Blood & Chocolate - the movie

I finally got around to watch it - and I don't care what rottentomatoes, the movie snobs and the CGI-freaks say, it was a great movie. Of course, I never read the original novel, just a short summary at Wikipedia, so I'm probably biased.

I liked the cast very much. Olivier Martinez was extremely hot, as always, but he brought a savage streak to his character that was irresistible and repulsive at the same time. Aiden was cute, but not annoyingly so. And the female characters looked refreshingly natural, without the usual overdone make-up one sees in almost every other movie. Besides, I like Katja Riemann.

The sets were gorgeous. I liked how they did the transformation stuff, too, and what the loup-garoux looked in full beast mode. I liked that most charcters were morally ambigious - not entirely bad, but not exactly good, either. It was convincing.

I'm of two mind about the outcome, though. As cute as Aiden is, I just can't buy that he and Vivien could really have a future together.

Watching Blood Ties

To be honest, I was very reluctant to watch the show, because I really, really don't like Christina Cox and the idea of two handsome guys fighting for her love felt completely unrealistic to me. But, well, vampire series, so I thought I'd give it a try, now that Moonlight has run off.

Boy, am I happy that I did! IMO, it's one hundred per cent better than Moonlight. Some of the cases are a bit too bizarre, but Kyle Schmid, the guy who plays 450-year-old vampire Henry Fitzroy (and why must all vamps be of royal blood anyway?) is absolutely charming... unlike Mick St. John who was of the boring, brooding, vanilla sort of bloodsucker.

I like the other guy, too (keep forgetting his name, Mike somethingitalian). And the slightly crazy Goth girl who plays CC's secretary. And seeing Francoise Yip on a semi-recurring role (one one-liner in every other episode or so) is nice, too. Plus, the series has a great deal of slightly warped humour, and Henry Fitzroy seems to enjoy being a vampire, which is a new thing.