Talkie Tuesday: Mulan 1998

 

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all."

 

Hello everyone!

 

After a fun-filled October where we explored the different books to choose from for fall reads (and didn't even make a dent, let me tell you), it's back to the good old usual blog posts, which consist, but are not limited to, movies and books.

 

And of course, The Mandalorian has just started streaming again!

 

If you haven't yet seen the silver bucket head and his adorable green side-kick, I suggest you do, they're basically the best thing to come out of the Star Wars universe by Disney in a long, long time.

 

But I digress.

 

BEFORE I went on my Booktober binge here, I wrote up a review about the newly released Mulan. This would be the 2020 one, mind, and, yes, it's about as good as reviews make it, which is to say, not so good.

 

Since I needed to cleanse my palate after watching that confusion, I went right back to the very first Disney movie I ever saw in cinemas, and I was about nine or ten years old at the time, let me tell you. Nine going on ten, and you see the big expanse of white with the Huns suddenly rushing down, is SOMETHING.

 

The 1998 version of Mulan is something else.

 

The Lost Legion (Booktober)

 

"Go towards your destiny, faithful heart, and we towards ours."

 

 

This book by H. Warner Munn is a little bit of a dark horse, because I feel like most people will know The Last Legion, but not this one. The Lost Legion tells the story of a (you guessed it) Roman legion which is sent by an insane emperor to find survivors of an ancient battle. The emperor just wants to get rid of it because he senses its commander is dangerous, but said commander has too much pride and honour to turn back once this comes to light, and continues on the trek towards China and the Great Wall on his hopeless quest. And tagging along with them is a woman who, if all goes well, just might become the ancestor of none other than Attila the Hun ...

 

 

 

The mad Roman emperor Caligula sends a crack legion on a hopeless task to recover the standard of a Roman Army that disappeared 100 years earlier ...

(from Goodreads)

 

xx

*image not mine

 

The Bourne Trilogy (Booktober)

Becoming Mrs. Lewis (Booktober)

Lord John Grey (Booktober)

The Last Wish (Booktober)

The Inheritance Cycle (Booktober)

His Dark Materials (Booktober)

The White Queen (Booktober)

The Thorn Birds (Booktober)

The Bourbon Kings (Booktober)

Cop of the Year (Booktober)

Nefertiti (Booktober)

Timeline (Booktober)

The Murder at the Vicarage (Booktober)

Persuasion (Booktober)

The Longest Ride (Booktober)

Midnight Sun (Booktober)

Percy Jackson & the Olympians (Booktober)

The Chronicles of Narnia (Booktober)

Atlantis (Booktober)

Origin (Booktober)

Quo Vadis (Booktober)

Death on the Nile (Booktober)

The Little White Horse (Booktober)

The Sign of Four (Booktober)

Harry Potter #2 (Booktober)

Troublemaker (Booktober)

The Lord of the Rings (Booktober)

Talkie Tuesday: Mulan 2020

 

"Loyal, brave and true."

 

Hello everyone!

 

So every little chick and their mother are chirping about this movie. 

 

And when I say everyone, mind you, I mean EVERYONE.

 

Everywhere you turn you can see some sort of commentary on this, from good to bad (mostly bad though). There are a couple of positive reviews but, unfortunately, most of this is as negative as it comes, and I do believe only one other got such a bad reception from audiences.

 

The Disney company used to have a good heading and knew where they were going. I'm starting to believe that might not be the case anymore. 

 

After the Star Wars debacle (still hotly debated all around the internet), the live-action remakes of beloved cartoons was always going to be a dicey proposition.

 

But I liked two of those. I haven't seen the rest yet, but I'm planning on it.

 

This one I was unsure about going in, and it turns out I was right. Mulan is one of those things you'd think they couldn't get wrong - but they did. 

 

Talkie Tuesday: The Great Wall

"Kill the Queen - or we all die."

Hello everyone!

I'm making quite a dent in my movie reviews, I've noticed, looking at the ones still waiting on the to be reviewed pile, which makes me quite happy. Plus, I still have a ton of them waiting in the to be watched pile so I'm not even remotely worried about running out of material! 

Plus, I've just come to a decision.

As DIVA, or the European version of Hallmark Channel, has been channelling its inner-Christmas Elf since November 6th, I will be doing Christmas movie reviews as soon as December hits. Who knows? I may gather enough of them to be able to do both Tuesday AND Saturday blog posts as reviews!

But anyway.

The movie I picked for tonight is one of Matt Damon's recent ones where, post-Bourne, we try to envision him as something other than a CIA agent gone rogue. The Great Wall might have a lot to show in terms of entertainment, but whether or not it actually delivers anything else ... I'll leave that up to you guys.