It's been 3 years that I've been waiting to watch this movie,and today I finally did!
It was well worth the wait, absolutely perfect flick. I mean obviously, that's what one would expect when you bring together the forces that be Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page.
I must say I was pleasantly surprised by this 5th installment of the franchise. It was both action packed and smartly presented, backed by a great script and cast. The Michael Vaughn film was a refreshing comeback to the X-Men series, and to the superhero movie genre on a whole, which seemed to be experiencing a creative drought recently. The prequel boasts a wide range of well known cast members,namely James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and January Jones(of Mad Men fame). Riddled with cameos that would make any fan boys jizz themselves, a touch of Mad Men, and a pinch of Inglorious Basterds, this film is definitely one of the best of the franchise, and of the year. Plus any film which features a soundtrack that enticing, accompanied by music from Edith Piaf, as well as an interesting flagship song(disclaimer: music video in link may contain spoilers), is worth watching in my book.
I know I've been cheating on blogger with tumblr for a while now but I must admit that I do miss my blogging here. This was a great film called "Nassainces des pieuvres" or "water lilies"
The awesome song in the trailer is "trahison" by Vitalic
It's January and series five of Skins will be back with a bang, on the 27th at 10PM on E4. I surely know it will be better than that crap MTV calls Skins USA (complete ultimate failure and letdown). At least soon I'll have the UK version on the air again to keep my mind off of that. So heres to the fifth series and the third generation of Skins, let the unadulterated chaos begin.
So it looks like MTV is finally coming back, well slowly but surely. Although I would usually have to get up with the birds to see any musical programming on MTV, it is so worth waking up really early in the morning, to watch AMTV (really suitable name now that I think of it). The time difference during winter also helps (1 hour behind Eastern time)lessen the necessity of getting up early for at least 5 or so months.
Today watching AMTV while trying not to burn my t-shirt while ironing I stumbled upon a video premiere from a really cool band from Ireland(land of my ancestors, well one of the various lands of my ancestors) called Two Door Cinema Club with their video for the song "what you know"
Speaking of MTV next week Monday is the date for the premiere of Skins USA, which I am highly anticipating/dreading at the same time. Afterall a remake of one of the best UK shows, which is not only notorious for pushing the boundaries of showing teenage drug and alcohol abuse(or enjoyment as some might put it) but also for being very frank and real in their dialog( probably the most expletives you would hear in a primetime show, well unless you're accustomed to watching E4 ). It also has very strong thematic interpretations on teenage sex and sexuality à la Emily and Naomi in series( aka "season") 3 & 4, or even the completely weird love triangle in series 1. I would love to see how MTV interprets and rehashes this show, and from what can be seen from the trailer it looks like a watered down and tame portrayal of the original, but who knows I heard the "f" word in an online promo, so I might just be pleasantly surprised (as they say don't judge a book by its cover, only it would be a show by its promo in this case). Hopefully the promo was just watered down for tv airing, as it has an MA rating, which translated into my rating system = show actually worth watching.
Furthermore speaking of US remakes to UK shows, I must say I was pleasantly surprised by Showtimes take on once again E4's Shameless. The acting was brilliant, the storyline even though it was basically a copy and paste of the pilot of the original, like any good plagerist, or plageriser ( however you spell it)(aka college student) knows tweak it up here and there, and it did feel like something new and fresh even different.
