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Posts Tagged ‘movies’

I know what you are all thinking

You are all going “Dear God, she updated after so many months of silence, something of the utmost importance must have happened!” and indeed you would all be right to be thinking it, because it is true. Something beyond all expectations has changed today, sunday January 3rd into a day I will not forget for years to come.

I got the VCR to work.

I feel uncannily clever and beyond a doubt the smartest woman on the planet at this instant. I have battled the wires, the sound-but-no-video input, the tracking and the lack of remote. Now I have beat my opponent into submission. Tonight I shall watch my whole collection of Disney movies. HALLELUJAH!

Mists of Avalon

I must say I was very apprehensive when I picked up the book. I knew I was about  10 years too old to be in the targetted audience and that I was very *very* attached to the story of Arthur from the movie Excalibur, so it was a very pleasant surprise to enjoy the first half of the book so much. The story was interesting and historically less silly than the movie (re Romans and Saxons and no full plate armour) and the character of Morgane was a lot more interesting that the one-dimensional Morgane of the movie. (ok so now you’re wondering why I even liked the movie in the first place? The Music, The Costumes, Merlin & Uther)

Unfortunatly it was predestined to change when Gueneviere got some page-presence and proceeded to suck away whatever hope I had that the book would show decent women. Nope. We have stron women that are so independant nobody wants to be like them… and whiners that put t shame shy 7 years old girls who stick to their mother’s skirts. Nothing in the middle. How realistic. I hate to be the one who criticizes and complains all the time but to have a main character afraid to go riding on a horse in medieval England just tops it. To have her Queen on top? forget it! I’m glad I read it, now I’ll go back to Althea, Cersei,  Paks and Eowyn? I know most of those women are not always intelligent, brave or strong, but even if they’re faillible they always try. 

In the end, if I ever find the sequel I’ll keep it for easy beach reading

Ok in summary

During the week I obsessed about going to see Wolverine and went back and found all the god-awsome covers drawn by Joe Mad for Uncanny X-men that I read in high school. And also some stills from the movie.

And then I shamelessly squeed, jumped, cried, hollered and danced each and every time Gambit got some screen time. Just ask Bianca or Cynthia. So all in all it was worth every single cent and I’m strongly considering getting a HD tv so that I can watch it in all its glory when it comes out. 

And yes, I know it’s a crappy movie. I don’t give a damn. It’s got MY GAMBIT. nuff said. 

Chère cousine Marie, je considère que cet aveux équivaut à ton obsession Édwardienne. On a chacun nos choix. Moi j’avais 14 quand je suis tombée follement et éperdument amoureuse de Gambit. (Cela dit, j’espère quand même que tu aimera Entretient avec un Vampire).

Edit : Overall I have two regrets. One for the whole Wolverine movie, most of the time it didn’t seem like the characters were very well defined. Two : Gambit had a southern accent, not a creole one. And he didn’t say “Chere” a single time. Not that there were any girls around to tell it to. It could have been anyone. A bairmaid on Bourbon St if necessary. That’s just bad characterization for him not to flirt. booo

Damnit

Now my credit card is RUINED. All because someone sent me a link on Jabber to see if the site was down for me. Now I’ve learned of the existence of The Escapist store

At least it was a link to a pretty good comic. I’m going to forgive him.

Procrastination

Since there is nothing like finding any excuse to not do something, I found myself going over Apple to watch movie trailers this morning. There are some movies that I’m impatient to see and I want to see if there is a new video out, there are also movies I didn’t even know existed yet. There are also movies I despise but still want to indulge in some watching. 

First there is Star Trek, which looks really nice with a nice mix of explosions and geekspeak and a big nostalgic factor. And the special effects look real, which is usually a very difficult argument for me because I can spot a green screen with my eyes closed.

Then I was surprised to find a sequel for Night at the Museum. I loved watching the first one, I can sense I will love the second one. From the trailer it seems like there is a special exhibition so that the collection of the New York museum is going to Washington… so we keep the same adorable characters, add more and change the scenery. All good. Now if only they could write the date instead of “Memorial Day” which means nothing for anyone outside of the united-states… bah

But what really shocked me enough to warrant a post? I’m not even going to spoil the surprise. Click here damnit and come cry with me.  All I can say is that next, we’ll have a movie based on Les Cités d’Or. I can see it coming : out of this word 3D special effects, Zia will be played by Natalie Portman and it will bring on peace on earth through international nostalgic reactions of childhood comics. 

…oh yeah right, I said also there were some indulgence and shaming movies… Well I keep making fun of Street Fighter : the Legend of Chun Li but I swear I will go see it in theaters. It just looks THAT BAD.