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Title: Captain America: The first Avenger
Media: Movie
Genre: action, adventure, sci-fi
Rating: (3.5/5)

Summary: After being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers volunteers for a top secret research project that turns him into Captain America, a superhero dedicated to defending America’s ideals.

Comment: I wasn’t expecting much from this movie, simply because I didn’t want to, as it already happened, get disappoined with it. I hate the facthat people say, OMG awesome movie and then ‘m all excited and is trash because of that. Ah yes, I wanted to speak about the movie. I wanted to see it (I saw Iron Man and Thor) because I liked the idea.

It’s not a 5 stars movie, but it was easy to watch, and I personaly liked it, that doesn’t mean that everyone liked it. I loved the characters, and probably also the actors, Dominic Cooper did an awesome job as Howard Star and so did Tomy Lee Jones as Collonel. Chris Evans wasn’t bad as Captain America eather.

I liked also the humor of the series, which lighten the atmosphere and also special effects, yes latelly I’m going for movies just because of special effects. But this one had also the story that could bring you in, it wasn’t one of those that it was plot?what plot? It’s not some deep story but it was a good one and I liked it.

The end is a little bittersweet but knowing the franchise and the character not at all unexpected, still it made me sympathize with Steve Rogers, now I can’t wait to see Avengers when it comes out.

Title: Homestuck
Media: Webcomic
Author: Andrew Hussie
Rating: (5/5)

Summary: The story follows four teenage children as they play a video game that brings about the end of the world and brings them into a whole new universe.

Comment: Homestuck is the latest entry of the MS Paint Adventures (MSPA) created by Andrew Hussie and the one that is currently still on-going.
Like with the other comics of the MSPA what strikes first as extremely peculiar is the narrative style chosen by the author. Since the first MSPA comic (Jailbreak), Andrew Hussie decided to use a style that would fit the idea of a “mock game”: the “next” botton usually used in webcomics to go to the following page is substituted most of the times by a text command as if trying to replicate the behavior of a real on-line game.
The panels are not only composed by drawings but very often a “page” of the comic also comprehends a long chat-like interaction between the characters or a RPG-styled description of what they’re doing.
Homestuck is also characterized by the huge amount of different medias used: there are pages which only gets one drawing and then lots and lots of written text, there pages in which there are up to 4-5 panels and there are even pages in which instead of pictures or texts there are huge-ass flash clips with original music played in the background. Recently Hussie even made a crazy (and quite well done in my opinion) attempt to narrate two different scenes in parallel by using the header of the site for one and the usual page content for the other.

The starting point of the story is pretty simple: four children (John, Rose, Dave and Jade) begin to play the beta version of a new game called SBURB (a game that able to directly interact with their enviroment instead of being relegated to a computer screen) and soon find out that by activating the game they’ve brought the end of the world. They are then teletransported to the actual universe where the game supposedly takes place and they are set to reach a certain ultimate quest and earn in this way the ultimate reward.

The story is far from linear and at times it can get very very very complicated with all the time shenanigans going on (but you can get used to it pretty quickly if you give it a bit of thought) and the story is pretty complex all the while mantaining the hirony that the “mock game” format allow.
The only negative thing about this webcomics is that the plot starts kind of slowly (but I’m not surprised considering the other MSPA comics are the same) as the beginning is used to set some interesting stuff for the future and at the same time mantain a tone of light entertainment.

After the end of the 1st Act, however, the plot gets a sudden burst up the mointain of addictiveness to the point that I read around 4500 pages in half a week.

Title: The Expendables
Media: Movie
Genre: action, adventure (thriller <- ???)
Rating: (4/5) (not because of the storyline, but for splatter)

Summary: A team of mercenaries head to South America on a mission to overthrow a dictator.

Comment: When I heard about this movie was: omg there will be Stallone, Bruce Willis and Arnold Swarzenegger together at some point, and there is also Jet Li and Mickey Rourke… omg. So people if you love big explosions, action, huge weapons or awesome combat skills… then this movie is for you. I won’t speak about the plot, because believe me the summary sums it pretty much as it is. So I won’t be commenting on it, simply because it’s not the main point of the movie, the main point are the killings, the combat and all that all together. What I love about this movie is that they use some lines that made me totally crack up, like the dialogue in the SlyWillisSwarz Cameo:

Trench (Swarzenegger): Well, I’m busy right now. So give this job to my friend here. He loves playing in the jungle, right?
Barney Ross (Sly): [sarcastically] Right.
Mr. Church (Bruce Willis): [Uncertain] That’s right.
Trench: [to Barney] Hey, how about dinner?
Barney Ross: Yeah, when?
Trench: In a thousand years?
Barney Ross: Too soon.
[Trench walks off]
Mr. Church: [Confused; about Trench] What’s his fucking problem?
Barney Ross: He wants to be president.

This people made me laugh so hard, that I was probably howling from laughter, and then there were other parts where for example when someone asks Sly and his partner their names, the partner answers: I’m Buda and his is Pest.  So I will say this movie is awesome if you are there for lots of action and no brain activity, because if you are searching for whatever story, you are aiming at the wrong movie for that.