{"id":12243,"date":"2014-08-15T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T00:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=12243"},"modified":"2014-08-10T19:34:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T19:34:50","slug":"carys-2014-summer-movie-rampage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/15\/carys-2014-summer-movie-rampage\/","title":{"rendered":"Cary’s 2014 Summer Movie Rampage!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GODZILLA\"<\/a>Summer\u2019s winding down, so you know what that means.\u00a0 It\u2019s time to write a blog about the movies I saw this past summer.\u00a0 There may be some slight spoiler warnings here and there, but I\u2019ll try not to reveal anything major, just to let you know.\u00a0 OK, let\u2019s begin!<\/p>\n

Godzilla<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I was a kid, we didn\u2019t have any 24-hour cartoon cable channels.\u00a0 The only time we could watch cartoons was maybe for an hour before or after school, and on Saturday mornings.\u00a0 So those Saturday mornings were always special because that\u2019s when the good stuff came on, and it was a little sad when it was all over and you\u2019d hear \u201cSoooooouuuullll Train\u201d on the TV.\u00a0 That\u2019s how you knew the cartoons were done.\u00a0 Although as a kid I would stay and watch the first part of Soul Train because I liked the cartoon train that would run past in the beginning.\u00a0 But anyway, it wasn\u2019t totally over on Saturdays because one of the local stations here would almost always show a Japanese monster movie in the early afternoon, and sometimes I would watch it.\u00a0 So I was exposed to stuff like Godzilla and Ultraman at an early age.\u00a0 And Mystery Science Theater 3000 later helped, too.\u00a0 This new Godzilla movie made me feel like a kid again.\u00a0 One cool thing is that there is a cable channel called Chiller, and they usually just show scary movies.\u00a0 But on the opening weekend of the new film, they showed a bunch of Godzilla movies!\u00a0 I wish they\u2019d do that more often!<\/p>\n

The other American-made Godzilla movie was done in the late 90\u2019s when I was in college and it was awful.\u00a0 Godzilla didn\u2019t even look like himself, and he didn\u2019t do what Godzilla is supposed to do.\u00a0 He just burrowed in the subway and laid eggs.\u00a0 Godzilla doesn\u2019t do that!\u00a0 Luckily in the new movie, Godzilla does everything that he is supposed to do: breathe fire, fight other giant monsters, and of course, that distinctive roar.\u00a0 Only problem I had with the movie is the same problem I have with all Godzilla movies.\u00a0 It takes too long to get to the good stuff: the monster fights!\u00a0 But other than that, I really enjoyed the movie.\u00a0 Godzilla looks like he put on a few pounds, though.<\/p>\n

The Amazing Spider-Man 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t really get into Marvel Comics, or comic books in general.\u00a0 In fact, most of my knowledge of Marvel comes from the LEGO game, Marvel vs. Capcom, and the other movies I\u2019ve seen.\u00a0 So each movie is always a learning experience for me.\u00a0 So in this movie, I learned that Spider-Man has to fight a lot of crazy bad guys.\u00a0 First he fights a guy made out of electricity.\u00a0 This \u201cElec Man\u201d got his powers from plugging in two big wires without turning the power off, and then he fell into a tank with electric eels in them!\u00a0 Who keeps a tank full of electric eels in a power station?\u00a0 That\u2019s just silly.\u00a0 So after Spider-Man defeats Electric Eel Man, he then has to fight the Green Goblin.\u00a0 Or at least I think that\u2019s who it was.\u00a0 He\u2019s the guy who rides on the flying skateboard, right?\u00a0 So after Spider-Man beats him up, then he has to fight a guy in a giant rhino mech at the end of the movie.\u00a0 I kind of wish he could\u2019ve fought that guy more often, as I liked the rhino mech, and rhinos in general.\u00a0 In the LEGO game, he was just a big rhino guy, so I don\u2019t know which one is right.\u00a0 But the other confusing thing is that in the first three Spider-Man movies, Spider-Man had one girlfriend, and in the last two remakes, he had a different one. So how many girlfriends does Spider-Man have?\u00a0 Oh well, it was still an entertaining, turn-off-your-intelligence type of movie, although it got sad near the end.\u00a0 Luckily, the rhino mech came along to cheer things up!\u00a0 Hooray for rhinos!<\/p>\n

X-Men: Days of Future Past<\/strong><\/p>\n

There sure have been a lot of X-Men movies.\u00a0 Like I said earlier, I don\u2019t know much about comic book characters, so there were a lot in this movie I didn\u2019t know.\u00a0 I know who Wolverine is, and Professor Z, and the blue lady.\u00a0 In this movie there were a lot of others.\u00a0 Like an ice guy and a fire guy, a lightning lady, a metal guy, and a girl who could make portals like in, well, Portal. And then there was a fast guy and someone who had the power to make people throw up (yeah I bet that one\u2019s useful).\u00a0 Another guy had a frog tongue, I kind of liked him.\u00a0 I think he was in another movie, too.\u00a0 Oh yeah, and a blue monster guy.\u00a0 And that\u2019s all I remember.\u00a0 I want you comic book experts to tell me who these people were, and I also want you to pick out an X-Men character that you think I\u2019d like.\u00a0 I know exactly how to defeat Magneto, though.\u00a0 All you need is a giant refrigerator and a kid\u2019s drawing or straight A report card, and Magneto will stick right to it!<\/p>\n

In the movie Wolverine had to go to the past to stop those purple Sentinel robots from getting more advanced in the future.\u00a0 See I know about the purple robots because they\u2019re in Marvel vs. Capcom.\u00a0 So Wolverine goes to the 70\u2019s before I was even born!\u00a0 I wish they would\u2019ve played up being in the 70\u2019s more.\u00a0 Sure there was a disco and a Pong machine and everyone wore those super thick neckties.\u00a0 But they could\u2019ve given Wolverine an afro and a leisure suit. That would\u2019ve been funny.\u00a0 Oh yeah, we had to stay through the end credits because nobody would leave their seat so they could see the last part that never makes any sense (to me anyway).\u00a0 So can one of you comic book experts explain that, too?\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n

You know, come to think of it, I\u2019ve been blind in my left eye since birth because of an optic nerve mutation. So does that make me a mutant, too, like the X-Men?\u00a0 I think my only power is to write good game reviews, though.\u00a0 So watch out, evil game store employees!\u00a0 Next time one of them tries to sell you Titanfall, just remember my powers and buy that Kirby game instead!\u00a0 Of course, if more people played Kirby games, the world would probably be a happier place.\u00a0 So maybe that is a good power to have!<\/p>\n

Maleficent<\/strong><\/p>\n

OH MY GOSH!\u00a0 It\u2019s a movie about the villain in Kingdom Hearts!!!\u00a0 Just joking!\u00a0 I know who she is.\u00a0 I really wasn\u2019t planning on seeing this, but a close relative really wanted to see it so I told her I\u2019d take her to it as long as she asked for the tickets at the counter.\u00a0 I\u2019d still pay, but I just wanted to hear her mispronounce the name of the movie!\u00a0 Yeah I know, I\u2019m mean.\u00a0 The movie was OK I guess.\u00a0 It was pretty girly and definitely Disney.\u00a0 I thought it would be scarier than what it was, but it really wasn\u2019t that bad.\u00a0 Lots of people had their kids in the audience and none of them cried or got scared.\u00a0 I think my favorite part of the movie was when Angelina\u2019s own daughter played the part of the young princess as a toddler.\u00a0 She just hobbled over to her mommy, gave her a hug, asked her to pick her up, and then she played with mommy\u2019s horns on her head.\u00a0 The older version of the princess came off as kind of ditzy, though.<\/p>\n

Transformers: Age of Extinction<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t really like the Michael Bay Transformers movies that much, but they are great to see in the theater because the special effects are awesome and they do really make it look like you\u2019re part of the action.\u00a0 The humans were not as annoying this time around, at least.\u00a0 I had no idea who some of the robots were, and those were some pretty weird takes on Galvatron and the Dinobots.\u00a0 I also thought the My Little Pony reference was amusing.\u00a0 But after playing the Fall of Cybertron game, I\u2019ve been spoiled.\u00a0 The only folks who can do a Transformers movie right are game makers High Moon.\u00a0 If you\u2019re a classic Transformers fan, you really need to play that game!<\/p>\n

Rifftrax: Sharknado<\/strong><\/p>\n

My favorite TV show of all time is Mystery Science Theater 3000.\u00a0 Some of the cast is still around making fun of movies, minus the robots of course.\u00a0 And they show some of their movies in theaters.\u00a0 So yeah I paid for them to riff Sharknado.\u00a0 Wow, that\u2019s a movie that almost doesn\u2019t need anyone to make fun of it; it does that all on its own!\u00a0 And to think they made a sequel.\u00a0 Later in August Rifftrax is doing the awful 1998 Godzilla movie, and later I hear they\u2019re doing Anaconda in theaters, too.<\/p>\n

Guardians of the Galaxy<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I go see a Marvel movie, I almost always have no idea who all the characters are.\u00a0 But since this is a movie based on a more obscure Marvel license, I figure I was on more level ground.\u00a0 Only thing I knew about this movie prior is that it had a mean raccoon in it, and I only knew that from playing Marvel vs. Capcom 3, where most of my Marvel knowledge comes from.\u00a0 The outer space characters kind of reminded me of the Green Lantern stuff.\u00a0 I can\u2019t remember the names, so I made up my own.\u00a0 There was Mean Raccoon, Tree Man (I also called him Wispy Woods), Green Lady, The Guy, and That Other Guy.\u00a0 Overall, though, it was a neat movie with fun music from the 70\u2019s.\u00a0 I only wish the raccoon could\u2019ve been nicer. At least his tree friend was cool.<\/p>\n

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aside from some typical casting choices, even though this was a Michael Bay movie, it really wasn\u2019t that bad.\u00a0 And fun for kids, too!\u00a0 When TMNT first came out, I was a little too old to be into that stuff.\u00a0 I knew it was a comic book first, because I saw kids carry them around and remembered the unusual title.\u00a0 I only watched the cartoon because I met some of the folks who worked on it at a convention and I wanted to see their name in the credits.\u00a0 But what I did get really big into was the arcade game and the SNES Turtles in Time.\u00a0 My brother Jeff and I have a history with those games, and that\u2019s why we had to go see the movie.\u00a0 We were happy they even used a quote from the arcade game in it!\u00a0 Every summer, there is one movie that overdoes it on the product placement, though, and this year it was the Turtles movie.\u00a0 Can you guess which commercial product they had the most?\u00a0 That\u2019s right, Pizza Hut!<\/p>\n

I love the promotion that Pizza Hut has going on with this movie right now, though.\u00a0 They are serving four different pizzas, each one representing one of the Turtles.\u00a0 Leonardo, being the generic leader, gets a regular pizza.\u00a0 Michelangelo, being the crazy one, has a pizza with weird ingredients like pineapples and jalapenos.\u00a0 Donatello\u2019s \u2018smart\u2019 pizza has grilled white chicken and mushrooms and other green ingredients.\u00a0 But the best turtle has the best pizza.\u00a0 Raph\u2019s is an all meat pizza and I ate it today and it\u2019s yummy.\u00a0 Yeah, surprisingly Raphael is my favorite turtle.\u00a0 But that\u2019s simply because of the arcade game.\u00a0 His joystick was on the rightmost side of the cabinet, so when I would play the game, I\u2019d always play as him so I wouldn\u2019t have to squeeze in between two people to play.\u00a0 That\u2019s the same reason why I always played as Lisa in the Simpsons arcade game!\u00a0 Oh yeah, and supposedly on the Pizza Hut web site, you can order your turtle pizza \u2018katana cut\u2019 with a real katana (yeah right) into four big turtle slices!<\/p>\n

Leftovers<\/strong><\/p>\n

There were some movies this summer that I didn\u2019t see, either because I didn\u2019t get around to it or I\u2019d rather wait until it goes on Netflix.\u00a0 One movie that I didn\u2019t get around to seeing was How to Train Your Dragon 2.\u00a0 The first one was actually better than I thought it was going to be, and I would\u2019ve liked to have seen the sequel.\u00a0 But it didn\u2019t happen so I\u2019ll either see it at the dollar movie or wait until Netflix.\u00a0 Other movies I\u2019m happy to wait for Netflix are Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, because I saw the first one on Netflix, too.\u00a0 And Planes: Fire & Rescue, because the first one wasn\u2019t very good.\u00a0 In the comments section, let me know which movies you saw this summer, and which ones were your favorites.\u00a0 Later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summer\u2019s winding down, so you know what that means.\u00a0 It\u2019s time to write a blog about the movies I saw this past summer.\u00a0 There may be some slight spoiler warnings here and there, but I\u2019ll try not to reveal anything major, just to let you know.\u00a0 OK, let\u2019s begin! Godzilla When I was a kid, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12246,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243\/revisions\/12246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}