TMNT: Out of the Shadows? Just stay there

I'd just like to start off by saying that the only reason that I watched this film was because of Stephen Amell, I'm an Arrow fan and he is Casey Jones, I watched the first one and thought it was complete trash. I hoped this would be better but what can you expect from Spielberg besides 'splosions.

The open sequence to the film was pretty decent and it got my hopes up, it was all action packed turtle parkour with a side of pizza and them blam! they're only going to see the NY Knicks... don't think this is me saying its bad, I loved that, I was giggling to myself thinking that the film was going to open with them fighting crime, I was pleasantly surprised. Also when Mickey drops the slice on the court and DJ slips that was probably the best part of the film... I would also suggest skipping over the whole Megan Fox goes Mission Impossible bit because that is just pure bullshit.

As for the rest of the film, it's the usual Michael Bay crap with plenty of destruction, especially when Krang shows up but we'll get to that later because I've got something good to say about this film! If you watched the last TMNT film you'll know that it was about 40% turtles and 60% other people who aren't mutant turtles and that was just silly, I mean who goes to the cinema to watch a film about teenage mutant ninja turtles and wants to see very little of them? Not me. The thing about this film is that it actually has more screen time for the ones that the film is about, yes the turtles, yes it should be Stephen Amell but it isn't so just be happy with the turtles okay? Good. 

So yeah the film is good, kind of, up until... right now. Krang comes along and wants to bring this huge war machine with him (it's also called something ridiculous) but because it's so big it has to come piece by piece, and guess what... it destroys all the buildings in its way and its not even being put together yet. Obviously the turtles can't be having Krang destroying New York, I mean what if they destroy the Knicks stadium Basketball will never be the same. The turtles must defend New York and they go up there and fight through their issues as a team, beat Krang as a team and then live happily ever after... in the sewers and not in the partially destroyed city that lays above them. 

To be really honest this film is worth a watch, even of it's just to decide you hate it because it does have its good points.

Can Wolverine and Quick Silver make a baby?... please?

I'm back at it with the blogging, so let me start with this film here X-men Apocalypse, firstly I did enjoy this film there wasn't a point during it where I just wanted to leave, but I did feel it dragged at points. Secondly I should point out that I had only 2 favorite scenes from the film which I'll talk about later so be warned there will be spoilers.

Right so the film itself was good, I enjoyed it all the way through (despite my terrible mistake to not go to the toilet before the film started) there was also quite a few points in the film that made me laugh which is more than most films do, I'm usually pretty neutral through out films. It was pretty nice to see the young interpretations of more of the X-men rather than just the odd few, Also nice touch throwing Jubilee in there, yeah I noticed her. To go with that praise of it was nice to see the young X-men what the hell did they do to Night-crawlers character!? I'm not saying I didn't like it or that it was a bad thing its just seems weird to have an emo mutant.

My first favorite scene was the one that already been seen many times and talked about even more, yes its the Quick Silver scene, that scene made the film feel so much better than it should have been, I was getting to a point of 'okay young X-men, cool, can we have some action now' and then Quick Silver appeared and with that cheesy music too. The best thing about that scene is that even though he ran around and saved all the students in the best ways possible, it was the sudden realization that he had done all that in a couple of seconds, and also he completely missed Alex Summers who got roasted, I'm gonna be honest I forgot about him too so Quick Silver can be forgiven.

The Second scene that I liked was the scene with Wolverine, it wasn't all the savage massacring that he does on his way out of the facility, well it was a little bit, but it was more the end of that scene where Jean reached into his memories and gave him some of them back, which explains why in the original X-men movies Logan is so attached to Jean since he probably remembers her.

Finishing up here I'd just like to say that X-men Apocalypse is a good film and if you feel like heading to the cinema than I recommend seeing it, but its not that good of a film for you to stop reading and head to see it now.

About that group work...

So for the infographics that I have been posting, yeah I was supposed to work with a group to make them... But I just don't like to work in a group, I work best when I can just do the work myself, which essentially consists of me procrastinating for weeks until I can be bothered to actually do anything. Point is I had a group that I should have kept in contact with and actually met up with to make the infographics, but I didn't because like I said I work better alone, which does sound like a really douchey thing to say but its the truth. 

Second on my list of group work stuff, I think that the group pretty much did the same as me, by that I mean worked alone, but the other two did have some form of contact with one and other as they were talking every now and again in a group chat that all three of us were in, I just chose to ignore it because I'm a bad person. Sometimes I did look at the chat without opening it because once again I didn't want to be talk to anyone, (yeah, I know how socially awkward of me) but I still wanted to know what was going on which wasn't a lot for the majority of the time, mainly they were asking where I was... 

Over all I think the work that I made was pretty damn good if I do say so myself (which I obviously do because I'm full of myself and this is my blog after all) but to be honest, I should have interacted with my group a lot more because I could have used them to do some of the work for me...Errm I mean we could have worked as a group to complete the work... but it would have worked out the way that it was supposed to is my point. I probably could have done with doing a lot more planning rather than just thinking 'oh that could be cool as an infographic' because that did really trip me up more than once, When I was making the first infographic I just thought I'd make something to do with super heroes, since I had just got back from seeing Batman Vs Superman at the cinema, but that was the extent of my planning, I did just then proceed to throw it together on the fly. I did however look at it afterwards and think how terrible it was, so I remade it with 'some' planning (I made a few little drawings on a scrap piece of paper). I then went about two weeks before doing literally anymore work and then all of a sudden thought about a game that I played when I was younger, I remembered it held a record for the most profanity in a game (I was a massive nerd and actually knew the exact number of every swear at one point when I was younger) so I did the exact same thing and didn't plan anything out and ended up doing it twice. So lesson learned, plan my stuff out before I make it, which I do usually do I was just being arrogant in thinking that an infographic wouldn't be that hard to make, which it wasn't, it was just the way it looked that was my problem. 

Unit X made it a thing

The whole reason this blog is a thing is because of Unit X that I am studying at University, I thought about starting a blog a while ago but lacked the commitment to actually do so, since I had to do this blog as a part of my course it forced me to commit to it, and I'm grateful for it, I've really enjoyed writing this blog and plan to continue to do so in the future after this unit has ended. When this unit started all we was told was that we would be writing a blog, anything past that was all up to us, we had complete freedom, we could write about anything that we wanted but uni said they were taking us to see new releases at the cinema if we wanted an easy option, I didn't when I first started thinking about it, I wanted to do something original that was my own but I couldn't think of anything that I would be able to write about for six weeks and totalling in 4000-5000 words. 

I think that choosing to write about the films that we went to see was a good idea, I really liked the idea of reviewing films when I started my first one, as you'll notice my first blog post about a movie is quite long in comparison to my others. Before I start to write any of my blog posts I usually read one or two of my previous ones just to soak in my writing style again as I tend to ramble on and on if I don't, and once I read my first post (about me and Facebook being married) and then read the review of The Other Side of The Door I realised where I had gone wrong, but at the same time didn't want to take out any of the content in the review.  

To finish my final post in this blog that is required to be posted, I'd like to say that Unit X has been one of my favourite units so far, as it's helped me find something to do that I'm enjoying more and more as I write more posts, I'm always thinking when I'm watching something how I'll write a post about it. Unit X is definitely unique in every way, the whole idea of it is great and is a really good way to finish my first year at university, the fact that it's quite relaxed in its approach is another reason I'm happy to finish my year with it, I could have easily been assigned an essay of 4000 words on a subject that I didn't choose, and I probably would have written it all the night before the due date, and I could have done that with this blog, I could have written all my posts in one day and then posted them and submitted it but I've enjoyed writing these posts so I wanted to do it straight away rather than leaving it to the last-minute like I would with an essay.  

Meet The Jimmy's

So in my last post I talked about Hardcore Henry, and the various amounts of Jimmy's that there are. I thought that I'd make this infographic to try and explain the Jimmy's, with their different persona's and how they met their demise, caution spoilers ahead...

It's me Jimmy...

For anyone who has seen this movie will understand the title immediately, for those who haven't let me explain it. So Hardcore Henry, the first person movie released in April, I just finished watching it and it was a lot better than I expected it to be, I was quite reluctant to watch it when it first came out I'd heard some people say that while watching it made them feel sick or gave them a head ache, so I didn't really bother with it. I can now say though that it is a really good film, it has some problems that slightly bugged me but I can overlook them since they are pretty minor things.

Let me just say that when I first started watching I got a little bored because everything seemed a little boring to me, and I don't mean that there wasn't any action because there was it was just the fact that everything seemed to keep going wrong for Henry, but then the story actually picked up and I was pretty much engrossed for the rest of the film. My first problem was that I couldn't really make much out in the action scenes as they were really fast paced, like they should be but fast paced action didn't work too well with the first person thing, there was way too much motion blur. 

The second thing that got me which I'll add this isn't a complaint because it was pretty funny, this is where the title comes in, for those who haven't seen the movie, there's a character called Jimmy who (spoilers) is later found to be a cripple hiding in a secret lab and has clones (I guess that's what they are) each with their own persona's, but in every scene with one of these clones they die and then a new one pops back up a little later, which is really confusing until it's explained and even then its still pretty confusing.

I'm usually against the idea of movies being made into games because usually there's just something off about them but in this case I'm seriously hoping for a Hardcore Henry game, I think that this movie is a perfect candidate for a game, I don't know if that's because of the first person theme or if it's all the action in the movie, either way I think it'll just work because I had an urge to pick my controller up during the movie because I felt like I was just watching the intro to a game and I was so ready to kick some ass with my side kick Jimmy leading the charge!

All in all it's a pretty good movie, I'm also debating with the voices in my head as to whether it's a film worthy of being in my top 10 films because I really liked it but I'm also a little unsure and I really don't know why...

Isn't a game just a playable movie?

Okay Okay, yes I know... the name of the blog is Between The Movies and Me but this is pretty cool and I made it so what more do you want?...

So when I was younger I used to be obsessed with zombies (I still am I guess) and I played all the Resident Evil games all the way through, and then I found The House Of The Dead games on the Wii and I played all of them too, but the one that really got my attention was this one The House Of The Dead Overkill and no it wasn't because there's over 300 different instances of swearing in it but that was the reason I made this infographic.