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That's right; for the first time in my collegiate lifetime I've had a snow day. And, right now? there's no more than an inch of snow on the ground. I had my Clinical Nursing in-class final scheduled for today, so it's somewhat of a bummer. Now I have to wait until next week Wednesday to possibly fail out of nursing school. I exaggerate, but part of me still wanted to just get the damned thing over with.
I'd planned on going to see Brokeback Mountain after the exam, but since the exam got cancelled I moved my plans up. I have no problems with going to see movies solo, but this time I did ask a classmate of mine to accompany me since we'd both been waxing on about the pretty that is Jake Gyllenhaal. She turned out to be all talk; she declined to go with me because she thought'd she'd be too squeamish over the man/man pseudo sexin'. Amateur. Then I asked![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sibyline if she wanted to accompany me but didn't give her a specific time, and thus didn't get her positive reply until after I'd returned. Damn it.
But, yes, I've come down from the Mountain. And I thought it was amazing. The screenwriters and Lee did an excellent job keeping Proulx' sparse prose feel, and the cinematography was really impressive. Judging by what most of the reviews give away I don't think it's a spoiler to say it's a melancholy tale - with about 30 minutes left in the film the gentlemen to the right of me started with the waterworks and sniffling, then the person behind him got into it. It was contagious, dang it. I can't lie - I teared up a bit too. And while Jake Gyllenhaal brought the pretty, Ledger's Ennis really did steal the show. Ledger did more with a small smile in his character's otherwise stoic facade than Gyllenhaal managed with Jack's earnestness. Both were excellent, though. I can't wait to see it again, and would like the opportunity to do so *poke, poke*.
Aside from that I've done nothing today. Again, I'm not complaining. I'm hoping I go to see Narnia tonight with my brothers and my aunt. Don't think it'll touch me the way Brokeback did, but it'll be a good diversion.
I'd planned on going to see Brokeback Mountain after the exam, but since the exam got cancelled I moved my plans up. I have no problems with going to see movies solo, but this time I did ask a classmate of mine to accompany me since we'd both been waxing on about the pretty that is Jake Gyllenhaal. She turned out to be all talk; she declined to go with me because she thought'd she'd be too squeamish over the man/man pseudo sexin'. Amateur. Then I asked
sibyline if she wanted to accompany me but didn't give her a specific time, and thus didn't get her positive reply until after I'd returned. Damn it. But, yes, I've come down from the Mountain. And I thought it was amazing. The screenwriters and Lee did an excellent job keeping Proulx' sparse prose feel, and the cinematography was really impressive. Judging by what most of the reviews give away I don't think it's a spoiler to say it's a melancholy tale - with about 30 minutes left in the film the gentlemen to the right of me started with the waterworks and sniffling, then the person behind him got into it. It was contagious, dang it. I can't lie - I teared up a bit too. And while Jake Gyllenhaal brought the pretty, Ledger's Ennis really did steal the show. Ledger did more with a small smile in his character's otherwise stoic facade than Gyllenhaal managed with Jack's earnestness. Both were excellent, though. I can't wait to see it again, and would like the opportunity to do so *poke, poke*.
Aside from that I've done nothing today. Again, I'm not complaining. I'm hoping I go to see Narnia tonight with my brothers and my aunt. Don't think it'll touch me the way Brokeback did, but it'll be a good diversion.
