Movies/TV

... watching 300. It's visually stunning and just overall *RRRRR*. 11 out of 10. I cannot begin to describe how cool this movie was. I need to watch it again soon... and again... and again. Raaawwr!

Pan's Labyrinth. Went to see it yesterday, and I was pleasantly surprised. Or perhaps not surprised, as I had seen and read about it, and the general consensus was, that it had a lot of good moments in it. I'm not gonna bore you with a full review, I'll save that for the papers, but I will say, that I found the movie really intruiging and interresting. It had a ver ycool visual style to it, and was pretty consistent throughout. 

I overheard some people talk about the title afterwards, and one of them pondered why it was called Pan's Labyrinth. Now, I don't claim to any sort of expert on this area, but upon thinking back to my days of latin at school, which included, due to friends, a certain amount of greek mythology as well, I seem to remember Pan being the name of perhaps the most (in)famous faun. Pan is a goat herder/shephard with a knack for errect phalluses. He was also a god of inspiration and of panic, which corrolates nicely to this movie. The original title, in Spanish, happens to the the labyrinth of Faun. So at least some pieces fall into place. I'd go into more detail, but I don't want to spoil anything for people, so all I can say is, watch it and see for yourself. I'll be getting the nice shiny looking DVD whenever it's out, so swing by and I'll happily watch it with you. Don't forget to bring Coke Zero and perhaps a little bag of candy...

So here's the story as I've experienced it so far. It's gonna be detailed, with quite a lot to read. I'm gonna write it fast and effeciently, so bare with me through typos and stuff. I'll fix them later on. Enjoy!

I've probably touched upon this topic before, but.... DAMN. 300 simply looks like it will be the movie to rule them all. 

Watched the trailer before Ghost Rider yesterday. I've seen it about 50 times already, and yet it still gave me goosebumps. It's probably one of the coolest trailers ever, on par with Return of the King and X-Men 3 (both of which I've watched so many times, I can't keep track). Yeah I know watching a trailer many times is probably bad, but... DAMN^2.

I'm gonna go see a Digital Screening of 300 with Rancor, and it's one of the highlights of my life at the moment (yes, life is boring enough for a movie to be this important), and I might faint multiple times in the cinema, when watching it. From sheer happiness. Just you wait... just you wait.

You can check out the trailers over at quicktime.

So, the idea of going to the movies was brought up, and we sort of just went with it. Ghost Rider had been discussed, and we were both thinking: why the hell not. 

Let me say right off the bat, it's as corny as they come. Lots of semi-amusing, semi-serious dialogue, one-liners, plot-holes and stumbling storylines. But, it also had lots of pretty cool special effects, the Marvel factor, self-irony, Nick Cage and above all Eva Mendes. Yeah, so I think a nice girl helps redeem this flick? Sue me. That being said, Nicholas Cage does do a decent job.

Overall, I'll say you probably have to keep your tongue firmly in cheek when watching this. Either that, or just be a comic book nut, and overall sucker for Marvel and everything related. I just happened to be a combination of the two, so I came out thinking Ghost Rider rode a flaming 6 out of 10 in on my scale.