One Month to Save Myself

After a 6 month hiatus, I've gone back to my old ways of watching anime. I've finally gotten my hands on Full Metal Panic. Looks promising judging by the first episode. I'll try to go easy on the episodes this time around. Don't wanna cut short my viewing pleasure.

And I've finally watched Ladder 49, one of the movies I got during mid-sem break in April.


Starring Joaquin (pronounced Wah-keen, i think. Definitely not Joe-ah-koo-een) Phoenix and John Travolta as our main dudes. Most of the movie is told in flashback where an injured and probably hallucinating Jack Morrison (Phoenix) recounts his past from being a rookie fireman to becoming a hardened veteran. I found the whole movie a very moving one. Probably because I'm under and (somehow or another) related to the ESD as well. Fire rescues aside, the movie speaks more of how each fireman in Capt. Kennedy's (Travolta) department are there for each other every single time. One thing I didn't like about the movie was how why when and where the current fire happened because the last flashback before the movie's final moments didn't really show how it linked to current events. Even weirder than that is how Capt Kennedy, from being the head of his own little FD has all of a sudden appeared at the current scene dressed in off-whites and identifying himself as the deputy chief (I assume that by saying deputy chief he meant deputy fire chief of the particular district they're all in atm). Why then is the movie called Ladder 49? Coz calling it Jack Morrison or Cap'n Kennedy would be plain dumb. Ladder 49 is actually the name of Cap'n Kennedy's little FD's ladder truck. The movie can't possibly be named after the engine truck in Cap'n Kennedy's FD.

Imagine the movie being called Engine 33.

Now that would really suck.