Blood & Chocolate

[katikat]

First thing first: I haven't read the book on which this is based nor have I any desire to read it. Like, seriously, in the book, Vivian gets together with Gabriel, you know, the guy who just a couple of years back slept with her frickin' stepmother despite being just a few years older than Vivian? And suddenly, it's True Love (TM) between Gabriel and Vivian and Vivian's safe with her people only and she can't trust anybody else and the human guy who stood by her the whole book long suddenly betrays her which comes totally out of left field, reinforcing the claustrophobic feeling of the pack and her dependency on Gabriel? Yeah, I read the summary and it was enough for me. And people say "Twilight" is wrong. Icky!

But the movie! The movie is really good, great atmosphere thanks to its setting in Bucharest. But why did I actually watch it? Because a younger Hugh Dancy is in it! Hannibal's Hugh Dancy. And I really liked his character, Aiden. I loved that he could hold his own, I loved his backstory, that he was running and hiding from his father, that his own father, an ex-military, wanted him dead. That was so, so cool! Not something you usually see in a movie. Usually, when someone wants a character dead, it's either their spouse or sibling. Definitely not their father!

And the werewolves were so cool. I loved the way they changed from humans into real wolves. That's my only pet peeve when it comes to Teen Wolf, the werewolves. They look utterly ridiculous, especially when they do the skip-hop-jump running. But here, the weres turned into real wolves. And it was glorious. There's just something about wolves that makes my heart beat a little faster. Beautiful creatures...

So yeah, definitely worth a watch, especially if you are into Hugh Dancy!

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Speaking of Hugh Dancy. I ordered Ella Enchanted because of him. I also plan to get King Arthur for him and Mads Mikkelsen. And Hysteria, Adam and The Jane Austen Book Club. Any other fans of Hugh on my flist? What else should I get? Yeah, I kinda fell for him the way I fell for JGL, Tom Hardy or James McAvoy before... Sue me :P

Comments

[pandarus]

I'm delighted you enjoyed the movie; as someone who's been to Romania a fair few times, I spent the entire movie rolling my eyes and bewailing all the dodgy generic Eastern European cliches slathered haphazardly all over the place, but maybe I'd enjoy it more upon rewatch, in these post-Teen Wolf times?

[katikat]

I don't know, I live in a country that belonged to the Eastern Block and I didn't see any clichés that bothered me there. What I did see as a cliché was the "A young American girl is the world's savior!!!" thing, there to save the primitive natives from their own ignorance. Yeah, that rubbed me wrong a bit. But I adored Will, that he had a real background, something that wasn't tied to Vivian's loup garou issues.