Cleopatra 2525 (2000-2001)

so i have done a lot in the series department of late... well i have been doing a lot of movies to
actually.. actually i might need a life.. or well a different kind... or well maybe not... anywho..

Cleopatra 2525 was the choice on the wanna-watch and well it is a brief memory of watching some of it on telly as a teenager... so i figured it could be fun if not entertaining... well lets start of with the intro because it seems that other than being really bad and good for a laugh (i might have a weird humor though) it is also extremely informative... so minus the singing it would actually be an awesome trailer for the show....

so we have 3 women fighting for the survival of earth with the help of The Voice.. a voice telling then what to do without them knowing who she is... kinda like Charlie's Angels.. and they fight the robots that have taken over earth a bit like you know Matrix... and then we add.... oh yeah.. a lot of sexappeal.. and the clearly lack of having to make sense which i just blame on the 2000's.... like why would they shoot like that? not that i'm complaining just why....

anyway.. lovely reunion with the past.. story is decent though short.. it does end end in final episode like if they knew they were to be cancelled... so there.. me counting down on them wanna watch lists... 

Being Erica (2009 - 2011)

Erica Strange's life sucks big time.. i mean she is 30 and just got fired from telemarketing for being to smart... oh and to top it all of her boyfriend is sorta breaking up with her over the phone in the middle of the rain... wauw.. Erica, sad and wet, seeks refuge in a cafe that offers her a free latte.. yeah... downside is Erica is allergic to nuts so a hazelnut mocha latte is usually a bad idea...

So all and all a pretty bad day... Waking up in the hospital she meets Dr. Tom, a Therapist. Erica is convinced she do not need a therapist... well until a little family get together gets a little much and Erica decides to escape through the window in her pajamas.. oh yes... and then we realize that Dr. Tom is not an ordinary therapist.. no he is a time traveling kinda therapist helping Erica to settle old scores with her regrets in life..

and all that it takes is to see the therapy to the end...

so i got recommendation for this one somewhere.. not sure where... doesn't matter either.. anywho... going into this i thought it was just a girly thing about a 30 something doing a kinda diary stile thing
... let's just say i got a bit of a surprise... i loved it though especially the concept of going back not to necessarily chance the past but to come to better terms with the regrets we all have.. like i wish i did this or i wish i didn't do that.. and learning on the way that the choices we make chances who we are.. it makes us and without these choices we would be some one else completely..

so conclusion is; this is a really awesome show and it is sad that it ended in 2011... could have done with just one more season but hey that's life right... it is still a pretty girly series though, but different... in a very good way.. ;)

13 going on 30 (2004)

oh how school gets you out of the loop... or well just out of everybody's loop.... must say that movies has rolled over the screen way quickly but with not much memory of them.. does not really matter cause its been mostly my movie shelf that's been on the menu so not only can i watch them all again at some point when desired but also has they been watch a lot already... you know if you like it you buy it and that are the words i live by.. so yeah i love my movies ;)

anywho...13 going on 30... well think this is the girly version of Big with Tom Hanks.. and by that i mean we have our average unpopular teenage girl holding her 13th birthday and after a little thing with mean girls at her party she wishes very deeply to be 30.. and boom we have a 13 year old Jenna waking up in a 30 year old body.. not only that it is more like skipping time so body have lived 17 years with all the weird mistakes and choices that comes with that.. 13 year old Jenna however does not remember anything... making a really awkward morning with a naked man in the apartment and running around town in her negligee. And now to the fun part... finding out what she really wanted so she can go back to being well 13.

overly predictable sappy sweetness check, way to cute Jennifer Garner playing a 13 year old.. check... me totally embracing my girly side.. well double ehm maybe triple check that....

dont think there is that much else to say.. okay i admit it i'm terrible at reviewing chick flicks.. might be because im not that willing to admit that i love watching them buggers.. :) and the thing with chick flicks is they have to be predictable.. it has to be sappy and so sweet you almost gag.. why... well i think it might be a girly need for something romantic that we all know doesn't really exists in the real world.. it is a place to get lost in dreams....

Carnivale (2003-2005)

yeah i survived Easter... or well i'm still sort of breathing... work was fine or at least i thought so at the time.. but Tuesday brought me the message of being fired... so yeah the week hasn't really been the greatest... but i guess i'll survive.. well at least i hope so... also there is something about some promises about not going around dying all the time ;)

so since i'm still coughing a lot the school gave me the rest of the week off... leaving me with way to much time to just sit around thinking... this is so not a healthy thing for me to do so i snuffed up something to get my head lost in...

Carnivale... oh yeah how do i describe that... well Carnivale is the name of this circus thing traveling around during the great depression in 1934. This traveling Carnival (as i believe it is properly called) is the base of a lot of different stories (some more clear than others) and mainly it is somehow the center of a fight between good and evil. We are following 2 stories in particular.. first one being the story of young Ben Hawkins, a refuge that the Carnivale picked up. The other story being of a preacher Brother Justin. Brother Justin was as a child saved along with his sister by a young priest and has grown up as a follower of God...
and then the fun about good and evil is about ready to start

my main reaction to this series is "what did i just watch and why can't i stop"... truth though is i loved it for it's crooked way of life... you get pulled into this world of weirdness (or maybe that is just me) all the while you try to figure out who is who and where this game is going and perhaps even end.. for it is a game.. a game between heaven and hell that effects a lot of people on the way...

so as no surprise to me nor my friend.. i have a dark and wicked mind.. which might be the reason that it was impossible for me to just stop watching.. trust me i actually tried... girl needs her sleep.. but i couldn't let it go.. and when i finally surrendered and crawled to bed i was thinking about the show trying to figure out what was gonna happen next... sure enough i spend 3 days watching 24 episodes... being stuck in this twisted universe... i'm all sad that i'm done with it.. 

not gonna say you should watch this or not.. it is a twisted and dark show and i know most aren't that into it as i am.. if you do choose to watch it i hope it brings you as much entertainment as it has been giving me.. 

anywho.. firefly is ready to go on screen.. uhm an young Nathan Fillon 

Early Edition (1996-2000)

sooo i have been quiet for some time... well thing is i have been trying to survive having 2 jobs.. one of them supposedly being full time.. so well there you have it.. man i have been tired... anywho i have managed to do a little bit of oogeling at the screen (yes it is a word..)  there are the weekly ones.. you can't go missing out on those now can you.. and sure enough i have done the almost crying game while watching my lost girl and then i was taken to the nice world of drama and laws while watching the good wife and then i just had to go all girly girly with an episode of castle.. ah it has been a good day indeed... oh and then there was something about all the fun i can do with a pair of scissors... that would be like cutting my own hair..

oh what fun that was.. XD oh and it's gonna be so lovely that every where this post is shown you have the title early edition the beginning of my rambles above and a picture of some cut off hair.. that is just gonna make perfect sense ^.^

fun times aside you might have guessed that somewhere among all that madness i also managed to finish watching Early Edition. A show i remember from when i was growing up but didn't recall watching all of it so i went for it and took it from the top...

so what is it exactly that Early Edition is about.. well it is about Gary and tomorrows newspaper.. goodie we got that solved then...

as i have told before finding "trailers" for series is a mighty hard thing to do... so sorry for the music stuff but it was what made most sense that i could find..

so this being a well lets call it a childhood memory i of cause love this series.. thing is i remember skipping school and be lying in bed watching this show on hallmark... and the whole concept was appealing to me (it still is btw) because what would you do with tomorrows newspaper... would you use it for yourself or would you like Gary run around town helping others... a concept i like because it is in that whole human character that i love so much... thing is i know enough about people that i know that far from every one would do just what Gary does.. some might do some of it but still gain from it in the meantime..

and now you might think i'll tell you what i would do.. well tough luck i'm not gonna... i will dare you though...

i DARE you to write a comment on what you would do if you had tomorrows paper.. 

even worse i DARE you to be honest!

if you do i might be kind enough to tell you mine on a later date 

OMG i loved that :)

okay so this is gonna be a little different than what i normally do.. girl here has to do something to get back on that writing track also I just have to get it out there...

So a while back i watched  Lost Girl and just fell in love.. this is also why i have been waiting for a really really really REALLY long time like a little girl waiting for santa to come with her presents.. and then in the ending of December where i almost gotten calmed down to act well as normal as i can be again (this came with the aid of another series that i do adore.. anywho) where was i.. oh yeah ending of December.. they started teasing me :-o what cruelty!

yeah yeah she's been found.. wait found what.. suspense is killing me as it has been the entire summer hey hey don't leave me hanging here.. okay so you post another teaser.. lets have it 

oh how very kind of you ô.Ô 

so yeah i'm not that happy about teasers and yet i watch them... to be honest I kinda HAVE to... i simply put love this series and don't know how to survive the next week.. yes i watched the new episode today.. yeah yeah it premiered on Sunday but with time zones and me feeling a need to sleep before going to work monday (and afterwards) i had to wait until today... 

I WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED!

I usually keep from using the term OMG (mainly because it seems kinda wrong when not believing in "the dude") but dang i loved that episode... it had everything... the long waiting for EVIL Bo and then more than one element of surprise and of cause that lovely sweetness I just love in this series XD

so if you haven't seen the new episode yet.. go do it.. really do.. 

if you haven't seen the first 2 seasons i really recommend you do.. 

need more info on what it is.. you could check my blog-entry about it right about here: Lost Girl

or maybe say hi to the official site:  www.showcase.ca/lostgirl/

Lost Girl (2010 - ?)

Back to series land... as a movie-muncher I go through these WAY to quick... anyway series it is... seems like I have a thing for finding things where I end up having to wait for new seasons... oh goodie

Lost Girl is about the Fae world.. For those who doesn't know what Fae is I can tell that it is the world of mythical creatures... most know of these would be vampires and werewolf but there are a hell of a lot scary monster stories told to explain or keep people from doing stuff... In this series you follow Bo a Succubus that has been hidden from the Fae world since childhood. Therefor she has no training in controlling herself either... meaning bad things tend to happen... she gets caught by the Fae community after one of these "bad Things" and since she is unaligned she is put through the test after which she has to choose to be either Light Fae or Dark Fae... 

Finding trailers for shows proves to be hard.. finding one for a show that sadly has not been released on DVD yet even harder... this is a great fan-made trailer for the show.. enjoy

Let's start of by saying GO Canada! As they proclaimed them self "others got Vampires we got a Succubus"... It is a interesting show... with lots and lots of sex given we are dealing with a succubus.. And yes with so many vampire movies, series and stuff it is nice to get something else of the mythical world. Especially with the new standard of vampires (arhhh sparkling).. also the characters are just so neatly put together they fit in their own weird and sometimes awkward way (girl here loves her drama)... actually the crew is so great in this that i can't settle with one favorite character.. And in episode 9 of season 2 you get to see just how amazing a crew this is.. really amazing... it's a rare treat of the filmed world to see just that..

If I have to choose favorites though then I really like the doctor, Lauren, for well no good reason other than Zoie has this amazing smile and puppy eyes and I'm such a sucker for that...  also Kenzi is just adorable.. street smart and all she is so cute and comes up with the greatest comments ever... even when she is dead serious she tends to make you smile or giggle a little... thumps up for Ksenia Solo...

uh it is like christmas....

To point out just how great I think this show is I can end by telling you that it took me the time of about 4 days to go through all that has been aired so far.. that is with long shifts at work and stuff like that.. (so little sleep o.O ) and I have the feeling that September 2nd is a hell of a long way from now :) so really go Canada and pretty please give me some more of this stuff...

Camelot (2011)

Okay so I for one have always loved the tales of King Arthur and the knights of the round table, the magical Merlin and so on... which is why I just had to see Camelot (not to mention that Eva Green shows up now and then) Anywho  Camelot is about the happenings after King Uther's death. Merlin locating the unknown heir of Uther and trying to make him king, Morgan fighting this as she believe herself to be the rightful heir to the throne and then all the trouble with pretty girls and their men ;)

I Love this show. I know it is a story told a lot both in movies and in series. I have meet many commentaries toward watching the series Merlin instead of Camelot and even though I watched a few episodes it didn't catch my attention in any way near the way Camelot seemed to. So far the only thing that bums me with Camelot is the fact that there wont be made a season 2. So there will only be the 10 episodes of the first season to look at.
Also speaking only visually Camelot reminds me a lot of Rome... also all the plotting, sex and blood is in both series. Just to make sure this is not a child friendly series. I did tell a friend that I found them similar and he went on to try and watch Rome saying he didn't like it.
well back to Camelot... The thing that I believe to be the reason behind me falling so much more for this tale about Arthur over all the others I've seen so far is the human factor. Yeah it doesn't hurt that i like a few of the actors and actresses a lot but that's not where i'm going... It's the characters human factor. Normally when dealing with this tale you have Arthur and Merlin on the good side and Morgan on the bad. But the characters in Camelot isn't solely good nor bad, but a mix of the 2. You do see Arthur as a savior but also as the man he is driven by passion and sometimes right. Merlin isn't just this mighty man with visions and powers he is as scared as any other man. And Morgan well being kinda evil by upbringing she is not devoid from human feelings. More than once you get to see her worry and fear for others. She is not cold as it has been told often before.. she's just human.

The Santa Clause 2 (2002)

So went home to my parents this weekend thinking I wasn't gonna need my laptop (BirthE) since my dad has a laptop I'm allowed to use... WRONG! the thing is I'm not really allowed to install programs on it making it kinda hard watching the movies. Then i got home on Monday and the will to watch anything was just not there..  This is why I'm sry to say that I'm a bit behind >.< But I'm gonna catch up today... Nothing like a day off to just watch Movies ;)

As promised I'm all over The Santa Clause 2. In the first movie we meet Scott Calvin before he became Santa Clause. Today he has embraced his job as Santa Clause, however he is now faced with another clause in the Santa agreement. After working as Santa for 10 years he has about 28 days to find a Mrs. Clause. Not the easiest job  when you live on the North pole. Also there's the thing about Charlie ending up on the naughty list.

Okay maybe I should just admit that i love the Santa Clause Movies. and who doesn't love Curtis when he begins with the big words promoting the ending of Christmas. He is just so sweet. I love that they made a sequel that doesn't have this thin story line to follow. The story is well built and it is funny. You have your laughs and your almost crying moments because it's so sweet (last part might be a girl-thing).. And as a fan of Elizabeth Mitchell there is no way around that I just goes into aaauw mode when she shows up all cold and cute in this one ;)

Find Your Cocoa (remember not to hot, extra chocolate and shaken not stirred) and enjoy Santa Clause's search for a wife :)

Elf (2003)

Elf's can have 3 jobs... the most wanted one being one of Santa's workers. In Elf we meet buddy, a well human elf. You see buddy is an orphan that mistakenly ended up on the north pole. Here they chose to raise him as an elf but he ends up just being to big and also to slow at making toys he is send to the special department. One day he overhears a conversation and realizes that he is human and not an elf. Buddy then decides to take to New York to meet his father and learn about who he is. Since Buddy is raised as an elf he just doesn't know how to act around humans. 

So seeing a grown man dressed in a green jacket and yellow tights just screams nut job.. which is pretty much what everybody is thinking when meeting Buddy in New York. And Buddy not being the brightest candle in the chandelier he is kinda acting like one to. So no wonder his father doesn't wanna know off him in the beginning.

I have to say I just love when Buddy goes to the mall for the first time. He's so adorable. His character is so comical. Filling the story with these little things that are just hilarious. Seriously laughing through the entire movie. So yeah it is a comedy big time. With the whole saving dad, get the girl and promote Christmas thing going on. I like it a lot because it's so funny. The Cast is well planed which can be the make or break in movies like this. Also Zooey Deschanel (uh mini bones  in blond version) is quite sweet and wow can that girl sing... like Amazed...  Am just gonna sit all quite now and droll very discretely. ^.^

Also just to brag a bit... this thing right here you see it.. these small bricks he's throwing out on the floor... they are called Lego.. guess where they were made.. oh yeah it's a Danish invention.. so proud or something like that..

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

As promised The Nightmare Before Christmas. Its after Halloween And the king of Halloweentown, Jack Skellington is feeling bored. He seems to have lost the Halloween spirit. After wandering for a while he finds 6 trees in a circle each with a door shaped like something representing the specific holiday. Jack opens the door for Christmas and is sucked in. Seeing the joy of this holiday Jack is filled with the excitement  he is missing in Halloweentown. When he gets back he tries to share this joy with the other citizens but they don't quite grabs the concept. Still Jack gets them to help him plan for Christmas.

So I'm told that I should be ashamed of myself for never seeing this one before. Might just be me that has been seeing other stuff. Anyway I am a Tim Burton fan so no surprise there that i liked the movie. Love the gloomy universes of his. The Nightmare Before Christmas is a mix between Halloween and Christmas and could maybe be watched at Halloween too. I myself would prefer it at Christmas. 

the movie is filled with screams and joy and songs.. some of them really evil songs... love the Evil songs muhahaha... ehm sry bout that. The song that i love the most however is "What's This", where Jack is just like a kid feeling the Christmas spirit for the first time. I love it so much I'm gonna share it.. A least YouTube isn't Cruel about this movie ;)

One Magic Christmas (1985)

I LOVE Christmas. Unfortunately for me i work nights a couple of times every week so following the daily episode of whatever advent calender is on TV is kinda hard. So i present you with my own advent calender. For 24 days am i gonna review a movie with Christmas as a theme (preferably the main one) so that the Christmas feeling can find its way to me to ;)

So today is the 1st December, and my choose to go back in time to One Magic Christmas. Must say I'd never really heard anything about this movie so I figured this would be as good a place as any to start on.

So first thing i noticed is that this is a Disney production. Cool huh. Anyway around Christmas all the Christmas Angels gets there assignments by Nicholas. One Angel, Gideon, is sent to a shopping mall to find and help Ginny Grainger to find the Christmas Spirit. You see Ginny is not really big on Christmas and therefor stands as a big challenge for Gideon. Gideon then allies with Ginny's daughter on trying to make her believe in Christmas and Santa Claus again.

Sadly the only trailer for this movie on YouTube was someone making a horror trailer for it.. So instead i found this one with bits and pieces from the movie.. a bit of a spoiler alert though since it is whole scenes from it and not just a bit of quotes.

So what did i think of this movie... Well uhm I don't really know. It's not a bad movie not at all. but really slow and the story is very small. Might just be me being to used to major stories great effects and other stuff that movies holds today. Anyway i got a little bored along the way and honestly I didn't get the biggest Christmas feel of it. However (don't you just love how bad I am at making a decision) I myself is not in the biggest Christmas mood yet and guess this could have an impact on the movie.

My final conclusion is as follows if you have nothing else to watch this is a fine movie to put on. If you like older movies then sure go ahead. But my feel is don't go out choosing this one over others. The story about a parent who don't believe in Christmas anymore and has to be turned back to the spirit isn't like the most original and there are other movies that makes a better job at telling it.

so with this said happy December the 1. and welcome to my advent calender ;)

Sucker Punch (2011)

This is a movie that is hard to recommend to everyone. Not because it's a bad movie, I love this movie, but because a lot (like a lot a lot) of people don't seem to understand it. I don't know if it is because of lack of imagination or it is because they just don't know the feeling of wanting to get lost. I'll come back to this...

Sucker Punch is about a young girl, who after loosing her mom, kills her sister by accident in an effort to protect her from their stepfather. After the accident the stepfather gets her locked up in a mental facility paying a caretaker to make sure she gets "taken care of". The girl then enters a alternative reality where she is called Baby Doll and is to train in dancing so that she is ready for when the high roller comes.

So my opinion to the movie. Well it's simple I get it and I love watching it. So yeah it is an action movie that doesn't always makes the best sense. There is a lot of eye candy in it, and sure it is a big part of the movie. It is the fantasy Baby Doll chooses to have. And as I told in an earlier post I like movies that assumes I have at least half a brain and likes to use it.

Which brings me back to the fact that a lot of people just seems to hate this movie. In the beginning when I was reading about this hate I just didn't get it, simply because I find this movie great. And i kept reading these bad reviews and hate post about Sucker Punch and just ended up thinking that these people simply had to have watched a different movie than me. And then it hit me, Maybe they have. Not physical another movie but emotional and understanding wise. Like they didn't saw the hidden things that her fantasy tells without showing it or actually saying it. Not understanding how it's like to disappear into a fantasy giving you a reality that you can deal with better than what life is giving you on a daily basis.

So after all this rambling my conclusion is..... watch it with an open mind and form your own opinion. Don't think about what you heard about because it does effect you.

also whether or not you like the movie the soundtrack is quite good. I is a collection of great songs that fits the movie and that you could lose your brain to doing a bad day.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

So there would be no point whatsoever to hide that I'm a HUGE fan of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. And i would be lying if i said that I hadn't been waiting for On Stranger Tides since, well since they started talking about making it. And I am happy to say that in no way was I disappointed when I FINALLY got to see it. I simply just love it! Once again Johnny Depp portraits the oh so lovely Captain Jack Sparrow in all his problems. Beside having lost The Black Pearl... well again... Jack also has an imposter running around trying to recruit a crew... is there any way this could not go wrong?

Nah.. and just like the first 3 movies you go on the hunt for riches, revenge and a bit of love.. and yet not quite the same. However going into details is a major spoiler alert. Not really up for doing that.

I do however feel the need to point something out. I've seen more than one person complaining about how On Stranger Tides doesn't tie with the first 3 movies. Some even seem to find it a bad thing that they made a Pirates without Elizabeth and Will. o.O

Well this is how it is.. The 3 first Pirates of the Caribbean is a trilogy. Their main theme is without a doubt the love story between Elizabeth and Will (apologies) and you must admit that this little story tied up in a nice little bow in At Worlds End.

Now Moving on to On Stanger Tides. Well first of it is left with the promise of being the beginning of a new Trilogy. I am not sure about the main theme yet but I don't really seems to care for it at the moment. The point being it has a NEW main theme. Therefor it should not suffer under the assumption that it just starts where the third movie left us. Savvy?

all there is left to say is.. there is a long long LONG time till 2013 where we should be so lucky to encounter Captain Jack Sparrow again in a fifth movie.