February 2016: Watched, Read, Loved

Welcome to a new little segment I want to start running monthly – just a rundown of whatever entertainment I found the most enjoyable the past month. I hope you enjoy!

In cinema:

The Fifth Wave: 7/10

I certainly enjoyed this more than most other trolls on the internet. While it isn’t a perfect film and feels at places that some ideas where snatched from other dystopian novels, it was entertaining and with a semi-solid cast.

Deadpool: 8/10

i.e. The film everyone had been waiting for for years, etc. It is rowdy, rude, sexual, violent and entertaining as hell. It is great to see a superhero movie that isn’t PG friendly. I’ve never understood why these superheroes could even be depicted as PG – they save the world and they are these happy, behaved and profanity ignorant people?

How To Be Single: 6.5/10

HTBS started off the 2016 romcom year, and it was a suprising movie. I never expected it to be groundbreaking or revolutionary, but the performances from Dakota Johnson and Rebel Wilson makes the movie enjoyable.

At home:

Wedding Crashers: 8.5/10

This is my favorite movie watched in February. It was hilarious and I had the best time ever.

When Harry met Sally

Short on it the heels of Wedding Crashers, TBH. It is worthy of its iconic romcom status, and I’m glad I saw it for Drew and Kim’s 80’s blogathon – I think that is going down in March, so keep a lookout!

Kill Bill Volume I – 7.5/10

Hmm. THIS BLINDSPOT. It derailed so many plans of being perfect this year. I struggled to get a copy, finally got a DVD, THE DVD then didn’t work, and I was just done with life at that point. However, I’ve seen it now, and it was good, although not my favorite show.

Series:

Arrow Season 1

Hehe. I’m very passionate about this show, but not because it is good. I just like going on and on about how bad it is. Great conversation starter, let me tell you.

Arrow Season 2

Same as above

Books:

The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks

It was okay, though lacked the sensory pleasure the movie does because I thought Scott Eastwood was mighty fine in the adaption.

Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding

Finished this book in the time frame for Feb because of leap year. YAY! Book was good, entertaining, bit too long and very much like its’s first novel.

Hope you have an excellent March my friends! This is wedding month for so many people on my side, and I am pretty amped for them.

March 3, 2016March 1, 2016 by Natasha Categories: 2016, Blindspot, Books, Fun, Movies, UncategorizedTags: Arrow, Arrow Season 1, Arrow Season 2, Deadpool, February, Helen Fielding, How To Be Single, Kill Bill, Mad about the Boy, Reading, The Fifth Wave, The Longest Ride, Watching, Wedding Crashers 5 Comments

Currents

Location: Potchefstroom NWU University for my Microbiology practicals. I always like it here but it also always feels like I am living someone else’s life – the full time students with nothing but time. It feels so weird.

Reading: Insurgent by Veronica Roth. This is where Tris is the most annoying, so it is a slow process.

Watching: Trying get into the swing of Vikings. Everyone keeps raving about it so I am willing to give a few episodes a try.

Recently watched: Heathers, Insurgent and the Longest Ride on the movie side of things. Heathers was by far the best movie of the three, and I am going to gush about it if I ever get to writing a review for it. I reviewed the Longest Ride here, and I am first finishing the book Insurgent before I properly bitch about the movie – a girl needs her priorities straight.

Thinking about:

Grief: About how it doesn’t really change you, but it shows you who you really are. I finally feel like all the bullshit has been scraped away from my eyes because for the first time in a long time I know what really matters. I am not ready to word yet what has been going on in my life, but I’ve realized that your heart can keep on breaking every single day and you can still have the power to keep moving through life.

Savings: Like, I really need to start. I have to be able to live in Potch next year for six weeks and I have no idea how I am going to carry myself financially through 2016. I just love ADDITIONAL stress, you know.

Health: It will fully incorporate into the whole GRIEF post eventually, but I’ve just realized again what a life of bad eating habits does to a person. Healthy eating and regular exercise is also a way to combat depression, so I need to start doing both because I think that depression is not that far from where I am at this point. I am seriously considering Banting – I’ve heard great testimonials from people I know and they all look and feel great. I plan to start next week when I am back in Johannesburg, but will obviously only keep you updated if it works for me.

Excited about: Honestly, not much. I am really happy it is getting warmer here – I HATED THIS WINTER, and I am both happy and sad that Downton Season 6 is on its way.

How about you? What is going on in your life?

September 1, 2015August 31, 2015 by Natasha Categories: GeneralTags: Downton Abbey, grief, Heathers, Insurgent, Life, Quotes, random posts, Reading, The Longest Ride, Watching 8 Comments

Thoughts 12.1: Life Lately

Hey all! I am feeling as inspirational as a teaspoon lately, so today I am blessing you with one of these – I know you can’t wait to read what I am up to #harHar. Firstly, I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas. I didn’t put anything up because 1) people shouldn’t be on the internet during Christmas time and 2) am uninspirational right now and the best I would have done was a pic of a Christmas tree.

SO, I am heading over to my visit my bestie in the whole wide world today! I am really excited to see my dear Bkushi.

Reading: Silver Shadows by Richelle Mead. Not very far yet, but having a good time. In fact, this is much more fun than the latest Nora Roberts trilogy I finished last Wednesday. What a disappointment! Currently in a “Read all the Things” mind-set – this can be bad for the movie part of the blog!

Watching: Mostly things in cinema, like Mockingjay Part One last week. I also recently reviewed the incredibly unsatisfactory Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies. I have the yen to watch Sherlock and Game of Thrones again, and need to start with Vikings because I have heard such good things about it.

Obsessed: Surviving December without breaking the bank, reading and watching things, and all the Christmas events that are surfacing.

I am also thoroughly obsessed with Christmas, one of the best holidays EVER.

Making 2015 the BEST YEAR EVER.

Working: on my negative attitude. That saying of: if you can’t change the situation, change your attitude about it, is the truth.

Blog wise: I am busy customising my rating system to make it more uniform and not only based on emotion. I am considering having things criteria that all count out of ten, e.g. acting, storyline, pacing, visuals, excellence within genre, etc. and then having an average based from those.I also should be writing posts on the gazillion book posts I have read, but I am feeling very uninspired and thus am writing this post LOL.

Planning:

Which subjects to take next year.

Next year.

What to get everyone for Christmas – nope, haven’t done Christmas shopping yet.

Wishes for 2015:

Fast internet

No Loadshedding

Passing all subjects

Finding something to be passionate about

Really getting my fashion blog up and running

This pic is pretty cool:

December 26, 2014December 22, 2014 by Natasha Categories: Quotes, ThoughtsTags: Life Lately, Quotes, Reading, Watching 3 Comments