Too Excited for The Amazing Spider-Man 2

I've seen trailers before. I've even seen a movie or two. But this year is set to have some of the most exciting movies ever. I'm not normally one to be excited by trailers and heresay and whathaveyou but some of these movies look amazing. Such as...

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

The Amazing Spider-Man 1 may not have been the best superhero movie, hell, it wasn't even the best Spider-Man movie. It had it's fair share of problems, such as recapping an origin that movie-goers saw a decade ago, aborting plotlines like Peter's super spy parents, and fighting a bigger, stronger version of himself in the Lizard. But the new movies have Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield who are cast perfectly as Gwen Stacey and Peter Parker. The new movies were always being built to be part of a franchise and that would be the excuse for all the dangling threads in the first movie. With all that aside, check out the trailer.

Crime has had to adapt to dealing with a superhero. Super villains are beginning to pop up and team up against our Amazing hero. Just look at Electro alone. He shoots lightning bolts, that's what Thor does and Thor doesn't go around fighting Spider-Men in the movies. The odds have ramped up, Spider-Man has to deal with bigger threats. And Electro is just one of them. He also has to deal with a Robot Rhinoceros (AKA The Rhino) and a Super Villain hiding behind the scenes who knows Spider-Man's secret.

Sure, Spider-Man 3 suffered from having too many villains, but hopefully this one will be different.

There is also the mention of Aunt May hiding something about Peter Parker's past. The old thread in the first movie will actually be used. This is amazing, everyone thought the plot thread will just be forgotten, but there you go. We are finally going to learn that Peter Parker's past parents discovered a cure for cancer and then were killed by Carnage. Or not.

We have to all get excited for May to see how this movie turns out.

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Over the next week I am going to blog on upcoming movies that are shaping up well.

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The Man of Wall Street

There may be spoilers below for the 2013 movie The Wolf of Wall Street.

I saw TWOWS  for a mate's birthday the other day and it rocked my world. Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio's character) is a wolf of a man. All the money is his, all the drugs are his, and all the women are his. But most of all, all the power is his. Jesus, believe me, this guy is a beast.

Through shift stock deals and manipulating the markets Belfort builds himself an empire out of penny stocks. He becomes partners with Jonah Hill after Hill quit his job in a bet to Belfort.

Now I know some of you reading this may have taken a completely different take on this movie. You could say that I am putting the character on a pedestal. You could even say that DiCaprio's character was a no-good criminal. You'd be right.

Belfort and his newly founded company of thieves robbed money from working class Americans to give to themselves. After Belfort had all the money everyone wanted it, his friends, his wife, a Swiss Banker, and the FBI. And everyone got it. And they wanted more. The correlation I would like to draw is that Jordan Belfort wanted more money, since he is the Wolf and all, but everyone else wanted more money as well. So who are all these other people? They have to also be wolves. Beta Wolves.

Throughout the movie it was shown countless times that Belmont was not a smart man, he was not an honest man. But he got exactly what he wanted. He may have lost it. But he had all the power in the world.

So, is a wolf someone that gets what they want? I don't think so. I think a man (or woman) should always try to get what they want, whether it be money or a better life. Should they do it dishonestly? That isn't for me to say, I think everyone should consider that for themselves.

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Sonic's redesign and how it will make Bank

Once was a time whence everyone recognised Sonic the Hedgehog as a System Mascot. Sonic was to Sega as Mario was to Nintendo. I know this, you know this. If you weren't playing Mario as a kid you were playing Sonic (or football).

Sonic was an edgy, cool looking hedgehog who could run really fast despite being a chubbo. And kids ate him up.

Pictured: A fat, blue comb

When Sega was a major player everyone knew who Sonic was. But after Sega transformed into a third party developer every Sonic game arguably tended to be on the average side.

With a string of games featuring Sonic as a knight, a manbearhogwolf and a glitch gamers did not recognise the Sonic product as a seal of quality.

Recent games such as Sonic Colors and Sonic Generations (and Sonic: Lost World? Maybe. I haven't played it but I like how the DLC has Yoshi's Island in it.) were really good. Despite these games rising above the 'Sonic is terrible' category they still both sold under 4 million units combined. Compare this to the original Sonic on the Sega Megadrive that sold over 15 million units. Sonic's recognition has been reduced to the blue guy in the Mario Olympics games and that guy who has the spring in Super Smash Bros.

But all this doom, gloom and boom does not spell the end for this spiny mammal as Sega has negotiated a deal where BigRedButton Studios take the reigns of a Sonic game. BigRedButton is made up of the old NaughtyDog employees that brought the world the Crash Bandicoot series and the Jak and Daxter series. Both amazing series by the way.

In the above video we see the first video reveal of SonicBoom. The newest instalment in the Sonic Franchise that takes place in a parallel universe from the core games. A huge difference between this new game and others is the redesign of the characters.

New Designs

Old Designs

The characters have not been altered too much. Their new designs just add flair to their otherwise outdated design. The characters all look more individual instead of the different hairstyle, different colours and slightly different shoes. The most obvious change in design in how Knuckles is now a beast. This goes in line with his character as he is supposed to be the strongest of all the characters. Having more bulk and MMA gloves with spikes on them cements Knuckles as a strong, independent Echidna.

Also Sonic has blue arms and a scarf. Which pisses off Sonic Fans. But everything pisses off Sonic fans.

Accompanying the game is a TV show set to air on Cartoon Network alongside shows such as Adventure Time and Regular Show.

Sonic is finally going to marketed towards his intended audience. With the game finally being out of Sega's incapable hands and a television show telling kids that Sonic exists this game will make bank. It may be the solid title Nintendo needs on its WiiU to actually sell some consoles.

Notice any mistakes in my blog, let me know in the comments, I'll delete the mistake and you'll look like an idiot. Also let me know how you think SonicBoom will go compared to other titles.

The Rise and Fall of Flappy Bird

The most downloaded mobile game of February 2014 was Flappy Bird. The game was published by .Gear Studios and made by Dong Nguyen. The game was, at most, a fad. Everyone was playing it either to see how bad it was for themselves or the get a new high score, or both.

On the 10th of February creator Dong Nguyen took the game off iTunes and the Google Play Store.

Reports have claimed that Flappy Birds was making $50k on average a day from ad-revenue. Anyone would be ecstatic to be making that much money a day. So why did Dong Nguyen take his game off the market?

Nguyen's Twitter feed suggest he did not take the game down for legal reasons. Some digging around suggests he took the game down due to its addictive nature.

But taking the game offline has not stopped people from finding ways to play it. There are many clones of the game such as Clumsy Bird, Flappy Bird World and Angry Flappy Bird. For people who will accept nothing but the original they can buy an iPhone with the game preloaded on it currently as low as $500AU for an iPhone 3GS.

The moral of the story is that these addicts are going to get their fix, because they are addicts. By removing the game Nguyen is not stopping people from being addicted. The only difference is that now he does not get any extra income from downloads. Nguyen has stated that he likes his life simple and does not need all the money.

What I foresee happening is that the app is only the beginning. By not letting the fad run its course the game will gain a cult-like following. Nguyen stopped the Flappy Bird train while it was at its peak of momentum, the game was only ever going to fade into obscurity over time. By removing the game people will only feel nostalgia for when it was simple to download Flappy Bird.

Within the next 2 years there will either be a Flappy Bird Documentary or a Flappy Bird Movie.

I, for one, hope its a movie.

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