My Sunday was mostly spent serving Markus with tissues, hot beverages and cough medicine. He’s sick and weak and we all know how men get when they’re sick ;) Thankfully I don’t seem to have caught his virus. Yet… *crosses fingers*
But then Alexandra called and wanted to go to the movies. To see The Wolfman. Of course I immediately said yes and left Markus in his pile of mucus and Kleenex. It’s about a friggin werewolf, how could I possibly resist?

Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman, is lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father, Talbot sets out to find his brother… and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Talbot’s childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother’s fiancée, Gwen Conliffe, tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline has come to investigate.
Written by Anonymous

First of all I just wanna say YAY LYCANS!!! The first time I saw the trailer for this film I was jumping with joy, the werewolf is my favourite monster/mythological creature ever!

The one problem most werewolf movies have is the actual werewolves themselves. They often have a low budget and because of that the monsters are mostly put together with rubber masks and fake hair glued on. And if they do have enough money to use 3D they still often make them ugly and… just not right. Lupin in The Prisoner of Azkaban for example is one of the worst I’ve ever seen (sorry Lupin, I still love you though).
But The Wolfman actually seemed to have a real budget and the trailer looked good so my hopes were high.
Unfortunately my expectations were only half met… In most scenes he looked ok or maybe slightly above average, in some scenes he looked beyond incredible, but in some other scenes (mostly the full frontal shots) he just looked like a disfigured dog. I still haven’t really decided what to think about him.
The actual transformation scenes though, when he changed from man to werewolf, were great! I loved how you could see his feet turn into paws and how his jaw got stretched. I guess that’s were most of the 3D money went ;)

The scenery and the colour scales were just perfect, dark and beautiful and ghostly. Benicio Del Toro was perfect in the lead role, me and Alex both agreed that he kinda looked like a werewolf even as a human :P And Anthony Hopkins is, well, he is Anthony Hopkins. Can’t really go wrong with that.
I was a little surprised at how much blood and gore the movie had. I don’t think it was truly necessary, it was already creepy enough, but I don’t mind. Blood splattering only adds to the flavour you know.

All in all it was money well spent and I will definitely buy it when it comes out on DVD. The not-as-perfect-as-I-had-hoped werewolf aside it’s still a good movie. I’m satisfied.

I’ve revamped my Afghan hounds fanlisting! It has a new layout and a few new codes :D
The layout is very different from what I intentionally wanted to do, but I think it works. For now anyway. The dog in the header has such beautiful golden fur and even though black is my favourite colour on Afghans I was getting a wee bit sick of it after 5 years ;) Yes, the fanlisting is that old…

I have a new fanlisting! :D I really wasn’t going to get any more until ALL my old ones are revamped, but that was until I saw that post on the message board… BOTH Eli Roth and Snatch was up for adoption!

Sadly Eli was already gone *cries* But I immediately sent an application for Snatch, and guess what: I got it!
Thank you so much Sarah!

That movie is one of my all time favourites, and my boyfriends. I don’t know how many times we’ve seen it, but it’s many times.
It’s so weird and funny, I love the dark humour and the grey British scenery. I love how all the characters are all quirky and have the most awesome names. I love the camera work, the angles and the freezing and zooming in on details.
I REALLY love the dialogue, each and every line makes an awesome quote! Me and my boyfriend often use lines from that movie in our daily life (Yes, we’re total nerds. Your point?). It’s impossible to offer anyone any form of sweets without getting a “no thank you, I’m sweet enough” in return XD
Oh, and the pikeys use whippets/whippet mutts when they hunt rabbits! That alone makes the movie worth watching IMO.

Now, go check out my shiny new baby: ZEE GERMANS!

On Christmas Day I went to the movie theatre to see Avatar. I had not heard much about it before I saw it, but the trailer looked promising (blue people with tails? I’m in!) so I was really looking forward to see it. And I was not disappointed!
The actual theatre experience was rather lame, a bunch of kids (ok, teens) were making noise in the front rows, the temperature was ridiculously hot in the salon and the guy in front of me was circa 3m tall so I had to move from side to side if I wanted to read the subtitles.
But the movie itself…? Stunning!

If you haven’t seen the movie there might be some spoilers ahead. Or not. It depends on how much you know about it already. Anyway, I’ve warned you now!

When his brother is killed in battle, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully decides to take his place in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There he learns of greedy corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge’s intentions of driving off the native humanoid “Na’vi” in order to mine for the precious material scattered throughout their rich woodland. In exchange for the spinal surgery that will fix his legs, Jake gathers intel for the cooperating military unit spearheaded by gung-ho Colonel Quaritch, while simultaneously attempting to infiltrate the Na’vi people with the use of an “avatar” identity. While Jake begins to bond with the native tribe and quickly falls in love with the beautiful alien Neytiri, the restless Colonel moves forward with his ruthless extermination tactics, forcing the soldier to take a stand – and fight back in an epic battle for the fate of Pandora. Written by The Massie Twins

The most spectacular part of the movie is of course the special effects and the amazing pictures. The scenery and wildlife on Pandora is nothing but amazing! Bright vibrant colours, sparkling lights and really imaginative creatures made it look like a true fairy tale world. The whole first hour when Jake is beginning to explore the planet with Neytiri was breathtaking, I found myself saying “wow…” quietly over and over :) And it made a very clear contrast to the grey, sterile, machine-driven world of the humans on the base.
Plot-wise it was ok, pretty much a Pochahontas rip-off. But it worked for me, I love that type nature-strikes-back stories. Honestly I could have lived without the love story, the rest of the plot was good enough, but hey, it was cute. I’m not going to complain about it.

What I felt it lacked though was the development of Jake’s character from human to Na’vi. It was such a fast transition (and not very well covered) it felt like one minute he was an obedient, almost ignorant, solider on a mission and the next he was in love with Neytiri and working against the humans. I would have liked to explore his mind a lot more, seeing how he gradually start switching sides and growing from the experience. And also how he falls in love with Neytiri. If there’s gonna be a love story you might as well make something out of it. Shouldn’t it be a much bigger deal for a human to fall in love with an alien? A lot more hesitation and agony?
The movie was almost 3 hours long and I still feel it should have been longer so it would’ve had more room for these things. Perhaps when it’s released on DVD it will have some of that in the extra material?

Even so, this is the best movie I’ve seen in a long time. What it lacks in one area it makes up for in another. I want to see it again already! This will definitely go on my favourite movies list :)

As a part of the moving process I have to update all my fanlistings too, and truth be told I’ve been a bit slow on that :/ Only about half of them are updated with new links and my new email address and such…

But today I finally managed to get my Borzoi fanlisting not only updated, but totally overhauled with a new layout and a few new codes! :D
It was about bloody time too. I haven’t touched the layout at all since I first got the fanlisting back in 2007, it was fugly to say the least and the coding was a little.. well *cough*

But now it’s taken care of and I’m a wee bit pleased with myself for getting to cross one more fanlisting off my “desperately needs update list” ^_^