Ellen's Life

Nine months. That’s a long time. That’s almost a whole school year. Too long for my various stalkers to wait for a new post.

So here we go, then. :3

Honestly, I didn’t think this movie was going to be such a big deal. I thought it was going to be a combination of one of my least favorite movie cliches with a western take on the Super Robot Genre. (Which involves a lot less transformation sequences and hot bloodedness.)

I was pleasantly surprised, however, when the movie ended with <SPOILER> a tie between the underdog robot and the übermenschgiantblackkillingmachine robot. It defied the cliche I hate of the underdog always winning in sports movies like this. </SPOILER>

Also, I’m pretty sure that Dakota Goyo has a promising future in acting. He was pretty good as the half-pint sidekick.

To close up this review, I would like to say two things:

One, the day that sports start getting played by robots is the day the whole world becomes obese.

Two, Gurren Lagann would kick Atom’s butt.

Heyya. It’s been a while since I’ve done a review, mostly due to laziness, but to all of you who have been waiting patiently, a new one is finally out!

*Insert canned applause here*

So, anyways.. The Green Hornet. A movie based off of a comic book based off of a radio series (Or so I’m told) About a man whose reporter father dies suddenly one day, and leaves him in charge of his, quote, unquote, “Media Empire.” Then, he meets up with the guy who makes his coffee, discovers that he’s an epic martial artist, and decides to become an Anti-superhero. (Get it? Get it? HAHAHAhaha.. Ahaha.. Eh.)

SPOILER WARNING: In case you haven’t already guessed, his father was murdered.

That’s a problem I felt I had with the movie- It’s a superhero (Ish) movie, and the main characters chivalrous (Albeit jerky) father dies. What other outcome would it have been? -.-

I did, however, like the Batman-esque feel to this whole thing. These aren’t ACTUAL superheroes, but they have a lot of cool gadgets, and a sweet car, and that’s awesome. I also liked the idea that these people are superheroes that don’t conform to the stereotype “All Superheroes are good guys.”

3.8/5 for the movie- Good enough plot, but for a movie that’s supposed to be a good portion comedic, a lot of the jokes seemed to fall flat.

Also, could someone tell me what country Tchaikov.. Coddnov.. Chudnofsky was supposed to be from? His accent kept slipping, and at one time it slipped so much I thought he was drunk. Whoops.

Hello everyone! Yes, it is time for another review. This time, I review something I saw in December, (Avatar) and compare it to something I saw in April. (How to Train Your Dragon.)

So without further ado… Here is Avatar.

Avatar.

This is a movie I was looking forwards to seeing for a few months before it came out. In the previews, it looked gorgeous, and action packed, which for someone like me, is good.

Then, it finally came out.

So we go to see it. If you haven’t yet, you probably can’t see it in theaters, but if you’re gonna rent it on Pay Per View or something, choose a night when you have nothing else to do, because the movie is three hours and fifteen minutes long. In all honesty, it may be a bit longer, but jeez, it was December since I saw this thing.

This is the story of Jake Sully, marine, who’s needed to go to the world Pandora to fill in for his brother, who got (Randomly) murdered. His brother was part of a project in which DNA is taken from you, and from the natives in the world of Pandora and grown into little crosses between you and the giant blue fairy people that live here. Since Jake was his twin, he was the only other one that could match up to the “avatar” created for his brother.

Anyways, the graphics are absolutely spectacular. I read somewhere that this was the most expensive film to make in history. Well, it looked good, but you’d think for all that money they might be able to hire better writers. It wasn’t a BAD movie… Just rather unoriginal. The plot, in a nutshell, was protagonist arrives, protagonist gets assigned a task by his boss, protagonist goes into the land of the natives to complete his task, protagonist gets captured by natives, protagonist has to assimilate into the native culture, protagonist falls in love with someone important among the natives, protagonist has to fight a battle against the people that he worked for previously.

Honestly, I found the culture of the Na’Vi very interesting, so watching Jakesully assimilate into it wasn’t bad. It was the *Spoiler warning* Ending that really ticked me off.

*Again, spoiler warning* At the end, all of the earth people that didn’t help the Na’Vi are bundled up in a space thingy, and sent home to “Their dying world”. Seriously? You couldn’t at least TRY to do to them what you did to the protagonist? Okay, SOME people might go, like that CEO guy, but these people are just doing their job. And now you’re punishing them for that. Yeah, you’re pretty awesome, ten foot tall blue cat elf people.

Well, that angry little rant is finished. And, it brings me to the next subject.

How to Train Your Dragon.

The first time we saw the preview, my dad said that seeing this would be seeing Avatar, and vice versa. Regardless of that, we went to see it a while (A few days) ago.

This is the story of Hiccup, the midget who’s father thinks he’s never gonna amount to anything, who wants to slay the pests of the viking village in which he lives: Dragons. One night, when dragons attack, he manages to use a dola throwing weapon to shoot the scariest dragon of all down from the sky.

And then he can’t kill it.

The visual effects in this movie are not as beautiful as the ones in Avatar, but I do have to give Dreamworks some congratulations. It was a nice movie to see, as well as to watch.

The plot is ALMOST the same as in Avatar, but it changes at several major points. For one thing, Hiccup doesn’t have to fight a battle against any of his viking brothers. He has to fight a *SPOILER WARNING* Huge goliath mother-of-all-dragons cannibal dragon thing. (Which, by the way, looks like an oversized blue gronkle with bat wings and three eyes.)

And also, the ending. I preferred this movie to Avatar chiefly for this reason. *Spoiler warning* At the end, the two cultures are allowed to mingle and live with each other. It’ll take some getting used to by each side (The vikings have to get used to not killing dragons, and the dragons have to get used to not being hunted by vikings.) But in the end, it’s a peaceful and beneficial collaboration for all.

SUMMARY:

Personally, if you’re looking for a movie to rent/go see, I recommend “How to Train Your Dragon”. However, if you’re into more techy stuff and sci-fi, or maybe just learning about a culture unlike any on earth, I recommend “Avatar”.

*Insert witty conclusion here*