough for me to want to read it all. First I chose a book about a young teen who had schizophrenia. It was good at the start, but it became quite confusing because the girl's thoughts were all so random and I wasn't understanding. I decided to change my book to "The Pretties" by Scott Westerfeld. It is a science fiction series and The Pretties is the second book out of four. I have already read the first one called "The Uglies" and it was really good. The Uglies is about a world of people who just live normally but are ugly and all have pretty parents. Everyone has to turn pretty when they are 16. The only way an ugly can not become pretty is if they escape Uglyville and run away to the ruins. The main character Tally becomes best friend with a girl named Shay. Shay doesn't want to turn pretty so she runs away to the ruins and leaves Tally behind. The only way Tally could become pretty according to the Specials, was if she went to the ruins and found Shay. From there she would have to rat everyone out so that the Specials can make everyone pretty. In the end everyone does become pretty. In The Pretties, Tally and her new friends recieve these pills from their friends from the ruins and take them. The pills help them slowly become not pretty. The reason they do not want to be pretty is because being pretty causes lesions in your brain and doesn't make you think for yourself. The series sounds very very confusing but that is because I am bad at explaing things. I am almost done The Pretties and I am quite excited.