Tuesday, August 25, 2015
League of Legends NA Championship Series Finals Recap: Team Counter Logic Gaming wins with a 3-0 sweep
Team CLG beat Team Solo Mid in an unbelievable defeat. Team Solo Mid was the winner of last two NA Championship Series. Team CLG has a good team attack, while Team Solo Mid has a good final stage attack. Team SLM was prevented from doing so by a well prepared Team CLG and lost in a sweep.
Sunday, August 2, 2015
Antman: the wife is one of the worst characters since Loki
Unlike Thor, Antman is actually a fairly competent film.
However, there is some flaw with the drama. The wife.
She doesn't want Scott to be with their daughter, because he committed a crime. Ok.
However, you forget that it's commonly mentioned that he was a Robin Hood act.
He's not a very unlikeable character or a bad father figure-like character for the daughter.
He's an a lot better character written or moral compared to the wife, and the two seemed to never have chemistry on screen, albeit this could be due to the lack of breakout Paul Rudd was compared to Robert Downey Jr in Iron Man.
If she said, "I couldn't wait ten years for someone to be the father," or something like that, maybe... But no, she just says, "It's cuz you commited a crime."
And then she marries a cop, despite Scott doing such a brave thing for the world, very symbolic of a character who is (double negative warning) anti-anti-1%.
This is the happy family picture at the end of the film with the two dads?!?!
Like, what did the mom learn from the film that made her think that he wasn't any more brave than he previously was?
No, it's cuz he couldn't get a job, because of his likeable criminal past! Etc..
Like, this lady is a friggin robot. Not saying it's the actress' fault, but the lines in the scenes given are quite nonsensical.
He has an Electrical Engineering degree.
What does she do for a job, or as a mother?
However, there is some flaw with the drama. The wife.
She doesn't want Scott to be with their daughter, because he committed a crime. Ok.
However, you forget that it's commonly mentioned that he was a Robin Hood act.
He's not a very unlikeable character or a bad father figure-like character for the daughter.
He's an a lot better character written or moral compared to the wife, and the two seemed to never have chemistry on screen, albeit this could be due to the lack of breakout Paul Rudd was compared to Robert Downey Jr in Iron Man.
If she said, "I couldn't wait ten years for someone to be the father," or something like that, maybe... But no, she just says, "It's cuz you commited a crime."
And then she marries a cop, despite Scott doing such a brave thing for the world, very symbolic of a character who is (double negative warning) anti-anti-1%.
This is the happy family picture at the end of the film with the two dads?!?!
Like, what did the mom learn from the film that made her think that he wasn't any more brave than he previously was?
No, it's cuz he couldn't get a job, because of his likeable criminal past! Etc..
Like, this lady is a friggin robot. Not saying it's the actress' fault, but the lines in the scenes given are quite nonsensical.
He has an Electrical Engineering degree.
What does she do for a job, or as a mother?
Final Fantasies that need an HD remake
5 FFIV
4 FFT
3 FFTA/2
2 FFVI DBZ collaboration
1 FFIX Make Zidane and Steiner more Amano-ish opposed to just ugly. Better card system
4 FFT
3 FFTA/2
2 FFVI DBZ collaboration
1 FFIX Make Zidane and Steiner more Amano-ish opposed to just ugly. Better card system
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Major Antman plothole: Electrical Engineering degree
Why introduce this point if you're going to have Scott not understand anything Hank said about Quantum Mechanics?
Exposition.
Spelling it out for the kids.
You show it later in the movie.
He learned Engineering, so he probably learned Quantum Mechanics.
He doesn't really do any of the brainy Hank Pym, mechanical stuff. And they don't even go, theoretical stuff that I'm not familiar with. Hank never tries to teach him for whatever reason.
He's not really a geek in any form anyway, being the Gentaro youth and muscle to Kengo's brain.
Exposition.
Spelling it out for the kids.
You show it later in the movie.
He learned Engineering, so he probably learned Quantum Mechanics.
He doesn't really do any of the brainy Hank Pym, mechanical stuff. And they don't even go, theoretical stuff that I'm not familiar with. Hank never tries to teach him for whatever reason.
He's not really a geek in any form anyway, being the Gentaro youth and muscle to Kengo's brain.
Friday, July 3, 2015
July 2015: Criterion Collection on Hulu: Final Films
- Madadayo
- An Autumn Afternoon
- Street of Shame
- L'argent
- Confidentially Yours
- The Ascent
- Three Colors: Red
- The Stranger
Madadayo a story about a teacher instead of a gangster and/or a samurai
An Autumn Afternoon a story about a daughter
Street of Shame, the most real less theatrical long shot testing film of the great feminist Kenji Mizoguchi
L'argent Almost Wes Anderson-ish except with crooked angles instead signifying the world of money stealing
Confidentially Yours
The Ascent A story about Russia
Three Colors: Red A grand finale to the Three Colors Trilogy
The Stranger, a great story part Simpsons part Cable Guy.
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Favorite Films First Half 2015
- The Lobster
- Inside Out
- Kingsman
- Chappie
- Sicario
- Maps to the Stars: part Hollywood, part psychology, part metaphysical
- It Follows
- Ex Machina
- Madonna
- Clouds of Sils Maria
- Max Max: Fury Road
- Terminator: Genisys
- Avengers 2: Age of Ultron
- Kung Fury
- Ant-Man
- Carol
- The Age of Adaline
- Tomorrowland
- Jupiter Ascending
Monday, June 29, 2015
Review: The Terminator is the sum of its GREAT GREAT parts
Since Terminator: Genisys is coming out, I figured I'd do an analysis of the Terminator.
Story:
The Terminator is about a machine that wants to stop a mother from delivering a child that lives through a tough life where he fights a war vs machines and goes to their military base nearly destroying them, prior to the machines sending a lone cyborg back in time to kill his mother, the main character of the story.
It's a sci fi classic story.
*****/*****
Style
This was such an interesting classic. It's a little beat over your head with the tech noir neon sign, in addition to having a story that's basically spelled out for you, but Sarah Connor as the femme fatale was a good choice. It may even be a reverse police story as there's no detectives and the police are obstacles in this story, which I may get to.
It's part sci fi. It's part romance. It's part chase film, a la the Driver or Smokey and the Bandit.
Watching Nick of WeLiveFilm's analysis of Back to the Future, I couldn't help but think of Terminator as well while watching it with chase scenes and time travel of the 80s before he mentioned it as well.
*****/*****
Action:
It's a little cheap at how the Terminator can't die or react other than with special effects when he's shot, but it's different.
It sorta reminds me of Chappie now where they just kill everybody no selling everything shooting up entire places.
The scene where he just runs the car through the police station is epic.
Suspense should be added to these scenes as there's a bit of terror as Sarah runs from the robot, afraid of how to destroy it, in every scene. Great job by Linda Hamilton!
*****/*****
Themes:
There's a fear of things different in this film.
Xenophobia,
Mechaphobia
Corporatephobia.
Fears of Nazis, Japanese, Russians, Cubans and other people making nuclear bombs to destroy you.
The fact that the Japanese economy in addition to the German were developing better steel factories were indicative of how relevant the end scene of the film was where the Terminator gets destroyed by another machine.
The idea of a corporation making nukes to make money that can destroy the world. The fact that there's. This sets up a lot of Paul Verehoeven's superior original classic RoboCop.
*****/*****
The acting:
Michael Biehn as Kyle Reese really should've been associated with the greats such as Martin Scorsese's Robert De Niro, Francis Ford Coppola's Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman in general. One of the best portrayals ever as the military paranoid Kyle Reese, who seems to be this scary unlikeable guy, who you don't know anything about in the film prior to seeing him shoot the other dude, who is later revealed to be a cyborg assassin. Side note on how no one has to explain how slow the Terminators fight or walk/run.
And Sarah Connor goes from this character that Cyberdyne makes just like a Terminator machine, fake bland and suburban white trash perfect to pulling off cool lines such as "You're terminated, Motherfucker!" That's just great.
There's regretably not a lot for the police officers to do, but they seem just as concerned for saving Sarah as Reese, albeit they just don't believe in this fantastical story about futuristic robots trying to kill everyone.
*****/*****
Casting:
Everyone was good.
And Arnold really broke out as the Terminator, doing whatever he could to look the part, not to mention the accent.
He seemed to be an action movie star because of this unique film, despite the great performances everyone overlooks by the rest of the cast.
*****/*****
Overall, a very unique film. It's not the most realistic where you have the existence of time travel, the improper use of time travel, as the machines can't pinpoint where to find Sarah Connor, or don't target a better place in the timeline to kill off her or the John Connor line, and a Terminator robot surviving truck explosions. And maybe there's something Rob Ager can tell me about Robot AI that's not accurate, which doesn't have to be in a movie.
*****/*****
Story:
The Terminator is about a machine that wants to stop a mother from delivering a child that lives through a tough life where he fights a war vs machines and goes to their military base nearly destroying them, prior to the machines sending a lone cyborg back in time to kill his mother, the main character of the story.
It's a sci fi classic story.
*****/*****
Style
This was such an interesting classic. It's a little beat over your head with the tech noir neon sign, in addition to having a story that's basically spelled out for you, but Sarah Connor as the femme fatale was a good choice. It may even be a reverse police story as there's no detectives and the police are obstacles in this story, which I may get to.
It's part sci fi. It's part romance. It's part chase film, a la the Driver or Smokey and the Bandit.
Watching Nick of WeLiveFilm's analysis of Back to the Future, I couldn't help but think of Terminator as well while watching it with chase scenes and time travel of the 80s before he mentioned it as well.
*****/*****
Action:
It's a little cheap at how the Terminator can't die or react other than with special effects when he's shot, but it's different.
It sorta reminds me of Chappie now where they just kill everybody no selling everything shooting up entire places.
The scene where he just runs the car through the police station is epic.
Suspense should be added to these scenes as there's a bit of terror as Sarah runs from the robot, afraid of how to destroy it, in every scene. Great job by Linda Hamilton!
*****/*****
Themes:
There's a fear of things different in this film.
Xenophobia,
Mechaphobia
Corporatephobia.
Fears of Nazis, Japanese, Russians, Cubans and other people making nuclear bombs to destroy you.
The fact that the Japanese economy in addition to the German were developing better steel factories were indicative of how relevant the end scene of the film was where the Terminator gets destroyed by another machine.
The idea of a corporation making nukes to make money that can destroy the world. The fact that there's. This sets up a lot of Paul Verehoeven's superior original classic RoboCop.
*****/*****
The acting:
Michael Biehn as Kyle Reese really should've been associated with the greats such as Martin Scorsese's Robert De Niro, Francis Ford Coppola's Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman in general. One of the best portrayals ever as the military paranoid Kyle Reese, who seems to be this scary unlikeable guy, who you don't know anything about in the film prior to seeing him shoot the other dude, who is later revealed to be a cyborg assassin. Side note on how no one has to explain how slow the Terminators fight or walk/run.
And Sarah Connor goes from this character that Cyberdyne makes just like a Terminator machine, fake bland and suburban white trash perfect to pulling off cool lines such as "You're terminated, Motherfucker!" That's just great.
There's regretably not a lot for the police officers to do, but they seem just as concerned for saving Sarah as Reese, albeit they just don't believe in this fantastical story about futuristic robots trying to kill everyone.
*****/*****
Casting:
Everyone was good.
And Arnold really broke out as the Terminator, doing whatever he could to look the part, not to mention the accent.
He seemed to be an action movie star because of this unique film, despite the great performances everyone overlooks by the rest of the cast.
*****/*****
Overall, a very unique film. It's not the most realistic where you have the existence of time travel, the improper use of time travel, as the machines can't pinpoint where to find Sarah Connor, or don't target a better place in the timeline to kill off her or the John Connor line, and a Terminator robot surviving truck explosions. And maybe there's something Rob Ager can tell me about Robot AI that's not accurate, which doesn't have to be in a movie.
*****/*****
Monday, June 22, 2015
List of PS3 games I recommend to my brother
Valkyria Chronicles
Uncharted 1-3
Mass Effect 1 and 2
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Tokyo Jungle
Little Big Planet 1-2
Metal Gear Solid 4
Final Fantasy XIII
Natural Doctrine
CastleVania
Child of Eden
Demon's Souls
Dark Souls 1-2
Thief
Eternal Sonata
Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection
Jenova Chen Collection
Katamari Forever
Knights of Amalur
Resonance of Fate
Tales
Time Crisis 4
Rebuy:
Wild Arms
Wild Arms 2
Mega Man X4
Mega Man X5
Uncharted 1-3
Mass Effect 1 and 2
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Tokyo Jungle
Little Big Planet 1-2
Metal Gear Solid 4
Final Fantasy XIII
Natural Doctrine
CastleVania
Child of Eden
Demon's Souls
Dark Souls 1-2
Thief
Eternal Sonata
Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection
Jenova Chen Collection
Katamari Forever
Knights of Amalur
Resonance of Fate
Tales
Time Crisis 4
Rebuy:
Wild Arms
Wild Arms 2
Mega Man X4
Mega Man X5
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Films I should watch with my brother summer 2015
Age of Adaline
Ex Machina
Tomorrowland
Ratchet and Clank
Age of Ultron 2
Mad Max: Fury Road
Inside Out
Ant Man
Terminator Genisys
Fantastic Four
The Man from UNCLE
Ex Machina
Tomorrowland
Ratchet and Clank
Age of Ultron 2
Mad Max: Fury Road
Inside Out
Ant Man
Terminator Genisys
Fantastic Four
The Man from UNCLE
Friday, June 19, 2015
Best trailers Summer 2015
- Ant-Man,
- The Martian
- The Walk,
- Spectre
- Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, which is basically just Skyfall with a plane stunt
- The Man from UNCLE, Guy Ritchie, yes.
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- Everest,
- Self/less
- Southpaw
Ant-Man, looks like Honey I Shrunk the Kids meets Superman
The Martian, reverse Mann
The Walk, looks great in 3D.
Spectre, something original opposed to
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, B
The Man from UNCLE, B
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, C
Everest, a bunch of white dudes wanting to get themselves killed, F
Self/less, a film about Ben Kingsley wanting to become Borat again. F
Southpaw, Jake Gyllenhaal, crying about purposely getting his family ruined, F
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