I finally watched
- Sci-Fi's/Syfy's Tin Man: (3 part mini series)
director: Nick Willing (who already gave me my beloved Alice)
about: Dorothy Gale, a.k.a. DG, is all grown up and bored. She mopes around, works as a waitress, and goes to school part time. Before she knows it she's back in OZ (a.k.a. Outer Zone) and on the run from the evil sorceress Azkadellia and her storm troopers and clumsy bats. Along the way she falls in with some strange characters including the brainless Glitch, Raw, a cowardly and psychic lion-man hybrid, and, in the largest deviation, Wyatt Cain, a cowboy cop from Central City called a "tin man" because of his tin badge.
I liked "The Wizard of Oz" but obviously, since it's the modern Syfy version, "Tin Man" is more awesome (not better, though). I gotta say, I was a bit disappointed, I had expected it to be just as good, maybe even better than Syfy's "Alice" but it can't compare. It's good, though. I really like Zooey Deschanel as D.G., Alan Cumming as Glitch is just adorable and Neal McDonough as Tin Man is just hot. Also: all the links to the original are just fun to see and figure out (Trivia). It's good - I already watched it 3 times and told my Mum to watch when it was on German telly. And I watched it with Anna. So, I tell you: If you like Syfy stuff, watch it.
- Band of Brothers:
about: 10 episodes mini series about the U.S. Army's Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. Training, D-Day, Normandie, Holland till Berchtesgarten. History, if you want.
At first I refused to watch the series because I was so bored with the topic. Now I finally watched it, just because of Andrew-Lee Potts who's only in one of the later episodes (8 or ) I think. But I started with episode one and there were Damian Lewis and Scott Grimes and Ron Livingston and I love them all so much and the series was so awesome I kept watching and loving and almost forgot about Andrew until he finally showed up. Lots of yummy men in uniforms. And a good plot, cause even if they don't get out of their fox holes sometimes, it's never boring. And you get really emotionally envolved with all of them. Omg, I love this whole Company. And all the languages! There was real German (not a fake accent)! And the American translator guy who spoke German, which was so cute. And it's really funny when you understand both German and English and don't need the translation. I even understood the little Dutch and French that was spoken. (Yeah, I'm weird but things like that make me happy). It's a really good series, I cried so many times because it was so sad sometimes but then you get peaceful times and the guys joking around so it's not all depressing. And I'm so gonna re-watch all 10 episodes very soon.
- Disney's Lady and the Tramp:
director: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
about: Lady, a golden cocker spaniel, meets up with a mongrel dog who calls himself the Tramp. He is obviously from the wrong side of town, but happenings at Lady's home make her decide to travel with him for a while.
We all love bad boys, don't we? Lady and Tramp is so much more romantic than Romeo and Juliet. And it's Disney. And we all remember the spaghetti-eating scene, right? It's a classic. And gee, these siamese cats still creep me out. And how classic is it that Lady refers to her family as "Darling" and "Jim Dear" because they call each other that?
- The Haunted Airman:
director: Chris Durlacher
about: erm.. good question. So Robert is a RAF pilot who has to sit in a wheelchair. And he's haunted, by visions of burning houses and spiders creeping all over him. And he's brought to this private hospital or something. By his aunt. Whom he wants to marry. Which is yucky. But his aunt has something going on with his doctor. And it's weird.
First of all, the tagline is hilarious "What exists beyond the twilight will haunt him forever..." - I rather think Twilight will haunt him forver. Well, when I bought the dvd the plot sounded really interesting and since it's from the BBC I thought it must be awesome. Maybe I just didn't get it. I watched it with my friend B. and neither of us understood this movie. We're still at a loss. Well, Robert Pattinson at least got to show us that he's a good actor and should we ever meet him, we really gotta ask him what it's all about. Maybe he knows. Or maybe he just wanted the money and played the role without knowing what he was playing. This movie is weird shit.
- The Twilight Saga: Eclipse:
director: David Slade
about: the third Twilight book, duh! Victoria wants to kill Bella with the aid of a bunch of newborn vampires. Bella is in love with Edward, Jacob is in love with Bella. Vampires and werewolves protect Bella from the newborns & Jasper and Alice are awesome as always.
Although I'm not much of a fan of the franchise, that was the best of the 3 movies so far. Jackson Rathbone is awesome and his Major Whitlock flashback scenes and the fight scenes are made of pure awesome. Also, his Southern accent is SEX! And Jasper/Alice are super cute. Way better than Edward/Bella.
