Movie: Season of the Witch

I really enjoy this movie, it's great at playing with people who like to guess the ending of the movie from like the first second. Really great at that, so if you have one of those in the house/family, have them watch this movie with them and then laugh when they don't get it right.

The movie starts out with a witch trial... pretty much a witch execution, because let's face it, there was no such thing as a witch trial, if they survived, they were executed anyway. Anywho, it starts with three women, one old lady, one middle age, and one young. The two younger ones plead for their lives, while the last one tells the priest to pretty much rot in Hell. They hang her pretty fast. The youngest confesses after the priest tells them that he would save their souls if they would confess. They hang her anyway.

After hanging them, the priest pulls each of them up after they've been drowned to make sure that they won't come back. He's got one done, two done, three... oh wait, he gets pulled into the water and scrambles to get to his book which is burned by the witch and then he's thrown over and hung. Guess who that one was... the youngest one! I thought it was going to be the oldest lady who told them to go to Hell. Wrong.

After this, it changes scenes to the Crusades where Nicolas Cage's character, Behman and his friend Felson (Ron Perlman) are two of the best in the army. After killing an innocent woman, Behman leaves the Crusades against laws and his buddy follows him.

They come upon a house looking for provisions and find the wife and husband in bed dead and all sickly. Well at least you think the wife is dead, I didn't really see it as a big deal, but my boyfriend felt it necessary to make a comment about how she should have been dead and it wasn't right for her to still be alive (lol). They burn the house and take the horses. They stop in a town to get better horses and food even though they know it's a risk, and it was and they get caught. After one of the priest see's the crusade mark on the sword of Behman he recruits him to see his sickly master who has the same thing as the couple in the house.

They say it's from a witch and they have to take the witch to the monastery so she can be judged. After seeing that the witch is this young girl, Behman makes the priest swear that she will be given a fair trial. She does look pretty innocent, but you kinda figure that she's playing the innocent girl to get Behman to feel bad for her and he does.

They need a guide so they find a swindler who has taken the path many times and then they are off.

The last in the group is a young alter boy who is really good with a sword.

Not long into the movie, the witch escapes the cage she's in and then kills one of the soldiers in the part by making him think Kay (the young alter boy) is his daughter. They keep going and through out it, you find that she uses the weaknesses of the men to understand them. She saves the alter boy when they go across this bridge and he's falling and does it single handed... not really a trait I know many witches are said to have (hint hint).

Then the guide is getting freaked out by her and he wants to kill her (he's not the only one, but he's the only one really set on it) and then wolves attack the group and in trying to get away, the guide is killed. They finally make it to the monastery. When they go inside, they find that the monks have the same disease that spread everywhere else. When the priest starts the prayer, the witch is saying things to Behman about how this is her "fair" trial. It dawns on the Priest that this -isn't- a witch at all. It's a possession by a demon.

They finally put it all together, the whole time, the demon wanted to come to the monastery. The first guy that got killed got too close and wanted her to be safe from the priest and wanted to let her go, pretty much he thought she was innocent. The guide, he almost killed her, so he had to go. Now why did she want to come to the monastery? The monks were copying the book, the one book the priest was holding to do the exorcism. The monks come back to life as zombie like demon things. Take off their heads and then they will be dead. Felson dies saving Behman from the demon and is burned. The priest has his head snapped, this is when the alter boy gets the book and continues. Behman takes his life to keep the demon from getting to the kid and pins him to the wall while getting stabbed in the back. After, Behman stays alive long enough to see that the girl is actually completely fine.

She didn't realize what had happened to her at all.

 

Movie: Set Up

This actually wasn't that great of a movie. I was expecting a lot more from it then what I actually got, so it was slightly a let down.

It starts out with three friends who end up stealing diamonds from a guy in a car. They end up killing him which apparently wasn't part of the plan.

Sonny (50 Cent), tells his one friend Vincent (Ryan Phillippe) that he shouldn't have killed the guy. Anyway, Vincent ends up killing the third friend, and shoots Sonny, thinking he killed him, takes the diamonds and runs off.

Sonny ends up getting fixed up by a friend of his and then he gets targeted by a hit man who Sonny tells Vincent has the diamonds and goes to meet the mob boss, Biggs (Bruce Willis). They team up to get the diamonds and money back and Sonny ends up taking the money and hides some of it in a Teddy Bear and some of it in a locker after his 'partner' (one of Biggs' guys) dies by his own dumb fault.

Anyway, you find the Vincent's dad is in jail and in trouble, and so Vincent is trying to pay this guy to keep him safe but needs the money. Doesn't take too long for the hitman to find Vincent's sister (the driver in the beginning) and ends up killing her.

Sonny goes back to the mob boss to tell him Vincent has the money (the money that Sonny hid) so they go to him and the mob boss and a bunch of others get shot (oh and Vincent ends up killing the hitman when he goes to Vincent) and then it's just Sonny and Vincent. Sonny let's Vincent go in the end.

The teddy bear went to the third guy's wife/girlfriend/sister/girl he lived with.

Movie: Pokemon White: Victini and Zekrom

I’m writing the blog on White, but Black is the same exact movie, with minor details involving the legendaries. Where you see Reshiram in White, it is Zekrom in black.

It starts off with Ash and his friends (from seasons Black and White) going to a new city, like always. Anyway when they get there, this contest is going on and of course Ash and his friends join.

During this contest, Ash puts in two different pokemon during two different battles that get hit hard and then get healed by Victini (although they don’t see this) and come back stronger. One girl who battles Ash tells him this and they meet Victini, who is adorable and likes Ash a lot.

Ash finds that Victini is very old and is stuck within the boundaries of these pillars because a long time ago the dragon force was out of control and the ruler at the time moved the castle to stable to dragon force, but died in the process and never was ever able to take away the pillars.

Damon wants to restore the balance and he finds (in this movie) Reshiram and has Reshiram work with him. He uses Victini, and hurts him to try to restore the balance. In the process he throws off the dragon force, but doesn’t know about it. Ash finds out through Victini and tries to stop Damon and releases Zekrom to help him.

When Damon finds out, he can’t stop what is happening and the pillars close in around Victini and Ash and to save Ash, Victini destroys the pillars but also destroys himself (or so we think).

The castle lands on the beach, where Ash wanted to take Victini and when he goes to honor Victini he finds Victini.

Happy ending, of course. 

Show: Turbo F.A.S.T.

This is a Netflix show. It’s only had 5 episodes.

It goes into the life of Turbo and the racing snails, that at the end of the movie got boosters to make them fast too. They have a little city that Angelo made Turbo for all his friends, and it seems in every episode someone/thing comes along to try to destroy it. In each episode, Turbo or one of his friends or his brother learn some kind of lesson.

Shows some promise!

So the new episodes came out and me and the boyfriend watched them all in one night... yes, it was that good.

They are just really cute and funny.

They pick up where the movie left off with little short stories. Most are about other creatures challenging Turbo to a race of some sort, and none of the races are ever as simple as the Indy 500, like that sounds easy.

They are good for little kids, but I like to be a little kid at heart a lot.

Movie: Turbo

Family favorite and very very cute.

Who would have thought that snails would want to be fast? Well Theo does want to be fast and he ties to be faster everyday even though the other snails make fun of him.

One day, after being humiliated he ends up getting stuck on a race car and sucked into the engine when nitrous oxide gets into his system and he’s suddenly fast and some strange things happen to him. When him and his brother are caught by a Mexican guy (who works at Dos Bros) and then told to race, Turbo (Theo) shows them just how fast he is, Angelo (the Mexican guy) creates a plan to make him and his brother and the rest of the people in the lot more popular with customers.

His idea leads him to getting Turbo into the Indy500. It’s not easy, but one racer encourages them to let a snail race, his intentions are to crush the snail during the race which Turbo finds out. In the beginning, Turbo is getting overrun and then the other racing snails get him motivated “are you a car?” “then stop racing like one.” After this, Turbo gets his stuff in gear and goes to beat a lot of the racers. In the end, the popular racer causes a serious accident, this is after he cracks turbo’s shell and turbo is running out of power. At this point, Turbo is out of speed and the racer and him are trying to make it across the finish line. His brother gives him the best advice, tuck and roll. Turbo wins!

After a while, Turbo’s shell heals. 

Movie: Mouse Hunt

I just recently saw this movie and I never saw it when I was younger. It’s a very funny movie and kids would probably like it, but it is so highly unrealistic it’s unreal.

It starts out with two brothers at a funeral for their father. Their father ran a warehouse that produced yarn and the youngest brother stayed with that business when the older went on to become a chef.

Ernie, the chef, has the mayor coming to his restaurant, and when he serves the mayor, somehow a roach gets into the food and the mayor dies from it and thus the restaurant is shut down and Ernie is in hiding. Meanwhile Lars is getting an offer from people the buy out the business. The brothers soon discover a mansion their father had that was created by a very important architect and thus they can get a lot of money for it. One tiny little problem, there’s a mouse. This mouse is very smart, and very stubborn and every trick they throw at it, this mouse overturns. They end up destroying the house in the process of catching the mouse, and when they do catch the mouse and thing they get rid of it, it comes back when they are auctioning the house. In the end, their house is destroyed and literally falls apart and when they move into the warehouse, the mouse helps them invent string cheese. 

Movie: Brother Bear

A great Disney movie. Very cute for a family or anyone of any age.

This movie stars three brothers who live in North America way back when. The youngest of the brothers is getting his totem and ends up getting the Bear of Love. When he gets picked on about it from the middle brother and then a bear eats their fish, he goes after the bear and the eldest brother ends up dying and then the youngest goes back after the bear to avenge his brother’s death and he gets turned into a bear after he kills the bear.

When Kenai (the youngest brother) wakes up, he’s a bear and so confused. He thinks that bears are vicious killers. On his way to get the where the lights touch the earth, he runs into a little cub who was separated from his mom and trying to get to the same place as Kenai for the salmon run. Koda teaches Kenai that bears aren’t dangerous, and Kenai teaches Koda that not everything is what it seems. When they get to the Salmon run, Koda tells a story about how he got separated from his mom. The story seems deathly similar to when he went after the bear the first time. He runs off and then he realizes he has to tell Koda the truth. When he does, Koda runs from him into the grasp of Kenai’s brother. Kenai saves Koda even if it would cost him his life when the spirits turn him back into a human. Kenai realizes that Koda needs him and so he is turned back into a bear.