Monday, February 26, 2007

The Oscars

I spent the last night watching The Oscars , it was amazing and here's the winners and the nominees :



Best Motion Picture of the Year
Babel
The Departed
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

Achievement in Directing
Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears - The Queen
Alejandro González Iñárritu - Babel
Paul Greengrass - United 93
Martin Scorsese - The Departed

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Leonardo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson
Peter O'Toole - Venus
Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Penélope Cruz - Volver
Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
Helen Mirren - The Queen
Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet - Little Children

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine
Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children
Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg - The Departed

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Adriana Barraza - Babel
Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi - Babel

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
After the Wedding (Denmark)
Days of Glory (Indigènes) (Algeria)
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) (Germany)
Pan's Labyrinth (Mexico)
Water (Canada)

Adapted Screenplay
Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Anthony Hines, Dan Mazer, Todd Phillips
Children of Men - Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby
The Departed - William Monahan
Little Children - Todd Field, Tom Perrotta
Notes on a Scandal - Patrick Marber

Original Screenplay
Babel - Guillermo Arriaga
Letters from Iwo Jima - Iris Yamashita, Paul Haggis
Little Miss Sunshine - Michael Arndt
Pan's Labyrinth - Guillermo del Toro
The Queen - Peter Morgan

Achievement in Art Direction
Dreamgirls
The Good Shepherd
Pan's Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Prestige

Achievement in Cinematography
The Black Dahlia - Vilmos Zsigmond
Children of Men - Emmanuel Lubezki
The Illusionist - Dick Pope
Pan's Labyrinth - Guillermo Navarro
The Prestige - Wally Pfister

Achievement in Costume Design
Curse of the Golden Flower - Chung Man Yee
The Devil Wears Prada - Patricia Field
Dreamgirls - Sharen Davis
Marie Antoinette - Milena Canonero
The Queen - Consolata Boyle

Best Documentary Feature
Deliver Us from Evil
An Inconvenient Truth
Iraq in Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, My Country

Best Documentary Short Subject
The Blood of Yingzhou District
Recycled Life
Rehearsing a Dream
Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story

Achievement in Film Editing
Babel
Blood Diamond
Children of Men
The Departed
United 93

Achievement in Makeup
Apocalypto
Click
Pan's Labyrinth

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
Babel - Gustavo Santaolalla
The Good German - Thomas Newman
Notes on a Scandal - Philip Glass
Pan's Labyrinth - Javier Navarrete
The Queen - Alexandre Desplat

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
'I Need to Wake Up" - An Inconvenient Truth
"
Listen" - Dreamgirls
"
Love You I Do" - Dreamgirls
"
Our Town" - Cars
"
Patience" - Dreamgirls

Best Animated Short Film
The Danish Poet
Lifted
The Little Matchgirl
Maestro
No Time for Nuts

Best Live Action Short Film
Binta and the Great Idea
Éramos Pocos
Helmer & Son
The Saviour
West Bank Story

Achievement in Sound Editing
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Flags of Our Fathers
Letters from Iwo Jima
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Achievement in Sound Mixing
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Dreamgirls
Flags of Our Fathers
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Achievement in Visual Effects
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Poseidon
Superman Returns

Special honors
The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award: Sherry Lansing
Academy Honorary Award: Ennio Morricone

Friday, February 23, 2007

Uliquorra

I just wanted to post his pic , he's really cool , isn't he ?!



Movies around the globe !

That was an e-mail that i got but i really liked so i decided to share =) , here it is :


فيلم أمريكي

سيارة مسرعة تصدم كلب إمرأة عجوزيصاب الكلب تتصل العجوز بـ 911 ــثلاثة سيارات شرطة تطارد سيارة المشبوه التي تنطلق بسرعةيراوغ المشبوه من سيارات الشرطة .... يطير فوق سيارةالشرطة الأولى فتصدم باص طلاب مدارسيسبح تحت سيارة الشرطة الثانية فتسقط فيالنهروتغرق بقيت سيارة واحدة ... إنها تستمر بالمطاردةيطلق الشرطي المقدام النار على عجلات سيارة المشبوه ...فتنفجر العجلة لتتقلب سيارة المشبوه ثم ترتطمبمحطة للوقود........بوم .... نال المشبوه جزاءه ومات حرقاًالنتيجة = تضرر باص مدرسة وسيارة الشرطة الأولى وموتتلميذ + غرق الشرطين وسيارتهما + موت المشبوه وحريق بالمحطة+ وقبلة في النهاية بين اثنين ليس لهما أي علاقة بالموضوع


فيلم مصري

بحبك يا زيزي " _ " بحبك يا حنفي بس لازم شقة لوحتى أوده واحدة كفاية"حنفي في الشركة يعرض عليه رشوه ويقول : " أنا ما أبعش ضميري "العصابة تلاحق حنفي وتبدأ المطارداتأصوات تشحيط عجلات السيارات وهي تمشي بسرعة10 كيلومتر حنفي يموت قائلاًالعبارة الشهيرة : ــ"أتـلـتـني يا مجرم"


مسلسل مكسيكي مدبلج

روزاليندا عندها من الفريد خمسة أولاد وهي حامل السادسقرر الاثنان بأن يتزوجاأما ماريا فهي حامل من أخو زوجها رينالدو إلا أن زوجهالا يدري ، ولوسيانا تريد أن تتزوج من إغناسيو إلا أنهالا تعلم أن ابن عمها هو خالتها .. ــينتهي المسلسل بعد حوالي عشرة قرون حيث تحل جميع المشاكلفي آخر خمسة دقائق من الحلقة الأخيرة ..


فيلم هندي

يحبها وتحبه تغني له ربع ساعةيغني لها ربع ساعةفجأة كل الذين حولهم يبدأون بالرقص.. وتظهر أصواتالموسيقا لا أدري من أين وهم في الجبلابو البنت يغضب من بنته التي أحبت ذلك الشخص الفقير ، ثم يقوم يحبسهايأتي حبيبها إلى نافذتها ويغني لها ربع ساعة ، تغني له ربع ساعةوفجأة يبدأ الحراس وأبو البنت بالرقصتأتي صديقة البنت لتزورها في غرفتها ... وتسألها عن حبيبهاالبنت تغني ربع ساعةورفيقتها تغني ربع ساعةيسمع الأب ابنته وهي تغني فيرحمها ويعفو عنهاتجه الأب لبيت حبيبها ويطلب منه يزور بنته ويوافق على زواجهميهرول الحبيب فرحان إلى حبيبته ويغني لها ربع ساعةتغني له ربع ساعةويبدأ خدم البيت بالرقصيعود ابن عم البنت من السعودية تاركاً عمله هناكفي الهند لم يعجبه الوضع .. فقام بقتل حبيب الفتاةتصيح الحبيبة وتبكي على قبر حبيبهاثم تغني بحزن ربع ساعة ثم تموت ...لم ينته الفيلم هناروح الحبيبة وروحالحبيب تجتمعان بشكل خيالي وتغنيانساعة و ربع

Sunday, February 18, 2007

Lady In The Water , Can it be worse ?!


I know it's a bit old but i just saw the comment i wrote on Imdb.com after seeing the movie and it brought back bad memories , probably the worst movie ever, anyways here's what i wrote :


Well, i dunno what to say but i truly regret the 110 minutes I spent watching this movie, it's simply awful. It started when one of my friends suggested watching the new thriller "Lady in the water" after watching it's trailer, on that doomed day we went to see it and was the tragedy.The people in the movie didn't seem to object or even disbelieve Cleveland (Paul Giamatti) when he told them that he found an nymph and he's helping her to get back to her world and needs to protect her from other creatures that want to kill her (Which was a wolf made of GRASS, yeah am not kidding ,Grass),the people simply agreed to help him without asking !!! Also,What's with the guy using the newspaper's crosswords to help them solving mysteries and making sure they are on the right path (it would turn out next that his son was the one supposed to do so and he was the real symbolist using a pack of cereals WOW), well i dunno if am the only one who feels this way but that's LAME people. The movie that was supposed to be a thriller turned out to be a joke,my friends were laughing in the cinema,all the people were.even one of my friends suggested that at the end of the movie the Director and the actors should come out to apologize to the audience and saying they tried their best to make it a better movie but they couldn't. My advice to anyone don't go to see this movie , you will regret it for the rest of your life .At least i did.
The Link to the comment on Imdb.com : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452637/usercomments-740

Back !

It has been a while , that's the first time to open my blog in a month or even more . I had problems with my PC but it's over now or that's what I wish for.Anyways am back now and am gonna be writing soon , i 'll try to squeeze it in my busy schedule loooool !

Sunday, January 7, 2007

Dalida.... thank you !


I just woke up, I 'm having breakfast which i don't normally do . Am enjoying the experience of waking up early before I start my busy schedule.usually i wake up late,rush myself through everything i have to do before going out,having no breakfast just a cup of nescafe to function in a proper way.It's nice taking my time enjoying the morning as a change .


Am listening to Dalida's song "Ahsan Nas" which i think is the perfect song to start your day, am not into Arabic music but the song really puts a smile on my face , an actual smile not a figure of speech. i used to love this song then i totally forgot about it , 1 month ago i took a cab , the guy's radio was playing the song, the frown on my face changed into smile and i was this close from singing and dancing in the cab loool , when i got home i searched for the song and i got it.Now whenever am having a bad day day I just listen to it and it works like magic , It's like a legacy they should put it in the same category as the pyramids and sphinx. Yeah .... By the way thank you guys from the MobiNil ad. for ruining the song for me, I won't find it strange if Dalida's ghost haunts you for the rest of your lives . You Deserve it !


yeah I almost forgot Merry Xmas for Egyptian christians !

Thursday, January 4, 2007

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe (1849)

It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
She was a child and I was a child, In this kingdom by the sea,

But we loved with a love that was more than love I and my Annabel Lee
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea,

A wind blew out of a cloud by night Chilling my Annabel Lee
So that her high-born kinsman came And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in Heaven, Went envying her and me

Yes! that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of a cloud, chilling And killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we

Of many far wiser than we
And neither the angels in Heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee
And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride, In her sepulchre there by the sea
In her tomb by the side of the sea.

Like Finally !

Finally I got Davinci Code , not the movie i mean the novel by Dan Brown. I was planning to read it and I kept saying am gonna get it for the past 2 years, many times my friends wanted to see the movie together and I ruined it cause i wanted to read the novel first. Well... Now i got the book and i will start reading :D , another thing in my To-do list is done.

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Can't Sleep

It's 7:44 am , i can't sleep which is probably due to the huge amounts of caffeine i keep bumping into my blood , it's the second day of the new year 2007 which doesn't really feels different from the day before , the day 2 weeks ago and the day 4 months ago,they all feel the same.well, 2 days ago they killed Saddam in the first day of the feast ( Eid EL Adha ) in the same time people should sacrifice the sheep... ironic, the only difference was that they only hung him they didn't use a knife which wouldn't make any difference.

7:50 am now , 5 mins passed still don't have something in mind to talk about. also can't sleep.Hmmm....Lets see... yeah, yesterday on the first day of 2007 I was hanging out with my friends when we saw some guys carrying their friend , they said he lost his consciousness in a fight with other guys, by asking more question the guy had an O.D.,he was 16-17 years old the same as my younger brother, after half an hour of trying to wake him up, he woke up - looked around him and all he wanted to do was to go back to the fight !!!!! , what's wrong with people ?! 10 mins ago he was going to die, now he wants to go fighting !! how stupid is that ?!
Another thing ,when we were trying to wake him up , people gathered around us like we were giving away free stuff. like 40 persons were watching and everyone was trying to get the best seat, from little kids to men and you tell them to keep away and they come more and more , also the guy's friends didn't want us to him to a hospital cause there they will tell the authorities !!! yeah we should leave him to die that will be better than the hospital informing the authorities and telling his parents he was drinking or smoking, Plain stupidity!!!

It's 8:00 am now and i still can't sleep , may be i 'll go watch a movie or something.yeah... movies , Am I the only one to notice or the movies are getting worse and lamer every year , you just see the first 15 mins of the movie and u know what will happen for the nest 120 mins , Hollywood is out of ideas, they are now making remakes for old movie, Guess who ? , king kong and many others and movies are all the same like in action/adventure/horror/thriller movies when they start with a bunch of people which start to get killed later by the monster or the villain or even death itself , the usually remaining people are the main male actor , the main female actor who becomes his gf during the movie and the black guy who they can't kill him for fear of being accused of racism, sometimes if there's a computer/tech geek they let him live, guys looking handsome and acting too cool (beside the leading male actor) in the beginning of the movie always get killed.. that's how most movies go with tiny differences .LAME.... Really Lame.

WoW 8:20 am now, it was nice killing time talking about nothing, my mind is blank and am out of thoughts to write...looks like that's it for today.

Saturday, December 23, 2006

Emad's Interview on EL Kaheera EL Youm

Emad the microbus driver who was tourtured in an egyptian police station , that's his interview with Amr Adeeb on El kaheera el Youm :

Friday, December 22, 2006

Al Ahly's Achievement in Japan


I haven't been this happy since Italy won the world cup ( am a BIG Azzurri Fan ) , It was really great seeing an Egyptian team that's realy good for a change , am really proud to be a fan ,a lot of ppl were getting ready to attack the players in the news and in the media once they fail and they were sure they will (my Zamalek's Fans friends were ) But AL Ahly did it, and all i can say to those ppl : IN YOUR FACE !

So Thanks to Jose and the players for what they did , You really made us happy.

Monday, November 27, 2006

Personality Disorder Test Results

I took that personality disorder test and apparently am pretty messed up =) , here's the results :

Paranoid: Low
Schizoid: Low
Schizotypal: Moderate
Antisocial: Moderate
Borderline: Low
Histrionic: High
Narcissistic: High
Avoidant: Moderate
Dependent: Moderate
Obsessive-Compulsive: Moderate