True Blood Season 2

Fiona and I watched all 12 episodes of True Blood's second season over the last couple of days, I actually rather enjoyed the first couple of episodes but then it all started going wrong, so very wrong.

For me at least ( Fiona rather enjoyed it ) the second season was a mess, there was just so much wasted time and boring story lines during the second season that I'm kind of shocked anyone was left watching the show by the end of the season although I guess all the nudity helped save the show.

In the name of keeping the wife happy I've ordered the third season Blu-ray set but honestly I'm not looking forward to it.

Hippies

OK I admit it, I only bought Hippies because Simon Pegg was in it and because it was cheap, the show was a mildly amusing little comedy but nothing special and I'd only recommend it to Simon Pegg fans, having now watched the first and only series I can see why a second series was never produced, to be honest I'm not sure why it was commissioned in the first place, it's not horrible or anything but it's just not really funny either.

Stuff and Nonsense

Finished Batman: Arkham City - loved it !

Watched the original Phantasm, hadn't seen it in around 15 years, I didn't remember it being so cheaply made and disjointed at times but it was still B-Grade fun.

Also watched to original The Fast and the Furious, looked and sounded nice on Blu-ray but it was a pretty average and very predictable movie, I can't believe that it got four sequels.

I had a lot more fun watching the Escape to Athena with it's big Hollywood ensemble cast along with the 1973 version of The Three Musketeers, both films looked pretty good for their age on Blu-ray, I'm hoping to watch The Four Musketeers later today, it's a pity that there weren't more films made in this series as they are a lot of fun.

Finally there was Ghost in the Shell: Innocence, I'd been interested in seeing this sequel to the original film for some time, the Blu-ray looked and sounded great but I thought the movie was a little disappointing - I guess you can't win them all.

Missed it by that much.

Fiona is staying at a friends shack for the night, well I guess she is, I spent a bunch of time on the phone this afternoon reading her directions to Greens Beach from Google maps, she went to Gravelly Beach by mistake, the kind of mistake that anyone could make even thought they are nowhere near each other.

True Blood Season 1

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Well Fiona and I finished watching True Blood season 1 a little while back and while Fiona really seemed to enjoy the show I have to say it really didn't do much for me.

I felt that the show had a lot of potential that it failed to reach, I think too much time was wasted on the angst driven romance between the leading characters when the show really would've benefited from better pacing and story telling.

I have season 2 on Blu-ray and I know Fiona is pretty keen to watch it sometime soon, I've heard very mixed things about season 2 so it will be interesting to see how the show develops.

Yet another movie ( or three ).

Well I've been out of the loop a bit of late, life has this horrible habit of getting in the way of the fun stuff but I have manages to watch a few movies on Blu-ray.

Over the last week I've re-watched the Underworld movies, I didn't enjoy them as much as I did the first time around and I'm not all that excited about seeing the new film in the series based on the trailer ( the Resident Evil films did something similar years ago ) but who knows it might be fun.

Ghost in the Shell: Innocence, I rather enjoyed the first Ghost in the Shell movie but I'd heard a lot of mixed things about this movie, I thought the Blu-ray looked fantastic but the movie itself was disappointing, very disappointing.

X-Men: First Class, I really enjoyed this movie, I think I can say this is my favorite of the X-Men films, I loved the whole 60's Avengers / James Bond spy-fi vibe that was going on and it was a fun story as well.

I'm pretty sure I've missed out something else but that's old age and a failing memory for you, I'll try to update this sucker on a more regular basis from now on but until recently my heart hasn't really been in it, sometimes real life can just suck.