Back to (so called) reality.

Hello friends !

After a week recovering from a car accident and having to say goodbye to my beloved Cinquecento I am happy to finally be returing to form. Thanks for the well wishes everyone !

This weekend I watched the movie 'Super'. To be honest I had never heard of this before and only came across it for £2 in a charity shop ! If I had to describe it in one word it would be .....strange. The intro theme goes on way to long with some poor artwork, but as the film continues the reasons for this crayon monstrosity becomes clear. I rekon alot of people may have turned this off within the first 15 minutes, despite the line up of good ( or maybe just famous ) actors. Ellen Page, Kevin Bacon and Liv Tyler make it seem like this movie should have been screaming at us from the trailers 'WATCH US'.

It is totally bizarre and if you can survive the first 20 minutes and the extremely odd tentacle hallucination (yes really) then this movie certainly is worth watching. If you can pick it up for a few pounds I recommend it , but its probably not a repeat viewer. The ending is nicely put together and brings a smile to your face but the lead character isn't exactly likeable. Its not paticularly funny or overly noir.

to summarise, - odd, thought provoking, psycho Ellen Page.

Sounds like your kinda thing? Go for it !

The Geek Girl x

BAT-MARATHON

Today is the day ! At around 4pm GMT myself and other brave soles will start a Batman movie marathon ! Highlights will include mistletoe kisses , PVC kittys and Joker men. The swearing and general fury will begin with the appearance of Val Kilmer, Clooney, bat-nipples and the BAT CREDIT CARD ! ( ARGGHHHHHHHH !) Sorry, little preview there.

Good times ahead !

Keaton = YES !!!!!

Clooney = NOOOOOOOO !

Out with the old

Having visited a certain geeky friend yesterday I was reminded that this is not my first venture into blogging, 7 years ago I made my final entry on LIVEJOURNAL ! Now that was a blast from the past, crikey ! Having just read every post from 2002 onwards I am quite pleased to have found several regarding Batman , collecting action figures and watching movies. Other then the teen angst and endless houseparties not a lot has changed !

But after my trip down memory lane I would very much like to delete that account. Unfortunatley I dont have the email address I used for it anymore so I can't. Surely there is some way to request the account is deleted? Any thoughts please let me know !

Onto other things, my beloved has become obsessed with this object :

She really is beautiful.

But where to put her. And with the upcoming Hot Toys line up will she be outshone by the PVC clad temptress?

I guess there is only one way to find out, BUY BOTH !



The Geek Girl x

STEPHANIE ARRIVED TODAY ! She is sooo beautiful. All the way from the states in just a few days, I am very impressed. Sadly I would love to take her out of her packaging to display her but its that horrible plastic that needs a lightsaber to cut through so I can't get her out without wrecking her box, so I think I shall leave her in there for now.

On a similar note I am VERY excited about this :

http://toynewsi.com/index.php?itemid=18175

...... I may need to start saving, or selling off my organs. Internal that is, I'm not musical , haha !

The Geek Girl x

Who watches the Watchmen? The geek girl does !

Somehow I managed to go 3 years without seeing this movie.


How the HELL did that happen !

I had heard mixed reviews, It was on my to-do list since it was released at the cinema, but being a Batman fan something 'Gothamy' always took priority, until I saw the DVD on sale in Tesco for £3. I have to say I was throughly transfixed until the good-bad-good guy had a bigger role at the end. Not a favourite but one I will watch again, and I will keep an eye out for the graphic novel from now on. I must admit I am feeling the love for Doctor Manhattan, but maybe thats the naked glowing blueness of him.... no? Just me?

I'll leave it at that then *cough cough*

Check mate or check off ?

I first saw this chess set when it was briefly released in 2011 and just as quickly withdrawn. At the time I assumed it was down to lack of interest and profits but now I know better....... thanks to the reboot and the upcoming Nolan movie I think timing was the real explanation.

So having been re-released this week I thought I'd test run the first piece !

for my £2.99 I got the 5" tall batman piece, an information magazine and and introduction leaflet .

The piece itself is pretty good quality and looks good for display as it is. Not sure it is worth the £7.99 normal issue price but the piece itself is nice enough.

The first real dissapointment comes with the introductory leaflet. In the original set the white pieces included Barbara as Oracle and Stephanie as Batgirl. Unfortunatly the set has been changed to tie with with the reboot ( thanks again DC ... grrrr.). It now includes Barbara as Batgirl , no Oracle, no Stephanie and Cassandra (Black Bat) is there instead ! This has majorly put me off the set, as I know the characters I know and love have been erased. Otherwise the line up is fine.

The magazine does not appear to have changed from the initial run, all of the art work depicts pre-reboot characters and just rubs salt in the wounds of the new line up. The information is interesting but a little out of date when you consider they have tried to tie it in with the new 52. But as none of us really know the new or altered back stories of the characters I guess they didn't have much choice.

Overall I'm not sure I would subscribe but this is mostly due to the alterations and removal of some of my favourite charaters. Otherwise this appears to be a quality set for the overall money. I would reccommend just buying batman purely as a figure though !


I do have one other bug bear.... why is Batman the 'white king' , we all know he should be the 'dark knight' !

The fools.....
The Geek Girl x

She's Not Ugly !

What a beauty. Meet Stephanie Brown, she will be on her way to me any day now ! I'M SO EXCITED !

The only trouble is she will remind me of the pre-reboot DC days. Oh how I miss them.


She's still pretty though!

DC Universe ( are you ) online?

I thought I'd give the DC online universe free to play game a try, got myself set up with a user name, ready to go .

downloading .................

downloading .................

downloading .................

.................................................  3 hours for 4%, thats AWFUL !

Today it won't even connect. So, so far no recommendation, review or even evidence that this game exists from me. I'm hoping things improve over the next 97 hours of (potential) download time.

Don't hold your breath.

The Geek Girl x

You know, that wizard detective who lives in Chicago....

Am I the only one who remembers this show?

I seem to remember it was pretty good but wasn't on for long over here in the snowy UK . Well , snowy today, this is my garden :

Anyway, back to business. I had a quick look online and found that this mystery show was called 'The Dresden Files' . Then eBay informed me that this was a series of books first ! Great, 99p for the first book, why not give it a go? Watching the DVD there too, hopefully it won't make too much and I can watch the rest , I think I only saw 3 episodes. Alongside Dexter I may have a lot of reading and watching to do on these cold snowy nights. Great excuse to stay in !

I'm afraid my 3ds may have to wait.

muddle finger

I finished Alice today ! Hooray ! Be proud of me , as I rarely even complete the first levels of games when there are nasties out to get me . 89% of secrets found too. I will certainly play this again sometime soon and try and get closer to 100%. Throughly enjoyable if a little disturbing, especially the doll maker - I turned the sound off for him !

But this has left me with a little problem, I have now returned to Ocarina 3D on my 3DS. This in itself is excellent as I love this game, but I keep using the wrong controls as I'm so used to Alice's configuration ! Nightmare.

Also I have just become adult link and I still only have a 99 rupee wallet ! I honestly didn't think that was possible, definatley going back to young link asap and getting a lot more completed. Wish me luck !

On a side note I may have loved Alice so much that I have ordered the art book *blush*, review to follow !

Recovery !

One week, 20 lemsips, 3 packets of lockets and many hours curled up in blankets later I am back ! Unfortunatly first thing on the list was a 1200 word essay for my Open University course, but now that's out of the way I can geek out ! Over the past 4 hours I have :

Played the third chapter of Alice; Madness returns - excellent but scary
Read NEO from cover to cover - excellent and 'genki'
Tried to find Thudercats series 1 ( 2011 series ) on DVD , to find its region 1 only **cry**

So I'm feeling much better. Gutted about Thundercats though ! I will have to try and catch up when it comes on channel 5.

THUNDERCATS ! ....ooooooooh :(