300

300I finally gave in and saw 300 yesterday. I think it might be one of the goriest movies I have seen in a long time, but it rocked. It wasn’t overly gory considering how far they could have taken it and I think it was at just the right level. Sure, there were more than a few body parts flying across the screen and several decapitations, but nothing this generation can’t handle.

Despite the amount of blood flying across the screen, they managed to slip in some humor to lighten the tone a bit. My favorite part is when the King Leonidas says “There’s no reason we can’t be civil” as the Spartan captain proceeds to finish off a Persian warrior with his spear. It’s nice to see a movie like 300 able to have humor and still be serious.

300 is a great movie and I enjoyed every second of it. It reminded me of Gladiator except with ten times more violence and 300 hulking Spartans. I left the theater satisfied and I can see why it made an estimated $70 million in one weekend. Now only if they would hurry it up on the sequel…

Posted on March 24, 2007 in Entertainment

National Math Contest

Today was rather interesting… I found out that I received the highest score in the school in the national math contest I participated in a few months ago. I didn’t expect to do very well seeing as how I bombed it the last two years, but I guess all that karma is starting to paying off. What’s really weird is that I did not prepare for the exam at all and didn’t even remember it until I heard the announcement over the intercom when I walked into school that morning. I forgot to bring my calculator too; I had to use one of those dinky scientific calculators that can’t do graphs.

So what’s next? I have no idea. My friend (who has the second highest score) told me that he had heard I received the highest score during band and I went to see if it was true. I went to my math teacher and looked at the paper with the top three highest scorers and saw my name and left. I think that the top three scorers move onto the next round or something…

Posted on March 22, 2007 in Life, School