4.3.2.1. (2010)

ha-ha it is Saturday and i have to work :( on the other hand i have just been sick for a week lying in bed all day being less than productive. surprisingly i haven't even been watching a lot of movies actually it has been a very  minimum of movies coming by me. Anywho yesterday i actually got out of my bed... mainly because i felt a need to communicate with ppl and sure enough as soon as BirthE my darling laptop got turned on i just had to find a movie.. so i went screenshopping for one.. and then it just hit me out of nowhere 4.3.2.1

I had seen the trailer for this one and at the time thought oh this looks interesting but getting from that to actually finding the movie some link must have gone missing.. but found it i did and well why not.. it couldn't be worse than the last one i saw.

so here is what it is about... well 4.3.2.1. is very short about 4 girls doing 3 days in 2 cities having one chance. So yeah that was VERY short XD

the longer version... you follow 4 girls, Shannon, Kerrys, Joanne and Cassandra. In the beginning they are out dining with each other and when they leave they get "hit" by a group of guys running down the street. They have their goodbyes and split up to live each their life. Over the course of 3 days you follow each girl through their events giving you a little more clarity for each story toward the big picture, starting off with Shannon and ending with Joanne. And wasn't there something about a diamond theft?

So to be honest about 20 minutes in I was really confused and yet I  could not stop watching. I just had to know how it was gonna end. And the thing is the story is very well build and the characters believable and even touching. The 4 girls how different they may seem they work well together. And as you get through Joanne's story it just makes it so much clearer what is going on through these 3 days. Because just like Shannon you as a viewer sits in this place not really knowing what the heck is going on or why people are doing the things they do. Simply because you need each part of the story to be fully for filled.

Anywho long story short I was on the edge of my chair the entire movie. Totally sucked in as i tend to do while watching movies. And i really felt each girls story. Also there was some fine eyecandy and some really cool action scenes and who am I to argue against that? To be honest my first reaction to this movie was to text my friend and tell him it was AWESOME!!!!!! second reaction was to figure out why half the staff looked so dang familiar XD found out.. IMDB is for the most part my friend :)

now watch watch watch.. this is true movie magic I swear :)

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/

a little late Happy New Years

so i have been sooo bad at getting things done this past month (December and the beginning of January apparently) anywho.. Happy New Year from me :P

to me the year has gone way to fast.. and a lot has happend.. yeah i have munch my way through a whole lot of movies and series but on personal grounds i been busy busy busy.. in august i told you people that i've moved to another appartment.. got roomies now and yeah i kinda dig that.. it's nice with company even when you don't really see them.. :) also the move to the middle of the city instead of out where not much happens has done me good.. open mikes night is a load of fun (and yes i have been going out a lot more) also i started in school which now leave me looking for a job so i can finish that education of mine

as for movies goes.. i did a little project this past year.. the thing is it is really hard arguing that you don't watch to many movies when everytime someone mentions one you already seen it.. so i started writing down what i really have been watching.. and i'm sry to say.. but for now on i'm properly gonna loose any argument about me watching to many movies..

in year 2012 i have watch a total of 246 movies and 337 episodes of various series

oh yeah and the favorite movies of the year is a tie between 3 of my favorites How to Train Your Dragon, Repo! the Genetic Opera and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

so i'm gonna be off again.. enjoy your January ppl :P

Gone a-wall

I realise I haven't been posting alot lately.. well again.. thing is everything is happening at once AND I have NO internet. OMG what am a girl to do? well she starts off by moving from her appartment hence the missing connection.. then she well while in the midle of a movingmess figures out she is to start up going to school.. guess where i'm at right now.. and then she of cause takes a couple of extra shifts making the madness complete.. gonna be great just relaxing tomorrow enjoying the fact that i turn 24 for the second time... awesome me..

somehow i manged not to much of anything lately... i have no idea how that might have happend.. anyway now you know why i have gone all quite and stuff..

see ya soon ppl

Freedom Writers (2007)

This is a movie I found on telly one night when I was really getting ready to bed. I off cause ended up watching the damn thing not going to sleep until 3am. I was amazed by the movie and have wanted to write about it ever since but eh stuff got in the way...

Freedom Writers is about a new teacher in a public school forced to do a integration program. She is given a English class filled with "low class" students that all have given up on getting anywhere else than the gang life they are already part of. The thing is so has all the other teachers. They see them as a scum that can't be taught anything. The new teacher Erin struggles with the class and in a moment of rage over a drawing she learns that the kids doesn't even know what the Holocaust is, giving her an idea toward how she should teach these kids.

This movie reminds me so much of Dangerous Minds starring Michelle Pfeiffer, a movie I has watched a lot. It is the same type of new teacher comes to town and teach young kids that every one else has given up on. Freedom writers however is more modern (to be fair dangerous minds premiered in 95) and it gives a lot more insight in the change in the kids. Erin gives the kids a change to be heard by giving them the assignment to write whatever comes to mind. This is also through this assignment we as a viewer gets to hear what is going on in the bright minds of the kids, how their lives works, how everything is ruled by the gangs. 

Not living in the US and not being confronted with the issue, because in my part of the country gangs aren't really a problem, I know next to nothing about it. But given I do know it's a problem I believe this movie is really good at showing in an entertaining way what is going on. Don't get me wrong I know that movies like this show a "romantic" side of the gang wars. After all the movie has to sell tickets. On the other hand the use of the words from the book gives it a more real feel to it. And i do find it that the use of the book works really well. 

I really recommend watching this movie. If it scares you it should. It is about real life and about real kids that society has just given up on. Simply just Watch it.

Rango (2011)

So yeah this is not really the first time I watch Rango... not the second time either.. actually the first time was in cinema with Mini-Me... The thing is my sister had to buy a present for a friends birthday and she dragged me into a store selling movies.. it is a favorite store of ours but kinda expensive since they have so many great movies at cheap prices and you often end up with like 10 movies you feel like you can't live without..  Same goes for yesterday.. found 4 movies and a present I could not live without.. my sister did the same..  anywho one of these lucky movies that got to go home with little me was (can you guess it?) Rango! I of cause popped it in thinking i need a small fix of Johnny Depp and to a happy surprise of mine realized there are 2 versions... a theatrical and an extended... just had to see the long one no way around of that...

Rango is a Chameleon from the city.. his entire life he has been living in a cage believing himself to be undiscovered actor. He act around with his friends (the toys given to keep him company) but he is beginning to realize that his character, the hero, is missing conflict. With that said conflicts hit the dear Rango. He ends up all alone in the desert and gets the advise from a armadillo to go find water, but to find that he must first find dirt. Now all there is left is to sit back and watch how Rango finds his inner hero.

Clearly I love this Animation.. First off I only buy what I love to watch.. secondly I have watched it sooo many times.. It's a fun movie and Depp is so great in it (to be fair I haven't seen a movie yet where Depp wasn't great) Rango is such a great character and to see this awkward dude become the accidental hero is always a fun thing.

A thing I love about Rango is that, to me, it has managed to capture the essence of those old Westerns that surfaced after the war. It builds up like most of them did (haven't watched to many westerns but in some ways they are quite similar)... but also it brings more to the table.. because the wild west is kinda dead by now and it shows you how modernization changes the life of a lot of people without them realizing.. big changes often happen without the majority noticing and those who can't adapt get lost behind. In Rango changes are of the big evil because there is not that big a need as it is but when the change has happend nobody seems to mind though..

As for the extended version goes.. well there is a few extra scenes but to be honest I didn't really notice.. but it is properly me who wasn't all that observant... that tend to happen when you cook and chat at the same time as watching a movie.. but now I can watch it as often as I feel like.. Rango is safe and sound in my shelf... happy days to me ;)

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...