Recent stuff.

I have just finished reading the first installment of a trilogy called 'The Black Magicians', the first book is called 'The Magicians Guild'. I did thoroughly enjoy this book and I'm gutted that I will have to wait until Christmas to get the rest of the books to read. It's about a world that is ruled by the king and the Magicians. The first book is about a young woman who is poor and lives in 'The Slums' part of the city, who discovers by chance that she has magical abilities, she does this by injuring magically one of the magicians. Thinking that she will be captured and killed for having abilities outside of the rich families, she goes on the run.

That was a brief description but it really is very good, cause it draws on a lot of modern day themes but is set in a different land and has the whole magical abilities thrown in. Subtly it deals with the issue of class. It really is fantastic.

Also I have watched the following recently;
'Forgetting Sarah Marshall'
'Ironman'
'Accepted'
and the t.v. show 'Heroes', which I finally managed to catch up on.

I enjoyed all of the above, though 'Heroes' and 'Ironman' were probably the best.

'Heroes' is fantastic because the twists and the overall plots and themes that go into it, much like the book above, it's ultimately about human nature, the abilities are a big part but it's more watchable with the powers being more of a situation to these characters rather than being a series that is purely about abilities as its focus. It is a bit like mini films every week.

'Accepted' was better than expected, (it's about a guy who can't get into any colleges so he makes his own), it sounds really bad but it wasn't really too predictable as you would assume, though I wouldn't add it to my DVD collection, (my brother might), it's still worth a watch, just once.

'Ironman' is amazing cause of the special effects but also cause the depth of the storyline, I finished watching it and just thought, 'Wow! That was so cool!!', which you may see me do a lot. But I can't find any flaws with it, not that I'd want to. I think that that is one way to see if it's a good film, that you don't come out searching in your head for something to winge about.

Finally, 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall'. I was a bit disappointed as I thought it would be funnier though I did still like it. It was weird I watched it and thought that it was ok but a couple hours later I wanted to watch it again. I think it's a film that you need to watch a couple of times before you come to like it a bit. There was some really funny bits in it. I don't normally bother about Russel Brand but I did think he was good in this, he was quite witty when I watched the gag reel.
The other part that was interesting about this is some of the scenes seemed to have their dialogue improvised, I could only tell this from watching special features though.

Overall I enjoyed it more than I thought, but it also wasn't as good as I thought it would be, if that makes sense, if it doesn't say so and I'll be happy to try to elaborate.

xxx