Full House

This week the episode of Full House that I managed to catch was about Jesse trying to make Alex and Nicky look smarter so that they can get into an advanced Kindergarten. He thinks that the only way that the twins will be successful in life is by getting them into the Kindergarten. He lies on the application saying that they are bilingual and that they can read novels. He also says that he is a Doctor to make him look smarter to show that the boys have to be smart. When the twins go to their interview with the head of the school, they just want to play and have no chance of proving what Jesse said was true. The school is confused at first, but then they think that the boys are so smart that they are quiet and don’t like showing their intelligence. When they get home, Rebecca explains to Jesse that lying about the boy’s intelligence level will eventually be revealed and that he should be setting a better example for them other than lying. Jesse agrees that he is wrong and should not force the boys to try harder to be smart. When they get the letter from the school in response to the interview, everyone thought that it would be a denial, but the boys did get into the school. Jesse decides that he would rather have his children go to a regular school instead of forcing them to go to a more advanced school. He learned that you can’t make children smarter by forcing them to learn, all children learn at their own rate; if they are not ready to know something they won’t understand. But when they are ready they will understand, that doesn’t make them any less intelligent.

This weeks readings

The Holy Homosexuality Batman article that we read this week and the class discussion that we had made me laugh. I have never seen any of the Batman movies before but I would have assumed that Batman was a manly hero, not a homosexual. I guess that some of the things Batman and Robin do could possibly put them under suspicion for homosexuality. I don’t honestly think that the writer of Batman would have wanted people to think that Batman was homosexual. I think that a man sitting in another man’s bed rubbing his shoulders is quite abnormal behavior for normal male friends, even brothers don’t normally act as affectionate towards each other as that. I think that walking out of the shower with a towel on is not really abnormal for guys. I would not suspect a man as homosexual if they were getting out of the shower covered by a towel while other men were around. Maybe if he got out of the shower without the towel and Robin was watching very closely, that would be a little suspicious. Although superheroes do wear some super tight clothing that accentuates every single part of them, I don’t think that it is meant to appeal to other men. Tight clothing showing off their muscles just proves how much more powerful and heroic they are than other men. The idea that they didn’t show any part of the woman’s body as oppose to how much of the male body is displayed is kind of confusing other than the point that the superhero is the star and should be getting all the attention, not the human woman.

My Weekend

This weekend was very busy for me. I usually work through the weekend, but I quit one of my jobs to have more time for studying. Working seven days a week and being a full time student just wasn’t for me. On Friday I was enthused about having a day off, but it didn’t really work that way. My grandma moved in with my family, so I had to help pack and move all of her things. After that, my boss needed me to watch his kids for him while he went out and partied on his Friday night, something I haven’t experienced in quite awhile. Babysitting for my boss isn’t too bad because I’m with the kids so much I’m like a big sister to them and he pays well. Although the kids did go to sleep easily for me, which is fairly unusual, the 10 month old kept waking up. His crying would wake up the two year old who then would start crying. When I got the two year old to go back to sleep, I picked up the baby and he puked all over me. I had puke in my hair, all down my shirt, on face, and all over my pants, but don’t worry, none of it got on the baby. This extra money definitely helps to pay the bills. On Saturday, I helped my grandma unpack some of her things and get herself organized. After that I went to the movies and seen The Lookout, which was a pretty good movie. On Sunday, I helped prepare dinner and then ate with the family. After dinner I caught up on all the studying that I didn’t do during the week.

Full House

This week’s episode of Full House was about the girls taking their Father and their Uncles for granted. In the beginning of the show, the girls were going to a theme park and all they say is things like wash my clothes, get the camera, buy us snacks, and pack our things. Then when they are leaving, Danny asks if they were forgetting something and they said, “oh yeah, Money!” They didn’t even say thank you. When they came back the girls told Danny to take them ice skating, Jesse to make them lunch, and Joey to play hide and seek with them.

The guys were realizing that they do everything that the girls tell them to, and they are supposed to be the adults. They decided to switch the roles and have the girls be the parents and the guys are the kids. DJ had to make the lunches and Stephanie had to get their drinks. Joey, Danny, and Jesse continuously changed their minds and complained about everything just as the girls had done to them.

Once the girls realized that the game they were playing was to teach them a lesson, they felt really bad. They learned that their family is not there to serve them; they are there to help them. A family’s life is not meant to revolve around the children’s wishes and commands. Adults should help their children whenever possible, but they should not be expected to drop everything just to do exactly what the kids want. The kids should especially know that they should be appreciative for everything that their parents do for them and show their appreciation by saying thank you.

Full House

This weeks episode of Full House was about Stephanie and DJ's relationship as sisters. They got into an arguement over which one of them could have thier friends over in thier room. Stephanie wanted to have her friends over to play guns and DJ wanted to have her friends over so they could talk about boys. Their father tried to resolve the argument by sending all of their friends home and making the girls stay in their room until they could get along. When Danny came upstairs to see if they were getting along, they faked a hug to get out of their punishment. As soon as Danny left the room they were arguing again. Stephanie decides to leave DJ’s room and move in with Michelle. This does not work either because Michelle just wants to stay up all night and jump on the bed. The family solves this dispute in their made up Tanner court. During the court session Stephanie admits that she is always snooping in DJ’s things because she wants to be just like her. They apologize to each other and end up moving back into the same room together. They realized how important their relationship as sisters to each other is. DJ realizes that Stephanie may be annoying but that she really looks up to her big sister to lead her in the right direction. DJ is happy to be such a role model to her little sister.

Land of the Dead

To no surprise, I have never seen The Land of the Dead. Like every other movie that I have never even heard of. I don't usually like movies that are about zombies or dead people, although I do usually like seeing a good horror film. I think that Land of the Dead was a fairly good movie. It was kind of weird how the movie starts without telling you what is going on, they just suit up and are off to fight the zombies. Usually movies show some sort of backround before jumping in. I also don't understand how if a zombie is dead, how do you get rid of them by killing them? Can't they just become zombies again?

Research papers are not usually the easiest for me; I am much better at forming my opinion with some minor fact thrown in. I have the problem that researching takes time, and I don’t really have any. Looks like I’m going to spend this weekend in front of my computer.

I’m not yet sure of what I am going to write my paper on. Regardless of what topic I choose, there will still be a lot of research that comes along with it. I’m undecided between the race/gender/sexuality/social class, American horror films, (Since I don’t know any, it would be interesting to learn some) and George Romero’s filmography. I don’t know though, don’t be surprised if my paper isn’t written on any of these topics.

Film

I think that rating films like Roger Ebert does are truly awesome. I don’t even have time to watch movies, let alone make time to rate the movies. When I see a movie, as soon as it’s over I think about all the things I need to do or go to work or something like that. I never have time to think about what the moral of the movie is. If I don’t understand a movie, I pretty much consider it a bad movie. I know that this upsets most people but I have a busy lifestyle. I guess I’m not a good moviegoer.

Surprisingly, I did manage to see I, Robot. I thought that it was interesting because of the futuristic angle. I like films that show peoples opinion of the future with such great use of imagination. As Silverman says, “To enjoy this I, Robot, you’ll have to turn off your brain.” I guess I agree with that statement because I enjoyed the movie and I admit that I don’t really try to think to hard about what movies are trying to show me.

After reading this article, I can agree with Silverman that I, Robot does have a lot of loose ends and doesn’t always make sense, but I still think that it was a good movie and like we said in class Will Smith isn’t bad eye-candy.