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UltimateJoolsFan
I live in Australia.
I'm probably the biggest Julie fan in Australia, and I dont mean to brag but seriously, if i ever met her i'd cry bucketloads.
i am a girl.
i like to sing, i like to think i'm not too bad either.
Top three fav actors are:
1. Oliver James
2. Toss in btwn Ewan McGregor and Daniel Radcliffe!
I'm falling quite hard for Johnny Depp and Elijah Wood though. Orlando Bloom, he's old stuff :D lol still cute though
I love Brits :D I'm Australian though but my grandad came from England.
My favourite movies are:
The Sound of Music
Phantom of the Opera
Into the Woods
LOTR
Pirates of the Caribeean
Harry Potter
New fan of National Treasure seeing as I'm a bit of a history nut along with an "obsession with [historical] treasure." If only we could find all the lost scrolls of Alexandria :(
Pride and Prejudice (1995+2005)
Princess Diaries
Pollyanna - now quite partial to the 20003
Lots of other things which I can't be bothered typing.
My favourite tv shows are:
Without a doubt no 1. Stargate (SG-1 and Atlantis)
Commander-in-chief
Smallville (though I'm kind of growing out of that)
Medium
Jag
ER
I'm sure if I actually sat down to watch Lost and Prison BReak I'd like it.
I don't really watch much TV and wont until Stargate comes back on.
I'm a music nut. I take singing lessons, I play the piano, I'm teaching myself to play the flute, and I've learnt the violin.
I'm in my first year of Uni doing a Primary Education course. Hope that will lead me to be a music teacher at a Primary school.
I love nearly all kinds of history, except Australian history does not interest me as much as I should. The Arthurian legend has inspired and delighted me ever since I read a book about it when I was about seven.
I want to do a course in Archaeology and Anthropology. I don't care much for excavating and cataloguing though. [biggrin]
Ancient Egyptian History enthralls me the most. and then Rome and Greek but I love American Indian history, Asian history, since my boss is from South Africa I've also enjoyed learning what I have from him. Oh yes, history is me. Celtic history too of course. French history has become a new favourite of mine after reading a book on the French revolution. It's all rather interesting.
Er... yes. I love reading and writing too. If you've made it this far in my bio perhaps you'd like to check out my websites.
www.faeriegurl.deviantart.com - my art/writing website
www.fanfiction.net/~JamSack - My fanfiction obviously - featuring Harry Potter, Stargate, SOund of Music, and a Pride and Prejudice one in the making.
I'm a Christian as well and my religion is very important to me. Along with my family, it is the most important thing to me.
Anyways, thanks for reading about me :D
Reviews
Beautiful Dreamer (2006)
Poignant and left me teary-eyed
I found this movie in the DVD store and it intrigued me. The reason is, I have been planning a novel relative to this movie's premise/theme. While I was upset to find it, I thought I'd watch it. I'm glad I did. While it is thankfully, very different to what I had in mind, it was very sweet, brought tears to my eyes, I felt my gut wrenching with the angst of it, and it swept me up into the picture.
The start of it left something to be desired however. While it does depict the two growing up together, and then very quickly moves onto their romantic relationship, I didn't feel like the writers/director had allowed us to feel for the characters, because they didn't establish their roles enough. So when Claire goes looking for him, I forgot what he looked like basically, while trying to keep my eye out for him, knowing that he could pop out of the blue anywhere. As the whole idea of it was close to my heart though, I could feel it more than perhaps your average viewer would.
The use of the flashbacks were very effective, and though some of the shots were a little awkward, the basic cinematography was good. The ending was a little weird, and I wish it had explained more how Jo got from where he was, to that point. I don't think they put that point across enough. and medically I don't think he would be able to make that length of recovery fast enough. Though it didn't exactly say how much time had passed.
So anyway if you're a gushy romantic like me, who likes war stories (the romantic ones), I'd say you'd like it and it's worth a watch. Just commit Jo's face to your memory so you won't forget him. You'll see him soon enough.
Pollyanna (2003)
Way better than Hayley Mills!
This just showed on television tonight and I can't contain my joy and happiness for it. Last year mum bought the Hayley Mills version on DVD which I had used to like as a young girl but kind of stopped watching because my older sisters said it was 'so stupid and babyish.' So last year I renewed my love for Pollyanna and then I found the book in our library and read it and loved it again and again. I actually was reading it today on the bus (a different library's copy).
And yesterday mum was telling me that she saw an ad for Pollyanna that's a different version and I was so excited. I had a little pet peeve with the Hayley Mill's Pollyanna because it completely strayed from the book, though the essence of gladness is still there. I started watching it tonight and pulled out the book from my bag and read along during those enormously long commercial breaks, and well I've only seen this and the other version of Pollyanna, I'm so glad to find it so in tune with the book completely!
Amanda Burton is such a good actress and she would've been a good silent film actress with such a stunning ability to convey emotion with looks. I do think Jane Wyman did a very good job as Aunt Polly too!
Pollyanna (Georgiana Terry) was so much how I imagined from the book, except for some occurrences of storming out of the room which I thought was a bit out of character for the happy girl, and was so adorable how could Aunt Polly and everybody help but love her.
Dr. Chilton (not Chiltern) was much how I pictured him as well and had a very nice look about him.
It was all so faithful to the book, I am very very glad about that, and now I don't know how I could ever watch the other version again, though I probably will until I own this one on DVD. Yes. I shed tears at the end. It was wonderful! I'd like to think that Elanor H. Porter would be very pleased because as a Pollyanna lover I am!