The Lovely Heartbreak

I don't know why I waited so long to see this movie. I loved the book and looked forward to the movie but when I had the first of many opportunities to see the movie I chose not to. Finally I watched it and I cried almost as much as when I saw Passion of The Christ. I've actually got a headache now from all my blubbering. The movie was an astounding and lovely adaptation of the book. All the actors aside from Rachel Weisz (weird cause she's a great actress but in this she just felt detached) flawlessly made their characters real. I wasn't to keen on Mark Wahlberg playing the dad but he changed my mind and made me believe him with every emotion that played across his face and body. Saoirse Ronan was the key to the whole movie, at time average looking and childlike and other times hauntingly beautiful with eyes that pierce like glass. Everything about this movie was haunting and sad and powerful. My only negative was that SPOILER the ending was different than in the book. In the book Susie's killer played by Stanley Tucci (His performance was so chilling and enraging) gets caught and her body is found. In the movie neither happen it ends with her killer rolling her 3-4 year old dead body stuffed into a safe into a huge hole before in gets filled in. While Susie's "ghost" kisses her would be boyfriend in another girls body. The whole thing just made me cry and repeat NO NO NO it was just disappointing not on a movie level but a personal one where I was counting on her body being found and the bad guy going to jail to put my own heart at ease. In the end an ice sickle falls on the killers shoulder causing him to fall over a cliff and die. All thing said and done this was a great movie. The purgatory scenes are out of this world and the whole storyline will break your heart. Susan Sarandon did a great job to as the cool grandmother come to help the family keep it together. She offered the only comedic balance as the one person who handled the loss the best & brought little joys to the family with her city girl limitations!

Heartbreak In 8 Episodes Or Less

Well my stupid computer won't let me upload any photos right now so I'll have to come back and edit this later. I have to do this now though. I just watched the last episode of Skins season 4. I woke up at noon and between then and now I've spent a good 5 hours and 20 minutes sitting on my bum at the computer watching the entire season! It's an addicting show. An wow. wow. wow.

SPOILER alert... I had read some things online about this season and while some were true others are not. I really felt this season was tighter and more together than the last. All the characters had good story lines that weaved in and out of each other nicely. Last year it got a bit choppy. I love the Emily and Naomi love story and this season they were on the outs. A lot. In the last episode when Naomi spills her heart out to Emily It was so real and I'm sure most people have felt and done things that couldn't have been explained any better than in her characters words! So they pull through and honestly if they didn't the show writers would have a riot on their hands cause of all the fans rooting for them. On to Effy... In the first two seasons she was my favorite character so illusive and mysterious and disconnected, I loved her. In season 3 they cracked her open and gave her more life... life that I felt was better left undiscovered. This season it's a bit of both worlds. She goes mental which I found surprising cause she's always so within herself. It was believable though and I liked how Freddie tied into it all. I've never been a Freddie fan he's just a bit to robotic. Seeing him care for Effy made him so much more endearing and human. I knew that doctor was no good! I was shocked when he murdered Freddie. I cried. Tears. For a TV show! They filmed it brilliantly. The blood on the glass and the sounds... much more tormenting that seeing it happen in a way. It was very disturbing. The darkest skins has ever gone. The chemistry was off without him at the last party and you got a sense of "is this it? no one is ever going to know the truth...?" You gotta love Cook though for being as Effy put it "brave" charging his killer like that, and so you know he took care of him. Cook's storyline was loads better this season and I really think Jack O'Connell who plays Cook is the best actor on the show. He has the most cross over potential I think out of all the casts. I also like Katie this season, she was less bitchy and I liked that she stopped being the girl who always had to have a boyfriend. I wanted more Pandora though and I thought her getting into Harvard was a joke but so shall it be. I've read a lot of comments about how the season ended crap and didn't give closure. Here is what I think... It's not the end really, that's the point of how they left it... life goes on. People change but they also stay the same. Bad things happen, some can be fixed others can't. Love is shit and drives you mad but it's worth every ounce of sorrow. An we can all be thankful life really isn't a fucking TV show where writers decide your fate!

Skins Series 4 Behind The Scenes

I've found a crap load of photos of the cast filming and on location for series 4 of skins and a few extra and random shots of the cast hanging out, eating cupcakes and wielding fake (hopefully) guns. I love this show and have come to love the new cast, not as a reflection of the old one which is irreplaceable but in their own right they are all amazing actors that have encompassed some brilliantly written characters. The start of series 4 isn't too far off and while we only get 8 (Ekkk!) episodes, the new trailer proves it's going to be unpredictable, dramatic and lots of fun to watch. I've been hearing lots of spoiler rumors but I think we can all expect the last episode to leave us wanting more. I think someone is going to die, based on the gun clips and blog rumors but I really doubt it's Emily! I just hope Freddie's little sis Karen doesn't take over as the Effy of the 3rd cast and 5th season cause I'm sorry but I can't stand her character!