Cowboys & Aliens

Went to see Cowboys & Aliens today...



It was a good movie, great action, great CGI, cool actors. But it lacked... something. I didn't really care about any of the characters, I didn't connect with any them on an emotional level. I mean, I wasn't over the moon about Captain America but I adored Steve Rogers and I wanted to cuddle him and tell him everything would be okay. But in this movie... By the end, I didn't even remember the characters' names. Well, with the exception of Ella because a) she was the only female in the movie and b) she kicked ass.

( Spoilers for the film... )

Oh, could someone explain to me what the thing with the hummingbird was? *scratches head*

So, ranking this year's movies:

1. XMFC
2. Thor
3. Fast Five
4. Captain America
5. Cowboys & Aliens

Book #76

"Yami no Matsuei Vol. 4" by Yoko Matsushita

4 stars out of 5

This manga is two parts fluff, one part creepy horror, all wrapped up in a beautiful package. In the first chapter, the whole Enma-cho department goes on a vacation together. In the second chapter, they look for the Winter Queen that went missing. In the third and fourth chapter, they take part in an archery competition. But the fifth part is where it gets über-creepy with devils and zombies and murdered, mutilated boys. And the whole thing is riddled with yaoi hints and insinuations (in part five, it turns fairly graphic, but not with the main characters). And I love it!

Safe Passage

Finally managed to get my hands on Safe Passage, my favorite movie with Susan Sarandon, featuring many famous stars like Sam Shepard, Nick Stahl, Marcia Gay Harden, Sean Astin, Matt Keeslar, Jason London and...


... the very young and very pretty Robert Sean Leonard as Alfred!

Susan Sarandon plays Mag, the mother of seven boys and a wife separated from her husband, whose life is slowly spinning out of control. But then, one of her sons, Percy, goes missing after a bombing in Iraq and for the whole family everything grounds to a halt.

It sounds really serious and depressing, doesn't it? It's just the opposite, it's a sweet family comedy about a huge family coming back home again and dealing with each other's quirks and craziness.

I especially loved the little chats Mag had with Alfred's lover Cynthia, played by Marcia Gay Harden, a woman older than Alfred and a mother of two - I LOL every time I see the scene where Mag mentions it's her fault that Alfred's a man without passion and Cynthia goes all "Oh, I wouldn't say that," and Mag responds with this huge-eyed look, all "Really?!"

Such a feel!good movie. It makes me happy :)