- I love when someone waves you on then proceeds to pull out in front of you #
Co-written by Nikki “Rosalie Hale” Reed and the first director of the Twilight saga movies. And it mostly pissed me off. Basically 2 bratty teenage girls doing alot of stupid crap they should have been beat with the phone book for. And it’s all artsy and crap. This movie put me in a bad mood after watching it.
A vampire movie that thinks it’s a zombie movie, staring Ethan Hawke. Everyone’s a vamp save a few humans that are being rounded up for blood. Blood’s about to run out and the vamps are going mad/mutating into nasty demony things. Ethan has to find a synthetic blood but instead finds a cure. From the sun. Yeah.
Several of the “gory” scenes actually made my sister and I laugh. It’s clear they thought since there was lots of blood it’d be awesome and scary but it just comes off looking stupid. They also ended it open as if they’d be able to do a sequel or something. Don’t hold your breath.
Durring the last week, I watched several movies and read a few books and haven’t posted them. I probably won’t bother now. I need to get better about that though. What’s the point of having a site if I don’t update, right?
Several of “my” show’s finales were this week: “Vampire Diaries”, which was awesome. The last 2 minutes did indeed shock me. It’s going to be a long summer. “Supernatural”…which I just thought was ok. And “Heroes” got cancelled finally! Which for some weird reason, I’m happy about despite being a huge fan in the past. It was a decent place to end it and honestly, as lousy as the writing’s been, they’d have probably just opened up a bunch of plots they left dangling with the proposed 13 episode last season most thought they’d get. Next week is “Grey’s Anatomy” which looks good and “90210″ which will probably be boring.
I’ve only read/heard 1 other by Lisa Gardner (Hide) and I’ve enjoyed both. As far as I can tell, this is the book following that one but you don’t really need to read 1 to follow the other. It’s just the same characters; the events are self standing.
In this, a beautiful young mother and wife disappears and the husband is the prime suspect. There are plenty of others however including the neighbor, a 20-something sex offender, the wife’s estranged father who comes back into the picture conviently right after her disappearance, setting his sights on taking guardianship of her 4 year old daughter, and even a possible lover no one knew about.
I didn’t feel like the detective work in this one was as strong as Hide. They pretty much narrowed in on the husband and didn’t really explore anyone else, even though there was plenty of evidence. And then the twist at the end throws things and they STILL are interested in the husband.
The audio performance of this one is better than most, as was Hide when I listened to it. There are 3 readers – 1 who acts as the missing wife/mother, 1 who is the sex offender next door neighbor, and 1 who’s an overall narrator. This is a good listen.
I loved this series when it first came out but gave up around #4 or so because what started out as cute and fluffy humor got old quick. Betsy and her friends never grow up or learn anything and they’re all idiots. And honestly, who really cares that much about shoes? I am female. I do enjoy shoes. But Betsy can be a freak about it. It started as a cute quirk that this far in is weird and bothersome.
Ok, book 6 she’s finally marrying Sinclair, a character I hated from book 1. He’s a jerk and pig and I don’t see why she’s so into him. Just because the Book of the Dead says they’ll rule together for 1000 years? So what? That doesn’t mean they have to be together! Anyway, Betsy’s in the last stages of planning with the wedding 2 weeks away and her friends disappear and she meets werewolves. Blah, blah, they fight a big bad and waddle down the aisle in the “perfect” wedding dress that sounds like a hot mess.
Book 8 deals with the werewolves again as apparently at the end of the book between these 2 Betsy’s werewolf friend died protecting her and they blame her. She has to face council but of course eventually wins them over with her “charms”. Meanwhile half-sister Laura, daughter of Satan, goes nutters and Betsy comes home to a fight with her. Blah, blah, devil reveals she had a hand in it. No one trusts Laura anymore but she calms down. Betsy realizes she could destroy the world – something we’ve known since Laura was introduced so I don’t get the shock.
I’m officially done with this series this time. The characters show absolutely no growth. If anything, they regress.
And really, is there really a classy, educated gal out there with a foul mouth on her like Betsy? It’s not super believable. No one in real life says “Fuck a duck”. Really. And she’s to old to say asshat as that started on the internet and Betsy complains she hates netspeak and internet stuff so I doubt she surfs web forums, so oops! Where’d she pick it up at?
Kept me entertained but only barely. I think I spent most of the movie rolling my eyes at the “clever” deaths. The movie was originally filmed to be 3D and I think still was had I had some glasses but the story proceeded as though the plot was wrote around how to make things look good in 3D not here’s the story and we can make this scene 3D.
The 2 main couple was likable though. I didn’t give a crap about their friends but the token black guy, a security guard they saved and therefore part of death’s plan was sympathetic also.
And there was a quick throwaway line from a newscaster that lead me to believe the story was supposedly set in the city I work in which is cool…except everything about it was completely wrong, a common occurrence I’ve noticed when a story is set there (it’s happened 1 or 2 other times) since it is a big enough city it might have been heard of but small enough the general public isn’t going to know jack about it. Dear writers: the majority of us aren’t hicks or racist. It’s Indiana for god’s sakes, not the deep south.
There were a couple nods to the first 1 or 2 movies if you’ve seen them a fan might appreciate too. All in all, ok for a view but don’t buy it.