Thor and Megamind

This made me smile. I'm actually quite excited about this movie now. Just a month or two till it comes out!





Speaking of videos that made me smile, I liked Megamind more than Tangled, but not as much as How to Train your Dragon. (That's probably just me. I didn't have as strong a reaction to Tangled as most people did.)

Loved by none but his minion, a young alien finds he possesses considerable skill at screwing up, being bad, so he becomes a supervillain and chooses the title Megamind (Incredibly Handsome Criminal Genius and Master of all Villainy). However, when he loses his super-heroic nemesis, he needs a hero. To fight. So he creates one, or tries to, but everything goes backwards, and suddenly he has a villain on his hands and HE has to be the heroic nemesis.

Megamind is a sympathetic villain for most of the movie because not many people like him, he loses constantly, and he's flawed, but he's also cheerful, persistent, kindhearted, and a wee bit lovable. It helps a lot that Megamind actually says sorry for all he's done and changes his ways, especially since, at the start of the movie, he's a kidnapper, a murderer, unrepentant, and purposely distracting the audience with his theatrical goofiness. Well, maybe not purposely, but still. Actually, the purpose of that was probably to show that he had good in him as well as evil, and it works, especially after the good starts winning. I never once hated him. Also, the WAY he becomes good. Atypically, he doesn't turn good JUST for love, although that is a big part of it. It's also because he regrets killing Metroman and wants to balance out his own evil with the new hero he creates, a good deed even if it was for "for the greater good of bad." He also simply doesn't want the city to be destroyed. All factors add up and make the transformation more believable. I'm not against "turning good for love," but it's different this way, which is great.

Also exquisitely different, Megamind and Roxanne knew each other for years before they felt anything for each other. It wasn't love at first sight, and neither was it hate. Just acknowledgement. Only when Megamind starts becoming a new (good) person do they start falling in love, which shows that they fall in love because of who they are or are becoming, not because of their looks or any weird thing for kidnapping or being kidnapped. True, a producer of the movie SAYS Megamind is in love with Roxanne when kidnapping her, and Tina Fey SAYS Roxanne likes being kidnapped, but they're just trying to annoy me. I mean, they don't know I exist, but the Universe is using them as pawns to annoy me. And they're wrong. Megamind and Roxanne aren't in love at the start of the movie, because that doesn't make sense with the rest of the movie. Megamind explicitly says he sees no point in kidnapping Roxanne if Metroman isn't around, proving he wasn't kidnapping her to be close to her, only to pick a fight with Metroman. Furthermore, Roxanne is sarcastic when she's been kidnapped but not when she's really enjoying herself with Megamind, and she still hates the "evil" Megamind after falling in love with the "normal" Bernard until she sees definite change in Megamind. Again, she fell in love with him because of him, not how he looked, which is probably Roxanne's coolest attribute. First, she did NOT swoon over the handsome superhero, and then, she actually says looks are not a factor to her. Roxanne could have been more interesting, but at least she wasn't shallow.

The movie overall was sweet and funny, like the following autotuned clip.

Walrus Still Talking

The time has come the Walrus said. For Sneezy's Music once again.


Who Says -- Selena Gomez and the Scene



The sound of this song is, if not fantastic, a definite improvement over the "techno" sound of her last album. Those songs were okay but  slightly soulless and irritating. Also, I can hear very little autotune in Who Says, and Selena still sounds pretty, which just shows that she CAN sing. She's one of the few singers whose voices I like. She can act too, but that's beside the point. Now, the lyrics of this song. First of all, "You're a diamond in the rough," is a surprisingly nice statement to make about someone who made you feel insecure, and it's kinda nice to hear such niceness in a song. "I'm no beauty queen" is a bit laughable coming from Selena, since she IS really pretty, even though she looks thirteen, and I can't talk about that anyway because I'm the same age as her and I look thirteen. But it's an understandable statement. Nobody really thinks they're that beautiful. Except some people. Some people think they are, but anyway.


Katy Perry's Firework A Capella



It's nice, right?


Calculus Rhapsody




This is really, really funny, especially 4:01. =D

Walrus Says

The time has come, the walrus said. For Sneezy's Music once again.

21st Century Girl -- Willow Smith



This is Will Smith's daughter. You may have heard her sing Whip My Hair, another surprisingly good song like 21st Century Girl. They're both catchy, have fun lyrics, and they're just good. Willow's voice is pretty amazing for a 10-year-old. By now, I'm used to hearing of young girls who can sing opera-style well, which is great, but I know of far fewer who can sing pop well. Strange, since it seems pop should be the easier style. Anyway, when I started watching the video, I thought it was going to be another one of those annoying videos that make no sense just for the sake of being weird. What's up with those? They're all over the place. I think a video should say something. I make it a practice to give videos a chance and to consider they might have a message before I dismiss them as shallowly following the Weird Trend. I'm almost always disappointed. This time, though, I think the video really is saying something, and not just something, but something relevant to the song. The girls in the video raise a whole city up from the dirt, an empowering theme that coincides with how a 21st century girl can do any great and noble deed. I like it. Also, that girl has balloons in her hair.

Riot Rhythm -- Sleigh Bells



This the same band in my second to prior post, the Infinity Guitars people. This song seems more techno than rock this time...But then again, like I said, I have no idea what exactly I'm talking about. 2:23 is pretty funny.


All My Loving -- The Beatles



Mom and I heard this on the radio a while back and thought it sounded like the Beatles. Well, it is! It's fun.