Update .-.

Okay, so, I can't update every single day now, I have a lot going on, but I think I'm just going to have posts Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and just keep it that. Oh, and if I'm going to go see a movie, I'll definitely post after i see the movie. Sometime next week maybe, I will be seeing Ant-Man, so be ready for another Marvel post!

Till next time

~Maddy

Fifty Shades of Grey

Okay, I literally only watched this movie because of a dare. Don't judge me because I watched this. I didn't pay anything for it (watched my friend's copy) so I didn't waste any money on this piece of crap rape fest.


(Spoilers!)
 
As Fifty Shades gained more popularity and getting made in a movie, I've been seeing a lot of people try to raise awareness about how this franchise is not about BDSM, but about domestic and sexual abuse. The "relationship" between Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey is not BDSM, though many people who read this will argue that it is, but that makes BDSM sound like something that is not consensual. Something like rape.

I bet a lot of you who read this have no idea what BDSM is about. Consent is necessary, and partners take care of each other. After the acts and role plays, the partners comfort each other. They don't shove each aside. They don't force anyone to do anything that they aren't comfortable with. Fifty Shades is none of this.

When Ana first meets Christian, she's a virgin. Christian gives her an ultimatum. Like he jumps into it. She either signs the contract and be subject to his every demand, or get the hell out. Because of her inexperience sexually, Christian is able to manipulate her to push her boundaries and make the violent sexual activities that he's into seem okay. He doesn't comfort her after an act, but instead is irritated at how upset she is. He also doesn't care about consent. He gets her drunk to get her consent, which is by law rape. At one point, Ana also uses the safe word, which takes away her consent. Does Christian listen? Nope. He continues to rape her.

Christian Grey is also a control freak. He's crazy jealous and easily angered - to the point that Ana fears for her safety. How does that sound okay? This entire crappy series destroys the true concept of BDSM. Literature and Film have a huge role in the mindset of young  people today. Young men and women read/watch this smut and assume that that is normal for BDSM. This monstrous series romanticizes and fetishizes abuse, making it seem fun and sexy. This series should not in any way be defended. Think about your life. Do you know anyone who was abused? Would you want them to think that it's okay to be treated like that?

Want me to clear up BDSM again? In case you still don't get it? BDSM is all about consent. Every single person involved gives their consent. Fifty Shades of Grey? There were many instances in which Ana did not give her consent, or she revoked it. In case you didn't know, even if you are in the middle of consensual sex, and suddenly someone says "stop" or gives a safe word or says they don't want it anymore, you have to stop. If you continue, it's rape.

Don't get me wrong, you are free to watch/read whatever you want, but don't defend Fifty Shades of Grey and claiming that it's all consensual, because it's not.

The Incredible Hulk (2008)

Okay, I'm going over the 2008 one because that's the one that I put into the timeline.

Dr. Bruce Banner, played by Edward Norton, is desperately searching for a cure for the gamma radiation that contaminated his cells and, when his heart rate gets too high, turns him into the Hulk, which as you probably know, is a giant, green rage monster (as described by RDJ's Tony Stark in The Avengers). Because of this, he was cut off from his "one" true love, Betty Ross (Liv Tyler) as well as hide from his arch nemesis, General Thunderbolt Ross, aka Betty's father. Then, Banner comes face to face with a new monster - The Abomination.

(Spoilers!)

 Okay, so Bruce is on the run. He has to hide from Gen. Ross and thus stay as far away from Betty as possible. And as much as Bruce wants to be with Betty, he would try to stay away regardless of her father. He's afraid of what he becomes and he's afraid he would hurt her if they get too close. But when Gen. Ross finally catches up to Bruce, Betty gets in the way and after multiple explosions....she lives. With barely a scratch. Okay. Okay. I know that Hulk!Bruce put his massive green arms all around her to protect her but you can't tell me she didn't get a single mark on her. That's bull. Hulk took Betty to this cave thing to creepily watch her sleep before shrinking. Now, Betty and Bruce are on the run together. They meet this guy, who apparently found the cure to Bruce's condition. They go to him, and he apparently gets cured. So then, this one guy, Emil Blonsky gets shattered by the Hulk, yet somehow lives and he's also turned into a Hulk-like creature. So, he's the Abomination. By this point in the film, you know you are going to have a Hulk 1 vs. Hulk 2.

Betty and Bruce team up with Thunderbolt. They go after The Abomination and destroy a bunch of buildings before, of course, the Hulk wins. But Bruce still goes "I must be alone." and bam, end of the movie.

Don't get me wrong, The Hulk is kind of a cool avenger, but he's also probably my least favorite. One thing that really gets me, is that before Mark Ruffalo, we had a different actor for each one. That annoyed me. Plus isn't it convenient that Hulk can't die? He heals. You cut him, shoot him, blow him away and he heals. There's nothing that can end him, even suicide. Just no. I don't like the Hulk too much. Human!Bruce is a lot better but once we get the Hulk, I'm out. I'm honestly glad that we're probably never going to have another Hulk film, and the only new Hulk-related films we get will be Avengers.

Okay, obviously, I don't like The Incredible Hulk, but if you want to really understand the Marvel Avengers series, then you kind of have to watch The Incredible Hulk. You might want to watch the 2003 Hulk, but I don't really include it in the timeline. That's also the only reason I'm reviewing it. Buuuut that's my opinion. What do you think?

House MD

Okay, so I said that I was going to do a TV show, and here it is. House MD is a medical drama starring Hugh Laurie as a arrogant, Vicodin addicted, witty Doctor Gregory House. Starring alongside Laurie is Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard, Jennifer Morrison, Jesse Spencer, Olivia Wilde, Peter Jacobson and Kal Penn.

House is a n unorthodox medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. The majority of the episodes start outside the hospital, where we meet the patient of the week and the events that occur leading to the onset of their symptoms.

So, in the show, House and his team use a bunch of unusual and possibly illegal methods of diagnosing the patient. Sure, they lose patients from time to time, but usually they save their lives. House does everything he can, not to save the patient, but to find out what's killing them. Often times, the docs can't figure out the ailment because the patient lied about something. House often mutters the phrase, "Everybody lies," or says something like "the patient is lying", because, well he's not wrong. Patient often lies and well everybody lies.

With most TV dramas, there's a recurring subplot on the show. Lisa Cuddy (Edelstein) and House are often at odds because House does what he can to avoid clinic duty. He also often plays video games on his Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP, and later a DS and even further later a PSP while diagnosing patients. He's basically a dick to the patients and seemingly ignoring them and then suddenly comes with a diagnoses and gets them out.

Whether or not you're into this kind of stuff, it's a good watch. It's not all just doctoring and such, but there's also...drama. It can be an emotional roller coaster at times. You come to love and hate and grow with the characters. As you watch the series, you'll probably see some familiar faces on the show. Off the top of my head, Jeremy Renner, Michael Weston, Curtis Armstrong, Rob Benedict, Anne Dudek and Andre Braugher are just a few of the many actors who appear on the show. At least watch the first season. It's on Netflix.

King Kong (2005)

Okay, so I used to watch this movie all the time. I had it on DVD and I even had the GameCube video game. Well, both got heavily damaged because of some unfortunate events and I haven't even thought about King Kong in years. Then like three months ago, I found it on this website and ended up watching it every night, my obsession renewed. Of course, now that I've been watching it nearly every night for three months, I've become aware of the stupid things that happened in the movie. Oh well, still love it. (Spoilers!)

So, we start out with a montage of singing and dancing and old timey, rundown New York. We meet Ann Darrow, Carl Denham and Preston. Some main characters, right. Well Ann's poor, a theater girl, and really caring about other people. She's also really obsessed with Jack Driscoll. (I can't get mad at her, I'm obsessed with certain character in this very movie as well as the actor that plays him). Carl is a movie director, looking to shoot on Skull Island, a mysterious island said to hold a terrifying creature. Preston is his assistant. Well, Carl meets Ann and convinces her to be his leading woman in his illegal film.

Throughout the first like hour or so, we have random shots of the characters on the S.S. Venture, a tramp steamer, Ann and Jack 'fall in love', Captain Englehorn (fave) starts having second thoughts and Carl reveals to Jack that they are heading to Skull Island. Jimmy, this kid that was found on the boat overhears them and immediately runs to Mr. Hayes. Bruce Baxter, this famous and smug actor, is also onboard, and honestly, I really, truly hate him. He's just my 100 percent least favorite character in this entire movie.

Well, after receiving a message about Carl's warrant for arrest, the ship takes a turn for Rangoon. However, their sudden decision actually ended up screwing them. They head into a dense fog, where they hit rock after rock. They had reached Skull Island.

With the Venture heavily damaged and unable to continue until fixed, Carl, Ann, Jack and a few other crew members take a boat to Skull Island, leaving Englehorn and the rest of the Venture's crew to fix the ship. Of course, Englehorn doesn't care whether or not Carl and them make it back by the time they are ready to leave. Anyways, Carl and co. walk through this path thing until they see a young girl. Carl tries to give her some chocolate, but the girl, feeling threatened, no doubt, attacks. This causes other members of this tribe thing to come forward. Then Mike, the sound guy, get's speared, causing Ann to lose her mind and scream her brains out. This awakens Kong, and sets the rest of the story.

Okay, time to talk about the stupid. Englehorn was totally alright leaving without Carl, Ann, Jack, Preston, Herb, Mike, Bruce and the other guys that went onshore. He was totally cool with it. But then, right when they are able to leave, Jack goes, "they've taken Ann" and suddenly everyone's like "Oh, sh*t" and THEY GO ASHORE TO FIND ONE GIRL THAT ENDS UP WANTING TO STAY ANYWAYS!

Why. Why risk your entire crew for one woman, Englehorn. Like seriously, man. I know you care about your ship and your crew, but seriously. I end up losing all my fave characters - aside from Englehorn of course. But come on. I lose Hayes and Lumpy and Choy and I can't handle losing fave characters, really I can't. I've been having an emotional breakdown because I don't know if Crowley from Supernatural is alive or not. I'm losing my mind here in the unknown and I don't like it.

Then, and I know that this argument has been argued before, they chose to take the big monkey back to New York. Let's think about this for a minute. There is an entire island filled with dinosaurs that were long thought to be extinct, and the one animal they chose to bring back was an oversized gorilla. wtf. guys. wtf.

Well, that's all the time I have tonight. I hope to see some more pageviews soon. Really though, I appreciate the people who have taken the time to look at my blog. Even if you don't comment or like or whatever, I still see that people are looking at them. Thank you so much to the people who have looked at it, however briefly.

Also, tomorrow, I won't be making a post probably since I did three tonight.

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones

So Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones is the fifth installment of the Paranormal Activity series. At first, at least for me, it seemed like this one wasn't at all related to the first four films. It's actually the first spin-off of the series. (Spoilers!)

So the film is set in 2012. Jesse Arista is living in an apartment with his father, sister and grandmother in Oxnard, California. Below them, lives Ana, a woman everyone believed to be a witch. One night, Ana is found murdered and a classmate of Jesse's, named Oscar, is seen fleeing from the scene and is the prime suspect. Jesse, shocked that Oscar could possibly have killed her, investigates the apartment with his best friend Hector. In the apartment, they find tools of black magic, VHS tapes and a spell book/journal filled with spells that open the doorway to "unholy lands". Creepy right?

Okay, so what would you do if you found a book of spells that led to an alternate dimension that is described as "unholy" and probably gonna be filled with all sorts of nasty demons? Would you try out the spell? As much as I love the King of Hell, I wouldn't try a ritual from a weird book found in the apartment of a dead woman. Well, that's what Jesse, Hector and their buddy Marisol did. They did the ritual. Oooh, at first nothing happens, but it always ends bad. Haven't these guys seen any supernatural horror flick? Well, afterwards, weird supernatural events start happening in Jesse's apartment. He finds a bite mark on his arm and starts gaining supernatural abilities. Like seriously. This kid knocks out two thugs (and by knocked out, I mean he threw them without touching them).

So Jesse attends this party, right, and he takes this girl to Ana's apartment to do the do. Okay, let's pause here to talk about how ridiculous this is. I get that he doesn't want to go back to his own apartment, because God knows no teenager wants his grandmother or any other family member walking in on them getting it on, but did he have to go the apartment of a dead woman? Does he not realize how creepy that is? Or how much of a turn-off it is? WELL, I guess we needed the plot, right? Okay, so Jesse encounters Oscar, who has a similar bite mark on his arm and his eyes are black. Like totally black. He tells Jesse that they have to kill themselves so they don't hurt anyone and then he jumps off the building to his death.

Then, the group finds a trapdoor in the apartment. Down there, they discover a witch altar (fun!), photos of Jesse, his pregnant mother, Ana, Oscar and Lois. A woman in black enters, the group hides until she leaves, finding nothing.

One night, Jesse hears his dog, Chavo, crying for help, so he goes down the trapdoor to help him. The door slams shut, and witnesses the ghost/spirits/images of kid Katie and Kristi (it was at this point I realized that The Marked Ones was indeed connected to the first four films) and then he is attacked by a demon. Afterwards, Jesse starts becoming violent, and his personality darkens. Hector and Marisol do what they can to help him, even going to Oscar's criminal brother, Arturo, for information. From him, they learn that Oscar was contacting a girl named Ali Rey, who researched (conveniently, I might add) demons after demon-possessed Katie murdered her father, stepmother and kidnapped her half-brother. After meeting with this girl (who I honestly don't remember at all), they learn that the mysterious bite mark on Jesse's arm was left by a coven of witches known as the "Midwives" (not a clever name, but at least we have a name for these dicks), who brainwash women to give up their first-born sons. They are creating an army. Ali gives them the address of the ritual (how would she know this though?) and after the next bit Hector and Marisol, accompanied by Arturo and his friend Santo go to the address ready to kick some witchy ass.

Meanwhile, Jesse's grandmother is trying to cleanse Jesse, but he destroys the living room and pushes her down the stairs before disappearing. He then ambushes Hector and Marisol, who at this point are driving to the hospital. Marisol knocks him out with a bat, and they try to leave but naturally a van smashes into their car and they take Jesse.

Right, so they head to the address which is actually where Katie and Kristi's mother and her boyfriend were killed. The coven attacks the group, Santo is killed, Hector and Marisol flee into the house and who knows what happened to Arturo (dead probably, or he shows up in Ghost Dimension). Marisol is then thrown through a glass roof, so she's dead as well and Jesse takes Hector back in time, back to when Micah was killed. Katie appears in the kitchen, sees Hector and loses her mind. She starts screaming for Micah but ends up stabbing him to death when he comes down the stairs. Hector tries to run, but Jesse is like nah, cause he's totally possessed. Jesse kills Hector off-screen and a witch stares into the camera and then turns it off.

Okay, I can believe a coven of witches marking a bunch of people and letting demons possess them so that they could have an army of possessed young man. Really. That makes sense. What I can't believe is a demon dude taking another guy back in time, fully connecting all the movies. I can't do it.

It was creepier and better than the other films, in my opinion and you should watch it if you hadn't already. That's all I have to say. Till Next Time!

Paranormal Activity 4

Alright, so let's jump right into it. (Spoilers!)

Okay, so Paranormal Activity 4 is set five years after Katie killed her sister and Micah and all that and kidnapped her nephew, Hunter and disappeared. Apparently nobody looked for her? She just killed a few people, kidnapped a kid, and ran. It shouldn't have been too hard to look for her. We had the entire thing on tape! But, we needed a fourth movie, didn't we?

Well, this time our main characters are Alex (Kathryn Newton) and Ben (Matt Shively). They are buddies and all. Well, these two and Alex's family begin witnessing strange events of the paranormal nature (duh) when a woman and her strange child movie into the neighborhood. This kid keeps wandering to their yard, playing in their treehouse and whatnot, disturbing them all. Well, something weird and mysterious happens to the woman which leaves Alex and her family as temporary guardians of Robbie, the mysterious child. And of course, we have cameras installed throughout Alex's home show all the weird crap that happens following Robbie's arrival.

With Robbie living with them, Wyatt, Alex's younger brother is forced to like him (we've all been there) but Wyatt is creeped out by this kid. Do we really blame him, though? Okay, so do we really blame him, though? The day after Robbie started to stay with them, they are caught talking to Robbie's imaginary? friend. Like any rational humanbeing, they just put this off as some kids doing kid stuff. Well, things really got heated when Ben showed Wyatt, Robbie and Alex how the camera picks up the infrared tracking dots the Kinect uses, and they danced around and you know, it actually looked a little cool with the green dots everywhere. Well, Robbie just sat silently on the couch, with his invisible friend. Later, Ben showed everyone the video and you can clearly see the tracking dots picking up movement next to Robbie on the couch.

More weird things with Robbie? Creepy Ben recorded his videochat with Alex, and has footage of her sleeping at night. Alex stopped being angry with him (though she shouldn't have, that's creepy af), well, anyways, the video showed Robbie coming into her room and sleeping with her. Weird, right? This was finally enough for them, so they set up cameras all around Alex's house. Took awhile to get the Paranormal Activity vibe in, but we got it. The cameras catch all the usual weird things, such as black shapes going through the house.  Robbie draws some weird demonic symbols on Wyatt's back - the same ones we see in the second and third Paranormal Activity.

Katie also shows up, claiming to be Robbie's mother. She tells Wyatt that he's adopted and is name isn't really Wyatt. Katie also starts showing up around Alex's house, being all weird. More weird things happen, as usual (don't want to give it all away here). Anyways, the movie ends with Alex trying to take Hunter and run but a hoard of witches and demon Katie show up, closing in and then credits.

So what's going on in Paranormal Activity? From what we know of Paranormal Activity 2 and Paranormal Activity 3 that a demon and a coven of his buddy witches are at play here. One of said witches was the mother of Katie and Kristi. It was grandma that led both girls to the other world at the end of the third movie when they were young. So apparently, the witches needed a son for their master plan, right? And after 75 some years, it was Kristi who finally had a son. Katie killed Kristi and takes the boy, Hunter. Katie either put him up for adoption herself (unlikely) or dropped him off at an adoption/foster home (likely). Hunter was then adopted by Alex's family and renamed Wyatt.

So from what we see here, we can assume that Hunter had to be raised by a different family, not the witchy one, so that he could be used for the "Master Plan" but what is the master plan? Let's see if we find out in Marked Ones or Ghost Dimension.