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 ...

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...