Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

Surprisingly good for a B-Movie.

Well, I don't know if this was a B-Movie, because it had an A-List cast. Maybe it was an A-Movie trying to look like a B-Movie, because the story deserved a B-Movie treatment. And anyway, everybody loves vampires.

This is apparently based again on a series of books. Like Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Again, I mourn the lack of original cinematic material, but this movie was well-made enough to make me want to watch the sequels, if any.

The lead guy, Chris Massoglia, looked like a girl. He'd probably be hot if he was a girl.

John C. Reilly is one of my favorites. He's a great actor. I don't even have to explain anymore.

A bearded Salam Hayek just makes me shudder in disgust. Freak.

Ken Watanabe is so cute. Haha.

Willem Dafoe didn't spend enough screen time. I wish they gave him some action scenes. But I don't think he'd be capable of any decent action sequences at his age.

And Ray Stevenson was so great, he was almost unnoticeable. He almost slipped away unnoticed. This just goes to show how versatile Stevenson can be. Therefore, give him more movies.


*some info from IMDb
pic from mywifemademewatchthis.wordpress.com


Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant. USA. 2009.


Rating: Seven out of ten.

Apocalypse: The Second World War. 5/6 The Great Landings

Great sequence on the Warsaw ghetto, and chronicling its degeneration. Sad, really. Okay, so the title says "The Great Landings". I thought they were referring to the Allied Normandy landings. Yet they didn't show any of that here. They were probably referring to the Allied landings in the Mediterranean. Well, if D-Day isn't here, then it's bound to be in the last episode.


*pic from Rapid Share Index

The Pacific. Part Eight

Okay, three-fourths of this episode was boring, because it was set, again, outside the war zone. But it does make up for it because it showed how John Basilone met, fell in love with, wooed, and married his wife. It didn't suck too much because Mrs. Basilone was pretty. They also showed some basic training scenes, which I find kind of strange that the filmmakers placed it toward the end of the series. The other one-fourth of the episode was set in Iwo Jima, another Pacific island that looks like Mordor.


*pic from channelguidemag.com

Glee. Season 1, Episode 20: Theatricality

source: http://gleeks.tumblr.com

It actually surprised me that all the girls in Glee cannot come to par with the original version featuring solo Lady Gaga. I say that and I'm not even a Lady Gaga fanatic. They looked like high schoolers dancing in a lousy high school auditorium. Oh, wait. They are. Anyhow, Idina Menzel and mini-Idina Menzel's version of "Poker Face" on the other hand was so enthralling. Song numbers aside, this episode was so fragmented, I was having a hard time figuring out what it wants to focus on. And I still hate the we're-all-so-happy laugh in the end. Yuck. However, this episode also holds the gem that is Kurt's dad. I can't believe Glee made me cry. Kurt's dad should be given the BEST FATHER AWARD. How the biological mother story ended should also be given five stars credit. As well as the good pianist joke. Glee should realize it should stick to its surreality to be a good show.

The Vampire Diaries. Season 1, Episode 22: Founder's Day

I chose this picture because Damon gets to hold Elena's hand. Haha. I cannot stress how good this episode is. These are my status messages in Facebook and Plurk while I was watching the season finale of The Vampire Diaries:

• papanoorin ang season finale ng Vampire Diaries. Kinakabahan. Sana hindi pangit.
• vampire diaries season finale seems promising
• VAMPIRE DIARIES. YOU KILLED HER.
• OHMYGOD. THEY KILLED HER. THEY KILLED HER. DAMN YOU VAMPIRE DIARIES. I'M EXPERIENCING ANOTHER TARA'S DEATH MOMENT. *mourns sobs mourns* :'(
• I believe that's the hottest kiss on the cheek I've ever seen in the history of television. Wait. Hottest kiss on the cheek EVER. Thank you, Damon, for bringing something new in my life. And thank you Vampire Diaries, that was a good way to say "See you on soon. " All with a proper bow followed by that flirty wink. I love it when everything comes full circle but leaves me wanting with a cliff hanger at the same time.
  

Rome. Season 1, Episode 4: Stealing From Saturn

The guy who played Quintus, Pompey's son, was the one who played 1st Lt. Harry Welsh in Band of Brothers. Small world? No, it's HBO. Plus, some people didn't know that Caesar had epilepsy. Anyway, I'd like to find out if the affair between Servilla and Caesar was historically accurate.


*some info from IMDb
pic from HBO

The Pacific. Part Seven

Great action sequences. But this has got to be the crappiest, ugliest war zone I've seen. It's all rocks, and dead trees. It looks like the land of Mordor, where the shadows lie. And John Basilone is still in the States, selling war bonds.


*pic from HBO

Rome. Season 1, Episode 3: An Owl in a Thornbush

I don't even know what the title's connection to the story is. There was no owl. And there was no thornbush. But there was fleeing. Pompey flees. Caesar takes Rome. Without bloodshed. And Atia is still the bitchiest woman in the ancient world.


*pic from HBO

Rome. Season 1, Episode 2: How Titus Pullo Brought Down the Republic

Well, just as the title says. I shouldn't even be explaining this show to you. You should just go and watch it. A show as beautiful as this cannot be explained with words. And we finally meet Lucius Vorenus' slutty wife. Okay, she's not slutty, because she thought he was dead. But still.


*pic from HBO

Rome. Season 1, Episode 1: The Stolen Eagle

Hooray for HBO. Big-budget HBO productions are always win. And hooray for Ciáran Hinds, for looking like Gaius Julius Caesar. Of course, no one really knows how Caesar looked like. But I'm pretty sure he looked like Ciáran Hinds.


*pic from hboasia.com