Kelly Monster

For the past few weeks I’ve been playing New Super Mario Bros for Wii non-stop! It’s all of the Mario Bros. games ever created mashed into one. Remember when NES came out for the first time and only two people could play? On the Wii you can play with up to four players. That’s awesome!

This game makes a lot of homages to the older Mario games, mostly to Super Mario Bros. 3, and Super Mario World. I like this game mostly because it brings Mario back to his roots, nothing too fancy just a newer improved version of the older games. This game even lets you cheat. Crazy, right? Every time you find yourself in trouble in this game you can just press A and you put your character in a bubble, safe from harm. All four players can’t go into a bubble at the same time though, or else you all die. Not so safe now is it? Use that A button, just don’t over-use or abuse it.

Yoshi is back from Super Mario World,  and he’s pretty much the same in this game, the only thing that’s changed about him is the fact that you can only use Yoshi in the level you found him in. So once you beat that level you’ve been working on, say good-bye to Yoshi ’cause he ain’t coming with ya.

If you loved Super Mario Bros. 3, then you will love the villains in the Mario Wii game: the Koopalings!

They still have those wands you tried to steal in the 3rd Mario, and they still throw shell-spinning temper tantrums when you jump on their heads.

This game has some of the best items of all the games so far. Items, those things that you get when you hit a box with a question mark, like red mushrooms that make you big. Instead of just being big, how would you like to have a whirly-bird hat? Or a penguin suit?

The whirly-bird hat is the closest item to the cape from Super Mario World

Those giant bullets shown in the picture above are also in the new Wii game, and they are just as hard to defeat as ever.

Then there’s the penguin suit, which helps you walk on ice like it was normal ground and you can slide on your penguin belly down ice. Who doesn’t want to do that?

The only item I wish they had included in the new Wii game is the raccoon suit from Super mario Bros. 3, that is probably the best item ever created in the entire Mario universe. But I won’t hold it against this game for not having it, because it’s pretty awesome otherwise.

So if you are looking for a little nostalgia, if you like the basic format of Mario Bros. games, then you will love the New Super Mario Bros. for Wii. It’s the most fun when you have three other people to play with, then you can experience the balance between competition and teamwork that you have to have to play this game. My favorite character to play as is blue Toad, all the characters are pretty much the same, but that blue Toad has never done me wrong.

Alright, so grab your Wii mote and let’s play already!

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So I guess the world is going to end in 2012 according to the Mayans. But don’t worry, if you have a life jacket, you may just survive.

I decided to see 2012 not because of the preview because judging by that it looked like just your average end of the world movie.

I decided to see it because of this man.

John Cusack stole my heart in Say Anything and he has been conning me into seeing his movies for years. Maybe he is the same in every movie, but maybe I just love John Cusack.

Another reason I love to see disaster movies, is because they are campy, and ridiculous. You remember Armageddon.

The plot of this movie is pretty simple. The Mayans predicted that the world would end in 2012, and it does. They show a lot of scientific diagrams in this movie showing the earth’s crust deteriorating, and complete chaos in the earth’s crust.

What I found strange though is that all this craziness that was happening in the center of the earth didn’t destroy the planet. I know, weird, right? It just turned into a planet full of water.

Now I like Sci-Fi, and I was really hoping that the center of the earth would just turn into a giant black hole and suck all of mankind into another dimension. Now that is a movie I would pay to go see.

In this movie the whole earth just sort of gets kinda soggy. A little like this movie’s plot. The earth just floods and some people (I stress some because most of the earth is just taken out by a giant tidal wave) find shelter on giant arks that the Chinese built because I guess they listened to the Mayans. And Noah.

Of course there is a love story, because the world can’t end without someone realizing that the best years of their life was spent with that old college sweetheart. This love story is a love triangle that is conveniently resolved when one of the characters dies. Jackson and Kate Curtis (John Cusack and Amanda Peet) struggle to keep their family together and somehow find safety while Kate’s new boyfriend Curtis tags along.

Okay so this movie wasn’t the greatest, but I do enjoy watching a lot of explosions, and this movie was full of them. I also felt like I was going to explode by the end of the movie because I made the mistake of buying a large Coke to watch it with. This is always my downfall. I was hoping the Butterfinger and popcorn I had bought would absorb most of the liquid but no dice.

This movie actually comforted me, people always make the end of the world sound so bad, but this movie made it seem manageable. People who climb to the top of Mount Everest are really the safest, the mountain  was the only thing not completely submerged in water by the end. Yeah, it’s really that tall.

I went into this movie knowing what to expect so I enjoyed it. Sometimes there is nothing like a good disaster movie to lift your spirits.

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I wouldn’t call myself a trekkie, but I have always been a fan of Star Trek. I loved the original series, I have seen most of the movies, and I watched a lot of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It really ends there though, any Star Trek series after TNG just didn’t blow my skirt up a whole lot.

I saw the new movie that is about to come out on DVD Star Trek (Three-Disc +Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] (I am nearly wetting myself, I am so excited) and I absolutely love it! I went to the midnight showing, that is some serious stuff.

This past weekend I checked out a new Star Trek exhibit that just opened down the street from me in Hollywood. I was sort of hoping that it was the old Star Trek exhibit from the Imperial Palace in Las Vegas. No such luck, but it was awesome anyway. Did I mention they sold toy tribbles as souvenirs? Let me just vent for a moment. I still can’t believe they closed down that exhibit in Las Vegas. It’s not like they put anything else in it’s place, and now the only place that Trekkies can gather is at a convention. They even had a Star Trek ride in there, it was like Star Tours in Disneyland, but with Captain Picard.

I’m just glad they opened the exhibit that I went to on Sunday, it was full of Costumes from the show and the new movie. You could even sit on the U.S.S. Enterprise (well the set at least) from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Here I am with Spock, that’s Mr. Spock by the way, not Dr. Spock. Dr. Spock is that famous child psychologist. Common misconception. Spock is one of my favorite Star Trek characters, he and Scotty are pretty much tied.

Me and James Tiberius Kirk. He’s just so pretty.

Me and my boyfriend lovin’ on the U.S.S. Enterprise.

Is that an uncharted planet? Let’s explore!

It was a pretty amazing trip, I just truly appreciate the entire Star Trek universe. Maybe there is a little bit of trekkie in me after all.

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