Pre-screening : Maze Runner

 Maze Runner

PG-13

Amount of Crunch : THE CRUNCH WAS REAL x10

Time : 113 min

Release Date : 19 September 2014.

September 8th, at about 6:40 my friend and I joined a surprising amount of people to watch the new movie The Maze Runner. The tickets were offered by Regal for free to

anyone who wanted them. So naturally I scooped up a pair of tickets because I had been rather excited to see this movie for some time. We got in the theater about 7:00, and were reminded about 1,000 times that your phone was prohibited. After a grueling 20 minutes, the head security guy quieted everyone and strictly told us that cell phones were not allowed and they will have 6 guys during the movie with night vision that will be watching everyone the whole time. That was not a lie and it was the most distracting thing ever.

So as a person that had read the book I was quite interested to see how they were going to create this movie. The book is quite long and very full of detail so how they were going to cram all of that into a two hour movie seemed a bit of a stretch. Im not going to give away the plot or anything but know as a book reader the changes that the director Wes Ball had created were nothing short of fantastic. They made things flow in a way that wasn’t too drastically different from the book. 

Kaya Scodelario was fantastic. From the look she had to the mannerisms , she was a great Teresa. I’ve watched Kaya in a couple of movies and tv shows and I was excited to see her on the big screen. She did not disappoint.

The casting for the boys in the movie was spot on. Dylan O’Brien was incredible as Thomas. I literally have no other words than he brought a book character to life and I couldn’t be happier. Plus he wasn’t too bad to look at on a big screen either ;) 

The part I was most worried about though was Newt. He was my favorite in all of the books and I thought that it would be hard to capture that intelligent sass that comes with Newts character. But Thomas Brodie-Sangster was incredible. He had the whole persona of Newt inside of him. Maybe it’s just my undying love for this character but I was so happy to see that he had brought him to life in the best way possible. 

Overall, I was very impressed with this movie and the actors inside of it. They are all rather new faced factors for the big screen and some people were nervous that they wouldn’t perform. If you are one of those people , the group that they have casted for this movie is nothing short of fantastic and that reason alone should not stop you from seeing this fantastic movie. 

I got emotional over a tree and a raccoon

Guardians of the Galaxy
Times I cried cause of tears : Three
Times I cried of laughter: 15 +
Soundtrack : CRUNCHYYYY like totes amazeballs

I went in expecting your very typical super hero movie. Full of action , saving people, seriousness because clearly the world is about to end , you know the whole deal. But it was all of those things just replace the seriousness with sarcasm. I haven't laughed so hard in so long, it was quiet refreshing to be honest.

I found my spirit animal in a raccoon. Rocket( played by Bradley Cooper)  by far was my favorite character and the absolute sassiest. If i were a talking raccoon , I'd be Rocket I can tell you that much. He was one of the two animated Guardians , the other was Groot. Groot (played by Vin Diesel) was actually a very expressive character for being a tree that said four , of the same , words the whole movie. NEVER WOULD I EVER IMAGINE that I would get emotional over a tree. I CAN'T GET OVER IT. Both Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel should get awards for portraying these characters. I completely forgot that they were animated too! Hats off to the animators because that was some flawless work.

Also , the soundtrack added that extra layer of just pure badassery to the whole film. I have no idea what it was about hearing these retro tunes in outer space but it really did it for me. I am absolutely going to add some of the music from that soundtrack onto my August playlist.

Enough rambling , I vote you go see this movie. I probably will go see it again to be honest.I don't want to give away any spoilers so I am not going to do a summary of the movie. SO GO SEE IT!

Bye people of the internet.

Review : The Scary Movie that Surprised Me.

Deliver Us From Evil

Rated : R

Run time : 101 minutes

Rating 2.5 out of 5

So going into this movie I was expecting a supernatural horror. From the weird hooting owl rolling across the floor in the commercial , I’m assuming that’s something that you’d also expect , Right? WRONG! This movie is about a possession. WHO THE FLIP WOULD HAVE GUESSED THAT FROM THE COMMERCIAL. Granted there was a priest in the commercial but I honestly did not get any sort of religious connotation from the commercial. Loads of scary movies add priests because they assume that the horror in their house is cause from some sort of evil presence and the priest is like “nah man, y’all are screwed” and he usually leaves as fast as his character is introduced.(source : see ever paranormal activity movie) I ASSUMED THE SAME FROM THIS MOVIE BUT I WAS VERY WRONG.

This movie had loads more of religious point of view than it did super natural. Overall the movie wasn't that bad, but it surprised me which was good.[Spoiler] The characters were rather weak , along with the overall plot. I mean honestly, soldiers go into a cave in Iraq and get posessed. I think I held my breath for the entirety of the last scene. There were some scary scenes but nothing too traumatizing. I slept well after the movie if that matters to you or not.

Tl;dr – Movie was Okay, wouldn't see it again but wasn't a horrid first watch either. Also , the priest looked like Jon Snow.

p.s. after looking at the movie poster it has crosses and stuff on it. Okay maybe it was meant to be religious but I totally didn't get that from the trailer. So , I blame the editor of the trailer for that.

-Hannah 

P.S.S. Also , i have no idea when i will have time to go to the movies again. :( I am in the middle of packing my life up right now and preparing for my move to Denver. But not to worry , more reviews on the way I'm sure. If anyone reads these. 

Just a quick Objective - C Overview

Right , I promised myself that I would keep to my blog schedule I have planned. But I don't think adding more content is a bad thing. So here is my third blog for the day. *sweet baby rays*

So , I have an interview tomorrow and I am going to brush up on my Objective-C and iPhone development. *these posts are going to be really embarrassing if I don't get the job.. yikes oh well*  And when I teach what I am learning it sticks better so buckle up you're about to learn some Objective-C. *confetti falls from celling*






Alright first off, what is Objective-C?

• Objective-C is most often used whenever you are programing in the iOS or the OS X operating systems. 
• Objective-C also provides object-oriented capabilities and dynamic runtime

Fancy stuff. So in non technical terms , Objective-C is mostly used in Apple products , and the dynamic run time means that objective-c decides which method implementation to call right before calling it. 

COOL.. movinggggg on...

Let's do some code together shall we? 

To start off we will cover some basic syntax -

A Class- 

 *NOTE CLASS NAMES MUST BE UNIQUE.. like you ;)
So a class is simply called by typing the following :

--> @interface HannahClass : NSObject
--> End

 Righto simple enough. Next step is we are going to document name and twitter handle. These are called properties. They're called like this.

@interface HannahClass : NSObject

@property NSString *name;

@property NSString *handle; 

end

Sweet. So now our app uses the class Hannah and has two string properties within it that holds my name and my twitter handle.

• please note that we use the asterisk to indicate that they are c-pointers. So basically memory stuff.

The following two lines are for int and num declarations. So we are going to add birth day and birth year.

@property NSNumber *birthDay;

@property int *birthYear;

Right. Noted that int isn't an NS because I fudged that up the first time. *thehe*

How to call a method. SIMPLE.. I got this..

-->  (void)someMethod; 

BOOM. That's how it's done. Yes yes I realize that if you're coding on a mac and using XCode it most likely autocompletes this for you but ya know. WHAT IF YOUR XCODE JUST DIES AND YOU SUDDENLY NEED TO CODE BUT YOU CAN'T USE XCODE. Hmmm that's what I thought.

Much like any other language methods can take parameters. 

-->  (void)someMethod : (someType) value;

Same thing but with more than one param -
--> (void)someMethodWithFirstValue :(SomeType)value1 secondValue:(AnotherType)value2;

cool beans..

I think that's enough review for the moment as I am very tired. BUT.. I wish all of you a happy day! If anyone reads this far haha.


*disclaimer : The source i used for objective-c was here