Avengers

Last night I got to see The Avengers with some friends. Now, before I start geeking out, I do have to say something. 2 of the major things I was raised on are Marvel and Star Wars, so yesterday was an awesome day, being May 4th.

So the movie. . . . It's hard to talk about it with something new without going into spoiler territory, but I'll do my best. I love this movie. I would say everyone would like this movie, it really has something for everyone. Action, humor, well developed characters, hot guys for the girls, hot chicks in tight fitting uniforms for the guys, and comic book references for the geeks. All of the main characters have equal time on screen, which has been a problem in the past with large groups, with the most popular/marketable getting way more screen time and character building than the other guys. There are many, many one liners and quips in the movie that will be quoted for years to come. Whedon amazingly pulled this one together. 

Now the cons. The things I didn't like about the movie were minor little things that have more to do with movie politics than anything Whedon did. For instance I would have preferred if they had actually gotten to use their first idea of villains being the Skrulls, instead of setting for the Chitauri. I mean, unless you read the 6 issues of Ultimates they appeared in years ago. I do have to give bonus points for using an obscure Avengers villain though.

The other thing, and this has been bugging me since seeing Captain America, why on earth do they call it the Tesseract? I know what a tesseract is in mathematical terms, but why for the movies? It's the cosmic cube. It's cube shaped, and it harnesses the power of the cosmos. A Cosmic Cube. *shrugs* I don't know, but if those are the only things that irk me about the movie, it's a pretty awesome movie then.

I do also have to mention that there are 2 extra scenes after the movie. I knew there was one, so I managed to stay long enough to watch the mid-credits scene(which I totally geeked out over btw-no spoilers!) And ran out of the theater when the credits went into the second phase. I should have tried to wait longer, because there's apparently another hilarious scenes at the very end after the credits. I'll be going back to see it on Tuesday, so no spoilers in the comments please!

In other news, I'm having fun making a different crafty object everyday, I particularly like Day 5 so far for the use of my Yu-Gi-Oh cards, check out my Flickr here.

Derailed Rant

Greetings fine people of the Internet. Things have been a bit busy lately for me to do fun things to post about, but I have some new news, yay?
Originally I had wanted to watch through Squid girl, (Shinryaku! Ika Musume) and give my opinions of watching it and why other people would want to watch it as well but Tayron's been keeping me busy with other things. Between rewatching all of MST3K in order (at season 5 now) and being introduced to The Game of Thrones, I've been pretty busy when not at work.


The Game of Thrones....now, this show.....you really have to watch 2 full episodes at least before deciding anything. Now, I've not read the books yet (I know, for shame) but episode one....pretty much is boobs and sex, boobs, action, boobs, sex, fantasy adventure and did I mention boobs? Episode 2 gets more into story and plot, and understanding who these characters are who've been thrown at us. I'm up to episode 5 new, and it's really gotten good. If you're over 18 and don't mind seeing a lot of boobs, I'd definitely recommend this show.


The few times I have been able to get out and have fun, not enough happened to write about, but Thursdays I've started playing a role playing game with some new friends at the local comic book store. It's a lot of fun and I enjoy it immensely. Yesterday went to a new place, Geakers, they have amazing tacos and milkshakes. Also had an awesome time hanging out with an awesome group of people I can't wait to hang with again.


Now, I had mentioned a rant. I'd been thinking this over in my head all day about a certain anime company that shall remain nameless and how much I dislike them. I've been writing and rewriting it in my head as to not offend anyone, but decided to do a google search before posting. It made me extremely excited to find out the UK import has both the Japanese version and also the English version with the voice actors I heard before, and not a different set for another country's release. Major yay!