bleh busy

I have been so busy these past couple of months. Stuff has been exploding everywhere.

I promise to try to post more often. But for now I give a couple of book and movie reviews

Book: Guenevere Trilogy by Rosalind Miles.

Good series. I have had the first book for a couple of years but I never managed to read it. The series is told from the perspective of Guenevere mostly with Arthur, Merlin and others taking their turn at it too. The book starts before Guenevere and Arthur meet just before he pulls the sword from the stone and goes until the last battle where Arthur falls. At times these books (there are three) are a bit hard to read just because they are a bit overly wordy but they are still good and quite entertaining. I do recommend leaving some time in between books other wise you might end up not liking the books.

Movie: One Missed Call (American Version)

Yet another rip off of a good movie. I think the original was Korean though I am not too sure on that right now since it has been awhile since I saw the original. This one did have a couple of scary moments though. Be aware Spoilers follow. If you do not want to read them skip ahead to the fourth paragraph.

The basic plot is that people start getting calls where they hear the last minute or so of life but the call comes from some time in the future which is when they are going to die. The deaths were so fake. At least in the original most of the deaths were plausible though unlikely. At any rate, the main characters friends start dying so she investigates and eventually she gets the call. She thinks she has it all figured out. There was a woman who disappeared after a hospital fire and the deaths mostly relate back to that hospital. So she thinks that the woman was never found and is angry about it. But she is wrong. She runs into the hospital (no flashlight as usual) and finds the woman who had crawled into a duct to hide holding a phone. Yay! It's all over.

Or is it... It's not. After going to the see surviving daughter of the dead woman the cop (who was involved before, his sister died and he is helping the girl in question) realizes that the bear the girl has is a nanny cam. After watching the disc inside he realizes that the girl's sister, who died of an asthma attack while calling for help, was the one hurting the girl and that the mother was not abusing the girls like everyone thought. It was really the other girl who was killing people. He goes to help the main character was is in danger from the dead girl. He messes up and dies. The girl tries to kill the main character but the freed dead mother stops her and sends her back into the phone to continue the cycle.

All in all an ok movie. Not very good, not bad. Just ok. It did have a couple of scary moments and I suppose if you have not watched a lot of asian horror movies you might be scared and maybe like it. It is along the same lines as the Ring. Scaryish if you have not seen the original or if you only really watch american movies. However it is worth a bit of a laugh if you do like asian horror movies since it is similar to the original. Whatever you do don't take it too seriously if you decide to watch it.