The Lego Movie: Just a Pile of Bricks

From: www.forbes.com

According to Lego, Batman is the worlds best marketing device.
It certainly got me to go see the movie. Plus, a movie about legos HAD to be good, right?
Actually, I take that back. Bionical was a disaster.
Plot:
 It's about this lego man named Emmet, who's as generic as you can get. He's one of the millions of construction workers in his city, follows all the instructions, and does the same thing every single day. In fact, he's SO generic, most of his co-workers have no idea who he is. One day, he finds this weird red brick (that actually ends up being a glue cap), that's called the 'piece of resistance'. It is the only thing that can stop the machine that the bad guy, Lord Business, and can only be wielded by 'The Special'. Lord Business wants to freeze everyone in place with the 'Kragle' (a tube of Krazy Glue), because he's a neat freak or something.
Emmet meets this girl named Wild Style, who is a master builder. The master builders are the people that can use the legos around them to build stuff. Since Emmet is The Special, she takes him to meet a bunch of other master builders who will help him to defeat President Business.

This video sums it up nicely (plus it has Morgan Freeman reading from a phone book). If the video doesn't work, go to this link.

Characters:
Emmet ((construction dude in the picture)): Main guy. The completely generic guy who has absolutely no creativity or skill for building but ends up being the hero.

WyldStyle ((girl with the cool hair to Emmet's left)): The master builder that is the first to help Emmet. She was trained by Vitruvius and is dating Batman.

Batman ((Superhero extraordinary to Emmet's right)): I don't know what you want me to say here. He's Batman. An asshole Batman, but still Batman.

Vitruvius ((old guy to WyldStyle's left)): Some sort of wizard/hippie guy who was supposed to protect the Kragle. He was blinded by President Business, so he's got that whole 'blind mystic' thing going. He's voiced by Morgan Freeman, which makes his fail of a character acceptable.

Lord Business: The bad guy who has a problem with being short, likes sticky things, and wants everything to be absolutely perfect.

Minor characters include: Good cop/Bad cop, Wonder Woman, Superman, Green Lantern, Princess UniKitty, Michelangelo, 1980-something Space Guy, 2002 All-Star Basketball Team, Gandalf, Dumbledore, Metalbeard, Abraham Lincoln, and more.

Thoughts:
The bottom line was that this movie was really disappointing. Sure it had the humor that I went for, and they didn't waste the use of legos. I think that after seeing Frozen, my expectations for kids movies were raised a bit, and this movie didn't meet those expectations. However, I will say that it has a very cute ending, but it wasn't very brilliant.
Now that I think about it, my expectations were a little too high.
I recommend that you see it, but it's not so urgent that you can't wait until you can watch it online for free, rather than spending $7 on a ticket.

The Ails of a Lonely Soul

I don't actually wanna talk about Valentines Day. I just thought of the title and thought it sounded

Can you believe this is the only February 14th picture I could
find that didn't have hearts and stuff on it?
From:daynikesblog.com

poetic.
Since I really don't want to do a post on Valentines Day (and I'm really short on time because I have a million other things I have to do), I thought I'd do a post on February 14th in general.
So here's a bunch of stuff that's happened on February 14th.
In 842- Charles the Bald ((that's a really unfortunate epithet))  and Louis the German ((and that's a very generic one)) swear the Oaths of Strasburg in the French and German languages.
I have no idea what any of that means.
In 1942- the battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Sinapore.
Sinapore.....fell?
I was not aware of this tragedy(?).
In 2005, Youtube was launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.
Wait......what?
It's Youtube's birthday?
And no one got it a cake or anything?
That's so sad.
It's also Simon Pegg, Michael Bloomberg and Florence Henderson's birthday ((along with like five billion other people)) so happy birthday to them.
I didn't immediately recognize any of the people that died, but happy death day to them.
I guess it's kind of Oregon and Arizona's birthdays too, because it's their statehood day!!
HORRAY FOR ALL THE BIRTHDAYS!!!

Here's the source for all my info. It was wikipedia so I probably just accidentally lied to everyone on some of the facts.
I'm sorry for the silly post, and I'm sorry that it wasn't actually a review post. Next week should be better cus I'll hopefully have seen The Lego Movie by then.

Music? What is this music you speak of?

Florence Welch
From: musictrajectory.com

So I thought I'd spice things up today, and do a music post (as you probably guessed from the title).
Now, I'm not a music connoisseur by any means, so this isn't going to be about notes or melodies or anything like that.
I'm just gonna rant about my favorite band......Florence and the Machine.
Florence and the Machine is an indie rock band from England. The band consists of-

Florence Welch: Main singer
Isabella Summers: Keyboardist
Robert Ackryod: Guitarist
Tom Monger: Harpist (you'd be surprised how often he's in the songs)
Chris Hayden: Percussionist
Mark Saunders: Bassist
Rusty Bradshaw: Keyboardist
Sam White: Backing Vocals

Florence and the Machine has two albums out. Lungs and Ceremonials, both of which are beautiful and amazing.
Here are links to a few of my favorite songs ((there are a lot more but that'd take a while)) by them:









((Hopefully those links work because I'm completely guessing on how to do this
If not, just go to this link for a bunch of songs by them))

Okay, I'm trying to write this quickly because I'm watching the opening ceremony for the Olympics at the same time, so bear with me.
This band is amazing for both their lyrics and instrumental....thingys. Lyrics are an important part of music for me, since I think of music as mostly glorified poetry, and Florence and the Machine have excellent lyrics that tell a story, and are very relatable. I also love their heavy use of drums, as rhythm is probably the most fun part of music.....said the percussionist.

I know that this is a short and kind of crappy post, but hey, there are Russian performances to enjoy.