On Thursday I had to throw in the towel and call it sick... thing about me being sick is i get really pathetic, like man flu pathetic... so in a way to lift my mood a bit I went full nostalgia and combined it with a small flair of Halloween spirit and ended up on Scooby Doo... but i have watched the original series to often so i figured i would go for the next in line of the series.
so just to sum up... Scooby Doo is about a mystery solving gang consisting of Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and of cause a talking dog Scooby Doo. (because that is all logical and stuff). Anywho... they travel around in the mystery van (greatly inspired in the 60's flower power) and seem to just fall upon mystery after mystery. oh here's the intro for ya..
So it turns out that the Scooby-Doo Show is the one they have shown most on danish TV as I recognized quite a lot of the episodes... not minding the revisit though I generally just love Scooby Doo, well as long as they don't make him sing anyway,, actually it is bit of a mystery why i have not posted about the Mystery gang already because i do get flips every now and then and at this point i have watched almost every movie made... luckily for me they keep making them so i don't seem to run out just yet.
So since this is a fundamentally part of who i am of cause i recommend it... but i guess it is not for every ones taste... i always loved it and always will.. it is part of my love for learning things and i guess it does teach a lesson about people being the monsters... as a newbie to Scooby i don't know where it would be best to start.. i love these old ones sure but i really like the newer ones to... so well.. i dunno.. start where you want i guess.. they usely don't have a need for following a story line except in the mystery inc series.. which i have not finished yet XD
after i finished Crossing Jordan i was asking a buddy of mine what i should watch next since i wasn't really in the mood for movies and my series list is quite long and hard to get a good overview of. He was like oh oh you have to watch Sherlock I'm sure you would love it... well my buddy knows me well...
we have all been exposed to the stories of sir Arthur Conan Doyle the brilliant writer of the Sherlock Holmes stories... and don't say you haven't... Sherlock has been filmatized so many times... even Disney did their try on it.. (Oh admit it you knew Basil Mouse is a spin off of the great master) and one of the newest hits in the line must be the work of one Robert Downey Jr.... yes i love his work too ;)
so what is it with this series... it is of a newer note due to the fact that season 3 (currently the last but hopefully with a new one on its way) aired no later than January this year (2014 if you were to be in doubt...) so yeah it is pretty new in it... it is also different than the others... the stories is set in the time where knowledge had no compare toward today's knowledge.. no computers no easy access and certainly no cellphones... this series though has taken the stories to the 21st century where all those things are in abundance. Where the other side of the planet isn't further than a click away... just look at this blog as an example... i have no idea where you are from but while you are reading this you are getting the thoughts and words from a danish woman.. that is only possible because of the internet that hits us with so much information every second... more than we often know what to do with... anyway i'm pretty sure i'm getting sidetracked here...
I love the adaption they made with this one.. it is absolutely brilliant.. (i'm using that word rather lot these days...) i love the way they made it possible to take a so well known story and still make it new, different and very much entertaining.. i mean there isn't a lot of episode they are rather long but hell i would have watched them all in a days worth if i had the time for it.. It is funny and clever and filled with excitement that keeps you stuck on it and wishing for more and more.. oh yeah i'm not a fan of the "you might be lucky to get a season 4 in 2016" thing that IMDb is showing me... I WANT MORE....!!!
okay i sound like i need help now.. maybe i do.. anywho... what on earth am i gonna watch now?
"what did just happen... did i just text a murderer?"
I am sorry for being so quiet lately... it is just that life altering, staying out of trouble and mostly watching series kinda make it hard on me to write all that much...
anywho... I finished Crossing Jordan today... again... i loved this series growing up and it is right there among my other favorite murder/crime series... i actually remember rushing home from school (at least when i went to school) just so i could catch the entire episode on tv.. what i love about it.. well there is the murder/crime aspect think we already established that i'm quite the fan of the genre but also the characters... mention this before to... you could have the greatest story in the world but if you don't have the characters to back it up it will fall through... and angry little girl like me loved the Jordan who clearly needed anger management and yet had this high amount of love and care for her family..
oh maybe i should explain what the show is about... just maybe..
Jordan Cavanaugh is a medical examiner who has meet well some difficulties in her job... luckily she gets a joboffering in Boston by an old colleague that know just how brilliant she is.. thing about Jordan is that she goes her own way and has quite the angry spirit.. probably because of her childhood trauma of loosing her mom... her brilliance in the job however is from her father the old cop who used to play murder/victim games with her to figure out not just who did it but why...
so there you have it.. that is basically what the show is about.. minus all the relations and stuff.. you have to watch that part yourself.. :P
So back to movie land... it's been a sort of long vacation for me as i have been doing series for quite a while now... actually have a post waiting to be finished... anywho... went to the bottom of my wanna-watch list (yes i'm weird like that) and there i found Black Swan. Litterally been on there for ages(well you know) and i have been told it would be a good watch... thing is i'm not overly happy about Natalie Portman whereas my buddy is a huge fan... Mila Kunis on the other hand i find kinda cool.. but the movie is clearly about Portman's role... soo yeah takes me a while sometimes...
anyway Black Swan... Well who doesn't know the story about the Swan Lake? okay i will tell but just because i can.. The Swan Lake is about a Princess turning into a white swan.. only way to turn her back is the true love stuff and when mister right turns up he is seduced by evil sister the black swan... making the white swan sad enough to commit suicide... sorry for spoilers there
Now that we got that down lets go on to the movie.. Black Swan is about a NY ballet group that are going to start the season with an interpretation of the Swan Lake... (swan lake is produced a lot in many many variations) For the production Nina is chosen for the lead role as both the white and the black swan.. However where her White Swan is perfect she is struggling a bit with the black swan. Mainly because she has trouble with letting herself go...
oh yeah right have to talk about it to.. well ehm where to start.. the movie isn't bad.. it is rather weird than anything else.. i do get what is going on in it though.. Nina is clearly a troubled young woman.. she has been psychology abused by her mom.. not in a deliberately mean way though.. Nina's mom just been living her dreams through her daughter in an extend that makes Nina strive to be absolutely perfect.. a thing most of us know to be impossible... giving this pressure to be perfect Nina's mind crumbles and she gets lost in various delusions (the fancy name for this is psychoses)...this is ultimately a struggle between her innocence and her desires. Or to link it to the ballet world her white and black swan.. thing is her innocence is not natural and only exist because of the constant pressure from her mom and the over protectiveness that comes of it.. underneath is the desires and fears of a young woman trying to be herself.. which i take is hard when mommy dearest tend to be sleeping in a chair next to your bed..
The movie does come with an interesting concept and i did enjoy it for the most parts.. the ballet dancers helping with the movie did a good job and well the actors weren't half bad either.. and the music.. well i can really be a sucker for classical music so i was all happy there.. hm really should get my act together and try going to the ballet one of these days..
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
oh i thought this one was on the list... it wasn't.. oh well
so after spending the week watching a few series (oh who am i kidding i watch a whole season) and stuff i needed to get my mind of things and chose a thriller as my tool. Thing is today (friday) i'm gonna start at a new place as a trial thingy and i am nervous as hell... anywho
in Orphan you follow this family who after the loss of an unborn girl choose to adopt a nine year old girl Ester into the family. But as soon as they have welcomed her into their home they start realizing that Ester is not like most little nine year old girls...
so i have to get this off right away... this movie has the creepiest start i have ever in counted.. seriously i was almost ready to just turn it of right then and there... luckily i didn't :)
so i know i don't post a lot about this type of movies.. and that is even though i truly love watching them.. the thing is spooky movies is in my opinion best when watch with others.. the thing is i'm pretty sure i'm kinda a pain watching these movies with.. main because getting that adrenalin shock, that these movies are design to give, makes me laugh XD i rarely get scared just hm startled... that on the other hand is something i do a lot in... playing girls actually got me jumping O.ô
so why did i enjoy this one so much.. well i tell you (that i believe is the point of being here) it is quite unpredictable.. and it has a lot of twist that you might see coming but they don't really turn out as you thought they would.. that is in my beliefs the ultimate goal for any thriller or horror...
also that nine year old girl Ester.... (very talented played by Isabelle Fuhrman)... she was creepy as hell... i mean it... it got to a point where a friend i was writing with asked me if i was aware that she was fictional XD i was but yeah well
on a other note.. just to point out how much i recommend this one.... this is one of the few in this genre I actually wanna buy and keep on my movie-shelf... that tells a lot more than most would think...
The Good Wife is a lawyer series about a woman named Alicia Florrick, who starts in a lawfirm after 13 years of the market due to her being a stay home mom for her 2 kids that she has with the former state attorney. Alicia goes back to working after her husband has been imprisoned for a corruption scandal in order for her family to stay afloat. Besides Alicia you also get to follow Peter Florricks political fight, Diane Lockhart and Will Gardner, the owners of the firm, Alicia's competitor Cary Argos and the investigator Kalinda Sharma who Alicia becomes friends with. See more about that in the "trailer" below...
So nothing like a little bit of drama. This series has a lot to show for in that apartment. It's intriguing and actually manged to get my mind of the season break in Castle. That's a big thing for any series to do. And i'm even sad that this is yet another series i have to wait for the next episode in. I like want it now.. work my minions work...
so to no surprise to any of my friends my favorite character in this series is Kalinda. Archie Panjabi is just awesome in that role.. total kick-ass in leather jackets and miniskirts... Yummi!... and i for one just love peeling of layers.. Seeing who she is beneath all that attitude...
this is just such a cool promo i had to put it on... love cartoon style!
Of cause i fell in love with the series during a box showing on TV (they are awesome when fighting a small hangover just so you know) and started in the middle of the series before getting my act together and take it from the top.. making me read between the lines of something i wasn't supposed to know yet. Which is why i can warmly recommend seeing it more than once because so much more makes sense when you have the later knowledge.
And now i'm back to the waiting game... but yeah if anyone ask this one is definitively going in my collection
one sunburned girl out looking for a new series later ppl
soooo lost in series at the moment... maybe a way to keep my mind of the fact that i have to wait until the 19. for the next Castle episode... dang waiting time.. :(
Anyway doing some random searching on the big web i kinda fell over this series. As I have come to understand there's a lot of shipping going on about the 2 lead characters. Being all new to that term.. maybe I'm not a movie geek more a movie nerd since I don't really go into that kinda stuff.. though I can imagine why some people like to think they are a couple.
so this Rizzoli & Isles... what is it about... well it's your basic cop-series. You of cause follow Rizzoli and Isles in case you where doubting that. Detective Jane Rizzoli is a American-Italian chick who kicks ass every now and then. Dr. Maura Isles is an upper class nerd working in the coroner office. They are close friends and work together on different murder cases.
So why watch this cop-series over others? well it's different. It manage to stay interesting without the sexual tension that most hit series feed of. Not to talk bad about the others because I do like those to but I find it that most series try and survive on the sexual tension. That's why it is refreshing to find a series that are based on humor and the odd combination of characters. Jane and Maura is so different in upbringing and ways of thinking that is sometimes painfully funny. Jane being down to earth and very direct and Maura being this brainiac filling everything with complicated knowledge instead of simple answers. They complement each other quite well and yeah sometimes they do kinda act like a married couple.. hm what else to tell... well i find the stories built well. Already in the first episode you get a big chunk of history of the characters.. well mostly Rizzoli's history... getting you hooked on their stories..
so yeah I have very little bad about this series.. I do find it very sad that they don't stick with the ringtone joke from the first episode because it was funny and it would have been cool to keep that later on in the series. Also there was an episode where there was a fault in the solving of a case.. the biology knocked into my head over the years was screaming at me it was that bad.. but if you don't have the same level in biology that I do you wont notice it so i guess it's not that bad again just wrong... goes without saying you should not believe everything you hear....
So I have been off the planet for a while... doing well stuff >.<
So i haven't seen any movies you think nah i watched plenty even celebrated the father and creator of something i hold very dear... The Addams Family. But I'm not back to talk about them... much anyway... can say if you are not familiar with this sweet morbid creation you should check out The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993) both staring a young Christian Ricci (SOOOOO cute)
Really the reason I'm back here is because I actually have ended up missing the rambeling about movies toward whoever... That's you by the way... also i can you the opportunity to tell you people that you can follow my blog with Bloglovin... muhahahah got that solved quite easy didn't I
Now to the goodies... A friend has been talking a lot about this series Lie to Me, telling me it is a awesome series... so i figured why not after all I'm trying to cut down in my wanna watch list (believe me when i say it is a long long long list) so i might as well start here.
Lie to Me is about Dr. Cal Lightman, a scientist that owns a corporate called the The Lightman Group. The Lightman Group has specialized themselves in the art of reading lies on peoples face. Throughout the series you follow Cal and his team solving pretty much any type of case by telling weather or not the involved parties are lying through their teeth (which they often are)
So yeah I was a bit skeptical on this series in the beginning. I found it to be way to showing in the beginning not giving me much of a mystery to solve through the episodes. Luckily this changes the longer you get.. a bit like the first 3-4 episodes were testings and then they figured out that they had to make it a bit harder to see. The truth is I have come to love this series a lot and are sad to learn that they choose to cancel it.
Another thing I just love about this show is the drama (yeah I know I'm such a girl) The connection between all the characters builds up some of the want to watch the next episode. Wanting to see if they figure out just how much they all care about one another.
So there you have it the first words from me in 2012 hope it was worth it... otherwise i'll be back
Yeah a French movie... I might have mentioned this a few times by now but I simply love french movie. Been watching a lot of them and most of them tend to end up on my list of favorites. This is no exception.
Crime d'amour or Love Crime, as the English title is, is a movie about Christine, an international business woman and her assistant Isabelle. Christine is the type to play with everything and everyone for her own pleasing and sure enough she is going to toy around with Isabelle to. Isabelle is exceptional at her job and seems somewhat in love with Christine and therefor willing to do pretty much everything to please her. One day however Christine takes credit for one of Isabelle's ideas in front of Isabelle and Isabelle is slowly beginning to see the game and that Christine might not be as good as she believed.
Okay so I kinda dig these movies where you see the human behavior at its worst (or should I say best?) The thing about humans is that we tend to like to see people at their worst behavior. Might be why reality shows are so in at the moment. Though I don't fall to the trend of reality shows I also enjoy watching this game that we play with each other even though most people wont admit it. This movie is a bright example of how cruel people can be and what effects it has when they are. How emotions blend in to whatever we do even when we hurt others. Off cause the title indicates that love is a feeling that we are gonna see a lot to in this movie. But there are so many types of love and most people don't realize how much love is a part of our life. Mainly because most people define love as a feeling you feel for someone else.
So rambling aside if you like french movies and/or movies with the content of cruelty of human nature this is one to watch. Some might say that some of the actors where stiff or whatever.. I must admit I don't usually notice this.. guess that when i do it's really bad ;).. and truly you could pretty much always say someone else would have done better, since it is a matter of taste. However I did noticed that maybe I should start watching more with Kristin Scott Thomas. I have watched a bit with her in the past and always found her a good actress. My amazement of her in this movie is that she can get so many different expressions without moving a muscle in her face but simply by the changes in her eyes. Love that in an actress :)
So my friend, yeah I spend quite a lot of movie time with this friend.. :) Anyway when we first met he told me he was gonna "teach" me to watch horror movies. The thing about horrors is that I truely belive that it is a group activity... also I have this thing about laughing in really inappropiate moments... :P So we havn't really watched that many in the time we spend together.. don't get me wrong we have fun making good food and watching different movies. So we desided in the spirit of the upcoming All Hallows Eve to go all in.. So this weekend we did... some good food... the try to make a little scary food and some horror movies... The choice of food fell on a chicken burger-sandwich thing... soooo good.. really yummy. And for well it was dessert.. like a couple of hours later... we had this tombstone/graveyard mud thing we found right around here... the thing is being danish the american measurements don't make much sense. Actually I'm fairly sure we did something very wrong in the translation. Which is why I kinda renamed it to Death by Chocolate. It wasn't bad it was just really heavy and it took some time to get through.. and you'd get a bit of a sugar rush.
so to the movies.. :)
After.Life (2009)
I really like this one. It is more a thinker than a scary one, but that should not stop you. Anyway the movie is about funeral director, Eliot, who is preparing a young woman, Anna, for her funeral. Doing this Eliot is talking with Anna, telling her he has a gift to talk to the dead. Anna however doesn't really believe that she is dead. Giving the interesting question and plot of the movie.. Is Anna dead or not?
So no surprise i wanted to watch this one because of Christina Ricci. I think she is a great actress and I am actually ashamed to say that I haven't seen all that much of her later work. Ricci was the actress I grew up with watching her in Casper and The Addams Family. Remembering her like this has in some ways made it a little difficult seeing her as an adult especially because she is so damn tiny.
Anyway I loved her in this one. I felt like I got the same quirkiness I remember from The Addams family.. but an adult one. You know?
Back to the movie. I was really intrigued by this one. Basically I love movies where I have to think about it, where I can't figure out what exactly is the truth. And this is definitively one of those movies.
Insidious (2010)
Insidious (good thing I'm writing cause I have no plans on pronouncing it.) starts of about this family of five moving into this big ass house. Now like any half descent horror movie of cause the house is scary. One night the oldest son climbs to the attic and falls down, alerting the house with his scream. Next day the boy won't wake. And then really weird things starts to happen...
So even with my lack of knowledge in the horror genre I know that this is the way a lot of horrors goes. I liked most of the movie. It was interesting and the effects where spot on and somewhat spooky. But in some way i guess it just didn't fit together. Like the movie was trying to be to much. know what i mean? Well I just believe that this is one of the movies where the "less is more" would have done so much for the movie. As we got along in the movie I got the feel that it was explaining to much. I generally just really like to think for myself and i felt like it was not that big an option. Now you might think I hated Insidious. I didn't, I actually liked it. I was entertained, I got my small jolts of shock, I even had a descent story to follow... it just could have been more by using less.
Trick 'r Treat (2007)
Trick 'r Treat is 4 (well 5) stories put nicely together as one. It tells the story of Halloween tradition (like trick or treating) and what happens when you don't abide to the rules of tradition....
So this is a really bloody one.. lots and lots of lovely blood (yes I'm a creepy one). Loved Trick 'r Treat for the fact that even though it is smallstories it actually fit together... It is these small stories and one big story all wrapped up in one :) ... So get your costume on light your jack o'lantern, find a plate of spooky treats and put on Trick 'r Treat... if you dare!
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