Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Top Ten Songs To Brighten Your Day
Yea so I hate listening to music that is angry or depressing. I don't get the point of listening to music that's going to bring me down or make me angry. So, I thought, maybe I would share a bit of my playlist. I though I would also give you ones that you may have never heard of, you know, give you something new. So instead of listening to your disturbing Disturbed songs or POed rap songs (which I do listen to on certain occasions), sit back, relax, and enjoy life. Try something new. (NOTE: Songs 1 and 3 may have some inappropriate content. So if you got a problem with that stuff....just skip it.)
Friday, October 29, 2010
Top Ten Dr. Seuss Books
Im going to go off some faint memory here, but this is a list of my favorite Dr. Seuss books! I loved these books as a child. I remember being so proud of myself as I was able to read them faster and faster without a mistake and I thought I was a pretty pro reader.
#1
 |
| One fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish |
#2
 |
| The Butter Battle Book |
#3
 |
| The Foot Book |
#4
 |
| The Cat In The Hat |
#5
 |
| How The Grinch Stole Christmas |
#6
 |
| Oh! The Places You'll Go |
#7
 |
| Green Eggs And Ham |
#8
 |
| Theres A Wocket In My Pocket! |
#9
 |
| Horton Hears A Who! |
#10
 |
| Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? |
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Top Ten Best Ed Edd & Eddy Scams
This week will be a post on my favorite scams on the CartoonNetwork show, Ed Edd n' Eddy.
1. Eddy's Creek Cruise
Yep, this episode is my all-time favorite episode of Ed, Edd, and Eddy. The guys decide, after a fail attempt at making a super tire swing ride, to use this inflatable raft to create a luxury cruise. This cruise however, is setting sail on a small creek rather than an ocean. They manage to attract Jimmy and Johhny onto their raft at a small price of 25 cents each. The cruise involves sightseeing, sailing, refreshments, and the soothing sounds of 88-Fingers Edward (which is one of the reasons why this episode is my favorite!). As the cruise floats downstream, they float past the Kanker Sisters who spots them and creates there own raft with a bed mattress and sheets. They are interpreted as pirates as they try to ruin the Ed's scam by destroying their raft in hopes of some kissing action with the Ed's.
2. Ed's Tire Swing
This scam lead to the creation of Ed's Creek Cruise after the swing was destroyed. Both were part of the episode Avast Ye Eds. The idea was basically to build an epic tire swing and charge the kids in the culdesac a quarter for a ride. When they decided to test the tire swing, Edd involuntarily volunteers to be the test rider. Ed pushes the tire swing to extreme levels with insanely hard pushes. When the swing reaches unbearable heights, the tire swing breaks off and rolls down the road into the creek with Edd still inside. This episode is of my favorites because of the terror Edd goes through on the swing and the excitement Ed has pushing it.
3. Gelatin Pool
Its a hot day out and the Eds have an idea to build a giant pool in the middle of the culdesac. For some reason they decide to fill the giant pool with gelatin to help keep cool. The problem is, Edd messed up the gelatin formula and when Ed tested the pool he basically just sank to the bottom. Ed, on the other hand seems to enjoy the pool anyway. Ed sucks up all the gelatin in the pool. Some going in his stomach, the rest out the gaps of his teeth. At least someone enjoyed the pool...
4. Ed's Hot Air Tours
So this scam begins with Double-D's (Edd's) new invention, super bubble-brewing bubble gum. The only person able to handle the incredibly dense gum, of course, is Ed. Ed blows up a HUGE bubble and starts lifting Ed off the ground. Eddy had the idea to create Ed's Hot Air Tours! They manage to drag Johnny into a tour ride. So they stuffed Johnny into one of Ed's coat pockets and off they went. When Kevin spotted the giant bubble balloon, he hits a baseball into the bubble and blows it up. The fall actually sent Johnny through the ground all the way to China!
5. Gerbil For A Day
Personally, I think this is one of the best ideas they came up with! I mean who wouldn't want a pet Ed dressed up as a gerbil? He even had his own cage complete with water bottle, salt lick, and exercise wheel. Once in a lifetime opportunity right? This hilarious scam with scenes of Ed acting as a gerbil (which he was really good at) ending up being a failure after Sarah makes Ed babysit Jimmy for the day. Jimmy actually starts to learn from Eddy how to scam the rest of the kids. Jimmy takes his talents and becomes a rotten scammer as he creates his own scam and doesn't share with Master Eddy.
6. Ed's Hive-Bee-Gone
This scam was actually in the second episode of Ed, Edd, n Eddy ever made. The goal was to have people pay them to remove bee hives form their lawns. The Eds, being themselves, don't think the project through too well. they decide to basically beat down the bee hive with golf clubs and baseball bats. Of course, they started getting attacked by the bees and tried to run away. Eddy, who was sitting back and watching the project from a safe distance, successfully made it back inside his home. Ed and Edd tried to get inside the locked and were unsuccessful. Eddy opens the door only to find them both stung and swollen like crazy.
7. Rent-a-Clown
The guys thought up the idea to make a rentable clown circus hosted by themselves. For 25 cents you could rent your very own clown. My favorite scene is when they pull out a small car about the size of basketball. Edd wonders how him and Ed are supposed to fit in. Eddy manages to squeeze them in, but only their large heads are sticking out of the top. The picture of a small car driving around with the Ed's heads sticking out was priceless. Sadly, the scam failed as the kids weren't impressed, especially Kevin.
8. Triple-E Driving School
The Triple-E Driving School offers "professional" instruction on driving. Their classes offer a state-of-the-art driving course. The teacher is, of course, Double-D, and Ed is the cars motor. What do you mean by that? Well the car is basically a cardboard wagon, and the driver isn't even driving! Ed is doing all the work pushing and steering the vehicle. Once they sucker Nazz into their driving classes, Ed is distracted and stops driving the car. This leads Nazz and Edd to crash along with the driving school scam.
9. Chez La Sweat
When the Eds had the idea of become a repair crew, I knew nothing good can come from it! The Eds manage to actually break things than repair them. A see-saw, Jimmy's miniature oven, and even Johnny's home. How did that happen? Well they found Johnny stuck in a tree by his giant head being wedged between two branches. So Johnny asks them to grab some soap out of the house to slip him out. Ed manages to grab the entire sink instead of some soap. The Eds were forced to fix the sink. Again, Ed manages to also tear apart the homes furnace leaving the house full of hot steam. They got the idea to turn Johnny's home into a large sauna. They tie Ed extremely tight to the home's support beams for Ed to be a towel rack, and to not screw anything else. Being Ed, he managed to break the support beam to Johnny's house, causing it to completely collapse!
10. Taco Ed's Mexican Cuisine
Sounds pretty tasty doesn't it? It is, if you like taco shells made of paper, grass for lettuce, and grounded orange crayon for cheese! Ed seems to enjoy the blue crayons, as they seem to taste like blueberries to him. Double-D tries a yellow crayon hoping it tasted like a banana, and no, it did not. Also, on top of this super taco, is Eddy's Brother's Armenian Secret Hot Sauce. This hot sauce sets the Eds' mouth on fire and disfigures them. What they looked like: Ed Edd Eddy Thankfully they were able to cool down after drinking water from a sprinkler....
Yep, this episode is my all-time favorite episode of Ed, Edd, and Eddy. The guys decide, after a fail attempt at making a super tire swing ride, to use this inflatable raft to create a luxury cruise. This cruise however, is setting sail on a small creek rather than an ocean. They manage to attract Jimmy and Johhny onto their raft at a small price of 25 cents each. The cruise involves sightseeing, sailing, refreshments, and the soothing sounds of 88-Fingers Edward (which is one of the reasons why this episode is my favorite!). As the cruise floats downstream, they float past the Kanker Sisters who spots them and creates there own raft with a bed mattress and sheets. They are interpreted as pirates as they try to ruin the Ed's scam by destroying their raft in hopes of some kissing action with the Ed's.
2. Ed's Tire Swing
This scam lead to the creation of Ed's Creek Cruise after the swing was destroyed. Both were part of the episode Avast Ye Eds. The idea was basically to build an epic tire swing and charge the kids in the culdesac a quarter for a ride. When they decided to test the tire swing, Edd involuntarily volunteers to be the test rider. Ed pushes the tire swing to extreme levels with insanely hard pushes. When the swing reaches unbearable heights, the tire swing breaks off and rolls down the road into the creek with Edd still inside. This episode is of my favorites because of the terror Edd goes through on the swing and the excitement Ed has pushing it.
3. Gelatin Pool
Its a hot day out and the Eds have an idea to build a giant pool in the middle of the culdesac. For some reason they decide to fill the giant pool with gelatin to help keep cool. The problem is, Edd messed up the gelatin formula and when Ed tested the pool he basically just sank to the bottom. Ed, on the other hand seems to enjoy the pool anyway. Ed sucks up all the gelatin in the pool. Some going in his stomach, the rest out the gaps of his teeth. At least someone enjoyed the pool...
4. Ed's Hot Air Tours
So this scam begins with Double-D's (Edd's) new invention, super bubble-brewing bubble gum. The only person able to handle the incredibly dense gum, of course, is Ed. Ed blows up a HUGE bubble and starts lifting Ed off the ground. Eddy had the idea to create Ed's Hot Air Tours! They manage to drag Johnny into a tour ride. So they stuffed Johnny into one of Ed's coat pockets and off they went. When Kevin spotted the giant bubble balloon, he hits a baseball into the bubble and blows it up. The fall actually sent Johnny through the ground all the way to China!
Personally, I think this is one of the best ideas they came up with! I mean who wouldn't want a pet Ed dressed up as a gerbil? He even had his own cage complete with water bottle, salt lick, and exercise wheel. Once in a lifetime opportunity right? This hilarious scam with scenes of Ed acting as a gerbil (which he was really good at) ending up being a failure after Sarah makes Ed babysit Jimmy for the day. Jimmy actually starts to learn from Eddy how to scam the rest of the kids. Jimmy takes his talents and becomes a rotten scammer as he creates his own scam and doesn't share with Master Eddy.
This scam was actually in the second episode of Ed, Edd, n Eddy ever made. The goal was to have people pay them to remove bee hives form their lawns. The Eds, being themselves, don't think the project through too well. they decide to basically beat down the bee hive with golf clubs and baseball bats. Of course, they started getting attacked by the bees and tried to run away. Eddy, who was sitting back and watching the project from a safe distance, successfully made it back inside his home. Ed and Edd tried to get inside the locked and were unsuccessful. Eddy opens the door only to find them both stung and swollen like crazy.
7. Rent-a-Clown
The guys thought up the idea to make a rentable clown circus hosted by themselves. For 25 cents you could rent your very own clown. My favorite scene is when they pull out a small car about the size of basketball. Edd wonders how him and Ed are supposed to fit in. Eddy manages to squeeze them in, but only their large heads are sticking out of the top. The picture of a small car driving around with the Ed's heads sticking out was priceless. Sadly, the scam failed as the kids weren't impressed, especially Kevin.
8. Triple-E Driving School
The Triple-E Driving School offers "professional" instruction on driving. Their classes offer a state-of-the-art driving course. The teacher is, of course, Double-D, and Ed is the cars motor. What do you mean by that? Well the car is basically a cardboard wagon, and the driver isn't even driving! Ed is doing all the work pushing and steering the vehicle. Once they sucker Nazz into their driving classes, Ed is distracted and stops driving the car. This leads Nazz and Edd to crash along with the driving school scam.
9. Chez La Sweat
When the Eds had the idea of become a repair crew, I knew nothing good can come from it! The Eds manage to actually break things than repair them. A see-saw, Jimmy's miniature oven, and even Johnny's home. How did that happen? Well they found Johnny stuck in a tree by his giant head being wedged between two branches. So Johnny asks them to grab some soap out of the house to slip him out. Ed manages to grab the entire sink instead of some soap. The Eds were forced to fix the sink. Again, Ed manages to also tear apart the homes furnace leaving the house full of hot steam. They got the idea to turn Johnny's home into a large sauna. They tie Ed extremely tight to the home's support beams for Ed to be a towel rack, and to not screw anything else. Being Ed, he managed to break the support beam to Johnny's house, causing it to completely collapse!
10. Taco Ed's Mexican Cuisine
Sounds pretty tasty doesn't it? It is, if you like taco shells made of paper, grass for lettuce, and grounded orange crayon for cheese! Ed seems to enjoy the blue crayons, as they seem to taste like blueberries to him. Double-D tries a yellow crayon hoping it tasted like a banana, and no, it did not. Also, on top of this super taco, is Eddy's Brother's Armenian Secret Hot Sauce. This hot sauce sets the Eds' mouth on fire and disfigures them. What they looked like: Ed Edd Eddy Thankfully they were able to cool down after drinking water from a sprinkler....
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Top Ten Pixar Films
For me, it is no contest on who my favorite movie producers are of all time. Pixar has made eleven famous, incredible movies that have been incredibly popular in the world. Their movies have been a smash hit one after the other. I mean, you see movie companies have at least one bad film. Then after that they just seem to get worse and worse, but not Pixar. They keep pumping out these amazing animated films that have been my favorites since I was a child, and are still my favorite today. I'm excited to present to you the list of top ten Pixar movies...
1. Finding Nemo (2003)
God, when I first saw this movie in commercials and movie previews I was excited. It was by my favorite movie producers and it seemed like a good story, so it looked like a decent film. When I watched it, I was amazed. The movie had beautiful animations of an undersea life and gave it a great ocean-life-to-human-life translation. I mean the story itself can be pretty relatable to a human situation. A clownfish, Marlin, and his son, Nemo, are off to Nemo's first day of school. Nemo gets captured by divers and Marlin, who has a great fear of leaving the reef his lives on, ventures out into the abyssal sea to find his son. That description right there would seem like enough to give the story away, but no, it isn't. The story has so many details and events in Marlin's adventure that I just gave away about 1/52 of the story. This movie is one of my all-time favorite movies because of its animation, story, and humor. Finding Nemo deserves number 1 on my list.
2. Toy Story (1995)
This was Pixar's first animated full-length film and probably one of my most memorable childhood films. I mean come on. What kid didn't have either a Buzz Lightyear or Woody action figure? They were loved idols of most kids my age back then and they still are famous to those age groups today. This story is about a bunch of living toys that belong to a kid named Andy. Woody, the respective cowboy doll leader, gets jealous after Andy brings home a new Space Astronaut Action Figure during Andy's Wild West "playing style". Woody worries this action figure, named Buzz Lightyear will replace him. So when Andy plans on taking Buzz to an arcade, Woody tries to swap with him and accidentally throws Buzz out the window. The rest of the toys, upset with Woody's seeming action to get rid of Buzz. So, Woody must go bring back Buzz to re-gain his friends' respect. This movie is an all-time classic.
3. Monsters Inc. (2001)
This movie is an example of one of the reasons why I love Pixar. This movie idea is simply genius. I love how Pixar thinks of a monster world where they fear humans. They only confront children to dangerously farm their screams, which are used for powering the monster world. It is said by James Waternoose, owner of Monsters Inc, that there is nothing more toxic, more deadly, than a human child. Monsters, such as our main characters, Mike and Sully, work each day to enter the human world through doorway machines and scare children and extract their screams (Which the machines automatically collect). One day, Mike and Sully's rival and competitor, Randal, tries to boost his scream numbers by stealing doors after company hours. The child enters the monster world while Randal isn't looking and follows around Sully, who is motivated to return her. So now they must work to get this "hazardous" child back to her world. Monsters Inc. is one of the funniest animated movies created and its story line is very rich and humorous. Number three in my opinion!
4. A Bug's Life (1998)
Ah, another one of my childhood favorites. This is Pixar's second animated film released in 1998. It is about an ant colony and their job to harvest food for the evil and controlling grasshoppers who pick it up each year. An inventor, Flik, tries to invent ways to make a bug's life easier and ends up causing more trouble than help. I actually remember owning the Playstation game, A Bug's Life, based off the movie. In that time the game was really good. Now, not so much. Still, this movie has a story that can inspire people who want to be different and try to make a difference in the world. It is a movie about individuality and breaking free from the control of bullies, such as the Mafia-like grasshoppers.
5. Ratatouille (2007)
Ratatoullie is a traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish, originating in Nice. The full name of the dish is ratatouille niçoise. Just kidding! Although that is the definition of a food in real life, it is similar to the subject of this movie, Cooking. A small rat living in the countryside of France, familiarizes himself with a cooking show in an elderly woman's home. The show is hosted by Auguste Gusteau, a world famous chef who inspires others by his motto, "Anyone Can Cook". Remy, the rat, idolizes this chef and desires to become a great cook and does develop a great skill in cooking. Forced out of his home in the country, he winds up in Paris, France. Paris is home to many famous food legends including his idol, Auguste Gusteau. He visits Gousteau's restraunt and finds a young, troubled kitchen assistant, Alfredo Linguini. Remy befriends this man and discovers the ability to control the man to cook marvelous dishes by pulling his hair. They team up and take on the hard cooking jobs and make an impact on the city with their dishes. They catch the attention of a famous, harsh food critique, Anton Ego, who intends to shut down Linquini's rise to fame. This movie is another one of Pixar's masterpeices.
6. WALL-E (2008)
WALL-E is a garbage-cleaning robot left at earth to clean up the humans' mess, who are on a scheduled space-cruise while the inhabitable Earth is being cleaned up. While the humans are in outer space, the programs and robots stop working and all of the other WALL-E machines are shut down, except one. This robot now lives on Earth, cleaning up day by day as he is programed too. Over time, Wall-E develops as sense of human feelings and attitude. When a space probe sent by the human cruise ship lands on Earth, Wall-E is amazed. He is amazed to see another robot and slowly befriends it. EVE, the robot, finds Wall-E's plant he collected while searching the planet and EVE gets sent back to the cruise ship. Wall-E chases after EVE by grabbing onto the rocket and boards the human ship. That is a small description of this widely popular movie released in 2008. The movie tells the morals of friendship, love, fitness, and the importance of saving our environment! It was listed by TIME Magazine as one of the greatest movies of the decade.
7. The Incredibles (2004)
This is a story about two superheroes raising a family after the world asked the superheroes in the world to stop saving people. The government put all superheroes into a program similar to the Witness Protection Program. The program gave all superheroes a regular identity to live by in the human world. They keep their hero identity a secret and ensure that they live a good, normal life. Bob Parr (formerly Mr. Incredible) and Helen Parr (formerly Elasta-girl) are former "supers" and married and raise three children. They also all have super powers of their own, but must keep their powers secret from the world to live regular lives. When Bob starts noticing former supers were being killed, he starts investigating. This investigation leads to an adventure that requires this family to team up with friends and, once again, be superheroes. This movie is one of Pixar's first action-packed comedies. This was also one of Pixar's hardest films to produce. To go for the "action-movie" feel to the movie, they had to use a different style which required a lot more time producing. It my opinion it was worth it. I would love to put this movie up higher but since all of the above films were great, it sits at number 7.
8. Up (2009)
Honestly this movie is one of the cutest movies I've seen. That's not very manly to say, but that's the best word to describe Up. The beginning tells the happy story of a young kid with a love for adventure. He finds a small girl with the same interests as him. He ends up falling in love with her and marrying her. The beginning tells the story of their lives. The story does get somewhat sad and depressing. Don't let this fool you though. There is much more to this Pixar film. After being forced to leave his home, he decides to move away to Paradise Falls, and hes taking his home with him. Over night he manages to rig his house with thousands of balloons and floats away as retirement home staff comes to pick him up. This movie was great, but it wasn't the best. In no way was it bad. The movie was very cute but the story got dull to me in the middle. The idea of the balloon house shows a great example of imagination and dreaming. The whole movie was mainly based on imagination and the wonder of following your dreams. This movie scored very high among critics but I'm putting it as number 8. Even though it is an amazing film, we're talking about Pixar here, all of their movies are amazing.
9. Cars (2006)
This movie, even though it was created by Pixar, is not one of my favorites. Its not a bad movie, but it just doesn't seem like the style of movie I want to see. The movie seemed more like a "kiddie" film, maybe due to its car theme. I do like the story of a famous race car accidentally falls out of his travel truck, Mac. The race car, Lightning McQueen is lost in a desert like environment. He panics, runs off, and ends up in a run-down town called Radiator Springs. He meets a bunch of other characters who own businesses in the town. They want to make locals come back to their town to get business booming again. Lightning decides to help out the town and becomes close friends with the other characters. Mac and the media find McQueen in the town and Lightning must choose between his friends and his career.
10. Geri's Game (1997)
This is one of many Pixar Short Films. I feel it can be placed as number 10 due to the fact its not a movie, but is still one of my favorites. These films were small and no more than five minutes. Some were based off of Pixar's movies. Shorts films like Jack-Jack Attack and Mike's New Car were based off their movies. Other Short Films were based off Pixar's genius ideas. Some of those Short Films are Knick-Knack and Luxo Jr. This film, called Geri's Game, is my personal favorite. Enjoy.
Pixar - Geri's Game
Vezi mai multe video din animatie
From foreign site.
Well there you are. That is my list of my top ten favorite Pixar Films. thank you for reading an I look forward to future posts!
God, when I first saw this movie in commercials and movie previews I was excited. It was by my favorite movie producers and it seemed like a good story, so it looked like a decent film. When I watched it, I was amazed. The movie had beautiful animations of an undersea life and gave it a great ocean-life-to-human-life translation. I mean the story itself can be pretty relatable to a human situation. A clownfish, Marlin, and his son, Nemo, are off to Nemo's first day of school. Nemo gets captured by divers and Marlin, who has a great fear of leaving the reef his lives on, ventures out into the abyssal sea to find his son. That description right there would seem like enough to give the story away, but no, it isn't. The story has so many details and events in Marlin's adventure that I just gave away about 1/52 of the story. This movie is one of my all-time favorite movies because of its animation, story, and humor. Finding Nemo deserves number 1 on my list.
This was Pixar's first animated full-length film and probably one of my most memorable childhood films. I mean come on. What kid didn't have either a Buzz Lightyear or Woody action figure? They were loved idols of most kids my age back then and they still are famous to those age groups today. This story is about a bunch of living toys that belong to a kid named Andy. Woody, the respective cowboy doll leader, gets jealous after Andy brings home a new Space Astronaut Action Figure during Andy's Wild West "playing style". Woody worries this action figure, named Buzz Lightyear will replace him. So when Andy plans on taking Buzz to an arcade, Woody tries to swap with him and accidentally throws Buzz out the window. The rest of the toys, upset with Woody's seeming action to get rid of Buzz. So, Woody must go bring back Buzz to re-gain his friends' respect. This movie is an all-time classic.
This movie is an example of one of the reasons why I love Pixar. This movie idea is simply genius. I love how Pixar thinks of a monster world where they fear humans. They only confront children to dangerously farm their screams, which are used for powering the monster world. It is said by James Waternoose, owner of Monsters Inc, that there is nothing more toxic, more deadly, than a human child. Monsters, such as our main characters, Mike and Sully, work each day to enter the human world through doorway machines and scare children and extract their screams (Which the machines automatically collect). One day, Mike and Sully's rival and competitor, Randal, tries to boost his scream numbers by stealing doors after company hours. The child enters the monster world while Randal isn't looking and follows around Sully, who is motivated to return her. So now they must work to get this "hazardous" child back to her world. Monsters Inc. is one of the funniest animated movies created and its story line is very rich and humorous. Number three in my opinion!
Ah, another one of my childhood favorites. This is Pixar's second animated film released in 1998. It is about an ant colony and their job to harvest food for the evil and controlling grasshoppers who pick it up each year. An inventor, Flik, tries to invent ways to make a bug's life easier and ends up causing more trouble than help. I actually remember owning the Playstation game, A Bug's Life, based off the movie. In that time the game was really good. Now, not so much. Still, this movie has a story that can inspire people who want to be different and try to make a difference in the world. It is a movie about individuality and breaking free from the control of bullies, such as the Mafia-like grasshoppers.
5. Ratatouille (2007)
Ratatoullie is a traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish, originating in Nice. The full name of the dish is ratatouille niçoise. Just kidding! Although that is the definition of a food in real life, it is similar to the subject of this movie, Cooking. A small rat living in the countryside of France, familiarizes himself with a cooking show in an elderly woman's home. The show is hosted by Auguste Gusteau, a world famous chef who inspires others by his motto, "Anyone Can Cook". Remy, the rat, idolizes this chef and desires to become a great cook and does develop a great skill in cooking. Forced out of his home in the country, he winds up in Paris, France. Paris is home to many famous food legends including his idol, Auguste Gusteau. He visits Gousteau's restraunt and finds a young, troubled kitchen assistant, Alfredo Linguini. Remy befriends this man and discovers the ability to control the man to cook marvelous dishes by pulling his hair. They team up and take on the hard cooking jobs and make an impact on the city with their dishes. They catch the attention of a famous, harsh food critique, Anton Ego, who intends to shut down Linquini's rise to fame. This movie is another one of Pixar's masterpeices.
WALL-E is a garbage-cleaning robot left at earth to clean up the humans' mess, who are on a scheduled space-cruise while the inhabitable Earth is being cleaned up. While the humans are in outer space, the programs and robots stop working and all of the other WALL-E machines are shut down, except one. This robot now lives on Earth, cleaning up day by day as he is programed too. Over time, Wall-E develops as sense of human feelings and attitude. When a space probe sent by the human cruise ship lands on Earth, Wall-E is amazed. He is amazed to see another robot and slowly befriends it. EVE, the robot, finds Wall-E's plant he collected while searching the planet and EVE gets sent back to the cruise ship. Wall-E chases after EVE by grabbing onto the rocket and boards the human ship. That is a small description of this widely popular movie released in 2008. The movie tells the morals of friendship, love, fitness, and the importance of saving our environment! It was listed by TIME Magazine as one of the greatest movies of the decade.
This is a story about two superheroes raising a family after the world asked the superheroes in the world to stop saving people. The government put all superheroes into a program similar to the Witness Protection Program. The program gave all superheroes a regular identity to live by in the human world. They keep their hero identity a secret and ensure that they live a good, normal life. Bob Parr (formerly Mr. Incredible) and Helen Parr (formerly Elasta-girl) are former "supers" and married and raise three children. They also all have super powers of their own, but must keep their powers secret from the world to live regular lives. When Bob starts noticing former supers were being killed, he starts investigating. This investigation leads to an adventure that requires this family to team up with friends and, once again, be superheroes. This movie is one of Pixar's first action-packed comedies. This was also one of Pixar's hardest films to produce. To go for the "action-movie" feel to the movie, they had to use a different style which required a lot more time producing. It my opinion it was worth it. I would love to put this movie up higher but since all of the above films were great, it sits at number 7.
Honestly this movie is one of the cutest movies I've seen. That's not very manly to say, but that's the best word to describe Up. The beginning tells the happy story of a young kid with a love for adventure. He finds a small girl with the same interests as him. He ends up falling in love with her and marrying her. The beginning tells the story of their lives. The story does get somewhat sad and depressing. Don't let this fool you though. There is much more to this Pixar film. After being forced to leave his home, he decides to move away to Paradise Falls, and hes taking his home with him. Over night he manages to rig his house with thousands of balloons and floats away as retirement home staff comes to pick him up. This movie was great, but it wasn't the best. In no way was it bad. The movie was very cute but the story got dull to me in the middle. The idea of the balloon house shows a great example of imagination and dreaming. The whole movie was mainly based on imagination and the wonder of following your dreams. This movie scored very high among critics but I'm putting it as number 8. Even though it is an amazing film, we're talking about Pixar here, all of their movies are amazing.
This movie, even though it was created by Pixar, is not one of my favorites. Its not a bad movie, but it just doesn't seem like the style of movie I want to see. The movie seemed more like a "kiddie" film, maybe due to its car theme. I do like the story of a famous race car accidentally falls out of his travel truck, Mac. The race car, Lightning McQueen is lost in a desert like environment. He panics, runs off, and ends up in a run-down town called Radiator Springs. He meets a bunch of other characters who own businesses in the town. They want to make locals come back to their town to get business booming again. Lightning decides to help out the town and becomes close friends with the other characters. Mac and the media find McQueen in the town and Lightning must choose between his friends and his career.
This is one of many Pixar Short Films. I feel it can be placed as number 10 due to the fact its not a movie, but is still one of my favorites. These films were small and no more than five minutes. Some were based off of Pixar's movies. Shorts films like Jack-Jack Attack and Mike's New Car were based off their movies. Other Short Films were based off Pixar's genius ideas. Some of those Short Films are Knick-Knack and Luxo Jr. This film, called Geri's Game, is my personal favorite. Enjoy.
Pixar - Geri's Game
Vezi mai multe video din animatie
From foreign site.
Well there you are. That is my list of my top ten favorite Pixar Films. thank you for reading an I look forward to future posts!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Top Ten Zombie Movies
1. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
This movie is probably the zombie movie of all zombie movies. Both this movie and the original flick which was released in 1978. The 1978 movie was written by George A. Romero, an icon and a huge contributing factor to the idea of the modern day zombie. This movie has non stop action by slightly speeding through a boring introduction and getting right to the chase. Quickly into the movie the zombie apocalypse is taking over and we find a set of people trapped in an enclosed, semi-secure area surrounded by flesh-eating undead. As the movie goes on it delivers a great amount of controversy, suspense, and of course, a fine dose of zombie slaying or human eating gore! Both the 1978 version and the modern 2004 version are great example of an apocalyptic, zombie survival flick.
2. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
So how often do you see romantic-comedy-zombie-spoof movies? Well honestly this one is the only one I've seen and it delivers in every aspect. This movie, starring Shaun Pegg, was released after the remake of the zombie movie Dawn of the Dead in 2004. Its mainly about a guy in London, England stuck in this insipid cycle, called a life, trying to make his girlfriend happy and satisfy all friends and family around him. One day, hell breaks loose and hes suddenly walking around in an infected London and very slowly noticing it. When he realizes that zombies are on a rampage through the city, he makes a heroic attempt to gather all of his friends and family and bring them to a safe place to keep free from zombies and getting infected.
3. 28 Days Later (2002)
Did you ever wake up in a hospital room all by yourself? The whole hospital empty? The whole street empty? Or even the whole city empty? Well that's what happened to a coma patient, Jim, who wasn't alone as he thought. He finds that the city of London is far more than abandoned. A raging virus has spread throughout the city that causes an extreme rabies-like effect and infects others if the infected species' blood or saliva enters their body. Yea yea, this isn't exactly a zombie movie considering these people are less of zombies and are mainly just insane, hungry, berserk, infected humans. This is a story about how a man, Jim, tries to fight for survival and find a way to get to whatever safe place he can. His plan is to do whatever is necessary to survive. The movie is a suspenseful, action packed story that is definitely recommended to see.
4. Planet Terror (2007)
An American-written classic by Robert Rodriguez with Quinten Terintino's movie "Death Proof" as part of the double feature, Grindhouse. The movie is about a chemical that is released after a problem with chemical engineers and military officials goes down while making a transaction. The chemical infects the group and a nearby town. The infected townspeople are brought to a nearby hospital and attempt to be treated. The infection spreads and a zombie outburst is unleashed. This action horror film is one of Quinten Terintino's infamous action-horror films that is definitely worth watching. With his similar directing style for BA movies such as Death Proof and Machete (released this year) make it very enjoyable for someone who likes some bloody action and comedy.
5. 28 Weeks Later (2007)
This movie is a sequel to the 2002 movie "28 Days Later". It is about a man who struggles to survive and reform his family during a spreading of a berserk disease as mentioned in 28 Days Later. He manages to reach to the military and safely meet his kids who were sent to America for safety. They all move back into a re-opened London, where they previously lived. The only part of London is a main city district and is heavily guarded and patrolled by NATO forces. Inside London, the "Rage" virus is released again through an accident with an experiment. The city is again overrun by infected and the military forces have lost control. The kids escape and try to flee from the infected and make it to Wimbley Stadium outside London to be rescued by helicopter. This movie is great and shows an example of how over-whelming zombies can become.
6. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
This is yet another classic zombie movie directed by George A. Romero, the father of the modern day zombie. This is one of the six Living Dead series he has directed. This movie was also remade in 1990 and again in 2006 in a 3D version. The story is about a group of people hiding out inside a basement cellar as a epidemic spreads across the eastern seaboard. The situation was announced on the radio and television as the dead rising up as the living and attacking/consuming the living. This group fights off hordes of zombies through the night as they figure out how to deal with 2 bitten humans they are attending inside the cellar. As one of the classic zombie movies to spark the modern zombie generation this is going as number six.
7. Resident Evil (2002)
The first of the Resident Evil movie series is a suspenseful, action packed thrill ride based of the Resident Evil video games. The story is a thief in the infamous "Umbrella Corp" has accidentally released a deadly virus called "The Hive" and the facility computer system known as The Red Queen seals off the lab and kills everyone inside the facility. A special task force is sent in to shut down the facility where they find a woman named Alice who was suffering from amnesia caused by a nerve gas that was released around the facility during the computer lock-down. This team must fight off computer systems, mutants, and zombies in order to reach, and destroy The Red Queen.
 |
8. Zombie 2 (Zombi)
Again. One of those old zombie movies you've probably never watched, but you should watch it. If you watch it, you should probably have a strong stomach. If you don't have a strong stomach, then don't watch it. Why? Because this movie is probably one of the goriest zombie movies. Director Lucio Fulti was also one of the original directors of the modern zombie. These earlier movies were mostly based on gore and horror, and were based on less humor as most zombie movies today. These movies sparked a reason to actually be afraid of zombies instead of making fun of them. This movie is about a woman and a reporter searching the island of Matool for her father who is doing research. They find the island and learn it is ridden by a disease infected people to rise from the dead and consume the living. A famous scene from this movie is one where a zombie fights and eats a tiger shark. This scene was in a Windows 7 commercial in 2012.
9. Doom (2005)
This movie is a science-fiction horror film based off the Doom video game series. The movie is about 7 Marines and their leader, Sarge (Dwayne Johnson), sent to investigate a Scientific Research Facility on Mars after a level 5 warning was sent out by a scientist during a strange emergency. A Marine, named "Reaper", finds his sister in the destroyed facility and learns scientists were conducting tests on "superhuman" remains. The martian gene chose whether it would make the patient "super" or turn them in to a monster. A patient was transformed into a monster and was bent on killing the marines. These monsters that are comparable to zombies continuously attack the crew. Reaper manages to inject himself with the gene and it transforms him into a superhuman. he then goes into a berserk, zombie killing mode that is similar to the first-person view from the video game Doom. Reaper eventually defeats the zombies and manages to destroy the threat.
10. Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998)
Hey, who said this list was all about flesh-eating, gory, nasty, bloody zombies? Well no one that's who. I thought ide end on a lighter side with Scooby-Doo's first animated film, Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. The story is about Scooby and the gang heading to Moonscar Island somewhere in the bayous of Lousianna. The group reunites after going separate ways for a while and helps out Daphne and Fred, who now own their own TV show. The gang decides to visit a place that is reported to be haunted by the ghost of a pirate named Morgan Moonscar. They visit the island to find out that something really fishy is going on on that island. Much more than just a troublesome ghost pirate, who may not be their only problem...This movie was one of my childhood favorites and is definitely a great family film, which is why it deserves a number 10 spot on my list. This is the first of many Scooby-Doo animated films, such as Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost which followed a year later in 1999.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Wait, who is this guy?
Hey, my name is Josh. I am a teenager in a central Ohio school and I am making this blog for a school grade and also give you readers some entertaining insight on things! What things do you mean? I mean things like movies, TV shows, video games, news, and of course, more things. Now you're probably thinking why would I want to read about a bunch of things? Well, that's why this blog will be about the TOP things! The top movies, TV shows, videos, news, video games, videos, and more! I will be posting regularly with a list of ten things that you will hopefully find interesting and fun to read. There will be a variety of lists so you don't have to keep reading about top ten BBQ recipes every week or anything like that. So check in every now and then as I post more and more material to keep you interested and to not fail this class. See you soon!
-Josh
-Josh
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)