Little Talks

When this movie came out, everyone said that it was Marvel's best movie yet. I am not sure that I agree with this. It was an amazing movie, but I didn't feel like it was a Marvel movie because it was so different. Instead of being about superheroes, Guardians of the Galaxy  focuses on your stereotypical group of criminals with a heart of gold who band together to become heroes despite what everyone else thinks they are capable of. This is a very different genre and feel from the other Marvel stories; it's more like a sci-fi action/adventure sort of thing...plus it's in space. Had I read Marvel Comics growing up, this movie may not have felt so disconnected from the rest. Especially since Thanos does actually have a big role coming up in Avengers: Infinity Wars . Besides the fact that this movie felt disconnected from the Marvel universe, it was really good. The characters are all unique and relatable. They may be a starlord, an alien princess, a (somewhat) talking tree,...

I apologize for my absenteeism. My family decided last-minute to take a trip to NEW YORK CITY, BABY!!! I promise to keep posting now that I am back. For now, enjoy a few photos.

This one will really only be familiar to my Canadian readers out there. If you ever watched the TV show, the movie was essentially a very long episode that was added on years after the finale. Fitzy has caused the town to go bankrupt and so everyone is getting ready to leave now that they have no power or water. Then the Coff-Nuts coffee shop company comes looking to put in a regional distribution centre. At the same time, Brent tries to save the town by entering it in the quaintest town competition. If. He can keep the town going, then Lacey won't move away. All of the loveable characters are up to their usual weirdness. Wanda is using Davis' garage to run an illegal casino since he has back-up generators and soundproof garage walls. Davis himself has been forced to retire and is working as a P.I. Karen is married and pregnant, but trying to improve her success as a cop. Oscar has traded his car for a horse which keeps getting taken from him. As one would expect, everything go...

To my fellow Canadians, happy Victoria Day weekend! Don't know why, but this quote spoke to me today.

I was not expecting to enjoy this movie when I first came across it. Let me explain. I was watching a show and when it ended I took too long to change the channel and so I started watching the movie without knowing what it was. I was hooked. Jumper  follows a young boy whose mother left when he was young and whose father is abusive. When helping his best friend (who is also his crush) to get back her snow globe that a bully through away, he falls through the ice. Before he dies, he accidentally teleports to the library. He decides to tell his best friend that he is alive, but chickens out and ends up using his powers to gather what he needs and disappear by hiding out in a motel. Flash forward and he has used his powers to get rich. However, there is a group of religious fanatics that are hunting jumpers because they feel that only God should have the power to be everywhere at once. The rest of the movie is, as with most action movies, about his trying to escape the people hunting ...

Happy Mother's Day to my beautiful mom and all the amazing moms out there. These are for you: I would also like to include a little quote from The Gathering Storm  by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (which I just read). Moms are the ones who stay strong so that we don't have to, and while this quote isn't made to be about moms, I believe that we could easily change "queens" to "moms". "Life was a tempest, whether you were a milkmaid or a queen. The queens were simply better at projecting control in the middle of that storm." Happy Mother's Day!

Candide by Voltaire Based on my last two posts, it appears I have been looking way back in the histories to find some of my reading materials. This is partly due to the fact that I am studying history. However, I do honestly love the variety and the cultural differences. I am going to be perfectly honest with you. Voltaire is definitely more of a scholar than a novelist. Nonetheless, he created a novel that has lasted this many centuries because of his brilliance. Plus, for all I know, the story sounded much more artful in French (of course, that doesn't change the pace). It is meant to be a travel story surrounding the life of Candide. Many coincidental and impossible events seem to occur around this youngster as he journeys the world in search of happiness. It is a veritable soap opera plot in terms of complexity and impossible circumstances. I don't have much else to say, but I will leave you with this: while it may not be the best book I've ever read, it was writ...

Oedipus the King  is an Ancient Greek play by the famous Sophocles. If you didn't know, this was what inspired Freud's theory in the Oedipus complex wherein children have desires, which they often suppress or deny, to marry the parent of the opposite gender and kill the parent of the same gender. He believes that all of the events of the play were not some truck of fate or the fulfilment of prophecies, but an example of his theory. This play is part of a series of the called the Theban plays (cover above) surrounding Oedipus' family. In this particular story, the king, Oedipus, is having trouble because the land is diseased. In Ancient Greece, this was a sign that the kings and queen were ill/barren, etc. It soon comes to light that these issues causing disease are because Oedipus' wife is his also his mother. His father heard a prophecy that the baby would grow up to kill the father and marry the mother. So the king have his son to be staked to a hill by the ankl...

So I had an awesome time watching Avengers: Age of Ultron this Friday (it was a birthday gift to myself). Anyways, have an Avengers quote.