Legend of the Guardians the Owls of Ga'Hoole

What a pleasure it was, walking down to the theater, eight pieces of a Hershey's Symphony bar hidden in my pocket, about to see Legend of the Guardians. After watching the before movie adds about various businesses in Angels Camp, Adds for new movies (including a 3-D Yogi Bear movie! Yes, a 3-D Yogi Bear movie,). And one short film starring Wile-E coyote, the Road Runner and Two government owned heat-seeking missiles, I was ready to see what Hollywood did with one of my favorite book series. My patience was rewarded with one of the most epic films since Star Wars Return of the Jedi! The CG used in this movie was exceptional, and in 3-D! The battles where incredible! You have not seen a battle unless you have seen armies of owls attacking each other in midair with metal claws! The parts in Slow-Mo that where inches away from the metal sheathed talons of the Pure Ones and the Guardians where very intense! But there is more to this movie than battles. The beginning scene in Soren's hollow when he was playing with his little sister was sweet. I bet my mom would have loved that part. There is also the scene where they reach the tree of Ga'Hoole and train to become Guardians. The whole movie was beautiful despite it being based off the first three books in the series. And as a bonus, there was Owl City music in the movie, and the Credits!

Planet 51

Since the last movie I blogged about was very good, I thought that it would be appropriate to blog about a cheesy movie now.

Why is planet 51 cheesy? You might ask, if you have seen it you might think it nothing more than a nice family movie to use to distract the kids wile you do some incredibly long and boring task that is very difficult to do if you are constantly distracted by bored whiny little kids. In that case you are WRONG!!! This movie is so cheesy that I am having a hard time even comprehending how bad it is! let me give you a list of the things that really got under my skin!

1. The "humor" was amazingly cheesy.

2.The plot was mindbogglingly familiar with that pathetic "human coming to an aliens planet" twist. Why pathetic? I see this as a sign that the movie writers were running out of ideas and one of them said " let's take an incredibly old and predictable plot that everyone has seen, tweak it here and there and make a movie out of it!" and somehow I get the feeling that that was soon followed by someone else saying "That is the perfect way to squeeze out what little money people have left into our bank accounts so I can finally buy all of those incredibly unnecessary and expensive things that I want."

3. I know that this is a bit harsh, but NOTHING in that movie was even vaguely scientifically possible! Examples: Aliens and humans speaking exactly the same language, An ordinary chemical space craft going all the way to another solar system in enough time so the astronaut wasn't dead by the time he got there,The atmosphere and gravity is similar enough to ours that an astronaut can survive without a space suit and the fact that the aliens were identical to humans in culture, language and are VERY similar to humans in physiology( think about it for a sec, how many different types of life could be out there and what are the chances of a species that similar to us?). To make a long blog short, I think this movie is worse than hot roasted poop! smell you later!

Titan A.E. (2000)

Aliana: This animated space, Sci Fi, comedy is really really cool! Uhhhh............. Darn it!!! I'm getting bloggers block!! :O Okay..... Arrrrrggg!! I'm just going to type random things until I think of something. blaaaa blaaa blaaa Ga'Hooole blee bloo blah blah!!! 42, the answer to life, the universe and everything!!!! :D I like cheese!!! and no I am not crazy! My mom says to leave it at that( if your disappointed, read the blog description). :)

Rory: I got this from Netflix, because it looked like something Aliana would enjoy. Yep, she did! It's made to be appropriate for kids but also tolerable for the adults taking the kids to see it. (I guess this was in the theaters at some point? I don't remember.) It has a lot of famous names doing the voices: Matt Damon, Bill Pullman, Drew Barrymore, John Leguizamo, Ron Perlman, Nathan Lane, and Jeneane Garafalo. Basically the Drej (bad guys made of pure energy) destroy the earth, and a handful of humans (including a small boy) on ships, and one giant ship called the Titan, get away. Skip forward 15 years, the boy, Cale, has grown up- now he's looking for his father- who happened to be the pilot of the Titan. Before he left, Cale's father gave him a ring which makes a map to the Titan show up his hand. Most of the movie is about the quest to find the Titan, which the bad guys are also after too, so they can destroy the human race once and for all. The coolest parts of the movie are seeing the inside of the Titan, which is basically a giant modern ark, and when the Titan is activated- reminiscent of Star Trek's Genesis project.