What? Two blogs in one week? Could it be that Vik has gotten back his groove? His will and lust for blogging? Or is it simply just the fact that he has something to write about, for once? Choose for yourself, or not. Whatever. At least there's a new Vik Blog. Wohooo.
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First off, I'm going to write about Spider-Man 3, a movie which I had the "pleasure" of seeing this friday. I'm not the hugest fan of superhero movies, but I've always thought the Spider-Man films were pretty awesome. Admittedly, they had a lot of action and great fight scenes, they focused more on Peter Parker, than on Spider-Man. They always cantered around real-life relationships rather than the superhero business. That was one of my issues with SM3. The supernatural aspects took over, and little time and effort was put into the drama and intrigues of Peter Parker's life, unless you count the somewhat corny, sickly over-moralistic stuff with his aunt and all that. In the end, the thing I care about the most in the two first movies is his relationship with MJ, and the drama of his life, something that was just abused in the third instalment. Furthermore, the supposed "darkness" of Spider-Man and Peter was just ridiculous and embarrassing. I was hoping for some Angel-season-2 darkness, but all I got was an embarrassing, "dancing", creep who thought he lived in an old noir movie. But other than that, Spider-Man was actually an ok movie. The beginning was awesome, the end, after he got back to his normal self again, was great as well, despite the sickening tearful speech of Sandman, followed by "I forgive you". Also, referring to my blog about patriotism, I thought it very funny when Spidey was swinging his way over to save the day, with a huge American flag wishing about in the background. And I hated the fact that [spoiler] they killed off Harry, the incredibly cute guy. Now there are few treats of the eye left (me shallow) [/spoiler]
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The second matter I wish to discuss today is the wonderfully hilarious event that is Eurovision Song Contest. For a few European people, this might actually ring a bell, but the Americans are pretty much lost, so I will describe it briefly. ESC is an annual competition in which most of Europe's countries compete. Every country pick a song (some do it by voting, some do it through some sort of a reality show), and then they get to go to last year's winning country, and compete against each other. ESC is pretty much the Mecca of bad taste and overly dramatic or just ridiculousness, which is what makes it so fun. In most of the western parts of Europe, ESC is just dismissed as the crap it is, but in Sweden is something holy, and most Swedes go crazy around this time of year. The gay community in particular loves this event to death, me being no exception. It's just so much fun. Anyway, yesterday evening, the finale was held in Helsinki, and I of course was glued in front of the TV, to enjoy the pure definition of over-the-top. Most Swedes had high hopes for our song in the competition, "The Worrying Kind" with The Ark, but I never saw it as a winner. Even thought I really liked it, I wasn't that sure whether the rest of Europe would. And I was right. We ended up at 18th place, the worst we've done since… 1994, I think. But I was happy with the winner anyway. Serbia's song was really beautiful. The most hilarious thing was that Ukraine, a teapot in aluminium, ended up on second place. That was one of the weirdest, most speeded songs I've heard. - See for yourself
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Finally, some great news. Pushing Daisies has been picked up for next season. It'll only have 13 episodes, but hey better 13 than none. Rejoice.