Wednesday, December 16, 2009

The Ninja is Back Again

For years martial arts fighting have been involved in movies. But now it has come back in a totally different way. The new movie Ninja Assassin produced by the action-loving Wachowski brothers is the perfect example in having this unique quality. The film features a Korean Man playing the main role of the ninja. The movie is about a clan formed by a martial arts teacher, taking young children from all over the world and bringing them to a school where they are trained to fight and overcome pain with their mind. In return, they become the teachers sons and daughters and perform every task that their master gives them, including murder. The main characters who plays the ultimate ninja assassin, decides to take the opposite direction that his master has trained him for when it comes to finally proving himself a real son by killing a young little sword. Now a grown man, he decides to change his life, and help others so he can finally have his first breath of life.
I personally liked this movie. In the beginning it had really good plot setting behind everything. The way the movie was set up was amazing. I’m sure that special training camps are still being practiced around this world, but the way the movie showed it was clear and very realistic. The fighting was unbelievably incredible. The swords, spinning blades, and nun chucks fascinated me so much and to see how much technique and strength it took to use them properly. I never thought that such equipment can do so much damage to a person. For example, copping a head off or cutting a perfectly straight line on the body deep enough for have blood gushing out about 3 feet away from the body. That was one thing that the movie kind of took too far. I think that the producer over did the blood and death that was showed in the movie, but overall it was a great movie. It inspired me to want to do learn some type of martial arts which is what I intend in doing in the near future.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Celebrity Actions, Bad Examples?

No matter what type of celebrity scandal, it's difficult to keep up. These days, it seems as though celebs just can't keep themselves scandal free. Alright, so there are a choice few celebrities whose names rarely appear in tabloid headlines, then there are others whose names are rarely out of the tabloid headlines. It seems, especially lately, that female celebrities are finding themselves involved in scandals much more than their male counterparts. Let’s take the Spears for example. It all started when Britney’s marriage became to fall apart with husband Kevin Federline. He seems so perfect in the beginning until she married him and had two boys, Sean and Jayden. Now he wasn’t Britney’s hero, but her sons. When things got too much for Brit to handle, she did one of the most outrageous things ever that we all still remember till this day. She shaved her head. This definitely questioned whether if she qualified to be a good mother for his children or not. But eventually got help. Then came her sister, Jamie Lynn Spears. Everyone thought that she would turn out to be a proper young girl. But that didn’t last so long until January 2007 when she announced that she was pregnant at the age of 16. She’s no young, what was she thinking! Not to mention that her boyfriend, Casey Aldridge left her afterwards because he didn’t even believe that it was his. Moving on to Vanessa Hudgens. She was the perfect sweet girl in High School Musical and became an idol for many of the young girls that were fans of the movies. Sadly she ruined that for herself when some nude pictures were exposed to the public. It has been repeatedly said that they were meant for boyfriend Zac Efron, but then again who really knows the truth about celebrities these days.


It’s amazing how celebrities get themselves into the stupidest situations. I do understand Britney’s thoughts about wanting to have custody of her kids when divorcing her husband, but that is no excuse on how she took care of things. What she does definitely affects her younger sister Jamie Lynn Spear, but even Britney made more responsible choices. Young girls these days seem to be not taking care of themselves or even respecting themselves. At the age of 16 years old she announced being pregnant with from her boyfriend. And what about Vanessa Hudgens? Taking nude pictures that anyone who has access to if they internet could of seen it, whether they were children or adults. People these days no matter what age have seen things that we can’t possibly imagine. When these types of actions are being seen by fans who appreciate and respect them they are completely given bad examples to our new generations, which may be why our new generations have already started to become screwed up.