Movies of the Week, Inkheart, Bride Wars and Underworld 3

The fantasy Inkheart is a movie that I think many of us should watch. It is not as lavishly glamorous as Lord of the Rings nor as Angst as Twilight. Yet it is the God mother of all past fantasy. To imagine that some people could read just from the books and all the being in the book will appear for real.
Anyway the first installment of the trilogy have been created for the screen, yet from the way the story end. It’s most likely be the only installment that will come out of the trilogy, such a shame really to be able to watch Brendan Fraser and Dame Helen Mirren in the same movie for the first time and it’s just ended. And to be able to add in Paul Bettany, Andy Serkis in the mix with some of the most talented young actor, Eliza Bennett and Rafi Gavron. The short appearance of Jennifer Connelly is a bit of a regrets though. Anyway the movie ended so abruptly it felt a bit out of place. It si still one of the best movies for my whole family to enjoy this Chinese New Year though.
The other day I was on my cable and I watch again a 2006 movie by Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Boyd, which is a natural and intriguing story about one of the best cyclist of our time. Graeme Obree. The Flying Scotsman tell the tale of the Champion Cyclist from the time he broke the one-hour record on his revolutionary self-design cycle with a sitting position that’s so important in Cycling history. And believe it or not it’s done from scrap metal and washing machine parts. But the most amazing back story of the movie is Obree struggles with depression, which is close to my hear t and I think that all people that is facing any kind of depression or mental obsession should grab a look. There is a place in the world for us. We just have to hold it together and there’s definitely a way through life without the condition. We can overcome it as long as we don’t give in to the emotion.
After I came back from my holiday, it’s back to the usual timing. Another 2 more movies for me. Underworld 3 Rise of the Lycan, there’s no Kate Beckinsale and Scott Speedman to the previous story, the one remain are the villain. The heroin change to the first Lycan that can control his transformation Lucian. It is the prequel to the underworld story, the love story between the first merge of the Vampire and Lycan (Warewolf). Billy Nighty is back so is Steven Macintosh of course these are the 2 most unpopular character in the series. Yet the story of Lucian and Sonja are good enough to replace them as the main storyline and Michael Sheen (Lucian) and Rhona Mitra (Sonja) of Skinwalker turn from a warewolves wife to a Vampire who is a warewolf’s lover….. logical HAHA! Anyway the performance is good, the setting is perfect and the fighting is totally savage. (who’d have thought that Michael can look so good in this movie!? Coming from Frost/Nixon, the David Frost baring it all…..HAHA! Just kidding. He does look really fit in the movie.)
And what would a holiday be without the usual comedy. I skip 4 Christmases cos it’s already over, and straight to the wedding bliss of Bride Wars. It is true how every woman figure they are going to be great when they have a beautiful wedding. Even fighting with your best friend?! Well, if you are going to lose yourself and your friend in the process then I think you should think again about why are you having the wedding? I love the comedy, the cat fight, the scamming and Anne and Kate are both best actresses of our time and to have both in comedy is a totally double jeopardy. Anyhow, it is a life lesson for the girls that are really getting married. If your husband to be can’t stand the 2 months before you get married how well you think they are gonna be when you are both together? But on the other hand there are also the forgiveness and the lovely compromises. There’s just no telling how well people will be when they are together, regardless how life turns or how other view us, the one person that’s with us will have to be the one that makes it all doesn’t matter. Of course it is always great to see Brian Greenberg and Chris Pratt on the Big Screen.