SailorFini's Media Reflection Blog

Marvel movies are great, and I've pretty much seen all of the ones that have come out in the last 4 years, besides a few like the X-Men and Captain America. This means I'm sitting on the release of the Disney streaming service and I'm reading a fair few of the Marvel Now! comics. But me catching up on all of the comics (and waiting for the Young Avengers to be put into the MCU) isn't important here. What is important is last years Thor Ragnarok. Just visually Thor Ragnarok is very bright, and not many other MCU/ DC movies have been that colourful, well besides one which would be the Guardians movies. Since I haven't seen the other Thor movies, I'm not sure what the humour is like in them, but the humour used in the movie is similar to the style used in most of the other MCU films, and the addition of Korg just makes everything better. Describing this movie to someone who has never seen it before is basically Guardians meet Asgard and then Thor joins a fight...

So it turns out that this is the first time I've seen the entirety of Shrek 1, I'm 14 and have only just seen all of Shrek 1. Because when I was a kid all I saw was Shrek 2 since we owned that on DVD, so I was never exposed to Smash Mouth's All-Star until it became a massive meme. Now I'm doing a reflection on this film after seeing it for the first time. Shrek has plenty of pop culture reference in it and I think it makes the whole thing a lot cooler. While it's not in the Ready Player One level of references, it's always super cool to see something that you recognise in another film. I think that it adds to the story as it makes it a lot more exciting, but I can see why other people may think that it distracts from the story. Mainly because they may start thinking, where have I seen that before and then miss part of the story. Ultimately I think having pop culture references in Shrek makes the movie a lot better. Hallejuah is used in the movie after Fio...

Just before I start this reflection I missed out on the first half of the film, so there's probably some important stuff I missed. For me personally, this is the only Jumanji I've seen as I haven't seen the new one, but I reckon it would be interesting to see the how each movie is different. One of the things I noticed while watching the movie is the CGI animals that show up in the film, especially after the boy tries to finish the game and then transforms into a monkey. Those monkeys, as well as the other animals, certainly haven't aged well. They look very out of place in comparison to everything, although these effects haven't aged well we have improved our CGI animals in movies as seen in the live action Jungle Book movie. The same would go for when the boy turns into a monkey although it's impressive it falls into some area of the uncanny valley. However, the vines are probably one of the most well-aged effects they look good and are sort of realistic ...

Compared to many of the other shows I've reflected on Community is one I haven't seen before, so modern warfare is my first experience of the show. Personally, I wouldn't say this episode is one of the best episodes to show a newcomer to the series since it's pretty hard to get a grip on who the characters are and what's going on. The episode mainly revolves around the school having a paintball fight about who should win the prize, with the prize being a Blu-Ray DVD player, but that was stolen so it was changed to 'TBD' (later revealed to be priority registration). The genre that the episodes represent is very clearly action with multiple references to other action movies such as Die Hard and The Matrix. Whether the episode slots in with another movie genre I'm not quite sure. One of the movie references I picked up while watching the episode was the Die Hard reference (although it was thanks to the Brooklyn 99 character Jake Peralta's love fo...

I've talked about Brooklyn 99 before on this blog, but I haven't yet talked about the pilot episode of the series. The pilot episode of a show is one the most important episodes, it's meant to set up the show and get viewers interested and the pilot for Brooklyn 99 does exactly that (it's what made me want to watch the rest of the show so clearly it did a good job). The episode was mainly structured to set up for the rest of the series. It introduced to all the characters with short descriptions of each and it showed two different crime scenes to show the crew working together. I think it was very important that they introduced all of the characters, as without the knowledge of who everyone is, it makes the show feel a bit empty. All the characters were introduced quickly with memorable scenes (that are all in the opening so you can remember them). This made it quick and easy to remember everyone and to choose a favourite. Rosa is easily one of my favourite ...

The Halloween episodes of Brooklyn 99 are undoubtedly some of the best in the show (if they aren't then they totally are to me). The first one starts the long saga of the Halloween Heists. In this one, Jake promises Holt that he will be able to take Holt's Medal of Valour. While this one isn't my favourite of the Halloween episodes it certainly started the legacy of amazing Halloween episodes. I like to think that the purpose of these episodes is to have something fun and very different in the series. All of the Halloween episodes seem to have a very different vibe to all of them. It's like we see a different side to some of the characters, especially Holt. It's very strange to see Holt acting differently to how he normally is, but I guess that's part of the appeal of these Halloween episodes. It also gives us a break from the normal episodes, where sometimes the plot can be a bit heavier. After this first episode, the purpose of the Halloween episode is, o...

Unlike everything else I have reflected on in this blog, Life - Creatures of the Deep is the first Non-Fiction show I will reflect on. Now just like Fiction stories, Non-Fiction can still tell stories (although some are pretty much just facts). Biographies are amazing examples that Non-Fiction topics can indeed convey a story some you may have heard of include, 'The Theory of Everything', 'The Winds Rises' and 'Tokyo Idols'. Creatures of the Deep also tells a story, but this one is split up into many different segments. And each of these segments focused on a different animal. There is one segment about cuttlefish, another about starfish, one about a coral reef and one about crabs. During the cuttlefish segment, it told the story about the cuttlefish mating season and how the males protect the females. When it goes to the starfish, it covers their daily ways of life and how they kill. Then there is the story of how a coral reef starts and develops. And final...

Describing Adventure Time to somebody who has never seen it before has gotten increasingly harder as the series has gone on. In the first few seasons, you probably could have said, 'A boy and his dog go on wacky adventures.' When we watched it, we jumped straight into season 9, and I was surprised to see that Fin had a robotic hand. Last time I saw Adventure Time, he had two completely normal hands, and now he has a robotic hand. Without watching the prior seasons, there is no explanation as to why he has this. Similar to what I said in my Steven Universe reflection, it starts off with a fairly simple idea which evolves into a bigger and deeper storyline the more popular it becomes. So if I were to be explaining to a first timer, I would probably say: A boy and his dog go on wacky adventures, which lead to relationships, sad scenes, loss of limbs and deep plotline. Seeing where the series is now, it's best to start with episode 1, rather than whatever episode is curren...