Saturday 30 January 2016

Scream Queens Quick Fire Questions

CHANEL OBERLIN OR CHANEL 3


CHANEL 5 OR HESTER


GRACE OR ZAYDAY


PETE OR CHAD

WES OR DEAN MUNSCH


DENISE OR GIGI

KAPPA KAPPA TAU OR DICKIE DOLLAR SCHOLARS


BOONE OR EARL GREY


EMMA ROBERTS OR ABIGAIL BRESLIN


NICK JONAS OR OLIVER HUDSON


DEAF TAYLOR SWIFT OR JENNIFER


RED DEVIL OR SORORITY SISTER


KNIFE OR CHAINSAW


RED DEVIL OR KILLER DEAN MUNSCH


PRESIDENT CHANEL OR PRESIDENT GRACE/ZAYDAY


THANKSGIVING OR HALLOWEEN


BLACK FRIDAY OR REVEAL


HESTER OR CHANEL


SCREAM QUEENS OR SCREAM FILMS


SCHOOL/UNIVERSITY OR ASYLUM

Wednesday 27 January 2016

Scream Queens Review




Scream Queens is about a serial killer named the Red Devil targeting students in Wallace University, especially those in the sorority Kappa Kappa Tau. However, in the end it turns out that there were 2 or more Red Devil killers hunting the university. Throughout the whole series anyone could have turned out to be one of the killers, but there were lots of clues to help you try to figure out who the killers could be. I managed to guess that Boone was one of the killers when in episode 2 he faked his own death. However, I never guessed that Hester would turn out to be one of the killers. I always thought the killer would turn out to be one of the main Chanels, either Chanel 3 or 5. I got that totally wrong in the end. I also did not guess who the father of the babies in the bathtub was. However, I did guess that Gigi was the boss who was in charge of the Red Devil killers and she was also the Hag of Shady Lane who looked after the babies in the bathtub.

There were quite a lot of gruesome death scenes featured throughout this series. For example, one of the twins being killed with a staple gun, or Deaf Taylor Swift having her head decapitated by a lawnmower. It was kept interesting though as you never knew who the killers were going to go after next or why they were targeting these people in particular. However, it was easy to guess that Boone killed Earl Grey because Boone fancied Zayday and Earl was her boyfriend. The episode where Dean Munsch killed her ex-husband and framed his girlfriend was not my favourite episode. I found that episode kind of irrelevant in my opinion as it had nothing to actually do with the Red Devil killers or who they could be.

The characters throughout this series were great as they each had their own different quirks and characteristics. There was different things for each character which meant that they could have been the killer. For example, Chanel 3 (Billie Lourd) is completely vain and doesn't really care about anything. In the last episode when the Chanel's were arrested she was more interested in the good looking policemen than what was actually happening. She also didn't care when they were told they were being sent to the asylum as she looked happy about it and loved people pointing cameras at her when they were lead away. The police officers were completely useless throughout the whole series which added to the comedy element of the show. They couldn't find any clues for any of the murders and they never found the actual killers.

Grace was a great character as she just wanted to find out who the killers were and why people in Kappa Kappa Tau were being targeted. Chanel 5 annoyed me a lot of the time as she was always moaning or crying or just being hysterical. Chad was a bit annoying at times aswell, but I've been told that he is a fan favourite with viewer's of the show. I thought Pete would be one of the good guys, but it turns out he wasn't. I really liked Chanel Oberlin as even though she bossed everyone around, she still just wanted her friends to be safe and she was brave and feisty aswell. Some of the script added to the comedy element of the show aswell as some of the lines were really stupid and not believable.

The episode where the killer was revealed was quite a good episode. Hester paying the parents so they would basically disown their children was quite a smart move by someone so deranged and psychotic. The only thing that annoyed me was the way Chanel 3 acted when they were lead away by police, when they were in court and when they were lead away to the asylum. It was great to find out what Hester's life was like before she started at the university, why she did what she did and why she chose her particular victims. However, we did find out that she never actually killed the many victims except Pete. We also find out why she decided to leave Grace and Zayday alive. For one thing Grace is her half sister and Zayday was always really nice to her unlike the Chanel's. I also liked how the episode ended on a cliffhanger with the Red Devil standing over Chanel in the asylum with a knife. Chanel could have been hallucinating that event or the Red Devil (Hester) just wanted to scare Chanel, I doubt she was murdered in the asylum.

People will love this series because it is a mixture of comedy, horror and a thriller. It has the horror element with who is the killer, the death scenes and the scare factor. The comedy comes from some of the script, some of the death scenes and the failure of the police department. Definitely watch this if you love films like the Scream films or the Scary Movie films. Details have been released that Season 2 is going ahead and it will be set in the asylum where the Chanel's are currently being held. Cast who have signed up for Season 2 include so far everyone except Oliver Hudson who plays Wes Gardner. The crew have announced that the cast will be playing the same characters as they did in Season 1, unlike American Horror Story where cast plays different characters each season. Will be great to see if Season 2 is anything like the first season when it is released onto TV screens later this year or early next year hopefully.

Tuesday 26 January 2016

Star Wars Quick Fire Questions



This is a quick fire question round which I have created. The questions are about all the Star Wars films ranging from characters, to place, to events, etc. Feel free to borrow to answer the questions yourselves, but you must mention this blog if you borrow the questions.

QUEEN AMIDALA OR PRINCESS LEIA


DARTH VADER, DARTH MAUL OR KYLO REN


LIGHT SIDE OR DARK SIDE OF THE FORCE


1 OR 2 BLADED LIGHTSABER


ANAKIN OR LUKE SKYWALKER


HAN SOLO OR CHEWBACCA


R2-D2, C3P0 OR BB-8


STORMTROOPERS OR BOBA FETT


OBI-WAN KENOBI OR QUI GON JINN


FINN OR REY


POE DAMERON OR LANDO CALRISSIAN


MILLENNIUM FALCON OR DEATH STAR


TIE FIGHTER OR X-WING


NABOO ROYAL STARSHIP OR NABOO STAR FIGHTER


SEBULBA OR WATTO


EWOKS OR WOOKIES


YODA OR JABBA THE HUT


PODRACE OR JEDI FIGHT


A NEW HOPE OF THE FORCE AWAKENS


BOOKS OR FILMS

The 5th Wave




The 5th Wave is about an alien invasion which has 5 different waves. The 1st wave is wiping out all the power all over the world. The 2nd wave is creating an earthquake to kill a lot of humans. The 3rd wave is an infection which kills millions of humans. The 4th wave was invasion where the others took the form of humans, so you couldn't tell who was human and who was an other. But what is the 5th wave?

I have yet to read this novel, but when I review the book I shall compare the book and the film. This was a great action packed film with lots of great scenes. The acting from all the cast was brilliant. However, I found Maria Bello's character of Sergeant Reznik to be a bit boring and unnecessary. Her make-up also made her look a lot older than she actually is. Chloe Grace Moretz was brilliant as Cassie and she got to take part in a lot of action scenes. I did guess whilst I was watching the film that Evan and Colonel Vosch would turn out to be others. However, I didn't guess that Evan was part human and part other.

Zackary Arthur was brilliant as Nugget and hes so cute aswell. I was glad when Ben tied him up and left him behind so he didn't have to go to a war zone and kill people or get killed. Ben was a brilliant character aswell as he didn't want to end up as one of the others and he also figured out what the 5th wave actually was. Turns out the 5th wave was the others (including Colonel Vosch) getting the children to kill the last remaining survivors.

Evan was one of my favourite characters in this film because not only was he good looking but he would have done anything to prove that he was more human than other. He didn't want the other half of his being and he just wanted to prove that to Cassie. However, it is unknown in this film whether Evan survives or dies at the end of the film. Colonel Vosch was an alright bad guy, but he was not that mean in some parts. He said he was going to kill Ben but that did not happen and he basically forgot all about it, until he tried to shoot them near the end of the film. Colonel Vosch needed to be more mean and horrible in my opinion.

There was action from the first moment of the film when Cassie killed the guy in the gas station, but you did not know why she did this. I found a lot of the commentary from Cassie during the start of the film to sometimes be unnecessary. In my opinion commentary could just have been given as each stage started telling you what was happening and then the commentary finishes, but this did not happen. I also guessed that Colonel Vosch might have been an other when he killed all the adults in the camp, which included Cassie's dad. By this stage Cassie's mother had been killed by in the infection.

Overall, this was a really good film. I shall see how true it stayed to the book when I've given that a read. Hopefully it was very similar to the book in a lot of ways. There were lots of action scenes contained in this film such as the children fighting the survivors, Evan fighting the others and all the waves of the alien invasion. If you loved the book The 5th Wave then this is definitely a book for you or if you just love alien invasion films which are action packed. Really hope they make The Infinite Sea as a film aswell so I can see how this series continues in film form.

 

Monday 25 January 2016

A Court of Thorns and Roses



A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas

Published- 5th May 2015
Publisher- Bloomsbury Children's
Pages- 416 pages (paperback)


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Are humans meant to fall in love with faeries? What are the consequences of killing a faerie in the mortal world? Will Feyre ever find true happiness with Tamlin or Rhysand? What will happen to all of the faeries of the Spring Court?

The title, in my opinion, is describing Feyre as the thorn living in a court with the roses who are the faeries. This was a great fantasy novel which contained wolves, faeries and monsters. There was action from the start of the novel with the scene where Feyre was hunting in the forest to find food for her family. She had to decide whether or not to kill the wolf, but why was the wolf actually there? Action scenes came throughout this novel from all Feyres fights with different bad faeries and the fight at the end under the mountain.

Feyre started as quite a bad main character. Even though she would do anything for her family so they would survive, she allowed herself to be bossed around by Tamlin and Rhysand. She did become more likeable towards the end as she became brave and found the courage to do whatever needed to be done to save the people she loved. Tamlin was a great character was he would do anything to protect Feyre and he was always giving her clues as to ways she could save his life, even if she didn't know they were clues to help her. 

The end of the novel was quite predictable when a main character met their grisly end. No spoilers here though as to who that was. i didn't expect the other part at the end where a major transformation happened to another main character in the novel. I loved reading how beautiful the faeries world was as it was described in such a descriptive way. It was easy to imagine yourself living in this beautiful world with the faeries, Tamlin and Lucien.

Overall, I give this novel 5/5 stars. it was highly enjoyable and a great action packed fantasy novel. I can't wait to read the second novel A Court of Mist and Fury when it is released in May 2016. If you love novels packed with faeries or just fantasy worlds then this is definitely the novel for you.


                               Rating 5/5
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