Man of Steel

It has been a while since my last post here. Long story short it's summer here and it was just way too hot to write. And festival season started, so yeah that was also a thing. Maybe in this week I will finally finish the second part of my arrow review. Ok somewhen in the next weeks to come seems more realistic. But totally before the start of the second season, I guess. So here is the deal, yesterday I was seeing the Man of Steel and it was a good flick but there were a few thing I couldn't help but to talk about, and here I'm am.

For everyone who hasn't seen the movie already, go watch it! I guess there will be spoilers duh!

So what I really liked was the way the way the movie started. It's nothing new, we all know the story of Krypton to some extend but the visuals and Russel Crows performance as Jor-El really made it worthwhile. But the moment he is riding on this flying creature somehow reminded me of Avatar and thats not a good thing. The movie in generell had some absurd amount of CGI. That's not necessary a bad thing, if handeld proper. And I think the really did a great job in the most cases. But when thinking about the movie, there is one scene in particular where I thought: ok all the money for CGI is already gone. When Clark rescues the guys on the oil rig and busts through the metal door while burning. The fire in this scene just looked awful.

We see Clark traveling around with fake names and helping people, while always getting flashbacks of his youth and how he grew to be the person he came to be. I really though that was a nice move to do but I don't get why he is on his road trip in the first place. I don't believe he is searching for this ship because he didn't knew it existed till he found it. So he just left his mother and went rouge? Doesn't sound like the Superman I know but ok plot holes. The thing that really disturbed me was the death of Jonathan Kent. Cause for this movie they changed the circumstances of his death. In the comics I know he dies cause of an Heart attack, which shows Clark that he can't save everyone. There are things not even Superman can stop. In Man of Steel he essentially dies because Clark let's him. Yeah Mr.Kent wanted it that way but seriously there had to be another way to safe him than just standing there.

Then everything happens fast, he finds this ship, gets the costume, Lois Lane discovers his identity in something about 10 freaking seconds, unimportant side characters appear, and Zod approaches the earth. When I say unimportant side characters I mean the whole Daily Planet crew or the military dude from Law and Order SVU. Cause they adding nothing to the plot and have around 3 scenes, so I don't care for them at all. I guess they are just in this movie because it's an Superman movie. And another plot hole I couldn't get my head around. Why did Zod want Lois Lane on his ship? How the hell does he even know that she is there when they took Superman? I guess just so she could tell them all how to rebuild Clarks ship into an black hole generator or bs like that.

And then it begins. The CGI battle we deserve but probably don't need. This action sequences where just huge. As predicted from a guy like Zack Snyder it's visually spectacular. After this movie you think about the battle of NY in the Avengers as an little training field. But ,and this is a big but!, if you know Superman you know his first directive is to not hurt anyone. In all the fight scenes it's seems like he gives crap about people and their properties. I mean he is throwing things through buildings and stuff like this. This is all of course normal but he probably should trie to get them away from living people to protect them first, right? But I will give him some slack because he is new in this whole hero business.

Finally there was the End. You know where Clark killed General Zod. And I saw people on the internet really getting upset about that, cause you know Superman normally don't kills. But in order to wrap the movie up what other choice did Clark or the Directors have? Really Clark was just about strong enough to hold him down? How the hell should he take a guy like that into custody? And I truly believe that Superman would kill in such an situation. All the other people didn't deserve the hate Zod had for them. The cool thing is this could somehow explain why Superman is against killing after this story. Think about it, not that he would have accidently killed civilians while flying through buildings and stuff.

Overall this movie was really entertaining and fun. No Batman Begins, Dark Knight or Avengers but really enjoyable. If you think about Superman Returns and compare it to Man of Steel, no don't do that, just don't think about Superman Returns at all okay?! No really go see the film it is good :)

The Rains of Castamere (GoT S3E09)

So here we are. The famous red wedding everyone was talking about since the beginning of the show. Even the creators said this is the story they started filming for. Yeah a pretty big shadow to fill ha?
Well if you haven't seen the episode yet, I beg you to go away cause this is probably one of the best TV moments in younger history so I don't to spoil anything for anyone. You are warned.

Like all of the number 9 episodes this one centered around a certain story and characters. This time its the wedding of Robb's uncle Edmure Tully with one of Walder Freys (oh so many names) daughters.
But this time this wasn't all story wise. Little Lord Bran and his gang finally hit the right gear and their story was well played into the one of Jon Snow the ex crow than wildling now again crow. Once again it's the sense of honor that gets my favorite house in danger. The Wildlings wanted Jon to kill an harmless old man because its what they do, even thought the night's watch would probably forgive his crimes in his undercover time, he just couldn't do it. He had to fight his way out of this mess. Gladly enough for him that Bran plus company were sitting in the nearby tower and just discovered his warg powers, by first possessing Hodor (to stop him from hodoring), then shaggy dog and summer to fight the wildlings. Bran saved the day, it seems he is growing up. They now continue their travel beyond the wall with Usher and baby Stark searching safety at another Stark Bannerman.

Speaking of honor, Arya saw herself to be confronted with the hound once more. And she took a good stand when they both showed to know each others fears very well. Slowly I'm starting to get a little concerned about arya's state of mind, she got hard but also very dark. Even though the Hound seems very ruthless he still seems to care for little wolf girls, no dirty thoughts here. So I'm very interested about where this pair will go next. The Dany story was cut very short this week, but the action was nice to look at. Grey Worm, Jorah and Dario infiltrated the city through a backdoor but were surrounded by enemies. Really it didn't look good for them but somehow they made it and took the city. At least thats the next cut we see. This could have handled better but let's wait for next week and complain then.

Now the main story at the Twins. When Robb and his man arrived in Lord Walder's throne room, they were greeted with salt and bread. Which is kind of an big deal in Westeros cause this means you swear to keep you guests away from harm. Well I'm sad to say fair enough here. If it's ok for Robb to break his oath to wed a Frey girl why should he stay true to his words? But maybe Walder's reaction was a bit, let's say over the top. There truly were some comedic reliefs and till the end as a not book reader I didn't saw it coming. In the same moment Kat started to realize, I did. But it seemed nobody else recognized the official Lannister theme song played by the freaking wedding band. Everything moved damn fast from now on. Arrows raining on the wedding guests, Robb's pregnant wife was stabbed in the belly, Robb was killed by Lord Bolton, who admitted the cooperation with the Lannister. Kat took Walder's wife hostage but slit her throat after everything was lost only to get the same treatment and falling to the ground.

I'm still not sure how to feel about all this, even after a whole day to think about. Even thought I'm shocked I have to say this was one badass episode. I still has the Rains of Castamere stuck in my head. Game of Throne proofs once again to be one of the best show on the air.