Majou no Jouken Eps 6-7, Total Recall (Remake), It Could Happen to You, The Birds - End, Sorun Bende Değil Sende

Ok I have finally given in and started to root for our taboo couple. They seem to love eachother very much and the teacher is simly not mature enough to be able to think clearly. I was pretty immature at her age too (thank God it didn't manifest itself as anything drastic as the one in the show) this is the side effect of a spoiled childhood where you are loved well and a lot :)
And they are good people too. They both wanted to help the abused girl and if they had not interfered she may have committed suicide (yeah that got me into their corner pretty fast). Also his uncle didn't judge them and helped them out, who am I to do otherwise?

This weekend was again more social than I care for. So I only watched two films

Total Recall (Remake): It just was not good. I mean everything was there but somehow the whole thing lacked something (such as good acting maybe, the only good actor in the cast showed up and died in less than one minute and the second best stood only for maybe 5 min total) The leading ladies are both pretty and fit but you can't get a good performance out of them even if you add them together. Colin Farell in my case is someone I can't easily sympathise with since he looks very much like a guy who has given me troubles in the past. Maybe I should watch the original since the story could have been interesting.

It Could Happen to You This is a very good rom com and warmed the heart as it was supposed to do (I don't know how many times I have watched it but I still cry at the scenes I have cried the first time I saw it.

Meanwhile I have finished The Birds and the Other Stories, and a delightful surprise was The Little Photographer; a story I have read when I was in elementary school (secretly reading my mother's womanly magazines) and even though it was way above my age at the time, remember liking a lot. And it was even better in English (although the Turkish translation at the magazine was not half bad). All in all I love Ms. Du Maurier.

Now my book stock is dangerously low (two books remained only) so I did some shopping  and purchased three books of a blog writer (internet phenomenon, as they are known in Turkey) pinkfreud, and it is not really bad but not what I have expected. Her blog is a bit like what Joan Rivers does but done way way better.
The name of the book is Sorun Bende Değil Sende (I think the best translation would be "It is not Me It's You") I read it and don't dislike it but don't like the format (a new guy in every chapter with some pop sociology scattered through).

Majou No Jouken - Eps. 4-5

Ok not only the teacher has slept with the student, but also she announced her love in front of the whole school. Now everyone is trying to break them up  - except her bf (who btw is in love with the teacher's now ex fiancé). Now her mom is a cool woman but her reasoning is that she should break up with the kid because she is damaging him. Not one single person says that a 17 year old kid is too young to have an affair with his teacher. You know what, I wouldn't mind that much if she was not her teacher, because she obviously loves him and is good for him. But being in a position of power over him, she should have a conscience. But the all consuming love conquered I suppose.

Majou no Jouken Eps 3, The Midnight Tour - End, The Birds and Other Stories

Well Michi has officially gone to the dark side in Majou no Jouken. She kissed the poor kid. This drama is kind of an exercise for me. I have to stop judging people and I'm trying very hard not to judge this woman. She has encouraged the kid and I don't know how they will continue to - yeah I'm having difficulty in saying this but- date. Seriously woman how could you???? (Have to stop judging).

The Midnight Tour has ended and it was not necessarily a happy one. It is kind of sad to know that Mr.Laymon will not be writing another beast novel. Rest in peace man.

Now I have started

And it is fantastic so far (well I have only read about 10 pages or so).


Now the serious problem is that my book stocks have dwindled to one unread book and it is another Laymon so I need to do some serious book shopping. I wish I was able to go to a decent bookstore and browse (like Remzi Kitabevi). 

Majou No Jouken Eps 1-2

Hmmmm it was on an impulse buy I purchased this. The story is about the romantic love between a teacher and her student. She is very young and pretty (well off and well connected parents, a decent fiance) and he is a teen full of angst (rich, dad passed away, mom is sleeping with a subordinate). They are attracted to each other and he has no problem admitting it but she is trying very hard not to give in. And she should you know, she is his teacher!!!!! But then again who am I to judge? And they don't make it easy by making the kid a capable adultish mature person, he is troubled, very young and looks like he just graduated from elementary school. So far I'm interested, watching the teacher struggle with her desire (and to be fair I think they are soul mates or something and both actors are capable enough to make me think it the first time they met) and the way she wants things. The woman has everything, loving parents who spoil her, a nice job she likes where she is doing ok (not very well mind you but ok), a decent fiancé who likes her and is eager and ready to live a life with her -he is a bit of an oaf loud and not with very good manners but he is a happy person who trusts her and wants her to keep working after marriage because -wait for it-  one of the things he likes about her is how passionate she is about her job.
So it seems like everything is going for her but she is not happy. She doesn't want to get married to this man but at the same time she is not ready to confront the obvious truth. She wants to be the good daughter, wonderful fiancé, cool teacher and is not ready to give up those for the thing she really wants. Spending time with her student and get to know him that way.

He on the other hand is a troubled kid. His father passed away and his mother took over the hospital he owned. The kid is groomed to be the heir. On the other hand there is an ambitious doctor in the hospital who has an affair with the kid's mom and wants the hospital for himself. The kid's mom is under his thumb. And the kid actually witness them make love in her office. That one was even more traumatic because now he thinks of his mom as a woman and his hormones kick in everytime he sees the teacher (who is a bit younger than his mom but they look similar in some ways).

I don't happiness for these two but the conflicts are interesting.

The Lone Star, Blade Trinity, Friends With Money, The Tower

This weekend was a social activity filled one and I was not able to watch a lot of films and they were all from Digiturk or other.

Here they are:

The Lone Star I enjoyed this one. There is a particular visual style accompanied by a great script and a soundtrack which went well the with the whole thing. Now I don't know if I'd keep seeking John Sayles' other films but  again, I had a good time with this one.

Blade Trinity it was not bad but I actually fell asleep towards the end and had to rewind twice(!).

Friends With Money Here is where I stand with Jennifer Anniston. In the entertainment gossip side of things, I'm with team Angelina. In the acting side of things, I don't think she is a good actor but is harmless in a few films (I LOVED her in 'Just Go With It' though. And this is one of the films I really like for some reason. It is not a special film, your usual U.S.A Indie, decent performances, generic cinematography with lots of talking. But I love it and loved it again in this viewing (and I didn't fall asleep).

The Tower This S.Korean disaster film had great special affects and stunts but a lousy script and all the usually good actors somehow managed to ham their performances up. We constantly snarked throughout the film but of course I cried at the end (I succumb easily to Korean melodrama).

Meanhile I'm still reading The Midnight Tour and it is I think the most violent among the three books and the beast had only a cameo (as a baby at that) so far.

The Tied Man - End

The Tied Man I have been following Danger Mousie's tumblr and she was so enamoured with this book that I had to give it a try. The only problem is that I don't have a Kindle (on principle since amazon doesn't legally sells one in Turkey) and this book is only on Kindle and nowhere else. So thanks to a nice colleague, I was able to borrow his and read it. To be honest I don't see what the big deal about this book is. Just a little role reversal, our protagonist is a female and our damsel in stress is a male. All in all it was a nice and easy read but it was nothing special as far as I'm concerned.

Stranger In My Arms - End, The Midnight Tour

Well Stranger in my Arms ended rather nicely (I even cried a bit - shame on me!) and I have decided to complete the Beast House triology and started,

The Midnight Tour which started very nicely and it is promising. There seem to be a lot characters.

Meanwhile last night I remembered I never wrote what I watched on weekend.

The Amazing Spiderman well, it is not as good as Raimi's Spiderman but I had a good time with it.

Wrong Turn 5 The make up was not very good and if you are making a gory slasher than you need to do a good make up job. You don't spend money on much else. And I didn't like it when the bad guys emerged victorious in the end.