Too…Much…Popcorn: Captain America: The Winter Solder Review

 

I honestly don’t know if it’s because I’m just hyped up on half of a large Coke slushy, but I feel like the awesomeness level of this movie was just amplified by fifty. I just need to say that Captain America: The Winter Soldier pretty much made my day way cooler that it already was.

 

Name: Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Release Date: April 4, 2014

Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo

Producer: Kevin Feige

Studio: Marvel Studios

 

 

Summary

After the events in the Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America lives a somewhat quiet life in Washington D.C. and slowly adjusts to modern life. But as a new emerges, Steve, S.H.E.I.L.D, and the world, are caught up in an intricate web of secrets that needs to be uncovered. Captain America must team up with Black Widow and a new friend to expose the evil, and all the while, try to not be killed by a powerful assassin.

My Thoughts

I was very happy with the characters, especially since Black Widow got way more fight scenes as opposed to the Avengers. It really proves that women can kick just as much butt as men do and still have time to make a snarky comment. Personally, with all of the publicity Scarlett Johansson got between the Avengers and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, she should get her own movie. I mean, I think Hollywood is way overdue for a superheroin movie and a Black Widow movie will be their best bet. Here’s an idea, make one about her back story. That’ll definitely fill in some unanswered questions I have about her.

But butt-kicking female aside, I was thoroughly impressed with Captain America, Falcon, and Nick Fury. The Captain did his job and yet again saved the mass of people, one muscular punch at a time. Falcon made me want to grab a pair of mechanical wings, do away with my irrational fear of heights, and glide effortlessly in the sky while dodging the millions of raining bullets trying to bring me to my demise. And to be honest, it wasn’t really Nicky Fury himself that made me go “OHHHHHH!!!!!!” (Though he did have his moments), it was his car that I loved so much. I won’t give away to much detail about it, but I will say that the roads will become a much safer place. Well…minus the guns.

The plot was well written, but to the dismay of some hardcore “must be exactly like the comic” fans, it doesn’t really follow the comic, though it does pull certain elements from it. Take the Winter Soldier’s costume for example. It’s pretty much the exact same as from the comic. I really liked the overall story of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. There’s just something about how Marvel Studios does the Captain America movies that just really hit home for me. Not saying that their other work isn’t good, I just find that the Captain America movies have more of a “story”. I mean, all of the movies have a well developed story, I just feel like it makes me care less about (debatably) hunky, muscular good guys fighting (also debatably) hunky, not so muscular bad guys. But that’s just my opinion.

When I woke up this morning (or more like afternoon), I wasn’t expecting to go watch Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but I’m not complaining. I enjoyed the movie a lot. The plot, the characters, the soundtrack, the fighting, they all combined to create a totally butt kicking film. And there is one element that I just really made me totally freak out about. (WARNING: I’m pretty sure this counts as a spoiler) After the credits, let’s just say some surviving bad guys begin devising a new evil plan and they mention having to “use the twins”. Once the camera pans over, we see two separate children, both in their own separate rooms. One child, a boy, is frantically speeding around the room and the other child, a girl, is using telekinesis to make what looked like blocks fly around. Eventually, the movie ends with the camera on the girl sending out a surge of energy and the screen saying that “Captain America will return in the Age of Ultron” . My point?  Well, those wonderful twins were Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver!!! But the Quicksilver in the Avengers: Age of Ultron isn’t going to be played by Evan Peters (who plays Quicksilver in the new X-men: Days of Future Past). Even though the Avengers and the X-men are both a part of the same universe, it doesn’t seem like they are. Which if it continues on like this, I’m afraid I won’t get to see my Avengers verses X-men movie. Nevertheless, my excitement level is still on overdrive due to the fact that Scarlet Witch is going to be in the new Avengers movie. The only downside is that I have to wait until next year to see it. Oh well, in the meantime I can occupy myself with watching the new Godzilla and Guardians of the Galaxy.

My reaction to 3/4 of the movie

Rating

8.5/10

Don't forget to Watch:-Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier

For those of you who want something to watch, need a place to hang out, or just have nothing to do, then you should spend your Friday night eating a bucket of popcorn and watching Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier. From the looks of the trailer (posted below), it seems to hold lots of promise and comes off nothing less than epic. Hopefully I can do some convincing to my parents to let us go see it this weekend so I can write a review. Keeping my fingers crossed!

 

J-Pop/K-Pop Recommendation #2-TVXQ

Hello, and welcome to J-pop/K-pop Recommendation #2! For the past few days I've been going back and listening to all of the old J-pop and K-pop songs that I used to bust out into dance too (well, those of which I remember). And while searching YouTube, I came across the long forgotten TVXQ-Catch Me music video. Of course I did some intense freaking out because of the fact that I've completely pushed it's existence out of my brain. After that rediscovery, you could say that their songs have been on repeat and blasted for a good 2 days straight. Speaking of which, I would like to take a quick second and apologize to my family for torturing their ear drums with my extreme failure to belt out Changmin's super high scream of coolness. I love you guys, and sorry for filling the house with unintended, torturous-sounding whale screams!

Anyways, TVXQ first debuted in December 26, 2003 and at the time, included  the members Jaejoong, Yoochun, Junsu, Yunho, and Changmin. But due to a controversy that involved SM Entertainment's long term contracts, Jaejoong, Yoochun, and Junsu are now no longer involved with TVXQ.

But during the time when all 5 of the original members where still present, they produced two of my favorite songs Mirotic and Balloons. Now, I listened to Mirotic first and my first thoughts were "Sirs, your immense showing of skin is highly distracting...(not that it's a bad thing)". But it had a very serious and tough tone to it. So when I stumbled upon Balloons, I was shocked at the laid back aura and I almost passed out from a fangirl overload due to their cosplay. Despite my shock, it very quickly made it to my list of "feel good" K-pop songs.

Now adays, it's existing members are Changmin and Yunho. Even though it's just the two of them, they are still going strong and their songs Catch Me and Humanoids definitely shouldn't be overlooked.

TVXQ is definitely a group worth listening too and really hold an important place in K-pop history. Plus, did I mention that they have the biggest fan club in the world? That's gotta say something.

 

Songs

 

TVXQ-Mirotic

 

TVXQ-Balloons

 

 

TVXQ-Catch Me (Coolest dance ever!)

 

TVXQ-Humanoids

 

Plus, check out the teaser to their new song TVXQ-Something

 

Merry Christmas!

I hope all of you guys have an awesome holiday and enjoy spending time with your friends and family!

Merry！*＜(*￣▽)ノ由”iii ヽ(^o^ )^_^ )ﾉChristmas !!

Best Comeback Ever!: Dragonball Z Battle of the Gods

Now before I get into talking about the movie, let's take a moment of silence to thank Toei Animations (animators of my favorite series Sailor Moon and Chrono Trigger) for continuing to animate the Dragonball series, and let me say this, it was one of the best animations I've seen in a while. But I'll get more into that later.

Name: Dragonball Z:Battle of the Gods
Release Date: March 30, 2013
Language: Japanese
English Subs? Unfortunately, not yet

Summary
After a long slumber, God of Destruction, Birus (or Bills) is awakened by his trainer Uis (or Wis) and is told that Freeza was defeated by a Saiyan. Shocked, Birus tells Uis about a dream he had about a Super Saiyan God and Uis informs Birus of Goku and his past. Soon after, they make their way to Kaio-sama's planet and challenges Goku. After discovering the Goku is not Super Saiyan God, they make their way to Earth in order to find some hint of the alleged being.

My Thoughts
Oh. My. Gosh. Epic. This has to be one of the coolest comebacks in the history of comebacks (and not just because their making a new series due to the awesome response to the movie release). They really threw everything out in this movie.

Some of the highlights that I liked about the plot was that they had virtually every character shown at least twice, not including villains. Even Pilaf, Mai, and Shu were shown, and they had a pretty important roll! And the fight scenes were very noteworthy. They were just packed with so much action and humor. And speaking of humor, I don't think I laughed so hard in so long. Fair warning, I have never in my life seen Vegeta and Shenlong act the way they did.

The graphics were actually very good. To be honest, I was never a fan of when the animation switched from 2D to 3D and back to 2D, it just never flowed and looked pretty weird to me (like in Lil Pri). But I was extremely pleased with how they combined the 2D and 3D scenes. It flowed together and didn't look choppy and awkward too look at.

Finally, the soundtrack was far from boring. It stayed true to the original Dragonball Z series, and still held onto the original opening song"Cha-La-Head-Cha-La" by Flow. The fact that they kept the song, made me do almost literal flips off the couch. Yes, I was super happy about that.

Overall, I loved this movie. It was funny, action packed, epic, and basically everything that the Dragonball series already was. Awesome. Do I recommend it? Absolutely. It's a must see for any die hard Dragonball fan or just any fan in general.

Rating
10/10