R.I.P. Mickey Rooney

It came as sad news to learn that the great and diverse actor Mickey Rooney this sunday passed away at age 93.
We did not personally know him, however he was a really funny character in my favorite movie: Breakfast at Tiffany´s. His role in that movie, might have been rather small, but it showed that he was a chameleon in the acting business.

Born september 23, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York  he stood on stage a little more than a year later and took to movies at age six. And even though the majority of people age 93 are enjoying their old ways in a retirement home in Boca, Rooney kept making movies until the end. Having to of his movies in pre-production and one filming right now. If that isn´t amazing we don´t know what.
The younger generation might know him for his thieving ways in Night at the Museum, with another great actor Dick Van Dyke.

His work spanned from acting, director, producing to writing and music. He was a versatile actor, with a great spirit, that could make every person around him smile brighter than the best joke.

We loved him, american loved him, the whole world loved him. Rest in Peace Mickey

Divergent

Finally the day arrived (april 2nd) when I got to see the long awaited movie adaptation of Divergent by Veronica Roth. I read the first two books about 2 years ago, and finished the last one Allegiant about 4 months ago, and to be honest I'm still in denial about that book.

If you're not familiar with the story of Divergent, it's set in a post-apocalyptic future in the city of Chicago. The survivors have been divided into five Factions based on their predispositions: Abnegation, for the selfless; Amity, for the peaceful; Candor, for the honest; Dauntless, for the brave; and Erudite, for the Intelligent. Each year, all sixteen-year-olds take an aptitude test that will tell them for which faction they are best suited. After receiving the results of their test, they must decide whether to remain with their family or transfer to a new faction.
The main character is sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior, born into an Abnegation family, she doesn't feel like she belongs anywhere. And after her Aptitude test comes out inconclusive, she has to make a difficult choice, that might endanger her life.

I think I'm going to divide his review into the spoiler free part, and the one with spoilers, because it'll be hard for me to talk in depth about my opinion about this movie without giving stuff away.
So first off is the spoiler free part. You'll know when I get spoilery.

First off I just really need to praise the casting, because for me they hit the mark with so many of the characters. Most important one is of course Shailene Woodley, who plays the lead Tris. She was to me perfect for the role. She gives off the shy introvert side of Tris, but can also show the vindictive badass side of Tris without problems. I really loved her in this role, and I think it was good for me not having seen her in anything really. I mean, I've seen a few episodes of her (awful) show The Secret Life of the American Teenager back in the day, and man, has she evolved a lot. Which is good for her, and for fans of the Divergent series.
Next up for praise is Theo James who plays the male lead, Four. Again, I had not seen much of his work before, except for his minor role as Kemal Pamuk in Downton Abbey. But he totally became Four, he was Four and he will go far in this world. He is such a good actor, and it seemed so effortless for him at times, like he wasn't even trying to act.

Next person I have to praise and mention is the fabulous Zoë Kravits. She portrays one of my favourite characters from the book; Christina. In the book she is described as having short black hair with dark brown skin and eyes. And they nailed that. Zoë gave Christina the exact same spunk and spark that makes up most of her character, and loved her from the moment I spotted her on screen. Maybe I'm a bit biased about her, because I both love Zoë and Christina, but she really was great. 

Pacing in the movie felt good to me, some might think it was boring in some slower parts, but to me scenes that takes it slowly and lingers on details on the universe and characters, is one my favourite things. The score was also fantastic, but since it's the work between Hans Zimmer & Junkie XL (who worked together on The Dark Knight Rises), it wasn't really a surprise. They captured the feeling of the book perfectly, and tied the whole thing together.
I can't really say much more about it, because I keep wanting to reference the book and the differences and such, so I think I'll just say;

Go see it if you like action and dystopian worlds and strong female characters.

Warning: Spoilers for book and movie alike if you read along!
[this part will come later, because I need to see it again before saying my final words on this movie]

Fine Fashion

No, this post is not going to be about fashion styles that look "fine", it´s about a person, who through our youth had the craziest and most fashion forward style, we could ever imagine: that person is FRAN FINE aka the Nanny.

Not long ago Netflix decided to ad all the seasons of The Nanny, which means we Three Weird Girls have been glued to our television. Through our marathon endeavor, we were reminded of the amazing style of Fran Fine, that only Fran Fine could wear. So we have decided to list our favorite outfits from the Nanny, for your pleasure.

Sindy´s Favorites

If this outfit isn´t perfect for the summer, I don´t know what. Anybody who is following various fashion blogs, knows that showing of the midriff is the way to go this season. We see Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian wearing it and a punch of fashion bloggers rocking this look. Plus, you never go wrong with funky print.

Various outfits with print on, is something that had shined on Fran Fines body throughout all of the Nanna episodes and a look that she rocked a lot, is the blazer with the high skirt. It is so clever, because that kind of look is very high end and business lady like, but with the edgy print, she manages to funky up all of the outfits and looks like a lady from the Queens. She has a print for every occasion.

These are my all time favorite outfits. The high waisted skirt, with high end graphic print, a bright red, short jacket, with a simple white blouse underneath.
And the simple black top part, with elements of shear and the piano skirt - AHH-MAHH-ZING!
Not to mention the classic black outfit with leopard detail that we all came to love.

Annemette's Favorites

I find that when Fran's style is most silly and odd, I like it all the more. Because what else says confidence that wearing a pink suit with newspaper print on it? And I think Miss Fine is one of the few people, if not the only one, who could pull this look off?










But I also love when it's a bit more toned down, and this ensemble is fun but at the same time simple. I don't know, I just really like it.











Despite all the crazy fun outfits, our Franny have been known to sport some classy beautiful dresses, and this one is one of them. It even has a matching jacket! Fun!











Nanna's Favourite

What I love most about Fran Fine is, most of all, her confidence! I admire her character and of course her body too! She could wear ANYTHING - and clearly she does! But it can never get to crazy as long as you keep your head high and your heels higher!

The little black dress should be in any closet! Including Fran's! Will you just look at that body?! 

I am a really big fan of sequins and so are Fran! Here she's rocking a fab, red dress!

The Infamous LiLo List

If you haven´t heard it yet, it´s about time; Just a couple of weeks ago Lindsay Lohan decided to write and share a list with the public. Now you might think, "but what´s wrong with sharing a harmless list", Well the list is not so harmless. To be more precise, the list she decided to write AND numerate, is a list of all her previous lovers, and because of this list over half over the leading men in Hollywood have started sweating.

Now because we do not have the right´s to this list, InTouch owns it, we can not show you a picture of it, but we can mention every person on the list, the way Lindsay Lohan wrote them down:

1: Ashton Kutcher (apparently when he was still together with Demi Moore..ups..)
2: Blurred out
3: Ryan Philippe (Hopefully before or after Reese W)
4: Stavros Niarchos (Paris Hilton´s ex fiancee)
5: P. C. Valmorbida (Don´t know who he is, but we do now)
6: J. Phoenix (If true, lost a little respect for him)
7: Blurred Out
8: Lukas Haas (The little boy from Witness)
9: Nico Tortorella
10: Evan Peters (Now engaged to Emma Roberts)
11: Danny Cipriani (Cutie Rugby player)
12: Maggio Cipriani (no apparent relation to Danny - what´s the odds)
13: B. Del Torro (great actor)
14: Aaron Voros (ex Ranger)
15: Wilmer Valderrama (No surprise there)
16: Blurred Out
17: Jamie Burke
18: Jamie Dornan
19: Zac Efron (No wonder he needed rehab)
20: Orlando Bloom (SAY WHAT!)
21: Justin Timberlake (Hoping it was in the N´sync days, because then he´s forgiven)
22: Brian@GPH (Brian at Grammercy Park Hotel)
23: Josh Mond
24: Colin Farrell (not cutie Farrell :(
25: Heath Ledger (we are ignoring this name, because NO ONE speaks ill of the hot dead guy)
26: Ryan Rottman
27: Max George
28: Guy Berryman
29: James Franco (again, not really a surprise)
30: Adam Levine (BUT he only dates Victorias Secret models)
31: Garret Hedlund
32: Riley 8 (Riley Giles)
33: Blurred Out
34: Petey (Muse) Wright
35: Blurred Out
36: Blurred Out

Judging from the list, you might say that Hollywood is just one big, dysfunctional family.

After seeing the list, we only have to add; We hope they used protection!
Other people might add: Where´s Samantha Ronson?

The favourites I hate

I know my headline is a bit contradicting, but it is how I feel about the few exercises I'm gonna show you. These little, stupid (yet SUPER effective) exercises are killing me during a class, but they do good! I found them on Tumblr - enjoy!

HIGH KNEES

The higher the better! And you'll be gasping for air honey! If you have the opportunity to get someone to help you, it's going to be even harder! Make your friend/boyfriend/mother//sister/etc hold their hands (basically like she does in the picture) as high as you can get your knees - and make them motivate you to hit their hands everytime your leg rises. 

JUMP SQUATS

These babies will do wonders with you thighs and butt, but remember to get your technique straight! Squats are effective, yes, but when doing them wrong your knees will be the one hurting. Remember to always have your knees behind your toes when doing a squat and when you're doing jump squats like here, remember to immediately after the jump bounce directly to a squat - this way your knees aren't stopping the jump. It's not jump, stop, squat. It's jump, squat! Does it make any sense?

STOMACH TONER

This is the best exercise for your stomach! It's gonna bite, but it'll be worth it! If you feel it in your back, you need to tighten and suck in that stomach as hard as you possibly can! This way it's going to be your stomach doing the exercise and not your back.

Smoke Weed Everyday...

So it´s no surprise that Miley Cyrus has done a lot of shocking things lately, and honestly it´s now surprise that she smokes smack constantly. Alone her stage walk where she decided to light up a dooby on stage in Amsterdam, was mentioned everywhere. However apparently she does not just light up for the public, but also enjoys lighting up A LOT in private.
According to Wiz Khalifa she "´s blowing like a train", so we three weird girls were wondering, is she starting to have an addiction.

It started out with some innocent sage bong smoking, but it seems to be spiraling out of control for Miley and we would even start to claim that she is smoking more then Snoop Lion aka Snoop Dog - so that´s A LOT!

But what´s your opinion about Miley´s evolution from disney start, to bong smoker, to smoker and now to weed smoker?

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

TIME FOR JUSTICE AND EAGLES!

That's right, it's time to review Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier! Which is a movie I've been waiting impatiently for since the first movie about Steve Rogers. And especially since I saw The Avengers. So I was practically buzzing with anticipation when my mum and me sat down in the movie theatre last Thursday night.

Warning: Spoilers ahead.

The story of Captain America 2 takes place two years after the events of The Avengers and Steve Rogers now lives in Washington, D.C. and continues to work for S.H.I.E.L.D., but struggles to adapt to contemporary society. Some terrible events transpires and a special S.H.I.E.L.D agent is killed. Now Captain America alongside his new friend, war veteran Sam Wilson (aka the Falcon) and his fellow agent Natasha Romanoff have to work together to figure out who is out to get them and battle a new threat from old history: the Soviet agent known as the Winter Soldier.

One of the things I love most about this movie is that it doesn't step around the whole "Man Out Of Time" thing, because a huge part of what makes Steve Rogers Steve Rogers, is that fact. He is not like other men around these times, but he is not like other men back from his own time. He is everything good about mankind, he has a natural sense of leadership, and a pure power of will that he uses for good. Which is one of the many reasons Cap is one of my favourite Avengers. Chris Evans, the actor who portrays Rogers, said "He's gone from the '40s to today; he comes from a world where people were a little more trusting, the threats not as deep. Now, it's harder to tell who's right and wrong. Actions you take to protect people from threats could compromise liberties and privacy. That's tough for Steve to swallow."[*]. And he is so right. And that is one of the main themes in this movie. Who to trust. Because in the end, is the only person you can trust yourself? Giving other people your trust is a great risk these days, which is something Rogers learns the hard way. But as I was saying, I loved that they didn't just gloss over his trouble with the modern world. And they didn't skip over his first love Miss Peggy Carter and her current situation. She was an important part of Steve's "old" life, and a link to his past. So even if it was only a 5 minute (heartbreaking) scene, it was very important to show it.

Another great thing about this movie (there is a lot of great things about this movie) is Black Widow and the fact that they actually gave her the screen time she so rightfully deserves. And hopefully this will make the Film Studio realise that a Black Widow solo movie (about her origin) could easily be done and successful. Actress Scarlett Johansson, who plays Romaoff, delivers a emotionally resonant Black Widow this time around, and we get to know the character more. And because she has a bigger role than in her former movies, Johansson gets to show us what an amazing choice she was for this role. She’s far more interesting because we get insight into the “why” when it comes to her choice to switch sides (she used to be a KGB agent) and to live a life full of duplicity, and we see more nuance to the emotional toll this has taken on her while she still ultimately prefers those choices and stands by them. There’s also some particularly cool tension surrounding just how much she can be trusted to keep breaking the rules on behalf of superheroes who presume far too much about her friendship and her loyalties — she seems to want to do the right thing, but she’s made different choices in the past and her conception of “the right thing” these days is more often than not as gray as her boss’ worldview.

Movie Concept Art - Marvel Studios
One of the things I'm not gonna dive into about this movie is the Winter Soldier himself. Because I won't be able to without crying. Because it's too damn painful. It's been pailful since The First Avenger. Also just want to give a shout out to the Revenge Goddess herself, Emily VanCamp, who plays a minor role (that might come back) of Agent 13, who in the comics was an on/off again girlfriend of Steve Rogers.
To wrap up this post, I will say that the movie has a great pace, or at least I thought it did. Sometimes my opinion on movie pacing is so far off from everybody else's. There’s just enough ups and downs on the storyline and action to give it a feel of natural flow on events, which is great.
I will say that this is not really a super hero movie, like the X-men or Batman movies. It’s more of an action thriller movie that happens to have super heroes in it.

Also the events in this movie is making me hella excited for the new episodes of Marvel's Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D. Which is also a show you should go watch if you are a Marvel fan.

I'm gonna go now, and leave you with a tv spot, that really makes me want to see the movie again.