Wreck-it Ralph...

Now then, I don't like Disney films, I don't do the singing or the cheesy storyline. When I first heard that Wreck-it Ralph was going to be the new Disney film I just thought it was going to be another animated film like all the others..

How wrong was I!?

This film had everything, it had a love story, fighting, a friendship, betrayal, a bad guy, a good girl, a character you feel sorry for...and PURE AWESOMENESS.

So, Ralph is the character from Fix-it Felix who breaks everything and wants to be a hero, the hero in his game (Felix) has a medal that allows him to go into the fun suite at the top of the hotel. So, Ralph sets out to get a medal in a game called Heroes Duty.

OH BY THE WAY THIS FILM IS LIKE TOY STORY WITH ARCADE GAMES!!
(they travel through the cables and the plugs!!)

So, he goes to Heroes Duty where he meets the leader woman, Calhoun - Ralph gets his medal and gets out of the game on one of the ships in it, and takes with it the bugs things they have to kill...duh duh duhhh

So, they all (Felix, Ralph and Calhoun) end up in Sugar Rush where he meets Vanellope...

-whole new plot....-

She is this 'glitch' in the game and everyone wants her out...but there's a TWIST (I won't tell you, just watch it)

The TWIST is resolved and there's a wonderful happy ending in the form of a wedding. YES THERE'S A WEDDING.

Oh and final note: each game has threat of closure...so when Ralph leaves at night and the game opens up in the morning (when the arcade is open)..he isn't there...so to the public, it looks like the game is faulty...

-this is why Felix has to get Ralph back because they'll be closed down and the characters end up homeless. HOMELESS. that happens. aww-

This film has soooo much that I can't mention in one blog post, there's tonnes of sub plots and cute things and amazing moments and it's the best animation of 2012.

You could say I loved it.

Oh, and this amazing Disney animation preceded the film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pDbVPL6YTw

The Incredible Hulk...

This post will mainly be comparing the character Hulk portrayed by Edward Norton in the 2008 film to Mark Ruffalo's Hulk in The Avengers Assemble. 

The Incredible Hulk takes you through this amazing journey where you really see the personal side of Bruce Banner and his struggles with have gamma infection. He wants to find a cure and stop being like this, and wants to control it. He is unsuccessful  with controlling it that much, but he thinks he finds a cure, this ultimately creates an antagonist for the film for him to 'defeat'. 

There is such an emotional scene where he is on the university campus and under attack from the army who want him captured. Bruce Banners girlfriend played by Liv Tyler runs out onto the field and just looks at him saying his name, and you can see it in The Hulks eyes that he knows her and realises he's Bruce Banner.  

The casting of Edward Norton is great because he is actually a scrawny, geeky man who creates such a contrast when he transforms into The Hulk. 

Now, my first comparison...Mark Ruffalo is NOT a geeky, little man, he is buff and an unrealistic portrayal of Bruce Banner. 

In The Avengers he starts of by not being able to control his anger, in the scene where he almost kills Black Widow. Then later on he all of a sudden can, where he is actually in the formation of The Avengers, he takes orders Captain America...THAT WOULDN'T HAPPEN. 

That's the biggest comparison really, but after watching The Incredible Hulk a week ago, I realised properly that The Hulk in The Avengers is all wrong and doesn't make sense. 

Gavin and Stacey...

I will start by saying that as a whole I love Gavin and Stacey; Ruth Jones and James Corden are incredible writers.

But I want to nit-pick it slightly, go into finer detail about my favourite bits and bits I thought need improving.

Right then, I believe that they made a good decision by only having 3 series' because any more and it would have ruined it, there isn't much premise for another storyline other than to see both kids grow up.

The pilot episode has to be one of the best pilots of British TV. You get to see entirely what each main character is like and the contrast between the two families. It opens with 'the phone call' between Gavin and Stacey which sets as the start of every episode (brilliant), we are then introduced to Pam and Mick Shipman. They are all sitting down to tea when Mick notices Pam having 3 steaks as she has substituted her chips and peas for steak as she is on the Atkins. The mocking begins and you immediately see the relationship Pam and Mick have, married forever and still having a laugh. Smithy comes in and we straight away see his character when he is offered 3 steaks by replying with: "I've just had a shepherds pie but I'll certainly take two of them on." In the West household we have a completely different scenario; Stacey's overprotective uncle Bryn is showing her how to use a rape alarm for when she goes to London to meet Gavin. Stacey needs to display force but is unable, so we have her best friend Nessa pinning Bryn up against the wall as the alarm goes off while mother Gwen makes her infamous omelette that feature throughout the show.

The couple meet in London and go out for drinks and dance. As they meet this happens:

• Stacey: "Ooh I like your cardi!"
• Gavin: "Thanks it's from River Island"
• Stacey: "Ooh so's my belt!"

The awkwardness but everyday chatter makes it so real and sets the foundation of their relationship. 

So at the end of the night, Smithy has sex with Nessa resulting in a toilet brush up his yoo-hoo and Stacey and Gavin confess their love for each other.

They are then engaged, then after a tipple with her 5 engagements, they are married in a ceremony that combines two families from two very different areas and backgrounds. In a Grease medley you see all the dancing and laughing which features in the most realistic, down to earth TV wedding I have seen. 

Then Nessa is pregnant with Smithys baby and starts seeing Dave, she gives birth to a boy that is always referred to as Neil: the baby. 

Throughout the series Nessa and Smithy have these moments; they both like to order their own food and not share, they love junk food, they like Irn Bru and lets not forget the sweetcorn incident! 

The relationship between Gavin and Stacey is a weird one at times. They break up briefly because Stacey is homesick, she hates living in Essex and wants to move back, and gets annoyed at Gavin for excluding her family and acting like they don't matter. - I think this is rubbish, he is the one with the job, she doesn't really try hard enough to get a job, they can't live in Barry because Gavin couldn't work and he makes the money for rent.. She just has to deal with that - her character annoyed me a bit here. 

After the Christmas special she went back in my good books, everything was relatively calm for series 3 as Nessa prepares (to not) marry Dave Coaches. 

In series 3 we have my favourite scene/episode. Nessa and Stacey join Pam and Mick and their friends Pete and Dawn Sutcliffe for a night in before they go out on girls and boys days. They all get drunk and have a laugh, there's nothing more to it but when you watch it you feel like you are watching an actual group of people who have been friends forever. The song by Madness: House of Fun  plays and it is pure. brilliance. 

Some of the best traits it has:

• Pam and Mick SHIPMAN
• Pete and Dawn SUTCLIFFE
• Stacey and Gwen WEST
• A phone call at the beginning of every episode
• Neil: the baby
• Omelettes
• Pam as a 'vegetarian'
• "Oh, what's occurring?!"
•  "Tidy"
• "Fair play"
• Nessa's work ventures
• Lucy, Smithys never appearing girlfriend
• Pete and Dawn on/off/on

Some lines:

• "My motto is: Glue and speed, fags and weed. But I draws the line at crack." - Dave
• "I just can't believe I'm pregnant by Smithy...out of all the people I slept with...not Nigel Havers, John Prescott...not any of Goldie Looking Chain!" - Nessa
• "She's at a sixth form netball Tournament in Southend, she couldn't get out of it, she's wing attack." - Smithy
• "Oh, it's the menopause it is Stace." - Doris, 80 years old

Some scenes (if you've watched it, a couple of words will do):

• Oven gloves
• Bryn is Daniel Craig
• Oooh sing to me Bryn!
• Airport 

Basically, I love it because all these character are real to me. You watch normal people having normal chats about normal things, yet it's funny. You have no fake people, no drama as such and no nonsense!

FABULOUS! (in a welsh accent) - I'll leave you with this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPwoc39BmqE 

The Perks of Being a Wallflower..

Well, well, where to begin? It was one of those films that you will come away from feeling something.

I have recently bought this on DVD and each time I watch it I come away feeling something different. Cinema = happy and sad, 1st at home = sad, 2nd at home = happy.

The story is one that doesn't need any real plot or direction because it has brilliant actors portraying people that you just want to watch forever (because you can't be actual friends with them).

The premise of this film is one that simply follows in the life of Charlie, who narrates, and see's him meet his new friends, overcome being high for the first time and his first relationship screw up. But it also see's him fall in love, battle inner demons and reveal something I bet no-one saw coming.

This film blew me away, and that's not just because Emma Watson is in it (swoon). I ended up thinking back to my high school days and empathising with these people, I was laughing with them then crying when they cried. It made me remember how far I have come with who I am now, to what I was back then.

To recommend it to you, I will say this - "I can't express to you how I felt after seeing it because there are no words, I felt happy, sad, elated, depressed and reminiscent all at the same time. I can guarantee you will feel something but I cannot tell you what, all I can tell you is that there is a little bit of Charlie in everybody."

Two and a Half Men..

Okay, just re-watched the bit where Chelsea dumps Charlie in season 7 of Two and a Half Men and I am annoyed at why she chose to dump him. And here’s why..

She was with him for about 2 years, was engaged to him and they had had their fair share of arguments so it’s safe to say that she knew what kind of guy he was. She had met loads of people throughout this time and it took one person for her to realise he wasn’t the person she wanted..

He shouldn’t have to change for a person (after what Mia tried to do) and it looked like Chelsea didn’t want that, and loved Charlie for who he was. He still had to be a better person for the relationship though, and he did so much! He took dance lessons, deleted videos of her, went on outings frequently, agreed for a wedding earlier than he wanted, he met her family, looked after her while she was ill, said he loved her first and meant it, learnt all about her past, etc..

These may not be the most amazing things, but for Charlie Harper they were genuine acts of love. He was like that for the entire time she knew him and then all of a sudden he was no good for her. 

This annoyed me because i’ve seen them all loads and I know he ends up with Rose because she does truly love him for who he is…but he doesn’t love her…the basis on why they got together and (ran off) was all a lie, she was being her normal self and tricked him into wanting her because she was ‘married’ to another guy.. he was tricked, and that’s annoying. 

This just all annoyed me.

Obviously they wrote it this way because Charlie Sheen was leaving, but I would have preferred so much if they gave him the happy ending I think he deserved and then just ended the show at season 8. 

I haven’t watched anything with Ashton Kutcher in because of that reason. I haven’t seen it therefore I can’t judge, but the plot of Charlie dying the way he does, Alan STILL living there and becoming friends with a stranger in order to do so and him STILL not moved out when c’mon he can, is why I don’t want to watch it. 

-review complete- 

Intro..

Hello there, 

I am a person who really enjoys film and TV shows, I live with and am dating a film student and so I think I have a lot to say about the aforementioned topics. 

I like to talk to my boyfriend about what I think of films I just saw, or TV show plots and so I thought I'd share them with the world :) 

Enjoy, comment, disagree, etc...

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