Pokemon Go Schooling...

As our world is going to hell in a hand-basket there seems to be another huge phenomenon happening as well and that would be Pokemon Go.  I got to experience this first hand last night and it was one of the funniest, most ridiculous things I've seen in a while.  It's so what I needed in this mess of a society we have right now.

So a few days ago I texted one of my rad nerd friends asking what the hell this thing was.  She explained best she could via text.  It's basically a phone app and you find these little cartoon creatures.  I also learned that the little yellow guy is not Pokemon but rather Peekachu.  Peekachu is a Pokemon.  Apparently Pokemons are little monsters.  I don't know why they're monsters though because they seem to be fucking adorable.  Anywhoo - you apparently can walk around in live time and these little monsters pop up at random places and you "catch" them.

Yesterday I spent the latter half of the day into evening with my dear friend Ber.  She mentioned she was playing this new game.  I was fascinated and asked her to show me how it works.

You have a little map on your phone like a live GPS.  There's little paw prints that tell you how far away one of these little dudes is.  You walk around trying to find them.  When you get close to one your phone will vibrate.  When you do find them - they appear in your camera.  It's hilarious!  There's now a little cartoon creature in your camera and you can snap a photo with the little dude in it with you!  I screeched with excitement.  "Is this how all the pictures I've been seeing are happening?!" I asked.  I wanted to take a photo with the little thing so I jumped in front of her phone.  She wasn't too keen on taking the picture because apparently there's a time limit to catch one of these but she humored me.

I was so excited!  I now have a photo with a tiger with a mohawk!!!  Although I'm told this is a puppy actually.  It's name is Growlith.  How cute is that name?!

Anyway - Ber then shows me that you throw these little ball things at the tiger/puppy.  Tiger/puppy dodges them or bats them back but eventually gets "Captured."  I'm still a bit unclear what you do when you have them.  A gym was mentioned where you can fight them and there's places you can collect these balls but other than that it looks to be a little app that makes you walk around and catch little cartoon creatures.

There are way more peeps in the picture but they were behind pillars.  Every damn person in the photo was Pokemon hunting!

Later in the evening our friend Fatima and her pup Beckham joined us.  Ber decided to take us out and show us some real Pokemon hunting.  This is when shit got real.  There were people everywhere!!  

Downtown Fullerton is a hub bub of these little dudes.  Ber was telling us that a lot of landmarks and well known areas is where a lot of these things will be.   I was laughing so hard as we walked around.  People were everywhere walking around with their nose in there phone hunting these things.  We would pass people and they would say hey to Ber and exchange things like "Did you catch the snarfle?"  "Pokemon!" "The kookadoodle is right around the corner!"  It was like a secret language.  I could not stop giggling.  We of course kept coming across little creatures so I got Ber tracking then capturing one.

Ber trying to catch a dude with the little ball things

What everyone is staring at

 

As you can see it's pretty involved.  All night as we walked around we passed fellow Pokemon hunters.  It was seriously one of the funniest things I've ever seen.  Yet - also kind of this super rad community thing.  The whole thing has taken off and the posts that are coming out are damn hilarious.  Here's a couple that tickled my funny bone:

 

I love me some Buzzfeed and they've already jumped on the train.  Click to giggle 

Another friend of mine posted the FB status of : My girlfriend has wandered off into the night. Something about catching them all.

CNN had a pretty good explanation if the craze you'll find here.  I sort of understand?  I'm loving the fact that you look around now and these people are everywhere!

I don't know why I find this so funny but I do. It's certainly a much needed laugh in our world right now.  It's actually probably a good thing.  It's getting these folks who usually spend all their time in front of a computer playing games out into the world.  It also is a really great community.  Everyone wandering around last night was having a blast and sharing stories and "catches" and it was awesome.

I will never jump on the Pokemon Go train but dammit if I'm not having a blast watching everyone else!  

I mean they're cute as hell right?

Comic Book Train Part Two...

Hi again!

So I've now completed the 2nd chunk of the Marvel Movies.  I am now officially caught up with the rest of the world!  Now I'll pretty much watch the 3rd chunk with you all as they come out.

Again - I'm sure you've all seen these movies, but in case not:

*SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS!*

So first up was IronMan 3.

I dug it!  I seem to really like the IronMan movies.  I'm such a huge fan of Robert Downey Jr. and his character is such a charming asshole and so damn funny!  This movie moved right along.  IronMan getting a bit cocky and starting quite the fight.  It was also nice to see his humanity side dealing with the new issue of anxiety attacks.

The main villain is Guy Pearce!  I love him!  He's one of my favorite actors and he does not disappoint!  There is also a bit where Ben Kinglsey (Did you hear me...Ben Freaking Kinglsey!) plays a terrorist, but you find out he's just an actor.  He is fucking HILARIOUS as the hippie version!  I was dying!  So rad to see  Ben Kingsley play a role like that!

Guy Pearce also worked out for that role!  Hot Damn!  I also want to give props to Don Cheadle as the Iron Patriot - he's badass and I think totally underestimated!  He totally kicks ass even when he's not in the suit!  Oh and his line to Aldrich.. "You breathe fire...ok".  Genius.

There's a kid in the movie played by Ty Simkins whose also noteworthy!  The little smartass kid gave RDJ a run for his money.

Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper has a moment where she's injected with this weird fire shit was AWESOME!

I'm super disappointed that she doesn't stay that way!!!  Ya ya ya, there's the whole you could explode thing - but they seemed to be able to control it if they really wanted to.  So unfortunately that woman badassary is only temporary.

I also loved all the extra little Ironman that were kicking major ass during the big battle.  It seems they could prove super useful but alas RDJ destroys them all to "wipe the slate clean".  Lame.
He also gets the thingie in his chest removed which made me think Ironman was done but I guess it's the suit not necessarily RDJ.  Oh - and mad props to Jarvis.  I love him too even though he's only a voice.

So Ironman 3.  2 thumbs up!!!

Next up was Thor: A Dark World.

Loved loved it!!!!  So it's starting to be pretty apparent that IronMan and Thor are my faves.  I think part of the reason is the level of humor in the movies.  Again I found myself squealing with delight, caught up in the action sequences and reacting loudly at many events.  I seriously wander what I look like when I watch these.

So this flick basically focuses on this evil pale weird looking dude played by Christopher Eccleston.  There's some red gooey stuff that looks a lot like blood that can apparently destroy a bunch of stuff and turn a human into a crazy red powerful thing.  Sort of like the weird fire shit people got injected with in IronMan.  Anywhoo - this one is much more on the fantasy mythical side so when the 9 Realms (I guess worlds) line up a certain way and this red stuff gets out it's gonna be bad.  Like real bad.

The other part of the plot line is Thor's lady Jane Foster played by Natalie Portman just got infected with the stuff so they have to get it out of her.

Kat Denning has a much bigger role in this flick and I really enjoyed her performance.  She's hilariously dry and fun to watch.

We lose Thor's mom who gets killed by evil pale dude and Thor lets Loki loose to help him kill the guy for revenge on his mom and of course stopping the whole red goo will destroy the 9 worlds thing.  He teams up with his rad posse and Loki and they all go against the Kings (Thors dad - whose kind of a dick) and tackle this battle.  Loki dies in the process - a very noble death but then at the end of the movie the King turns into him.  WTF?!  I'm super confused and somewhat annoyed because do some people die and some people pretend die?  I was really stoked to see Loki die this awesome noble death but now he's back?  What?  Sigh.

There's a rad battle between Thor and evil pale dude that starts on earth and with the help of Jane Foster and her team they fight between worlds.  It's kind of awesome and hilarious and confusing at the same time.  One of my favorite moments was when Thor gets on a Subway.  I was dying.

So again - rad battle scenes.  Fun effects.  Lots of action that got me reacting out loud.  Then this ice monster accidentally gets sent into the Earth world and the very last scene of the movie after the credits is this monster tromping through a parking lot chasing birds like a dog.  Seriously the best thing ever.  I was laughing so hard.

Awww puppy!

Also...the world of evil dude is called Svartalfheim.  Um what?  How the hell do you pronounce that?

Also - the introduction of Benicio del Toro as something called The Collector?  What in the actual fuck was that scene?  It was so weird and he was so weird and the really sunburned chick made me think about Galaxy Quest.  I guess this is where you comic book folks know what's going on and us non comic book folks are sitting there like this:

But  - this flick - rad.  Loved it.  I love Thor.  I love the humor.  Awesome!

Ok - just watched Captain America - The Winter Soldier.

I liked this one much more than the 1st Captain America.  Our main dude is still our all American hero but now we go into the fact that S.H.I.E.L.D has been compromised by something called Hydro.  So basically government corrupting stuff.  I would say the scariest part about this is - um hello - totally real I'm sure.  Our government scares the shit out of me and knowing what they could do...lordy lordy and I'm probably now "flagged" or "marked" for typing this.  But I was probably flagged a long time ago since I'm such a peace loving hippie.  Anyway - Winter Soldier.

So we have the whole trust issue.  I wailed when I thought they killed off Nick Fury (Sam Jackson) but no silly Jami - they can't kill off the coolest mother fucker out there.  Seriously.  I don't think anyone in the world is cooler than Samuel Jackson.

Seriously.  He's the shiz-nit.  His chase/car scene that he ACTUALLY ESCAPED FROM was fucking awesome!

So now we have our team that's going against everything they thought was right.  Nick, Black Widow, Captain and this new superhero they introduce who is totally rad!  Falcon!

I think I finally maybe getting a bit of geek-dom in my blood!  I get really really excited when a new superhero is introduced!!

The battle scenes rule.  Lots of fun explosions and car chases and humanly impossible things being made to look possible!

I'm thrilled The Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) actually has more screen time here.  I'm a little disappointed in the lack of bad ass gals.  She is fucking awesome as usual.

I loved the moment that you thought the council woman chick was a badass but it turned out to be Black Widow in disguise.  I kind of wished it really was the council woman...

There's this other gal that's sort of introduced that I like but I'm told she's just a hero, not a super hero.  I thought her name was Kate but I guess it's actually Sharon Carter and she kicked some major ass in this movie.

My favorite part of the movie though is the introduction of our "Winter Soldier" who is - low and behold - Bucky!  Stephen Rogers buddy that we thought fell off a train and died in Captain America 1.  Nope - he's back as a victim of an evil organization (another government?) that brain washed him and turned him into an assassin.  He has flashes of memory so there's hope for him yet, but he's rad and I have a huge crush on him.  He's also the Mad Hatter from Once Upon a Time (There's the Jami Geek showing) and I loved him then!  Now he's this pumped up bad ass villian.  I mean look:

And with makeup!  Hello sexy goth boy!

And of course shirtless...

Seriously.  Hot damn.  Stan Sebastian - call me!

Ok...back on track here.  Our badass little group of course kicks ass and stops the freaky giant air craft carrier thingies from killing millions of people that they've decided should die.  (Um...scary!!!) and have gone their separate ways.  There were a lot of SHIELD folks that were actually still good and not corrupted, so it was a civil war of sorts.  My only questions is - where the hell were the other Avengers?  I mean we had this epic battle of them teaming up together to fight those piranha looking alien things...how come there was no help here?

Our after credits scene gives us a glimpse into Avengers 2 with the introduction of I think it's Quicksilver?  And the witchy chick.  Then we get another sneak peek of Bucky - now sort of good again because his memories are returning (I mean he did save Cap America from drowning) looking at the pic of himself from the past.  So - there's hope for him yet!  And hopefully more to see his yummy-ness!

Captain America 2 - thumbs up!  Totally fun movie!


Guardians of the Galaxy.

Ok - first of all I didn't really see how it tied into the rest, but then I kinda did.  The weird character of Benicio del Toro as The Collector is in this one.  He's still weird as fuck and I don't understand that story line.

Chris Pratt is hot.  I love him.  But who doesn't.

I mean COME ON!

 I dug this one.  It was fun and full of humor which of course I love even more.  I enjoyed how Chris Pratt's character wanted so bad to be "StarLord" and his portrayal of pretty much a kid trying really hard to be cool.  He totally is though!

The story line of Gamora was pretty predictable but I still enjoyed it.  Dave Bautista as Drax was awesome.  I loved how literal he was and how he ended being super noble.  My favorite of course though which is probably most folks favorite was Groot and Rocket.  I want a pet Groot.  Seriously.  He was adorable!

And then he does this rad little light show!

And I actually totally teared up when he was dying and Rocket the Raccoon - a fucking Racoon - is holding his head and telling him not to do it.  I cried.  I seriously cried.

It was really great watching the group of thugs all come together and be the now Guardians of the Galaxy while they fought off the big evil villain guy who looked like an adult emo reject.  I totally cheered when Chris Pratt said "We're the Guardians of the Galaxy Bitch!" 

So yes - the bad guys turned good and conquered dude.  The characters were fun and I was totally on board!

Finally!!!!!  My Avengers #2 came in the mail in my little red Netflix envelope!  FINALLY!

The main unfortunate part for me was trying to remember what had happened in the last one.  I get a bit confused with the different movies and then the Avengers all together.  Why are they not always together.  Like a job?  At one point I text Renee asking "Where's Falcon?"  I couldn't remember if he died or what.  She text back - he was in the Captain America movie...he's not an Avenger yet...but text me when the movie is over.  Ha!  There he was!

So - Avengers 2.  Apparently RDJ and Bruce Banner want to do something with that glowy wand thing that Loki had, to make an uber computer thingie that will be able to protect the world.  Sadly this non science brain girl got a bit lost.  I assume this is where the huge sci-fi folks are getting boners.  I'm sitting there like

The lights battled each other - (Jarvis and this new Ultron thing) and now we have this Ultron villain that's not really a person but kind of is but I don't know.  Best part though - It was James fucking Spader!  I love him!  He is such a quirky cool actor and one of my favorite guys to see play a bad guy.  What was even more awesome was you never saw him you just heard him!  There was a robot thingie there for a bit that had the rad James Spader movements but hearing his voice as the big bad was freaking awesome.  Such a fantastic villain!

I of course enjoyed all the crazy cool battle scenes.  I love how the Avenger work so well as a team!  It's like Captain America hurls the magic shield at Black Widow and she kicks it into an evil robot then Thor whacks his magic hammer at it sending it flying back to the Captain.  I mean talk about teamwork!

I got a bit lost with the romance part....I thought Black Widow and Hackeye were an item - but now she's goo goo for Hulk?  Although I do love that she can un green him.

Kinda cute

And Hawkeye has a whole family?!  That was a trip.

We also get introduced to two other characters.  Quicksilver played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson who I love!!!  He's Kickass!!!!  I was seriously waiting for him to run out like this...

And Elizabeth Olson (There's another Olson!?) as Scarlett Witch.

Can I just tell you how excited I am that there is another girl superhero!!???  Now - they of course aren't good guys at 1st, but you learn the story of how their parents were killed by a Stark bomb and they are seeking revenge.  Fair.  They do see the error or their ways and quickly join the good side.  I am curious though to see how witchy gal fairs with RDJ in future episodes.  I was heartbroken when Quicksilver was killed off!  Very nobly though - saving Hawkeye and a little boy.  I'm so bummed though!  Because again - um hottie - and funny - and dammit.

But who knows.  Loki came back.  Maybe he can!  Witchy gal broke my heart too.  I guess they're twins and her reaction when he was killed (she felt it of course) was heart breaking.  So sad.  But she's an Avenger now!

So our heroes aren't fairing too well against this badass James Spader thing and it really looking like they're going to lose when a giant chuck of the earth rises up and is pretty much going to come crashing back down into earth thus destroying it.  No pressure.  Then guess what -

Super Jarvis appears!!!

Again.  I'm a bit confused on what the hell he actually is, but he's pretty bad ass!  It's also Paul Bettany who I love and have been enjoying him as the voice of Jarvis but now he's a dude...thing...whatever.  But hey!!  Neat!

So with the Avengers now having the help of Scarlett Witch and Super Jarvis - oh and Nick Fury pops back up with Maria and crew (Apparently they are rebuilding after the corrupt mess from Avengers 1) they can take out the bad guy.

I'd like to throw props to Maria too.  She's not a superhero but she's pretty bad ass.  Again - girl power!

So all is well.  It looks like the Avengers SHIELD or Hydro or something or other is back on track.  They have a new facility and new Avengers to train!  I just loved the ending when Black Widow and Captain were ready to train the newbies!  Which are Don Cheadle, Super Jarvis, Witchy chick and low and behold - Falcon!

So yay!!!

The secret little surprise ending threw me for a loop.  Some big gold and purple guy was like - "I'll do it myself!"  Huh?  Renee informs me this is Thanos.  Huh?

So I'm officially caught up!  I will now continue to watch the Marvel movies in order with the rest of you all!  I think Antman is next?

I have enjoyed my little journey into the comic world and feel like I can now contribute to some of the convo!  Shall I tackle DC next?  I believe I'm supposed to watch the latest Supermans/Batmans?  Will Suicide Squad be attached to that?  Should I care about the Xmen, Four folks and Green people?  Yikes....getting overwhelmed again.

OMG!!!!  There's so many of them!

Jumping on the Comic Book Movie Train...

This is going to be one of those blogs I come back to and won't post until complete.

So.  I'm a theater geek.  This puts me in a group surrounded by a lot of other geeks.  What I have come to realize is I'm way behind with the geek cred.

My nerdom really only consists of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (Huge fan by the way, own the whole series, probably watched it over 20 times), Harry Potter and The Walking Dead.  I'm a huge geek when it comes to anything horror but apparently that doesn't really count for the geek cred.  I watched the 1st three Star Wars, not the last 3 and plan to watch the upcoming three.  Not obsessed though.  Don't care for Star Trek, haven't jumped on the Dr. Who train and I'm sure there a zillion others I'm not mentioning.

I've also never read comic books.  I don't like them.  They read weird, it's laid out so strange, so many pictures, it's just utter chaos and to this girls OCD brain I've never been down.

BUT

I've always enjoyed Super Heroes.  They're fun.  I'll watch a flick here and there.  What I have come to realize is there is a whole fucking universe of this shit and everyone I know is obsessed.   I am constantly finding myself in very in depth conversations about these things that I can never contribute too because I am totally out of the loop.  Then I read some news about Suicide Squad.  This sounds cool!  I've always tended to enjoy villains more than heroes and this looks like something right up my alley!  Plus - maybe I can now be part of all these comic book conversations that are always happening around me!

I started to talk about this to some folk, one friend in particular was laughing so hard at my ignorance I posted this post to my facebook page:

So....I thought I should jump on the comic movie train since everyone always talks about it & I'm lost & can never partake.
I saw Thor years ago...just found out there's 2. Ok. On my list.
I watched Iron Man. Oh there's 3. Fuck. I just watched 2. 3 is next. (Loving them by the way! Um Natalie Black Widow is badass)
Apparently there's a bunch of Captain Americas?
So then I'll see them all & can watch The Avengers right? Oh...the one that just came out is the 2nd one?!
Ok. Avengers 1...on my list.
This Suicide Squad looks rad! Wait...what!? There's Marvel and DC?! It's not all the same?!
Shit..ok...so DC is like Superman & Batman & Spiderman right? I saw Christopher Reeves...is there more?
I saw all the old Batman's & 2 of the new ones with Ledger & Bale...that's it right?
And Spider man...why are there so many? I saw one of them
Is there more?
Oh...and the Xmen? Where the hell do they fall in? I've seen some...but they're going backwards?
I also learned to watch after the credits are done for secret scenes or something? That's fun! It's like a mystery!
But my god people! There's so many. Am I too late to the game?
I'm so overwhelmed!

Knowing I would get a zillion responses - which I did - I have been put on the mission to watch all of the Marvel Movie to begin this journey.  I've been given the order of which to watch them in.  Another friend posted the order along with TV shows but that's just too much for this non geek to handle so we're sticking to the movies.  I'm sure I'll eventually move on to DC and other venues (Um whose Fantastic Four? And aren't there a bunch of green people like green lamps and shit?) but this blog is solely dedicated to my Marvel Movie watching adventure.  

Oh - and not that there's probably anyone on the planet left that hasn't watched these but me - 

*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*

First up - IronMan 1

I love it!  First of all Robert Downey Jr. is super hot - so there's that.  But I found myself squealing and jumping during the action sequences.  I also loved the humor aspect to it!  RDJ is hilarious and spot on with his timing.  I'm not a huge Gwenth Paltrow fan, but she's very cute and funny and plays well off RDJ.  It's kind of hard not to - the man is brilliant.  You get the story of how IronMan is created in this movie and it's pretty nifty!  Watching him figure out how to use the suit was a blast.  I also enjoyed the little surprise after the credits that introduces Samuel Jackson and apparently letting us know the Avengers is a thing.  So thumbs up here!

Next up I was apparently supposed to watch the Hulk, but this was before my post for help so I watched IronMan 2.

Again - hot Robert.  This one was also alot of fun!  Don Cheadle is in it and I adore him as an actor and he doesn't disappoint in this at all.  I think my favorite though is the introduction of Scarlett Johanson as Black Widow.  You think she's just a law consultant for Tony Stark (RDJ) but she has this rad scene in the boxing ring where she totally takes down Jon Favre's character in a brilliant moment.  He is also rad by the way!

Later on in the movie we get to see her kick some major ass.  Loved loved loved her!  There is a great boy brawl between Don Cheadle and RDJ that is awesome and hilarious as they destroy his home after a party having a showdown in IronMan suits.  I was dying.

The other thing I loved about this movie was Mickey Rourke as the villian!  He was so friggin scary and bad ass and awesome!  His body was RIDICULOUS!

This little surprise gem after the credits is the a shot in the desert where it looks like Thor has landed (we see his hammer) but  - I'm out of order at this point but I'll remember it!

Third up (that should have been 2nd) is The Incredible Hulk.  I was told to skip the Eric Bana version entirely, that Mark Ruffalo Hulk comes later so the Edward Norton one is the one I'm to watch (Seriously there's so many godamn re-makes/re-boots/re-whatever the hells out there!  No wonder a girl is confused!)  So Incredible Hulk with Edward Norton as the Incredible Hulk it is!

I didn't enjoy this as much.  Now - I adore Edward Norton - he is a fine actor - and he does a fine job in this, but the movie seemed kind of slow.  It gives us the story of how he becomes the Hulk and it's of course the governments fault (I'm seeing a trend here! He he!).  William Hurt plays the general who caused this and then Tim Roth - another actor I just love - plays a soldier on a power trip that takes the same dosage of whatever the hell it is to make him all crazy like the Hulk.  Liv Tyler plays the love interest of Bruce Banner (Hulk's normal self if you didn't already know).  It was kind of predictable but maybe that's because I sort of know the story already?  There's a pretty great epic battle between the two "Hulks" that will thrill the action junkies, but I guess I was hoping for something more.  The little surprise clip doesn't come at the end of the credits but actually at the end of the movie after we see Ed Norton learning to control his Hulk-i-ness.  It's Tony Stark!  He shows up when the general is drowning his sorrows at a bar and says there's a team called the Avengers recruiting peeps.  So - there ya go.  Guess the build up to the Avengers is coming!

Fourth up - Thor.

Really enjoyed this one!  I had actually seen this before way back when it was in the theaters.  My mom had wanted to see it for Mother's Day  I don't remember much of it because I just really wanted him to take off his shirt the whole time.  So watching it this 2nd time I paid much more attention and it had a lot of fun tie ends now that I know it's part of this Avengers thing.  Thor is kind of a dick but he gets banished to earth and gets whipped in shape by Natalie Portman and her comrades. 

Stellan Skarsgaard who plays Erik returns in the magic scene in the end.  He's going to help make I assume the magic potion that gets shot into our Captain America which comes up next.  Thor's brother Loki played by Tom Hiddleston is how the battle starts.

It's the usual he's adopted, doesn't feel part of the family, wants to be king and rule the world, etc etc.  I really did enjoy this though.  I think because it has the fantasy aspect to it.  I tend to gravitate towards the world of fairies and myth and magic and am actually quite familiar with the real story of Thor God of Thunder so this was right up my alley.  I also love Thor's posse:

Especially Siff because she's a girl and there are not enough girl superheros dammit!  Anywhoo - super fun.  Loved it!

Fifth up - Captain America - The First Avenger.

Again, not one of my favorites but I appreciated the story line.  It takes place back in the 1940's so he is actually The 1st Avenger.  But again - like the Hulk - he gets injected with some shit from the government and BAM - he's a Superhero.  He's a tiny guy with a good heart who wants to fight for his country and he's a true hero.  So they basically give him a magic steroid.  Now I'm not gonna lie - this was my favorite part:

I mean Jesus Christ.  Chris Evans...his body....this scene happened and I'm like:

Anywhoo.  When I picked my tongue up off the floor and paid attention to the rest of the movie, it was ok.  You're good old American Hero story.  He saves the day and ultimately sacrifices himself at the end.  Or so you think!  The movie ends with it 70 something years in the future and our hero wakes up in New York.  Apparently he'd been napping for years and guess what - Sam Jackson - our Nick Fury Avenger dude is there.  The teaser at the end is a trailer for The Avengers.  It's really fun watching how these all come together.

Ok - last up in this group.  I figure I'll blog about this 1st chunk then I'll do a separate blog when I watch the 2nd chunk.  So - last night I watched The Avengers!

This was a super fun movie!  Loki (From Thor - his evil brother actually) is our Super Villian of the movie.  He looked a bit odd in this get up:

In fact, there's a moment in the movie where RDJ calls him Reindeer Games.  Hilarious.  I much preferred:

So evil - yet lickable right?  Anyway - he has an alien army that's going to basically take over earth and he thinks he'll be king.  All the Avengers get together to fight the upcoming battle and after a few snafus where Hawkeye is bad for a bit and Loki gets them all riled up against each other - they eventually come together and kick ass.  Nick Fury is dealing with what I assume is our evil government (there's that familiar theme again.  little scary how right on they are).  We lose a rad character I was just really growing to like.  RIP Agent Phil Coulson.

But my friend told me he's apparently in the Agents of Shield TV show.  I don't think I'll be jumping on that train, the movies are enough for me.  But I was sad to see him go!  I loved the humor again.  RDJ is awesome.  When the Hulk (Who is now Mark Ruffalo and not Ed Norton anymore and I kinda like Mark Ruffalo better) whacks Loki around like a doll I about died and I laughed the hardest when he randomly punched Thor.  I also didn't realize what a badass he was.  He's like the baddest ass.  Green dude showed up and pretty much took out everything!  I also really liked these weird things:

They were so fucking weirdly cool!!!  The big battle scene at the end was lots of fun and I totally enjoyed it!

SO - I'm done with the 1st round!

I'll be starting my 2nd chunk with Iron Man 3 I guess.  I am enjoying the tie in with all the movies.  The little comments here and there, the characters, how this one knows this one or will appear somewhere with this one.  I really do like that tie in.  I don't think you can get that with DC because there's been so many reboots.  It seems Marvel is the only one I can be told an order to watch all these movies in and they tie together and make sense.  I love that.  It's good for my OCD.  Order ya know.  But so far - they're fun!  I'm still not a huge sci-fi person but they're very fun and the gentlemen are defiantly easy on the eyes.  Hot damn.  I also enjoy the very anti-government snark to them. 

These flicks have me laughing out loud, reacting vocally sometimes to action packed moments and really enjoying the whole thing.  It's just a lot of fun to watch these action packed scenes with people kicking major ass in very creative ways!  Win!