My likes

I think I'm well rounded in things I like, but I'm not entirely sure. I like to read, I read a lot of fantasy, some sci-fi, comics, erotica & random facts stuff. I used to read a lot of mystery but it doesn't really interest me anymore, since I can get mysteries in fantasy & sci-fi books. I write, not as much as I should, but I love to. Apparently I've been telling stories since I was little, I would line up my teddy bears & tell them stories according to my mom. I have a lot of stuff in my head that I need to get out onto paper, that's one of the reason's I'm trying to get in the habit of blogging again, just so I do actually write something. I like TV, but only certain shows, there's a lot of things I don't like on TV. I currently watch Supernatural, Castle, NCIS, NCIS: LA, Murdoch Mysteries, Elementary, Sherlock, Father Brown, Doc Martin, Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, My Little Pony's Friendship is Magic, The Daily Show when I catch it & the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, which I am so upset that he's leaving n December. I love going to the theatre to watch movies. I love all the Marvel movies, the ones done by Marvel Studio's. My issues with the X-Men movies I'll get into in another post. I knit, I bake, I can cook, I just prefer to bake, I can sew by hand, I would like to learn to sew with a sewing machine. I love YouTube & subscribe to a lot of channels, SourceFed & SourceFed NERD, Philip Defranco, vlogbrothers, Crash Course, Mental Floss, SciShow & SciShow Space, For Human People's, Animalist, DNews, & a shit ton of Disney channels. I love love love Disney. I know they're not perfect, trust me I know, but I still admire them in their entertainment, guest services & their corporate social responsibility. (I might do a whole post on this too) I drink Tea not coffee, coffee's gross, I love chocolate, I have a sweet tooth. I prefer Marvel over DC, especially in their social progressiveness, coloured superhero's, gay, bi & other sexuality superhero's, superhero's from all different faiths, Marvel really represents the world when it comes to their universe. If you've noticed there's like nothing so far in music, I'm not a huge music fan, at least not in the way some people are, I like what has a decent beat & something I could sing along to, also if it was on Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, or in a Disney movie I'll probably sing it.

Doom (probably with spoilers)

Yes another Karl Urban movie review. I promise to start watching other stuff, but you know, he's really hot! Which means watching him is fun, watching some of the movies he's been in, not always so fun. Doom was a fun one though. This movie makes Karl Urban look like a bad ass all the way through. He's a tough marine who has a tragic back story who rescues his sister. Everyone together now aaawwww. Also he beats the shit out of the Rock, how often does THAT happens?
If you don't know Doom is a first person shooter game that came out in the 90's, it revolutionized and changed the gaming industry so much that I'm sure it can still be felt there. I'm only guessing in the last part, cause I'm not a gamer. But I knew what Doom was and what the look was and I'm sure lots of people who have no interest in video games know about Doom too. The movie takes the look and some of the places and has a go at it. The plot is apparently different from the games, apparently the games have to do with transport technology testing on Mars that leads to a portal to Hell, yup real scientific. The movie on the other had deals with an archaeology dig on Mars that finds a civilization with an extra chromosome that makes some of them super human and others monsters. And the rest of the movie is blowing shit up, killing monsters, yelling at the scientists and the Sarge killing everyone in the facility including survivors. It's a really fun movie, but don't expect a lot from it, and possibly don't watch it in high resolution, you spot a more mistakes that you care for.

The best scene in the movie to me is the first person shooter scene, which for a layman looks like what you think the video game should look like.

Chronicles of Riddick(probably spoilers)

As I continue watching as much of Karl Urban's work as I can, and with the new Riddick movie coming out in September I rewatched the Chronicles of Riddick the other night. First off I'm a fan of Pitch Black, where Riddick is from, it's a great sci-fi/horror movie, lots of suspense and twists and Vin Diesel is just amazing in it. I did have a Vin Diesel kick for a while, but that was around XXX and it didn't last long after that. I still think Vin Diesel is a good actor when he's given good work, however he does make bad decisions when he's given control, case in point, Chronicles of Riddick. Vin Diesel had more say it what went on with this squeal and he used it to try and bring some fantasy to a world that had great sci-fi elements that could have been somewhat plausible. Some of the things that made Pitch Black great was the fact that we were just given a little taste of a universe with enough of our own elements in there to make it seem familiar. There was a Muslim 'teacher' with three young boys on their way to New Mecca. We don't know what happened to the old Mecca, but we know that every Muslim is supposed to make a trip to Mecca in their lifetime. There's no politics in Pitch Black, there's a criminal who's being returned to prison, but he has something that they need on that planet, eyes that can see in the dark. As the movie goes on though you do find that Riddick is not only someone quite scary, but also very smart with his own code. It's a really good movie. Moving on to Chronicles of Riddick however you find that maybe we should have left Riddick well enough alone.

Chronicles of Riddick starts with him on the run from Mercenaries, again. This time it's his friend from the first movie looking for him because there is an invading army of Necromancers on their way. A group of people who live somewhere between life and death, at least that's what I gather here. In this movie we learn that Riddick is a Furion, so he's not even human. Now when Riddick was a baby there was a solider in the Necromancer army who saw a fortune-teller who told him a Furion would kill him so he started killing all the Furion male babies by warping their umbilical cord around their neck, which is one of the few things we learn about Riddick in the first movie that he was left in a trash can with his impilical cord wrapped around his neck. Now that solider is in charge of the Necromongers, thinking everything's ok. He comes to Hellion Prime where the 'holy man', as Riddick calls him, is living with his family. So Riddick is on Hellion Prime when the Necromongers invade, this is where we meet Vaako, who is a commander in the Nercomonger army. He's got the worst haircut I've ever seen! Ok maybe not the worst, but it's pretty bad. I bet Karl Urban walked around wearing hats every time they called cut, it's pretty bad. I wouldn't be surprised if a stipulation of him reprising his role in the new Riddick movie was that he doesn't have to have that hair cut again. And here's where I half leave off plot and just talk about the costumes and other random stuff I don't get about this movie. Are there any humans in this universe? Cause Riddick is a Furion, Judy Dench is in this movie, which I'm still wonder how they got her to do it, as an Elemental, and the Necromongers were all 'something else' so is everyone else human? Or are they other things? For that matter what the hell is a Furion? I mean he has eyes that he can see in the dark, that he claims he paid a doctor for, and he's been killing and evading capture and escaping from places for a long time, which would explain all the skills he's developed over the years. So what makes him different from humans? Is it just where he's from? And Vaako's wife, what is up with her? Is there no way for a woman on her own to rise to power, so she has to do it through him? And clearly Vaako is a sexual submissive to her, there's no other way that relationship works. And how come she's the only one wearing gold on that ship/palace thing with four heads that they fly around in. I mean could they make it more obvious that she's power hunger? And what the hell are the quasi-dead? The movie leaves with way more questions than it ever did answer.

I think if there had been a better script and it wasn't attached to Riddick, like if it was a movie on it's own, it might have done ok. But with it being added to the universe that was established so eloquently in Pitch Black, it just does't work at all. So far the trailers for the new Riddick movie look good, back to hunting for Riddick. Vaako is back, but he hasn't been in any of the trailers I've seen so far, so I'm unsure in what capacity he's back and weather that hair will make a reappearance. The more simple the plot the better for this franchise, just have to wait and see.

Judge Dredd Movie Review(probably with spoilers)

With my Karl Urban kick in full swing and one bad movie down I finished downloading another of his movies, Judge Dredd. I knew that it was going to be bad from the beginning, being Judge Dredd and all. But this was particularly bad. It wasn't even like a real movie, it was like a long extended episode of some show. I'll admit that I haven't seen the original Judge Dredd or read the comics.

In this movie Dredd has a telepathic rookie he's taken on a homaside investigation, which turns into a drug bust, which turns into them being trapped in a building with all its residents trying to kill them. The action stuff and all the stuff between Dredd and the rookie would have been alright fun bad action movie stuff, but the 'future' drug they had in the movie was the stupidest drug that I had EVER heard of! It was called 'slow-mo' which was supposed make the brain perceive time slower, which mean super slow-mo shots for about in total half the movie! 

Don't see this movie, even if you are a Karl Urban fan, he's got the helmet on the whole time and he's frowning.

Despicable Me 2 Review

Last week I saw Despicable Me 2 with my friends from College. It was, of course, absolutely hilarious! It had a great plot, that fleshed out the characters even more, added to the things you already loved about each of them. The introduction of Lucy was done well too, even through you knew she was going to end up with Gru it was done in a way that made you look forward to them getting together. There was a lot more minion stuff, but just enough that they didn't end up annoying you, which could have been a problem. The girls were back in full force, Agnus had a lovely scene with Gru that was both touching and hilarious. Margo had the whole 'who look boys!' that every dad dreads. As usual though Edith was sort of left off to the side. I guess that's my only problem really Edith is always kind of just in the back ground of both of these movies. I did enjoy the villain in this movie more than Vector in the first movie, I found Vector funny, but kind of annoying. A personal favorite part of the movie was after the movie I asked my friends how they liked the movie against the first movie and they all said they hadn't seen it. Which means I have to lend them all the first movie. This is a very short movie review for two reason's, it was a week ago, so some stuff is gone & Big Bang Theory is on in the living room.

Monster's University Movie Review

Saturday night I went out with my friends from College. It's kind of become our thing to see movies then. We were originally going to see Now You See Me, which I still intend to see at some point, but earlier in the week my brother and sister-in-law had seen Monsters University and they both liked it, so I was in conflict about which one I wanted to see. When I met up with everyone I asked if anyone wanted to see Monsters U as well and there were a lot of people wanted to see it as well.

First we had a nice dinner at Jack Astors, which has reasonably sized portions these days. Then we saw a late screening of Monsters U, which meant the theatre was nice and quite. I really enjoyed this movie for many reasons. As usual the graphics by Pixar were amazing and believable for the world that they created. They made the monsters both adorable and completely scary or creepy.  Watching the relationship of Sully and Mike evolve is believable and satisfying. The new characters are interesting and brought in in a way that you hope you will see them again, and even with the ending in Monsters Inc it is possible to bring them in there as well.

Notable characters include the Dean of the Scare School, who's bug-like legs clicking across the ground kept me creeped out whenever she moved on screen, the frats were all very well done also, each member of each house, even when they were only briefly seen seemed to fit in perfectly. I hope they do make another Monsters movie it's a fun world to visit.

I love watching the credits, mostly because there are a lot if fun names in there and I get to say 'someone actually named there kid that?' And I always like to see which departments end up in the credits, like accounting and craft services. So I sat through the credits and before the adorable end credit scene, there was a section for production babies. I don't know if these were just kids born during production or kids that were conceived and then born during production. 

All I all Disney is awesome, Pixar makes amazing movies, both visually and emotionally, and I like credits. 

Go see Monsters U!