I grew up on shows like "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers" and "Sailor Moon" and all those shows. I was more of a tom boy growing up, might have something to do with the fact that my sister wanted to be a princess, and I didn't want to be -anything- like my sister.
That being said, as a kid, I LOVED this show. Going back to watch it now I laughed a lot of it for the lack of technology and lack of acting, but at the time this thing was made, it was pretty good given those factors.
It is about 5 teenagers who are picked to be the Power Rangers (something like a superhero) to protect the earth against the evil forces that Rita would send to take over the world. Through the help of Zordon and Alpha (the ones that gave the powers to the Power Rangers).
You wouldn't think they would be able to do a good job, 5 teenagers against a load of bad guys, but they do, every episode has a different monster and often they are a little stronger then the ones before so that they get new weapons or equipment that helps them defeat the monsters. Or its one of the teenagers having a moment in their life (good or bad) that separates them from the team until they learn the lesson they need too and through this lesson they are able to overcome the monster when none of the others are able to.
After about halfway through the first season a new Power Ranger shows up, Tommy, the Green Ranger. Though when he first appears, Tommy is under Rita's spell and is evil. It's okay though, the other Power Rangers get through to him and tell him he doesn't have to be Rita's pawn. He's actually gets really close with Kimberly, the pink ranger.
A little later in the season (the first season is the longest, but also the best (my opinon)), Tommy has his power coin taken and drained of a lot of it's power. Although they get Tommy back, the damage was already done. He is the green ranger for a little longer before he runs out of power and disappears from the show for a while leaving the five original rangers. Then he comes back as the white ranger. This is where I start to dislike the show. Things are the same until the second season where the red, yellow, and black ranger are replaced with other people because they leave to go to Switzerland.
I didn't really like the three they replaced them with. It kinda lost me in the spirit of things. Tommy was now the leader after becoming the white ranger. Again the system was the same, a different monster each episode and different factors affecting the reason they could or couldn't beat the monster. There is also a differnt bad guy that comes in season two... Lord Zedd. Later in season two, Rita gets free and tricks Zedd into falling in love with her and marrying her so that they can rule the earth together.
Season three, I was reluctant to watch this, and it was a struggle to make it through it, but I made it. Zedd and Rita are still the evil team, but Rita's brother Rito shows up and is now in charge of bringing the monster to earth to face the power rangers. The team doesn't change until well late in the show when Katherine replaces the pink ranger Kimberly. The series is just about over here when Rita's father comes to join the team and he turns back time and makes the power rangers little kids to where they never met Zordon or Alpha and never became the power rangers. This is where the series ends.
Although I thought the first season was good, I didn't like the second season or third season. So I don't recommend those two seasons, but the first season is the longest and the best.
Friday, March 21, 2014
Movie: Christmas Cupid
Most Christmas movies I find are about losing the Christmas spirit, or being visited by the Christmas spirits... Christmas with the Kranks is one of the few -not- like this. This movie is being visited by the Christmas Spirits.
Caitlin Quinn is a movie star like all movie stars. She likes to party and get a little wild. Well her public relations manager, Sloane Spencer, is doing everything she can to keep Caitlin out of trouble before her big premier of a family movie. Doesn't exactly go the way she plans... Caitlin dies at a party from chocking... odd...
Anyway, Sloane isn't exactly the nicest person in the world and definitely not at Christmas. She has everyone working and really doesn't care what they have planned for the day. Sloane is visited the night Caitlin dies from Caitlin's spirit who tells her that she's gonna have three visits. Sloane brushes it off and takes it as a figment of her grieving imagination...
Caitlin (unlike Marley's Ghost) sticks around with Sloane during this process, while Sloane creates a magical remembrance for Caitlin on Christmas. Caitlin picks spirits that will look like Sloane's boyfriends, ex-boyfriends to be exact.
She relives her past, present, and her future of her love life and forced to understand how love can help her lead a better life.
She meets one of her ex-boyfriends during this time and at this time she is hurt by the guy she was dating so decides to go on a date with Patrick. He was the love of her past and she is the love of his life; the one and only one for him. She hurts him when he finds out the truth and he doesn't want to talk to her. She finds this is the guy of her dreams and wants to be with him.
Is it too late? Time for the Ghost of Christmas Future (yet to come) to come see her, who is her future ex-boyfriend? Is it too late for Caitlin to go to heaven and get her wings?
Caitlin Quinn is a movie star like all movie stars. She likes to party and get a little wild. Well her public relations manager, Sloane Spencer, is doing everything she can to keep Caitlin out of trouble before her big premier of a family movie. Doesn't exactly go the way she plans... Caitlin dies at a party from chocking... odd...
Anyway, Sloane isn't exactly the nicest person in the world and definitely not at Christmas. She has everyone working and really doesn't care what they have planned for the day. Sloane is visited the night Caitlin dies from Caitlin's spirit who tells her that she's gonna have three visits. Sloane brushes it off and takes it as a figment of her grieving imagination...
Caitlin (unlike Marley's Ghost) sticks around with Sloane during this process, while Sloane creates a magical remembrance for Caitlin on Christmas. Caitlin picks spirits that will look like Sloane's boyfriends, ex-boyfriends to be exact.
She relives her past, present, and her future of her love life and forced to understand how love can help her lead a better life.
She meets one of her ex-boyfriends during this time and at this time she is hurt by the guy she was dating so decides to go on a date with Patrick. He was the love of her past and she is the love of his life; the one and only one for him. She hurts him when he finds out the truth and he doesn't want to talk to her. She finds this is the guy of her dreams and wants to be with him.
Is it too late? Time for the Ghost of Christmas Future (yet to come) to come see her, who is her future ex-boyfriend? Is it too late for Caitlin to go to heaven and get her wings?
Movie: Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Live Action)
This is by far my favorite Christmas movie of all times. Jim Carey did a great job on it and I absolutely love it. If I don't watch it at least 10 times every Christmas season, then something is wrong.
I'm sure most know about the Dr. Seuss story, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". The story of a character named the Grinch who hated the who's and their celebration of Christmas, so he devises a plan to destroy Christmas. However it doesn't work and he ends up feeling bad and then returns Christmas and celebrates with the Whos.
This movie follows that basic story, but hollywood boosts it a bit. I actually like the boosts it makes to it, which is actually pretty different for me.
Firstly, do you remember Cindy Lo Who? The Little girl in the book that comes down when the Grinch is shoving the tree up the chimney? Well she's a main character in this movie, and she's a bit older than 2 years old.
She's seeking the meaning of Christmas (Just like the little boy from the Polar Express). For the Whos, Christmas is prepared for year round and is very important to them. Cindy Lou can't figure it out, and she would very much like to.
Cindy sees the Grinch as a person that hates Christmas and she wants to figure out why, after he saves her from a packaging machine in the beginning of the movie. She invites him to christmas events, but in doing so, the mayor makes sure to embarrass him and then the Grinch decides to ruin Christmas. You pretty much know the story from here.
The Grinch dresses up as Santa Claus and steals all the Christmas food, presents, and decorations. When he is done and is back on the mountain, he can hear the Whos singing and doesn't get it at first, then it snaps and his heart grows. Then he finds Cindy on top of the sled and the sled is falling off the mountain, so he saves her.
I'm sure most know about the Dr. Seuss story, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". The story of a character named the Grinch who hated the who's and their celebration of Christmas, so he devises a plan to destroy Christmas. However it doesn't work and he ends up feeling bad and then returns Christmas and celebrates with the Whos.
This movie follows that basic story, but hollywood boosts it a bit. I actually like the boosts it makes to it, which is actually pretty different for me.
Firstly, do you remember Cindy Lo Who? The Little girl in the book that comes down when the Grinch is shoving the tree up the chimney? Well she's a main character in this movie, and she's a bit older than 2 years old.
She's seeking the meaning of Christmas (Just like the little boy from the Polar Express). For the Whos, Christmas is prepared for year round and is very important to them. Cindy Lou can't figure it out, and she would very much like to.
Cindy sees the Grinch as a person that hates Christmas and she wants to figure out why, after he saves her from a packaging machine in the beginning of the movie. She invites him to christmas events, but in doing so, the mayor makes sure to embarrass him and then the Grinch decides to ruin Christmas. You pretty much know the story from here.
The Grinch dresses up as Santa Claus and steals all the Christmas food, presents, and decorations. When he is done and is back on the mountain, he can hear the Whos singing and doesn't get it at first, then it snaps and his heart grows. Then he finds Cindy on top of the sled and the sled is falling off the mountain, so he saves her.
Movie: The Polar Express
I wasn't sure I would like this movie with Tom Hanks doing 20 voices (not really 20, but feels like that), in a kinda cartoon.
It's not the best movie in the world, but it's not the worst Christmas one ever either.
It starts with a narrator (Tom Hanks) telling his story about when he was a boy and he was beginning to fail to know the meaning of Christmas and thus didn't really get why he was celebrating it. His spirit of Christmas was failing.
One night on a Christmas eve, he goes to sleep and wakes soon to the sound of a train very nearby. Now to me, that wouldn't have woken me up, but that's because I'm used to that sound. Maybe not the train sitting at my house waiting for me to look and come out. Confused, he grabs his robe and rips his poket (this is actually pretty important) and gets aboard the Polar Express.
The conductor is also played by Tom Hanks and he is there to punch tickets, he punctures weird letters into the tickets that aren't quite understood yet. There are other children on the train as well. A little African American girl, a nerd, and a shy kid are the other main kids. When tickets are being punched, the little girl is missing her ticket and the conductor takes her away
They go through amazing adventures going to the North Pole. One of which when the boy goes to bring the little girl's ticket to the conductor, as he fears she will be thrown off the train. He climbs on the top of the train to walk across and meets a strange man on top (again, played by Tom Hanks) who talks to him and also gives him a ride to the engine train.
When he gets there and give the conductor the girl's ticket, there is trouble, the train is on ice. Left, right, left, right, forward, to get to the train tracks across the frozen lake.
Eventually they get to the North Pole. When they get there, the four kids kinda get side tracted by a sound they hear. They end up finding the Naughty and Nice room, and the presents room. Through the process of Santa's Workshop they end up in the top of Santa's bag. When they get down, they have to pick who gets the first present of Christmas. Not hard to figure out who it is and he picks a bell on the reindeer, the sound they had heard (that at first he did not) When he believed, he could hear.
When he gets back onto the train, he's already lost the bell, that dang pocket. Anyway, he wakes up on Christmas morning and finds a small present left for him... his bell. The parents can't hear the bell, but he and his sister could hear it, and he says that at some point his sister could no longer hear it, but he never stopped hearing the bell.
It's not the best movie in the world, but it's not the worst Christmas one ever either.
It starts with a narrator (Tom Hanks) telling his story about when he was a boy and he was beginning to fail to know the meaning of Christmas and thus didn't really get why he was celebrating it. His spirit of Christmas was failing.
One night on a Christmas eve, he goes to sleep and wakes soon to the sound of a train very nearby. Now to me, that wouldn't have woken me up, but that's because I'm used to that sound. Maybe not the train sitting at my house waiting for me to look and come out. Confused, he grabs his robe and rips his poket (this is actually pretty important) and gets aboard the Polar Express.
The conductor is also played by Tom Hanks and he is there to punch tickets, he punctures weird letters into the tickets that aren't quite understood yet. There are other children on the train as well. A little African American girl, a nerd, and a shy kid are the other main kids. When tickets are being punched, the little girl is missing her ticket and the conductor takes her away
They go through amazing adventures going to the North Pole. One of which when the boy goes to bring the little girl's ticket to the conductor, as he fears she will be thrown off the train. He climbs on the top of the train to walk across and meets a strange man on top (again, played by Tom Hanks) who talks to him and also gives him a ride to the engine train.
When he gets there and give the conductor the girl's ticket, there is trouble, the train is on ice. Left, right, left, right, forward, to get to the train tracks across the frozen lake.
Eventually they get to the North Pole. When they get there, the four kids kinda get side tracted by a sound they hear. They end up finding the Naughty and Nice room, and the presents room. Through the process of Santa's Workshop they end up in the top of Santa's bag. When they get down, they have to pick who gets the first present of Christmas. Not hard to figure out who it is and he picks a bell on the reindeer, the sound they had heard (that at first he did not) When he believed, he could hear.
When he gets back onto the train, he's already lost the bell, that dang pocket. Anyway, he wakes up on Christmas morning and finds a small present left for him... his bell. The parents can't hear the bell, but he and his sister could hear it, and he says that at some point his sister could no longer hear it, but he never stopped hearing the bell.
Movie: Christmas with the Kranks
Okay this is a worthwhile movie to watch during Christmas. I know many people have one movie they will watch during Christmas time and don't really want to branch out. This movie is worth branching out for.
It starts out with the Kranks dropping their daughter, Clare, off at the airport. She's in the peace corp and going off for Christmas. Well this just leads Luther Krank (Tim Allen) to devise a Christmas plan unlike anything he or his wife, Nora, would have thought of before.... Skipping Christmas and going on a cruise.
Well this is different for the Kranks, they typically are all about Christmas, spending thousands of dollars every year on Christmas alone. It takes a little convincing for Nora to go along with it, and throughout it she seems a little weary of the situation.
Throughout their ditching Christmas scheme, the neighbors are highly disapproving of the Kranks skipping Christmas. It starts with the skipping of Christmas cards, not buying a Christmas tree, not putting up Frosty and other Christmas decorations. This doesn't exactly work for a neighborhood that does Christmas together.
The neighbors can tell something is different and when they find out they are ditching Christmas for a cruise, the neighbors almost harass the Kranks to participate in Christmas.
When it is Christmas Eve, the Kranks are getting the last arrangements together before they go on the cruise when they get a call... it's from Clare, she's coming home and she's bringing her boyfriend. That means that the Kranks have like 12 hours to get Christmas back on schedule. Have you ever tried to get everything you need for Christmas, on Christmas Eve? The store is usally empty, the trees are the crappy ones that cost a ton, the decorations take weeks to get together.
Thanks to the neighbors, the Kranks are able to barely scrap together a great Christmas to impress their daughter's boyfriend. Now there is the problem with two cruise tickets, and no longer being able to go. Luther decides to give it to the neighbors, whose wife is dying of cancer.
So they all end up going from no Christmas to one of the best christmas celebrations they could have ever had.
It starts out with the Kranks dropping their daughter, Clare, off at the airport. She's in the peace corp and going off for Christmas. Well this just leads Luther Krank (Tim Allen) to devise a Christmas plan unlike anything he or his wife, Nora, would have thought of before.... Skipping Christmas and going on a cruise.
Well this is different for the Kranks, they typically are all about Christmas, spending thousands of dollars every year on Christmas alone. It takes a little convincing for Nora to go along with it, and throughout it she seems a little weary of the situation.
Throughout their ditching Christmas scheme, the neighbors are highly disapproving of the Kranks skipping Christmas. It starts with the skipping of Christmas cards, not buying a Christmas tree, not putting up Frosty and other Christmas decorations. This doesn't exactly work for a neighborhood that does Christmas together.
The neighbors can tell something is different and when they find out they are ditching Christmas for a cruise, the neighbors almost harass the Kranks to participate in Christmas.
When it is Christmas Eve, the Kranks are getting the last arrangements together before they go on the cruise when they get a call... it's from Clare, she's coming home and she's bringing her boyfriend. That means that the Kranks have like 12 hours to get Christmas back on schedule. Have you ever tried to get everything you need for Christmas, on Christmas Eve? The store is usally empty, the trees are the crappy ones that cost a ton, the decorations take weeks to get together.
Thanks to the neighbors, the Kranks are able to barely scrap together a great Christmas to impress their daughter's boyfriend. Now there is the problem with two cruise tickets, and no longer being able to go. Luther decides to give it to the neighbors, whose wife is dying of cancer.
So they all end up going from no Christmas to one of the best christmas celebrations they could have ever had.
Movie: Empire State
I wasn't really sure how I would feel about this movie as I hadn't really heard much publicity for it. Just so happens, I didn't like it that much. It was okay at giving a little history lesson from the 80's, but not much more than that.
It's about the largest robbery that the U.S. has ever seen. The thing is, they don't even know the exact amount that was taken.
It starts out with the end and a small future part then goes into the past to lead up to it. Detective Ransome, Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson, is asking Eddie where the money and where Chris was. Then it goes back in the past to show the story.
Chris, Liam Hemsworth, is looking for a job as a police officer to help his family, after his father loses his job, but is rejected from the police academy. So Chris goes to Empire State, an armored truck company, to be a security guard. He's paired with a middle aged man named Tony who shows him all the tricks in the trade. In the beginning of the movie, Tony dies when men try to rob the truck. After this, Chris is put on indoor secruity detail and he finds out that the company was supposed to pay Tony's family a lot more than they did.
Chris starts to slowly steal some money to help Tony's family and have a little for himself. Eddie, his friend, decides that they should steal all the money and they get some other low-life criminals involved in this. When the original night was supposed to take place, two different men try to rob Empire State and thus Chris calls off the whole thing. Eddie, greedy for money and a little scared after seeing Mike kill Jimmy he decides he's gonna do this either way.
Detective Ransome has this idea that it was Chris involved and finds out about it all. They end up arresting Chris and Eddie. Eddie wasted his portion of the money on a cocaine dealer, while the money Chris had was hidden and still has never been found.
It's about the largest robbery that the U.S. has ever seen. The thing is, they don't even know the exact amount that was taken.
It starts out with the end and a small future part then goes into the past to lead up to it. Detective Ransome, Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson, is asking Eddie where the money and where Chris was. Then it goes back in the past to show the story.
Chris, Liam Hemsworth, is looking for a job as a police officer to help his family, after his father loses his job, but is rejected from the police academy. So Chris goes to Empire State, an armored truck company, to be a security guard. He's paired with a middle aged man named Tony who shows him all the tricks in the trade. In the beginning of the movie, Tony dies when men try to rob the truck. After this, Chris is put on indoor secruity detail and he finds out that the company was supposed to pay Tony's family a lot more than they did.
Chris starts to slowly steal some money to help Tony's family and have a little for himself. Eddie, his friend, decides that they should steal all the money and they get some other low-life criminals involved in this. When the original night was supposed to take place, two different men try to rob Empire State and thus Chris calls off the whole thing. Eddie, greedy for money and a little scared after seeing Mike kill Jimmy he decides he's gonna do this either way.
Detective Ransome has this idea that it was Chris involved and finds out about it all. They end up arresting Chris and Eddie. Eddie wasted his portion of the money on a cocaine dealer, while the money Chris had was hidden and still has never been found.
Movie: The Blindside
Sandra Bullock does an amazing job in any role she does, and she can do a whole ton of different kinds of roles. This is one of my all time favorite movies, and no it's not because I'm from Baltimore, Maryland and the story is based on one of the Raven players!
The Raven player, Michael Oher, had an interesting high school experience. One that lead him to be with a family that loves and cares for him over being an orphan wondering from home to home.
The movie starts with Michael living with a friend's family and they are on a trip to a catholic school where the father of the friend was trying to get his son recruited. In doing this he also managed to get "Big Mike" recruited to the school too because of the athletics coach.
During a school play, Leigh Anne (Sandra Bullock) and her husband were going home when they saw Michael walking back towards the school. So she asks why he's going back to the school and he says because it's warm... (aww) So Leigh Anne tells him to come home with her and stay there (it's Thanksgiving the next day).
Michael Oher actually ends up staying with Leigh Anne and her family and they become very fond of him in their family and want to adopt him. In this process, Leigh Anne finds that Michael Oher is a ward of the state, and thus no permission needs to be taken from his mother. Leigh Anne goes to find Michael's mother so she can talk to her and find out his real last name and so she knows she is not helping him out.
One of the main reasons Leigh Anne wanted to adopt Michael was because he wanted to get a drivers license. One day when driving with his little brother, S.J., they are in a terrible accident. The paramedic tells Leigh Anne that S.J. is just fine, but he shouldn't sit in the front seat and it's amazing that he was walking away with a bruised lip. She finds out that's because Michael ended up stopping the air bag.
Next up, football! Michael doesn't take to football the way the coach initially thinks he will for being as big of a guy as he is, but they end up finding that he does best when protecting... the quarterback is who he's to guard. During the first game, there is a player who throws a lot of words at him and gets Michael distracted. But after watching the coach defend him when the referees keep giving him penalties he helps the team win the game by keeping his mind on his team and not what the other player is saying.
Through his stellar performance in the game he finds a lot of colleges looking to recruit him. His family really wants him to go to Ol' Miss, but Tennessee also wants him and those are the two that he decides between.
When he picks Ol' Miss is brings up some suspicions that the only reason the Tuohys took him in was because he would be a good sports player for the school they sponsor. It makes Michael question it, but he realizes that they do care for him.
The movie ends with him going to Ol' Miss and then when the Ravens picked him.
The Raven player, Michael Oher, had an interesting high school experience. One that lead him to be with a family that loves and cares for him over being an orphan wondering from home to home.
The movie starts with Michael living with a friend's family and they are on a trip to a catholic school where the father of the friend was trying to get his son recruited. In doing this he also managed to get "Big Mike" recruited to the school too because of the athletics coach.
During a school play, Leigh Anne (Sandra Bullock) and her husband were going home when they saw Michael walking back towards the school. So she asks why he's going back to the school and he says because it's warm... (aww) So Leigh Anne tells him to come home with her and stay there (it's Thanksgiving the next day).
Michael Oher actually ends up staying with Leigh Anne and her family and they become very fond of him in their family and want to adopt him. In this process, Leigh Anne finds that Michael Oher is a ward of the state, and thus no permission needs to be taken from his mother. Leigh Anne goes to find Michael's mother so she can talk to her and find out his real last name and so she knows she is not helping him out.
One of the main reasons Leigh Anne wanted to adopt Michael was because he wanted to get a drivers license. One day when driving with his little brother, S.J., they are in a terrible accident. The paramedic tells Leigh Anne that S.J. is just fine, but he shouldn't sit in the front seat and it's amazing that he was walking away with a bruised lip. She finds out that's because Michael ended up stopping the air bag.
Next up, football! Michael doesn't take to football the way the coach initially thinks he will for being as big of a guy as he is, but they end up finding that he does best when protecting... the quarterback is who he's to guard. During the first game, there is a player who throws a lot of words at him and gets Michael distracted. But after watching the coach defend him when the referees keep giving him penalties he helps the team win the game by keeping his mind on his team and not what the other player is saying.
Through his stellar performance in the game he finds a lot of colleges looking to recruit him. His family really wants him to go to Ol' Miss, but Tennessee also wants him and those are the two that he decides between.
When he picks Ol' Miss is brings up some suspicions that the only reason the Tuohys took him in was because he would be a good sports player for the school they sponsor. It makes Michael question it, but he realizes that they do care for him.
The movie ends with him going to Ol' Miss and then when the Ravens picked him.
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