ginger in space

[alonewiththemoon]

I finally watched Ginger Snaps Back this weekend, and I think I liked it the best of all the Ginger movies.  For one thing, it was the most artistic and least campy of the bunch.  For another thing, the ending wasn't hella lame, like Ginger Snaps:  Unleashed.  Although the fact that a child was their downfall in GSB made me slightly more tolerant of the ending of Unleashed, because maybe it's part of the prophecy that a child will always be the downfall of the sisters.  The stuff about windigos was utter BS, but since the film was generally pretty good on the subject of First Nations people I can let that slide with only slight anthropological twitching.  It was pretty cool to see a film set on the Canadian frontier, and from the research I have done on the Hudson Bay Company (including a project in which I went through old photos) it seemed pretty authentic.  Ginger started out reminding me of Eliza Dushku but by the end reminded me more of Melora Creager, in a good way.  So, I recommend the film.  You don't need to have seen the others in order to see this one, though seeing the first one would help.

I think I am going to make mushroom-squash risotto tonight in the brand new saute pan I received from my brother-in-law and future sister-in-law for christmas.  Then I will watch the Earthsea adaptation on SciFi--I think it is not going to be very good, but I feel compelled to watch it just in case.  I hate it when tv is like that.

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[silas7.livejournal.com]

We watched some of the featurettes on the disc, one of them about the costumes. The CD took some inspiration from the Matrix for the Preacher's outfit, which I thought was pretty neat.

I also liked the little nods to Brotherhood of the Wolf. A fun film!

[alonewiththemoon]

I also liked the little nods to Brotherhood of the Wolf.

One of M's comments was that this was the film that he wished Brotherhood of the Wolf had been--not literally, but in a more grounded in reality and history kind of way.

We watched a bunch of the featurettes as well, it looked like everybody really put their hearts into what they were doing. That's nice to see in this day and age. Yay for the Canadian film industry!