Wednesday, May 23, 2012

The Avengers


                Hey, in this post, I will talk about the movie that I watched a week ago, The Avengers. I know it’s very late to talk about this movie now, but this movie was so good that I would watch it for the fourth time. This movie as you may all know, tells a story about a group of superhero’s that unite to fight the evil that tries to conquer the Earth. This movie is a Marvel movie, and is one of the best movies I have ever seen, I even think is better than the Hunger Games. What makes this movie more exiting is that before it, there were other movies about all the different heroes individually in their own movie, which makes it exciting to watch this hero’s, unite for the first time forming a team called the Avengers. There are different heroes in the movie with their own specialties like Tony Stark which is Iron Man (A man with an iron armor), there is Thor (A sort of god that comes from another planet named Asgard) , there is also Steve Rogers which is Captain America(A modified soldier in the world war 2 that got frozen and was found in the present), Natasha Romanoff (A spy), Bruce Banner which is Hulk (A monster created by an experiment) and there is Clint Barton which is Hawkeye. All this heroes have their own individual movies before this one like Iron Man 1 and 2 with the third one which will come out, Captain America 1 and the second one that I think is coming out, Thor 1 and Thor 2 which will come out and there are Hulks movies as well that came out a long time ago. As you can see, there are already planning the other movies and what’s more exiting is that Avengers 2 is been planned out as well now.
 
                Now that you know the basics, I will explain the movie, if you don’t like spoilers, then I suggest you should leave. The movie starts with Loki ( Thor’s brother which is evil ) talking with an Alien about giving him an army to conquer the Earth, the Alien accept but only with the reward of the Tesseract, a powerful energy source. Loki ends up transporting to the Earth and takes the Tesseract with some people whose minds and heart were controlled by Loki. The Earth’s best option was the Avengers Assemble to answer the attack of Loki, now that the Earth was not ready for a war like this one yet. Shield, in control of Nick Fury, reunites all the outstanding heroes that could help and try to make them a team. Unfortunately, they don’t get along very well causing the team almost break apart. At the end, their arguments stops and they reunite after Agent Coulson gets killed by Loki when he is escaping. They had finally reunited but it was too late, Loki and his group of brain washed people had set up the portal for the army to come into the Earth. Once the aliens were in, the heroes had a tough fight; it would be useless to kill an alien because more would come through the portal. The Senators, thinking they will lose the fight, decide to shoot a nuclear missile into Manhattan without the permission of Shield. Nick Fury then tells Iron Man about the news and Iron man goes and tries to change the direction of the missile, at the end, Iron Man ends up changing the direction into the portal shooting the nuclear missile into the planet of the aliens, ending the war. They all think they have won but after the credits of the movie(which is something Marvel always do with their movies) they show the alien in the beginning talking to another aliens= which was called Thanos. It does not tell us more but it sure says that there will be another invasion in the next movie done by Thanos, one of the most powerful and greatest enemies.

                What I cannot believe, is that some people told me there was another scene after the credits of the scene after the actual credits. So what I am trying to say is that there was a scene that we missed thinking it had ended. I don’t want to spoil to you that scene but you will sure enjoy it, so if you live near a movie theater, I suggest you to watch it now before it goes out of the movie because watching it in the movies is a whole new experience. Hope you enjoyed it.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

True Talents


As you may already know, True Talents is the sequence of Hidden Talents written by David Lubar. Unfortunately, I chose to read True talents without reading Hidden Talents without knowing. Supposedly, in the first book in Hidden Talents, there are a bunch of kid that are been bullied a lot, at the end, they figure out that they are not regular kids but they each have special abilities. One of the kids are Trash which can move things with his mind, Torchie can start fire with his mind, Cheater can read minds, Lucky finds lost objects, Flinch can predict the future and Martin can see into people’s souls. Sadly, this kids got kicked from their schools for vary reasons, for example, Cheater was kicked because the teachers would think he cheated for getting such grades. At the end, they all end up attending the same school and there, they trained their skills. At the end, they had to close the school, so this group of friends decided to save the school with their own special individual talents. If you wish to what happens, then I suggest you to read it.

            Luckily, I did not read Hidden Talents or else, I would fail in this assignment due to the lack of information that the previous paragraph had. The book I read was True Talents, the sequel to the short summary I wrote about above. In this book, these teenagers are not in school anymore but at home with their families separated from the other talented friends. The beginning of the book is very confusing because it talks about Trash waking up on a type of laboratory without knowing where he is or why he is even there. There he goes through a variety of tests to see his special ability to move objects with his mind. He is told to move many objects like a piece of marble in the beginning but even thou he tried the hardest he could after been confused, he could not lifted. It is hard for him to do so, especially when he is been forced to. Throughout the book, he is been told to lift things up with his mind but not only that, but he is also given lots of medicine that he refuses to consume but ends up taking it. This medicines cause him to relax as well as making him confuse. It is blurry and confusing why he ended up there but throw-out the book, you discover that he was discovered when he was practicing his powers in the bank, when accidentally, he had stolen some money. He then, was kidnapped by an organization that is testing him to see how his powers work. He cannot escape but luckily, he has 5 other friends who are willing to do anything to reunite after a long time. Here is when the story gets exiting, when the 5 teenagers start figuring out how to take one of their friends out of there risking their own freedom for a friend and the chance to reunite once again.

            Hoped you enjoyed the summary and if you would like to know if they actually rescue Trash, read the book. Thanks.