Eternals

And so, everyone, we've finally arrived at the newest M.C.U movie and one that I personally wasn't all that excited for but was still curious about it, Eternals. Yeah, I didn't know anything about these characters beforehand. I knew of them from hearing some things from Marvel character guides and people talking about them, but in terms of the characters, I didn't know anything. Also, I had heard of some bad things about this film before seeing it like people saying this was the first actual bad M.C.U movie. Yeah, some movies in the M.C.U have been divided amongst the audience, but the vast majority of people mainly agreed there wasn't any bad film before except this one. So, I saw it on Friday and was hoping I would at least enjoy it and get some entertainment out of it. I've always tried to defend the M.C.U movies because I'm such a big fan. Even some of the films that maybe some people don't entirely like, I've tried to explain why I think they're good. And so I really wanted to at least like this film and have some fun with it regardless of all that. And so, did I? ...Eh, not really. As much as I really hate to admit it, I really didn't like this and it's definitely my least favourite M.C.U movie so far. I was hoping I would disagree with what people have been saying about this, but, in the end, I just didn't get behind this movie at all. Which is a huge shame considering I've never disliked a single one of their movies before and this was being built up as a special movie for the M.C.U and one of its most unique, but there's a lot of things wrong with this that I really didn't like. Also, like always, I'll be going for no spoilers first and then getting into all the spoilers later. Okay, so, what's the story? We're introduced to a group of immortal beings called the Eternals who have been on Earth for thousands of years and they're living normal lives. We're introduced to one of them named Sersi, played by Gemma Chan, who ends up fighting a monster called a Deviant, which is something she thought was dead but after being attacked, she decides to get her group of Eternals back together to fight off more of them along with trying to understand a mystery going on. And, I'll stop there. So, immediately, the first thing here I really didn't like was the editing and pacing. The pacing in particular is really bad in this. I found that the opening in particular was really, really fast and it barely gave us a chance to get to know these characters. And that's probably my least favourite aspect about the movie entirely. The characters in this aren't memorable at all. I can't remember a single thing about these guys. Only a couple of things from a few but it's not that much from the writing. The opening in particular goes by so fast that we barely get to know most of the pasts of the characters. The cast as well is mostly okay but whatever problems I have with them mostly stems from the writing. I thought the majority of them were kinda boring and not memorable at all. The editing is also weird in the scenes where we focus on some characters' backstories. The whole movie actually reminded me of the Inhumans show that a lot of people really didn't like. I never watched it, but by watching this, it kinda gave me a bit of the same feeling people were talking about with that show. The movie really did just bore me. I wasn't really interested in any of this. I will say, some characters actually are likeable, especially Brian Tyree Henry as Phastos. He was probably my favourite character in the film and his performance was really good. The film as a whole though really didn't hold my attention and there's a lot of time just dedicated the characters just walking and talking and it really didn't interest me. I will say, the parts that actually were interesting were the parts when they were talking to the Celestials and finding out what exactly is happening. When it focused on that stuff, it was interesting, especially at the end. Even though I wasn't interested in the film, the ending is actually pretty cool when everything is discovered. The jokes as well didn't really do it for me. They're either drawn out or aren't funny to begin with, especially with one guy in particular who follows the Eternals around for a while. Another thing that's weird is the characters' decision making. Some characters change their minds on different things really quickly and it's kinda unnatural and pretty forced. And, forced is really the best way to describe the film, a lot of things, especially at the start, just feel like they're pushed out really quickly so we don't ever feel like we get to know any of these characters like I said. Also, there are some things that don't make any sense, especially one thing in particular at the end. The action as well is little underwhelming. There isn't that much of it and when it is, some of it is kinda cool, but the majority of them kinda let me down. I will say, the one thing I really did love in this was the mid credit scene. As soon as I saw that, I thought it was really cool and it did make me really excited for the future. And the end credit scene was pretty cool too and did make me excited for the character in it. So, in the end, really, this film was mostly a huge disappointment to me because the pacing and editing really do bring this film down a lot. As a gigantic fan of the M.C.U, it really does pain me to actually see a film that I personally really didn't like a wasn't good in my opinion. I know this review probably wasn't very long but that's because I feel like this movie is better to talk about in the spoiler section. So, yeah, if you're a fan of the M.C.U, maybe go in with low expectations because it is pretty disappointing. I don't think I would ever want to see this again and it's kinda sad because their last movie, Shang-Chi, may have been one of my favourite M.C.U films and then they followed it up with this. So, yeah, again, I do still recommend seeing this, I just couldn't get into it myself personally. And so, everyone, that's my review for Eternals. Thank you all for reading and please comment down below to tell me what you think.

Spoilers:

Okay, so, there probably isn't that much to spoil about the film, but I just wanted to talk about them anyway. So, the first big thing I want to talk about was the Celestial Arishem. That was that interesting thing I was talking about. All the stuff about that was interesting and it was pretty cool when he revealed that Celestials are born from inside a planet and therefore destroying it when it emerges. However, like I was saying, a lot of the time we're following Sersi and the others trying to find the others and a lot of it really didn't hold my attention. And, like I said, I didn't like that cameraman who was following them around for a while. I know it was supposed to be funny, but I just didn't find it funny. I also didn't care that much when Gilgamesh got killed. They tried to make that emotional but, like I said, since I didn't find any of the characters memorable, it was hard to get into that scene emotionally. I also found the whole opening crawl part really weird. It felt like they were trying to be like Star Wars and it was just weird to me. I also didn't like that opening action scene on the beach. It looked kinda weird and the actual scene itself, again, felt kinda forced. And I guess we can also talk about the climax, which was probably my favourite part of the film. I found it cool when they decided to have Sersi do something about the Celestial to maybe kill it before it could emerge. And I did kinda like when it was revealed Ikaris was kind of a villain as well. It was kinda weird, but it was cool. And it did lead to some cool moments when they were fighting him at the end. And then at the end, even though I though Sersi killing the Celestial was pretty cool, it did kinda make me wonder how the planet is still stable because, when I saw it, it looked like the Celestial made some serious damage to the ground and so that was the part that didn't make sense to me. As well as when Ikaris apologised and then, maybe, killed himself. That was what I meant by some characters' decision making being weird. I didn't like how he just changed that quickly. And, I did find the part where Arishem came to the Earth and took them away pretty cool as well. It does kinda make me wonder how this will effect the universe going forward. And now we can talk about the credit scenes. The mid credit scene was the one that made me really excited with the remaining Eternals on their ship and then Pip The Troll and Starfox show up. Pip especially I found really surprising because I know who he is and it was cool to see him in live action and the same goes for Starfox. I know him as the brother of Thanos and it was cool to see him tell the other where they might be able to find the others. That was really cool to see. And then the end credit scene where we see that Dane guy look at a sword was cool too. I personally would have liked to have seen more of him in the film, but this was cool and I am curious to know who it was that spoke to him. So, yeah, the end credit scenes were really cool and they got me excited to see a few more of these characters in the future of the series. And so, yeah, that's really about it. So, yeah, like I said, it is sad that this film was a huge disappointment, but, I am still excited to see more of a few of these characters. And so, yeah, everyone, that's my review for Eternals. Thank you all for reading and please comment down below to tell me what you think.

My Yuno collectible (Review)

So, guys, I was able to get another anime collectible yesterday after a while. I know I haven't gotten as many recently, but I was finally able to get another yesterday, and, this time, it was Yuno from Black Clover. Yeah, the last one I got was Asta from Black Clover too, and I was able to find the one of Yuno that comes in the same set as the Asta one I have. It was pretty lucky and I'm really glad I did. Having them together is cool and it's nice to have that set. But, really, just being able to find another Banpresto figure of one I was looking for. Hopefully I'll be able to get more and make more videos soon. But, for now, here's my review of my Yuno collectible and I hope you all like it.

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

And so, everyone, we've arrived at the latest of Sony's Spider-Man movies, Venom: Let There Be Carnage. This is the sequel to the 2018 Venom movie, which I really didn't like at all and I didn't have any faith in this film at all. Not just because the first one was bad, but also because the trailers didn't look good at all just like the first one as well. And I actually did see this the day of it's release over here. So, really, overall, was this an improvement at all? No, it really, really wasn't. I don't know if it was better or worse than the first, but I'd say they're about on the same level. Both are just really, really bad. Also, I am gonna do a spoiler review from the beginning because, for one, I don't think you should see this and it's really the only way I can talk about this properly. So, what's the story? Eddie is visiting Cletus Kasady in prison frequently and he's giving him info on some crimes which leads to Cletus meeting again and Venom attacks him briefly which makes Cletus bite Eddie only for a bit of the Symbiote to go inside his body and he becomes Carnage, now they're both looking for Eddie and Venom as well as Cletus's girlfriend, Shriek. Also, Eddie and Venom are having a bit of a falling out. So, yeah, if that small description should tell you anything, it's that this is a very, very generic movie. The very plot of the film is very basic and has so many parts that are so predictable. So, really, the first big thing I noticed that was wrong with this movie was the structuring of the scenes and the editing. The way the movie leads into a scene and keeps going in a scene is very weird. I'm not 100% sure how to explain it, but the way the scene plays out and is kinda dropped into the film is just really weird and a lot of that may have to do with the editing. That was the first thing I noticed when watching it. The pacing as well is really bad. A lot of the film is spent of really generic character drama or drawn out jokes. They tried to make Venom really, really funny in this and they go way overboard with it. He's basically a walking joke the whole movie and, because of that, it's kinda hard to take the film seriously. But the stuff with the characters themselves doesn't help either because I really wasn't interested in any of them. The writing for a lot of their scenes was poorly done and the actual character arcs feel really clichéd. Like I said, there's a whole section of the movie where Eddie and Venom are having a falling out which leads to Venom leaving by fusing to some other people and this leads to a weird scene were he's attached to someone else and he's trying to talk to people at a night party. That was just weird and dumb and I really couldn't believe what I was watching. But then the conclusion of that arc was dumb because Eddie eventually has to find him and apologise and, again, it was just really dumb and clichéd and generic. As far as the performances in this, not everyone is bad here, but the majority of the performances are just really bad. I don't blame the actors for this, it's mostly just the writing's fault, but the acting in this is either really bad, over the top or just straight up cartoonish, especially Woody Harrelson as Cletus. Also, one of the biggest concerns I had going into this was Carnage's role. I know I haven't mentioned him yet, but he was the part of the movie I was most excited to see because I love the character of Carnage. He's one of the coolest Marvel villains ever in my opinion. And, I will say, the effects on him, while not perfect, are pretty cool. But I was really letdown when I realised he was really only in the movie for about ten minutes. I'm not even kidding. I think the amount of screen time Carnage himself actually got was only ten minutes at least. Also, him dying at the end is really dumb because I was hoping to see him again some time in the future, but, at the end of the climax, Venom just kills him and that was so dumb and disappointing to me. The ending as well was really badly done too. There were some creative things they do in the climax, but the majority of it was generic or not creative at all or kinda hard to make out. The fact that they have a character like Carnage in this and they did use the potential there was just annoying to me. Also, the whole plotline involving Shriek was weird. I didn't like how they did her character and the whole thing with her and Cletus being a couple and that being an integral part to the story was just really badly done. I didn't like it at all and her in the climax was generic too. Like, the whole thing with the bell wasn't that creative to me. I've seen that kinda thing with Venom a lot and it wasn't very creative to me. The film also looks kinda weird. Just from the cinematography and the way the film is shot just makes it looks weird and kinda cheap. Also, that small scene at the end when it sounds like Cletus saying all he wanted was Eddie's friendship was so badly done and so incredibly stupid. Also, while this movie is shorter than the first and isn't that long in retrospect, the bad pacing of it makes it feel so much longer than it is and that just makes the whole thing seem really boring and has a ton of moments that feel like dead air. also, there's a ton of pointless things in this that didn't need to be in this like that one policeman whole was following Eddie around. That felt really unnecessary and the whole thing with it looking like he could be a supervillain is kinda interesting, but that still felt unnecessary. Really, this film just had so many problems in it and was just really poorly made from a writing standpoint and editing as well. However, the one thing I will take  away from this was the end credit scene, which is really cool. It shows Eddie and Venom being transported into the M.C.U and seeing the M.C.U Spider-Man on TV. That was really, really awesome I already knew that because a friend of mine told me, but it was still cool to see. And, yeah, I'm really excited to see this Venom come into the M.C.U movies and interact with Tom Holland's Spider-Man. There's a lot of cool things you can do with that and I'm really excited to  see that. But, as for the movie itself overall, yeah, it's just really bad again. I didn't think this was gonna be good going in and I was right. Really, I don't think you should go see this. Just know about the end credit scene with Venom and Spider-Man and that's it. As for the movie, yeah, don't see it. It's just really bad. And so, everyone, that's my review for Venom: Let There Be Carnage. Thank you all for reading and please comment down below to tell me what you think.

MY LET'S PLAY OF SORA IN SUPER SMASH BROS. ULTIMATE

And so, everyone, the time has finally arrived. After so many years of praying and hoping, the day has finally arrived for Sora to finally debut in Super Smash Bros. And it finally happened today. Not only that, but along with that, I also decided to make his debut to be the first Let's Play video on my YouTube channel. After a long time, I finally managed to get it to work. Mostly anyway, there are some problems, but, for the most part, I'm really happy with this. I was originally hoping to start doing Let's Plays with the Kingdom Hearts games, but after Sora was announced for Smash, I decided to start it with this. And, not only that, this is also my 1000th entry on this blog. I honestly can't believe I've really made this many. I have deleted some entries, but, now this is the 1000th one with all the other ones all together. I was originally hoping to make it something else, but that ended up not happening, but I'm glad something like this is it instead. Really, just having Sora in Smash be the 1000th entry and me doing a Let's Play of it is really cool to me. And, yeah, thank you all for helping me get this far and I look forward to making more soon. And so, here it is I hope you all like it.

My Asta collectible (Review)

So, I know I've been getting these collectibles for anime characters a bit slowing than before, but I'm still trying to get them as much as I can. And, recently, I was able to get one for Asta from Black Clover. Not that I'm the biggest fan of Black Clover itself or Asta himself, but I don't hate him or anything and he does have some cool moments. Plus, I do believe he has a really cool design. And I was glad to have found a collectible of him on eBay for a good price. Although, the one I actually got has this kinda weird yellow-ish tint on him which is a little odd, but it's still great to have him and have another anime protagonist as a collectible. I mainly want to focus on that in particular for a while. And so, here it is and I hope you all like this.

SORA IS IN SMASH

WELL, EVERYONE, THE TIME HAS FINALLY COME. AFTER ALL THIS TIME AND AFTER SO MANY PEOPLE, INCLUDING ME, HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR YEARS TO HAVE SORA BE PUT INTO SUPER SMASH BROS, IT'S FINALLY HAPPENED. JUST A FEW HOURS AGO, THE TRAILER REVEALING THE LAST CHARACTER FOR SUPER SMASH BROS. ULTIMATE WAS ANNOUNCED AND IT WAS REVEALED TO FINALLY BE SORA. I LOST MY MIND WHEN I SAW IT AND SO DID A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE. I CANNOT EXPRESS MY HAPPINESS ENOUGH. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S REALLY HAPPENING. AND WE GOT TO SEE SO MUCH FROM HIM LIKE HIS DIFFERENT SUITS FROM THE GAMES, HIS COMBAT, HIS FINAL SMASH, HIS STAGE, THE MUSIC WE'LL GET WITH HIM AND SO MUCH MORE. AND, NOT ONLY THIS, BUT IT WAS ALSO ANNOUNCED THAT THEY'RE FINALLY GONNA BE BRINGING THE KINGDOM HEARTS GAMES TO THE SWITCH FOR THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY NEXT YEAR. I EVEN MADE A VIDEO ABOUT IT ON MY CHANNEL AND A TWEET ABOUT IT THAT I'M SO HAPPY  ABOUT. THIS HAS JUST BEEN A HUGE DAY FOR KINGDOM HEARTS FANS LIKE ME AND I AM SO, SO, SO BEYOND EXCITED. AND SO, HERE'S THE SMASH TRAILER FOR SORA.

Anime t-shirt collection

So, this is a relatively small thing I did yesterday on my YouTube channel, but, really wanted to show it here because I liked the idea. I did a small video showing my different anime t-shirts. I just had the idea the other day and since I'm trying to talk about anime a lot more on my channel, it just seemed fun to do. So, yeah, not really anything super out of the ordinary with this, but I do have a whole bunch of these and even ones for shows I've seen but not mentioned on here yet before. The thumbnail might not look like much but the photo was taken a while back so I've gotten more since then and I wanted to show them all here as well as talk about some ideas I have for more really soon. And so, here it is and I hope you all like this.

My Android 18 collectible (Review)

So, I'm back to getting more Dragon Ball collectibles. I actually haven't gotten one since April and I was finally able to get another yesterday with getting one for Android 18. It took me a while to get her but I finally did. And, in terms of me trying to get the competitors of Team Universe 7 from the Tournament Of Power, the only two left for me to get are Krillin and Tien. Hopefully I'll be getting them soon, but, for now, I'm happy to have gotten another one of the characters and adding them to the collection and so, here it is and I hope you all like this. 

Anime merchandise collection

So, I may have mentioned last year at some point that I was hoping to sorta do this thing I thought of where I would collect one thing from an anime I like that I could wear and then have them all together in one big cosplay. And, so, I did. I got a whole bunch of things last year for it along with some other things I had been getting for year and put them together. I'm still doing it, but I'm really happy with how it's going so far and I'm really excited for the other things I could be getting for it soon. I explain everything and what they are in the video and I was really happy with the way both the cosplay and the video themselves turned out. And so, here it is and I hope you all like this.

Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings

So, guys, now after Black Widow, we're back with another M.C.U movie and honestly one I was really excited for as the release date got closer, Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings. I remember not being particularly excited for this when it was first announced, but, recently, with the new trailers and the reception I've been hearing it's getting, it just built my anticipation for this more and more. And so, in the end, I gotta say, this is probably my favourite standalone M.C.U movie since Black Panther. I loved so much about this film. Like I said, I wasn't that excited for this for a while until fairly recently, but it pretty much exceeded my expectations. I had a really, really great time with this film. And, again, like always, I'll be going with no spoilers for first part and then have a spoiler section later. And so, what's the story? We're following a guy named Shang-Chi, played by Simu Liu, in San Francisco with him trying to live a normal life but he's then attacked by a group of people who were sent by his dad who's looking for him because he left their home. So, after he's attacked, he tries to find out what his dad's up to and stop him. So, immediately, one of the biggest things I loved the most about this was the cast. This is probably my favourite ensemble of cast in a solo Marvel movie we've seen in a few years. I absolutely loved Simu Liu as Shang-Chi himself. He's super fun, super likeable, super funny and is a very charismatic actor. I thought he did a phenomenal job. Awkwafina's in this as his friend from San Francisco named Katy and she's really funny as well and likeable, and the rest of the cast do just as phenomenal a job as them. The film is also fantastically directed. This was directed by Destin Daniel Cretton who did a great job with this. The cinematography is really gorgeous in this and the locations are really great to see. The film's also really funny. It has really laugh out loud moments and it's has a great way of telling its story as well with great flashbacks so you understand everyone's motivations. But, really, I think the best part of this film was the action. This has probably my favourite action scenes in any M.C.U movie. With a movie like this, they were gonna need to find someone who could do incredible action scenes considering these characters are all about martial arts and Destin Daniel Cretton did an unbelievably fantastic job with these action scenes. There's the scene on the bus that we saw in the trailers that was so much fun to watch and was perfectly shot and edited and the cinematography in that scene was incredible. But I think my favourite fight scene was with Shang on the outside of a building fighting a whole bunch of guys on a scaffolding and he's fighting them as he's making his way down. The cinematography and the choreography in that scene was so incredible, especially the part when he fights one guy with knives inside the building. Also, this film has one really insane climax. I know we've had a bunch of crazy M.C.U climaxes before, but the climax to this film is absolutely bonkers and I loved it. I'm obviously not spoiling it here, but it's an absolutely insane final battle that I didn't even expect. But, even beyond the insanity of it, it is just a really exciting finale and it has some of the best visuals in the M.C.U. There's also a nice variety of action as well as a bunch of interesting and creative things in the scenes too. Also, I just really enjoyed the journey of the whole films. Like I said, they do a bunch of different things to show the pasts of all these characters and it made a lot of them all the more likeable. It also made some things that happen all the more tragic towards the end. As far as the villains in the film, we already knew the Mandarin was gonna be in this properly and, while he's not one of the better M.C.U villains ever, he does have a better motivation than some of the others. Plus, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung did a fantastic job with the performance. I will say, there are some things about his character that're a little odd, but I'll get into that in the spoiler section. And, as far as connections to other things in the M.C.U, there's not a ton. There's some mentions here and there as well as when we see Wong and Abomination like we saw in the trailers, plus there's the mid credit scene, but aside from that's there's not really anything, which is cool. I like how they don't need to have these huge films that's connected to the other films that much and is still its own thing. I really like a lot of that about this. There's also a character who appears in this that was really funny and cool to see, but, again, I won't spoil it. There's also a good amount of twists in this I didn't expect. Aside from the ending that I already mentioned, there are some surprises in this I didn't expect and I loved that about this. as far as any negatives I have with the film, there aren't many but I think the only one I might have is that the pacing at the start was maybe a bit too fast. The pacing in the rest of the film is really well done, but I do feel like its opening was a little too fast when Shang is in San Francisco and I may have wanted a bit more time there, but that's really about it. Overall, I absolutely loved this film. It's, in my opinion, one of the best solo M.C.U movies and one of the best in the past few years. I can't wait to see it again and see more of these characters in this universe. And, so, everyone, those are my thoughts on Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings. Thank you all for reading and please comment down below to tell me what you think. All right, we're going into the spoilers now. If you don't want it spoiled, go see the film then come back here.

Spoilers:

All right, I guess the first big spoiler is when it's revealed that Shang has a sister and that's the person with the other pendant that his dad was looking for. I really enjoyed the scene in that fight club. It was funny and it was cool to see Wong and Abomination there. Though, I am curious how Abomination looks different now. And, I liked when they went to the Mandarin's home and we learn more about their history with Shang and his sister. Also, on that, the part about the Mandarin that I found weird was when it revealed he wants to invade his wife's home because he believes they have her behind some gate or something. I found that weird for a few reasons. One, he saw his wife die before so I'm not sure why he'd think that, and also the whole thing of him hearing her voice was strange. I know it's because of the rings and the creatures were trying to trick him, but something about that didn't click with me. But, I did appreciate that he had a better motivation than other M.C.U villains. Anyway, I loved the flashbacks where we see Shang and his sister as kids and we learn their history. I think my favourite part from that though was the fight in the restaurant. It was just another fantastically choregraphed fight. Also, the big character who I was talking about that I didn't expect was Trevor. I guess I sorta had a feeling he's return because of that All Hail The King short, but it was surprising to see him but I loved seeing him again and he was hilarious and Ben Kingsley did a fantastic job with him. And, on the final battle I was mentioning, I found it crazy when we got to see a whole bunch of dragons around the place and Shang is fighting his dad. Plus, I didn't expect to see his dad get killed by that dragon. I really did think Shang himself was gonna do it. Also, I'm pretty sure they reference Dragon Ball when Shang has all the rings and he makes some energy orb with them. I'm pretty sure Katy herself mentioned that too. Speaking of, it was cool that she helped bring down that final dragon with an arrow. And then the ending was nice with them back in San Francisco, but then it was made cooler when Wong showed up and asked to speak with them. And, as the credit scenes, the first one was cool when we got to see Carol and Bruce with Wong, Shang and Katy examining the rings thinking they're sending a beacon to  something. so, that was interesting and made me wonder what exactly this could mean for the future of the M.C.U. Also, I'm wondering how Bruce turned back to normal. And, as far as the end credit scene, it was cool to see Shang's sister take over the Ten Rings headquarters. It was also cool when we see the screen say "The Ten Rings Will Return." Again, there's just so many possibilities coming from this and I'm really excited. And, I think that's everything. Really, I just had so much fun with this film and I'm so excited to see it again. And, yeah, everyone, those are all my thoughts on Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings. Thank you all for reading and please comment down below to tell me what you think.