Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos Review

Story: 2/10
The story for this seemed way too sloppy for the standards for many fans and I have for the series. The story is basically a retelling of the current FMA story in another area which is easy to see as about 15 minutes and thus is a great weakness in the film. Again the writing for this is pretty sloppy cause this is a straight forward plot dressed as something complex and it really works against the film simply cause this didn't need to be a movie if the writing was better I could see it as a two OVA episodes but nothing more. Because it's so long I lost interest in the movie and started wondering when it would be over which one should never think about a film.

Animation: 2/10
The animation looks like something out of Hayao Miyazaki film which seemed like a poor fit for FMA. For a Miyazaki film it works cause that part of the films charm but for this movie it just looked cheap.

Overall Rating: Don't waste your time with it: 1.4/10
The major reason the film sucks is cause the story is back tracking so you already know that Edward and Alphonse won't get seriously hurt or die because you've seen either FMA or Brotherhood and you know what happens. Second the movie has three underdeveloped villains that are only underdeveloped because of the movies running time, on the other hand this movie also focus a little more on Ed and Alphonse detective skills which would have been more interest for a post alchemy Ed and Al. Lastly it would have worked better with the Alphonse and Julia relationship they tried in the end.

Thoughts on Life Part2

I wonder what America would be like if we didn't have The Pledge of Allegiance drilled into our heads everyday seen kindergarten. I mean I don't remember learning it at all, i remember learning shapes and numbers but never the very pledge I said everyday for over ten years. I wonder if we would look upon ourselves differently as a nation maybe instead of having a great sense of pride we'd would try understanding other nation as they are? 
       LB
             

Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. Episode1 Review

{Story} Rick Jones, a friend of the Hulk, sets up cameras so that he can show a softer side of the Hulk to everyone that is scary of him.

{Likes}I like Seth Green's character until the end him being the comic relief and all. Also liked how the Hulk isn't a mindless monster and instead has a thought process, simple though it may being its something over the same old roaring and smashing. The introduction of Red Hulk was funny and the show in an of itself is funny by showing a newer side to Hulk and that's why I enjoy it so much.

{Dislikes}The comedy was hit and miss all the way thruogh the episode. She-Hulk wasn't introduced but that is more of a personally grip because out of everybody on the team members I haven't seen much of her in other Marvel shows so I was excited to see her role on the team, as well as her overall personality. Lastly my biggest peoblem is that Seth Green's charater Rick Jones is being turned into A-Bomb so soon. There is Hulk, She-Hulk, Red Hulk, and now Skaar so I would have like Rick to play more of the Ron Stoppable to the teams Kim Possible. 

All in all I had fun and can't wait for the next episode.

Thoughts on Life Part1

Why is calling someones a second class citizen offensive yet calling someone poor or homeless is okay? I mean classifying is okay but only if it compliments the rich or law makers and insults the rest in the most passive aggressive way possible. The only reason any of us accept this is because we have little to no power in changing it. 
Question:Why must a line be drawn in the sand and classes be made?
Answer: Cause as humans we rather horde what little power is on this earth then share because we are evil by nature.
                 Sad as it may be we just have to Laugh At Life until our dim light fades and we become nothing more then another fading memory.


 

Superman Unbound Review Spoiler

{Story} Supergirl is adjusting to life on earth yet is holding on to the past trauma of Brainiac's attack and capture of her home Argo City. With Brainiac now attacking earth will Supergirl overcome he fear of Brainiac in time to help Superman save their new home? Answer duh it's a superhero movie of course their going to win. Plot is straight forward with one of Brainiac's probes land on earth Superman goes to stop Brainiac gets captured, Brainiac reads his mind learning of earth and going there to see why a kryptonian would choose to live there, you know other then his planet being blown to shit.

{Casting}The main cast would be Matt Bomer as Superman, Stana Katic as Lois Lane, Molly C. Quinn as Supergirl, and John Noble as Brainiac. I'll start by saying that all the actresses/actors are great but the script really didn't give them anything to work with. I mean watch the first season of Red vs. Blue you get more emotional depth form the Rooster Teeth guys then from these actors. I'm not saying that the actors were bad it's just that they played one dimensional characters really well it was like watching a drama club perform at school rather then a animated movie done by pros.

{Characters}When good actors play one dimensional characters it shows the flaws of said characters really quickly because as the movie continues the character keep showing that one side to them. Superman in this is a great example because the whole movie until the last minute of the film is overbearing to the point of it be extremely unsettling. Supergirl plays the tough on the outside with a marshmallow core. Brainiac plays an otaku(nerd) no I'm serious his greatest weakness at the end of the movie is outside. The character that has something to them is Lois Lane and it's shows I mean Stana Katic carries this film, anytime I saw Lois I simply thought to myself thank God.

{Likes}I liked the face off at the beginning with Superman and the probe.

{Dislikes}At the beginning the Cops have a face off with some random group of thugs how's that weird you might ask cause at the time Lois is being held hostage. What cop shoots when someone is being held hostage, you could make the argument Superman always saves Lois but honestly would you want to be the guy that kill Lois Lane on accident or otherwise. Next problem is that the thugs wait until the cops are off the roof to blow up the roof up what fucking gentlemen right. Third problem is that it is 2013 and Superman has his FUCKING underwear on the outside why there is no reason for this the comics and even the movie didn't do this BULLSHIT! Honestly if dressing yourself is too hard don't even try saving my city give your powers to some that knows how to dress. Last is during the second to last battle both Superman and Supergirl watch as Brainiac attacks before doing anything people dieing but they're having a heart to heart so it's okay right? Answer NO FUCK THEM and get a new set of superhero I mean it ain't night but try call up Batman somehow get a real fucking hero one that only let his city go to shit because his back was broken in another zip code! The movie is everything that a movie shouldn't be boring, predictable, and cliche to the point that you try making a drink game that most likely make you past out so you never see the shitty ending to this movie.



My Rating:Man of Steel is far superior watch it instead: 1.4/10  

Green Arrow New 52 Issue #0 Review

I heard people talking about the New 52 Green Arrow and how his Batman light, I of course didn't buy into it because not that deep down I already know Oliver Queen is more warm hearted Bruce Wayne. That being said I didn't like the reimagining on Green Arrow's story because it didn't feel like Oliver Queen it felt like an Else World Bruce Wayne. The comic has nineteen year old Oliver Queen partying on a Queen Industries oil rig and because Ollie breaks protocol pirates board the ship to steal oil. Ollie alongside Tommy Merlyn goes and plays hero Ollie making a mistake causes the deaths of everybody on borad the ship except himself and Tommy only because Tommy pushes him off the rig and falls a long with Oliver. With that origin it screams Batman like it's not even trying to hide that it's copying The Dark Knight, which is sad cause while Batman and Green Arrow are very similar the minor diffences show case how different they are at the core. The Oliver Queen I wanted to see is a man betrayed by a friend and left to die on an unknown island where he learns to become a skilled archer with said story it would have shown why Green Arrow is such a left wing superhero. Showing how money and power screwed him over and coming back to a city were the diffence between the upper and low class is so great anyone can see the line that divides the rich and poor. This Emarld Archer is feels guilty and is trying to cover the sins of his past by doing the "right thing" in short this isn't a Batman light it's a Batman wannabe.   

The Legend Of Korra Season One and Trailer Review

The season two trailer for The Legend of Korra didn't do anything for me cause personally the only thing I liked about Legend of Korra Season one was the flashbacks that let me see Aang and the original Team Avatar. I didn't like The Legend of Korra because the first three seasons started slow and then sped up as the story unfolded where as Legend instead decided that they were going to take advantage of not having to tell an "orgin story". At first I loved the faster pace of the show until it started to remind me of Power Rangers in the sense of having many mini bosses and every problem of the episode being solved in said episode. The end of the season was really anticlimactic over all Korra felt spoon feed compared to Aang the battle wasn't what i except or wanted. My biggest complain is Mako and Korra's relationship, Korra's motivation for being in the relationship is simple she thinks Mako is hot. On the flip side i don't see Mako's motivation at all I know the feeling didn't come out of the blue because they had a kiss, but one kiss doesn't make a relationship. Asami and Mako made sense right of the bat he didn't see her as his tomboy friend but as a hot chick and she introduced him to a whole new world. And that the end when Korra gets both air bending and the Avatar State WTF?

My Rating: Needed more time in the oven: 4/10

Smallville Review Spoiler

is a great show all in all I loved the show a lot more then I thought I would cause as I said before I hate Superman. I'm going to start off with the bad first there are a lot of episodes that feel like they drag down the story as a whole. The series spans ten seasons and as a whole it works well, but it didn't need twenty episodes per season I feel that it was limiting itself by following the formula of twenty plus episode a season. I think they should have play it more like if one season needed thirty episodes give it thirty and if another needs five it should've had five. Some seasons had thin plots that didn't need a whole season but were given a whole season and that is where the drag is felt the most. On the other hand some of the mid seasons felt like they needed more episodes and you feel it was rushed. Second problem is characters like Kara Zor-El and Oliver Queen, receptively played by Laura Vandervoot and Justin Hartley, both characters felt lackluster with their appearances after they were added to the credits, during season seven Kara wasn't there half the time making her feel like a throw away character. I felt that they went low brow with Kara as a character mainly because the first episode I remember her in she was  trying to become Smallville's beauty queen can feel the girl power in that episode. And they quickly used the gag of Clark seeing his hot cousin in a bikini, when it would of been more intresting to have Brainiac trick her into thinking the Clark killed Kal-EL starting a three episode story arc. Instead of Clark having to deal with the sexy sibling stereotype it might have been funnier to see a motherly/sisterly Kara trying to coop with not being able to be a part of Clark's upbringing so she gets over protective this would've shown more sides to Kara's character other then following Jor-El's ever word like a girl scout or being really hot. And with Oliver it felt like his character was seen more before he was added to the credits which is sad because the chemistry between Tom Welling and Justin Hartley as their receptive character was awesome. Last bad thing about the show is that Kristin Kreuk who plays Lana Lang is in the show for far too long playing the damsel in distress.     

 

The first great thing about this show is the human elements the people around Clark make him seem less like Superman, more like a meta human just discovering his powers. Also the first season is dedicated to show a Clark Kent that doesn't have all his powers at the start he only has super human speed and strength. I like how they not only made kryptonite not only his weakness but made it's radioactive nature giving other people powers and with Smallville somewhat covered in kryptonite Clark Kent isn't the top dog. Back to the human elements with Ma and Pa Kent play by Annette O'Toole and John Schneider they really show how Clark Kent goes from a boy who just wants to get the girl to Superman. From the start they tell Clark his not going to have a normal life and to keep a low profile at school for me they go the extra mile by not only telling him that his amount of power and his whole god-likeness can come and bite him in the ass if he's not careful but they try to help him with anything they can from helping him control is newest power, to regain his power if needed, throwing away kryptonite, and even risking their lives to protecting his secret. What I also like about his parents is that they don't just tell him over and over again but take action when needed.With everything his parents do we see how Clark gains a sense of duty for his fellow man as well as the strength he gets to make some hard choices.

 

Next are Clark's friends Pete Ross played by Sam Jones III and Chloe Sullivan played by Allison Mack they are used to convey how and why Clark is so loyal and also why he keep Clark Kent and Superman two different persona's. Pete Ross is basically what would happen if people found out about Clark, its shown whenever Pete is jealous of Clark best example is when Pete finds out and truly sees Clark for the first time so he's freaked out, he doesn't know what to think, and needed time to himself. Smallville also shows how real people would act by having Pete willing to blow the whistle on Clark's secret and even go as far as to used kryptonite on Clark if it suits his needs. Pete Ross is shown as a human torn between light and dark and how that would play out if they ever found out Clark is Superman. Chloe is the light half of humankind that would not only help out Clark but pretend not to know letting him tell them when his is ready. But Chloe's character doesn't stop there for a while she's Clark's voice of reasons never letting him go too far and always watch his back over time she herself becomes jaded. This changes her thinking to the point of her feeling Clark sometimes doesn't go far enough.

 

The best thing about the series is the character evolution in Clark Kent and Lex Luthor. Michael Rosenbaum gives a mind blowing performance as Lex Luthor, at first we see him starting to obsess over Clark and it seems to come out of nowhere but with Lionel Luthor introduced and his back story unfolding as the series moves along, we see that this obsessive nature was drilled into him since birth by his father and as the show continues his obsession becomes his life. On the on other hand Tom Welling starts off weak feeling more like a supporting character with highs and low throughout the first two seasons but his country boy smile and great chemistry is enough at the beginning. By the beginning of the third season he was Clark for me the acting was much better and it felt like the cast was supporting him instead of the other way around. His Clark Kent was also hard to pull off he had to start off as a kid in high school trying to fit in then as they show continued he had to embrace aspects of the other actresses/actors around him to show that his environment and the people he loves are what's shaping him to become the Man of Steel (not the movie). Really if you think about it this is like The Prince of Egypt two young boy that are like brothers that are driven apart as one (Moses and Clark) is destined for greatness and shaped by his environment and the other (Rameses and Lex) is force down dark a path by an over bearing father figure. 

Lastly Smallville continues as a comic titled Smallville season 11 that I real enjoy. 


My Rating: Enjoyed the first two times can't wait for the third: 7.9/10

The Yugioh Franchise

Watching Yugioh Zexal cause I'm going to review it later I sat back and thought what happened to this great cartoon I used to love? After about a minute I figured out what happened Yugioh unlike it's audience it don't grew up yet became more childish as the series continued. For those who think Yugioh was childish from get go watch the subbed version they dealt with death in a "nice way" plus in subbed version Jaden isn't so clean cut and he had a dirty mouth along with having far more serious moments without him ever going as brain dead as his dubbed counterpart. Beside all that needs to be done is make Yugioh series 1.5 and 2.5, the first will show the rise of pro dueling and how it became a sport. The series would work like this after Yugi defeats Atem he feels a piece of himself is missing and duels lose there meaning to him so he temporally quits putting his focus into his school work as he prepares to leave high school and enter collage. Seto Kaiba and Pegasus start yet another tournament to kill the boredom, which Yugi doesn't take part in, with each betting on a duelist Kaiba wins the bet and Pegasus leaves but before leaving says "we should do this again but maybe next with some more friends" that sparks the idea of pro dueling in Kaiba's head. With duel monsters losing it's audience this is what the game need to breath live into a dieing franchise. After Kaiba  pitches the idea to Pegasus along with other business associates they all setup tournaments to find sponsor candidates one company in particular goes to find Yugi Muto, after so corporate begging he becomes the sponsor of Go For IT Magazine. Then there's Joey who decided not to go to collage and instead works at a couple of dead end jobs after a while becoming Pegasus' sponsor simply because it's something he loves, knows how to do ,and it pays the bills. With this season no evil/bitter duelist trying to take over the world with paper cards just new characters that want to beat the King of Games Yugi Muto and make a name for themselves. Also a more realist Yugioh with Yugi not being so clean cut I mean this is a kid who grew up with only his grandfather and a game shop, in this Yugi would be tempted by fame and wealth. Plus I'd like to see a season with Pegasus training Joey because in the duelist world Joey is the third top rated duelist but compared to Yugi and Seto the difference seems like heaven and earth. Basically i what to see him rely less on luck and start playing with skill. The series would show fans why Joey's deck not his character should be rated as third. During the middle of season after seeing how well received pro dueling is Seto starts building Duel Academy. Then for Yugioh 2.5 we would simply revisit the GX students as they try to leave their marks on the world of dueling. Mostly this will give fans the chance to see how the GX kids compare to the pros of Yugioh. Basically both series would focus on two sets of characters that I feel haven been completely fleshed out, both would focus on a simple yet engaging story with character development being the major selling point. This of course wouldn't have to stop the cards selling because most cards aren't seen in the show anyway, plus new characters that also get fleshed out making the audience care for them, the new character could show off the newer cards that don't use XYZ or Synchro monsters for the sake of continuity.