Action Man: Live Action Dream Casting!

You know for years as a kid i loved and collected Action Man. I collected toys, comics, dvds, videos, books, games and all other memorabilia. Now recently i seen a pic of Henry Cavil and i just was hit with the strong resemblance and memory of Action Man. So i thought i would have a go at casting my own live action AM film. Let me know your thoughts and share it! 

Action Man = Henry Cavill

Just look at this image of him, he is the embodiment of AM. Alex Mann, Action Man's civilian identity, is an extreme sports athlete of Team Xtreme and also works as part of a secret British branch of the military and in MI5 he is known as Action Man. He was adopted by the Exler family. His father was an american rocket scientist and wealthy inventor Dr. Alfred Exler who happens to work with Sir Arthur Strong from the ISD. After the death of his father he was separated and moved with the Mann family in England with a portion of his fathers money. He never seen his Exler family again. As an adult he travelled the world doing extreme sports when one day he was involved in an avalanche which he was found and taken by a mysterious tribe called the Akesh Maharishis living in an remote ashram in the Himalayas and as part of the training he was cut on the left side of his cheek. Journeying there in a final desperate bid for harmony and redemption, he immersed himself for over three years in their intensive regimen of physical conditioning, wilderness survival, mountain climbing, martial arts and ninja-like skills, yoga and meditation. By excelling in these activities, he earned the coveted "A.M." tattoo of the cult. He returned to the Western world with extraordinary mental and physical skills where he helped stop a bomb threat in the london underground which quickly had the MI5 snap him up and recruit him and eventually he worked to gear his own division the Action Force. 

Dr.X = Ben Kingsley

Hard to think of many greats who could play the greatest hero of them all but i think Ben would play the part brilliantly.  Dr. X or Doctor X is a mad scientist who is the arch-enemy of Action Man in its line of toys, introduced in the mid-late 1990s. Despite many changes in appearance, he is easily identified by his mustache, almost-to-totally bald head, and bionic arm and eye (sometimes replaced by an eyepatch). For those wondering, he received his PhD in theoretical physics from University College London in the United Kingdom, having completed his undergraduate and one placement year working as an assistant mad scientist for the NHS. Dr X is a danger to the world and is its most dangerous criminal mastermind. He leaves a trail of death and destruction wherever he goes. During the battles with Action Man, Dr X has constantly been defeated and humiliated. However, the evil scientist never seems to give up and each time he comes back to do battle, he grows stronger. Action Man may think him defeated but Dr X can strike fear and destruction on the world and its people at any time and bring the world to its knees. Who knows he may already be secretly ruling over the parts of the world.

Professor Gangrene = Ed Harris

Ed plays a hell of a villain and i think you need someone as good as Ben to play the supporting villain role with the second in command the ever scheming Prof.Gangrene. Professor Gangrene is a mad scientist who works for Dr X. in most versions he is green-skinned, almost bald and his left eye is bigger than the right one. An interesting thing to note is that he has been shown to be greedy and to have a love for money. A reason for this characteristic could be due to his name and colour scheme - both of which are green (green with envy). He has also been potrayed as unloyal to Dr X and is usually motivated by his own goals and agenda.

Maxx = Jackie Earle Haley

You need someone tough and intense to play this role so i pick Jackie for this. Majorly you get to see a street punk fighter look and a bandaged up face of Maxx and you can only see his eyes and i think Jackie is tough, intense and can play along just with his intense stares. Maxx also known as the man with no name, X, Spike, Freak Face and the Purple Menace is a henchman and a street gang leader and enforcer. He can easily be recognised by his bandaged face and spiky hair. The origin how he got his disfigurement is that one of Gangrenes experiments blew up in his face. He is usually portrayed as a tough but not too bright lead henchman of Dr Xs forces.

Director = Michael Bay - Who else could direct a film with Action in the name?

Written By = Jane Goldman & Matthew Vaughn

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How DCEU Should Make Man Of Steel 2! Fan idea for the general plot of the sequel.

Since Lex is free let's have him antagonise Supes. Bring Metallo and Bizarro. Lex is obsessed with Supes can be the main story to why he went and created a bizarre superman and that he also wanted to take down the man of steel so acquired Kryptonite and helped make Metallo come to life.

Have the first half be Supes is back saving lives while Clark struggles getting back to the normal routine and then perhaps fails to save John Corben which is all part of a trap by Lex of course but supes won't know. John is thought to be dead members of Lexcorp take the body away supes is down sad he couldn't save someone's life and have Metallo come alive being brainwashed by Lex saying "It's his fault your like this, it's his fault your a metallic monster, it's his fault your METALLO!" which has Metallo power on snap at Lex holding Lex off the ground angry. Metallo replies to him: "Tell me where he is!" and Lex smiles and we cut to a peaceful day in the city all is well, until a train station is on the news being destroyed with people inside being trapped and killed from rubble and supes see's this and ignores it as he is down as he thinks he failed saving John's life. Louis talks Clark into going to save the people trapped in the train station as details emerge on the news it's some green robot is terrorising the city.

Superman snaps back to being a hero he's determined to stop this robot hurting others because he realises he can't always save everyone and what happened to John was not his fault and he saves those trapped uneed rubble and flies towards Metallo.  He lands near Metallo. Metallo: "So you've finally decided to show your face? Too bad you left it late, so many lives could have been spared if you wasn't so selfish!" Metallo blasts superman who dodges the blast. Superman: "You know greens not a good colour for you" Metallo: "You think so? Well come closer for a better look" Superman: "No thanks I'm good over here. So tell me, why are you causing all this senseless destruction" as superman starts to approach Metallo as the two talk. Metallo: "It's all a show, it's all for you of course, it's the only way to get your attention, for I have been looking for you" Superman: "You villains always like attention but there's a better way to get it without violence" Metallo: "Ok so please do show me, tell me what I have to do and I'll come with you quietly" Superman puts his hand on Metallo's shoulder as Metallo smiles and grabs superman tight as he can as metallo's chest plate goes down and reveals kryptonite to superman, making superman weak and in pain from Metallo's grip. The police see that superman is in trouble and are shooting at Metallo which has Metallo's guard drop and he is getting shot at pretty heavily so he releases superman and goes after the police instead which creates enough distance for superman to gain composure to lazer blast the exposes kryptonite in metallo's chest effectively blowing Metallo up. Of the explosion only metallo's head remains and he mutters to superman: "You've killed me again, you couldn't save me as a human and you couldn't save me as a machine, what hope do you inspire again?" Superman realises it was John the guy he tried to save and looks at him shocked and apologises to him before Metallo shuts down. Superman flies off.

Second half - Lex is mad at the news Metallo has been defeated so he decides to do something so drastic and that's to use the dna on what he has from superman to make himself a clone but he messes up and ends up with Bizzaro enraged at his failed superman clone he torments the clone, tortures him, telling him superman is the enemy and calls Bizzaro names and so on which enraged Bizzaro having him leave Lex's company to go kill Superman. One day whilst saving a family from a fire superman is just speared mid air by Bizzaro causing the two to Duke it out as superman is left reeling as he can't believe he has to fight a look a like of himself and he's trying to talk sense into Bizzaro but its not working so Superman fires back harder hits which does knock some sense into him but then emerges Lex from his limo wanting front row to see his failure actually succeed in killing superman. Bizzaro has superman in a choke hold as Superman tells Bizzaro "please don't do this I'm you, I'm not the enemy, I'm friend, I am brother,  I am family." which has Bizzaro let go of superman and questioning himself whilst Lex is yelling at Bizzaro, lex just bullies Bizzaro calling him useless and a freak and a ugly failure which Bizzaro snaps and picks lex up and goes to snap him in two but lex pulls a controller out and presses a button which causes a small bomb in Bizzaro to go off exploding his head as lex laughs and looks at superman saying "You can thank Amanda for her services there, as I have just saved your life" Superman looks at lex baffled and replies. "What do you mean,why would you do that?" Lex: "Look around you Superman, can't you see all the cameras, they now will all say that I saved you which means to the public I have redeemed myself so my companies stock can rise again!" Superman: "So you set up all this for money?" Lex: "Gee if you'd actually have a brain you'd know it's not about the money at all. If it was up to me I'd have killed you after your family but your a very lucky boy today and very lucky that I have a lot instore for not only you but also your friends, family and the entire world! It's going to be fun so I hope you like chess, because I've made the first move." as Lex gets in his limo and rides off, leaving Superman to have a quiet day and get back to the office supporting Superman of the new public opinion of Lex Luther. And if you want an after credit to my comment story I'd put Lex meeting up with a Mr. Savage ;)

I'd cast Sam Worthington as Metallo, there's a tongue in cheek Terminator reference to be had here :P 

I'd also cast Johnny Depp as Vandal Savage, i'm sure there's a tongue in cheek fragrance reference to be had there also. Why Depp as Savage? The two are quite eccentric and Depp can pull off the look and intensity of Savage easily. 

Thanks for reading this, if anyone did, I got carried away here haha.

I Try Slogan Maker.....the results are odd....

So i heard of a website where you can randomly generate a slogan for yourself from your name....and i decided to try it and i got many results and some were daft others good and the rest well.....they will all be here anyway.

Try it out for yourself here - https://www.shopify.co.uk/tools/slogan-maker

It's more than satisfies, it's STJ.

Any questions? 1stmetalgod is the right answer.

With a name like Scott, it has to be good.

Best always comes from 1STMETALGOD.

The Story begun with 1STMETALGOD.

1STMETALGOD means great personality. 1STMETALGOD thinks twice. The 1STMETALGOD effect.

Start the day right with 1STMETALGOD.

Stay on the right side, that's 1STMETALGOD side.

1STMETALGOD - The new standard.

1STMETALGOD - Your personal entertainer.

Come to 1STMETALGOD ! Its a profitable move.

Have a bit of 1STMETALGOD when you're tired.

So yeah short post but there we go i wanted to blog something and this was it. Will have better posts soon haha. 

South Park: The Fractured But Whole REVIEW PS4

It is done my Butt hole has been repaired. It took me 24 hours and 30 mins to complete all collectables and story and side quests in South Park: The Fractured But  Whole.

The game it's self was great fun as you'd expect from the minds of Matt & Trey however, I didn't laugh as much as i did in Stick Of Truth.

The deluxe edition was rubbish add on's meant nothing and that pisses me off i paid an extra 10 quid expecting good perks and a new buddy to play in game with  but it was just waste of money.

When you get Towlie dlc to work he pops up now and then to annoy you with shit you know and with shit that's just dumb and ok sometimes when he appeared i laughed at what he had to say but other times i was yelling "go away towel".

Gameplay and combat overall was decent enough, i did get bored around 12 hours in for a bit and the soundtrack was pretty bleak but had tension unlike the fun frolicking soundtrack of stick of truth, but again there's some songs from south park in the game and they made me smile and laugh and love because they had Kyle's mom and blame Canada in the game but in like 8 bit instrumentally pieced songs and that was amazing I never heard those in that way before and I wish we had a bit more of that maybe for a future game a mp3 player on your phone "Fartify" all the south park songs you can stick on and play and stroll around town would be epic fun. Summons were cool but I wish we could have had more. The ultimate moves for some were rubbish I won't lie. Animation and graphics were top notch show quality.

Story was great and i don't have anything to complain about there as i did enjoy it. Hunting the Yaoi's (the cringe) towards the end of the game got annoying and so did trying to master all the toilet breaks. For the third game I really want the ninja's to return because lets fighting love!

Overall for South Park Fractured But Whole i'd give it 8/10 it's a great game. I'd highly recommend. South Park fans will love it! I can't wait to play all the DLC!

Written: 21/10/2017

(only published so late due to forgetfulness) 

Update: I started playing on hardest difficulty and on hardest combat difficulty too so yeah its tougher.

Your Name. Anime Film Review (In Short!) *SPOILER FREE*

Ok so i finally watched Your Name and it was of course the English dub and i know hearing that will disappoint many readers. 

Your Name is a 2016 Japanese animated drama film written and directed by Makoto Shinkai and produced by CoMix Wave Films. A teenage boy and girl embark on a quest to meet each other for the first time after they magically swap bodies.

The animation oh my god it was spectacular so detailed, so beautiful. 

Story was great it starts weird and funny but then it gets more serious and if you are not one for serious anime, don't worry it's still enjoyable! 

Music and Voice Acting is also top notch, so well done and so suited perfectly to each scene. 

I honestly was expecting the story to be a typical love story but also with tragedy going into it but it was more than that! NOT TO SPOIL ANYTHING IT IS NOT A SPOILER JUST MY OPINION OF WHAT I THOUGHT OF THIS FILM GOING INTO IT. 

I don't think the live action film will work but who knows. 

I have also heard there might be a part two to Your Name but i don't know if it would work either. 

We can only speculate, wait and see. 

Out of 10?

9

So that was really good and i enjoyed it and it did live up to the hype which i feared it would not and i would end up not liking it but thank god things did not go that way. It was such a beautiful sweet heartfelt film that just leaves you warm and relaxed. 

Thanks for reading, film buffs around the world please watch this if you have not already!