Rewatching "Captain America: The First Avenger." This is still in my top five superhero movies ever; a great balance of action & story with a lot of genuine heart to carry it all.

and holy SHIT, Hayley Atwell is gorgeous.

Finally got around to watching This is The End.

The biggest problem with the movie is it's fucking boring. At the initial party, it was kinda fun seeing all these actors play up the worst parts of their media personas for our entertainment, but once the disaster portion starts, we have to sit through an hour long slog of a bunch of unlikeable dicks, sat around in a house, being dicks. I get that this was done on purpose, and was supposed to be like a critique of reality TV and all that, but I hate reality TV anyway, let alone a movie playing up the worst aspects of it in an attempt to make their giant demon dick movie seem more intelligent than it really is.

And sure, the last half an hour was pretty awesome, where the movie suddenly decided to go all out and not even question what was going on and turn it into an all out apocalyptic blockbuster with demons and shit, but that doesn't change the fact that I was so bored during that middle section, I kept pausing it to browse porn just to stop myself nodding off.

Maybe if it was like forty five minutes shorter, or maybe if the initial party or final demon bouts were longer this could have been pretty great, but I just found it coma inducing, which is a shame as it did have a strong beginning and end.

Watched the Lightning Thief sequel, Sea Of Monsters. The biggest problem is how the movie comes together, with a top range SyFy original look, Sea of Monsters is basically two hours of climactic action sequences, so when the final climactic battle and aftermath arrive, you don't even realise you're at an ending until the credits start rolling.

Still, you could do a whole lot worse than two hours of decent looking CGI monsters, this film is actually pretty fun, even if it is fun of the most vapid, popcorny variety. It blazes along at breakneck speed, leaping from one set piece to another with barely a breath in between, and despite the speed no set piece feels like it's going through the motions, as every blend of the modern and Greek Mythology feels inspired and genius. So you may have no idea what is going on, but you're watching a dude fight a transforming flame thrower bull robot thing and it is AWESOME.

The other good thing, is the movie is funny, intentionally! Especially Hermes as portrayed by Nathan Fillion who makes a comment that for the certain kind of cross over fan, is going to leave you in hysterics.

Sadly, beneath all the imaginative sequences, is a very typical core at the heart. A dude betrays his kind as he feels downtrodden, he wants to rebel so he turns evil, gets way in over his head, luckily there is an under achieving dude who is actually destined to be the hero to stand in his way etc etc it's pretty much the plot of every Young Adult fantasy novel ever written.

I'll say this, the books are considerably better.

I read the first three years ago, hearing that Sea of Monsters isn't getting a sequel makes me kinda wanna start reading them again.

I started reading the books after the first movie came out.

Needless to say, I was disappointed with the first movie when I finally watched it.

Why would they take out Ares appearing at the end on his motorbike! And make Luke the main villain?

Why would they make the ENTIRE F*CKING PLOT OF THE MOVIE revolve around a bunch of pearls that were LITERALLY GIVEN TO PERCY IN ONE CHAPTER‽‽ Who the f*ck thought that would be a much better story‽

I just don't get it man.

No one does.