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.

Whose side are you on? The audience wins either way

Where to start with this film... I have so many mixed feelings, I liked it and it made me laugh at times and also left me wanting more, but at the same time I was bored watching it. It was just another generic action film, it had all the action (go figure) and the right mix of dialogue to make it a good film, the opening was a little weird since there was no kind of set up just straight into some kind of mission, it of course made more sense as the film went on but when it started I thought I had missed something. 

The whole idea behind the reason that Cap and Iron Man 'fall out' was a good idea but I couldn't help but think it was a little like Batman Vs Superman in how it was one man pitting the two against each other, I was half expecting Cap and Iron Man to name their mothers and then become friends again. I'm getting a little ahead of myself here but I just had to slip that in before I forgot, but yes one man causing Cap and Iron Man to become foe's was great and the film really supported it as you didn't find this out till the end. Although this film is a Captain America film it did feel more like an Avengers film at times, which is both a good and a bad thing because if you picked a side before you went into the film you could still support that side somewhat, but the film did obviously follow Cap around as it was his film after all.

I did feel a little disappointed when Tony found out that Cap was telling the truth and sided with him, I thought that was going to be it for the fighting and the two were going to team back up and stop the 'bad guy' together, but then no sooner had the two become friends again they were back to fighting and it was left up to Black Panther to apprehend the 'bad guy'. I keep saying 'bad guy' because he wasn't really that bad, I mean yes he did bomb a building filled with international dignitaries and kill that one guy... yeah okay he is a bad guy but he did kind of have a good reason for it, I mean the Avengers did accidentally kill his entire family.

I have to throw this in here at the end as its being bugging me (pardon the pun) since I saw it, and that is the scene where Ant-man is sat on the end of one of Hawk Eye's arrows. Why has this being bugging me (again, sorry) well I'll tell you, its because the way that Scott Lang is able to shrink to the size of an ant is with the use of Pym Particles and the way they work is by shrinking the distance between the atoms of whatever they are shrinking, meaning that they would still have the same mass (weight) so if you shrunk a car to the size of a coin it would still weigh the same amount, so Scott would have still weighed the same amount while sat on the end of Hawk Eye's arrow. Watch the video below for all the actual science stuff.