Sorry Mom’s, Deadpool shouldn’t be PG-13

Unless you avoid facebook and some of its click bait posts, or you aren’t a nerd and just so happened to randomly find this, then you have seen the story about the 8 yr old boy who told his mother he should go see it. It was then followed up by a youtuber who decided to start a petition to make the studio release a PG-13 version. It is clear that this woman does not know anything about deadpool, or she would have understood the reason why Deadpool can’t and shouldn’t be made in a PG-13 version.

Deadpool was never written or animated to be a comic book for children. Deadpool has always been a character that was more Adult themed. While he has appeared in a handful of various Spiderman and other superhero comics, he has always been a foul mouthed merciless killer. Since his inception in the early 90’s, Deadpool has been shot, stabbed, crushed, ripped apart, and even turn into a fine red mist by the Hulk himself. He is a bit of a lunatic and has voices in his head. Deadpool is one of those few characters that while in other comics, still always is one of those that was geared towards adult readers rather than children.

I realize that part of this small push for a PG13 deadpool stems from his appearance in the spiderman cartoons. The fact of the matter is, that Deadpool is an extremely Tame and toned down version. I realize that many of the young kids, see the Marvel logo attached to Deadpool and think that is must be another super hero like Iron man, Thor, and Captain America.

Deadpool is quite possibly the polar opposite of Captain America. It’s Ironic cause Deadpool is a Canadian but he is also a man with almost zero morals or filter. Captain America was built to be a character that the whole family could get behind. His comics were something anyone could read, but Deadpool has never been a family friendly character. He has been a mercenary that killed people thought deserved death. He was a killer for hire. Does that sound like a Character you want an 8yr old child to be reading about or seeing a movie about? I would hope not.

Another part of Deadpool’s story has him fall for a prostitute. Yes it is in his back story. He fell in love with a prostitute and then got cancer. He then Went through a similiar process that Wolverine went through which is why he has the ability to heal and is pretty much immortal. Dead pool’s history and story is always dark and marred with nothing but violence and death. As long as i have loved comics, Deadpool was never one of the ones i thought was a kid friendly character. I can not ever support a petition to tame down his character as it would only make children want to explore the character and once they discover his comics and the fact that he is not like the Thor’s and Cap’n of the world, they could be turned off. On top of that if parents were to discover this (having not known what deadpool was about) they could start a backlash against studio’s preventing us adults from getting grittier more realistic movies based on our favorite characters.

I am urging the nerd parents of the world, or the parents who have nerdy kids. If you wish to fight for PG-13 please go buy a few deadpool comics and read them. I assure you that after you read them you will reconsider wanting your kid to follow him. I am not a parent so i can not accurately tell you how to raise your child, i am merely suggesting that anything under 15 is not a suitable age for Deadpool, especially if your child is 8, the fact that you would let him see a pg13 deadpool worries me slightly. Please, as a nerd in his 30’s it is very rare that i get a superhero movie the way it should be. Please don’t take this away from me.

StarWars The Disney Gold Machine.

This Review is Spoiler Free. I double checked.

So StarWars has been out for four days now and it has been raking in the money. Luckily for many of the people out there, it wasn’t relatively spoiled amongst the internet. As far as i concerned, the movie was well received amongst the StarWars fans, and by that i mean they absolutely killed it. I will be honest, i was a little scared at first, I was not afraid of what Disney would release, it was more that i was afraid that the movie would not live up to the expectations. I know there are people out there that don’t like the fact that disney owns the StarWars franchise, but lets be honest with ourselves. How many studios could write JJ Abrams a blank check for the movie. Making StarWars back in the day was on a rather cheap budget, with the amount of money being put into the block buster movies; Disney needed to be able to go distance to make this movie work. Now it has been said that it cost Disney between 175 and 200 million to make the StarWars, and that doesn’t include all the marketing and commercials.

There has been some people out there who may not like the StarWars The Force Awakens because they think that they played it too safe when making the movie. I will agree that they played it a little safe, but they did it right. Lets be honest, no one was more scared than Disney about this movie. While the three prequels did make money, they did not sit well with the die hard Jedi and Sith of the world. Disney knew that if they were going to revive the franchise, they were going to take the safe route and make sure that they kept it true to the original story that the StarWars fans hold so dearly to their hearts. I thought that Disney and JJ Abrams did an amazing job making a new movie. They built a movie that both people who new to the franchise and who have been there since the beginning can enjoy.

I was Lucky enough to get to see the movie on Saturday, and i must say that it brought back all the memories of my childhood. I loved StarWars as a kid. Its funny to think of how popular that movie was in the 90’s when i was growing up, and getting to see what happened to all my favorite characters was like seeing an old friend after years apart. It was touching it was gripping, and it was also a good bit funny. I was surprised how well JJ and the team were able to put in very subtle jokes and digs throughout the movie. It really broke up the movie nicely. The fact of the matter is, Disney is dominating the box office, having grossed over $530 Million world wide. Can it continue this pace through the rest of december; I expect it to dominate. Several of my friends have already seen the movie two or three times and i intend to see it again. While Disney was printing their own Money with the success of Marvel, JJ Abrams quiet possibly secured Disney their very first Solid Gold printer.

I can only hope that the next StarWars movie takes a bold leap in trying to change the game and maybe break the box office with a movie so stunning, no one can match it. I look forward to seeing What the disney blank check has to offer with the resounding success of their newest Franchise. I can only hope that Fort Knox has already given JJ the key to their vault.

May the Force be with you!

Star Wars Battle Front. A good game in theory.

I realize that many of you are probably too busy being engulfed by deathclaws to put down the pipboy and try a new game, but as i am sure you are all aware of StarWars battlefront, which released shortly after Fallout4. If you haven’t then now you know that the game is out there. I am a big fan of Star Wars; their movies and games. Now don’t take that as i know every single aspect of the movies and books because i don’t. I know the basic things about the movies and the stories, but i can’t tell you every minute detail about them.

I loved the last Star Wars game, and i preordered this one long in advance, and i can easily say that i am a little disappointed by the finished product of the game. There might be some people out there who think i must be crazy but hear me out first, there is a method to my madness. The game is worth playing at least once or twice, but there is a handful of tweaks that need to be made or this game will turn into another Battlefield4 where there are nothing but glitches and headaches that cause people to walk away from the game.

Problem number 1: Invincibility glitch

If you haven’t seen it yet, i suggest looking up videos about the battle Front Invincibility glitch. Long story short, if you are in one of the fighter, or x-wings, and the game lags you will crash but the game will toss you out of the ship. When the game catches up, you will find yourself out of the ship and on the ground with a new power, not being able to be killed. Basically something happens where it registers you still in the ship and it allows you to shoot people, but the blasters no longer work on you.

I have seen a few videos of people following the invincible person and shooting them till their blaster overheats and not getting the kill. It is pretty clear that the person exploiting this glitch knows what is going on. At first they may have been confused as to why they aren’t in the ship, but after the kill one or two guys that are tearing them apart with blaster. They realize they are immortal and abuse that new power. While its not the most prominent, it still exists and really frustrates other games and makes them not want to play if this can’t be fixed because more and more people will begin to try and exploit this glitch.

Problem number 2: Poor match making.

If you have played any shooting game ever, then you know there comes a time when you are going to get into a game where you are playing people who are a higher level than you, and you are probably going to have a bad time. This happens quite a bit in Battlefront, where you find yourself playing people who are quite a few levels higher than you, and you are getting blasted by guns that you can’t unlock for a while. The game does try to balance that out by letting you use the perks that your partner has, but if they are as just a low level as you then you are again going to have a bad time. There were several times that i was getting destroyed, barely getting out of spawn before i got roasted by some guns.

Problem number 3: The buddy Spawn is annoying.

Another crazy thing about this game is the way the spawning works. If you have played Battlefield, then you know you can be in a squad and you can spawn on any one of your squad members as long as they aren’t in combat. Battle Front kinda does this. When the game starts you are partnered with one other person, and you can spawn on them where ever they are in the map, and they can spawn on you. This becomes a problem when your teammate is incredibly bad at this game and they decide to rage quite 3 minutes into the game. If this happens then you are out of luck and you get to travel the 120m to the objective.

There were quite a few games where i would capture a point and i would get shot because the entire team spawned on their friends and over ran us, then we would have to run 100m or more to get to the point and by then it is about 50% captured and there is almost no way of retaking it. This becomes a problem when you can’t spawn on anyone because half the people on your team just jumped in and you are sitting there with no spawn friend. This means that if you have a group of 4 or more friends, you can easily dominate matches as long as you can spawn on your friends and not some random kid that rage quits every time he gets shot too many times. I realize that they didn’t want you to be able to spawn on everyone on your team, but they need to fix the spawn because i have watched my team get over run and get a big old goose egg because no one on our team can spawn and the other team is spawning like flies near the point.

Problem number 4: Are the guns broken?

One of the things i did notice about this game, is sometimes your crosshairs are on a person, but you don’t seem to get a hit on the player. I chalk this up to the fact that the bolts have a bit of a delay so you need to lead the person a bit, but it is a little frustrating when you are trying to hammer someone with your blaster and they somehow turn around and pop you with two shots. Another thing i noticed the other day while playing was an issue with some of the guns. One of the cards you can pick up is a scout pistol. Its a little powerful bond like pistol.

A few times i would pull it and empty half the gun into someone and they would drop me, other times i would get hit with one burst from the pistol and fall over. Its really frustrating but it could be sever lag. they might have a super high ping so their game says hey i shot you 5 times when on my game with my low ping i was only shot 1 or 2 times. Another weird issue i noticed was with the plasma rifle. Several times i have point blanked someone with the rifle and not got a kill, but i am sprinting up the map and get dropped from the other side of the map. Server lag again? Its possible but clearly there are some discrepancies in the game. I do think that Hans blaster needs nerf’d (Nerf’d or Nerfed means that you need to lower the Power) just a tad. The gun is pretty much a 1 or two shot kill; at least in the games i was in i was watching people get dropped almost instantly from that gun.

Problem Number 5: OP Heroes and villains. (Op means over powered)

There is a part of the game which is incredibly fun but a little frustrating. Its the Hero battle, where its a 6 on 6 matchup. at the start of each round the rebels get 3 heroes and the empire gets 3 villains. The good guys get Han, Leia, and Luke. Leia is a pretty useless hero by herself. Any time i get Leia i pretty much try to stay close to the person playing Luke or Han, the reasoning is because she has the ability to drop a shield or a health pick up. Basically Leia is best used for healing her fellow heroes and not directly getting into the battle. Han and Luke are both pretty balanced.

Han can do some real damage with his blaster, but if he gets into a gun fight with too many people he is going to get low on health rather quick. If you know how to play Luke right, he can easily win you the game, the same with Vader. If you know how to harness either of those characters, you can more than likely win the game or drop two of their heroes before you die. Emperor Palpatine is a joke. He is by far the worst character to get. He is incredibly slow and his powers are pretty bad. His lightening blast has a limited distance which means you have to get up close to battle which can be a death sentence when he starts taking damage. He has this move where he jumps and spins, but as many times as i have used that move, it doesn’t seem to do any damage but get you away from your attackers. The one good thing he has is his ability to drop hero tokens. He is basically the healer for the empire and not meant to get into the fire fight unless he has no choice.

Boba Fett is by far the most over powered in the game. If you know how to use him and your team is somewhat reliable, then you can wreck everyone in the game. There was a point when i was playing the other night with several friends where we were just smashing through the other team. Boba Fett has the jet pack, which means you can get up high on the map where most people can’t. If you have the jetpack card or are Luke, then you can get up and battle Boba fett, but don’t be surprised if you die pretty easily. Boba has a flame thrower which isn’t that great unless you are in a face to face battle, but his rockets are devastating. Atleast one or two games, i found myself hanging out (Camping if you wanna cry about it) on top of a ship and raining down Bounty Hunter Justice. While my blaster isn’t the best, i can fly and move quick so i was dropping people trying to snipe or hide, any time Leia would drop a shield i would fire a rocket in her direction. I am not sure if the Rockets lock on, or they are wire guided; i am guessing they are wire guided. I was able to nail and do quite a good bit of damage to any hero who got a taste of my rockets. The rockets and flames are pretty much instant death to any regular soldier who stood in my way. Boba Fett can easily wipe out Leia and Han if its being wielded by someone with a few hours under their belt. The hero mode is fun, but it can be a little frustrating when you aren’t the hero. You tend to watch from the kill screen more often than not if you try to rush into things, but it does teach you to work with teams.

Problem Number 6: There is no voice chat.

From What i have seen in the game, there is no public voice chat. this is both a blessing and a curse. If you have ever played Call of Duty, then you know the sound of a 12yr old kid telling you the things he is going to do to your mom, or calling you every vulgar thing under the son. It can be really annoying when someone just starts swearing because they are super tough on the internet, but it also makes the game incredibly difficult, especially some of the games where you need to move as a unit or coordinate where the heroes need to move to. The only time some of the multiplayer games are fun is if you have a bunch of friends in a party chat, other than that you are pretty much just going it alone and hoping one of your partners has the same idea that you do.

Problem Number 7: Lack luster Single player.

It feels more like a tutorial of how to play in the multiplayer than a single player game. I love playing Single player, which is why i bought fallout4, Sometimes you just want to be luke and go to town on some computer AI because they don’t know how to wait until your bolt blocking skill has run out.

 

The game is worth playing, it is a lot of fun and very exciting, i just hope that they make some changes to make the game a little better and more fun for newer players that are coming into the game fresh.

Mad Max Fury Road. Awesome and Shiny!

Mad Max Fury Road is the newest installment in the George Miller Post Apocalypse fun house. This movie is the fourth in the series and it did not disappoint. While the three Prior Mad Max movies stared Mel Gibson, George Miller decided to go a new direction and give the lead role to the super villain Bane, (Tom Hardy). The movie was originally supposed to be filmed in Australia where the story takes place, unusually wet weather in the Australian desert  forced them to delay shooting and eventually shoot the film in Africa. The film, which was highly publicized and anticipated, was released on May 15, 2015.

Without saying to much to spoil the movie, It contained enough Explosions and fireballs to make Michael Bay giddy.

The movie definitely stuck very close to its roots which is most likely due to George Miller’s continuing with his project, on top of the fact that he has a passion for using practical affects rather than using CGI for action sequences. Throughout most of the movie, there is a large truck chalk full of guitar amps with large drummers on the back. In front of the amplifiers, a single guitarist hung by bungie chords playing a flame spitting guitar. While most people even myself thought much of his scenes might have been CGI, a recent interview with MTV would prove different. It was revealed that not only did the guitar shoot large balls of fire, but it was also a fully functioning guitar plugged into a fully functioning wall of Amplifiers.

While the Guitar playing “War Boy” (As they are called) does not draw focus and take away from the film, it is a rather welcome addition as it only adds to the feel of the movie. The guitar combined with the war drums, is almost a rally cry for the War Boys as they chase Max through the desert. On top of the moving concert, many of the war vehicles were also completely drivable and used through the entire movie. This only made the movie feel more realistic. While i didn’t see the movie in 3D, i can only imagine that it would have made the movie that much more intense, to combine many practical affects with the in your face 3D glasses.

One of the big points of this move was Charlize Theron, who plays “The Imperator Furiosa” in the movie. the Imperator is basically the right hand of Immortan Joe which was played by Hugh Keays-Byrne. Many people complain that movies have become very sexist against women, in the fact that women can only be kick ass characters until a man shows up and then they become helpless and need the man to save them and basically save the day. This movie did not come off on that in any way. If anything i felt that Mad Max would have been dead long before if it wasn’t for Furiosa and her ability to be hardcore.

  One of the scenes that sticks out is when one of Immortan Joe’s brothers is tracking their truck at night and is using a spotlight and random gun fire to lure them out. Max fires two shots, missing both. Furiosa comes up and takes the come from him and knocks out the spot light in one shot. There are many other scenes, like when Furiosa climbs out and repairs the rig while Max is driving, or several fight scenes where she is shooting bad guys and taking out everyone that tries to climb on her truck and stop her. While some people complained about her being too tough, i honestly thought it made the movie that much stronger having Furiosa, as her own independent badass that helped Max save the day, and not stand there while he does everything. 

If you have not seen this movie, i highly recommend going out and getting a ticket. While i can’t say that it is worth the 3D ticket price, i can tell you that seeing it in the theater only makes it that much better, one of the best movies of the year by far.