Batman

When I think of Batman, I think of Michael Keaton.  When I think of Joker, I think Jack Nicholson.  My sister and I loved 1989's movie simply named "Batman."  It was one of the very few movies that we actually wore out.  We even brought the movie to our babysitters house to watch with our friends. (Nowadays babysitters probably wouldn't let you get away with watching or bringing that)

I have watched the newer version, The Dark Knight, and I liked it okay.  I just like this movie better, it might be because this movie was part of my childhood.  I liked how crazy the Joker was.  He drove damsel Vicki Vale, absolutely crazy.  Vicki Vale was Bruce Wayne's love interest in this movie.  She was a photographer for the local newspaper.  She was an alright character, she wasn't really that strong of a woman.  She screamed a lot in this movie, I'm not kidding.  My dad even warned the babysitter that she screamed a lot, lol.

Michael Keaton, to me, was an amazing Batman.  He was very mysterious, quiet, and stayed in the shadows. Isn't that how Bruce Wayne and Batman are supposed to be?

Jack Nicholson's Joker was a wild card.  He took over the city putting poison is hygiene items.  He took over Gotham City's parade.  He promised to give away money, so of course, pretty much the whole city's population showed up.  He ended up releasing gas and to make matters worse, the money he was giving away was "Joker Bucks".   He also had a sidekick named Bob, he didn't say much, but I'm always a little sad when the Joker shoots him :(

I also really loved the soundtrack.  Danny Elfman did an amazing job!  I used to be obsessed with Lego Batman, I was pleasantly surprised that they used most of the music from the soundtrack of this movie.  On a side note:  A GameStop employee told me that they were coming out with Lego Batman 2.

I for got to mention, they looked awesome!!!  I also liked the movies version of the Batmobile, its very sleek.  The new Bat tumbler, or whatever it's called is also pretty badass.

CLUE

This is another fun board game that my sister and I used to play, we usually played it at our grandma's house.

If you've never played before it's a simple game.  Where you each pick a character and try to figure out the murderer, the weapon they used, and which room they were in.  I really can't remember exactly how to play, it's been YEARS!  I'll have to dig up the game, I think we might have it somewhere.  Anyway,  before you start playing you put in an envelope one card of a person, room, and weapon.  Then  when you make it to a room you just guess who did it.  For example,  Professor Plum, in the conservatory, with the rope.  And if anybody had those cards they'd lay them out and everybody would cross them off their lists.  Until you have all but one of each category crossed off.  Then when you know, you make your guess.  I'm thinking you have to go to a certain room to make your guess, but I'm really fuzzy at the details.

I'm going to tell a story about one ridiculously funny time that we played. We, my sister, cousin, and I, were upstairs at first we were playing hide and go seek, but it quickly got boring and we got in lots of trouble for running in the house.  My cousin found Clue and suggested that we play it.  We had a couple of successful rounds.  It was getting late and thought that we would have enough time for one more round.  We literally just got started.  I think we had the envelope put together and just distributed the cards, when my grandma yelled up the stairs that my dad was here,  then my cousin quickly made a guess and he was 100% right.  That made a long game quick, lol.

While We Are On The Subject of Power Rangers

I apologize for not doing a new blog for awhile.  It's been super busy here lately.

Anyway, I was just reminded why I didn't like Jason David Frank, Tommy, on power rangers.  I just listened to an interview that he did on No Pink Spandex, and does that boy not know when to shut up!  I'm sorry but  talking bad about Austin St. John every chance you get is really pathetic. The Power Rangers Debuted in 1993 and this particular interview was in 2010, I think it's time to move on Jason David Frank.  He spent close to 30 minutes talking horribly about ASJ, I'm at a lost of words.  Then again I don't believe much Jason David Frank says anymore. He claims to have invented the hand moves of the Turbo morph, but they used an almost identical one in Carranger (激走戦隊カーレンジャー)  I think I remember one time when he said that they didn't use any Japanese stock footage of the green ranger, because the green ranger dies.  WRONG!  I've seen all of Zyuranger and I can guarantee you that they used stock footage.


I'm sorry I know this isn't what I normally post about, but that really got under my skin this morning.  


NEXT POST:  a board game that my cousin always cheated in.  Do you need a clue?

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie

I have very mixed feelings about this movie, and did since I was small.  I watched it in the movie theatre and bought it at K-mart the day it came out on VHS.  I know that I have touched this movie a little bit before.

Even though Jason, Trini, and Zack weren't in this movie I was still super excited to see it.  I'll start off with the things I didn't like about this movie.  (Please keep in mind that this is my opinion)

1.)  The name of it.  Really they couldn't have gotten any more creative then  Mighty Morphin Power Rangers:  The Movie.

2.)  The costume's. I know that a lot of people liked them.  I thought they looked cheap and to be perfectly honest dumb.  I know Saban had a bigger budget and didn't use stock footage, but still.....

3.)  Zedd and Rita, I'm sorry but I thought that they should've been in it much more.

4.)  The death and then revival of Zordon, I still don't get it.  I understand out of his chamber he can't survive, but how the heck did they bring him back to live!  I know somebody will more than likely enlighten me on this.

5.)  The zords looked horrible, I haven't actually watched this movie in a long time, but once again even as a child I thought they looked really fake and too computerized.


What I did like about this movie.

1.)  The action.

2.)  Dulcea, as I was a young girl at this time it was nice to have a really strong female.

4.)  Adam's one liners.  "I'm a frog."  "Welcome, to Jurassic Park."

5.) I did like the Fred story line also.  It was nice to know what was going on in Angel Grove, while the Rangers were on Phados.

6.)  When the show went back on television they had to basically redo the whole movie to incorporate Kakuranger footage.  Which I don't mind at all because Kakuranger is one of my favorite of the  Super Sentai.


Overall, this wasn't a bad movie.  It was cheesy like the television show, but with a bigger budget and didn't use had Japanese stock footage. I might watch it again after typing this.

MMPR VHS

I went downstairs at my mom's house to see if I could find anything from my childhood.  Unfortunately, most of my stuff is long gone.  I did find some of my old Power Ranger tapes.  I used to have a ton of them and both movies, so I don't know where the rest are at.  If you were like me though, you probably spent countless hours watching the guys put evil in its place.

*happy face*

Just wanted to let everybody know that I have some VHS tapes of my favorite show in the basement.  I'm so excited.  I'm going to take pictures and do a real blog soon.

Super Mario Land

When I got my GameBoy for Christmas, I also got Super Mario Land.  My GameBoy didn't come with a game, while my sister's came with Tetris.  I was stocked, I love Mario!  The game is basically a classic platformer, with new enemies and bosses.  (Bowser wasn't in this game, and you were try to save Daisy not Princess Toadstool)

Even though I loved this game, I never was able to beat the final boss.  I downloaded the game to my 3DS and I finally beat it!  Mission Accomplished.  But the payoff wasn't that satisfying.

Here's what you get.  NOTE:  Movie Maker wasn't working properly, so this unfortunately is unedited.