Kick Ass 2 takes place not too long after the first one. Hit Girl, aka Mindy, is now attending the same High School as Kick Ass, aka Dave.
But the moment after her Dad's Friend drops her off at school and he's gone she goes back to her Dad's place and continues training. Dave, who has stopped being Kick Ass, finds this out and decides that he wants to get back into the game and that he and Mindy should be a team. Mindy agrees to help him train but her Dad's friend finds out and tells her to stop. She goes back to being a normal teenager by making friends and whatever as Dave continues training. Dave puts a message online looking for other super hero's and he finds a group.
This group is filled with some wannabe's and some who can really kick ass, like Night Bitch and Colonel Stars and Stripes. As Kick Ass trains with his new group Red Mist, aka Chris D'Amico decides that he wants revenge on Kick Ass and he then becomes The Motherfucker just after he kills his mother.
The Motherfucker's only quest is to kill Kick Ass. He starts to assemble a gang of ruthless people but the worst is Mother Russia, she is crazy. The Motherfucker finds out who Kick Ass's real name is and goes after him but finds his father instead. The Motherfucker being completely ruthless hurts Kick Ass. Kick Ass, broken and bloodied, assembles the good guys and takes on The Mother Fucker and his gang.
I don't want to give too much away but this movie is not for people who do not like violence or people who can't take rude humour. I have heard a lot over my years and I can even have a pretty bad mouth some times but even the things they were saying in this movie made me blush. The movie is crazy violent. But overall I enjoyed it. It's not the violence I enjoyed or the language but I know the difference between a movie (fiction) and real life and I know some people can't see the difference.
For entertainment value Kick Ass delivers, plus it is pretty funny in some parts and other parts it pulls on your heart strings.
Elysium takes place sometime in the future. The rich have decided on leaving Earth leaving the sick and poor to live in filth on Earth as they live on Elysium, high above the planet living free of disease, and in privilege. Matt Damon plays Max, who has been in trouble before but he's trying to make a life for himself. He works at a factory and when he becomes trapped and infected with radiation he decides he will do anything to get to Elysium to fix himself.
Along the way he meets up with a childhood friend Frey who has a daughter who is sick too. Max, finds a man named Spider who will help Max's failing body by attaching a metal exoskeleton to his body giving him the strength to get to Elysium. But this comes with a price. Max must extract information from his old boss and during this extraction things go bad. His boss dies and the director of protection on Elysium, Jodi Foster's character, Delacourt know that this information that is now in the hands of Max is vital for her she ends up sending out a assassin of sorts Kruger, played by Sharlto Copley. Kruger is ruthless and as he hunts down Max he finds out about Frey and her daughter and brings them to Elysium along with Max who he captured. Max finds out that the information he holds in his head will allow all residents of Earth to be able to come to Elysium to be healed. But uploading this information to the server comes at a great cost.
I don't want to give away the ending but overall I enjoyed this movie. It had great action sequences, amazing visual effects and great cast. Sharlto Copley is great and scary. I enjoyed him in District 9 and in this movie.
Okay so Face off is back for another season. I just absolutely love this show. I have always been interested in make up and stuff for movies and I love the fact that Syfy has brought out a show allowing us to watch it be done from the beginning and how they do it. I've been an avid watcher for the last couple of seasons and I will continue watching it until it gets stale, which I don't think it will. Over this season I'm going to post the winning pic from the Foundation Challenge, a pic from the Spotlight Challenge winner and my favourite make up of the night. This season they have brought back 8 veterans from previous seasons and 8 newbies. I think it will be interesting and it's nice to see some veterans get an other chance.
The Foundation Challenge - Artists were to make up an original make up from one of the Masquerade guests based on what the person is wearing. The winner was Tate with:
The Spotlight Challenge - Artists were broken into two groups, veterans versus newbies. Each group had to create 5 mythical creatures that are cohesive with each other. One has to be a troll, ogre, pixie, faun, witch.
The Veterans won, and sorry it wasn't a shock. I kind of knew that the veterans would be the first big winner as the newbies get comfortable but it will be interesting.
Here are the Veterans characters:
Pixie (Alana & Miranda) PS Miranda won the challenge
Okay kiddies it's round two for Percy Jackson. Coming high off his success on returning the lightening to Zeus Percy is the hot shot of camp Half Blood. Well kind of. Clarisse keeps kicking his ass. Clarisse is the daughter of Ares, the god of war and she has it in her blood. The camp Half Blood is surrounded by a barrier keeping out all beings that cause them harm but Luke, son of Hermes, who also was the Lightening thief is again the bad guy. He finds a way to break the barrier putting the kids into harm. The tree that provides this barrier was created by Zeus because his daughter was killed trying to get into Camp Half Blood because she and her friends were running from Cyclops. So the tree, aka Thalia, starts to die and the only way to save her and the barrier they need to find mythical Golden Fleece that can heal anything. Annabeth, daughter of Athena, confides in the teacher telling him about the Golden Fleece and the quest is given to Percy's arch nemesis Clarisse.
Percy with the help of Annabeth, Grover a Satyr, and Percy's half brother Tyson, who is also the son of Poseidon, and also a Cyclops, leave Camp Half Blood to find the Golden Fleece before Clarisse. The meet plenty of strange creatures and gods on their way, leading them to the final showdown between good and evil.
During the quest Percy finds out the Luke is going to use the Golden Fleece to raise Kronos, a Titan and father to all the gods, and he's not a nice guy. Not giving too much away since it's a kiddish book you know that no one is going to die but things happen just not deaths and they succeed with the help of Clarisse who they find on the way.
Overall it was an okay movie. I enjoyed the first one but I'm not a Percy Jackson fiend but I do enjoy them. There is some action and some comedic moments. It's a great movie for tweens and the young at heart. I will definitely tune in for the next installment.
I will give this movie my 'V' Stamp of approval. The only thing that would tip it over to the 'F' stamp for failure would be the fact that this movie did not need to be in 3D, there was nothing in the movie that made it necessary for 3D. So 2D gets my approval, 3D, not so much.
Okay so I'm going to start off and say that I love the X-Men series. I've enjoyed each and every one of the movies. I know a lot of people disliked the first Wolverine movie but there are a couple reason why I enjoyed. First, it's an X-Men movie, Second, Hugh Jackson is just great, and Third, this movie had Gambit. I've been in love with Gambit since the cartoons when I was kid so when they finally added him to the X-men movies it didn't matter if it was amazing or just mediocre.
So The Wolverine takes place after X-Men The Last Stand. Logan is having a hard time dealing with the death of Jean that he decides on stepping back and ends up pulling back from being the hero and moving to the Yukon away from anybody he can hurt.
Well after some hunters doing something to piss him off he finds Yukio, and she's great. She explains to Logan that a man that he saved years ago wants to thank him again before he dies. Logan agrees and heads to Japan where this man gives him an offer he may or may not be able to pass up.
The man, Yashida, offers to take Logan's immortality away making him human and allowing him to die. Wolverine leaves not giving Yashida what he wants. Yashida finally succumbs to his illness and his fortune passes to his granddaughter Mariko. She immediately has someone trying to kill her so Wolverine stays to protect her with the help of Yukio.
As Wolverine sleeps Yashida's doctor slips into the room and using her mutant power she is able to suppress Wolverine's healing abilities, she is known as Viper, and she is snake like, you know with the snake tongue and shedding of the skin, she's kind of cool.
Wolverine trying to protect Mariko is vulnerable due his mutant power being suppressed and becomes injured allowing him and Mariko to get closer. As this is all happening Jean Grey is coming to him in dreams asking him to come to her, meaning to kill himself so they can be together again, it's kind of sad. At the end we find out someone who is supposed to be dead isn't dead and with the help of Viper he tries to kill Wolverine but you know Wolverine.... I don't want to give too much away.
I will tell you is that stay for the credits, just the first batch in the Marvel theme and right after that is a lovely little Easter Egg. It's not too huge but it didn't make me smile, okay well smile isn't the right word, how about grin like a fool. LOL.
Overall the movie was good. Not fantastic but not horrible either. I found that the cameras during some running scenes were too shaky and it was making me a little nauseous but other than that I have nothing to complain about. Also Jean Grey's hair is amazing, I'm thinking possibly that for my next colour. :)
So The Wolverine gets my 'V' stamp of approval. If you have a love for X-Men and comic book movies this is completely up your alley.
Okay to start off I absolutely loved this movie, love, love, loved this movie. I'm a huge fan of the first and I was not disappointed. To all the people who haven't seen the first movie RED stands for Retired Extremely Dangerous. Bruce Willis stars as Frank Moses a retired CIA agent trying to live a normal, retired life until he and other RED agents are hunted and they have to uncover who their assailants are. Frank becomes infatuated with a customer service rep for his pension cheques so when he goes on the run he heads for her and sparks fly. Joined by John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, and Morgan Freeman RED is amazing.
Now moving onto RED 2. Again they are in danger of being taken out, again. lol. Frank and Sarah are together but their relationship is struggling due to it's lack of suspense. Marvin, John Malkovich's character, locates Frank and Sarah telling them that he feels something is coming and he is right. The government has decided to wipe out their group, they even try to hire Victoria, Helen Mirren's character. She warns the boys and even a new comer Han Cho Bai, a old team mate of Franks are out to get them. Trying to find this weapon of mass destruction that the government says Frank and the others hid and elude the assassins is a lot of work.
John Malkovich steals the show with his crazy, unpredictable Marvin. Plus I have a huge girl crush on Helen Mirren, she's an amazing actress and in this movie she's even more great.
If you love action, comedic, and on the edge of your seat movies definitely check this movie out.
I loved this movie. I haven't left a theatre in a while that I said this is one of the best movies I've watched in a long time and now I can say that. Plus this movie was casted perfectly, I don't know if I could even say that about another movie.
I definitely give RED 2, my 'V' Stamp of approval.
