Screen stuff

Finished True Blood season one last night and I really enjoyed it: it's got a nice spin on the old vamp thing, a good script and some decent acting. I'm not fussed for the actress playing Sookie but that's ok as I believe the second series moves away from her onto other characters.

Dracula 2000 in contrast was mediocre at best. Plummer was good as an aging Helsing propped up by injections of vamp blood who's absent minded enough to allow Dracula's coffin to be stolen, doh, he has Lee Miller to help out though he's useless. There's little to recommend this to anyone though it does have Gerard Butler playing the title character with a barely hidden Scottish accent.

No Blade of Grass, an old British post-apocalyptic drama was great, it kinda shares a similar grimy, uber depressing view of societal collapse much like Threads but attributes the crisis to our enviromental mismanagement. Ohh how very prescient! guess it's just a matter of days before this gets remade. The acting is functional with a few familiar faces but it doesn't detract from a great story though eye patch dude did distract me a bit. Written by the guy who did Tripods.

Just rewatched the last quarter (sober) and it was worth it for the biker gang shoot out and the ultra gloomy fraticidal ending which was nice. Needs a remake and we should do it and soon.