Ok. Days of Future Past was viewed. Plus post of the beast!

Why does Hunger Games want to kill Game of Thrones? 

For my 666th post I give you......................Days of Future Past!

If you don’t know me or follow my ramblings, then know I am a loooooong time X-men comic fanboy. I have enjoyed and suffered through all the films to date. I now have watched Days of Future Past and have let it sink in a bit.

A quick look back first……
X-Men was a good beginning for the franchise
X-Men 2 was a great second film.
X-Men 3 was a pile of garbage! It was all but the death of the franchise.
X-men Origin: Wolverine was a train wreck of a Wolverine story.
X-Men: First Class was two short films mashed together. The first being a fantastic Magneto/Xavier origin buddy background tale. The second, an abysmal attempt at an X-Men team building, mutant pride, wyrd love triangle between Magneto/Mystique/Xavier and an attempt at mashing in all sorts of other X-Men stuff in the 60’s.
The Wolverine tried to steer the old Canuckle-head straight again, only to set it in Japan and I’m no fan of those Wolverine tales (well it was better than Madripoor I guess). Still it was a pretty meh! film and only descent when compared to the few preceding movies.

This being said, I walked into Day of Future Past with very low expectations. Why go then? Well moral imperative for one. I’m a fan of the merry band of mutants and I’ll follow them. Second, I have suffered through countless bad comic story arcs. What is another bad film in comparison? I mean they haven’t bothered with the drek that is the Phalanx, Onslaught, the Shi-ar or anything in X-Men space, Nimrod, the Goblin Queen, the Acolytes, anything with Stryfe/Cable or…ick…the Savage Land. The films aren’t at the level of bad yet. Plus there are sentinels and I had to see this classic villain on screen. This is also supposed to shore up the continuity problems with the mutant films. Finally, it is the return of Bryan Singer who gave us the first two films and he did fine with them. I could only hope it wouldn’t be as bad as his take on Superman.

Deep breath……………………

Davy Crockett of trollkin

The Trollblood Skinner was an easy paint project. He is decked out in leather and hide. That made it a simple browns for his color scheme. He had to have a raccoon skin cap, because that is awesome!

Star Wars: Scoundrels review

 Well I once again drifted from the 40K universe in terms of novels. The last trip was great (Ready Player One) and hopefully this time would be too. I returned to an old friend and favorite, the Star Wars universe (well at least before Episodes I-III). I grabbed Scoundrels by Timothy Zhan. Hey that guy! The dude who wrote the books post Return o’ Jedi. Yeah I remember those and liked them. This should be good then. It has Han, Chewie and Lando pulling a heist. Hell, this is like Oceans Eleven, but with Star Wars. Awesome sauce!

Well, not really.

"We ....I am the Champion."

The Trollkin Champion was really fiddly to get put together. The shoulders and arms did not match well and a bit of pinning and putty was needed to get them into place.

Godzilla review!

Well the giant radioactive monster movie has been seen and for my money, it did not disappoint! If this is where the Godzilla franchise is going in the U.S. then I will happily support it.

Oh no! They say he's got to go!

Greatest fight to never happen!

Since this is Godzilla Week 2014, I thought I'd hit my favorite giant radioactive monster films.

It's Godzilla week!

The weekend  can't get here fast enough! Captain America was good fun, but this is the first movie I am really wanting to see this summer. Don't drop the ball again with this franchise Hollywood!