Revolution

The series premiere of NBC's Revolution was last Monday, with episode two airing TONIGHT! (So you still have time to catch up!) Sean and I just got around to watching the premiere last night, and it was pretty good. Not great, just good. Most of the actors are just scum. They give the lead male role to a piss poor Twilight actor, and then they give the lead female role to a nobody.

The only acting choice I was happy with was of the woman who helped Danny at the end. And even then, I couldn't put my finger on where I'd seen her before. But after a quick trip to Google, she is Maria Howell, another nobody, but the woman who was cast to play Seeder in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire!! That made me happy! =) Really happy I'm going to get to see her act some before I see her in Catching Fire!

Then the only other two acting choices I was okay with were of the Captain (the magic mirror in Once Upon A Time) and the "dead" mother (Erica Evans in the 2009 remake of V).

The story-line for the show is nice. Post-apocalyptic stories seem to be the big rage nowadays, so NBC might as well get in their shot at it while they can. I HATE HATE HATE it when films/shows do the "so-many years later" aspect at the VERY beginning. That just overloads the rest of the show with ridiculous amounts of flashbacks, which is probably what is to come for the rest of the season.

The acting is pretty bland, and there's not enough mystery surrounding the mystery. I don't see this show getting a second season. This doesn't nearly compare to Eric Kripke's last television creation: Supernatural. However, the boyfriend said he'd stick around for episode two at least, and he hates watching TV.. so that's one point for Revolution.

The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes Review

Last week (it might have been the week before, I just happened to notice last week), Walmart released Volumes 1-4 of The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes on DVD. And for ten bucks each, I couldn't pass on them =)

In just a couple days, I have concluded watching all twenty-six season one episodes. I thought all the heroes were portrayed perfectly. Especially how stealthy they made the Black Panther out to be, most of the time I forgot he was there, and when he did appear it was a "whoa" moment. Haha! Only problem I had was how BORING The Wasp was. The only time she seemed really bad-ass, was when she took her gigantic form.. which was once. Most of the time she seemed really petty, and was just a damsel in distress. She should not have had as much screen time as she did.

What made me the happiest, was that Iron Man wasn't made out to be the most important character in the show, which is what happened with the live action Avengers film. I'm probably the only person who will admit to this, but I hate Iron Man. I find his character annoying, in both live-action and animation.

The cameos by the Fantastic Four made me really wish they'd get a new animated series! Seriously, somebody make this happen.

What's great about me finishing all of season one today.. is that the first thirteen episodes of season 2 come out in a Volume 5 DVD set tomorrow (as does the live-action movie!)! I'll get that after work tomorrow, and let ya'll know what I think.

You all should watch this show. It's awesome.

Aaahhh!!! Real Monsters!!

After almost a decade and a half of being off the air, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters finally comes to DVD thanks to Shout! Factory. I've made it a goal of mine to get all the DVD releases of the old Nickelodeon shows Shout! releases on DVD, and I was doing very well. Until all of a sudden, the stores in my area, Walmart, Target, even Best Buy, stopped selling these releases, old and new. I have no clue what happened there, but it made it very difficult to get the DVDs, as I wished to get them on the day they were released. Most recently, Walmart isn't even selling newer releases online. I don't know how Shout! is expecting to make money off these with such limited releases.

Today I ordered the newest releases of The Angry Beavers, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Danny Phantom, and Hey Arnold all online.

Also finished season 2 of Real Monsters today. It has become one of my favorite older cartoons, and I had never even heard of the show before Shout! started releasing it on DVD last October. The only thing I really don't like about these releases, is that there are no special features! >:(

For those who don't know, it's a pretty dark show, like Invader Zim, that centers around a trio of monsters that are in school for the art of scaring humans. The show takes events and obstacles that happen in our every day lives, and twists them to what they might be like if monsters truly did exist. This is a show I'd recommend to any cartoon lover like myself! :)

Resident Evil: Retribution

Want to know a little secret? I hadn't seen a single Resident Evil film before last weekend. And with Retribution being the FIFTH film in the franchise, I had to catch up pretty quickly.

With my boyfriend wanting to see Retribution for his birthday, I wasn't going to go see it without seeing the other films. I'd have been hella confused. So I made it my ultimate goal last week to watch all the films! Sad thing was, I have owned the first three for about four months now, just hadn't got around to watching them yet.

But with how addicting these movies are, it was pretty easy for me to get caught up. I watched the first three in one sitting.. I quickly fell in love with Alice and all her badassness (don't think that's a word, but oh well.)

*A few minor spoilers below. You've been warned.* 

And we went to see Resident Evil: Retribution as planned yesterday :) I thought it was a lot better than Afterlife, but it lacked. I don't know what exactly it lacked, I was just very unfulfilled when the credits rolled at the end. I felt the only point of this film was to set up for the supposed sixth and final film to be released after this one. Good thing about this film: it made me jump. You could tell with the first four films that there were parts in there that were to scare the audience and make them jump out of their seats, but that never happened for me :P In this film, I jumped many a times. It was nice ;)

I LOVED that they brought a bunch of characters from the old films back, even after they already met their demise. Like my favorite character from the first film: Michelle Rodriguez as Rain :)

I'd say wait for this film on DVD. As you'll probably want/need to rewatch it when the sixth film comes out.