Greetings, Programs!

Hallo to whatever poor sap is reading this! It’s-a me, Mario… no wait, it’s not!

So, I just returned from seeing Tron Legacy, a sequel around 25 years in the making. Was it worth the wait.

Hell. Yes.

The story doesn’t QUITE continue from where the original left off, in fact there’s a fair bit that happens between the two that is touched on in various flashbacks. The cast, with the return of the originals and a few new guys, was fairly solid in my mind. A lot of digital effects, which one would expect from this movie, 3D that was well done, a switch from 2-3D with the feel of the B&W to Colour switch from the Wizard of Oz was just some of the visual successes. The landscape was everything you remember from the original, with some very nice easter eggs and redesigns. Nice actions sequances… I really can’t say anything bad about this movie. I’m trying, but… I just enjoyed it too much. I could say they left some really obvious openings for sequels, but that’s not really a surprise.

All in all? I love this movie. You should all go see it. Now.

Oh, and bug Disney to re-release the original. Stingy…

Fic of the day: What else? Buffy/Tron. The Moloch episode is just BEGGING for some Tronifying. Seriously.

The Horror that is my Mind

Anyone who’s actually reading this (is that anyone? Could you let me know) probably looks at my blog title and wonders ‘Why does he call it ‘Ravings of a Lunatic’? He seems pretty sane’. You probably might get a glimmer at my ‘pairing/fic idea of the day’ thing at the end of ecach posting.

This is absolutely nothing to the horrors that come up in my warped imagination.

A short list of these include:

SuperNaruto, son of the Silver Age Supergirl

SuperBuffy, daughter of the Golden Age Superman

Batgirl Buffy (Halloween)

Kamen Rider Buffy (several of)

Power Rangers/Dragonball

Power Rangers/Stargate

Transformers/Tomica Hero series

…Yeah, some of those should never meet and probably shouldn’t work, but in my mind they do. Welcome to my world. You poor, poor bastard.

Look what I found!

Holy lugnuts, i still have this? I’d totally forgotten this existed. Oops. (But really, does anyone even read this?)

ANYWAY, went and saw The Expendables today. I tink my voice broke again. Holy crap that was one hell of a testosterone filled ride. Explosions, guns, one HELL of a hand-to-hand fight scene, and, of course, the cameos by Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger. ALL HAIL THE AWESOMESAUCE!

Also, my browsers spell checker knows Arnie’s name. Nice.

Pairing of the day: Naruto/Poison Ivy in a teacher student or mother child relationship. Hell yeah!

1,000 Horsepowers of Win

Went to an advanced screening of Hollywoods most recent remake offering, Astro Boy.

Epic. Fucking. Win.

Was it a carbon copy of either of the cartoons? No. Was it a carbon copy of the manga? No. Hollywood has taken their own spin on the classic Japanese series, added a list of big name talent including Charleze Therone, Donald Sutherland and Nicholas frikkin’ Cage and gone CG.

And it works. In my opinion it really does.

Now, I just know the usual complaints of ‘this isn’t like the original’ or the like are going to come up. And you know what? I don’t care. This movie was fantastic. Decent pacing, very nice story (the basics sticking close to he original while going another route for certain characters), entertaining action scenes and well done voice acting. The animation was smooth and well done, with kudos to Sutherland for pulling of a rather nasty warmonger.

The movie itself splits into three ‘arcs’: Astro’s origins, his rejection by Dr Tenma and ejection from the city, meeting his new friends and his adventures there, as well as gaining his name and finallly, his return tot he city, reunion with his father Tenma and the final climactic battle revealing exactly what Tenma packed into the pint-sized dynamite to keep ‘his son’ from dying again.

Tenma’s character changes drastically from what most are used to and Dr Elephun is shuffled to the background for him, which I don’t mind. Astro’s array of weapons is a combination of both series with both his arm cannon (double barrel, thank you) and ass guns (?!?!?!) making an appearance. Some of the plot is just a little out there (fragment of a star? Wouldn’t we be kind of… dead?) but fits well with what they wanted. And of course, that final scene at the end proving a heroes work is never done.

This movie was amazing. Everyone should see it. It had some moments where the story was questionable, but over all a solid 8 out of 10. Anyone who doesn’t liike this movie should be shot, hanged, drawn and quartered, boiled in oil, tarred and feathered and have their legs fried in butter. Or forced to watch a Uwe Boll movie. Either one works.

Pairing for the day: sibling Naruto/Ino. Cause i said so.

Bored

Gragh, my net is fucking annoying!! It took me around two hours to get it up and running today. Urgh. I’m just gonna blame the weather earlier. Yeah, that makes me feel better. Not.

Today’s ‘for the day’ is a full fic and not just a pairing. The idea? Buffy and four others do Halloween in costumes resembling the Voltron Force (lions, please. Thank you). When the Mayor does his snake transformation, force outside the fight decide to even things up and Buffy and co find themselves battling the Mayor with a nice shiny new Voltron.

What say thee?

Problem solved?

So, apparently the modem nees to be next to a window to have any sort of stability. Right. Nice system, Unwired, well done. *sigh* Oh well, at least it’s working. *net dies*

…

Just kidding. Anyway, long weekends are awesome,. and it’d be even more awesome if I had something to do. Wait… I do! Yes, my Space Wolves Codex came in on Saturday, which means i can begin planning my army and creating my characters. Although looking at Lukas the Trickster, I’m expecting some kind of Bat-character to counter his Jokeresque look. Seriously, if a 40K movie was made, Mark Hamil would be Lukas.

Pairing for the Day: Buffy/Thailog. Yes, I know, I’ve written that fic (really got to finish that) but i can’t help it, I think it’s my favourite pairing. Ever.

Aggravations

So, new internet which has all the stability of a house of cards on a plank balanced on an oil drum in the middle of hurricane does not equal fun. In fact, if I don’t shoot someone tomorrow when it inevitably falls on it’s ass, I’ll be very surprised. I might even faint from shock. It’s that bad. I’ve spent the last three days trying to coax some semblance of working out of it.

At least I won’t go over my download limit. I’m lucky if i can even get on Hotmail some days, forget about fuffing Youtube.

Pairing for the day: Raven (comic version)/Kakashi.

So…

So, I finally have some kind of blog. What are you supposed to DO with these things anyway? It’s not like I’m going to log on and post ‘saved the world today. Also, Martian’s aren’t green. they’re pink with purple poker dots’. But anyway…

I’ll probably just use this to empty my head of fic ideas I’m not up to writing or something. Which means this is going to be filled with some of the most random rantings and pairings you’re going to see on the web. Consider yourself warned.

Let’s start with a pairing that’s been bugging me for a while: Buffy Summers and Genta Umemori. Yes, the Vampire Slayer and ShinkenGold. Genta’s definitely not Buffy’s usual type, but he’d be good for her. A lot more light hearted, human, somewhat goofy, but with a heart of gold (ha, ha. Punny), it’d be interesting to see how he stands next to the Slayer. And what he might create to keep his girl alive. Hm…

Stay tuned. The craziness continues.