Sunday, February 28, 2010
New Tim Burton Movie!
I'm excited to go and see Tim Burton's new Alice in Wonderland movie! I think Johnny Depp will be great as the Mad Hatter. I think I've seen every movie version that's ever been made of Alice in Wonderland! I first saw the Disney cartoon and loved it and have seen every version that's been made ever since. I know the story and characters well, but i have never actually read any of the books. I know this might surprise and shock everyone, but I've have never actually read Alice in Wonderland before. I plan on getting the book soon. Everyone should know that Tim Burton's new movie will be a sequel to the first 2 books Alice in Wonderland, and Though the Looking Glass. In this new movie version, Alice is 18 years old and has forgotten about her first trip to Wonderland as a child. Everyone in Wonderland from the White Rabbit, to the Mad Hatter still remembers Alice though. The Red Queen has taken over Wonderland, and it's up to Alice to free Wonderland from evil. I'm very surprised that it's taken Tim Burton this long to do a movie based on Alice in Wonderland!
My First dvd Review!
Right now, I'm watching Farscape. Farscape ran for a total of 4 seasons. It was on the Sci-Fi channel from 1999-2003. I just got the whole series on Amazon for $59.99! I've already watched seasons 1 and 2. I just started watching season 3. The show is about an astronaut named John Crichton, who is testing a new spaceship when he ends up in this wormhole and finds himself in a part of the galaxy that no human has ever seen before. He ends up on this living ship named Monya, and when he first arrives, he gets into the middle of a wild prison break. Monya is a prison ship and all of the Aliens have just broken themselves free. When Crichton first arrives, there's an Alien, a warrior, a King and a nun. We find out during season 1, that not all of the Aliens are guilty of the crimes they were put in prison for. Crichton and his new Alien shipmates, are stuck and trying to find a way to get back home. This was a Jim Henson Company Series, so some of the Aliens are Muppets. I never realized this when I watched the show when it was first on, but it is a very original show, I can honestly say that it was way ahead of it's time. The Aliens are truly Alien! The creature designs are just awesome! The characters are in danger at all times. Anything can happen to any one character at any time, so no one is ever safe. The show keeps you guessing about what will happen next. Every Sci-Fi fan should watch Farscape!
robert parker books
Author robert parker also came up with 2 new characters named jesse stone and sunny randall. robert parker newest book which just came out last week is the newest jesse stone book. The new book is called split image. This is book number 9 in the jesse stone series. The series starts off with jesse getting laid off from the l.a. cop force, his wife is cheating on him, he,s drinking too much. He ends up getting hired as the new police chief in paradise. Where the spenser books can be light, the jesse stone books are heavy and hard hitting. anyone can read the spenser books but from my point of view the stone books are more for grown ups. The storys and plots have more going on, the mysterys are better, the books give you more to think about. For parkers other P.I. sunny randall, the character was created for actress helen hunt. robert parker and helen hunt met and became friends and she asked him to creat a character for her to play in a movie. So robert parker came up with sunny randall and wrote what became the first book in a new series. He took the story everywhere but no one and i mean no one wanted helen hunt to play the part. Hollywood big shots wanted any other actress for the role. so robert parker published the story as a book and it was a bestseller and he had a new book series.
spenser books
i,m sure everyone heard how author robert parker died in early january from a heart attack. he is the author of the spenser book series. spenser is a private eye that works and lives in boston. almost all the spenser novels take place in or around boston. we have seen melrose in one of the spenser books and both melrose and malden have been talked about in the books. It,s fun reading about places you know in books. For everyone old enough to remember there was a tv series based off the books called spenser for hire. robert urich was spenser, avery brooks was hawk and barbara stock was susan silverman and there was pearl the wonder dog. The tv series was awesome, it was filmed here in boston for 3 years. the show was a big hit but i don,t think it ever was as big as cheers or any other shows that were on at that time. it was canceled after the end of season 3. To me and alot of other fans robert urich was spenser. avery brooks was great as hawk and barbara stock was good as susan. Whenever i read the spenser books, i always picture robert urich as spenser. After hearing that robert parker died, i reread the newest spenser book then went back to read some of the other new spenser books then i went back to the very start of the series and started reading the book series in order. I have been reading the spenser book series for most of the winter. I,m now on book 17. There are 37 spenser books in all.
my first blog
well my blog will be about movies, tv, dvd, comic books, books. I,ll write reviews and news about movies and everything else that i,m watching or reading. I,ll have a crew of my friends also writing on my blog. My blogs name is our very strange world.
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