Curses! Someone explain to me why it is that I pledged to write more? Because now that I’m not studying for my philosophy comps, writing to the blog is starting to reek of effort. Alas, I guess that’s how the principle of structured procrastination works, now isn’t it? Still, I don’t exactly relish the idea of adding more work to my plate to replace the time I had to spend preparing for my exam. I’m perfectly content to spend a few days/weeks just enjoying some mindless entertainment and languishing in my own laziness.

In the vein of mindless entertainment, some friends and I went to see The Host last night. I had no idea what to expect from this film given that it looked like your godzilla-for-a-new-generation type monster movie, and yet critics as persnickety as Anthony Lane were giving it rather glowing reviews. But I needed some way to celebrate and for $5 at our student run theater, didn’t seem like there was much to lose. And in fact, I enjoyed the movie quite a bit. Even with some bad cgi effects in places, I found the whole mood of it so enjoyable that I was willing to forgive the obvious cgi, even thought that’s usually a major turn-off for me. Overall, The Host just had a great way of treating rather serious themes with a certain self-aware tongue-in-cheekness that just really worked in the film. Not to mention it was well-paced, and happily didn’t follow the traditional trite formula that most action/sci-fi films take. I guess that’s the vitrue of seeing a film made outside the cookie-cutter style of the Hollywood film industry. Needless to say, I do recommend it. And just as with any classic sci-fi film, expect as much laughter as thrills when you watch this one.