The year is Twenty Ten. I always thought the maximum was Twenty Nine... That must mean that we have just gone into year 30. Which means we have 1982 more years to 2012 (ie. the end of the world). Hey that means we still have quite a while. Nobody should fret about 2012 since it will not be coming in another two millennial!
Okay so the year 29 has just ended and what have we learned?
-Houses can cause international crisis and until now these evil dwelling places have caused economic panic.
-Americans do not want universal health coverage and believe that everyone having health insurance is an encroachment into their personal freed
om.
-Some little children would claim to have been touched (in strange areas) to bank on the fame of one black man turned white.
-No one really knows who Farrah Fawcett is.
-People like giving really strange names to new planets they discover, this year's being
GJ 1214 b
-Other things of which I am not very sure...
Now on to random experiences that I have had over the past few days...
-I wore (Yong Sheng's) army boots to pass off as black boots for that choir presentation the other day...
-I watched Avatar (review will come later)
-I watched Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 (review will be further down)
-I played computer games a lot
-I just got Medieval 2 Total War (review will come later)
-Most of the days consisted of computer games and a 24-day Theological seminar
Now I must review these movies which I have watched...
AVATAR (The Last Airbreathers)
(Spoilers ahead!)
Okay I know everyone says this movie is awesome and all but I am going to give my honest opinion on this movie.
I saw the movie 2012 two months ago and I must say I was impressed by it's scale and well-thought-out script. Maybe it was Biblical heresy but it is just a movie and I liked it. I find that in terms of realism, 2012 looked much more convincing. In Avatar, everyone looks like they are from some video game. However, it is a science fiction film so what one thinks thereof is his opinion.
I thought the best aspect of the movie, however, was the diverse flora and fauna like those supermimosas (I just call them that because they pop in when touched) and superbulletproofrhinocerossodonphanthingies (big rhinos).
I thought the storyline was quite bad however. Everything seems to be introduced at the wrong time. The pacing also changed quite abruptly at times. The sex scene was weird... It had a significance unlike some other "fail-films" but that significance was made insignificant in just a little while.
The climax was exciting but really stupid, especially the cavalry charge. It made the Navi attack so pointless because of their god helping them out later when they had all already died. What a nice god the Navi have. Maybe they went to Navi heaven. The movie also became disturbingly violent in the end when the rest of the movie was so peaceful.
The movie reminded me of that movie I watched as a kid, Atlantis. There is a woman who can speak some random tongue and English as well, there is a stupid protagonist (one is funny and the other leads aliens to their deaths) and they love each other (one has a marriage and the other has a mating ritual). Last of all, the main antagonist has a violent death (in Atlantis, his sidekick dies. In Avatar, his partner-in-crime is completely forgotten).
Now I must talk about the movie's 3-D. In the beginning of the movie, there is a lot of stuff poking out of the screen and people who look like 2D cut outs and it really immerses you into the movie. However, afterwards all the 3-D glasses do is make the screen darker and unite two images into one.
Overall, the movie was a disappointment for me. Of course, its concept is great and it has a lot of potential. However, the movie failed in many areas (many other critics pan the movie for its originality as well) so I would give it a 5/10. It was not exciting enough and the story was not well thought-out (a woman becomes the best friend of the scientists after one conversation with the main protagonist, Jake Sully). It just passes in my books.
Alvin and the Chipmunks 2: The Squeakquel
This movie was funny and entertaining. That is all I have to say. Of course the movie was not very well thought-out and quite inconsistent and the characters did not seem to fit their own personalities (Simon, the smart one, is a jock...). The movie seemed like a spoof of the first movie in many parts so if you did not watch the first movie, you may not understand some of the jokes.
I never liked the Chipettes (female Chipmunks) from the cartoon. However, they were quite cute in this movie and their personalities were quite amusing.
There were many glaring filming errors, such as Dave raising his crutches up and those crutches being on the floor in the next second. However, the jokes were genuinely funny and the songs were quite catchy. This movie is actually not as epic as Avatar but it delivers what it promises. Watch out for a lot of current jokes (XBOX, Internet and Wii related).
Medieval 2: Total War (M2TW)
Well after playing Rome: Total War and Empire: Total War, I would say this game is very good compared to Empire: Total War, but compared to Rome: Total War, it is mostly different only in graphics, the time period and the inclusion of gunpowder that shakes the screen. Rome: Total War had longer unit descriptions which provided a very nice historical background to the game. However, M2TW provides enough to keep itself fresh. It is also more satisfying to kill people because of the blood levels (there is no blood in Empire and Rome). Just like Rome: Total War, I cannot join a single online game but the bulk of the game is in its Single Player Campaign anyway. I think I am going to need to restart my campaign soon though... I am getting destroyed since I did not open up my game very well (the game is a hybrid between real-time and turn-based strategy).
Metacritic gave this game an aggregate score of 88/100. I would give it around the same thing.
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