I had tickets to watch Alatriste yesterday but reading syliasyliasylia's opinion about it (HERE) the night before kind of scared me of what I was going to find once seated in the theatre.

Well, I think I can say that I have better opinion of the movie that she has... that meaning, I liked it more than I thought I would, so in some way I have to thank her because I was waiting for the worst and it wasn't that bad at all. As a whole, I liked the movie. There were parts, characters and moments I really liked, there were others that I liked less or simply think that the movie would have been better without them... but well, I like to think that if the author, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, hadn't liked the final result wouldn't have been in the promotion of the movie and all, so...

However, I do have something to say, and that is that Viggo is very good as Alatriste. My friends kept complaining about his accent and his 's's when he talked but I think he did a good job with the pronunciation and I really feel like he gave flesh and bones to Alatriste 'the character'.

That said, I also have to admit that my favorite character due to the perfect characterization and because he is one of the greatest actors in Spanish cinema goes to the actor playing Quevedo, Juan Echanove, he is simply superb. Hope somebody else notices him in the movie and also in the upcoming Manolete, where he also has a part.

( going to the details, the good, the bad and the ugly, etc... )

I had tickets to watch Alatriste yesterday but reading syliasyliasylia's opinion about it (HERE) the night before kind of scared me of what I was going to find once seated in the theatre.

Well, I think I can say that I have better opinion of the movie that she has... that meaning, I liked it more than I thought I would, so in some way I have to thank her because I was waiting for the worst and it wasn't that bad at all. As a whole, I liked the movie. There were parts, characters and moments I really liked, there were others that I liked less or simply think that the movie would have been better without them... but well, I like to think that if the author, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, hadn't liked the final result wouldn't have been in the promotion of the movie and all, so...

However, I do have something to say, and that is that Viggo is very good as Alatriste. My friends kept complaining about his accent and his 's's when he talked but I think he did a good job with the pronunciation and I really feel like he gave flesh and bones to Alatriste 'the character'.

That said, I also have to admit that my favorite character due to the perfect characterization and because he is one of the greatest actors in Spanish cinema goes to the actor playing Quevedo, Juan Echanove, he is simply superb. Hope somebody else notices him in the movie and also in the upcoming Manolete, where he also has a part.

( going to the details, the good, the bad and the ugly, etc... )

As you can see, new header, new colors... Why I get tired of my layouts so quickly? I really don't know, maybe it's when my icon muse flies away, and I focus in a new header to get something creative done (header or manip).

Anyway, still Queer as Folk mood as you can see. The pic is from a Vanity Fair (dec'03 I think).

I'm thinking that what really will make the change of layout complete would be the fact that I manage CSS and change also the style from the components one to another and all that stuff... I'm still ignorant about that so I have to keep this one for now...

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Since I saw a tiny teaser of Alatriste, the new Viggo Mortensen movie based in Arturo Pérez-Reverte's books, on tv the other day while I was watching the news... I'm in a loop!

I also read syliasyliasylia's post with a link to pics and I just drooled. I so want to watch it! And it filled me with glee to learn that it's released on Sept. 1!!!

Having in mind that Pirates of the Caribbean 2 is still to be released here (thing that annoys me to no end), it's good to learn that a movie I really want to watch will come sooner than I thought.

Anyway, I read the first two or three books ages ago, when they were released but I think I'm going to re-read them (hope to have time to read -I wish all- before the movie).

I heard that some people was against the idea of Viggo as Alatriste but I was pretty happy with the idea from the beginning. You don't get a famous actor to play such an important character in a Spanish movie... and more important, speaking a perfect Spanish (not being dubbed, that gives and awful taste to the movies).

I've heard him talking in Spanish with his original Uruguyan (it was that, right? not Argentinian) accent and he speaks perfectly! It was so cool to hear him talking that way and expressing himself with no problem at all. It happened the same when I heard Gwyneth Paltrow talked Spanish for the first time and with a Spanish-from Spain accent! Simply too cool.

Viggo sounded worried that he could look good in such an important part in Spanish contemporary literature and commented how he had a trainer that kept him in line to keep his Spanish sounding like Spanish-Castilian.

I have found three cool sites with pics from the movie and I just squeed non stop for a couple of hours or so... ;)

Viggo as Alatriste at Brego.net (in English)
Capital-Alatriste, fansite in Spanish about the movie and books (great collection of pics from the filming and movie-related)
Arturo Pérez-Reverte official site (in Spanish)

I just had time to make one icon, but will probably make more because I think I may be inspired to it (even after the fact that I don't have inspiration for icons lately :S)

If you want to use the icon, do so, but let me know you take it and credit me, please.