A Rant and…Something That Rhymes with Rant I guess…

Hello.

I apologize for not giving any love to either of my blogs. The internet was out and a guy had to come to fix it. It still isn’t working that well.

Anyway, this post today will basically be the Pros and Cons of my week. All in one paragraph or less! And the rant I suppose…

Well! I watched Batman Begins for the first time and I was really pleased with it. Christian Bale sounded more like Christian Bale than Batman—which is awesome, I have mentioned it before—and I guessed right when I said, “Wow, that guy standing next to him in that prison cell sounds a lot like Aslan.” I was RIGHT! It was Neeson! It was awesome because two of my favorite voice actors were in the same room! I was also right when I said that the Butler Alfred sounded like Finn McMissle from Cars 2, because it is! We were watching Season 2 of Merlin—my sister and I have only been in touch with this show since Season 4. We love it to death and back—and there was a guy on their called Cedric. Sitting there staring at him for the majority of the episode, I finally shout, “HE LOOKS LIKE RAGETTI!!!” And it was Mackenzie Crook. This Guy:---------------------------------------------------------->

                                                                                                     

  AND I WAS RIGHTTTTT!! Again. I was so happy. I am also happy because Merlin will be on tonight. Yay! 

My rant includes these topics:

Merlin is coming down to its last season. That’s what I have heard. Now, Merlin is about the only good thing on TV at this time. Save Jeopardy and eh, yeah, Wheel of Fortune..until The Legend of Korra comes back…of course.

THERE WILL BE A SEVENTH STAR WARS!!!!!! WHY WOULD THIS BE A BAD THING!?! WELL, I DON’T THINK THAT GEORGE LUCAS WILL BE DIRECTING IT. THIS IS WHAT THE INTERNET SAID. WHY AM I SHOUTING?! Now, I don’t know for sure if this is true. As far as I know, they don’t have a director yet. But in my personal opinion, if it ain’t George Lucas, it ain't Star Wars.

Like, “If it ain’t Vorpal, it ain’t dead.” –A quote from Alice in Wonderland.

Um, another thing…Cars 2 is a strange, strange thing. More to come considering that the library’s copy was too scratched to watch.

One last thing of the week, something I found on a website. Actually, I was there--watching it--on tv--when this boy did this. And I thought it was EPIC! I was so happy that this guy won. I had been watching the Teen Jeopardy this year from the very beginning, and I was so glad when Leo made it to the championships. Now, I think it would have been fine if Niali—I think that’s how his name is spelled—won. But Leo’s attitude was awesome. That was the best episode of the whole Teen tournament. See— CLICK HERE

And then, on the same site, there is a video of Goats screaming like people. It is amazingly awesome...My Dad sent it to me :D

Goat Video 

Okay then, I am done now. Thanks for listening. Heh.

~Natsu

The Secret World of Arrietty and other fancies.

I am not motivated to do anything right now. Can’t draw, can’t read. I am not even motivated enough to take a nap… So I threw a load of laundry into the washer, grabbed my laptop and now I am sitting on the couch watching a show about these guys who make Beer…And also, I am blogging about recent movies I have seen. 

The Secret World of Arrietty, a Studio Ghibli film. 

I saw this movie for the first time last Thursday, and—I know that I give all their things huge credit, but that’s because they deserve it—I loved it! Shaun reminded me of Haku (Spirited Away) and Arrietty reminded me of Sophie (Howl’s Moving Castle) when she was young. I have yet to watch it in its original Japanese, but I have to say, the English voices worked. I was very much surprised at that. Not because I doubt Disney’s ability to find awesome voice actors, I mean, casting Christian Bale as Howl was probably the best thing they ever did...It’s just, I knew Bridgit Mendler and David Henrie from Disney Channel; Bridget being from Good Luck Charlie, and David being from Wizards of Waverly Place. Honestly I liked Wizards, but not so much GLC…

Anyway, I kind of went off a cliff there, I’m going to get back to my original thought.

Henrie did a great job. I loved it. Honestly. Shaun is this sickly young boy and he captured that perfectly. At the end of the movie, I am almost in tears because I feel so bad for Shaun. But that is the point of movies right? Each movie gives you a different emotional experience…He was just so so sad. And we love him. It was a true "awwwwww" moment when he gave her the sugar cube back.

Mendler, now, the first words that came out of her mouth, well I would have done them differently. But throughout the movie, you became comfortable with it, and it worked very well for Arrietty.

Carol Burnett and Moises Arias were in this movie as well. It was obvious, from the first word that Carol’s character said, that it was her. And Moises, well he had maybe, one or two lines. But he still did a good job. Will Arnett,and all the other voice actors did an awesome job as well. I only mentioned the ones that I was familiar with and their work. But, that only means that I know them. It has nothing to do with how well everyone else did. They all did an awesome job!

The animation, I won’t have to rave on about because I already have—a couple times I think. They never seem to let me down. Haha. I believe that some of the artists are trained in Oil Panting…I learned this when reading The Art of Spirited Away. I just loved it all. All of it. ~sigh~

Tonight I am going to watch Ponyo. I had seen this, back in 2009 I think it was…But that is another post…

Oh, I also wanted to wish my brother a HAPPY BIRHTDAY! He got a hamster for his birthday—below.

I call the hammy “Doughy” but I guess the name that he is thinking about Bonzu Pippinpaddle-Oppsokopolis…The name Aang used when he went to Omashu. 

Now I am tired. Maybe I will take a nap now...

Until later,

Natsu