Top Ten Superhero Moments

Hey yall, nothing captivating really happened this week, but tonight is the night I've been waiting for since last years The Dark Knight Rises utterly disappointed me. Yes, I am indeed referring to the release of Zach Snyder's "Man of Steel". I love superheros, and whenever one makes it to the big screen I can't help but have a bit of a bias towards liking the movie regardless of the inevitable camp. But before I go and see America's first super hero in his epic action, let's take a look at my personal favorite moments in super hero movie history

#10 Superman Flies around the world really fast and reverses time(Superman, 1978)

Okay, okay, I know this scene is pretty much just the definition of Deus Ex macchina, and opens up a world of inconsistencies (why didn't he do that in every movie?) but this film INVENTED the superhero movie.  It's become a common theme in superhero cinema to have the hero showcase their best abilities in the climax, and that practice was first done in Donner's Superman. And that theme song is just great

#9 Spidey & New Goblin vs. Venom  & Sandman(Spider-man 3, 2007)

You are probably thinking "HOWZ THIS ON THE LIST SPIDER MAN TREE MEZZED UP VENOM HE WUZ IN THAR FUR LYK TEN MINETTEZ". That may be true, but those ten minutes were [expletive] -ing awesome.  His size left something to be desired, but Venom looked ILL.  It was an iconic fight, helped give Spider-man 3 SOME credibility.

#8 Statue of Liberty battle (X-Men 1999)

This was among one of the first superhero movies I ever saw, and it dared to go somewhere the genre had never gone.  Nolan's Batman Begins made darker, socially undertoney movies the norm, but X-Men is where that all started.  This scene has some of Marvel's finest heroes stopping some of Marvel's finest villains  from unleashing his plot to kill all humans... because he is racist.

#7 Thor invades Jodenheim (Thor, 2011)

(clip's from the next scene.. all i could find... sorry)

This was probably the most epic scene in the movie. Only problem was, it happened in the beginning, then left us with a two hour lull of Shakespear-esque drama. Oh well, I guess that's just Kenneth Branagh doing his thang.

#6 Iron Man and War Machine vs. an army of drones (Iron Man II, 2010)

Iron Man II is one of those movies that people don't really like. Sure, it really skimped on Iron Man action. Sure, the villain kinda sucked. But it had a few things going for it. 1)Don Cheadle 2)Scarlett Johansson 2)This Scene. Its got it all, witty RDJ banter, men in metal suits effing ish up, and....well thats about it

#5 Batman/Joker interrogation (The Dark Knight, 2008)

My mom would probably agree that great acting is more important than great action.  My mom has also never seen the Dark Knight because she "hates science fiction". Her loss. RIP Heath

#4 Tony's one-boot one-gauntlet brawl(Iron man 3, 2013)

Recent Iron Man films had Tony seeming virtually invincible when he's inside his suit. Black's Iron Man 3 changed things up, and dealt with Tony's dependence on his suits.  When only two parts of his suit any his call to battle, Tony is left to fight off Killian's henchmen, exposed, and the stakes are higher than ever

#3 Batman's big unveiling (Batman Begins, 2005)

How do you keep a superhero realistic and exciting at the same time? Chris Nolan knows how! Two words: su. spense.  After a long backstory, Batman slowly unveils himself, utters everyones FAVORITE line, then knocks out Falconi

#2 Spidey vs Doc Ock on a Train(Spider-man 2, 2004)

This scene is the quintessence of superhero films. There's a good guy, there's a bad guy, there are innocent civilian's as leverage. It's just so exciting, Despite the fact that Spidey technically loses in the end. I loved this scene when I saw it at age ten, and I still love it to this day

#1 The Avengers v the Chitauri (Avengers, 2012)

This is going to be hard for future movies to top.  This is pretty much the reason people love superhero movies.  Some of the most iconic characters in comic history, sharing the screen, fighting bad guys. The juxtaposition of Iron Man, Hulk, and Thor alone is mind boggling! The reason Marvel's comics were so great is that everyone's favorite titans shared a universe, and were able to team up.  Whedon brought this concept perfectly over to cinema, especially with that one continuous shot that pans through all the Avengers. As an added plus, this movie made it absolutely imperative that DC/Warner Bros get on track to a Justice League movie, which will probably have and equally if not better climax!

So that's it. I have tickets to see MoS in an hour, so tomorrow I'll throw up an update to how that was. For now, I'll live you with a quote which needs no citation, "UP UP AND AWAY!"

One week down

Howdy, it's been a few days since i posted, which was really concerning my parents. But note that this was my first week of working 40 hours, which has been taking a toll on me, I have complete faith that I'll adjust.  Anyways, I found out what my main assignment for the summer will be. Basically my employer has these power supplies all over the country, and needs a system set up to make sure they are in working order. Problem is, half these supplies aren't even in the company database, so I have to track them down, get the correct data, and then set up said system. I took a tour of the facility, and took some sweeeeet pictures, but I'll hold off on posting them because they totally spoil where I work.  My boss said he'd look into the policy regarding whether or not I can say it on here.
In other news, I went to the pier for dinner Wednesday, to  a restaurant with a 360 degree view of the ocean, and live music:

Also, this week brought us a Magic Johnson sighting!

Sweet I know, yesterday I took Sheila out for a spin and was violently assaulted by 6 foot waves. Looks like i need some practice, which is why I'm headed to the beach after this post.

Last night I went to a boxing match, which was something I'd never done before, and it was much more intense than I anticipated

That's It for this post, hopefully I'll be getting myself into more misadventures soon!

YQ

Getting Acclimated. . .

When I last posted it was saturday, and I had yet to figure out the wifi in my apartment. Turns out the back of the packet that the cable company left had the SSID and WPS key written on it, so that solved that mystery.  After that saga was over, I decided to head to Redondo beach, which turned out to be only a half hour walk from my apartment. It's a really cool area, which is evident from the sign:

And of course the Pier itself:

But of course, I was only interested in the waves:

I then proceeded to go to a small Mexican food establishment, after a brief episode of embarrassment due to the fact that I didn't know what a "wet" burrito was, and the fact that the woman working did not speak English at all and couldn't explain it to me, I received one of the best burritos I've ever had. Apparently a "wet" burrito is one that has been soaked in salsa, rendering it delicious but also very messy unless eaten with a fork and knife:

After returning from the pier I decided to go shopping at Vons, a SoCal supermarket chain which happens to have a franchise across the street from my apartment. I couldn't believe some of the deals.  I then fell alseep watching Frida on the Spanish channel.

My trip to the beach on Saturday solidified my intentions to buy a surfboard, so Sunday morning I picked up this baby for the unbeatable price of $50, I call her "Sheila" 

Sunday afternoon my roommate moved in, and we had dinner with two of our supervisors, and today we started work. Turns out our employer will be providing us with a Toyota Forerunner to share over the summer which is going to be SOOOOOOO clutch other than the fact that it gets like 17 miles to the gallon. I'd write more about how work went but it was the first day so nothing important really happened other than some boilerplate orientation stuff, plus this post is getting pretty long as is.

Stay tuned!

YQ

Touched down in LA successfully! Well, that was yesterday, but I've had a day to collect my thoughts before writing. I woke up this morning with no alarm at 7, so clearly the jetlag is still affecting me.  My apartment is pretty sweet, my roommate(who isn't here yet) and I both get our own bathrooms, so I wont have to deal with the travesty of a bathroom that I had freshman year of college. Just thinking about that makes me sick, but I digress.

As I write this I am sitting on the rather comfy carpet of my living room, with my computer plugged into the Ethernet port on the router. This is because there are like 30 wi-fi networks in range with rando names and I cannot for the life of me figure out which one corresponds to the router 6 inches from my head.  Figuring this out is on today's to-do list. Also on that list is a walk to Redondo Beach to see what all the fuss is about. There's also an In-n-Out Burger about a mile from here, which I need to check out at some point. And I mean ACTUALLY check out, unlike the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, which I lived across the street from so a year and never went into.

Anyway, that's about it for updates, but I have only been here about a day. Next post will probably contain some pictures too.

Peace out,

YQ