Saturday Synopsis: 300

"Go tell the Spartans, passer-by: that here, by Spartan law, we lie."

Hello everyone!

So as I wrote earlier this week somewhere, I decided to switch my blog posts around a little because I saw something on the television schedule that made me grin. 

Tuesday or Wednesday night, one of our channels aired 300, and I was stoked.

There is virtually nothing better to get you right out of the holiday cheer and back into the real world than some old-fashioned ass-kicking, which 300 delivers in spades and then some. Sure it's gory - but for all that it makes up with witty lines and ridiculous hilarity throughout.

Also, watching half-naked guys running around all muscled is a plus.

Since I'd already reviewed the sequel, I figured I might as well wait until this Saturday to post a review for the original movie from 2006 which pretty much made everything else Greek look fairly nansy in comparison.

I mean, come on - the Spartans literally lived for war, after all.

Talkie Tuesday: 300 Rise of an Empire

"Let it be shown: we chose to die on our feet rather than live on our knees!"

Hello everyone!

Happy New Year! 

I hope you rang it in well and that you've made all your resolutions and such. Me, I've never really been one for those, but I have made myself a few promises that I intend to keep. That being said, however, it's Tuesday again, and do you know what that means?

Another movie review!

And since there's literally no holiday cheer left - I wrung it all out in December, regardless that I kept on watching some Christmas movies after Christmas - I picked a VERY different movie for tonight.

I'm not entirely sure you can go any more different from cute and fluffy than covered with gore and blood.

Having more time for movies now means I catch the occasional one on television, and 300: Rise of an Empire aired a week or so ago, making sure I hunkered down, got my nibbles, strapped myself with a safety helmet, and watched the Greeks and Persians duke it out.

Game of Thrones: Stormborn

"The Great War is here."

Hello everyone!

It's time for episode two! 

And boy, what an episode it was. Considering the fact that I've had some of my friends complain, or at least mutter, that the premiere of the show wasn't necessarily as explosive as one might expect from a series which keeps its viewers hanging for a full year before returning, well, let me just say Stormborn more than made up for it.

We have all the major players coming onto the board, whether directly or indirectly, some loose plotholes are being filled up, and all I'm still waiting for now is another Ed Sheeran song cover!

He IS going to be including one for the season seven official soundtrack, right?

Anyway.

As is usual for my reviews, links to the previous episode(s) will be found at the end of the blog post, so you can refresh your memory with those before jumping straight into Stormborn.

Saturday Snippet: GoT

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*image not mine

Talkie Tuesday: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie 

in possession of brains must be in want of more brains."

Hello everyone!

This blog post is LONG overdue. 

And I mean, extremely overdue.

The thing is, sometimes when I'm typing things up and posting them on here, what happens is that I want to get the most obvious (and usually the most novel at the time) choices out into the open, which doesn't include some of those that are left in my little notebook.

So, accordingly, I reach some much longer after I should have, I suppose.

That being said, it really is a shame that I've only just gotten to this particular movie as I can well remember LOVING it when I saw it. I was hugely skeptical for a majority of reasons (all of which have to do with how the production houses handle the undead nowadays) but insanely glad when I got over that and made myself sit down, and watch it.

I'm talking about Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, of course.