I love history and all the things that come from it, the different ways people lived, what we can learn from those people, how they viewed the world, it's all very interesting. Living in Canada I can see and visit some very old sites, but no where near as old as the sites in Egypt. At the moment I don't have the funds to go to Egypt and no offence to Egypt, but it's not the highest on my immediate list, it's there, just not right at the top. (England and Japan are high up on the list) Just today I learned that you can visit the inside of one of the most famous finds in Egypt throughout the world, King Tut's Tomb. Now this is making it accessible to everyone around the world, who can get to a computer with an internet connection. It's a virtual replication of the murals on the walls in King Tut's Tomb. The detail is absolutely insane! You can zoom into the murals and see the cracks that are on the walls. I totally recommend anyone taking a look at the site, there's also a link on the site to the Supreme Council for Antiquities in Egypt.
King Tut's Tomb
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Review
I'm a geek, in case that wasn't obvious in my previous posts, and in the geek world there is currently a fandom called Brony's and Pegasisters. These are adult fans of the children's TV show My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. I know a couple of Brony's and I had seen one episode and I really didn't get it at all. I understand the animation is beautiful, it's very well done and the plot of the episode that I first saw seemed decent, I didn't really know what was going on, which I found out later that it was like the end of the second season and it was the second part of a two part episodes. So I watch my two year old niece a lot and she loves to watch video's with Auntie(that's me) and right now she completely obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine so we'll watch the original show on YouTube and then she'll want to see Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, or as she calls it Mickey House. One day she's sitting on my lap and we're watching Thomas the Tank Engine and she suddenly she says 'My Little Pony.' So I find an episode and we start watching, however after the theme song she says 'No My Little Pony' which means she's done with that. But after a watching the beginning part I decide I'll give it a shot so I find the first season and start watching and I'm hooked. ARG!!!!!!!!! It's such a fun show, the letters to Princess Celeste at the end take me out of it cause it's like oh yeah this is made for five years old and while pretty much every kid show has a moral in the story this one spells it out for you what the lesson is.The shows plots are good, the characters are very well developed for a children's show. I grew up watching the original show and I still have some of my My Little Pony's, the distinctive feature of the Pony's was there mark on their 'butt' and each mark represented what that Pony did. I have no memory at all of that ever being explained in the original series, it was just there. In this show they call it a 'cutie-mark' and it comes about when a pony figures out what they were meant to do and then it appears. This back story has opened up a few plot points which have made the show even more interesting. One of the things that his has opened up is a group of little fillies who are trying to gain their cutie-marks. These younger pony's are very entertaining and watching them try to achieve their cutie-mark is just a lot of fun as they pretty much try everything, music, design, bowling, and so much more. There is also the division of the Pony's, there are the Unicorns, who use magic, some just have little amounts of magic, like just telekinesis, while others can change objects and age Pony's. There are the Pegasus, the flying Pony's and they have dominion over the sky, even creating the weather in this world. And last is the Earth Pony's, these are the Pony's without any special powers, they work the land and just to regular things.
I'm going to do profiles of the main characters as well some of the side characters that stand out to me and that I just love!
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Man of Steele Review
So Saturday night I was involved in a mini reunion of Centennial College International Business Management people and we decided to go see the new Superman movie, Man of Steele. I'm going to say this right off the bat, I am a Marvel fan, the first comic book series I read on a regular basis was X-Men, I loved the first X-Men movie, and I'm a huge fan of the current Avenger stuff going on. So I know I'm a bit bias when it comes to Marvel vs DC. However I'm a fan of the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy, except Dark Knight Rises, that was just terrible. So after seeing the trailer and a few other clips from the movie on YouTube to me it looked like it had promise, boy was I wrong!
I know I'm not a fan of Superman pretty much at all, but I love really good action movies, especially good comic movies. But this was just a complete disaster. The beginning of the movie takes place where it should on Krypton, but it's the weirdest looking Krypton I've ever seen. Weird future teck that seems to run on the principle of pixels, flying beasts that show up when you shout for them even if there's an air battle going on and then there's the clone babies, so weird! Instead of just having a plot about Superman coming to earth, and starting to battle crime or some other kind of origin story, but there's this added plot line that was defiantly not in the comic at all. Now I don't want to go into plot details, cause even with bad movies people get mad at spoilers, so I'll just give the general problems. The pacing was so bad! There were huge parts of the movie that was just exposition, and when the final battle scene came around it seemed like the director realized that there was no action in the movie, other than at the beginning, so there was so much action crammed into the end of the movie that it made the whole battle pointless. Also there seems to be a lack of safety concerns by anyone in the states in this movie, hey bunch of aliens getting into a bare knuckles fight that when one of them gets thrown into a building it collapses, so you know all the normal people go hide in the front stores of the buildings that are later demolished, oh yeah and the Army doesn't give a shit about their own citizens and just helps blow up the whole town. For that matter the Army isn't allowed to operate on it's own soil in the states, there was no discussion about that in the movie at all, and I'm Canadian and noticing that.
I already have a long standing beef with 'people' in movies, especially in big cities, who see a big alien aircraft, or in the case of the Avengers, giant flying alien creatures, and all the people just stand there and stare at it! I'm sorry but if I see a giant aircraft, alien or otherwise, that shouldn't be there, there's maybe a few minutes of staring and then there's 'holy crap! RUN!!' That's what your reaction is to seeing something dangerous that SHOULDN'T be there!!!!! In this movie it was even worst, it wasn't just innocent by standers, but characters that clearly were going to survive for at least this movie, are just standing in the building staring at the big thing that is destroying their city, and they don't leave the building even after watching this thing crush other buildings until the building across the street falls over! Also these same people who hang out in a building till the building across the street falls over, one of them gets stuck under some rubble and the other people have to help her out, cause of course it's the woman who gets trapped, they just barely survive the 'gravity' thing and then they decide to stick around and continue to watch the battle when they should have gotten the HELL out of there!!
Now onto the the sexism. Like I mentioned there were characters that ran out of the building, two guys and a girl and the only one who gets stuck is the girl, that was not the only thing. First when Superman is born his father holds him up and looks at him like he's the most magnificent thing ever, which I understand that part, however we never see him hand the kid to the woman who started off the movie screaming in pain as she pushed the little one out of her body! Plus there's a moment of doubt from Superman's movie about sending him away, which is understandable, but it's totally a 'I'm a woman who's lost reason' kind of scene with the man being completely rational about the situation. On top of that there's a whole 'father's are the only ones who raise the kids' mentality through out the entire movie. There's one moment where Superman defends his mom, but he leaves her there and doesn't get her to safety or anything or make sure she's alright until after he has a big moment with some soldiers first. And one of the last scenes of course is a girl who's in the army smiling cause 'she think he's kind of hot'. I'm not even going touch on the relationship between Superman and Lois Lane cause they start off with Lois Lane being an amazing Pulitzer prize winning tough reporter who goes after the story no matter what and within a few minutes of meeting him, and him rescuing her she's reduced to an obsessed fan.
One more little note, apparently Metropolis is made out of glass, like the entire city is JUST glass.
I know I'm not a fan of Superman pretty much at all, but I love really good action movies, especially good comic movies. But this was just a complete disaster. The beginning of the movie takes place where it should on Krypton, but it's the weirdest looking Krypton I've ever seen. Weird future teck that seems to run on the principle of pixels, flying beasts that show up when you shout for them even if there's an air battle going on and then there's the clone babies, so weird! Instead of just having a plot about Superman coming to earth, and starting to battle crime or some other kind of origin story, but there's this added plot line that was defiantly not in the comic at all. Now I don't want to go into plot details, cause even with bad movies people get mad at spoilers, so I'll just give the general problems. The pacing was so bad! There were huge parts of the movie that was just exposition, and when the final battle scene came around it seemed like the director realized that there was no action in the movie, other than at the beginning, so there was so much action crammed into the end of the movie that it made the whole battle pointless. Also there seems to be a lack of safety concerns by anyone in the states in this movie, hey bunch of aliens getting into a bare knuckles fight that when one of them gets thrown into a building it collapses, so you know all the normal people go hide in the front stores of the buildings that are later demolished, oh yeah and the Army doesn't give a shit about their own citizens and just helps blow up the whole town. For that matter the Army isn't allowed to operate on it's own soil in the states, there was no discussion about that in the movie at all, and I'm Canadian and noticing that.
I already have a long standing beef with 'people' in movies, especially in big cities, who see a big alien aircraft, or in the case of the Avengers, giant flying alien creatures, and all the people just stand there and stare at it! I'm sorry but if I see a giant aircraft, alien or otherwise, that shouldn't be there, there's maybe a few minutes of staring and then there's 'holy crap! RUN!!' That's what your reaction is to seeing something dangerous that SHOULDN'T be there!!!!! In this movie it was even worst, it wasn't just innocent by standers, but characters that clearly were going to survive for at least this movie, are just standing in the building staring at the big thing that is destroying their city, and they don't leave the building even after watching this thing crush other buildings until the building across the street falls over! Also these same people who hang out in a building till the building across the street falls over, one of them gets stuck under some rubble and the other people have to help her out, cause of course it's the woman who gets trapped, they just barely survive the 'gravity' thing and then they decide to stick around and continue to watch the battle when they should have gotten the HELL out of there!!
Now onto the the sexism. Like I mentioned there were characters that ran out of the building, two guys and a girl and the only one who gets stuck is the girl, that was not the only thing. First when Superman is born his father holds him up and looks at him like he's the most magnificent thing ever, which I understand that part, however we never see him hand the kid to the woman who started off the movie screaming in pain as she pushed the little one out of her body! Plus there's a moment of doubt from Superman's movie about sending him away, which is understandable, but it's totally a 'I'm a woman who's lost reason' kind of scene with the man being completely rational about the situation. On top of that there's a whole 'father's are the only ones who raise the kids' mentality through out the entire movie. There's one moment where Superman defends his mom, but he leaves her there and doesn't get her to safety or anything or make sure she's alright until after he has a big moment with some soldiers first. And one of the last scenes of course is a girl who's in the army smiling cause 'she think he's kind of hot'. I'm not even going touch on the relationship between Superman and Lois Lane cause they start off with Lois Lane being an amazing Pulitzer prize winning tough reporter who goes after the story no matter what and within a few minutes of meeting him, and him rescuing her she's reduced to an obsessed fan.
One more little note, apparently Metropolis is made out of glass, like the entire city is JUST glass.
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