Natalia Kills - Kill My Boyfriend

A REview of Resident Evil novel Umbrella Conspiracy by SD Perry

I hate Wesker even more after reading this book. I hate him from head to toe - or shades to boots, in his case - and this is coming from a person who played and complete Resident Evil 5!
Before reading this, I'd looked in every nook and cranny or cyberspace to soak up RE info. On my journey, I've been able to watch the RE 1 live action intro cutscene. With that visual image imprinted in my mind, this book was more then easy to see in my head. Not only thanks to the into movie, but by the author getting the right balance of descriptive terms so the reader can paint their own mental pictures but are directed in the right direction.

I got this on the 10th May - for my birthday - and I broke my one chapter a day rule very quickly with this book. The fast pace and never ending feel of suspense, adventure and that tingly feel you get while playing the game that feeling where there's always something around that corner, door and so on... Absolutely fantastic from start to end with no lulls, quiet moments or filler of any kind. I literally couldn't put it down. I'm now, sadly done with this book,but I am more ready for the new ones!! But to be honest, I will most certainly reread this in the wait for new material - it's just that good!

The characters are more then spot-on, with their descriptions matching each one. I feel enjoyment with the small backgrounds and inserts of the characters whilst all the action is going on, too! Gory creators, floods of emotions, loveable characters - obviously! This book is an absolute must, must read for RE fans! 

This leaves you wanting more, leaves you wanting to meet with your beloved STARS team and leaves you despising the Cheshire Cat Wesker... and this is once again coming from someone who hasn't played the 'classic' RE games!!

DCIPHOENIX

Rosie Phoenix’s film review

 WANTED

WANTED stars wimpy panic-attack suffering norm, Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) Whom has a cheating girlfriend and is humiliated by his boss, has a life turn around as he’s approached by Fox(Angelina Jolie) – a member of the Fraternity on account of the death of his father. Wesley is trained by Fox to avenge the death of his father whilst ending other people’s lives. He’s beginning to control his own.

Fans of James McAvoy will be pleased with his performance of realistic sand believable Wesley Gibson as it’s a real change of character from Mr Tumnus in The Chronicles of Narnia. Fans of Angelina Jolie will be more than happy so see her as a gun-shooting somewhat heroine again. Whilst being a mysterious assassin society member. As well as Fox, the members of the Fraternity are mysterious and as you grow to learn more about Wesley, you don’t learn much about the Fraternity and the Fraternity leader Sloan (Morgan Freeman)

The start of the film is humorous as a scene at the traffic lights as Fox looks out the car window of a battered red Viper at a drier of another car the driver smiles at Fox and Fox drives off to the music ‘Pina Colada.’ Humour is a light trait in the film as it gradually becomes strongly violent and not exactly unsettling but the odd way of training a new member into the Fraternity is certainly a gruesome and violent one, but is entertaining to watch. As the film is seemingly towards its end, be aware to feeling a few pangs of sadness at the ending as an unsuspecting revelation, multiple murder and suicide is played out at the finale it gives the viewer a real rollercoaster ride of feelings and scenes to mull over after watching.

Especially as you have empathy towards the characters, as I sure did as Fox is a brilliant, mysterious survivor with an ever mysterious past is the only female in the team at the Fraternity. Whereas the character Fox is the character for us ladies to admire and adore, Wesley is also credible for feeling empathy towards as he’s out hero of the film as we see him go from wimp to superhero.

All in a beautiful setting as the Fraternity scenes were filmed in Prague, Czech Republic, which is made to look like Chicago in a building in Prague which was already the Director’s & co’s idea of what the fraternity would look like. With only a few changes to the set, windows, painting the bricks to look like Chicago brick. They got seven interior and one external set out of one building which is really useful.

With the added bonus of sound bites of rock music- ‘The Little Things’ by Danny Elfman is a memorable one. Also the instrumental music with themes for certain characters adds persona, excitement and intensifies the scenes and more importantly the film.

As the finale is a shocker, it gives us something of a moral as after a brilliant execution, Wesley looks directly into the camera and asks- “What have you done lately?”

So if you like thrilling, action-packed movies with James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman or Angelina Jolie, this is a film for you!

FILM REVIEW-

WANTED

JAMES MCAVOY

ANGELINA JOLIE

MORGAN FREEMAN

TERANCE STAMP

THOMAS KRETSCGMANN

COMMON

BY ROSIE PHOENIX

How to make an Albert Wesker sim

How to make an Albert Wesker sim

I recently killed my Albert Wesker sim on The Sims 3 because he got to the elderly stage because the 'player 1' aka myself forgot to edjust the lifespan meter from 'normal' to 'epic' nuts! :( So here, I am telling you how to create your own Wesker Sim from the inside out - as I think getting your sim to look like 'bert is quite easy in my opinion.

Traits

Give your sim the following traits -

Genius
Mean Spirited
Evil
Dare Devil
Workaholic and/or ambitious would work just as well here.


Favorites

Take a walk on the wild side and give your Wesker sim the following favorites, these are the ones i, personally chose -

Music - classical
Food - steak
Colour guess! - black!

Career

Start him off as either young adult or adult and put him in the Law Enforcement career to start with to make it canon with his time as the STARS captain, them change him to the business - if you so wish to channel his time in the mysterious group known only as 'the organisation' and last but certainly not least - let him take the path and seperate the wheat from the chaff in the Evil career in the Criminal job option. You will also get a cool red aura around your sim which is awesome!
Doing these careers will also give your sim the means of progressing in the logic, athletic and handiness skills as our beloved Lord Wesker uses on a daily basis I'm sure!


So, there you have it! Go forth, gamer and create the Emperor of Evil by the name of Albert Wesker! Thank you for reading!

DCIPHOENIX

A death and a new beginning...

Why I haven't been blogging...


Well, alot has happened in my life recently so I finally have the time to do the Summer things I usually do.
My grandfather has sadly passed away. It was nice to see everyone at the funeral which was a week later. The funeral directors were really nice too. It was also expected, in some way as he was very ill and had been in quite bad shape for a while, now. As well as the fact that he was in hospital when we got the news.

I have been busy in my writing life, as I have actually planned out a long multi chapter fanfiction which I am now close to getting all the obstacles and dilemmas as well as the crisis weaved into the quest. It's a new thing for me but i'm really enjoying it. It's about Resident Evil, and it's a romance - which is my usual genre - and I've rated it a safe T. I'm well into the introduction now and my readers and fans are enjoying it which is pulling in a few ample reviews which makes my writing life all the more better. Although I haven't been writing due to the bereavement and some intersting video games...

Yup. This year I haven't just played and completed one game. No, I've finished Resident Evil 5, Resident Evil 6, Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City and I will be getting my zombie killing maimed hands on Resident Evil Revelations soon! I can't wait. In the meantime I am muddling my way through Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil Code Veronica X. And yeah, i realise I'm working my way backwards. I like that.

Resident Evil fangirling and me.

You're all going to die down here.

Said the Red Queen to Alice...
So yeah, today's post it about Resident Evil. But it won't be a random rant about how I love it so much. I'm here to say how I love the characters and the pairings of them. If any! The characters I talk about in the following lists are what I have become to get to know quite well in the Resident Evil game universe and the books. As for the movies, there are similarities between the characters in Capcom's Resident Evil as well as Anderson's Resident Evil. That is as of this year, as I’m pretty sure the Director of the adaptations has more in store and will most likely be trying to pour more loved characters from the video games into the films of Resident Evil. I'm still not sure how I feel about that. But I know at the end of the day, I'm a Resident Evil fan. And I became a fan after playing the games.

My favourite characters
Chris Redfield
Jill Valentine
Albert Wesker
Jake Muller
Piers Nivans

My not so favourite characters
Claire Redfield
Leon S. Kennedy

My favorite 'romantic' pairings and why

Wesker / Jill – Lust, obsession, helplessness and a power hungry villain with a dash of control thrown in there who wants the girl he could never have. Perfect.

Chris / Jill – Love, pure fairytale romance with a hero, a heroine and an evil wizard who has captured the princess.

Wesker / Excella – A lapdog who's blissfully unaware, blinded by her own love for the monster. Who turns out to merely be a pain in his side.

Wesker / Claire - ??? it's weird, these two. I'm not even sure why I read fanfiction about these two. Perhaps it's because I’m warped.








As for the random rant. That may come later.

Write here, write there...

Writing Habits

Today's post is about my writing habits and oddly enough as I write this, I'm living without my headphones, which are a big part of my writing life, if you see below. Which without I can not write! Before starting this, I wasn't sure if I had any to begin with. But oddly enough- again, I actually found that I have some. So, here's my writing habits and a bit about each one of them.

Music -  I try to make and use a playlist for each story I write. Consisting of mood music, tracks that have lyrics – which I listen out for which remind me of the characters, setting or theme of my stories. Then there's the genres. Currently, i'm listening to a playlist I made for a T Rated Romance fanfiction, which is made up of cinematic rock, alternative and a couple of dance tracks which aren't really dance.

Headphones – I use these to block out the outside world. I use a pair of SkullCandy lowriders – which have now broke! - to listen to the playlists of music I make.

Snuggie – I cuddle up on my sofa and laptop with my Pink Cookie snuggie. Which, if you didn't know is a blanket with sleeves. They're useful and I got this one I use for Christmas. I love it! :D

Laptop – Ah. My faithful DELL Latitude. How, I adore it... my operating system of choice if the Open Office which came with the DELL. I can't write in a quiet enviroment, so my bedroom's out of the question. I sit on the sofa in front of the tv, with the sound on mute,  but I still like watching the moving images. Then with my laptop  on my knee, that I can easily carry around is then carted over, which the leads trailing around everywhere and I then listen to the music in my playlists. And only then, can I write! :D

Time – I usually write late at night, when I'm relaxed and there's nothing or little on TV. I wind down after a busy or not so busy day with a cuppa tea – tea, not coffee! And I do all of the above.