Glee

Well, on Thursday night I went to see the premiere (in Slovakia) of 3:10 to Yuma, which actually came out on September 7 in the USofA. I've been waiting since before then to see it.

It's a remake of a 1957 Western of the same name, which is adapted from a short story of the same name. Christian Bale plays Dan Evans, a down-on-his-luck rancher with a wooden leg, who isn't respected by his sons (the older, and more prominently featuring son being fifteen years old, and played by Logan Lermon), and whose barn is burnt down by two men working for a man named Glenn Hollander, whom he owes money to.

Russell Crowe plays Ben Wade, a notorious, classy, and confident outlaw who always seems to be more in control than anyone else in the movie.

Dan goes into the town of Bisbee to talk to Hollander, and witnesses Wade robbing a stagecoach with his gang. Wade takes Dan's horse and leaves it on the road to Bisbee, where he rides to with his gang. Wade gets captured there when Dan shows up and distracts him long enough for a posse to surround him. Mr. Butterfield, an employee (I'm not sure how high up he is, but at least decently high) of Pinkerton National Detective Agency, wants him taken to the town of Contention, to be put on the 3:10 train to Yuma prison "the day after tommorrow". Dan joins the group for $200, so that he can pay Hollander off.

Wade's second-in-command, Charlie Prince (played by Ben Foster), finds out about the move, and the escort has to race against time and Wade's gang (which outnumbers them) to reach Contention.

My rating of the movie is a lovely 4.3/5. ^_^ It could easily have been less violent (it was rated R for it), as I don't think it's necessary to see someone get blown away via shotgun blast, but I really, really liked it. The music was awesome, involving a whole lot of guitar, and the acting was amazing, as was the casting. Ben Foster was an incredible pick for Charlie Prince. I loved that movie. I want to see it again.

I'm currently looking for The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel to read again, as I think that that book is incredible. Meríndë, it's a book you should read. :) Anyway, I'm gonna read that one, and then I'm gonna read his sequel, The Case for Faith. That one is also good. I was going to read Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis for the first time, but while I know we have it somewhere, I couldn't find it. At all.

In further news, I've been able to listen to Switchfoot's Oh! Gravity for the first time (all the way through, as opposed to piecemeal), as I'm borrowing it from a friend. It's the only one of Switchfoot's CDs that I don't own, though it's one of five that I don't possess, as all but one of the ones that I own vanished with my CD case on June 14th last year. In my house. >_< Anyway, it rocks. Probably, at this point, my favourite songs are "Awakening", "Circles", and "Faust, Midas, and Myself".

I looked outside the glass

At golden shores

Golden ships and masts

With golden cords

As my reflection passed

I hated what I saw

The Golden eyes were dead

A thought passed through my head

A heart that's made of gold can't really beat at all

And then...

My heart beat once or twice

And life flooded my veins

Everything had changed

My lungs had found their voice

And what was once routine

Was now the perfect joy

Yeah. That's from "Faust, Midas, and Myself." I really like that song. It's got an awesome ending.

Um, another reason for glee right now is that I had garlic soup tonight. It was sooooo good. Besides creamy potato soup, garlic soup has no rival for being the ultimate soup. It's so fantastic.

Oh, yeah. I also got Casting Crowns' The Altar and the Door, which is just an incredible album. "East to West" got instantly booted onto my list of favourite songs.

Jesus can you show me just how far

the east is from the west

‘Cause I can’t bear to see the man I’ve been

Rising up in me again

In the arms of Your mercy I find rest

‘Cause You know just how far the east is from the west

From one scarred hand to the other

Pretty much that entire album is awesome, ranking right up there with Five Score and Seven Years Ago by Relient K, The Beautiful Letdown by Switchfoot, Comatose by Skillet, Mmhmm by Relient K, and Lifesong, by themselves. The lyrics are just incredible.

So, um, yeah. That's my life right now. Happy. ^_^