Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
FILM REVIEW
Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
This family comedy all starts when Alexander gets sick and tired of having bad days so on his birthday (one minute after midnight) he makes a wish that everyone else in his family would feel what he's feeling and curses the da- don't ask me how, how am I supposed to know, stop interrupting and listen. Anyway, it all seems to be going terrible for his family and his day seems to be going okay. His dad (Steve Carell) always seems to be annoyingly optimistic and quite close to the end of the film he finally breaks but the whole family help each other with the their stress. Finally when they get home, they get ready for a one-in-a-million Australian-outback-in-the-garden petting zoo birthday. Loving family comedy.Guardians of the Galaxy
FILM REVIEW
The Guardians of the Galaxy
Now what surprised me here is that Marvel managed to dig up the comics for this film. I found this quite funny as the characters are the opposite of the ideal superheroes like Captain America or Professor X, but instead thieves, assassins and thugs. They are up against a power-hungry blue dude whose race I do not know the name of, but anyway this guy wanted this orb, and these criminals wanted to sell the orb to a collector and pass the trouble to them. But they got tangled up saving the Galaxy (of course they did). After several attempts, and teaming up with an empire's army, they defeated the blue dude with the fairly normal name of Ronan. Including the pop songs of the 70s.
The Maze Runner
FILM REVIEW
The Maze Runner
Before anything else, I'm confessing that I watched the film before reading the book, and am mentally slapping myself (ow). OK, now that that's over, I'll start by explaining. A boy is in a box, zooming upwards. He can't remember anything, apart from his first name, Thomas. When he reaches the top, he discovers he is in a bizarre and horrifying maze, prowled by cyborg monsters called Grievers during the night, when the maze doors close. But one day, a group sent out to search the maze is late coming back, and everyone's waiting at the doors. The doors start grinding close just as two of the searchers (known as Runners) come round the corner, one badly wounded. The uninjured Runner is slowed by the weight of the other, and Thomas knows they won't make it, so he sprints forward, as the doors slowly close... (watch the film to find out the rest!).Personally, I loved this film, and gave it a 10/10. I was annoyed by the slightly harsh punishments to keep order, but over all I found it fantastic. I can't wait for the next film!
Astakidans story idea
Chapter I
The Astakidans were brave and loyal, sacrificing themselves for others. The Kalolimnians were honourable warriors, always settling things by fighting. The Arkoids were the intelligent citizens who won battles through cunning and slyness. The three peoples were like one big unhappy family, always arguing and fighting, but working together whenever they were under threat. Each person in Astakida was related, as were the people in Arkoi, and Kalolimnos as well. The three Nursery Islands saw to that. If there was a baby born in the Kalolimnos Nursery with an Arkoid’s gene code, in the dead of night the misplaced child was shipped off to the correct island. End of problem. Of course, there were occasionally (but very rarely) kidnap-and-run attacks from bandit races like the Salaminians, or the Alimians. Once every aeon, wars are waged over an unusually powerful child and the three nations have to step in, taking back the child. But do they give a second thought to the normal children that have also been kidnapped? They never gave them a glance. As a group, each kidnapped child on Salaminia sat on the beach, staring out to sea, wondering what’s out there. Some children formed into gangs, and went about, thieving and doing what they wanted. The Salaminians weren’t hesitant to tell them where the children had come from which, although made them detest the kidnappers, made them extremely thankful, but also wistful. How do I know so much about them? Isn’t it obvious? I was one of them.
I was on the same ship as one of the children who managed to create a war while sleeping. I wasn’t kidnapped on the way to a different nursery island, but on the way to the mainland from the Nursery Islands. I grew up until I was 13, then before I could say, “Hey! I’m an adult!” I was whisked off to the mainland. Or at least halfway. That was when the Salaminians kidnapped me and the significantly divine child. Five weeks later, war was declared on Salaminia.
When I was kidnapped, I was literally thrown out. You see, because once they noticed that I wasn't of divine blood, they pitched me overboard (they were quite muscular) into the sea. They disappeared out of sight, and the closest landmass was 4 leugas away. As an unfortunate addition, that landmass was Salaminia. I began to swim strongly in that direction, reaching the sandy beach as the first
The Chrysalids
Book Review
THE CHRYSALIDS
This 1950s classic is set in Labrador after what the people called Tribulation. The story follows two friends, David and Rosalind, trying to survive in a society where the civilians seek out and destroy anyone they think is an abomination. Enchanting novel by John Wyndham.THE HOBBIT
Book Review
THE HOBBIT
This book was probably one of the first non-trashy books that I ever read (tee hee) , but it was by far my favourite. J. R. R. Tolkien (also the author of the Lord of the Rings trilogy) tells the comfortable story of hobbit Bilbo Baggins up until he meets Gandalf the Grey, then before he knew it, he was acquainted with 13 dwarves on a quest to rid a dragon from their castle (naturally). Talk about house pests.
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