TV: Arrow SE1 EP1

Arrow
Action, Adventure, Drama

I've been waiting months for this show to start and now it's finally here! I wasn't sure whether it would be any good though, fortunately for us, it is! Green Arrow was a DC Comic book series. DC's Batman series was so popular that they thought creating a very similar super hero would do just as well... it didn't obviously but I think they did okay.

Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) AKA Green Arrow was a billionaire playboy until a boating accident killed half his family and left him stranded alone on an island for five years. While he was floating in the middle of nowhere on a life raft, his father told him a few family secrets before shooting himself to give Oliver the highest possible chance of survival.

We haven't really been given much to go on just yet. We know it has something to do with Queen's shipping company and the sale of a factory right before the ill-fated boat trip. Not only did the boat sink, but Oliver was boinking his girlfriend Laurel's (Katie Cassidy) sister who then died. How awesome is that? (note the sarcasm) So obviously she doesn't want to see him... How weird, boyfriend and sister died, you'd be so angry with her, then the boyfriend suddenly reappears? Poor Laurel.

Fight scenes are pretty awesome, the use of parkour is especially cool. Would also like to know Mummy, Moira's (Susanna Thompson) part in all this conspiracy stuff because we all picked up that she was the one that had her own son kidnapped and tortured... well, they tried anyway.

Can't wait to see more...

3 out 5...uh, bow n arrows?

[Quote]

Tommy (Colin Donnell): "Your funeral blew..."

Oliver: "Did you get lucky?" 

Tommy: "Like shooting fish in a barrel."

Movie: Batman Begins (2005)

Batman Begins (2005)
Action, Adventure, Drama

This is the first of the Christian Bale (The Fighter, Terminator Salvation) series of Batman. Now, I did just watch every one before this as well but I thought I'd start with this series... I never really liked Bale all that much but he is the best Batman so far; George Clooney (Ocean's Eleven, ER) did this weird thing with his head that I couldn't get past and Val Kilmer (Top Gun)? No...just, no.

I think I've only seen this film once before, back when it first came out so its almost like watching it for the first time all over again....Alfred is always a favorite of mine and Michael Caine (Children of Men) is perfect for the role. Liam Neeson (Taken) is always a great hard ass and I love him as Wayne's teacher. It's especially awesome to watch the training of Batman. This movie is what it says it is; Batman's beginning.

I suppose they cant really veer from the original story too much seeing as its from the comics and all, but it's good to see a little more of the story revealed in each movie. This one showing the before and after the shooting of Wayne's parents. I think that its good to see Batman as not so perfect, the trial and error of finding the perfect Batsuit etc. The movie itself is less satirical and on more of a serious. The last couple were pretty much jokes the whole way through, I like that this one is more realistic; Batman could be REAL!! haha

I totally and completely forgot that Katie Holmes (Dawson's Creek) is the girl in this one.... wasn't this the last movie she did... the only one she did while with Tom Cruise? *shudders*  Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby) is the brains behind all the Batgadgets. Mark Boone Junior (Sons of Anarchy) is a crooked cop and Gary Oldman (The Fifth Element) is his straight laced partner, while Cillian Murphy (Inception) is the evil Scarecrow bent on destroying everyone. But I'm sure you already knew all of this as you've all already seen it, right?

3 out of 5 Batsignals...