Wednesday, July 21, 2010

I've been thinking...

Okay no I haven't. Really. I haven't. I haven't really been that active in the brain that much these days. I guess I should tell what's been going on or rather what I've been doing.

First off, we went to an awesome water park and zoo last week. That was extremely fun. We actually fed deer at the zoo and we were really close to giraffes and bears and goats (we fed them too) and other animals. At the water park, there were four water slides, an extremely long 'lazy river', a water playground for the younger ones, and an indoor pool. I mostly went on the awesome water slides. Silver, Tally, and I played a strenuous game of tag in the lazy river. By ways not technically allowed (we got out of the lazy river), Tally and I made Silver lose (heh heh). So yeah...



(from lolbat.com)

...AWESOME!

AAAAAaaaanyways... back to more stuff!

I've been playing video games, watching movies and tv shows (by ways other than tv), going online, and, surprisngly, reading. The video game I'm currently been working on is this one:



I absolutely love this game. I played the first one before this (obviously).

Some of the movies I watched are:



Porco Rosso

Surprisingly, I actually thoroughly enjoyed this movie. A perfect blend of action, adventure, romance, suspense, and humor, this movie will be enjoyed by most. Some will just see it as a dumb movie about a flying pig. That's okay, I almost saw it as that too (hey it has great voice acting by a former batman and a friend of Inigo Montoya... and the wife of Brad Paisley). And those who love aviation and planes and such, they will love this movie too. Pretty much everyone will; it's directed by Hayao Miyazaki.

Done with the rambling, moving on to the next one...



How to Train Your Dragon

Most movies I enjoy. However, there are some scenes I usually look away, I can't stand "embarassing" scenes. However, this movie I could not keep my eyes off of. I had the immense pleasure (say that like Angelina Jolie or Anne Hathaway in Valentine's Day) of seeing this in theaters, even if this was in a 'dollar theater'. Everything was great. The writing, superb. Even if there were cliches, it felt like they were meant to be there. The voice acting was awesome. I wasn't paying attention to who was playing who, it was just the characters. They made them their own. The effects were amazing (better than Avatar's), the dragons were actually fearsome and adorable at the same time. Even though I didn't pay attention to the actors during the movie, that didn't stop me from looking them up after. Defintely looking forward to more of Jay Baruchel's work...



Toy Story 3

It's Pixar. You really think they'd screw up this one? Hell no. Basically it's this:

Awesomely Emotinally Epicly Amazing Epic.

Nuff said.

Movies I've seen before that I saw again:



Signs

Great movie. Very suspenseful.



Howl's Moving Castle

One of my favorite movies of all time. OF ALL TIME. I love the romance and magic and the Bale (I mean seriously, Howl's voice is SO sexy and he's voiced by none other than Christian Bale, who also has one of the worst voices of all time [Batman anyone?]). It's awesome and deep and complex; it's one of those movies you MUST watch more than once to fully understand.

Okay so those are some of the movies I watched. TV shows I watched (two in number, infinity in awesome):



Dexter

Much different than I expected, the show is morally grey, as is the main man, Dexter Morgan. I thought it'd be more like, say, Batman, where the main character is mostly good. But he's neutral in morals, and he's not mostly good. He kills because he has a hunger, like Sylar from Heroes, except before this hunger could manifest into something even uglier than its present form, he was taught to kill only the criminals who escaped justice. We don't truly know if he truly cares (however, I only watched the second season, so maybe later...). This is a definite must see, although not for the squirmy. It is graphic, so I throw a little caution to those who are used to watered down material...



Firefly

WIN. That's what this is. WIN. It's chock full of it, overflowing, expanding into the universe...of WIN. It's like if you crossed Star Trek with, say, Red Dead Redemption, added geeky goodness, geeky hotness, hotness, awesome, and awesome music, you have this winful tv show. I watched about 8 or 9 episodes, it's that awesome. It's so funny, sad, beautiful, awesome... Just watch it. WATCH IT!

And I got into a new book series:



The Mercedes Thompson series (by Patricia Briggs)

Ah, it gives me hope to know that there is hope for urban fantasy novels. The book pictured is the first one. That's the only one I fully read; I'm currently on the second one, Blood Bound. These series have bloody violence, a kick ass heroine, and AWESOME SUPERNATURAL CREATURES, with some romance sprinkled in all set in the modern United States, a kind of alternate reality. With faes, werewolves, "walkers", vampires, witches, and more, if you're into the whole supernatural modern world done right, read this. It's awesome.

Now here's some movies I'm looking forward to seeing, hopefully:





Tangled

This movie looks pretty fun. I'm glad she's not falling for the conventional prince (instead, a thief); hopefully this isn't chock full of cliches. If they work, then that's okay. If it's anything like Bolt, then no, I don't want to see it. But, if it's anything like How to Train Your Dragon, then yes, I would LOVE to see it.





The Sorcerer's Apprentice

I've been waiting to see this movie for a while. The effects look amazing, Jay Baruchel and Nicholas Cage are in it, and it's a movie about magic and witches and sorcerers. What more could I want? However, it's eclipsed by the next movie...





Inception

I heard this movie was the contender for biggest mindfuck movie of all time. I heard it was absolutely amazing and open to almost any interpretation (aka extremely confusing). So yeah.





Tron Legacy

This is the movie I definitely want to see for my birthday. It only comes out 8 days after my birthday, I can definitely wait. I've been waiting for a long time; but this wait is for real. I can tell they put a lot of time and effort into the effects (they look better than Avatar's effects). The story sounds really intriguing as well.





Sucker Punch

This movie looks AWESOME!!!!!! It's about badass girls kicking ass, or as Zack Snyder puts it, "Alice In Wonderland - With Machine Guns". What else can I say?

Now I know there are more obvious movies that I'm looking forward to (pretty much everything being put out by Marvel Studios in the next few years), but I'm just gonna stop it right there.

This is the end...with a little bonus video (or rather song...):

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