Dog Soldiers, Dexter and Family Guy

There aren't many recent horror movies about werewolves as far as I'm aware. Actually after checking the wonderfully unnecessary werewolf movies database there's been quite a few. Including this frankly fantastic description for Big Fish "An estranged son recalls his dying fathers life through the fairytale stories he told when he was a child. Excellent movie, but only a brief werewolf segment.". Anyway, Sean Pertwee is in this film so as you can expect a lot of death is going to happen, including his own. I'm not spoiling the plot, merely pointing out that Sean Pertwee never survives a whole film, he probably gets it written into his contract before every role. As far as British horror movies go this a good one, when it came out people talked about it revitalizing a dead genre, blah blah and all that. Watching it now the werewolves look pretty bad, it's either a guy in a suit or a puppet. But the film still brings up a few twists, turns and shocks along the way. It deserves the four moons it got on werewolf database.

I also managed to catch the first episode of season 4 of Dexter. Why, I'm not sure though. I spend so much time moaning about the show's flaws yet I still return like a victim of domestic abuse. I just can't walk away from it. It opens like every Dexter season opens, a miss-leading little segment about him supposedly getting ready to kill when he's not. Haw haw. That I don't mind though, what really pissed me off about the new season is two things. Firstly they've brought back Dokes, only channelled him through that buffoon Quinn who looks like he should be in The Fast And The Furious (he hasn't, been a load of shit films though). Not only that but they've taken unnecessary romance to a new high with the fat goatee'd detective and the female boss getting it on. That's not even mentioning the love triangle growing with his sister. But all these detractions aside, the new story angle so far is that "the greatest never caught serial killer" is in town and Dexter is really tired. Which actually makes for interesting viewing. I'm willing to stick with it for another season, but my word if they give the Vince guy a love interest as well I'm out. That would be a step too far.

Family Guy used to be the height of hilarity for me, but it's kind of meandered off into it's own rectum of late. Especially when South Park has actually been putting out the kind of episodes that are pretty much the closest thing to satirical perfection. So I watched the season premiere or whatever just because for 20 minutes of your life you can do a whole lot worse. King Of The Hill for example, that show is just terrible. Anyway, its another Stewie and Brian adventure. Which would have been a terrible thing back in the day but they're probably the two best characters in it these days. As you can tell my prose here is beginning to be a bit meandering but that's the general feel of the show, its not quite what it was but its still entertaining. I pretty much summed it up with there are a lot worse things to do with 20 minutes of your life, but when South Park is back they'll also be a lot better.

Wanted

I quite enjoyed Nightwatch, over the top, ridiculous yet very entertaining. So the idea of this film seemed quite appealing to me. It even has Morgan Freeman in it. Doing pretty much exactly what he did in Lucky Number Slevin. Although that's no bad thing as that was also a great movie. Anyway, McAvoy is in it. His accent is pretty terrible. When he's shouting/whining he sounds kind of Scottish to me. I may just be adding that myself though, just to fuel my reasons for not liking him. Because I don't really. Not sure why, he just annoys me. When his mouth opens, my heart sinks. He's not really made a decent movie ever. This doesn't count. I also haven't seen The Last King Of Scotland. And according to his wiki that's pretty much half of his fims. The music is also terrible. Not sure if that's deliberate though. I like to think it is. Because if you watch the movie thinking "it's only doing this because it couldn't happen" it becomes quite enjoyable. It literally goes out of it's way to push the limits of acceptable ridiculousness. Like a clown fighting a bear in a suit, it teeters on the edge of being too much to imbue in one film. I am tempted to pick up the comic it's based on as well, seems alright. Although wikipedia did tell me the lead character is "drawn to look like Eminem". Which coincidently is what the Russian rat carrying guy looks like, just a more middle aged version. It is good fun, Jolie looks attractive (it's hit and miss with her), there's alot of slow-motion and the world is controlled by a fucking weaving machine. Good times.

On an unrelated note, watched episode two of Spiral. Things haven't picked up much really, something about deaf people came into it. Not much progress on the main story. I'm hoping it's not going to get bogged down in a hundred billion mini tales going on at once. I realised that keeping up with the subtitles is hard enough, I'm used to occasionally looking away or poking my leg or something while watching things but during this I realise I've missed half a scene and have no idea what's happened because I can't understand French. Still, I'll try and get my hands on episode three, as it's the only TV show I have on the go untill Dexter, 30 Rock and South Park return. That and Peep Show actually, first episode held back on the cringe but still tickles the insides. Six seasons and it's still worth watching, that's definitely a rare thing.

Dexter (Season 3)

Two posts in one night. I've never been this productive before. Although when this level of production can be produced from the comfort of my bed I guess it's not that much of an achievement. What is an achievement though is the many faces Micheal C Hall has for looking deep in malevolent thought. I swear he puts a new spin on it every episode. He is though the best part of Dexter. The overall story arcs have been good on the whole, season one he meets his match, season two he almost gets found out, season three he makes a friend (or does he?). This is pretty much where the good stuff ends. Luckily Sgt. James Dokes didn't make it into season three. Which is good. Because he was terrible. He looked like someone who got killed around about half-way through a film like Predator. Not in relation to a certain actor, I mean he looks a b-movie actor. Someone who just says "sheeeeiiiiiit" a lot. Like Clay Davis. If you get that reference you get 10 points. Anyway, another terrible part is his sister. I like the writing in the show, not necessarily the dialogue but the stories are good. Apart from the fact there seems to be some kind of necessity to get Dexter's sister (and real life wife, a strange choice) laid and fall in love. Every time. Why? Just have an extra 10 minutes an episode of murders? Or maybe have some Tarantino style dialogue about nothing. About burgers. I don't know. I study animals. To boil down my points here, it's a good show. Although if you're like me you may end up hating all the other characters as they are just plain sterotypes. As opposed to the complex character of Dexter who is fantastic. Although are we just seeing the characters the way Dexter wants us to? As simple charactures that are mere pawns in his life of murder? No probably not. But still, great fun and well worth picking up the first three seasons if you think there's more to Miami than CSI. Or Miami Vice. Jesus, let's hope there's more to anything than Miami Vice.