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.

How The Jungle Book is Like Your Ex

It looks good but you already know how it's going to end, similar to looking at your ex, yeah sure they might look good but they're an ex for a reason you know how it's going to end. 

The Jungle Book looks amazing, the visuals of this movie are some of the best I've seen, I was actually questioning myself sometimes because I couldn't tell if the animals were real or not. Now unlike my previous posts I'm going to talk about this film in a good light, I did actually like it.

The thing about The Jungle Book is that for one it looks great and that had me engrossed from the start, the second thing was as soon as I heard Idris Elba as Shere Kahn (I must admit it sounded a little weird at first but it grew on me) and Christopher Walken as King Louie (that didn't need time to grow on me it was hilarious) The third thing was that I know the story, I've seen the 1967 version and heard the story before so there were no surprises for me really. I understand that the film is directed towards a much younger audience than myself, but I still enjoyed it for the way that it looks and sounds.

I think that the way that the story had being adapted for a live action film is perfect and it works really well, the more that I think back the more that I appreciate the film that I saw, when I first come out of the cinema I felt a little disappointed but I think that is because I know the story and the ending was no surprise. Something that was added into the live action film that wasn't in the original 1967 version of the film, was that they made it so it was Mowgli's father that burned Shere Khan's face, giving more reason to the why Shere Kahn hates Mowgli rather than just humans in general. This as well as the very slow reveal added something extra to the movie for me, I guess if you have being living under a rock or are possibly a small child that has never heard of The Jungle Book before this isn't really a big deal.

So I'll conclude with; yes this is a good movie and I recommend going to see it at the cinema because the visuals are defiantly worth the price of a ticket, then there's the sound of Christopher Walken as King Louie which just sounds perfect in the cinema. Whether you have heard of The Jungle Book before or maybe you have a man cub of your own that you want to take to see it, go, do it, it's completely worth it even if you don't enjoy the story, you'll enjoy the experience.

Info-graphic - How To Become A Superhero

I've been lazy and very unmotivated to make a post recently, by recently I mean a whole month. So I have created this info-graphic on how to become a superhero, you know just in case you were thinking of it as your primary career path.

How Batman V Superman is really a prologue...

Every time I see an advertisement or a trailer for this movie it just intensifies my hate for it, as I said in my last post, if I don't like something then I'm not exactly nice about it. 

To start off lets talk about the promotional poster, one side features Superman with a white background suggesting that he is the good figure of this movie. Whereas Batman is surrounded by black, which signifies evil. Therefore, despite both actually being praised as heroes in their own movies, Batman is being depicted as the villain. Although, it could also be as simple as Superman needing the sun for power and Batman fighting during the night.

What I really want to talk about though, is the fact that this movie isn't really about Batman fighting with Superman. That is just the selling point for this movie, since they've released most of the fight in the multiple trailers that they have released. When the two hero's start to fight we're probably going to see something really cool and cinematic, I mean two of DC's biggest facing off against one and other is gonna be so cool, but the problem that I have is that the two are going to fight for a bit then something is going to happen that causes the two to join forces. If you look at one of the trailers I don't know which one, but Wonder Woman shows up for some reason and saves the two from some abomination that Lex Luther has created. This clearly shows that they will team up in the movie and the question that everyone wants answered will still be unanswered, plus if you look at the section of the trailer after Wonder Woman has shown up you stop seeing Batman and Superman fighting and just individual clips of the three going in for an attack. This super cut of all the trailers in chronological order is pretty good, it shows that they are relying on the hype of the two fighting by showing the two fighting over and over in different scenes

So to conclude this post, I'm going to say that if you look up the cast members for this movie on google, you'll see a lot of DC characters in there that wouldn't need to be in there if this was just a fight between Batman and Superman. The whole reason that this is been made is so that they can start a DC movie universe, just like Marvel have done but they did it right, they introduced their characters with their own origin story movies, whereas DC is just jumping straight in and showing Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and Cyborg all in one movie. The only thing that can come after this really is the making of origin movies for these characters, obviously we know Batman and Superman's origins already, but what we need to see is Wonder Woman's origin story as a film, the same with Cyborg.

I'd like to finish off by saying that I do have high hopes for this movie, I think it will be a good movie to watch, I just don't like the way that they're going about making it.

Why 'The Other Side of the Door' was successfully horrible

Let me begin this with me saying I didn't think this was a bad movie I'm just a dick and if I don't like something (like this movie) I tend to find every little detail to moan about and that is exactly what I'm going to do in this post. This will certainly contain spoilers for the film but that shouldn't matter as I'll be doing you a favour if you read this and choose not to see the film.

We then cut to Maria and Michael walking down a beach discussing their future, are they going to stay in India or move back to America, etc, which reminds me, the only thing that has changed in this horribly cliché horror movie is the fact that they are in India, its still a white American family and a creepy kid. Anyway back to the beach scene that confused me, the two ask a young girl whether they should stay in India to raise their family, to which the young girl replies with pointing to Maria and screaming while her face melts or something, this is the first in a few pointless jump scares that aren't that scary. This one though has absolutely nothing to do with the plot or anything as it happens well before everything kicks off in the movie.

My next problem with this film is that Piki, who is the family's maid or paid help or whatever (she is basically their maid), point is she is made out to be religious. There is even a scene where we see her praying but she still tells Maria about the abandoned temple where she can speak to her son again, I know you're thinking 'whats wrong with that?' Well let me tell you, she tells Maria this while standing next to her hospital bed, after she just tried to kill herself because she can't cope with the fact that her son is dead. Still not that bad, she is just trying to help Maria, right? The problem with it is that Piki knows that if Maria goes to this temple to speak to her son, Oliver, and opens the door bad things will happen (I say bad things because by this point in the movie I kinda zoned out and didn't listen to what would happen), this is a really bad idea for the simple reason Maria just tried to kill herself because she misses her son and so obviously she's going to open the door.

Next up is when Maria goes to the temple to speak to Oliver, to say goodbye or sorry for letting him drown or whatever, I don't really know anymore my mind was elsewhere for the majority of this film. Although, I still remember how bad it was, so Maria is at this temple she's done all the prerequisites for speaking to your dead loved one through a door and she's waiting and waiting and waiting for what seems like forever (you can see why I zoned out). Eventually there's repeated banging on the door which was convenient as me and Maria were both nodding off to sleep out of boredom. Maria then sits speaking with Oliver saying nothing of consequence, only stupid things like 'come closer to the door'. Oliver keeps pleading with her to let him in, to which she tells him 'no' he's not aloud. This was pretty surprising as I thought she'd open the door straight away, since she just tried to swallow a bottle of pills to see him again. Oliver see's that his pleading to be let in isn't going to work, so he just tells his mother he has to leave, to which Maria does exactly what I knew she was going to do and jumps up and opens the door to see nothing. By the end of the movie I was hoping there was a gas leak in the temple and she just hallucinated the whole thing, but no, this wasn't the twist unfortunately.

Media Diary 07/03/2016 - 13/03/2016

So over the past week-ish I've been keeping a 'media diary' which is basically me logging when I interact with media (which I forgot to do most of the time, I'll fill in the gaps).

So the ideal way to do this would be for me to go on Facebook (mainly out of habit/boredom) and then immediately log that in my media diary but I am an idiot and didn't do this, I completely forgot that I had to do this and ended up filling in my whole day at the end of the day or the next day when I remembered... So here is my somewhat completed media diary

Monday - 10.00	Facebook	Phone	In my room, Just woken up
Monday - 13.00	Hail Caesar	Cinema	N/A
Monday - 15.00	Prison Break	PS4/Netflix	In my room just gotten back from the cinema
Monday - 18.00	Youtube Videos	PS4/Youtube	In my room
Monday - 20.00	Prison Break	PS4/Netflix	In my room
Tuesday - 10.00	Facebook	Phone	In my room, Just woke up
Tuesday - 12.00	Lucifer	Laptop/Amazon Prime Video	In my room
Tuesday - 13.00	Supergirl	Laptop/Internet	In my room
Tuesday - 15.00	Facebook	Phone	In my room
Tuesday - 16.00	Tin Man	PS4/DVD	In my room
Tuesday - 20.00	Far Cry: Primal	PS4	In my room
Wednesday - 10.00	Facebook	Phone	In my room, Just woken up
Wednesday - 11.00	The Flash	Laptop/Internet	In my room
Wednesday - 12.00	iZombie	Laptop/Internet	In my room
Wednesday - 13.00	Gotham	Laptop/Internet	In my room
Wednesday - 15.00	Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception	PS4	In my room
Wednesday - 23.00	Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception	PS4	In my room
Thursday - 13.00	Facebook	Phone	In my room, Just woken up
Thursday - 15.00	Arrow	Laptop/Internet	In my room
Thursday - 16.00	Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception	PS4	In my room
Thursday - 23.00	Youtube Videos	PS4/Youtube	In my room
Thursday - 1.00	Prison Break	PS4/Netflix	In my room
Friday - 10.00	Facebook	Phone	In my room, Just woken up
Friday - 11.00	Legends of Tomorrow	Laptop/Internet	In my room
Friday - 12.00	Prison Break	PS4/Netflix	In my room

So from first glance you can see that Facebook features everyday, that's because its the first thing I do on a morning because I'm lazy and never want to get out of bed after my alarm has gone off. I roll, scramble or fall out of bed and instinctively reach for my phone to get my weird fix from social media, when I've successfully navigated the course from my bed to my desk (which is located at the bottom of my bed) and grabbed my phone I then fall back into my bed to scroll through Facebook and read every pointless thing on there until I reach a status update that I have already seen from the day before. As I'm writing this I'm coming to the revelation that I spend too much time sitting in my room doing nothing but looking at Facebook or watching some random crap on TV... 

I'll then spend the rest of the day watching one of the various programs that I watch depending on the day as I seem to have found a program that airs almost everyday of the week so I have at least one 40 minute episode a day to watch. If for some reason I don't have a show to watch I'll fall back on YouTube and find some thing to watch on there which is usually a lets play of a game or a vlog because I guess I'm either too lazy to play the game or I'm too poor to buy the game and play it, and in the case of a vlog... I just like to see what other people are doing in their lives that are much better than mine. I played Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception a little bit in this week too as I got the whole Uncharted collection in the bundle with my PS4 (which as you can see gets used a lot) and I have been playing my way through the collection in time for the forth installment of the franchise to come out soon and I wanted to be all caught up on the story so I knew what was going on.

I've come to the conclusion that I should probably leave my room at some point and experience the outside world and maybe get some fresh air? I'll probably do that after I watch this next episode... 

Oh also you may have noticed that on Friday my media diary ends randomly at 12.00 with me watching Prison Break, yeah that's because I continued to watch Prison Break well in to the early hours of the morning around 5 or 6am which then led to me sleeping for the next two days.