Monthly Archives: April 2012


500th Post!!!!!

Wow. 500. What a milestone. This is my 500th post and I am proud of it. I look around my blog and you always think you have more than you really have. But 500 – WOW! What a nice, big, round, beautiful, BIG, number.

I am so proud of myself. 🙂

And since it is still April and April is poetry month, I thought I would share a link to PoemHunter.com where there is a list of the Top 500 Poems. I am not sure if they really are the Top 500, but I really couldn’t find a place with that many listed. Click here to read the list.

There are a lot of people on the list I have not heard of, but I still vote for William Shakespeare.

So Happy 500 Everyone.


X-Men: First Class (2011)

Starring

James McAvoy – Charles Xavier
Michael Fassbender – Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto
Kevin Bacon – Sebastian Shaw
Rose Byrne – Miora MacTaggert
Jennifer Lawrence – Raven/Mystique

Summary

“When Bryan Singer brought Marvel’s X-Men to the big screen, Magneto and Professor X were elder statesmen, but Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass) travels back in time to present an origin story–and an alternate version of history. While Charles Xavier (Laurence Belcher) grows up privileged in New York, Erik Lehnsherr (Bill Milner) grows up underprivileged in Poland. As children, the mind-reading Charles finds a friend in the shape-shifting Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) and Erik finds an enemy in Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon), an energy-absorbing Nazi scientist who treats the metal-bending lad like a lab rat. By 1962, Charles (James McAvoy) has become a swaggering genetics professor and Erik (Michael Fassbender, McAvoy’s Band of Brothers costar) has become a brooding agent of revenge. CIA agent Moira (Rose Byrne) brings the two together to work for Division X. With the help of MIB (Oliver Platt) and Hank (A Single Man’s Nicholas Hoult), they seek out other mutants, while fending off Shaw and Emma Frost (Mad Men’s January Jones), who try to recruit them for more nefarious ends, leading to a showdown in Cuba between the United States and the Soviet Union, the good and bad mutants, and Charles and Erik, whose goals have begun to diverge. Throughout, Vaughn crisscrosses the globe, piles on the visual effects, and juices the action with a rousing score, but it’s the actors who make the biggest impression as McAvoy and Fassbender prove themselves worthy successors to Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. The movie comes alive whenever they take center stage, and dies a little when they don’t. For the most part, though, Vaughn does right by playing up the James Bond parallels and acknowledging the debt to producer Bryan Singer through a couple of clever cameos.”

–Kathleen C. Fennessy from Amazon.com

Review

There was so much happening all of the time during this movie. This movie was telling the story of the X-Men before they were The X-Men. It followed them from where they started off and how they came to be the X-Men and the process of them training to save the world from Sebastian Shaw.

The movie was a little confusing and at few points and I lost what was going on but you could quickly figure out what you missed. This may have been due to the fact that I have not seen any of the previous X-Men movies (something which I plan to change soon.) But the C.G.I’s in this movie were done very well.

And some of the costumes/makeup which was done was quite impressive.

The movie was set in the past and starts off with showing Erik Lehnsherr, later named Magneto, while he was a child. He was separated from his parents in a Nazi camp and it showed him getting angry and using his power. That was how the movie opened up. It got you intrigued and you wanted to watch some more.

This movie, I would say, would be for ages 14/15+ because there was quite a lot of violence. Especially in a scene were Sebastian Shaw broke into the mutants hideout and killed every single security guard and it was kind of creepy, especially when it is raining bodies – literally.

But otherwise this movie was still really good. I liked how in some of the scenes, when it was showing the past, they filmed in a different color. They filmed in a black/white/sepia color so it made it look older which was a really nice effect.

It was an enjoyable movie and I do recommend it, so I hope that you enjoy.


How do you survive at Book Club?

I know that everyone has those times when they forgot to read the next book for book club and you have those thoughts of, “OMG. What am I going to do. I am not going to SSUUUURRVVIIVVEEE!”

Well BookRiot did a list of “7 Ways to Fake it at Book Club.” I know that I will probably be using this some times as I don’t always get a chance to read my book for book club (sorry Omar.)

Click here to read this really useful list.


Thor (2011)

Starring

Chris Hemsworth – Thor
Natalie Portman – Jane Foster
Tom Hiddleston – Loki
Anthony Hopkins – Odin

Review

WOWOWOWOWOWOW. OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG.

BEST. MOVIE. EVER.

As you can tell I am extremely excited and absolutely loved this movie. It had action, it has myth, it had romance, it had a really hunky actor playing Thor, and a great woman playing Jane.

This movies graphics were great and so colorful and bright.

The story line in this movie was also really intriguing. Thor was cast out of Asguard, his home world, because he defied his father. He was sent to Earth where Jane, played by Natalie Portman, hit him with a car. Jane studied stars and anomalies which happened in the universe and she found Thor, who she did not know was “Thor”, who had come out of some anomaly. The story then follows the journey between the two worlds and how they collide. It follows Jane and Thor and how Jane tries to get Thor home but falls in love with him in the process.

I was excited for this movie to start with but I was curious to see how they were going to do an entire movie on Thor and I have to say that they did it exceptionally well. It kept you interested and just entertained. It ended like there was going to be another one and there had better be another one because it ended like a cliff hanger and I have to know what happens next.

This is a definitely a must watch even if you don’t like this type of thing because you may be surprised to find out you do.

So go and check this one out from your library. 🙂


Up and Coming….

This year is not even half way done yet so there is tons of time for some great books and movies to come out. I thought I would share some of the ones which I am most excited for and am counting down until they are released or published. If you have any which you would like to share, please do. I love getting feedback and thoughts from my readers.

But first let me list some books I am excited for.

Books

City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare (May 8th)

Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore (May 1st)

One Direction by One Direction (May 22nd) (I am not interested but I thought that I would share anyway)

Tiger’s Destiny (September 5th) (Already read it but the ARC does not come with the last 3 chapters – I have to wait to finish and review it  🙁 )

Until I Die by Amy Plum (May 8th)

Now let me do the movies.

Movies

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (for my mom and I am a little intrigued as well)

Marvel’s The Avengers (CANNOT WAIT – OMG)

Dark Shadows (looks hilarious)

Battleship

Men in Black 3 (who’s pumped “ME”)

Snow White and the Huntsman

Prometheus (probably won’t see it but it still looks good (dad will probably watch it))
and
G.I. Joe: Retaliation

There are many more books and movies which are coming out but if I listed everything it would take ages.
If there is a book or movie you also feel you want to see, please let me know in the comment section because I love to hear my readers tastes.

Happy Reading and Movie Watching!