Woke up this morning to a snowy, sleety, grey sort of day. But since I don't have to be anywhere, I don't mind so much, since I have a maha chai on hand, a bag of popcorn, and a free afternoon. Okay, technically I should be studying but... eh, my first exam isn't until next Wednesday.
Why did I not know about the television series 'The Tudors'? Especially considering who's in it, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Henry Cavill, Callum Blue, and Jeremy Northam. Um. Yes, hot British men for the win! Must find better screencaps...
ETA: Now I know why I haven't heard much about it. It's because Showtime locks out any non-American IP from visiting their website. Completely, can't even get to the homepage. Wow- that's remarkably draconian. Hrmmph.
Also, like I need to add another show. I'm thinking this one will have to wait until the summer.
But, speaking of new tv shows- I finally started watching Doctor Who on the weekend.
EEEEEEEEEeeee! It's so much fun! I like Rose alot, except when she's being slightly condescending to people in the past (ie. Gweneth in the third episode). And I love the Doctor- so snarky and dry. I just finished 'The Doctor Dances' so you know what that means- I've also seen Jack. :D
I have to say- while I liked him in Torchwood, I didn't understand all the fuss over him. But seeing him in this- I think I get it. Especially while he and Rose were flirting on top of his invisible ship parked beside Big Ben, right in the middle of a German air raid.
Also- Gwen! In a slightly different form- is the character in Torchwood supposed to be her descendant? Was that ever explained?
And Tosh! (Was she working for Torchwood yet in Doctor Who?)
Also- I thought this was meant to be a family show. NO one told me that there's freaky bad guys that are scarier than the ones in Supernatural! The kid with the gas mask? I was watching it at 1 in the morning and halfway through the episode I had to turn on the lights because I was getting slightly freaked out.
I think I may be turning into a Rose/Doctor 'shipper, just a little. I'm waiting to see where they go with it.
As well on the weekend, my cousin and I watched 'Blood and Chocolate'. The best description of it that I've seen of it is this: 'It's just like the book, except for the parts that they change everything except the names and the fact that Vivian falls in love with a meat boy.'
Ooh boy, was that accurate.
Basically the whole movie was us going WTF??? They changed 'X', why????
- Both Vivian's parents are dead.
- She lives in Bucharest with Astrid, who is a blonde, spends most of the movie in these ridiculous bathrobes and a has total personality transplant
- Rafe is Astrid's son. If you've read the book, you know why that's so wrong. He also has a British accent, for some strange reason, even though his mother is American, and his father is French
- Gabriel is a 40 year old French man, who hates all humans and kidnaps a human every month for the pack to hunt.
- Aidan is an artist (okay, that's the same), who can't return to the United States because there's an arrest warrent out for him- because he almost killed his abusive father in a fight.
- Vivian is shy, timid, and all 'We can't be together- I'm spoken for' for most of the movie
- Aidan finds out that Vivian is a werewolf, and he's... pretty much fine with it.
- Rafe is also GABRIEL'S son.
*At this point, my cousin and I just looked at each other and went 'Is there ANYTHING remotely resembling the plot of the book here?'*
- There's some sort of quasi-mythology stuff running through the entire movie where Vivian is supposed to the 'savior' of the werewolves. *eyeroll*
- Aidan kills Rafe.
- Gabriel vows revenge in ridiculously over-the-top fashion and kidnaps Aidan.
- Vivian saves Aidan from being killed by the pack- after uselessly standing around, letting Gabriel set the pack on him
- Astrid catches Aidan and Vivian trying to leave the city. She lets them go voluntarily, and even gives Aidan a gun.
- Vivian shoots Gabriel and kills him
- There's a ridiculous action-y type ending, complete with a building on fire, finally exploding as Vivian and Aidan escape, running in slow-mo
- Vivian and Aidan escape the city and decide to go to Paris. Oookay, then.
And thus ends the movie.
*blinks*
Wow- and some authors complain about fanfiction writers harming their precious babies, raping their canon and all that stuff. This is goes almost beyond what the newest 13-year old Mary Sue writer would do. 'Hmm. I don't like that character. Let's kill her off. I don't like that ending, so I'm going to write my own.'
I don't think I've ever seen a book-adapted movie stray so completely from the book canon. If I were Annette Curtis Klause, I'd be pissed that the screenplay writers basically took my title, character names, and popularity among young adult genre readers and wrote their own story, completely changing the main message.
I'm sure she was paid well for the rights, and that she didn't have much input on how they were going to change it... but what was wrong with the original story in the first place?
Why did I not know about the television series 'The Tudors'? Especially considering who's in it, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Henry Cavill, Callum Blue, and Jeremy Northam. Um. Yes, hot British men for the win! Must find better screencaps...
ETA: Now I know why I haven't heard much about it. It's because Showtime locks out any non-American IP from visiting their website. Completely, can't even get to the homepage. Wow- that's remarkably draconian. Hrmmph.
Also, like I need to add another show. I'm thinking this one will have to wait until the summer.
But, speaking of new tv shows- I finally started watching Doctor Who on the weekend.
EEEEEEEEEeeee! It's so much fun! I like Rose alot, except when she's being slightly condescending to people in the past (ie. Gweneth in the third episode). And I love the Doctor- so snarky and dry. I just finished 'The Doctor Dances' so you know what that means- I've also seen Jack. :D
I have to say- while I liked him in Torchwood, I didn't understand all the fuss over him. But seeing him in this- I think I get it. Especially while he and Rose were flirting on top of his invisible ship parked beside Big Ben, right in the middle of a German air raid.
Also- Gwen! In a slightly different form- is the character in Torchwood supposed to be her descendant? Was that ever explained?
And Tosh! (Was she working for Torchwood yet in Doctor Who?)
Also- I thought this was meant to be a family show. NO one told me that there's freaky bad guys that are scarier than the ones in Supernatural! The kid with the gas mask? I was watching it at 1 in the morning and halfway through the episode I had to turn on the lights because I was getting slightly freaked out.
I think I may be turning into a Rose/Doctor 'shipper, just a little. I'm waiting to see where they go with it.
As well on the weekend, my cousin and I watched 'Blood and Chocolate'. The best description of it that I've seen of it is this: 'It's just like the book, except for the parts that they change everything except the names and the fact that Vivian falls in love with a meat boy.'
Ooh boy, was that accurate.
Basically the whole movie was us going WTF??? They changed 'X', why????
- Both Vivian's parents are dead.
- She lives in Bucharest with Astrid, who is a blonde, spends most of the movie in these ridiculous bathrobes and a has total personality transplant
- Rafe is Astrid's son. If you've read the book, you know why that's so wrong. He also has a British accent, for some strange reason, even though his mother is American, and his father is French
- Gabriel is a 40 year old French man, who hates all humans and kidnaps a human every month for the pack to hunt.
- Aidan is an artist (okay, that's the same), who can't return to the United States because there's an arrest warrent out for him- because he almost killed his abusive father in a fight.
- Vivian is shy, timid, and all 'We can't be together- I'm spoken for' for most of the movie
- Aidan finds out that Vivian is a werewolf, and he's... pretty much fine with it.
- Rafe is also GABRIEL'S son.
*At this point, my cousin and I just looked at each other and went 'Is there ANYTHING remotely resembling the plot of the book here?'*
- There's some sort of quasi-mythology stuff running through the entire movie where Vivian is supposed to the 'savior' of the werewolves. *eyeroll*
- Aidan kills Rafe.
- Gabriel vows revenge in ridiculously over-the-top fashion and kidnaps Aidan.
- Vivian saves Aidan from being killed by the pack- after uselessly standing around, letting Gabriel set the pack on him
- Astrid catches Aidan and Vivian trying to leave the city. She lets them go voluntarily, and even gives Aidan a gun.
- Vivian shoots Gabriel and kills him
- There's a ridiculous action-y type ending, complete with a building on fire, finally exploding as Vivian and Aidan escape, running in slow-mo
- Vivian and Aidan escape the city and decide to go to Paris. Oookay, then.
And thus ends the movie.
*blinks*
Wow- and some authors complain about fanfiction writers harming their precious babies, raping their canon and all that stuff. This is goes almost beyond what the newest 13-year old Mary Sue writer would do. 'Hmm. I don't like that character. Let's kill her off. I don't like that ending, so I'm going to write my own.'
I don't think I've ever seen a book-adapted movie stray so completely from the book canon. If I were Annette Curtis Klause, I'd be pissed that the screenplay writers basically took my title, character names, and popularity among young adult genre readers and wrote their own story, completely changing the main message.
I'm sure she was paid well for the rights, and that she didn't have much input on how they were going to change it... but what was wrong with the original story in the first place?