Trailers & DVDs

Yesterday, I saw these trailers at the cinema, in the correct order...

Now You See Me - MUST SEE! NEXT WEEKEND WITH THE TWINS! Looks really great and I love heist movies.

The Lone Ranger - Really? Like... really? Johnny Depp playing Cpt. Jack Sparrow 8.0? Remember the time when he was considered a versatile actor? Stupid looking movie. This will be the Wild Wild West of 2013.

The Man of Steel - Hm. Looks good but too... dark. They seem to take themselves way too seriously. And I want to smash Jonathan Kent's face. Like really? Clark should've let every one of the kids die to hide his powers? Also, I like Henry Cavill, liked him in The Immortals and Monte Cristo, but I'm not sure if he was charisma enough to carry this part. Also, I just don't like Superman that much, to be honest.

The Wolverine - Boring. Everybody's been swooning about this trailer but I was mostly, like, that's it? It looked all over the place, to be honest. And I don't get the insane love Wolverine inspires in fans.

Pacific Rim - I think it will be a very good movie but the rubber monsters looked really, really dumb on the big screen. Give me CGI any day. On the comp, the trailer looked amazing. But at the cinema? The fakeness of the rubber stuff was cringe-worthy. Also, Idris Elba, as much as I adore him, simply doesn't have the voice for rousing speeches.

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I also bought several DVDs...

Confessions of a Shopaholic - I don't care about the movie but it has HUGH DANCY, so I'm in!

Sliding Doors - I don't even know why I bought this one. I think the premise reminded me of JGL's Uncertainty. And I quite like Gwyneth Paltrow. Also, it cost me only $1, so...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - The one with Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist, that is. Yes, I still haven't seen/read any of the Millenium movies/books.

Sword of Gideon - Michael York and Steve Bauer as Mossad agents hunting down the Black September terrorists. Loved the movie when I first saw it.

And two more episodes from the Russian Sherlock Holmes series...

Yeah, yeah, I promised myself not to buy any more DVDs, but come on! Some of those were $1 only!

Book #38

"Blood Trinity (Belador #1)" by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love

Rating: ♣ •

1.5 stars. Convoluted and so over the top it was laughable. Shiva, the Celts and Nigerian magic all smashed together? I mean, when I came across the term "majik Noirre" I knew that I would cringe my way through the book. I was right. Just take the Beladors - Mary and Marty Sues up the wazoo. Throw anything at them and it will stick: telekinesis, telepathy, energy blasts, energy shields... I actually had to laugh. It was so unbelievable and I say that as an urban fantasy fan.

The main heroine was so unlikable it hurt. She couldn't tell the truth if her life depended on it and it actually did more than once. If she just told the truth, half the things that happened in the book, wouldn't have happened. And of course, she was totally bad-ass and the special snowflake of all the Alterants. And as a proper bad-ass woman, she was raped as a child, of course, because, you know, that's a part of the package. I'm so fed up with authors using sexual assault as the means of empowerment. Also, let's not forget that now, for the first time ever, Evalle - like "Evil" you know *nudgenudgewinkwink* - feels horny in the company of not one but two men at once! Because, you know, she's surrounded by hot studs only, prime examples of male specimen, every one of them.

*snort* Sorry, I just couldn't write about this book with a straight face. As a parody, it was a good one!