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" When I went home this weekend, I immediately threw down my bags and turned on the TV. Since I don&amp;#039;t have a television in my dorm room, I&amp;#039;ve come to realize how much I miss watching TV and the mind-numbing relaxation that comes with flipping through channels and sinking into a sitcom or old-time movie. Sometimes, after a few TV-starved weeks, even the infomercials marketing weight-loss drugs are enrapturing.  Anyway, there&amp;#039;s a reason that I&amp;#039;ve brought this topic up. This weekend, I stumbled across a movie called Total Recall featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger. WINNER! What started as mild curiosity elicited by the teaser, &amp;quot;A man realizes that his memories are false,&amp;quot; developed into surprise and edge-of-the-seat entertainment. I forgot how gripping cinema could be. In comparison to the fluffy premises today (re: Twilight or Tropic Thunder or Step Brothers), this movie included hard-core action and mystery with subtle hints of psychological theory and a compelling twist in the end. I&amp;#039;m surprised how much I liked watching this movie with my little sister at home on a FRIDAY night, but it was definitely an experience that&amp;#039;ll stand out amongst all other Friday nights. Strangely enough, it&amp;#039;s when I shake up my schedule of &amp;quot;school, study, party&amp;quot; that I discover such great entertainment... in my opinion haha because I&amp;#039;m warning you-if you look up this movie, you may think I&amp;#039;m crazy once you&amp;#039;ve read the premise about Mars and alien pyramids and mind travel... I mean, I found it on the Sci-Fi channel after all.  Having said that, I realized this movie has no connection whatsoever to student life at the University of Florida, perhaps because current pop culture has Gator Nights (a UF tradition offering free first-release movies) presenting movies like House Bunny, and I will bet a million dollars the new Twilight movie upon the first opportunity. Personally, I don&amp;#039;t see the attraction of a blood-sucking vampire who, heaven forbid, falls in love with a mortal and then tries to overcome all boundaries in order to fulfill said passion. Wow. I&amp;#039;m dazzled by the plot&amp;#039;s originality. I can understand its appeal to tweens, but seeing girls in college toting this book around flabbergasts me. When I tried reading the prologue of the first book, I couldn&amp;#039;t help cracking up at the text that was fatally drowning in pathos and drama.  Read The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, now that&amp;#039;s literature.  What do you think about Twilight? Does it surpass Harry Potter, or are you more into classics and literature? What even defines a book as &amp;quot;literature?&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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